and a dinner that includes what i love when i go to mcdonald's, big mac, medium fries and soda and shake for dessert. calorie count, 1,710. obviously, that's the big whammer, and that's your rda or just before your rda for the entire day. the grand total for that day, though, is 3,000 calories. that's 76% more than the usda recommends. put it another way. 3,000 calories, 79 teaspoons of sugar, three times the daily recommendation. six teaspoons of shortening, like you get out of a crisco container, and 10.4 packets of salt, almost twice what the american heart association recommends. we sent this analysis off to two expert nutritionists to find out if they agreed, and they did, and went a little bit further. they said on this hypothetical diet, i would gain six pounds in the 17 days of the olympics. obviously, if you do the math, over a year, if i ate that every day, it would get boring to eat the same thing every day, but it would be 136 pounds. still, without mcdonald's, coke and...