/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18076911
/fit/ tourist here, there are a lot of foods that are unhealthy in so far as they contain poisons on some level, (mercury in tuna, alcohol in beer, etc). But by far the most unhealthy food in my opinion is fast food and junk food, as general concepts. The problem with fast food and junk food (though fast food especially), is that it tends to have a high caloric density with little protein, and a lot of carbs. The high carbs and low protein mean that a person experiences less satisfaction from the same amount of calories, (think a piece of chicken breast v.s a mars bar).

Fast food and junk food is also engineered to make you want to eat as much as possible, for instance in fastood there is an amount of sugar that can be put into any food that will make people subjectively rate it higher than if the sugar wasn't added. This threshold is known as the "bliss point" and beyond it people complain that food is sickly sweet. But up to that threshold it gives food (even "savoury" food like a mcdonalds quarter pounder), an addicting quality.

These factors combined: the caloric density, the lack of satiety, and the way the food is engineered to be addictive, as well as the general convenience of it mean that your average person will become more and more addicted to fast food and junk food, eat to a calorie surplus and gain weight. Thats why 41% of the adult U.S population are obese, (73.6% are overweight).

I'm not even going to try to list all of the health related complications and causes of death that are a direct result of being overweight or obese (let's just say it's more than car crashes).

If i had to name one specific food it would be mcdonalds, since it's the most convenient fast food out there.

Really you should be able to just eat and maintain a low body fat percentage, people in the 1950's didn't have to diet and count calories in order to prevent themselves from turning into Beluga whales.

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Just eat before the footy

Yes, I'll have FOUR Big Macs stacked on top of each other, a giant box of fries, a PITCHER of soda and can you fill a large fry container with BBQ sauce? Oh and a DOZEN apple pies!

This is what I'm havin

>>17223134
I started a diet on the New Year, but my go-to order use to be

2 large fries
3 McChickens
1 Mcdouble
20 piece nugget
Large soda

and I could eat it all in one sitting, so comparing that to your image, I'd say my order was way more food, but I never got mcflurries or apple pies.

>>16951676

>Yes, I'll have four Big Macs, four large fries in a box, a pitcher of coca-cola, a large french fry container filled with barbecue sauce, and a dozen apple pies.

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>>16420024
>This garbage should join hagis on the ban list from the USA.
No

This is my meal tonight

That's all? Pathetic

That's a fairly small amount for an average sized person. I'd say? The reason fast food cooks so fast and "lasts" so short is that there isn't much density to it.

>>16327532
is everything that reddi- oh wait, you have that in your filename

>>16263890

Anyone know of chips with a similar spice level?

Could eat it sideways like this unit.

Hello food fans

How does one approach this, top first or sideways?

>>16057106
luv me a propa burga

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>>16056988
How jealous are you of this guy?

>>15852627
n word