# Is tallow 'healthy?'
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [February 26, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857 "2020-02-26T19:11:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/1 "2020-02-26T19:11:48Z")
Tallow gives a considerable amount of calories, and at least for the most part you can deal with the mood debuff. However, I don’t know if it’s all that good for my health overall (relating to the hidden health stat).
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### Author:  [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/2 "2020-02-26T20:35:20Z")
Tallow is as bad for your health as average junkfood.
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### Author:  [@Sediment](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sediment)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/3 "2020-02-26T20:36:03Z")
I don’t know about in-game, but irl it’d be like eating straight lard. Your cholesterol levels would skyrocket.
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/4 "2020-02-27T00:28:50Z")
tallow is fat. (cooked to not be so jiggly.) For convenience. And for candles. The game treats the healthiness appropriately.
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### Author:  [@Gilliph](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Gilliph)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/5 "2020-02-27T00:29:53Z")
Tallow is very “hallow”
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/6 "2020-02-27T00:52:04Z")
But _obviously_ it’s good for you health to inhale large globs of fat!
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/7 "2020-02-27T04:41:18Z")
Ok. track your levels of health and fitness on a tallow diet. Come back to me with numbers. They should be interesting. 🙂
personally I think one of the few diets that may be less healthy is starvation. But most would consider it to extreme to be considered a true diet.
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### Author:  [@The\_Lone\_Badger](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/The_Lone_Badger)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/8 "2020-02-27T07:21:34Z")
Ok, how healthy is eating nothing but pine nuts?
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### Author:  [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/9 "2020-02-27T07:38:22Z")
All nuts are good for your health including pine nuts, and until vitamin deficiency gets fixed there will be no penalty to eating only one kind of food as long as it is healthy.
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### Author:  [@The\_Lone\_Badger](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/The_Lone_Badger)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/10 "2020-02-27T09:08:13Z")
BTW it says I have “vitamin A deficiency” but I can’t make it go away even with tons of multivitamins for an extended period.
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### Author:  [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/11 "2020-02-27T10:55:04Z")
You can ignore the messages about vitamin deficiency as it currently has no negative effect on the player.
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/12 "2020-02-27T16:26:20Z")
BTW, unless it changed, you can effectively overdose your body with too much vitamins if I recall correct.
It doesn’t work quite like drugs where you can spontaneously stop breathing, but I believe that you will end up having some sort of effect.
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/13 "2020-02-28T00:57:39Z")
if deficiency is turned off. I doubt vitamin excess was left on.
Of coarse you could always remove it from blacklist, in which case you have to worry about both too little and too much
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-tallow-healthy/22857/14 "2020-02-28T01:22:16Z")
Heck naw I’m not about to remove that from blacklist.