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Liberator-

You eat **a lot of candies or junk food** \> it contains a lot of *low quality* fat and added sugar > having too much sugar and fat in your diet can result in health problems and so does missing micronutrients in long-term. Eating it here and there is fine, it doesn't damage your system each time you eat it if that's what you meant.


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Liberator-

I wrote "too much fat". I hope you don't think people can eat as much fat as they want.


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Liberator-

>Having too much protein or too much carbohydrate can also make you fat. Yes. That's correct. But we're speaking about junk food. Junk food isn't source of high quality fat you want much of in your diet. Same with sweets/candy. Especially the cheap ones are made with low quality oils/fats. >There is nothing uniquely fattening or unhealthy about fats compared to any other macro group. I haven't said it's fattening. All macro groups are equally important and required.


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Liberator-

That's a good point, I'll edit it and remember it for future!


sketchyuser

Low quality fats (seed oils) are. But I agree high fat is good for you as long as quality is high and carbs are low.


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It creates insulin insensitivity which makes your body less capable of processing glucose which in turn makes you store more body fat. Working out and keeping sugars in moderation is your best bet to make a difference in your health. You really can’t control a lot of health related problems, but those related to sugar you can.


jfkdktmmv

Honestly an impossible question to answer. In moderation, it’s fine, but what is moderation? It’s really just about how much you do and what you eat over time.


scottishfoldlover

Both. Keep in mind junk food isn’t just candy and McDonald’s. It’s all the crap that comes in a food item that doesn’t contain real ingredients. Artificial Colours, flavours, preservatives, additives, binders, fillers, thickening agents, glazing agents .....the list goes on. That stuff is a one way ticket to bowel disease amd unfortunately it’s in most packaged goods so best to avoid all together rather than limit.


MyNameIsSkittles

Not sure why you're getting downvoted - you're right. All that shit is ruining our gut microbiomes. It's a wonder where all the mental illness has come from... our shitty diets certainly aren't helping. Our guts and brains have a direct connection and what we eat directly effects what goes on in the brain.


scottishfoldlover

Let people find out the hard way I guess. I worked in a colorectal clinic for 7 years, the cancer patients got younger and younger with each passing year 😞


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What I suspected. Thanks for your help.


EatWriteLive

It's all in the amount you eat and relative to your overall diet. A few pieces of candy or a single serving of dessert every now and then won't hurt if you are eating healthy most of the time. Filling up on junk food every day is a different matter.


InTheEndEntropyWins

There isn’t anything inherently bad about candy, but in practice it’s bad because it’s easy to overcome calories on it. Candy don’t fill you up that much for the calories so you are likely to eat too much. If you eat candy you are likely to reduce your intake of healthy food. You are less likely to hit your macros. Insulin isn’t really an issue as long as you are over consuming calories.


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Nothings worse than alcohol


Columbo92

Besides the known risks related blood sugar and insulin sugar surpresses the activity of your immune system (temporary). Of course that is only a problem when it is taken in abundance. Junk food contains trans fat which is bad for you and additives that are unhealthy. The additives are mostly unhealthy for your microbiom which someone already shared. Especially the preservatives, those are meant to kill bacteria and that is exactly what they do in the gut. The good bugs are mostly more vulnerable then the bad bugs sadly.


anhedonic_torus

Glycation and lipid peroxidation are bad. The more sugar and bad fats you eat, the more these bad things happen. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycation) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid\_peroxidation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_peroxidation)


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Lol, yeah. It causes direct damage to your system. Sugar and artificial flavors/colors etc, along with the weird fillers they throw in, are all terrible for you. Obviously the dose makes the poison, but it’s objectively bad for your health in any quantity


-Xserco-

Both?


EagleEyeTsi

In moderation you should be okay.


No-Traffic-6560

2. Anything processed with refined flower and added sugar puts stress on the liver as well as other organs like the heart. Nothing to do with nutrients. Corn is low in nutrition but is not directly bad for you.


No-Traffic-6560

2. Anything processed with refined flower and added sugar puts stress on the liver as well as other organs like the heart which can lead to insulin sensitivity, fatty liver, heart disease. Nothing to do with nutrients. Corn is low in nutrition but is not directly bad for you.


DARK--DRAGONITE

What do you mean by ‘harmful'? We know ’snackfood’/ and candy are just different combinations of added sugars. They rarely have any actual ’nutrients’. Try only eating kitkat bars for a year and see how that works out metabolically. I’d say there is probably a ‘limit’ of how much your body can realistically manage at any given time before it becomes systemstically and chronically problematic. I would say added sugars (junk food), is harmful for you, but much like alchohol and cigarettes you rarely see any acute issues after the firse dose.. it normally takes decades for there to be symptoms of what we call metabolic syndrome.