Are Veggies and Fruits Overrated?

[Deactivated] on 06/04/2022 - 09:01
Last edited 08/04/2022 - 14:51 by 1 other user

I stopped eating veggies and year-round fruits. Still eating seasonal fruits like Mangoes because I like the taste of these MF. Once I started eating only meat, I stopped getting sick. My sleep quality improved. Constant energy all the time. Maybe my overall health improvement coincided with stopping consuming ultra-processed junk.

What is your experience? Have you done any such experiments?

Edit: 80% of my diet consists of meat and eggs and butter. I am in no way implying fruits and veggies are bad. Just asking are they overrated.

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  Raj09 on 08/04/2022 - 17:01

  I agree though that meat is not as bad as it's made up to be. Our ancestors were eating that and they fared mostly well.

  However it's how meat is produced today that's risky. The farming practices and industrialisation of meat production is what's to blame. You have animals being fed other animals. And increasingly the source of meat can be so opaque or how the meat was stored.

  So that's why it's preferable to have more veggies. It's not without risk as well but it's lower risk

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  SKiZO on 08/04/2022 - 18:27

  ~95% of meals with no veggies here for many many years - AMA.

  While I actually agree with most of what you said, (especially the sheeple and DRs), the way you said it dude… Sheesh…

  I love fruit though so FU!

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    [Deactivated] on 08/04/2022 - 19:41

    +1

    I love fruits as well. Why F me

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  Ughhh on 09/04/2022 - 07:58

  +1

  There's short term effects/consequences and long term effects/consequences. You're only seeing short term effects, lifestyle choices in food is often long term.

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    MontyMacaw on 09/04/2022 - 10:46

    You got that right look at the average lifespan of different countries to see how short a lifespan some places have with less choice and quality.

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  gimli on 09/04/2022 - 14:27

  +1

  I think fruits are overrated but not veggies.

  Reducing/avoiding highly processed foods/junk foods is probably the biggest area of improvement in most peoples diets.

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  provision on 09/04/2022 - 14:35

  +1

  You don't make friends with salad

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    gimli on 09/04/2022 - 15:14

    but are your enemies overrated?
    that is the question!

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  virhlpool on 09/04/2022 - 18:02

  +1

  Ask vegetarians who have survived (and pretty well so) whole their life on veggies, fruits, nuts, grains, lentils and dairy. You won't be asking this question if you knew enough.

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    tonyp on 12/04/2022 - 14:13

    Vegetarians eat lots of "filler" foods - grains , lentils, greens, tubers etc and Dairy ( at the end of your list ) but the real nutrition comes from the Dairy - and thats the eggs, cheese, yogurt and milk that they eat. Even they know that their plant diet is insufficient and has to be supplimented.
    As for vegans, well, they are stuffed as over time their bodies essential minerals become depleted unless they resort to gross pill popping and b12 injections, well at least they are self limiting.

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      virhlpool on 12/04/2022 - 15:08

      Makes sense. Just FYI - most of vegetarians don't eat eggs as it's not considered a vegetarian food. I do have a lot of friends from the Indian subcontinent who are vegetarians. In fact, that region makes the biggest vegetarian population in the world (not vegan though, veganism isn't popular there as dairy is a big part of the diet).

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  Raj09 on 10/04/2022 - 00:43

  Be ready for gout in 6months

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