Britons eat 900 more calories a day than they think - the equivalent of 3 McDonald's cheeseburgers

Britons eat 900 more calories a day than they think - the equivalent of 3 McDonald's cheeseburgers Everyone eats the equivalent of three extra McDonald’s cheeseburgers a day than they admit, a study claimed today.

And both thin and fat people fib about the amount of food they consume.

Researchers at the University of Essex analysed food diaries filled out by over 200 Britons. They then tracked how much energy they actually burned, in order to find any disparity. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• Obese individuals do not underreport dietary intake to a greater extent than nonobese individuals when data are allometrically-scaled (open access) American Journal of Human Biology