A health policy professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared the Super Bowl to Thanksgiving, and said she guesses people consume “thousands” of calories before the best team wins.
So what would happen if you ate one serving of everything you saw advertised? ABC News included one serving size of each food item advertised, such as one coke, one beer or one handful of chips, and tried to come up with (fair) meals for the fast food restaurants. Still, Bleich said serving sizes probably weren’t the most realistic way to go.
The grand total if we’re counting only single serving sizes and relatively conservative meals:
4716 calories!
“That is more than double the recommended amount for the average adult for an ENTIRE day (2000 calories) and it was only over a four-hour period”.
Since a pound of weight gain is equal to about 3,500 calories, this fictional person would have gained at least a pound during the four-hour game.
