“19 Hard Truths About Food” From A Certified Dietitian

It works, try it. I've lost 10kg (my covid-kilos).

Exactly!

I don't know who's the idiot who downvoted your comment. This is true!

A lot more to it than that. The reason there is Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud is because two brothers had a falling out. Here they aree Aldi and Trader Joe's

True, I am 5 foot nothing and sit at a desk all day. I do yoga in the morning, but honestly because of my size and job, 1,200 calories is often enough for me. Not like I am starving. Pretty much fall right in the middle of what is healthy on the BMI chart.

Exactly. I’ve eaten 1000 calories a day for over a year. Gym 3 nights a week (moderate intensity weights and cardio), walk the dog every day, and I’m still overweight. If I eat more, my weight goes up. I have to eat about 800 to actually lose weight. And yes, I track everything accurately.

My estimated bmr is 1308

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No, we don’t use 1600 calories. That is false information.

I don't get it. There are so many kinds of vegetables, all taste different. How can you hate all of them?

I've always eaten a lot of vegetables since I was a toddler, i think that the problem is that a lot of parents don't really know how to cook a proper meal or don't have time to.

You'd be surprised. I suggest checking out Kiana O'Docherty on YouTube; she has covered a few videos on Mukbang Youtubers and the like, grown adults who are so addicted to fast food that they can't even eat a carrot. Speaking of which, there was a guy at Buzzfeed who spent his entire life without eating vegetables.

NO! Palate is nothing to do with being childish. Different people like different foods. Liking caviar does not mean you are 'sophisticated', anymore than liking Schlitz beer means you are a red neck. Lots of red necks like caviar and hate Schlitz beer. Most importantly, there are clear genetic explanations for many food preferences. People with gene TAS2R38 can taste several bitter chemicals that the average person can not taste at all. These chemicals are found many places, including beer and vegetables. If you like beer and vegetables, chances are that means you do not have the gene TAS2R38, it does NOT mean you are an adult. I personally believe that thinking ANY food preferences means you are more arrogant and, less mature.

Maybe bad eating habits passed along over generations, where every generation cut out a significant amount of the "uncomfortable" foods? I dunno. Even when I was a vegetable-hating child, there were several vegetables I ate with no complaints (e.g. bell peppers and cucumber). If you offer a wide range of foods (and start from a young age), you should be able to find those loop holes for almost every child.

I’ve been a licensed child care provider for 26 years. In all my years of feeding kids good healthy meals the kids I have problems with in eating their veggies are kids who are not served veggies at home very often if at all. I never start the infants out on strained fruit. Gives them that sweet experience and find the veggies to bland. Do I have scientific proof? No but in twenty six years of feeding infants this way, I have very few who won’t eat the veggies. If toddlers aren’t getting veggies at home they won’t eat them at my house no matter how good they are. Starts at home folks.

sorry - I hate veggies. I still have those hyper tastebuds. Most veggies taste will make me gag. You can fix them anyway - drown them in whatever...the taste and texture gross.

Nope. I'm 61 and still hate them and don't eat anywhere near enough.

I think it is more likely the prep work involved. Or lack of variety in how to make them, or even which ones people know how to make. People know the basics of what to do with carrots, potatoes, green beans, peas, etc. But there isn't a lot of variety (that isn't super involved) outside of that. If you grew up with limited exposure and limited variety in presentation, you just know peas are mushy, canned green beans are awful and boiled carrots are the devil. From that you extrapolate that most/all vegetables are nasty. There just isn't a lot of large variety, short prep time, tasty vegetable recipes that are very prominent. I love veggies and can mow through them like a wood chipper. However, it took me a looooong time to get there. Even then, I stick to really simple variations because anything else takes too much time. There is just lack of exposure and education here. Not to mention time and expense.

No - I'm 46 and I still hate most vegetables. They taste awful to me (always have) and I rarely eat them. I love fruit so I eat lots of it instead. I asked my doctor about it and he said as long as I am taking a multivitamin it's not that big of a deal. One of the best things about being an adult is not being forced to eat foods you find disgusting. I wish I liked veggies, but I just don't.

People have different palates, this can be affected by what you grew up eating or have access to. Plus some people are super tasters, meaning they have a stronger sense of taste and food that taste fine to other people can taste more bitter or unpleasant to them. I don't know if I'm a super taster or not, but there are some vegetables that I have a hard time eating, like asparagus, bok choy, turnips, chard, and a few others. They just taste unpleasant to me, even as an adult. I'll eat it anyway, but I still don't want to.

Hi! Young adult here who hates vegetables. I have autism and really bad food problems, so it's a fight to get me to eat them. I want to, bc I know it makes me feel healthy, but my brain like won't let me eat them

Oh wow, you like vegetables, you are so mature and wise

Supertaster here, cannot stand to have dark green veggies in my mouth, instant gagging.

I honestly dislike vegetables, I've never found one I actually liked. Carrots and zucchini I can tolerate, but that's about it...

Not everyone is the same. My 31 year old brother hasn't expanded his palette very much. My 37 year old brother has liked many vegetables earlier than myself. It wasn't until I started eating hot peppers and drinking bitter drinks like beer that I started eating more vegetables. My personal experience growing up was every vegetable my mom made was bland and/or overcooked. I hurled up my cooked carrots, but loved eating them raw. I chased my cooked broccoli with a gulp of milk and as a kid I didn't even consider raw would taste better. As an adult in my 20's, I basically just ate meat and bread ( pizza, pasta, beef and bean burritos ), but stayed active enough to keep the weight down. As I neared my 30's I started expanding my diet and palette and discovered that raw vegetables taste better than cooked and the crunchy texture was much more appreciated than the slimy, wilted cooked versions. Now in my 40's, I CAN eat almost anything whether it be raw or cooked.

Well done steak with ketchup.

while i personally have gotten around to eating vegetables if they're cooked i still to this day can't stomach lettuce or most raw vegetables.

I'm 48. I only eat 3 different veggies, if you count potatoes. Lettuce, onion, and the aforementioned potatoes. Oh, and carrots, if they're in a soup or stew.

I would eat like a 7 year old given the chance. But I eat my veggies because at 36, chicken nuggets, mac&cheese, and candy is frowned upon.

I have heard of it, its called a bulletproof coffee. Some of the people on (ridiculous) keto diets do this.

like putting butter in your coffee

Disgusting!

Ewww Agree with you, WHO puts OIL in their coffee?

I tried butter in my coffee since I was super stressed out about exams and the bulletproof coffee seemed to be helpful . . . Never again.

I sometimes do, and it makes your hot coffee taste so much richer without greasiness. More fulfilling, you could say.

On the keto diet, you replace a lot of your carb intake with "healthy fats". It's claimed that saturated fat is misunderstood and it's actually the healthier of the fats. Saturated fat is the more firm solid fats like the fat on your steak. Coconut oil is also a saturated fat, and for those like my ex-wife who despise eating the fat on her steak, she got it from putting coconut oil in her coffee. If you think about it, it's no different than using half and half, just it's all fat.