Well you .ight as well eat any proc3ssed sliced bread as its no difference
We are talking about miniscule amounts of an unhealthy ingredient on one of those. There are bigger dietary fish to fry (just don’t fry them in seed oils…)
this minuscule is ok mentality is what allows an easy build up. If you eat 3 wraps a day might as well eat 2 super “clean” meals of chicken/brocolli with 3rd meal being a portion french fries to get your equal serving of transfats for the day. Sure the lower calories will get you to maintain/lose weight but you will look skinny fat
Who the hell eats three wraps a day?
Also the comparison is ridiculous.
A large McDonald’s fries has 580 calories, 24g of fat with 3 saturated. Under 0.5g of trans fats.
A large tortilla wrap has around 250cal, 3g fat and 1.5 saturated, with the same amount of trans fat.
One is clearly better than the other. There is more to dietary health than whether or not something has trace amounts of trans fats in it.
who eats 3 wraps a day? the successful weightloss people stick to staple similar foods.
you know its complete bullshit with under .5g in 580 calorie serving. Why list saturated as if it is the demonic macro?
I just pasted whatever nutrient info posted from my Google search.
I think the 3 wraps a day thing is just silly. Nobody is eating the same thing breakfast lunch and dinner. That seems like a great way to lose interest in your diet.
If you want to avoid seed oils at all costs, go right ahead. Nobody is arguing that trans fats are not bad for you. But your obsession with them just seems odd.
Especially considering you enjoy Quest products, which, like most highly processed protein supplement products, contain traces of lead. Do you care about lead exposure like you do about miniscule amounts of trans fats? You’re a bike courier, correct? Do you know how harmful inhaling brake dust is?
Just curious, but do you eat all organic fruits and veg? Do you only eat organically and ethically raised, hormone free meats? Fresh and not farmed fish? Where do you draw your personal line of which harms are acceptable and which ones are not?
This isn’t meant as a dig. We all make compromises in this regard. I’m just curious why the obsession with trans fats above other things that are also dangerous and unhealthy (assuming you don’t do have all the uber health conscious concerns I listed above).
It seems we’ve moved on, or at least moved on to the next thing, from marketing everything as “high protein” (which usually don’t even have all that much protein, just more than would be typical for the food), to marketing “no seed oils”.
Just noticed this morning the tortillas I use have “no seed oils” on the front of the package, so I’m good eating them to my heart’s desire I guess.
I used to weight 260lb. Lost the weight eating the same staple foods. Studies have shown this works: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2026/03/lose-weight-same-meals
My father who was skinny has had 3 heart attacks starting in his 40s. He ate fast food. Every heart attack they give him the latest ‘miracle’ drug and he thinks its a green light to eat shit again. Now his heart is operating about 30% and he is barely able to move without being out of breath. I prefer not to have that life.
Do your best to control what you can for health. French fries have no net benefit at all vs quest bar (which lead levels were tested to be well below the limit. other protein powders are high)
You seem to have it out for seed oils. Here is a good response.
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Most the studies declaring seed oils are beneficial are outdated, just as the ones that demonize saturated fats. I keep circling back to this argument: It is very hard to find a minimally processed seed oil (cold press only, protected from air light/exposure), were it would be beneficial. Even olive oil, a non seed oil, I make sure is in a tinted glass bottle or tin can.
…the dietitian:
The evidence is what it is, it’s not dependent on the appearance of the person reporting it. You’re not doing yourself any favors by falling into the bro science trap of thinking because some influencer looks good what they’re saying must be true or vice versa.
What specific point are you trying to make with this post? I don’t want to assume the worst.
I can see raising an eyebrow about a dietician preaching fat acceptance. There is nothing healthy about obesity. She says not to assume anything about a person’s health based on their size, but, it is proven that obesity causes higher risk of diabetes, certain cancers, heart disease, joint problems, and a whole host of other issues.
I can completely understand trying to remove shame from the equation because shame becomes a roadblock to dealing with the problem. But the problem is still a problem to deal with.
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I get what she’s saying, the Metabolically Healthy Obese exist (although my understanding is they still have higher all cause mortality rates than normal weight persons even if metabolically they appear healthy), but you could make a similar arguement for any isolated risk factor. Sure I have hypertension but I don’t have any other risk factors so I’m “healthy”.
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But is there a hypertension acceptance group that preaches that different people just have different blood pressure levels due to a variety of factors including genetics, and we should just accept hypertension as a part of our lives and not work to lower it? Would your doctor prescribing medication to lower your blood pressure cause you shame or make you feel stigmatized?
I understand that BMI isn’t the whole picture of health and performance. Look at these pictures.
If you didn’t know these guys, you would have a hard time believing that they are in the top 1% of 1% of athletes in their field. Tyson has the cardio to go 12 hard rounds, and Fedor has the quickness and flexibility to kick your head clean off of your shoulders before you would even know what happened. If you saw these guys at the beach you would probably label them as “unhealthy” or out of shape.
But these are outliers and most people aren’t athletic freaks that train as much as these two and work with entire dedicated medical teams on their performance etc. I don’t think most people who are obese should look at Tyson or Fedor and think to themselves “well, they carry extra weight but are also elite athletes, so me carrying extra weight is probably fine”.
It wouldn’t surprise me, there are people out there that claim high cholesterol is nothing to worry about.