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shu ,
@shu@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

I will not go…

SSUPII ,

I am extremely sure if you make a burger by yourself with good ingredients it will be just as healthy.

Beware of the added sugars in things that aren’t supposed to have that much sugar.

PhoolCat ,
@PhoolCat@lemmy.world avatar

It’s the heavy amounts pf processing and adding far too much sugar that does it.

Bin the bread bun and have the burger with a nice fresh salad and decent cheese and you’ll live longer and healthier.

Hank ,

Cheese isn't healthy. Ground beef neither. I couldn't think about anything healthy you could use as a burger sauce.

BarrelAgedBoredom ,

While cheese may not be healthy, it’s not necessarily unhealthy either. It’s got a good amount of protein, iodine, and b vitamins. All of which are very important and usually lacking in other foods (particularly the iodine and b vitamins). Are there options with similar nutrition that are better for you? Absolutely. But I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily bad for you either

TheKoala73 ,

Cheese is certainly not unhealthy. In addition to what you already listed it’s also a good source for calcium.

howrar ,

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
shadmere ,

Additionally, eight ounces of steak might be lean. (It also might not, of course.) Eight ounces of hamburger, especially one from a fast food restaurant, is absolutely not lean beef.

SomethingBurger ,

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.

Primarily0617 ,

Calories are required for your body to function

not mine 🙂

SSUPII ,

Are you a robot?

RocksForBrains ,

A robot powered by nicotine and aspartame.

SSUPII ,

Who’s this? Snack from Metal Gear Solid?

CoderKat , (edited )

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.

TheSaneWriter ,
@TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com avatar

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 ,

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 ,

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.

gmtom ,

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.

nodsocket ,

Replace meat with bean burger

Replace cheese with guacamole or other sauce

Replace white bread with whole grain bread

NPC ,

Never replace the cheese. never. I’ll happily let veins get clogged up in 10 years for cheese, cheese is well worth dying a few years sooner

Albbi ,

It’s not just the dying earlier, it the feeling like crap all the time before it gets bad enough that you die from it.

Primarily0617 ,

but if you feel bad you can just eat more cheese to help

Obsession ,

I’d feel worse if I couldn’t eat cheese

ApathyTree ,
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Being from Wisconsin, this is essentially how the entire culture is. The good news is this means we have some pretty spot-on cheese replacements in vegan restaurants 😊 (I’m not vegan, but my internals do better when I pretend to be)

Everything has cheese, even shit that shouldn’t have cheese. I’m not complaining cuz it’s delicious, but it does (especially when added to beer) make maintaining a healthy weight and digestive tract a lot harder.

skullone ,

Silly westerners and your cheeses… (Proceeds to put mozzarella cheese all over his otherwise authentic Korean ddokbokki)

GardensTale ,

Smothering Korean food in cheese is pretty authentic ngl

Just say you switched to budae jigae and you’re good

Hextic ,

Have you seen old people? Eating cheese to eliminate the last decade of “living” basically as a zombie that shits itself sounds like a win not a loss.

pizzaiolo ,

It’s not as if your health will be optimal before the last bit of brie clogs your artery

TheRedSpade ,

Especially if the alternative is guacamole.

abraxas , (edited )

I’m a hardcore omnivore and bordeline anti-vegan… but there are some “faux cheese” options that are surprisingly pretty damn good.

I was tricked into trying a faux lasagna with cashew cheese. The “not-meat” was as disgusting as I expected, but the cashew cheese was surprisingly delicious. It didn’t entirely want you to believe it was really cheese, but it wanted you to agree it was a delicious savory sauce that worked where cheese goes.

The best fake meat is the stuff that’s at least real food, and not pretend food (like bean burgers, though those are still better than Impossible Burgers).

jackoneill ,

Replace good taste with veggievomit

TheDoctorDonna ,

You clearly need to learn how to cook.

MaxMouseOCX ,

Replace me from that entire scenario because I ain’t eating that shit when I wanted a burger.

The_Cleanup_Batter ,

Fr. Vegans out in force here. Which is fine. No issue with vegans. But I have an issue with how much elitism and smugness is coming from this comment section.

The topic is a shit post about how easy it is to make healthy food unhealthy through bad eating habits, poor balance in ingredients, and through misrepresentation of food’s nutritional value. All the condescending “JuSt EaT pLaNt” is not asked for and obnoxious.

emidio ,

I know it’s a shipost and this meme is at least 15 years old. But meat, cheese, and white bread (especially the ones in the US with added sugar) were never healthy

TWeaK ,

Especially the US bread which contains a carcinogen.

average650 ,

Which carcinogen?

