What’s unhealthy about ice cream (assuming you’re not lactose-intolerant)?
Basically it tastes too good. There is something about foods which taste really good which (for many people) messes up their internal system for eating urges. This is my lay conclusion, resulting from nearly 2 years of informal research into obesity and diet.
“Although fat content used to be a pretty good proxy for unhealthy food” examples? Do you mean used to as in the 1980s or used to as in the 1880s?
Doughnuts, french fries, ice cream
1980s
What’s unhealthy about ice cream (assuming you’re not lactose-intolerant)?
The fat, which is debatable, the sugar, which may also debated, and the ability to eat quart of it without being hungry.
Basically it tastes too good. There is something about foods which taste really good which (for many people) messes up their internal system for eating urges. This is my lay conclusion, resulting from nearly 2 years of informal research into obesity and diet.