• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Of course. The unhealthiness of food is an emergent property arising from the arrangement of their constituents components relative to each other. The next time you have a burger and want to be healthy, just take it apart! Taps head

    In all seriousness, for anyone confused by this, whether or not something is healthy for you is all about quantities and ratios. Specifically, that of your diet as a whole, not of individual items. So while I don’t agree with this sentiment, burgers can be considered unhealthy because:

    • There is very little vegetables in relation to meat and bread
    • It is very calorically dense
    • Red meat is considered by many to be unhealthy in its own right, and burgers tend to have a lot of that
    • It is usually consumed with large portions of fries and drinks or other sides that are also very calorically dense with little diversity in micronutrients
    • Something Burger 🍔@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m sick of people claiming calorie dense food is unhealthy. It’s not. Calories are required for your body to function. An adult needs 2000kcal per day; whether they are spread out over 8 meals or 3 makes no difference. Eating the amount of calories of a hamburger every day is nothing special, especially if you do sports regularly.

      This comment was made by the <20 BMI gang.