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I don't want to eat vegetables. Checkmate doctors.
by zeroCalories 3y ago
I don't want to eat vegetables. Checkmate doctors.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoWhy not? Veggies are great. Tasty and good for you? I wish more things were as addictive and beneficial.
- zeroCalories 3y agoI choose the foods people die for. You've tricked yourself into thinking veggies taste good because they're good for you. Would you eat broccoli if it made you fat and gave you cancer? Doubt it. I haven't eaten anything green for years, and my blood work always comes back fine, thanks to the supplements I take.
- brokensegue 3y agoi can't tell if you're joking
- zeroCalories 3y agoThis is a post-ironic joke. I'm 100% serious, but I know people will find it funny.
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- bmacho 3y agoWhy is that? You don't think it is funny, or you don't think it's true?
- hammyhavoc 3y agoI love broccoli. Even as a kid, I liked to add broccoli to mac and cheese along with chilli powder because it was otherwise fairly bland. You never crave greens? Sometimes I sit there and crave spinach, I'm all about the iron, baby! Perhaps not a coincidence though, I found out last year I have MTHFR polymorphism, so my ability to absorb iron is below average.
- harshreality 3y ago"Blood work comes back fine" is a very low bar, unless you pay for a high-end analysis (things that even many doctors wouldn't think to look at). You didn't disclose your diet. There's a huge difference between a diet of meat (from animals raised on their natural diets, because artificial diets can change chemical composition of fats and ratios of proteins to be less healthy), berries, and nuts, and a diet of pizza, sweets and (refined-grain-based) baked goods. It's not a "trick". We all love and hate foods based on more than their taste. The ones that taste the best are not even properly called "food"; they're distant relatives of natural foods, and they're objectively unhealthy. (Unless you're metabolically starving, in which case "bad" calories are the least-bad option.)
- raffraffraff 3y agoHave a friend like this. He's 50. Just got diagnosed with haemorrhoids. And that's no joke. He can't run or do any weights whatsoever. He can have an operation to try to fix it but the success rate isn't great. He lived a life of being in good shape through exercise and limiting intake, and he took his multivitamins. But his actual diet was not good. Very very few vegetables and not much fruit. He's not gonna die of a heart attack, but I wouldn't rule out the big C (particularly bowel). I have not tricked myself into liking healthy food. But even if I have, isn't that a good thing? Like using some mental conditioning to enjoy running or the buzz you get from solving puzzles for a living. A life long bad diet catches up with you. I love the texture and taste of a salad that has crunchy vegetables finely chopped, grilled low fat halloumi, roasted hazelnuts, pomegranate or other fruit and some dressing I concocted. It's zero effort to love it. Did I "learn to like it" or do people learn to stomach deep fried foods? Why one and not the other?
- hammyhavoc 3y agoFor your friend, having lived and recovered from the 'rhoids—a cheap bidet seat, or bidet attachment for the ol' porcelain throne. Using one also sorted my old man's 'rhoids, and he'd suffered with them before I was even born. Best £20-£50 he will ever spend.
- kortilla 3y agoThey taste like shit. If they compared to salt, fat, and sugar they would be flying out of drive thrus
- Tommstein 3y ago> Veggies are great. Tasty . . . . You will find that that is . . . not a universally held opinion. Otherwise everyone would stuff their faces with them.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoOnly because they're hooked on sugar from a young age.
- tanseydavid 3y agoIs this just a hot-take or can you refer us to something that supports this idea?
- hammyhavoc 3y agoDo some reading into the effect of sweetness exposure, vegetable acceptance et al. Lots of studies on why people don't eat enough vegetables.
- Tommstein 3y agoYeah, because once you're exposed to food that's actually tasty, who the hell wants to eat vegetables.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoIt's funny, I think "sweet" is so one-dimensional and boring as a flavor. However, it ticks a box for the brain because easy calories.
- justinator 3y agoBut they're almost zeroCalories.
- TriangleEdge 3y agoI suggest a book called "How Not to Die" by Michael Greger. Given you don't seem to be the vegetable eating type, you're increasing your likelihood of all cause mortality.
- qwertyman2 3y agoMeh he’s such a quack. Followed his advice and it took a while but I got sick beyond comprehension. Later I found out he’s always talking about 1 out of a 1000 compounds in every plant and for example if that one compound seems to be doing good, let’s ignore the 999 other ones. It’s not even good for the planet. Veggies don’t even grow up here in the northern hemisphere for half of the year so everything is imported. If you wanna follow anybody follow Bryan Johnson. He takes over 100 supplements and I figure that’s probably what it takes if you wanna live off plants.
- TriangleEdge 3y ago> but I got sick beyond comprehension Can I ask from what? > 1 out of a 1000 compounds in every plant and for example if that one compound seems to be doing good, let’s ignore the 999 other ones. Can you be specific? > He takes over 100 supplements and I figure that’s probably what it takes if you wanna live off plants. Which supplements? I misspoke and eating clean is associated with all cause mortality, not diet [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578477/
- TriangleEdge 3y agoEdit: Eating clean is associated with all cause mortality, not diet [1]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578477/