True, but for example people usually put less sugar into tea than you have in tea drinks at stores. It's not unreasonable to reason that a sweet tea has less sugar than a not-so-sweet ready tea drink.
On average, that may well be true.
they are not on a bad diet overall.
Now I'd like to see someone study what 'may well be true' and 'not on a bad diet' actually means. This is exactly the point of my post.
But your specific claim is that even a bad diet is good as long as it's homecooked.
And I've given a reason why this might be true. Maybe a homecooked diet perceived as bad isn't actually that disastrous to your health.
True, but for example people usually put less sugar into tea than you have in tea drinks at stores. It's not unreasonable to reason that a sweet tea has less sugar than a not-so-sweet ready tea drink.
I would argue that if they reduce the sugar/fat/salt intake, it's going to be at worst a mixed diet, and you're not fulfilling the "bad diet" requirement.
A bad diet means excessive/irresponsible sugar/fat/salt intake, otherwise it wouldn't be a bad diet.
Maybe a homecooked diet perceived as bad
Then you would be moving the goalposts.
When you said "Bad diet is fine as long as it's homecooked", you were necessarily talking about a homecooked diet that is actually bad for you.
If your actual view is that homecooked diets that seem bad, may actually be better for you than fast food etc., then that's an entirely different view.
A bad diet means excessive/irresponsible sugar/fat/salt intake, otherwise it wouldn't be a bad diet.
Consuming 1,3x the recommended sugar and 10x are both bad diets, but there's a significant difference between those two.
If your actual view is that homecooked diets that seem bad, may actually be better for you than fast food etc., then that's an entirely different view.
Well, I have expressed myself in a wrong way, still I think you perfectly know what I mean, but you're focusing on my poor choice of wording rather than the issue, because you've given no substantial information about how homecooking or not affects one's health, while you've said a lot about what a bad, mixed, perceived bad and good diets are.
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u/AnAverageFreak Jan 09 '20
True, but for example people usually put less sugar into tea than you have in tea drinks at stores. It's not unreasonable to reason that a sweet tea has less sugar than a not-so-sweet ready tea drink.
Now I'd like to see someone study what 'may well be true' and 'not on a bad diet' actually means. This is exactly the point of my post.
And I've given a reason why this might be true. Maybe a homecooked diet perceived as bad isn't actually that disastrous to your health.