Is America Breaking Up With the Calorie?
Eve Tilley-Coulson, a Los Angeles lawyer and a millennial, made a TikTok video last year pointing out that Generation Z will never know the horror of the 100-calorie snack pack, in which stale brownie thins cosplayed as an indulgent dessert.
“It’s such a throwback, like the old days of Lean Cuisines,” she said in an interview. “It was only 200 calories, but you need three to feel full. The math was not mathing.”
And for many Americans, the calorie is no longer calorie-ing. For more than a century, it stood as the nation’s primary measure of nutrition and weight management...
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