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by pcurve 3y ago
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what's scary is 1250 of that comes from fat. That's more fat than 1.5 stick of butter...
I don't know if people realize that.
Can you imagine eating 1.5 stick of butter?
- hgomersall 3y agoWhat's wrong with calories from fat?
- Paul-Craft 3y agoNothing per se. It's just that fat has 9 calories per gram, so 1250 calories from fat is 138 grams of fat. It's also mostly saturated fat, which is pretty bad for the heart, not to mention that it's nearly half the total daily caloric requirement for an average man.
- im3w1l 3y agoWell from my understanding, if you have an active lifestyle, then your body needs carbs to replenish glycogen stores. And proteins to repair and grow muscles. Fats aren't needed for anything in particular, except in small amounts. But 2040 kCal is so much that the body will turn the energy into fat even if it didn't start out as fat.
- inconceivable 3y agoyour body doesn't need any carbs. carbs are cheap and easy and tasty and plentiful but not required at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis also, the US government says you should eat a shitload of it, so you can probably just assume it's terrible for you.
- esailija 3y agoThey said for active lifestyle.
- inconceivable 3y agoyeah, so? there are plenty of fat adapted athletes. and 'active' people don't come anywhere close to the needs of a real athlete.
- stjohnswarts 3y agoFats aren't needed in the human body? That's just flat out wrong. Carbs are what aren't needed. The body can create whatever sugars it needs from fat and protein.
- bell-cot 3y agoIf you are some combination of older, smaller, less-healthy, and unaccustomed to eating a meal containing that quantity of fat...then your digestive system may be very unhappy, and let you know it.
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- pravus 3y agoI'm on a keto diet and eat that level of fat pretty regularly. When I cook eggs I'll use 1/4 stick of butter per 3 eggs and serve it over a huge pile of cheese. Add in sour cream or bacon and the fat content gets pretty high quickly. Tastes amazing.
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- keepamovin 3y agoSounds amazing! :)
- tragomaskhalos 3y agoFrench cuisine is universally lauded but is almost entirely based on cooking everything in lots of butter. Butter makes things very tasty. For everyday use, certainly cut back, but if you're eating out, spoil yourself. That said, anecdotally (and may well be wrong on this point), Americans tend to eat out a lot more, and accordingly in more homely restaurants, than British people, so yes in that case keep an eye out and have a salad occasionally.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoMore like have a salad regularly, and the other things occasionally. I grew up in America, but in an immigrant household that does not use butter. I was mid 30s when I first saw part of a Paula Deen cooking show, and it explained the state of the people I was seeing around the country. She was throwing sticks of butter and cups of sugar into things left and right.
- mcv 3y agoIsn't that just the Julia Child view of French cuisine? I've never had the feeling that French cuisine was anywhere near as greasy as American cuisine.