Gordon ,

Can’t you read? “A” carcinogen. Doesn’t matter which one!

/s

TWeaK ,

I don’t know exactly, but it’s one of the preservatives. It’s banned in Europe.

sarsaparilyptus ,

How profound. Clearly, you have a lot of important things to say.

TWeaK ,

I said all of that in my other comment, replying to someone else.

howrar ,

Only if you live in California!

TWeaK ,

Exactly lol.

But in all seriousness mild carcinogens are still carcinogenic.

roadkill ,

Take care not to make statements so inaccurate they are effectively meaningless.

  1. "US white bread" isn't a singular brand and most brands don't "contain[s] a carcinogen"...
  2. You never mentioned what the carcinogen was. Probably because it would compromise your argument that "US white bread" as a whole contains it when it does not. (It's Potassium Bromate/Bromide (it's used interchangeably online sometimes), for those wondering.)
  3. It's not limited to white bread in where it can be used. It was an additive to flour in general.
  4. A lot of the fear mongering blogs, written by 'influencers' whose research consists of 10 seconds of Googling but not verifying a single fucking thing they write about, name brands that contain potassium bromate... but actually don't. Example: Wonder bread (https://wonderbread.ca/our_products/white-bread-675g/) Chex Mix. Looking up their ingredients list shows the item in question is not used at all. https://www.chexmix.com/products/chex-mix-traditional/

TLDR: Think before you repeat vague, meaningless shit next time.

BTW, You should look into the horrors of Dihydrogen Monoxide.

TWeaK , (edited )

My statement is far from meaningless. Mild carcinogens are still carcinogenic. Sure, a small dose as a one of will not cause problems short term, but long term build up is a thing.

  1. It’s a preservative widely used in US white bread, but banned in Europe and other places.
  2. I don’t know the specific carcinogen off the top of my head, I’ve never bothered to remember it, and didn’t look it up earlier while I was half snoozing being driven home.
  3. So you do know what I’m talking about.
  4. My source was Dr Joel Fuhrman. I’m not sure if you’d call him an influencer. While I do turn my nose up at some of his preaching, I think much of what he says is backed up by solid science. Not that I follow it myself. If it’s since been removed from most products then good for you and other people in the US.

Your link to Wonderbread is from Canada.

Chex Mix doesn’t contain azodicarbonamide (I’m guessing this is the one we’re talking about? I wouldn’t be surprised if there are others), but it does use butylated hydroxytoluene, which is also classed as GRAS (Generally Recognised As Safe) by the FDA based on a study from 1979. Yet both chemicals have since been called into question for their links to cancer. From a cursory glance, azodicarbonamide has a more proven link, while butylated hydroxytoluene has yet to be properly studied and the link is questionable.

Too much dihydrogen monoxide can kill you.

Alcohol is also carcinogenic - more so than bread additives - but I’m definitely having some of that tonight.

Also, Joel Fuhrman had a podcast talk about lemmy’s favourite, BEANS.

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downpunxx ,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

meat, cheese and bread were never healthy, says a man descended from 10 thousand years of meat cheese and bread eaters

fart ,

it’s about the scale at which these items are consumed - eating meat every day was pretty much unheard of until the advent of capitalism

substill ,

Was it capitalism or was it refrigeration?

new_guy ,

If I were to be fair then my answer would be neither as I don’t believe capitalism is forcing us to consume meat and there was methods to conserve meat for long periods of time before refrigeration was a thing.

I guess meat can be healthy. What certainly isn’t healthy is highly processed meat like burgers, hot dogs and deep fried turkey

fedditurus_est ,

Science suggests that meat consumption always comes with risks e.g. of genetic mutations. So if you can meet your demand of nutrients and trace elements without meat you probably should.

marmo7ade ,

Science also says the primary sources of essential vitamin B12 come from meat and dairy.

Here is some fun reading:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6540890/

Vitamin B12 is an essential vitamin with largely non vegetarian source.[1,2] Indian population, with largely vegetarian food habit, is more prone to harbour deficiency of vitamin B12.[2,3]

fedditurus_est ,

Interesting. I guess you could still supplement b12

abraxas ,

There’s been a lot of back-and-forth. B12, like iron and Protein, are digested differently by the gut (with different efficiency) based on how they are consumed.

