Hee hee, well, I used the baby carrot example intentionally. A-way back, when Weight Watchers started their point system, baby carrots had a point value of 0. Naturally, these are convenient to carry and sweet and good for you. However, Weight Watchers found that _because_ baby carrots were 0 points (and they're _not_ calorie negative or even calorie neutral), people were consuming mass quantities of baby carrots throughout the day between meals because, well, basically it was a survival tactic for people who were used to grazing on junk throughout the day. The problem was that because they weren't calorically neutral, and Weight Watchers never expected people to consume them en masse, people weren't losing a whole lot of weight. So they made a serving of baby carrots worth 1 point. The uproar was astounding. It turned out that some people (if a serving of baby carrots was worth 1 point) were consuming up to 3/4 of their daily points in baby carrots (I think the average number of points you have in a day is 27-ish) in addition to their alloted points for the day. Weight Watchers has subsequently returned the point value of baby carrots to 0 (or given a rather LARGE quanity as a serving worth 1, I can't remember which), but with the disclaimer that eating lots of low calorie foods still amounts to calories.
To most of us the thought of overindulging on baby carrots seems almost impossible, but here's a group of people who practically substisted on them, possibly because they a) didn't have any other alternatives (i.e. Weight Watchers dictates what is OK to eat and not OK to eat) or b) didn't know how to implement good alternative choices. How they managed it without getting the runs, I'm sure I have no idea.
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