Burgers are terrible food. They are addictive and are loaded with empty calories.
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Downvoting me will not change facts.
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Downvoting me will not change facts.
Doesn't sound at all like empty calories to me. Considering that most raw vegetables have poor bioavailability (so most of the nutrients you eat from raw foods don't get absorbed), I would posit that a good burger is healthier than 90% of raw food meals...And moreover, than you could simply add the raw food to a burger to make it instantly superior to any equivalent raw food meal of the same weight/mass or calorie count.
Look around you. If these things were so healthy, why is the population getting sicker by the day?
Hell, the Eskimos ate a diet almost entirely meat-based for hundreds of years. It wasn't until they were introduced to fruits that they began developing diseases like diabetes. Steve Jobs' health nose-dived once he switch to the fruitarian diet; research now shows that the fructose and glucose in fruits is in fact the number one preferred fuel source for cancer cells, which is why the current dietary advice is for cancer patients to go on low carb or ketogenic diets.
The greatest athletes in history eat omnivorous diets; during his record-setting Olympics run, Michael Phelps ate thousands of calories of fast food each day. Few professional athletes are vegetarians, and no elite athletes are fruitarians. All of our most famous scientists, including Einstein and Hawking, ate balanced diets that included substantial amounts of meat. The evidence, and thousands of years of human history, speaks for itself.
People have been smoking for thousands of years. Smoking causes cancer was proved just 50-60 years ago. Is our species dead? Baked, fried, grilled food have heavy amounts of acrylamide, a carcinogen. Read the Swedish study.
> Eskimos ate a diet almost entirely meat-based for hundreds of years
This is a myth. Do some research.
> research now shows that the fructose and glucose in fruits is in fact the number one preferred fuel source for cancer cells
If one already has cancer, sure. They are the preferred fuel source for all cells because they are so easy to process. Cancer cells too use them. Credit cards are great for us, fraudsters too like them...
Research shows everything except the root-cause and cure for cancer.
> Michael Phelps ate thousands of calories of fast food each day.
That is moronic in the long-term. Short-term benefits of steroids in muscle-building are well documented too.
> Few professional athletes are vegetarians, and no elite athletes are fruitarians
Indian wrestlers are vegetarians. Some of them world famous. You are absolutely wrong.
> All of our most famous scientists, including Einstein and Hawking, ate balanced diets that included substantial amounts of meat.
Ramanujan, one of the greatest Mathematicians, was a vegetarian. So are most Indian Brahmin scientists and mathematicians of today and of all eras. You are absolutely wrong.
The only thing I can think of is the bun which can be replaced with a lettuce wrap or salad bed.