Actually, they're a necessary part of our diet. More so than meat, as it happens. Not that meat isn't important, too, but you find a lot of nutrients in vegetables that you won't find anywhere else, unless you take tablets.
It's important to try and eat SOME real food, since there's so much processed crap out there now. Honestly, we'll kill ourselves so much faster with the food we're eating now. And, sadly, I'm not even kidding.
posted over a year ago
I know right? Well I'm trying, but I feel like to puke when eating vegetables.
Just kjeep at it and try not to hate them too much. If you stop focusing so much on what they taste like, then you should be able to eat them without feel like puking.
Vegetables are important, but it's not like you're going to die if you don't eat them. You could substitute it for fruit or you could drink some sort of vegetable juice like V8 if you ever want to consume healthy stuff.
posted over a year ago
You're right. I think that the vitamins and minerals are still necessary from vegetables.
It's healthy if you eat them. You don't have to consume them everyday but it's been said that vegetables have a lot of health benefits, like they can reduce heart disease, cancer and other illness' and they can also be good for your brain. I've also read articles about people who have gone without eating any nutiritional food like vegetables for years, which the results were not so good, some ended up really sick or much worse. I have even gone without vegetables for weeks and that didn't turn out so great, I felt tired, I had stomach aches and other issues. So, it's okay if you don't want to eat them everyday as they can be pricey but don't cut them out completely.
posted over a year ago
You got a point. But base on my science book, vitamins and minerals do not give us energy. But it maintains biological processes in our body.
^ Maintaining biological processes, a.k.a metabolism is the most important of all and it actually contributes to the process of energy being created. Metabolism actually assists in the enrgy-making process, which involves processing glucose and refining it into ATP, or adenosine tri-phosphate. So, eating vegetables on a fairly regular basis is important. They're not supposed to taste nice and I think you're over-reacting a bit when you say 'when I eat veges I feel like puking'... you just gotta develop a taste for them -it's an acquired taste. If you want to br healthy, I suggest you find a way to at least stop disliking them.
I suppose if you have problems with veggies just eat a lot more fruit. Fruit has some of the stuff in veggies (plus other vitamins you need) so you could possibly get away with eating lots of those instead.
Sometimes raw veggies are better then cooked, like carrots and peas and green beans and celery, and then dipped in stuff like ranch or peanut butter in celery's case
If nothing else you can just take tablets to get all the vitamins you miss out because of not eating them.
I don't get many fresh fruits or veggies not because I don't like them (actually I love them) but because they're so dang expensive...
posted over a year ago
Totally agree with that "they're so expensive" part. I love fresh fruits, but who can afford them???
No, unless you replace them with lots of fruit. There's people out there that are strict fruitarians, and they can live to be very old. Mahatma Ghandi, for instance, was a fruitarian.
But a strictly carnivorous lifestyle is very unhealthy.
posted over a year ago
It is like me. I'm a carnivore, but never got a high blood. But I feel sluggish all the time. I can eat fruits though, except those vegetables.
