• spaduf@slrpnk.net
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    2 years ago

    Ok but for real tho. The average American severely underestimates how far you can get on rice, beans, lentils and chickpeas.

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      2 years ago

      Serious question, if I live off just that, I end up feeling like absolute garbage. That’s even with supplementing it with greens like spinach and some other veggies and vitamin supplements. What am I missing?

      Like, macro-wise, I can replace meat and other things, but it doesn’t seem to hit the same?

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        2 years ago

        Every plant is trying to kill you. It doesn’t want to be eaten. It especially doesn’t want you to eat its seeds. We can detoxify most of the ones that people eat, but it costs

        Eating the same plants over again can make you sick

        You may not be as good at detoxifying those plants as the people who do well eating them

        I know I’m a lot healthier with no plants in my diet than I have been with lots of plants

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        2 years ago

        Would you care to elaborate on what you feel like when you try living on plants? What do you tend to eat? How long does it take before you start feeling like shit?

        Judging by your last comment about it “not hitting the same” my initial thought is that the issue might not even be nutritional, possibly more psychological/subjective.

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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      2 years ago

      Rice amd beans is the most important thing on my region’s diet. You just can’t live without eating it at least once.

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        2 years ago

        Capitalism demands you eat legumes or go into debt.

        The rebellion demands you stay alive how you need to and organize, which in the US means eating cheap proteins as you gotta.