redsun
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Wow! What a unique background! Just for science sake, what is your take-away from never have eaten vegetables in your life?
Technically potatoes are a vegetable, but its not really a vegetable because it actually tastes good and I ate plenty of those. But never leafy green or any other starchy vegetable. Also detest salads.
I was never convinced vegetables were good as a kid, hated them as most kids do. But eventually everyone starts eating them as they get older, not me. I was the strongest kid in my age group, healthy, good height, lean, etc... My doctors when I was a kid would always be in shock how yearly all my health markers were perfect. So that completely throws idea of the necessity of vegetables out the window. Technically the main thing I would have lacked is folate but potatoes, eggs, and grains(folic acid) provided enough Im sure. I didnt eat liver so that wasnt a folate source. Fat solubles are highest in animal fat.
Takeaway is you dont need them, just a lot of propaganda we are taught on television, in our schools, reinforced by everyone around us that vegetables make you big and strong, that they contain important nutrients that you cant get anywhere else etc... Literal nonsense, I never had any and I am bigger than anyone in my age group since I was a teen to even present day.
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