I don’t mean literally—I know everything has a theoretical limit where it becomes toxic—but rather practically? For instance (and correct me if I’m wrong), I don’t think eating 10 apples a day, or a whole celery, is ever going to pose a health problem (as opposed to, say, 10 candy bars).
Are there other foods like this? I’m curious about walnuts and other nuts in particular.
Not really—eating unlimited fruit and veg (in quantities like 10 apples a day) your big issue would probably be the level of activity you’d induce in your bowels. Nuts, you’d probably just be overdone for calories, given their high energy density.
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I don’t ever have an appetite and am having a hard time eating… seems like for the past 3 months I’ve been living on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ensure, is that bad?Also have to admit I’m getting tired of pb& j and open to high calorie easy to eat and prepare meal ideas. I am also going through benzo withdrawals so hunger is a real issue, I actually have to force down me and I’m scared of losing to much more weight.
Too much of just about everything is bad for you.
Learning about whether something is good or bad and then the optimal level of good (it’s usually not in the extremes) is how I approach things - esp in health and fitness.
10 apples a day is probably not a great idea - lot of fructose which is a carbohydrate that is most easily converted to fat.
I can’t get enough raspberries.
So, what does your post mean?
I’ve definitely eaten whole bunches of celery in 1 sitting…
Same with whole bags of frozen (cooked) broccoli…
I can eat a ton of (roasted, unsalted) almonds in 1 sitting —or almond butter or peanut butter, too — but as the other comment here pointed out, lots-o-nuts are high in calories (energy).