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You can eat real food instead of processed garbage, for starters. Nobody's getting fat eating vegetables.
by arcanemachiner 4y ago
You can eat real food instead of processed garbage, for starters. Nobody's getting fat eating vegetables.
- crazygringo 4y agoActually, cutting potatoes and other starchy vegetables is a major part of weight loss for a lot of people. High-starch vegetables are a major contributor to obesity.
- choeger 4y agoI call bullshit. The average cooked potatoe has 25% less calories than rice or pasta. You'd have to eat 3kg of cooked potatoes to get 2100kcal. I am pretty certain it is near impossible to get fat from eating potatoes. Go give it a try. I bet that it is the "frying" part or the sauce or butter that comes with it, that leaves a lasting impression on the hips.
- amrocha 4y agoBrother, weight lifters literally eat sweet potatoes to put on weight
- stametseater 4y ago[dead]
- stametseater 4y agoThere's a popular internet myth that junk food is cheaper than veggies. Of course it isn't true; junk food is more expensive by weight than anything in the produce aisle, with possible exceptions for exotic imported fruits. How this myth survives people wandering around a grocery store looking at price stickers is beyond my comprehension. A 5lb bag of potatoes costs less than a half pound bag of potato chips.
- huijzer 4y agoIt's probably the difference in looking at weight versus calories. A cauliflower is, on average, 0.7-0.9 kg (1.5-2 pounds) and provides about 25 calories. A McDonalds burger is, on average, 0.2 kg (0.441 pounds) with about 250 calories. The cauliflower currently costs about 3 euros (yes, you read that right) in the Netherlands while a burger costs around 7 euros. So, calories per euro is 8 for the cauliflower and 35 for the burger.
- frumper 4y agoI want to see this mythical almost half pound burger that is only 250 calories. The "hamburger" that is 250 calories has a patty less than 2 ounces, and hardly anything on it. I doubt the bun weights 1/4 pound.
- amon22 4y agoA head of cauliflower is around 210 calories when cooked, similar to the cheeseburger in your example.
- amrocha 4y agoA head of cauliflower is not a meal
- hexedpackets 4y agoA cup of cauliflower is about 25 calories. A 2 pound head of cauliflower is 224 calories, only about 10% less than the burger.
- dghlsakjg 4y agoThe myth isn’t a myth. It refers to the price of calories, not the price of food by weight. You end up with the cheapest calories being lightly processed grains like rice and flour, then you end up with more processed grains like white bread and ramen, then move to things like peanut butter, before hitting junk food. The point is that the cheapest calories aren’t exactly healthy. The produce aisle tends to be pretty expensive per calorie, potatoes excepted, since veggies aren’t calorically dense, and are sold mostly by weight.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoHealthy food can be fattening and unhealthy food can be not fattening. It has very little to do with the type of food and everything to do with the density of calories in the food, and the amount of that food eaten. No one ever got fat eating only vegetables. But you can't eat only vegetables and get all the necessary nutrients(at least not easily).
- stametseater 4y ago> No one ever got fat eating only vegetables. But you can't eat only vegetables and get all the necessary nutrients(at least not easily). Throw some eggs or lean chicken meat into the mix and you've got a complete diet that would be very difficult to become fat on.
- vjk800 4y agoYou can, it's called veganism and lots of people do it. However, you don't have to be that "extreme". Just eating mostly vegetables and cutting out all the obvious crap will do. The fact that this is somehow unimaginably strict to many people just shows how completely fucked up our relationship with food is. Most of the foods that make us fat didn't even exist a hundred years ago (at least in its modern, highly processed form) and now people somehow can't imagine living without them.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoSure, but to be vegan you have to know wtf you're doing, because it's really easy to get malnourished in various ways. And unless you want to eat nasty fermented beans or something you need b12 supplements at the very least. Getting iron from non-heme sources is also kind of hit-or-miss.
- pkolaczk 4y agoOur bodies are not adjusted to eating food with high calory density. Junk food messes up the system the way you feel hungry despite eating enough calories, and that leads to eating too much and becoming obese. You're right that eating the right number of calories in junk food won't make you obese, but it is extremely hard to eat the right number of calories when eating mostly junk food. Eat healthy food, and eat only when you're hungry, and most likely your body would auto-regulate the calory intake just fine.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoSay that to all the obese vegetarians and vegans then? Not eating processed food doesn't mean eating healthy.