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I thought constantly snacking on high calorie foods was actually worse for you than eating full meals?
Yes it's much worse for your health, but at the end of the day if you eat 2500 calories of junk food, and your daily maintenance is 2500 calories, you will not gain weight, your weight will stay the same. Though as I said there are serious health concerns, some people in the comments are saying that this guy has scurvy.
Okay, I guess I feel like it'd be pretty easy to get above you maintenance weight eating such carb dense food all the time, especially if you just game all day.
For a lot people it is easy to get above maintenance while eating junk food, as junk food is not satiating, but clearly not for him if he's skinny. I also used to be underweight while eating pure junk, because it was all I ate.
Also, a gram of carbohydrate has 4 calories. A gram of protein has 4 calories. A gram of fat has 9 calories. So the most calorie dense foods are fats, like oils, butter, and nut butters. But it's hard for most people to eat a lot of fats, and very easy to eat a lot of refined carbohydrates. Because of satiation again.
It is worse for you. Being skinny does not automatically equate to being healthy.
I was friends with a guy that had a really bad addiction to WoW and later similar games and ate only fastfood and snack cakes. He got frighteningly skinny after a few years. He was so locked into the grind that he wouldn't eat because that would involve logging off for long enough to go buy food.
He would game non-stop all night only coming out of his room to use the bathroom. His sleep schedule would revolve around server downtimes and zone resets. It was really sad, the last time I saw him he was working at a supermarket and looked so scrawny, pale and unhealthy.