I believe it! Cereal has very little nutritional value, tons of sugar and it doesn’t keep you full for long. Pizza might be pretty low on the health scale but it is a carb heavy food that might provide you with some longer lasting energy. So I think the real point might be that cereal is less healthy than pizza.
“New York-based nutritionist Chelsey Amer told The Daily Meal that many breakfast cereals have a very high sugar content and not very much protein, ultimately leading to a sugar crash before lunchtime.
“You may be surprised to find out that an average slice of pizza and a bowl of cereal with whole milk contain nearly the same amount of calories,” Amer said.“However, pizza packs a much larger protein punch, which will keep you full and boost satiety throughout the morning.”’
No matter what food you eat. Main value is kcal. Food is just energy. There is no real bad harmful products. And any product will be harmful if you overdose it. For example, apples contain acetaldehyde which is reason of toxication that leads to... hangover.
I used to subscribe to this philosophy as well but turns out weight loss is a bit more complicated than that.
I used to be on a strict 1200kcal diet a while back, and it worked great... until it didn't. Turns out your metabolism slows down to a crawl when you *just* count calories, which totally demotivated me and I gained the weight back. Now I count calories but have a cheat day every Sunday where I eat around 2000 calories to keep my metabolism fast, and I also work out more. Turns out your body is good at adapting to your environment. Working out makes you stronger and thinner not just because of the energy you lose but also because your body tried to ada to the physical stress.
Also, you do need nutrients otherwise you're going to have health problems. For example not having enough magnesium makes you have muscle cramps more often. So yeah technically in today's day and age you can't die by not eating properly but your health will get worse.
Except you can die from eating poorly. Sure it's a lot easier to live with a poor diet, but first of all, a serious enough deficiency will still kill you if you do nothing about it. Secondly, declines to your health due to poor eating may not kill you outright. but they can easily make you weaker, allowing you to die from something that shouldn't have killed you, like the flu. Lastly, only because truly toxic material isn't classified as food. There are plenty of toxic plants that resemble food, and plenty of toxic chemicals that taste like food, none of which are classified as food, because they are toxic to humans.
Also, relatedly: Some people CANNOT eat certain foods or they will DIE. Mostly we think of allergies here. Which, yeah, definitely. But also things like celiac disease. And well a spike in your blood sugar has to be pretty severe to die, and even pure sugar is okay in extreme moderation, diabetics are often better off avoiding certain foods entirely.
Again: because substances that are truly poison are not classified as food.
Also, while exclusions are not the common rule, a lot of people have at least one exception here.
Also, as previously mentioned: only caring about calories is very dangerous. Even if you eat a variety of nutritionally empty foods, you are still likely to get sick. And promoting that there are no bad foods and you shouldn't worry about it is bad.
Lots of people are not educated enough to know that "overdosing on anything is bad" does not mean live on 16 different kinds of chips and 10 different candy bars. I know that sounds obvious to some of us who realize that fundamentally you are trying to survive almost exclusively off corn flour and corn syrup, but not everyone understands this.
I literally work with a woman who struggles to understand that measuring her carbohydrate high foods does not mean she gets a pass, she still needs to limit her total carbohydrates. She is diabetic.
And while I recognize that her circumstance is not representative of the whole of people, you should recognize that people who do not know better will take the advise of strangers on the internet over their doctor if it's what they want to hear.
Maybe, but as a matter of ethics you shouldn't spread information that is so dangerously incomplete if you know well enough to understand your information is dangerously simplified.
Also, you shouldn't agruge when people are trying to clarify your information. Especially when you have presented dangerously over simplified information. But also, like ever. More information is good.
“You may be surprised to find out that an average slice of pizza and a bowl of cereal with whole milk contain nearly the same amount of calories,” Amer said.“However, pizza packs a much larger protein punch, which will keep you full and boost satiety throughout the morning.”’
I used to be on a strict 1200kcal diet a while back, and it worked great... until it didn't. Turns out your metabolism slows down to a crawl when you *just* count calories, which totally demotivated me and I gained the weight back. Now I count calories but have a cheat day every Sunday where I eat around 2000 calories to keep my metabolism fast, and I also work out more. Turns out your body is good at adapting to your environment. Working out makes you stronger and thinner not just because of the energy you lose but also because your body tried to ada to the physical stress.
Also, you do need nutrients otherwise you're going to have health problems. For example not having enough magnesium makes you have muscle cramps more often. So yeah technically in today's day and age you can't die by not eating properly but your health will get worse.
Also, relatedly: Some people CANNOT eat certain foods or they will DIE. Mostly we think of allergies here. Which, yeah, definitely. But also things like celiac disease. And well a spike in your blood sugar has to be pretty severe to die, and even pure sugar is okay in extreme moderation, diabetics are often better off avoiding certain foods entirely.
Also, while exclusions are not the common rule, a lot of people have at least one exception here.
Also, as previously mentioned: only caring about calories is very dangerous. Even if you eat a variety of nutritionally empty foods, you are still likely to get sick. And promoting that there are no bad foods and you shouldn't worry about it is bad.
Lots of people are not educated enough to know that "overdosing on anything is bad" does not mean live on 16 different kinds of chips and 10 different candy bars. I know that sounds obvious to some of us who realize that fundamentally you are trying to survive almost exclusively off corn flour and corn syrup, but not everyone understands this.
I literally work with a woman who struggles to understand that measuring her carbohydrate high foods does not mean she gets a pass, she still needs to limit her total carbohydrates. She is diabetic.
Also, you shouldn't agruge when people are trying to clarify your information. Especially when you have presented dangerously over simplified information. But also, like ever. More information is good.