Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
it’s so you can eat things that taste like they’re made of corn syrup but are actually made of whey.
like you don’t have to change your eating habits, but you can meet your macros without going over your calorie limit
CubitOom@infosec.pub 11 hours ago
No whey.
But, have you ever considered how much protein your body should have in a meal? Eating too much protein can also be malnutrition. To your point it’s better to have too much protein than too much fat. However if it tastes like it’s full of corn syrup, it probably still is. Or some “healthy” artificial sweetener which your body thinks is the same yet is still empty carbohydrates.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
yeah, I better get back to (over) eating the even worse shit.
When people start eating like this, it’s almost always better than what they were eating before, and if you are doing hard exercise and desperately trying to recover from muscle pains due to exercising, and restricting calories, you need a lot of protein.
Remember, you need protein to recover AND to avoid losses from calorie restrictions.
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Do the math on trying to achieve that much protein intake when you’re restricting to that few calories and what you can and can’t eat within a day with regular meals.
Now think about when you have cravings to eating the junk food you used to eat.
no shit people want to eat the protein bars. leave them the fuck alone, they’re fighting internal demons.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 11 hours ago
I think the jury is still out on artificial sweeteners.
Artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes
[womanshospital.com/…/the-not-so-sweet-effects-of-…](The not-so-sweet effects of artificial sweeteners on the body)
I think anyone that thinks eating something that tastes like a candy bar can be healthy is lying to themselves. I also think there are issues introduced when you are absorbing refined highly processed nutrients. Issues that might seem unrelated but can affect your health more long term.
Your body isn’t just a machine that you can add the correct mixture of things to for proper maintenance. It’s messy system that is biological dependent on evolutionary history, and there’s a lot of unknowns that have yet to be studied at all.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
oh you know what, you’re right. I should go back to eating healthy refined sugar in chocolate bars, and wash it down with fried chicken instead.
You don’t understand anything about weight loss or why people are obese in the first place. Even if you’re correct (which, there isn’t complete , substantial evidence for), the sweeteners are there to replace worse behaviour that does have concrete , substantial evidence of massive harm.
“healthy” is an incredibly loaded term , especially when you’re talking about things that have artificial sweeteners. What’s the rest of the foodstuff made of? what would be eaten instead? how much is eaten? why? etc etc.
be straight up with me. what’s your weight? have you struggled with weight loss in the past? what do you eat? Because you’re very judgemental and toxic in a topic that over 30% of the human population struggle with.