{"id":35792,"date":"2011-05-17T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35792"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:09:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:09:52","slug":"caloric-intake-across-the-globe-and-in-your-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/17\/caloric-intake-across-the-globe-and-in-your-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Caloric Intake Across the Globe and in an American Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bumped up against two pieces of information today regarding caloric intake. I can&#8217;t confirm either, but I found both quite interesting. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/statinfo.biz\/geomap.aspx?act=7753&amp;lang=2\" target=\"_blank\">State Info<\/a> features a map showing the average number of calories consumed each day in different countries across the globe. In the U.S., for example, the average is 3,754, in Argentina it is 2,959, in China it is 2,940, and in Congo it is 1,606. \u00a0Citizens of some countries, then, eat more than twice as many calories as citizens of others.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the average in almost every country exceeds the 2,000 calorie goal suggested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is fascinating in itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/21.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35794\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/21.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/21.jpg 950w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/21-500x240.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was surprised at the average number of calories consumed in the U.S., where I live. \u00a0But then I came across the second graphic at <a href=\"http:\/\/awesome.good.is\/transparency\/web\/1105\/lunch\/flat.html\" target=\"_blank\">GOOD<\/a> which purports to reveal the number of calories and distribution of food types in the average school lunch and prison meal. \u00a0The comparison between the two is interesting enough, but I was struck by just how high the numbers were. \u00a0An average of 1,400 calories in your typical school lunch may very well indeed translate into over 3,000 calories a day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/15.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/15-1024x614.jpg\" width=\"516\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bumped up against two pieces of information today regarding caloric intake. I can&#8217;t confirm either, but I found both quite interesting. First, State Info features a map showing the average number of calories consumed each day in different countries across the globe. In the U.S., for example, the average is 3,754, in Argentina it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,2056,34,2124,260],"class_list":["post-35792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-crimelaw","tag-education","tag-foodagriculture","tag-international-comparisons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35792"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58868,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792\/revisions\/58868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}