Right but animals and vegetable have natural nutrients which get destroyed during manufacturing so we create a synthetic nutrient to replace them, and this is very true in wheat flours, and other man made foods. It's is true that a moderate diet is the key. Fast food can be included in this, and like you said bro. Varnell choosing what you eat from those establishments is the best way. But we need to remember that these places aren't interested in health, but profit. I find it interesting that a value meal, that includes a burger fries and a drink is much cheaper than a salad from the same place.
It's not interesting. Frozen meat and white bread keep and ship very well. Fresher salad ingredients do not. Thus, there is more spoilage and higher cost to McDonald's to provide salads.
also carbs are important but not key. I think it comes down to digestion. If you eat foods that are hard to digest as opposed to one that are easy, you can consume them as much as you want. Raw or cooked vegetables can accumulate the calories but they are so easy to process and digest. Carbs especially man made carbs are much harder to digest and can actually stay in your digestive tract for days.
Hello, I'm a biologist. That's a load of nonsense. Vegetables digest SLOWLY, especially raw vegetables. Indeed, a high-vegetable meal probably won't digest before it's expelled through natural means. "Carbs" digest VERY QUICKLY, ESPECIALLY "man made carbs". What is the fastest possible thing to digest? SUGAR! Sugar is the fundamental "carb", from which all other "carbs" are built. Starch, the next "carb" that everyone talks about, also digests extremely quickly, faster than proteins, faster than fats. The order of digestion speed for the three macro-nutrients is carbs are fastest, fats next, proteins slowest. However, this is changed if the nutrients are locked up in intact cells, especially if they are plant cells, with their cellulose (fiber) walls. This slows digestion significantly.
Next, the utter rubbish that food stays in the gut for "days" (or even longer) is a silly old wives' tale that needs to be banished from the common consciousness. It has been well-determined that this does not happen. It doesn't matter how many times my ignorant mother-in-law repeats the nonsense, it's still nonsense.
"Carbs" are not bad, it's OVERLOADING on them that is bad. The reason that vegetables are almost never bad for you is because they contain a mixture of carbohydrates and proteins (mostly carbohydrates--the primary macronutrient in vegetables is "carbs"), but those "carbs" are locked up within cellulose, methylcellulose, hemimethylcellulose, etc., which means we get a feeling of fullness without overloading and our bodies properly digest them (usually--unless you do something silly like eat a pound of cabbage at one sitting).
