How are we all still alive? Whats the physiological effects of not having veggies in the diet?
Asking as a new parent who’s toddler used to eat everything, but now understands what “greens” are and actively denies any attempt to feed him veggies, even disguised. I swear his tongue has an alarm the instant any hidden veggie enters his mouth.
I also have a coworker who goes out of their way to not eat veggies. Not the heathiest, but he functions as well as I can see.
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Think about all the kinds of plants in the plant kingdom. Hundreds of thousands of species.
Think of how many are edible to humans. Of those, how many were cultivated in just the past hundred years or two. We eat a very narrow slice of the plant kingdom, and much of those were cultivated from a few species to fit human needs.
As I see it, plants are more of a convenience food that we turned to after learning agriculture, rather than a foundational food that humans have eaten for all of human history.
If nutrients are absorbed into our tissues when we eat them; then arguably nutrients are also absorbed into the tissues of the animals we eat. And then we eat those animals.
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