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As someone who has sometimes used "food waste" as an excuse to overeat, I find the concept of "metabolic food waste" useful. That is, food that you overeat is s
by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
As someone who has sometimes used "food waste" as an excuse to overeat, I find the concept of "metabolic food waste" useful. That is, food that you overeat is still wasted food. If you bought or cooked too much food, that was the point at which you made a mistake, and that mistake cannot be undone by proceeding to stuff your face.
- k__ 4y agoBut what about Africa?! But seriously, you can just put it in Tupperware and keep it for later.
- onenite 4y agoNot to mention that to overeat to the point of feeling sluggish is possibly a waste of energy and time. Even worse is when it negatively affects your sleep and body's restorative processes.
- mc32 4y agoSo what about people who overeat just to work off the calories later? Is that food waste too? In other words is leisure exercise above that which helps keep the body fit, exercise that leads to food waste?
- bsedlm 4y agonope, they're just people with a larger carbon footprint; to put in some way, point being they're using more energy. keeping in mind that these people are usually healthier thus look good. I think of this a bit like tiying your shoes and untying them over and over, or maybe it's like putting a lego set together, taking it appart, then back together...
- triceratops 4y agoAccording to an another article I read on here a few months back, "working off calories" is basically impossible over the long term. The body will adapt to the work and become more efficient in how many calories it expends to do it. Or you'll injure yourself and be unable to do as much work.
- spudlyo 4y agoNot sure the body's adaptation is a significant factor, but it only takes a few moments to consume a calorie dense food, and perhaps an hour of sustained exercise to burn burn it off. If I've already done my daily exercise, I'm not interested in doing any more. Seems a lot easier not to eat it in the first place.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoIts not overeating if they worked it off.
- helpfulmandrill 4y agoHonestly, the agenda of my comment was not to shame people who eat a lot and burn it off (assuming that's possible/feasible), but to free people from the "clean plate club".
- ciphol 4y agoOr as I heard it, "better to destroy your food than destroy your body".
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