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>The danger here is calorie-dense fatty foods. Things like almonds and cashews are ridiculously easy to overeat, because they take up relatively little space and have a very tiny effect on blood sugar levels.

I wouldn't say that's the danger. How many overweight people got that way because they eat too many cashews vs. guzzling liters of soda?




I should say it is a danger, rather than the danger. Poor wording on my part.

In any case, more people get fat off guzzling soda because soda is significantly cheaper, and are served in virtually every restaurant.


And soda (and beer, wine, milk, every liquid with sugar in it) doesn't provide any feeling of fullness. Our species hasn't had to evolve around caloric liquids until about 3000 years ago.




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