> In most of those cases eating something else would be better
Ok, let’s say “worse than other foods” then, if you dislike the word “bad”.
Ok, let’s say “worse than other foods” then, if you dislike the word “bad”.
Getting hit on the foot with a sledgehammer is bad for you. But it's better than getting hit in the head with a sledgehammer. Using "better than" here does not make the former good for you, however.
That's how language works. It is important to be precise, for earlier mentioned reasons.
My point was, I do not see a contradiction between the two, hence I do not understand why you are stating is cannot be “bad”.
White meat is not as good as an egg. It "bad" too by this logic.
White bread is not too far away from sugar, like alcohol, actually. Replacing white bread with something full grain would also be something "good" for your diet – although in some places it's really hard to find full grain bread that doesn't taste like parchment, so maybe a not-so-low-hanging fruit ;)
Finally, I think I am compounding the refined sugar and the sugar lobby itself, who has been pushing for decades that what is bad for health is fat, whereas study after study proved otherwise.