If absolutely all you care about is nutrition and nothing else, you should be eating a small amount of non-processed red and white meat (and/or seafood) on a regular basis because it is the best and healthiest source of those three things. Key term “small amount”

ParsnipWitch ,

Interesting that you say this because the high amount of B12 in the meat people buy is because it is artificially supplemented to the animals they slaughter.

abraxas ,

That seems like a bit of a red herring even if true. Considering I recognize your handle from elsewhere, I’m going to say “eat what you want” and move on before things get heated.

I understand that your ethics drive your decisions, but my ethics drive mine. As does my nutrition.

Actually, hell. Let me respond to the red herring statement anyway. Yes they supplement cows B12. Not so they have B12 in their meat but because cows need B12 and most of the world’s soil is Cobalt-deficient. I’m such a sucker for trolls I suppose; can’t let misinformation go unanswered :( I hope an upvoted post in a vegan subreddit works for response?

EDIT: Sorry. I don’t really mean that YOU are a troll per se. Misinformation like this is problematic to me because I try to treat people as charitably as I possibly can. But the idea that B12 is in meat due to supplements is one of that family of malicious half-truths that simply could not have been an “honest mistake” from whoever originated it. Whoever started spreading that ABSOLUTELY knows it’s a downright falsehood that can be substantiated by half-reads and mis-reads of actual facts. Like picking out a single vaccine study that doesn’t rule out autism and starting… well, you lived through what it started as much as I did.

I genuinely don’t think YOU knew what you were about to say was fabricated nonsense made to seem defensible from a naive googling. But somebody did.

fart ,

capitalism has led to never before seen economies of scale, allowing for dirt cheap food prices never before seen in history. if we were to look at capitalism through that metric and that metric only then it would be wildly popular…

Primarily0617 ,

did capitalism do that, or did technologies like aircraft and refrigeration do that?

why would economies of scale not exist under a different socio-economic system?

kralamaros ,

Because the focus wouldn’t be on profit just for profit’s sake. That is the main problem with capitalism. The technologies just allowed it. Plus, technologies are not sentient, you can’t blame a technology…

Primarily0617 ,

Because the focus wouldn’t be on profit just for profit’s sake

what socioeconomic system has existed where increased productivity was viewed as a bad thing?

e.g.:

  • pure feudalism would've led to economies of scale because it would make the king of the castle wealthier.
  • any kind of socialism with a centrally planned economy would've led to economies of scale because it enables the government to more easily meet the needs of the people.
  • even pure marxist communism probably would've led to economies of scale eventually because any communities that worked together on a global scale would've been more prosperous for their community members, which is still a goal of the system

The technologies just allowed it

or in other words, their invention led to it, which was the original quote I was responding to

Plus, technologies are not sentient, you can’t blame a technology…

  • socio-economic systems aren't sentient either
  • nobody's "blaming" a technology—there isn't even really a consensus in this thread on whether economies of scale leading to increased meat consumption is a good or bad thing
abraxas ,

I wouldn’t call “profit” synonymous with “productivity”. Quite the opposite. Profit is intentional market inefficiency for individual gain. I’m just calling it because so many people do make the mistake of treating them as the same, presuming the former is inherently good because productivity is.

Pretty much everything else you said I agree with.

fart ,

because prior to the advent of capitalism the priorities were not on the consumer, but on the aristocracy. while the end results of free market capitalism are clearly destroying the planet, it is insanely more equitable than anything that came before it.

the economies of scale exist due to the consumer pressure, which didn’t exist in other market systems.

i don’t get why people are downvoting that. i’m not saying capitalism is the best thing in the world and nothing will ever be better than it. i’m saying it allowed people to eat more meat and is democratic compared to feudalism or mercantilism

Dark_Blade ,
@Dark_Blade@lemmy.world avatar

Because people can’t seem to understand the difference between ‘criticizing stuff while also being aware of and acknowledging its benefits’ vs ‘mindlessly bashing something whenever you get the chance bcuz tribalism’.

Hell, even Marx praised capitalism for the immense wealth that it has generated for the masses, which so many so-called ‘socialists’ don’t seem to understand.

fart ,

nobody reads theory anymore 😔

Scew ,
@Scew@lemmy.world avatar

Nobody reads anymore.

KevonLooney ,

Fresh or preserved (salted or dried) meat has existed as long as people have paid for them. Even ice was used for a while prior to refrigeration.

marmo7ade ,

Salting and dehydration is not as efficient as refrigeration. Not even close.

kralamaros ,

You are totally missing the point. American?

