I understand that calories control weight gain/loss, but why are some foods unhealthy? If you are healthy, work out, and have no deficiencies, why shouldn’t you eat loads of chocolate, soft drinks etc? Doesn’t everything we eat break down into the same stuff?
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It’s also about calories vs nutritional value (the stuff in the food that your body needs to function). If you have food with lots of calories but no nutritional value, you ate a lot of calories but still need the nutrients. So you need to eat more food that does contain nutrients which also means taking in more calories. This will lead to a calory surplus that you will need to get rid off. Unfortunately, exercise will only burn off a relatively small amount of calories compared to how easy it is to take in large amounts of calories.
Other than that there’s also things like soft drinks being bad for your teeth due to their acidity, or alcohol being harmful to the brain and liver.
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