Using your analogy, your strategy is to stop eating candy bars, but it's ok to eat 5x the calories of a single candy bar in broccoli because broccoli per item i

Using your analogy, your strategy is to stop eating candy bars, but it's ok to eat 5x the calories of a single candy bar in broccoli because broccoli per item is fewer calories. That's obviously flawed because it's the total amount of calories, not the calories in any particular food.