Fri, Feb-14-14, 14:31
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Senior Member
Posts: 7,427
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Plan: ZC
Stats: 260/222/170
BF:Huh?
Progress: 42%
Location: Texas
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Do we REALLY need vegetables?
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The idea that vegetables are an essential part of a healthy diet has been hammered into our collective consciousness by every authority out there. Parents, teachers, scientists, government health “experts” all stress the importance of eating your veggies. Problem is, they also told us that butter would kill us, margarine would save us, animal protein would give us cancer, and animal fat would give us heart disease. They said we should jog for an hour a day three days a week, that deadlifts would hurt our backs, and that we need to wear shoes with “good arch support.” Basically, conventional wisdom gets it wrong an awful lot of the time, so what should we think about the CW regarding vegetables? It’s a fairly common query I receive from readers:
Do you really need to eat vegetables – or plant matter in general – to be healthy?
Yes. Yes, you do. Maybe not a huge amount, necessarily. But you do need some.
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Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/do-y.../#ixzz2tKUmLA00
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Mark Sisson is the author of The Primal Blueprint, and the blog Mark's Daily Apple. His blog is a great reference, and I like his work. However, I take exception to the article he posted this week entitled Do You Really Need to Eat Vegetables to Be Healthy?
Although he admits at the end that you probably don't need them, this admission has much less prominence than the section near the top where he says
"Yes. Yes, you do. Maybe not a huge amount, necessarily. But you do need some."
Then he goes on to make some arguments for eating vegetables that I'd like to address.
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http://www.empiri.ca/2014/02/respon...rtion-that.html
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Mark's Daily Apple is *mostly* a source of good info, but the "mostly" part is typically toward those who desperately need to abandon SAD or die.
Now and then though there's topics where he/they tread perhaps a bit further than they should - considering the somewhat mainstream appeal and influence they have.
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http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/...ead.php?tid=102
What say you?
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