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The most prevalent eating disorder is still (unintentional) overeating. Not eating 2000+ extra calories of fast food every day has never put anyone in danger.

watwut 3y ago
That wont kill you the way anorexia easily can. And fun fact: being slightly overweight is associated with best health results. The malnutrition from eating disorder really really sux and damages the body big time. > Not eating 2000+ extra calories of fast food every day has never put anyone in danger. Adolescents need 2500 or more daily, depending on gender activity level etc.
- sigmoid10 3y ago
  I was talking about extra calories above your maintenance level. Which is basically one large Mcdonalds meal these days.
  - watwut 3y ago
    I actually checked local McDonald's meal nutrition information. It had around the dinner amount of calories with reasonable split between sacharids, proteins and fats. It would not be healthy every day, but it was not even approaching whole day amount of calories. It was not far off any other restaurant food calories content.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  anorexia is a problem for a trivially small portion of the population. being slightly overweight might be fine, but most of the population isn't "slightly" overweight, they're clinically obese and are fat as fuck. As in, like 60% or more of the population is full-on overweight. the rest of the world is catching up quickly, too.
  - watwut 3y ago
    You can be obese and anorectic (it is called atypical anorexia). Simply said, if you are obese, you can starve yourself and cause serious issues without loosing all that weight first. Plus, anorexia is not the only eating disorder there is. Anorexia prevalence in females ranges from 0.3%-1.5% and for males range from 0.1%-0.5%. And it is raising. It happens to be the most deadly mental issue there is. Male mortality is higher, cause people associate it with women. That is not "trivially small".

watwut 3y ago

That wont kill you the way anorexia easily can. And fun fact: being slightly overweight is associated with best health results. The malnutrition from eating disorder really really sux and damages the body big time. > Not eating 2000+ extra calories of fast food every day has never put anyone in danger. Adolescents need 2500 or more daily, depending on gender activity level etc.

sigmoid10 3y ago
I was talking about extra calories above your maintenance level. Which is basically one large Mcdonalds meal these days.
- watwut 3y ago
  I actually checked local McDonald's meal nutrition information. It had around the dinner amount of calories with reasonable split between sacharids, proteins and fats. It would not be healthy every day, but it was not even approaching whole day amount of calories. It was not far off any other restaurant food calories content.
red-iron-pine 3y ago
anorexia is a problem for a trivially small portion of the population. being slightly overweight might be fine, but most of the population isn't "slightly" overweight, they're clinically obese and are fat as fuck. As in, like 60% or more of the population is full-on overweight. the rest of the world is catching up quickly, too.
- watwut 3y ago
  You can be obese and anorectic (it is called atypical anorexia). Simply said, if you are obese, you can starve yourself and cause serious issues without loosing all that weight first. Plus, anorexia is not the only eating disorder there is. Anorexia prevalence in females ranges from 0.3%-1.5% and for males range from 0.1%-0.5%. And it is raising. It happens to be the most deadly mental issue there is. Male mortality is higher, cause people associate it with women. That is not "trivially small".