Can You Pass the Fat Quiz?

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/quizzes_questions.asp?quizid=60

I’ve been a SparkPeople member for about a month and a half, and I thought I’d ace this quiz.

Wrong!

I learned quite a bit.

I am awesome, I only got one wrong!

Can I take it in my sweatpants or should I change first? :wink:

I got jelly from my donut on my keyboard while taking this test.

No, really 10 of 12.

I did pretty well on the quiz.

But that doesn’t mean I"m doing very well at applying the concepts to my life!

You only have to change if you take the quiz in public, you slob. :slight_smile:

I got 11/12 right. Now if only I could put that knowledge to practical use!

Ten of twelve correct.
I’m hungry.

The “no eating right before bed” fallacy is something I believed.

8/12, and I’m surprised I got that many. Nutrition/exercise just isn’t important to me, since I don’t seem to gain weight even if I eat more.

Missed two questions. Ate two peanut butter sandwiches while taking the test. I figure that’s a break-even.

Yeah, a lot of people believe that one.

Some were tricky, like the first one - do you gain weight immediately after eating?

Because you do, you’d gain whatever the food you ate weighed, so the answer is yes. But probably a lot of people read it as “do you gain FAT immediately after eating”, which would be no.

“No eating right before bed” isn’t entirely bad advice, though. It can contribute significantly to acid reflux, which is related to other bad things, all the way up to esophogeal cancer.

This question:

“If you overeat by quite a bit one day, what should you do to prevent weight gain?”

is very strange. It seems to assume that the motivating force behind one’s choice in food is weight management, and not enjoyment and health.

I got one wrong, can’t recall which.

I took this quiz with, literally, a bag of pork rinds in my free hand.

11/12

Joe

SparkPeople is a site for people trying to lose weight. It’s kind of like a free WeightWatchers.

Edit: I got 10/12. SparkPeople is responsible for me knowing even that much - see thread on ineffective “health” education in schools.

12/12. Yay!

10/12

I couldn’t remember how many calories were in a pound of fat and went 3750. It bothered me so much I forgot which other one I missed.

10/12, too. I got the one about eating before bed wrong, as well as the one about the ways to prevent your body from turning food into fat.

11/12

How in the hell can protein be stored as fat?