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Your Kids Don’t Eat too Many Calories… IT’S THE CARBS!

This video is from Jason Whittrock where he is demonstrating that continuous glucose monitor shows a glucose increase in response to eating chicken nuggets

In the least shocking news of 2025 thus far… they chicken nuggets increase blood glucose

Big deal

He claims kids aren’t eating too many calories, implying that it is the carbs that are the problem. He claims that kids aren’t eating too many calories because obesity affects poor families more, trying to imply that poor kids must eat less calories because they have less money…

BUT WHAT DOES THE DATA ACTUALLY SAY?????

Oh well look at that, poor families actually eat MORE calories compared to middle class & upper class families (PMIDs: 26809142, 27994148, & 31082447)

OOPSIE! Guess he either didn’t bother to look up the actual research data or knew about it & didn’t care

As for carbs causing obesity, this has been debunked many times over. In a large meta-analysis of controlled feeding studies that equated calories & protein but varied carbohydrate & fat intake, researchers found that people in high carb/low fat diets actually lost slightly MORE body fat than people following low carb high fat diets (about 16g more body fat loss per day… not a huge difference) PMID: 28193517. These results have even been demonstrated with huge differences in carb intake (over 300g per day vs. ketogenic diet) & insulin release (PMID: 27385608)

While I agree with Jason that chicken nuggets probably aren’t the best nutritional choice, it’s not because they have breading, it’s because they tend to be high in calories overall. Sorry Jason, calories matter

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