My biology teacher said theres no such thing as “unhealthy” foods. Only eating in regulation, how true is this?
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This is, in most cases, technically true.
Some obvious exceptions: Spoiled food, or food contaminated with heavy metals, etc., are obviously bad for you.
Nutritionally speaking, however, what your teacher said is technically correct, BUT that doesn’t mean that it’s not a good idea to avoid certain kinds of food as a rule of thumb.
The reason I say this isn’t so much the impact some food has on you nutritionally, but rather the behavioural impact. Simply put, some foods are very difficult to eat a small amount of. Junk food, for example: Very hard to eat just a little. It’s essentially addictive. And there’s a good reason for that: Most junk food has been very carefully engineered to taste as good as possible and make you want more. Everything from its packaging, to the appearance of the food itself, to the size of the pieces, to the texture, the smell, the taste, the aftertaste, and the smell left over in the packaging after you’ve eaten it… ALL of it has been carefully tweaked to maximize the chances that you’ll want more.
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