"carbs" not a word? Ha!... Fwd: Re: [at-l] Snickers energy bar...

[sloetoe at yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

In the rapid evolution of the marketing rot we daily face,
apparently at least one misnomer has been redefined, oddly
enough, *toward* meaningful content and away from vacuity.
"Carbs", in some packaging I saw over the weekend, was
asterixesedesaed right there on the box to mean "grams of
carbohydrate" -- it is thus now a plural of carbohydrate grams,
and is thus now countable. I am seeing it defined as such more
frequently.

I think this is plainly due to our erudite, lucidative at-l
thread, and think once again that hiking's effect on the larger,
wackier world is not to be under-estimated.

I will accept kudos and sign autographs in the corner.

We thank you for your support.

Sloetoe
(checking up on the Madison Avenue near you...)


--- Sloetoe <sloetoe@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:35:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: Sloetoe <sloetoe@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Snickers energy bar...
> To: Bror8588@aol.com, WenchAT03@comcast.net,
> at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> 
> ### ["Unnnnnh!"]
> 
> --- Bror8588@aol.com wrote:
> > I was reading the nutrition information on various products
> > that I eat in order to choose a low-carb meal and guess
> what? 
> All of the products have such a listing!
> ### As it should. Good information there.
>  
> > Must be something to it.  I mean, they do give a Carb
> > percentage and a gram count.
> ### "Carb percentage" is the number of carbohydrate (TYPE)
> calories (UNIT) divided by the number of total of calories
> (UNIT). This provides a valid unit of measure. Similarly,
> "grams" are a unit of measure (mass) used just about
> everywhere on Earth except the United States; ~28 equal an
ounce.
>  
> > And low carbs seem to work in terms of kicking in the fat
> > burning process.
> ### If lowering the percentage of carbohydrate calories in
> your
> diet works to help you consume less total calories and thus
> consume body fat for calories and thusly lose body weight,
> again, hey, more power to ya. But you lost weight because you
> consumed less total calories, not because carbohydrate
> calories add body weight more than fat or protein calories. A
calorie is a calorie is a calorie. We ignore that, and obscure
that, at our collective peril.
> 
> scientoe

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