Eli5: lettuce, tomato, meat, pickles, cheese = healthy, burger = unhealthy, how ?
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It depends on whom you talk to.
The burger patty has a lot of fat and the bun is high in carbs. It has been assumed that eating fat makes you fat, but this has been called into question. Some believe this association came from bad science paid for by the sugar industry to try to say that fat makes you fat, but sugar does not. In this new anti-carb world, the bun would be the worst part.
Those who follow Atkins/paleo/low carb/high protein diets would eat the vegetable and the meat. Skip the bun and the sauces.
We go though cycles, in the 80s everything was about “complex carbohydrates” and pasta was the best thing to eat.
Before that, they used to advertise the amount of sugar they put in cereal because kids need calories to make it though the day.
It is really tough to get truly independent diet studies because most of the funding comes from people who have a stake in the result.
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