I know it's a shipost and this meme is at least 15 years old. But meat, cheese, and white bread (especially the ones in the US with added sugar) were never healthy

I am extremely sure if you make a burger by yourself with good ingredients it will be just as healthy.

Beware of the added sugars in things that aren't supposed to have that much sugar.

*calling meat, cheese, and bread healthy*

wow that food pyramid propaganda really did a number on you all didnt it.

Edit: im talking about the meat and dairy industies lobbying too, not just bread

Of course. The unhealthiness of food is an emergent property arising from the arrangement of their constituents components relative to each other. The next time you have a burger and want to be healthy, just take it apart! Taps head

In all seriousness, for anyone confused by this, whether or not something is healthy for you is all about quantities and ratios. Specifically, that of your diet as a whole, not of individual items. So while I don't agree with this sentiment, burgers can be considered unhealthy because:

• There is very little vegetables in relation to meat and bread
• It is very calorically dense
• Red meat is considered by many to be unhealthy in its own right, and burgers tend to have a lot of that
• It is usually consumed with large portions of fries and drinks or other sides that are also very calorically dense with little diversity in micronutrients

I always thought it was the proportions that weren't healty. You get 50% bread, 50% meat, with a tiny slice of lettuce in the middle.

It's really not the burger that's unhealthy, but the fries and soda you get with them

Ratios and amount are the most important thing in healthy eating. For reference, vegetables should be more than half your food intake, the rest split between whole-grain carbs and protein (either meat or plant based) in order to be healthy. And we need to pay attention to how much total food we eat too since our monkey brains that evolved under extreme food scarcity don't do a good job of moderating nutrient input.

No I can't keep myself to that either.

I'm fat by nature (and environment) so I have examined and tried many diets, and I think I can only say for sure a few thing about healthiness of diets:

• if you eat carbs, fats beyond what is necessary to eat, are unhealthy
• If you don't eat carbs you need to eat fats, some fats are better than others
• If you don't eat carbs and you don't eat fats you starve - to thin then to death
• Sugar is unhealthy and wrecks your teeth
• Highly processed foods are not healthy

White bread, cheese (at least not the one on burgers) and red meat aren’t exactly known as healthy foods. Definitely not in the proportions of a burger. Even more definitely not when you boil the meat in oil (often together with the onions).

Replace meat with bean burger

Replace cheese with guacamole or other sauce

Replace white bread with whole grain bread

Step one is to ask yourself what you think healthy means. Generally it's used as a catch-all by people to justify whatever shitty diet they have.

I think it's because of the quality of the ingredients. If you make a burger with homegrown vegetables and high-quality meat it would be healthy

It's really only unhealthy if you're eating that every time you eat. And mostly what makes it unhealthy is the fat/lean ratio. Hamburgers usually use fattier hamburger. You can make them with leaner meat tho. They just don't taste nearly as good.