• cantsurf
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    1 year ago

    Their justification for eating highly processed food and drinking artificial sweetener solution is that it’s the only way they can control their calorie intake. Call me rude if you want, but it’s ridiculous.

    You don’t have to eat organic vegan everything to be healthy but a McDonalds centric diet isn’t the way to go.

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      They never said it’s the only way they can control their calorie intake, they said that a reasonable meal from there is less calories than most meals they cook themselves. Very clear cut statement. Don’t put words in their mouth.

      Artificial sweetener is possibly dangerous in extreme quantities (several gallons of diet coke every day), but even that doesn’t have the strongest scientific support, it needs more research. Processed foods have had similar amounts of proof that they are possibly bad for you, possibly. In large quantities. I don’t know if you noticed but they never said they eat McDonalds regularly, or even often, so that is another assumption you made that they have a “McDonalds centric diet”