As a picky eater it feels weird how our bodies reject certain foods just because they don’t taste good or have a weird texture and not because there’s something wrong with it. It has nutritional value and other humans seem to enjoy it, so why won’t my body accept it? What it we were still cavemen in the wild and we were picky with food like that, that’s a huge survival disadvantage it makes no sense. We can get away with it now that living is easier, but were humans always this way?
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Reminder that its not your body, but your mind not accepting it. Often its just because you did not go out of your way to try new things as kind, or had bad experiences with certain foods that you become a picky eater/not like certain foods.
This is clearly trainable. If you slowly go out of your way now to try new foods that are adjacent to what you like, you will overcome that (false) feeling of not liking it. This is how people drink coffee or beer. Both of those things are quite nuanced flavors that almost surely first time any human tried didn’t like, but the first thanks to its effect in the body, the second due to social pressures (and also the effect) people repeatedly try and end up liking. You can do the same with broccoli.
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