Why Pizza is not healthy

I decided to join a debate at a writing website asking whether pizza was a healthy choice or not and I decided to vote No, and here is what I wrote about it.

When it comes to healthy food choices, you will never see pizza on the list. Pizza is not a healthy food choice. It is actually the opposite of healthy. Most pizzas are unhealthy and with so many other healthy food choices, it is unreasonable to pick pizza as a healthy choice.

Pizza is only eaten on special occasions or once or twice a month with friends or just enjoying the taste. This doesn't make pizza a healthy choice. If you eat something once a month just for the taste of it then that clearly proves that pizza is not a healthy choice or you would be eating it everyday.

A healthy food is the one that provides nutrition in the right amounts with a positive calorie ratio. This means that the nutrition vs. calories ratio is positive meaning that the food contains high nutrition value and low amount of calories from fat. Here are some facts and points that clearly prove that pizza is not healthy.

1.) No healthy heart check: Canada and U.S.A provide a health check for items which qualify through their health standards. These items are then given a health check which is posted right on the product and is visible to the customer. There are no pizzas out there which qualified through their standards meaning that pizza is not considered to be healthy for your heart. This is just one fact that proves pizza is not a healthy choice for the heart.

2.) Nutrition information: It is good to know the amount of calories, saturated fats, Tran's fats and cholesterol levels in foods before you eat them. Here is some nutrition value of an average sized pizza. Calories in your pizza can be higher or lower, but on average come to the same amount

350 calories/slice: You can usually eat 3 slices very easily, counting upto 1050 calories.
10 grams of saturated fat, 15 grams of fat, and 35 mg cholesterol. In addition to that a medium slice provides upto 22% of your daily sodium value.

* These are the nutrition values taken from a leading pizza selling restaurant. Note that they are only based on one slice. Most people can easily eat upto 4 slices of pizza with drinks which comes upto around 1500 calories. That is your whole day's worth of calories in one meal.

3.) Comparison with healthy foods: Before you decide to list pizza in your "healthy foods" list, consider a comparison with the "real" healthy foods.

8 carrots have 40 calories with 0g fat, 0g saturated fat, 0% sodium, 100% Vitamin A, 4% iron, 4% Vitamin C, and 60% of the carrot is water.

* Pizza is no where near the nutrition value and has 10 times more calories with grams of fats. When you compare pizza with healthy foods, one can easily see the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods.

4.) Making of a pizza: Making a pizza requires loads of cheese, beef, tomato sauce, pepperoni, chicken, and veggies. You might think that veggie pizza is healthy, but don't forget that it still contains loads of cheese with less veggies. I want to clear a misconception that even a vegetarian pizza has 300 calories/slice with slight more nutrition value, but still lots of fat.

* One of the key ingredients of a pizza is cheese, and you should know that cheese contains saturated fats.

Most of us enjoy eating pizza, but it still shouldn't be eaten on regular basis. It could be hard for someone to adjust to the facts stated above, but truth is always bitter. You can live in an imaginary world thinking that pizza is healthy, but look at it from a real world perspective and adjust to the facts! Pizza is not a healthy choice compared to other foods, fruits and vegetables. It contains a lot of calories with very less nutrition value and on top that it is not recognized from any health perspective