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The guy lost me when linked home-cooked food with misogyny.

• emodendroket 9y ago
  "Sugar is good, even though it's high in calories yet doesn't make you feel any fuller, because you need calories to live" seems like an odd claim too, given that we don't live in a society where most people are suffering from insufficient caloric intake.
  • throwaway91111 9y ago
    And yet, i still need quick calories to catch a bus in the morning. Amazing!
    • emodendroket 9y ago
      Yeah, nothing wakes you up in the morning like a Coca-Cola.
      • throwaway91111 9y ago
        Calories aren't directly related to arousal to my knowledge, aside from needing to feed ones self. My point being: you're ignoring obvious benefits by hyperbolizing having a piece of toast to put something in your stomach before leaving the house.
        • benchaney 9y ago
          Your previous post makes it sound like you are consuming a significant amount of sugar in the morning, so i don't really think GP is hyperbole.
        • emodendroket 9y ago
          I imagine most people (surely me) are mostly thinking of added simple sugar when they talk about avoiding sugar, and not the carbohydrates in a slice of toast. But really I don't see the benefits as entirely "obvious" to having toast rather than, say, eggs.
• smt88 9y ago
  That's a social issue/argument. Does it make his scientific claims invalid?
  • devoply 9y ago
    Well it does not seem to me that he's making any scientific claims, just opinionated claims. Which is his right, just as much as it's might right to voice my own opinionated claims as a eater of food.
    • smt88 9y ago
      He makes many claims that are based on science (e.g. nutritional value of various ingredients, health effects of food processing, etc.) Do his social views make his analysis of those studies invalid?
• devoply 9y ago
  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2098199-lets-ditch-the-idea-that-only-home-cooked-food-is-good-for-kids/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2098199-lets-ditch-the-... Apparently it's a thing, and just shows this whole line of thought has sort of jumped the shark...
  • emodendroket 9y ago
    > It found that home-made meals based on 408 bestselling cookbook recipes for infants and young children are not always healthier than ready meals and convenience products. In fact, on many measures they seemed less healthy: they tended to have a lower vegetable variety per meal and were more likely to exceed maximum recommendations for energy and fat content. Is that representative of what the average person cooks?
    • watwut 9y ago
      Cookbooks are probably not representative of actual cooking, but it is hard to judge whether average cooking is healthier. It is impossible to judge how much less healthy it would be if people who are cool not cooking for children switched to cooking. It is good point through, not everything that comes in can is bad for you.
      • emodendroket 9y ago
        Right. I guess the claim has always been that if you made it you know what's in it and you're less likely to unwittingly consume an extreme amount of sugar or whatever. I don't know how accurate that is.
• belorn 9y ago
  One of the biggest problem I had with that statement is how extremely unscientifically it was. Home cooking don't take a constant amount of time and vary based on what food you make and how many people there is in the household. Some people like me do once a month cooking where you dedicate almost a whole day per month, usually a day on the weekend. If you are a single person then you might not even need to cook that often.