Edit Refrigeration is optimal, and we agree on that. Yet, meat was notconsumptwed by regular folks because aristocrats were the only ones who could afford it (and I recall that many of them died of a disease that comes from meat overconsumption). Regular folks ate meat only on special occasions. And driying it makes it last for months if not years (source: the dry sausages that I buy in my granfather’s town, hand made by people, last for 14 months)

Royal_Bitch_Pudding ,

I think you mean gout. It was known as the disease of kings.

Primarily0617 ,

The point is that mass factory farming is the reason that meat is cheap now, and one of the technologies that's enabled mass factory farming is refrigeration.

kralamaros ,

There are hundreds of ways to preserve meat without a fridge

oldGregg ,
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TheSaneWriter ,
@TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com avatar

Both. Refrigeration is what allows us to store and (I would argue more importantly) transport large amounts of meat, and is as such essential to the industry. However, Capitalism is also key to the meat industry because its lobbyists constantly push for meat subsidies, which is the main reason meat is cheap enough to be something we have every meal instead of once every couple of days.

oldfart ,

*until the advent of mechanized agriculture and fertilizers, which allowed feeding large amounts of livestock in capitalist and communist countries alike

fart ,

communism requires capitalism to exist … at its invention, capitalism was the cutting edge that allowed massive economies to form. free market capitalism allowed the creation of extremely complex and vast logistical networks that did not exist prior.

this is not some sort of “capitalism vs communism” thing. this is saying that capitalism was miles more efficient and liberating than anything that came before it. inshallah whatever comes after it will continue the trend

mydickismicrosoft ,

In some circumstances you’re absolutely right. In many parts of the word, meat was either scarce or difficult to preserve. In other parts of the word, some peoples survived almost exclusively on animal products. The natives on Alaska are the first that come to mind.

Of course “meat” was a very important part of their diet, they relied heavily on organ meats for their essential vitamins and nutrients. They were significantly more humane and less wasteful than we are today.

tryptaminev ,

But they were also out and about hunting that stuff for days. Unlike average Joe American who never moves more than from bed to garage and from the parking lot to his office chair in a day.

GroggyGuava ,

Sounds like it’s joe not moving enough that’s the problem

tryptaminev ,

Well it is easier to eat less meat than it is to run 20km every day.

eestileib ,

Lots of people are not from northern Europe.

emidio ,

Nobody ate meat before very recently. And cheese was not your typical daily treat. Remembers it takes a long time to produce

WhiteHawk ,

Very recently being thousands of years ago?

BakedGoods ,

Humans have been eating meat for at least two and a half million years.

TheFriendlyDickhead ,

But not in that quantity as we do today. In the past it was very special, because you allways had to kill one of your animals to eat some. And if you were a farmer who can decide to eat one big meal or ceep the animal and have milk for a long time its a preety easy decision.

And if you go back even more when humans were still “wild” meat was even harder to get. You had to hunt down an animal that was way stronger that you. So a hunt took days. If you got meat once every few weeks you were lucky.

bric , (edited )

Sure, nobody ate anything in the quantities that we eat today, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a crucial part of our diet. It’s amazing that modern industrialized humans are able to get enough calories and protein from a diet of varied plants, but if you’re a hunter gatherer you don’t have the luxury of a variety of genetically modified protein rich plants, you need meat if you’re going to grow. That’s the niche we evolved to fill, it’s why we have a highly acidic gut, a medium length digestive tract common in omnivores, and teeth designed to tear meat. It doesn’t take a lot of meat to meet a person’s protein requirements, the occasional successful hunt is enough, but without any they would die.

TheFriendlyDickhead ,

I am vegetarian for over 5 years. You realy don’t need any meat. That just some public believe the meat companies planted in our heads. For a vegetarian lifestyle your don’t even have to pay attention to a lot of stuff. In general it’s way more healthy if you do it right. The only thing is that it’s usually harder to cook something tasty, because you can just throw meat in anything and it tastes like something.

bric ,

But what you’re missing is that being vegetarian wouldn’t be possible without the conveniences of our modern world. You’re relying on plants that have been heavily modified to be more nutritious to humans, and you’re relying on a variety that would have been difficult to find pre industrialization, and absolutely impossible to a hunter-gatherer. It’s not meat company propaganda to realize that human’s evolved to eat meat, it’s evident in everything about our physiology. From an evolutionary point of view, even farming is startlingly recent, an industrial world economy hasn’t even registered yet, so even though we’re living in a modern world, we’re still dealing with bodies that were built to hunt. That’s why so many types of overeating are such big issues, this farmed abundance just isn’t something that we evolved to deal with.

