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Here's the offical subway page on jared:

http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/MenuNutrition/Jared/jaredStats.aspx

It looks like he ate just 2 meals a day, unless you
count coffee as a meal. Very impressive numbers, but
oh the monotony...

Thanks as usual, Dan, for fleshing out my hunches with
facts!

Reinhard

--- Dan McVicker <pirateman2k@...> wrote:
> Nols,
> 
> Six meals a day *is* better than three. If you can
> eat
> small meals. But then you have to worry about
> cooking
> them, transporting them, etc. etc. In other words,
> you
> stay focused on food ALL the time. Much simpler to
> eat
> like a normal human being. That being said, if you
> like dieting as a hobby or as a way of life (for
> self-discipline purposes or whatever) help yourself.
> Make sure to count calories, because those six meals
> are going to be really small. As you can see,
> counting
> calories completely defeats the point of NOS. 
> 
> On Shovelglove: having visible abs comes down to two
> things: 1) having a low enough bodyfat percentage,
> and
> 2) having built-up the abs through work. The
> abdominals do have a flexion function (i.e. the one
> that is used in crunching) but further, they have a
> stabilization function. Stabilization is the main
> function of the abdominals, and if you swing around
> a
> heavy sledgehammer for 14 minutes a day, you will
> develop this function (i.e. objective #2). In
> addition, you'll burn some extra calories that will
> help you achieve objective #1. If you're serious
> about building up your abs, you shouldn't be doing
> crunches, anyway... they're useless. 
> 
> On Jared from Subway:
> 
> NOS succeeds where Jared's plan is weak: that is, it
> allows for variation in the diet. I originally read
> about Jared's plan a few years ago in Men's Health,
> and they said it was critically low in several
> nutrients. The reason for this is that he had the
> same
> stuff for lunch and dinner, every day! Now, he
> mastered portion control, but at the cost of
> nutrition. The funny thing is, too, if you look at
> the
> guy, he's still kinda rotund. (Skinny fat). He was
> getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 g of
> protein a day... which isn't terribly good for
> anyone.
> The point is, a varied diet is rule #1 for any good
> eating plan, and NOS succeeds (at least, insofar as
> your natural eating is varied). 
> 
> Dan 
> 
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