Relevant XKCD
Some recent studies point that bacon is not that bad if you not mix it with a lot of carbos
It’s cured fatty meat.
Too much of it isn’t going to be great no matter what you do.
The thing is, fat isn’t all that bad for you. The idea that fat is unhealthy is mostly dead outside of sugar lobbyists. It’s sugar that you really have to look out for.
Salt is also likely not as bad as reporting used to make it out to be. It causes short term blood pressure increases, but potentially not long term and also we don’t know the direction of causation with that and heart disease.
Basically, don’t over-indulge, but bacon probably isn’t going to kill you.
Heart disease causes you to eat more salt? Shit.
This made me laugh but, in case it’s not a joke, I meant high BP causing heart disease, heart disease causing high BP, or them both being caused by something else related.
Fat isn’t just one thing. There are absolutely fats that are very unhealthy.
Animal fat that has been cooked to temperature is absolutely fucking horrible for you.
You’re thinking of plant-based omega-fats which are essential for health.
When I was an early teenager I realized with an epiphany that I could take my paper route money, go to the grocery store, and buy my own cookies! It was a light bulb moment. No mom to tell me how many I could have. An entire box of cookies all to myself! So I did it, and I ate half a box of Oreo cookies, and drank 2 cherry Cokes. I got so sick that I threw up and had to go to bed several hours early. At that point I realized that my mom wasn’t just being mean when she told me “no” and put limits on me, and I started listening to her more. Of course a couple of years later my real teenage years started, and I completely forgot that valuable lesson.
Did the same when I got to college and ate three packets of pop tarts for breakfast.
I remember realizing this at about 20, and that if I bought my own cake ingredients I could make cake for startlingly little money. The most expensive part was probably the ready made frosting.
Anyway I started making cakes for friends and neighbours in my apartment building after work. I didn’t keep it up for very long, maybe a year, but I’m convinced my reputation is still riding high, decades later, from the goodwill I sowed during that time.
One man can.
As an adult, I can bake as many cakes as I want, and everybody will want to hang out with me even more than usual because of all the delicious cakes.
I’m down to hang out with cake and you
Only if you have a car, otherwise you need to walk or take public transportation.
You can literally break into any old car and drive it away. Who’s going to stop you?
The police and my conscience. The lack of any driving experience likely won’t help either.
Your heart might stop you, eventually.
I think you mean pancreas. Though, IDK which would come first.
I discovered that in my mid-20s. I enjoyed eating a whole cake all by myself whenever the hell I wanted a few times and then the consequences begin to show and that’s how we learn our lessons about things like that and then we eventually teach our kids the right way to do things and then they get bored with that and they turn around and rebel and then they learn their lessons in their 20s and the cycle continues.
Some people don’t suffer those consequences
You mean some people can eat an entire cake and not get fat or feel generally unwell?
Haha well I’ve never heard of a whole cake, but like a lot
Damn I had a birthday recently and I totally forgot about that option.
My brother or sister, the birthday doesn’t even enter into it. If you want cake just go get some.
But then I think about calories and other negative consequences. On my birthday, however, I can say: “Well, it’s my birthday!”
I totally get that, that’s fair
Do this enough, and physics will stop you from getting in your car.
They’ll probably stop you from fitting your pants long before that.
Pant’s are overrated anyway
So is chocolate cake.
As an adult you should realize that eating a cake any time you want is unhealthy and should have the self control to delay that gratification. Sure noone can stop you, but you should have the self respect to stop yourself.
Depends a lot on your genotype, I think. I wouldn’t eat it every day, but I’ve never noticed any ill effects
No. Calories in, calories out. No one can break the laws of physics.
Yeah but the calories that you put in your mouth don’t affect everyone the same way. Either that or I’ve got a pocket dimension in my leg
They do affect everyone the same in the sense that all people will gain weight at the same rate. But the weight distribution in the body will be different.
This is actually false again. I’ve always had a massive sweet tooth, especially for baked goods, but still stayed skinnier than my friends. Some people really can just put it away.
No, it’s not. You’re just unaware of how much calories you actually consume and what your expenditure is.
