On Knowing What You (Really) Eat

December 8th, 2006

Diabetes Care for December reports some research done in France.  Seems that people in the study who have diabetes systematically underreported the amount of food they consumed.  Researchers determined this by asking specifically what they had eaten in the previous days and calculating the calories.  Taken at face value, diabetics thought they had consumed MUCH less.  Are the French different from Americans in this way?

See a synopsis in Reuters Health online.

Entry Filed under: Uncategorized, Diabetes and Chronic Disease, Making Choices

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