It’s Week 1 of the NFL season — meaning many of us have already started grazing for the winter.

Fans of losing football teams have been found to devour 16% more saturated fat the day after a big game than their normal daily amount. Fans of winning teams consume 9% less than usual … as if the victory were not enough.

Dig a little further into the data behind our football eating habits, and you’ll find that as a nation, we consume more calories on Super Bowl Sunday than we do on Christmas Day or Easter. Food and football are so synonymous in America that we consume more calories on Thanksgiving than on any other national holiday — not just because it’s a harvest feast, but also because there are three NFL games that day.

Face it, Week 1 tailgating may look innocuous, my friends, but u

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