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Originally Posted by djtestudo
That's not necessarily true, because you can get fat off cheeseburgers, but also off broccoli. And fattening foods in moderation are not a threat, anymore then alcohol in moderation.
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You can't become fat off of broccoli--it has only trace amounts of fat and the amount of calories per serving is incredibly low. You literally could not consume enough broccoli to equal the caloric intake of eating a Triple Whopper. A Triple Whopper is 1250 calories and 84 grams of fat, while broccoli has 30 calories per 3.5oz--meaning you would have to eat 9.18445781 pounds of broccoli to equal a Triple Whopper in caloric intake. That many pounds of broccoli still only has 15.42 grams of fat, considerably less than a Triple Whopper.
Let's say we choose a smaller cheeseburger--the McDonalds cheeseburger. A McDonalds cheeseburger has 300 calories and 19 grams of fat. You would have to eat 2.19 pounds of broccoli to equal that cheeseburger, and it would have 12.95 grams of fat.
It's not at all a valid assumption--it's considerably easier to eat a McDonalds cheeseburger over 2.19 pounds of broccoli. No one's going to do it, so trying to suggest that someone could get fat off of broccoli is a really awful argument.