I get your point and I agree, but for me I perhaps inaccurately use processed as a proxy for calorie density. Working at a restaurant in college, I saw that a

I get your point and I agree, but for me I perhaps inaccurately use processed as a proxy for calorie density. Working at a restaurant in college, I saw that a single plate of pasta they made during a busy night when it was hard to keep up could easily wind up an entire stick of butter. That’s on top of the cream. Soda - tons of sugar packed into 12 oz. When you don’t eat restaurant/processed foods at home, it does shock you a bit just what a giant volume of good 2,000 calories can be. This is all it means to me. I’m not out here trying to prove science, just trying to stay healthy.