If vegetables contain necessary nutrition, how can all toddlers (and some adults) survive without eating them?

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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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Surviving doesn’t mean living healthily. Sailors survived often on toast and water, and some of them even survived the worst effects of scurvy but there are nutrients that meat/wheat diet simply cannot provide (among other things VitaminC) or provides minimally and your body stumbles along the best it can.

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