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>Can we agree that a chocolate bar and a Twinkie are wildly different levels of healthiness? No. Sugar is sugar is sugar. Sugar is bad for humans. A twinkie ex
by snakeyjake 3y ago
>Can we agree that a chocolate bar and a Twinkie are wildly different levels of healthiness?
No. Sugar is sugar is sugar. Sugar is bad for humans. A twinkie excreted out of a factory is just as bad as artisanal small-batch free-range fair-trade chocolate that comes out of a Swiss boutique. It doesn't matter that the chocolate has more vitamin-D because of the sugar.
Category 4, which does indeed include nearly all prepared food, should be avoided to the greatest extent possible.
- Kirby64 3y agoThen we're at an impasse because that sort of black-and-white position is clearly untenable and leads to ridiculous policy decisions that are unhelpful to society. Chocolate bars or cocoa in general are shown to have anti-oxidant properties. If I get something with lots of cocoa %, it likely has substantially less sugar than a Twinkie, notwithstanding the difference in hyper-palatability between a Twinkie and a chocolate bar. Sugar is just sugar. It's not evil outright. It's certainly not bad for humans in any amount.