None of that takes away from the fact that vegetarianism is feasible and healthy today, I think that it’s great that we’ve reached a point where we can survive without meat. All that I’m saying is that we need to recognize it for the modern luxury that it is, instead of saying that it was ever the norm

abraxas ,

Huh? Humans evolved in a hunter/gatherer lifestyle. Before the advent of farming, it was impossible to get sufficient calories for a tribe or village without hunting and bringing down big animals on a regular basis. Meat was quite literally the “meat” of human diet for most of history.

After the advent of farming, you could pack a lot of calories with things like breads, for when you didn’t have meat (or in early civilization) when the rich folks got the meat.

As for cheese, it really doesn’t take that long to produce unless you’re talking about aged cheese… But that’s a different topic (and both aged/fresh have different health benefits)

Karnickel ,

So if I come from a lineage of smokers it means smoking is healthy? I take your word for it, science man.

gmtom ,

Literally not what hes saying at all, in fact thats almost the complete opposite of what hes saying.

hes saying is like “I come from a long line of smokers, so know how bad smoking is for people”

s_s ,

Proof you only have to live 15 years to reproduce doesn’t mean much for someone wanting to live 80 years.

realcaseyrollins ,

Since when is meat unhealthy?

Hextic ,

Fr meat is the reason we have big brain.

Now if you wanna argue that we should have never left the trees and created civilization then you may have a point.

Cralder ,

The dose is the poison. Meat in the amount we consume today is unhealthy. In the past people didn’t eat meat every day or even close to it.

toxic ,

That doesn’t inherently make it unhealthy. We have the means to not have to eat the animals we slaughter immediately due to refrigeration.

docmark ,

The frequency and serving sizes are what make it unhealthy. Coupled with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and one of the best/easiest decisions you can make to improve your health is to cut back on meat, especially processed meat products. Proccessed meat is definitely, 100% unhealthier than cuts from your local butcher.

abraxas ,

Processed meat is a Group 1 carcinogen. We should be treating it like we treat cigarettes.

Hextic ,

Dude I can breathe air and get cancer.

abraxas ,

While that’s true, some things are definitely worse than others.

You can ignore them and smoke if you want. And if you’re lucky, you’ll still die of something that isn’t caused by your smoking.

Cralder ,

That does not mean air causes cancer if that’s what you are saying. Processed meat actually does.

toxic ,

Yes, but all these points were not mentioned by the user I’m responding to. He stated that our ancestors didn’t eat meat as frequently as we do now. That was his argument against red meat.

abraxas ,

That’s also true of almost any food. Grains and legumes cause liver cancer. Eating too many plain vegetables can lead to nutritional deficiencies. All carbs, even fibers, need to be eaten in moderation. This site suggests no more than 3-4 servings per day.

GeoGio7 ,

Everything in moderation

Aldrond ,

Although high in nutrients, the difficulty in digestion makes it a carciogen. Particularly red meat - bird and fish (pre omnipresent plastics and heavy metals) are relatively healthier.

TWeaK ,

I think it’s more the industrial farming and food processing practices that make it carcinogenic.

Aldrond ,

It’s not. Remember that evolutionary incentives don’t care if you tend to live very far fast 32.

abraxas ,

It actually is. Most carcinogenic evidence on meats come from processed meats. Per cited references, eating way too much red meat is “probably” a cause for cancer, but eating processed meats is definitely a cause for cancer.

And by “way too much”, that’s 1.5lbs/week. I love a good steak, but don’t really eat 1.5lbs/week of it.

Modamiyota ,

Yeah I just don’t believe you bud.

docmark ,

mdanderson.org/…/your-guide-to-eating-less-red-me…

Well good thing science doesn’t give a shit what you believe lol. We’ve known this for decades at this point.

MercuryUprising ,

“That’s where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now, I know some of you are going to say, ‘I did look it up, and that’s not true.’ That’s ’cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that’s how our nervous system works.” - Stephen Colbert, 2006

howrar ,

Would you happen to know any papers with compelling evidence of this?

abraxas ,

They use “can” and “probably” in scientific sources because it’s not entirely confirmed. The best citation I could find was “probably” an increased risk if you eat more than 500g of meat per week.

psud ,

If it is hard to digest meat, why do carnivores have shorter guts than herbivores?

Aldrond ,

“Hard” doesn’t necessarily mean “requiring many resources” in this case. It has more nutrients, and as such it’s usually not digested as fully as herbivores digest plant matter.

