detoxing... does it work?

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  • rileyes
    rileyes Posts: 1,406 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    stevencloser wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/junk-food.htm
    Pure silliness.

    A regular Snickers has 11g of fat, 28g of carbs, and 3g of protein. Fat, carbs, and protein aren't junk.

    Read past the first sentence. The article is not about Snickers. And I know our bodies have an amazing way of converting any food into the basic fuel we need--in the short term, anyway.

    Your article thinks salt contains calories.
    The article is more junk than the food it depicts.

    The article mentions salt as an additive in foods. It also mentioned the ingredient can be in excess. I didn't see anything about salt calories.

    You may be more interested in reading studies. Or not.

    You may also want to read more studies. That article is.... NOT one.

    Nope. I posted the article to illustrate in simple terms why the food industry engineers food. Nothing new to me. There may be studies in the citations or Internet if you aren't satisfied. I'm good.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    rileyes wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    stevencloser wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/junk-food.htm
    Pure silliness.

    A regular Snickers has 11g of fat, 28g of carbs, and 3g of protein. Fat, carbs, and protein aren't junk.

    Read past the first sentence. The article is not about Snickers. And I know our bodies have an amazing way of converting any food into the basic fuel we need--in the short term, anyway.

    Your article thinks salt contains calories.
    The article is more junk than the food it depicts.

    The article mentions salt as an additive in foods. It also mentioned the ingredient can be in excess. I didn't see anything about salt calories.

    You may be more interested in reading studies. Or not.

    You may also want to read more studies. That article is.... NOT one.

    Nope. I posted the article to illustrate in simple terms why the food industry engineers food. Nothing new to me. There may be studies in the citations or Internet if you aren't satisfied. I'm good.

    Personally, I wouldn't be satisfied with something that just confirms my existing biases, I tend to want the actual, empirical truth.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    edited October 2015
    senecarr wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    stevencloser wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/junk-food.htm
    Pure silliness.

    A regular Snickers has 11g of fat, 28g of carbs, and 3g of protein. Fat, carbs, and protein aren't junk.

    Read past the first sentence. The article is not about Snickers. And I know our bodies have an amazing way of converting any food into the basic fuel we need--in the short term, anyway.

    Your article thinks salt contains calories.
    The article is more junk than the food it depicts.

    The article mentions salt as an additive in foods. It also mentioned the ingredient can be in excess. I didn't see anything about salt calories.

    You may be more interested in reading studies. Or not.

    You may also want to read more studies. That article is.... NOT one.

    Nope. I posted the article to illustrate in simple terms why the food industry engineers food. Nothing new to me. There may be studies in the citations or Internet if you aren't satisfied. I'm good.

    Personally, I wouldn't be satisfied with something that just confirms my existing biases, I tend to want the actual, empirical truth.

    Especially something so obviously and demonstratively...well...WRONG...to put it bluntly.

    But, to each his or her own.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    rileyes wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    stevencloser wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rileyes wrote: »
    http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/junk-food.htm
    Pure silliness.

    A regular Snickers has 11g of fat, 28g of carbs, and 3g of protein. Fat, carbs, and protein aren't junk.

    Read past the first sentence. The article is not about Snickers. And I know our bodies have an amazing way of converting any food into the basic fuel we need--in the short term, anyway.

    Your article thinks salt contains calories.
    The article is more junk than the food it depicts.

    The article mentions salt as an additive in foods. It also mentioned the ingredient can be in excess. I didn't see anything about salt calories.

    You may be more interested in reading studies. Or not.

    You may also want to read more studies. That article is.... NOT one.

    Nope. I posted the article to illustrate in simple terms why the food industry engineers food. Nothing new to me. There may be studies in the citations or Internet if you aren't satisfied. I'm good.

    Why not go to a more reliable source, then?

    Michael Moss has written quite a lot on this, and I'm sure he's done a better job of it than the article you linked. Not only did it have the silly syntax error that caused it to sound as if it were claiming that salt had calories (which was an error made purely so they could echo Moss's book title), but they erroneously listed salt as one of the flavor components of a Snickers bar.

    Snickers bars aren't salty, the peanuts aren't particularly salty, they have a meager 83.2 mg of sodium in them.
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