New euphemism just dropped "Seasoning Police"
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The purpose of that PSA is for health reasons. "drowning" food in sauces, which are extremely high in salt and calories, is a legitimate health issue.
It ain't so healthy to "drown" it in stuff that blows out your colon, like heavy spices, either.
Frankly, the whole reason for the heavy spices is to hide bad food, full stop. Not just rotten, but just bad. Bad tasting, bad quality. I simply don't trust what heavy spice hides.
Indeed. I've tried explaining this to a few people but some are still in utter denial about how much a lot of this extra flavoring can feed into weight issues. Not to mention diabetes, blood pressure issues, and heart disease with regards to heavy amounts of extra sugar and salt.
Not that I incorporate a lot of healthy nutritional sources into my meals myself, but I at least manage to keep most issues to a minimum by accepting that food can be a little bland and still get the necessary job done.
And I almost feel like I'd have to point this out, explicitly, to certain American population groups that no, flavor is not the reason you eat. Raw nutrients and fuel for your "meat reactor", are why you eat.
Dating often leads to gaining weight because going out to restaurants often makes you gain weight.
Restaurants give 0 fucks about being "healthy", they just want the food to taste good, so it is very high in salt and sugar/fat. Much moreso than stuff you'd typically make at home because people generally don't use as much extra salt/sugar/fat as restaurants do.
Drowning food in sauce is bad when the sauce is mostly sugar, like ketchup, or seed oil, like basically any salad dressing or mayo (even those marketed as "avocado" are often majority seed oil). Salt and saturated fat mostly have a bad rap based on shit science. As long as your kidneys are healthy any excess salt will be urinated out. Medieval Europeans had something crazy like 30 times the salt intake of the modern western diet. Koreans have at least twice the salt intake as Americans but have much less hypertension. Any sauce made with healthy animal fats is a healthy addition to a meal.