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bad foods- My standard line is that there are no bad foods, there are of course foods we would choose to eat more or less of. There are a couple of issues I have with using the term bad to refer to those foods we ought to eat less of. First, people take it to the next step of saying that if I ate that food I am bad. Kids especially cannot make the distinction in the same way that some grown-ups can. Second, it gives food power and food has none. It is food, it is a solid and its primary job is to nourish, then provide secondary pleasure or comfort in some cases. No power.

this is not meant to sound bitchy - real question.

Do you call some food "good foods" ? That gives them power too. Furthermore, to make a philosophical point, if some things are qualified as good, there is necessarily a bad food category, otherwise we have no way to define 'good.'

Some foods ARE bad foods. Twinkies? Bad food. (don't pull up the recent news story; tons of problems with that sort of sensationalism). It's sad that we call things that are so full of chemicals* "food" in the first place. If we must refer to them as food, I think they definitely qualify under the "bad food" category. Another example: soda. Phosphorus is bad for bones; the sugar is bad for our teeth. Bad food (beverage, rather).

*yes, water is a chemical, I'm using the word in a conventional sense and not a scientific one

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