It’s harder on the system doing the digestion.

abraxas ,

That’s sorta half the story. The official statement is that consistently eating more than 1.5lbs (500g) of red meat per week “probably” (their word) increases your cancer risk. The real story is that eating more than 50g of processed meat per week dramatically increases your cancer risk. To the extent that processed meat is ranked as a “Group 1” carcinogen.

Flip-side, grains and legumes have been tied to cancer as well. I can’t find exactly what category, but they seem fairly convinced they are carcinogenic.

It is, sadly, like the California Cancer joke, where almost everything causes cancer if taken to excess.

MonkderZweite ,

If you eat it more than 2 - 3 times per week.

psud ,

Since the grain industry gained power in the 1940s. They funded much research to say

  1. Meat is hard to digest (when in fact carnivorous animals have the shortest gut; we’re omnivores and have a medium gut, we also have the most acidic stomach acid of the mammals which is an adaptation to eating meat)
  2. Grain is the healthiest food (the only type of animal that does well on seeds is birds, they don’t have teeth for bread to get stuck between and rot. The ancient Egyptians lived on bread and had the worst dental health)
  3. That humans need a balanced diet of many different things - which we do when we’re eating nutritionally poor foods like bread, but many thrive on simple diets of fatty meat (Inuit before they adopted the standard American diet; Buffalo hunting native Americans; modern followers of lion, carnivore, zero carb)

The standard diet as recommended by science (much of which was bought by the wheat peak bodies) has made us fat. Getting fatter is the most unhealthy state, it leads to diabetes, hypertension, bad cholesterol and early death

dx1 ,

This is a common explanation but is unfortunately propaganda in itself.

rationalwiki.org/wiki/Weston_A._Price_Foundation

Long story short on what you wrote - meat is a nutritionally rich food option and kind of nutritionally acceptable if your people have been living in the tundra for a few thousand years & have actually managed to genetically accommodate it, since there isn’t much else food the further you go north (although it’s very much overly simplistic to depict Inuit diets as entirely meat-based). But for modern people, in temperature or tropical regions, it makes no sense at all, plant-based diets give you the best balance of nutrients without extremely high fat and cholesterol content…there’s a real anti-scientific hubris going on with people trying to brush away this basic fact.

habanhero ,

Specially processed meat, cheese and bread. In the case of fast food these ingredients are basically “hacked” to make us crave more and consume more. These industries have “food scientists” working on exactly that.

Meat, cheese and bread in their more natural form is definitely healthy when consumed in moderation.

shalafi ,

Hacking implies a lot more than simply adding fat and sugar, and that’s all you gotta do.

I’ve seen several threads where chefs confess that all they do to make their dish(s) popular is load it down with butter and sugar.

Wouldst thou like the taste of butter, wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

In related news, this American finally figured out why Europeans find our bread sickening sweet, why I love sourdough and why it’s called “sour”. You’re only gonna need one guess.

habanhero ,

Hacking implies a lot more than simply adding fat and sugar, and that’s all you gotta do.

In principle yes, but in reality it extends much farther than that and there is a whole industry built around this.

For example, the “Subway Sandwich smell” is something desired but not easily replicable, and is a guarded secrecy that corporate is pretty shush-shush about. It not only accentuates the flavor but can get people into the shop from blocks away.

Misconduct ,

It’s… Just just the smell of baked bread and yeast. Anyone that makes their own bread knows what’s going on with the smells in subway and can easily replicate it. I worked at one when I was younger there’s absolutely nothing nefarious or secret about it lmao. I personally think it’s the yeast more than anything. It’s a smell that used to be really common but is much less so these days so it sticks out. A lot of subways have the bread proofing/rising right up by the front too

abraxas ,

I’ve seen several threads where chefs confess that all they do to make their dish(s) popular is load it down with butter and sugar.

Not “confessed”. That’s a part of what they teach in culinary school. Restaurants strive for increased flavor, and the most effective flavor profiles are sweet and umami. Sugar and butter (or meat or MSG etc).

But yeah, we definitely use more sugar (instead of, or as well as umami) in America. However, there’s a lot of that going on in Japanese and Chinese (real, as in eating in China) cooking as well. When I was in China, everything that wasn’t meat was shockingly carb-loaded. These weird (yummy) sweet cheese breads I swore had simple syrup slathered all over them with what tasted almost like American Cheese.

Conyak ,

I have great news for you! It ain’t so!

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