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What are all the comments regarding fiber supplements about? Why would you ever take fiber supplements? How about whole-weat bread and veggies? Isn't the point

What are all the comments regarding fiber supplements about? Why would you ever take fiber supplements? How about whole-weat bread and veggies? Isn't the point of fibers that they're healthy in the sense that they can't be digested but they contribute to feeling full, so it's just about reducing caloric intake?

xenospn 3y ago
It is so bizarre to me (a middle eastern immigrant) that people here in North America simply refuse to eat fruit and/or vegetables. I consider it a systemic failure.
- swozey 3y ago
  Nobody, and not even remotely in the plurality you're describing "simply refuse to eat fruit and/or vegetables." Stop hanging out with unhealthy lifestyled people if that is your friend group and a concern of yours.
tomjakubowski 3y ago
Some days I can't be fucked to feed myself properly, and on those days supplements fill the gaps.
swozey 3y ago
Comments like this are so absolutely cringe. I dare you, go to google and search for "opinions on green shakes reddit" and you'll have a thread of 20 people discussing the various vitamins, heavy metals, fibers, brands, gut-health, gut-feeling, etc that a green shake provides them. Then you have 3 comments from little timmy stabbles going "I don't understand why you people just don't eat bowls full of fruits and vegetables throughout the day. Monday through Sunday. It's so easy. I don't get it. You just eat fruits and vegetables that might rot in your refrigerator over 3 days how can it be so hard." Then you have 20 comments to them going, "Well, Timmy, the reason that we call supplements "supplements" is because they supplement something that for whatever reason we find ourselves not consuming enough of throughout the day. Contrary to your lived experience, your lived experience is not our lived experience and we have our reasons for not doing things exactly as you do them." Like, do you think this comment was going to set off light bulbs in our heads going "Wow, I didn't think of that. I'm going to add an entire half pound of brocolli to every meal! Thanks stabbles!!" "Why would you ever take fiber supplements.." my god. Tell that to, by far, their highest portion of consumers- the elderly.

xenospn 3y ago

It is so bizarre to me (a middle eastern immigrant) that people here in North America simply refuse to eat fruit and/or vegetables. I consider it a systemic failure.

swozey 3y ago
Nobody, and not even remotely in the plurality you're describing "simply refuse to eat fruit and/or vegetables." Stop hanging out with unhealthy lifestyled people if that is your friend group and a concern of yours.

tomjakubowski 3y ago

Some days I can't be fucked to feed myself properly, and on those days supplements fill the gaps.

swozey 3y ago

Comments like this are so absolutely cringe. I dare you, go to google and search for "opinions on green shakes reddit" and you'll have a thread of 20 people discussing the various vitamins, heavy metals, fibers, brands, gut-health, gut-feeling, etc that a green shake provides them. Then you have 3 comments from little timmy stabbles going "I don't understand why you people just don't eat bowls full of fruits and vegetables throughout the day. Monday through Sunday. It's so easy. I don't get it. You just eat fruits and vegetables that might rot in your refrigerator over 3 days how can it be so hard." Then you have 20 comments to them going, "Well, Timmy, the reason that we call supplements "supplements" is because they supplement something that for whatever reason we find ourselves not consuming enough of throughout the day. Contrary to your lived experience, your lived experience is not our lived experience and we have our reasons for not doing things exactly as you do them." Like, do you think this comment was going to set off light bulbs in our heads going "Wow, I didn't think of that. I'm going to add an entire half pound of brocolli to every meal! Thanks stabbles!!" "Why would you ever take fiber supplements.." my god. Tell that to, by far, their highest portion of consumers- the elderly.