A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry

Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by resf on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @08:54PM (#14650900)

There's nothing wrong with sugar when eaten as part of a meal, it's when people down Coca Cola on an empty stomach that there's a problem. And fat is actually essential to life.

At the risk of stating the obvious, when you eat a meal, all of it goes to the same place. So as long as the meal as a whole provides sufficient nutrition (and if you are eating a varied diet then it absolutely will do), no part of it can be described as "empty calories".

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Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by kinkrtyavimoodh on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @01:44AM (#14651963)

Continuing the trend of stating the obvious, it is absolutely possible to load food with too much sugar or fat that offers practically no marginal nutritional value. I say marginal because of course to a starving person the calories brought in by sugar are valuable, but probably not to a person who is generally able to get their calories from a wide range of sources and in general wants to control their caloric intake.

Empty calories is not a moral judgment. It is a statement of fact.

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