eli5: Can someone live a healthy full life by substituting vegetables with regular multivitamins
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You can live a solid life on many different diets.
There are healthy vegetarians, and there are healthy people who base most of their diets on meat. But the more foods you restrict yourself from, the more likely you are to run into problems, and sometimes it’s difficult to know how and when the problems will arise.
But in any case, you can’t really substitute foods with pills. Foods are incredibly complex and you can’t just reduce them down to macronutrients and vitamins. Complex interactions between many many different compounds are what ultimately makes your diet. And even though you’re taking pills to supplement vitamins, there are other substances in those foods that aren’t contained in pills.
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