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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • spongebue@lemmy.worldtoFoodPorn@lemmy.worldHealthy snack idea
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    2 months ago

    In the big picture, you made healthy choices that made you lose weight. That’s great!

    You treated yourself to something that’s healthier than other sweets you could have chosen. Totally reasonable for the same reason a reasonable amount of dressing can be in a salad (makes things palatable so you’ll actually eat that healthy stuff)

    But none of that makes chocolate-dipped strawberries a healthy option, just like a plate of buffalo wings and blue cheese isn’t healthy just because it’s served with a few carrot/celery sticks. There comes a point where the good is outweighed by the bad. Strawberries are pretty high sugar as it is, but being a whole fruit makes it overall a net good IMO (you get other vitamins and fiber and stuff). But that chocolate dip is pretty hard to seriously justify, and can tip the balance pretty easily.


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    2 months ago

    Calories are energy. When more calories are taken in than burned off, that surplus is stored. Unhealthiness is largely linked to weight in this day and age.

    Now yes, there’s a huge difference between 600 calories of ice cream and 600 calories of a well-balanced salad. But going to the original post, chocolate and nut butter is not exactly a health food or else I’d be at my healthiest from all the Reese’s cups I avoided handing out to kids at Halloween (they can have the Milk Duds). Adding banana certainly helps, but is there enough there to turn the whole package into something “healthy”? I have my doubts.









  • If it counts, I encountered a Java file that, unbeknownst to me at the time, was duplicated across two different places. The project was essentially abandoned for years, and the file was one that didn’t change much so I left it alone for a year or so.

    Eventually I had to add a method to it. Compiled just fine, runtime threw a no such method error. Turned out Eclipse was using one, but when Maven did its build it used the old duplicate I didn’t know existed.

    Took me a while to find that one!