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.
Ads during the first quarter:
Ad & Calories
M&Ms (plain) 236
Doritos 137
Pepsi Next 60
Budweiser Black Crown 180
Coca Cola 136
Oreos 160
FIRST QUARTER TOTAL 909
... Half a normal person's daily caloric allowance — in the first half hour of the game.
The second quarter:
Ad Calories
Bud Light 110
Doritos 137
Milk (a cup of 2 percent) 122
Coca Cola 136
Subway (Sweet Onion Teriyaki Footlong) 760
Taco Bell (Cherry Limeade Sparkler (150), Steak Chalupa (350) and black beans and rice (200) 700
SECOND QUARTER TOTAL 1965
Then, there was an ad for milk. The reporter added the 122 calories in a cup of 2 percent milk .
After that, it was time for the Beyonce halftime show, which was sponsored by Pepsi and therefore had a Pepsi ad before and after. They added two more 12-ounce servings of cola.
Ad Calories
Pepsi 136
Pepsi 136
HALFTIME TOTAL 272
The last half of the game featured ads for pistachios, more beer, more soda and more Subway sandwiches.
The third quarter:
Ad & Calories
Bud Light 110
Pistachios 330
Budweiser 149
Mio Fit 0
Pepsi 136
Subway 560
THIRD QUARTER TOTAL 1285
The last quarter:
Ad & Calories
Beck's 149
Soda Stream (a machine, one serving of cola) 136
FOURTH QUARTER TOTAL 285
AND NOW... 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 people usually don't finish their food, they throw away 25 percent on average.
"Even taking that into account, which would give you 3,537, it is still much higher than the recommendation for an entire day".
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.
** "And most people were sitting on the couch. So they probably weren't burning many calories."
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