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2005 Nov 21 (Mon)

Tonight I was listening to a podcast of "These Days", a local public radio broadcast series, when the first couple sentences from the speaker made me play the segment over again:

A typical American eats three thousand calories during Thanksgiving dinner. That's about five thousand calories more than an adult male needs in a whole day.

So an adult male actually only needs to lose two thousand calories a day?! Fortunately later on in the broadcast one of the guests said the average was "anywhere from fifteen hundred to it really tops at two thousand five hundred" [~2:30 time index] a day, but still, I would have thought the speaker would have caught himself at the beginning of the broadcast.

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