It’s amazing that you can’t even trust major universities to get basic facts straight in press releases these days. Here’s the first couple paragraphs from an April 16 press release from the University at Buffalo about alleged problems with eating a high-fat breakfast (emphasis added),
A breakfast of Egg McMuffin and hash brown may taste good, but its high-fat, high-carbohydrate content wreaks havoc in the body’s blood vessels, University at Buffalo endocrinologists have found.
“Eating that 900-calorie, high-fat meal temporarily floods the blood stream with inflammatory components, overwhelming the body’s natural inflammation-fighting mechanisms,” said Ahmad Aljada, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and first author on the study.
From the first two paragraphs, most readers will probably assume that an Egg McMuffin and hash brown is 900 calories. That’s not accurate. An Egg McMuffin is 300 calories and a hash brown is 130 calories which, at least in the universe I’m currently living, is a total of 430 calories — less than half that implied by the press release.
Source:
High-fat fast-food breakfast produces rush of inflammatory factors into blood stream, UB study finds. University at Buffalo, Press Release, April 16, 2004.