Submitted 9 months ago by themeatbridge@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.
Cheese is pretty healthy. It will actually make you feel full unlike processed junk food which bypasses the full feeling completely so you consume more.
Processed cheese may or may not be worse, depending on the processing and depending on the cheese you compare it to. There are thousands of kinds of cheese.
And even the healthiest cheese can still be eaten in excess. That was my point, not that cheese is unhealthy, but adding “a healthy amount” is phrase that really means more than one person should eat.
Thats true. American cheese is just water(chemicals) down cheddar.
Corn syrup is evil
Nah cheese is really good for you it is usually easier to digest than milk. It has some pretty important fats and all 9 essential amino acids. It is calorie dense which makes it a great pick me up snack. And if you’re a vegetarian cheese is one of the few foods that fill the role of meat.
How much cheese is good for you?
All of it, duh.
Depends on your nutritional goals and other food sources. If you eat nothing but fast food, you probably don’t need any extra fat or sodium. But if you eat pretty lean, eating some fat calories from cheese certainly isn’t a bad thing.
Depends on the cheese
Is this racism against my people (The French) ? ^(/s)
Only if they use American cheese
No, but that Superbowl ad was.
way more cheese than you should eat at once
This is not a logical statement, for it cannot be true.
I will NOT have you slander such a noble foodstuff, vile heathen!
How is cheese unhealry?
Maybe trash cheese but not proper cheese products.
Too much of anything is unhealthy. Too much fat, too much sodium, too many calories, take your pick.
In fact, too much water is deadly. We call this “drowning”. (or hyponatremia, which is very not-nice way to go but luckily not that easy to achieve)
“Too much of a good thing.”
Constipation? Maybe?
When the waiter comes to grate parmesan on my food I laugh and say that one block isn’t going to cut it.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Did the person happen to have a southern accent?
As someone from the south, that’s what “healthy” means when used to describe an amount of something. It means “a lot”.
Also, if you say someone looks healthy you’re basically calling them fat, depending on tone of voice and inflection.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 9 months ago
South? Like Australia?
But yeah “a healthy amount” in UK English too means"a large amount of"
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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marlowe221@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sorry, I meant south like Mississippi.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Similar to “generous” or “liberal”
Carighan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah what I was going to say, too. “Healthy” in the context of an amount usually means “be quite generous”.