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This perspective is invalid in large parts of the world. The most important macro nutrients are sugar and fat, the very thing americans (and only americans) ca
by 08-15 7y ago
This perspective is invalid in large parts of the world. The most important macro nutrients are sugar and fat, the very thing americans (and only americans) call "empty calories". In most places, more calories is good. Meeting the requirement of about 2000-2500 kcal/d is frequently more difficult than providing a few dozen grams of protein and a few mg of various micronutrients per day.
Only the US (and its sphere of influence) has the opposite problem, because people there insist on drinking fizzy sugar water. It's not even that the maize the sugar is made from is low in micronutrients, it's that those aren't used to manufacture HFCS.
- cwingrav 7y agoNo. There are programs to teach people how to change crops from traditional crops to more nutrient rich crops, just to avoid what you are talking about. While true in areas where people are starving, any calories are good, but still in most parts of the world, people need nutrition to grow and be healthy. Our bodies can balloon up with fat and still be under nourished, and nutrient poor foods do this.