Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 hours agooh 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.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
I’m not sure where you think I’m saying you should eat candy bars. You’re projecting someone else’s opinion on my comment. I didn’t say those things.
Firstly, there’s not a single reason that people are obese. And secondly being at a goal weight doesn’t mean that you are either healthy or fit.
If one is to substitute known unhealthy things for possibly harmful things instead of improving their life in general, that’s like giving up cigarettes for vaping in my opinion. Artificial sweeteners could be causing massive harm in ways that are less obvious and harder to pin on diet, but for me, I don’t eat them because they taste terrible. I’d rather not eat sweets as often and have treats made from less refined, more natural ingredients than to eat things with artificial sweeteners and protein packed in for the sake of marketing.
Your accusations of me being judgemental and toxic are interesting, but I’m not going to take the bait. I don’t owe you an explanation of my nuanced opinion outside of the few reasons I’ve already listed.