Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by pcurve | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

pcurve

https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/sites/default/files/202...

what's scary is 1250 of that comes from fat. That's more fat than 1.5 stick of butter...

I don't know if people realize that.

Can you imagine eating 1.5 stick of butter?

View on HN

I'm on a keto diet and eat that level of fat pretty regularly. When I cook eggs I'll use 1/4 stick of butter per 3 eggs and serve it over a huge pile of cheese. Add in sour cream or bacon and the fat content gets pretty high quickly. Tastes amazing.

Sounds amazing! :)

French cuisine is universally lauded but is almost entirely based on cooking everything in lots of butter. Butter makes things very tasty. For everyday use, certainly cut back, but if you're eating out, spoil yourself. That said, anecdotally (and may well be wrong on this point), Americans tend to eat out a lot more, and accordingly in more homely restaurants, than British people, so yes in that case keep an eye out and have a salad occasionally.

More like have a salad regularly, and the other things occasionally.

I grew up in America, but in an immigrant household that does not use butter. I was mid 30s when I first saw part of a Paula Deen cooking show, and it explained the state of the people I was seeing around the country. She was throwing sticks of butter and cups of sugar into things left and right.

Isn't that just the Julia Child view of French cuisine? I've never had the feeling that French cuisine was anywhere near as greasy as American cuisine.

What's wrong with calories from fat?

Well from my understanding, if you have an active lifestyle, then your body needs carbs to replenish glycogen stores. And proteins to repair and grow muscles. Fats aren't needed for anything in particular, except in small amounts.

But 2040 kCal is so much that the body will turn the energy into fat even if it didn't start out as fat.

Fats aren't needed in the human body? That's just flat out wrong. Carbs are what aren't needed. The body can create whatever sugars it needs from fat and protein.

your body doesn't need any carbs. carbs are cheap and easy and tasty and plentiful but not required at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

also, the US government says you should eat a shitload of it, so you can probably just assume it's terrible for you.

They said for active lifestyle.

yeah, so? there are plenty of fat adapted athletes. and 'active' people don't come anywhere close to the needs of a real athlete.

Nothing per se. It's just that fat has 9 calories per gram, so 1250 calories from fat is 138 grams of fat. It's also mostly saturated fat, which is pretty bad for the heart, not to mention that it's nearly half the total daily caloric requirement for an average man.

If you are some combination of older, smaller, less-healthy, and unaccustomed to eating a meal containing that quantity of fat...then your digestive system may be very unhappy, and let you know it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com