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[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 year ago

Of course. The unhealthiness of food is an emergent property arising from the arrangement of their constituents components relative to each other. The next time you have a burger and want to be healthy, just take it apart! Taps head

In all seriousness, for anyone confused by this, whether or not something is healthy for you is all about quantities and ratios. Specifically, that of your diet as a whole, not of individual items. So while I don't agree with this sentiment, burgers can be considered unhealthy because:

  • There is very little vegetables in relation to meat and bread
  • It is very calorically dense
  • Red meat is considered by many to be unhealthy in its own right, and burgers tend to have a lot of that
  • It is usually consumed with large portions of fries and drinks or other sides that are also very calorically dense with little diversity in micronutrients
[-] SomethingBurger@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I'm sick of people claiming calorie dense food is unhealthy. It's not. Calories are required for your body to function. An adult needs 2000kcal per day; whether they are spread out over 8 meals or 3 makes no difference. Eating the amount of calories of a hamburger every day is nothing special, especially if you do sports regularly.

This comment was made by the <20 BMI gang.

Coming from the >30 BMI gang, a lot of the food in the West (especially the United States but a lot of other countries are having this problem too) has a shit-ton of calories and very few other nutrients. That's the biggest problem with caloric density, when food has a lot of calories and no nutrients it encourages either obesity or nutrient deficits.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

There are some foods while very caloric will give you a massive amount of what you need. Its important to not made them the villains too.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Only thing wrong with calorie dense food is that people eat too much. Guess you could add ignorance in there as well. Pretty shocking when you look at the numbers on the menu.

Not that people actually look. They got every excuse in the world for being fat, except the big one, placing calories in their mouth.

[-] Primarily0617@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Calories are required for your body to function

not mine 🙂

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago
[-] RocksForBrains@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

A robot powered by nicotine and aspartame.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Who's this? Snack from Metal Gear Solid?

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Robots need calories too (just they usually eat "food" like batteries or gasoline)! Clearly they are a ghost. Or a Walking Dead zombie. Those things defied physics.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

whether they are spread out over 8 meals or 3 makes no difference.

While I agree with your overall point, this isnt true. While there is still debate about the "best" frequency to eat meals in, its generally agreed upon you dont want to eat all of your daily calories at once as you overstress your gut and cant process it efficiently.

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