I know this sounds pretty dumb but I honestly don’t understand. Tomato sauce, good. Cheese, good. Toppings such as pepperoni or mushrooms, goood! It seems like it should be at least considered ok but it’s on most health blacklists
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Wait who said it’s unhealthy? It’s a complete meal and an original Italian pizza is not unhealthy at all, just don’t eat only pizza
bread has tons of carbs and carbs can trigger a dopamine response in our brain. cheese has way too much greese and additives specifically one called ‘casein’ that makes it addictive as well. both of these can trigger u into eating alot and alot of anything isnt too good. and the toppings add to more calories
All those carbs in the bread part. Like, wow bread carbs are especially bad because of how easily digestible processed flour is. Wheat flour starts breaking down into mostly sugar (glucose, in this case) before you even finish chewing.
It’s very high in calories for one.
Cheese isn’t really healthy.
Neither are processed meats.
And because it’s delicious people tend to eat too much of it. (At least that’s my problem)
It is healthy in moderation but there’s healthier things to eat. It’s high in calories and easy to eat a lot. That’s the main thing. If you eat tuna salad you’ll eat less / ingest less calories to be full / not gain weight. If you can eat one slice of pizza then yes, it’s totally fine. Especially good if you choose to eat Italian pizza. The issue is we evolved to spend more energy to injest less calories and pizza is loaded with easy calories. It’s like we’ve found a kind of cheat code to life but the are side-effects to the cheat. Makes the game shorter, less fun and people don’t respect us when we over-indulge on the cheat.
you have to understand that calorie consumption has changed over the years.
the foods we enjoy come from rural communities where people worked manual labor in the fields and later in mines or factories.
so you find pizza which is basically carbs with fat on it, or pasta which is mostly just carbs, legume based stews, even tamales which is just a dense pack of carbs with a little protein inside.
What changed isn’t that the food has become unhealthy, its that many people don’t do manually intensive work anymore. eating a pizza or 2-3 tamales after your shift at a 9 to 5 desk job crunching numbers isn’t the same as doing it after you woke up at the ass crack of dawn to feed the animals, milk the cows and check the fields, or went down the mine for 8 hours drilling out coal…
pizza bread isn’t terribly healthy, just carbs and added sugar.
Cheese isn’t healthy, lots of fat that outweighs any vitamins from the milk.
Tomato sauce is made from vegetables, but it’s got a lot of sugar added to make the sauce.
Meats are often processed and fatty.
In short, it’s got a ton of carbs and fat, some protein, and not much of the good nutrients that you actually want to get.
Ok, follow up question. Why on most food portioning charts is bread or carbs the biggest percent of the plate when so many people are saying the carbs are the worst thing?
Theres alot of misunderstanding between unhealthy and unhealthy.
There are two types.
1: Calorie Content.
Calories are a way to meassure energy, just like meters or feet is a way to meassure distance. Your body burns a set amount of energy daily. If you eat more energy than you burn, your body will save that as fat for later use, and you gain weight. if you eat less energy than you burn, your body will still need the energy, and will burn the fat you stored earlier, and you lose weight.
2: Nutrient Content.
Wether the food contains the nutrients you need, or compounds that are harmful for you. This is unrelated to weight-gain. This is all about wether the stuff you eat has vitamins and minerals. Or the bacteris your body needs. Wether the fats are saturated or unsaturated. This decides wether your body can keep its processes going. Like the immunesystem, or digestion, or hydration.
Now often times, unhealthy compounds go hand in hand with high calorie content. Fat is very high in energy, and chips contains lot of bad fat. Therefor chips make you gain weight, and also gives you bad nutrition.
A tomato has lots of vitamins, but vitamins are not burned for energy. So a tomato will have a hard time making you gain weight, while at the same time giving you lots of nutrition.
BUT
Not all fats are bad. Nuts contain a ton of fat, but its good fat. It also contains alot of other nutrients. Nuts for all intents and purposes are very healthy. But they contain a ton of energy. 200 grams of nuts contains more calories than 200 grams of chips or chocolate. They are healthy, but you gain weight very easily from them
Pizza is similar. The stuff on the pizza is usually healthy stuff, the thing is that there is alot of it. So lots of calories. You get nutrition from it, but also weight gain. So eating a pizza every now and then is not unhealthy, but several times a week will lead to weight gain.
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