Are Little Debbies Evil? A Debate

Moderation is everything. If someone eats one of these once in a while
and if that person's overall diet is healthy, I don't think that it is
going to do any harm.

Vlupina

Dally wrote:

Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by owners
of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?

A recent poster explained that he wasn't going to deny his children them
because his children liked them and he loved his children. Without
getting into parenting attacks, it really got me going about the roots
of obesity: is eating recreationally foods without nutrient quality as a
treat from your parents an appropriate way to convey love? An
appropriate entertainment activity when you don't currently have a
weight problem?

Is there any value in choosing to consume refined sugar products that
may or may not contain transfatty acids but do not contain
phytonutrients, fiber, protein, or healthy fats? In other words, are
foods with no nutrient values appropriate food choices? What is the
role of "entertainment foods" in a healthy diet?

Are some occasions better than others for entertainment foods? I'd say
yes, celebratory occasions using food ritually seem okay: wedding cake,
birthday cake, etc. But what about everyday treats? Is dessert with
lunch something to defend?

As people engaged in an attempt to lose fat we've all realized the use
of food in the U.S. is bizarre to say the least. Portion sizes are too
large, nutrition values are vanishingly small on things marketed for
consumption, and people eat too much junk food. I feel like I'm
fighting an endless battle to bring food sanity to my family and my
life. Am I on the wrong track? Should we all just be eating Little
Debbie Snack Cakes?

Dally

Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by owners
of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?

A recent poster explained that he wasn't going to deny his children them
because his children liked them and he loved his children. Without
getting into parenting attacks, it really got me going about the roots
of obesity: is eating recreationally foods without nutrient quality as a
treat from your parents an appropriate way to convey love? An
appropriate entertainment activity when you don't currently have a
weight problem?

Is there any value in choosing to consume refined sugar products that
may or may not contain transfatty acids but do not contain
phytonutrients, fiber, protein, or healthy fats? In other words, are
foods with no nutrient values appropriate food choices? What is the
role of "entertainment foods" in a healthy diet?

Are some occasions better than others for entertainment foods? I'd say
yes, celebratory occasions using food ritually seem okay: wedding cake,
birthday cake, etc. But what about everyday treats? Is dessert with
lunch something to defend?

As people engaged in an attempt to lose fat we've all realized the use
of food in the U.S. is bizarre to say the least. Portion sizes are too
large, nutrition values are vanishingly small on things marketed for
consumption, and people eat too much junk food. I feel like I'm
fighting an endless battle to bring food sanity to my family and my
life. Am I on the wrong track? Should we all just be eating Little
Debbie Snack Cakes?

Dally

Dally wrote:
Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by owners
of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?

A recent poster explained that he wasn't going to deny his children them
because his children liked them and he loved his children. Without
getting into parenting attacks, it really got me going about the roots
of obesity: is eating recreationally foods without nutrient quality as a
treat from your parents an appropriate way to convey love? An
appropriate entertainment activity when you don't currently have a
weight problem?

Is there any value in choosing to consume refined sugar products that
may or may not contain transfatty acids but do not contain
phytonutrients, fiber, protein, or healthy fats? In other words, are
foods with no nutrient values appropriate food choices? What is the
role of "entertainment foods" in a healthy diet?

Are some occasions better than others for entertainment foods? I'd say
yes, celebratory occasions using food ritually seem okay: wedding cake,
birthday cake, etc. But what about everyday treats? Is dessert with
lunch something to defend?

As people engaged in an attempt to lose fat we've all realized the use
of food in the U.S. is bizarre to say the least. Portion sizes are too
large, nutrition values are vanishingly small on things marketed for
consumption, and people eat too much junk food. I feel like I'm
fighting an endless battle to bring food sanity to my family and my
life. Am I on the wrong track? Should we all just be eating Little
Debbie Snack Cakes?


Let it go....I really disliked the argument that was in the earlier
post.

I'll be unsubscribing now. This used to be a really cool NG.

Martha

Black Metal Martha wrote:

Let it go....I really disliked the argument that was in the earlier
post.

I'll be unsubscribing now. This used to be a really cool NG.

Whatever.

Discussing the role of food choices in obesity prevention appears to be
on topic to me.

Dally

Dally wrote:

Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by owners
of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?

What is there to debate? They're ****, and no one needs to eat them.
How hard is it to make cookies from scratch if you want to give your
family a treat?

"Dally" wrote in message
...
Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by owners
of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?

Why not just eat a diet of nutritionally perfect human kibble?

Matthew Venhaus wrote:

"Dally" wrote in message
...

Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by
owners of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?

Why not just eat a diet of nutritionally perfect human kibble?

Is your point that variety is good?

Dally

The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:

Dally wrote:


Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by owners
of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?


What is there to debate? They're ****, and no one needs to eat them.
How hard is it to make cookies from scratch if you want to give your
family a treat?

Children prefer the taste and texture of the processed refined foods.

Dally

Dally wrote:

The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:

Dally wrote:


Proposed: Snack cakes are not appropriate items to be consumed by owners
of human bodies.

Can we get a debate on this topic going?


What is there to debate? They're ****, and no one needs to eat them.
How hard is it to make cookies from scratch if you want to give your
family a treat?

Children prefer the taste and texture of the processed refined foods.

They prefer whatever they're taught to prefer (within reason, blah blah
blah peerpressurecakes). If you don't teach them to prefer processed
**** masquerading as food, they'll be perfectly happy with a homemade
cookie. Or a piece of fruit. Or some nuts. Or a piece of cheese.

Ignoramus24693 wrote:

I am not sure if homemade cookies would be qualitatively better than
store cookies, aside from the trans fat issue.

I am.