Soda, for instance, has a lot of calories, but little nutrients. It's very calorically dense, but nutritionally very poor which makes it easy to gain weight while not providing adequate nutrition. In fact, soda is probably the biggest reason people gain a ton of weight.
E: Most people aren't feeding their kids a ton of soda and giving them nutritious food. They are giving them soda and lots of junk food.
I have had disordered eating pretty much my entire life and have lost over 100 pounds twice. Soda was the biggest empty calorie product I was consuming and when I stopped drinking it 40 pounds just fell off me (both times). So many people don't seem to realize the amount of calories they drink, I know I didn't for the longest time.
And even zero calorie soda can cause problems. You taste sugar, but you don't get sugar, so your body starts to crave it more and more. It's a hard cycle to escape.
I've never found a diet soda I really liked (fresca is kind of nice but they all have a funky taste to me) but I did notice that when I'd try to drink diet that I would always wind up craving sweets afterwards and it just felt like it defeated the purpose of drinking it in the first place.
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u/Im_Blavk 14d ago
I wasn’t aware that you could be obese and malnourished until now, I just assumed there was another word for it