Am I going to die of rickets? I never eat vegetables.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you my nine year old DD? She just tried celery, liked it and I nearly cried with relief. She eats celery and carrots and oddly, chopped salads with romaine lettuce.

Try, try, try to find a vegetable you like. Start with carrots and a really great dip, like hummus or peanut butter or ranch. Or celery and a dip. Try the pre sliced, mini carrots or buy a small veggie tray and sample.

I wish I could help you...I happen to love every single vegetable but likely still don't eat enough of them.

OP here. Actually, I hate dips and salad dressings. Not a huge fan of peanut butter (I think I had to eat it too often as a kid and now I'm burnt out on it). Hate baby carrots. I could eat a regular carrot, and just chop it into carrot sticks. I just ... don't like it.

PP here. Let's think about this. Not a fan of dips. My DD likes carrot shreds and carrot "coins" (sort of kind of like a potato chip). Start there. Do you like salt? If so, I think just about every single veggie is better with a tiny bit of salt. Trying to think of a bland crudité type vegetable that you could try. Green pepper? Yellow pepper? What about trying tiny pieces of cheese and olives and roasted peppers, an Italian antipasto? Is that making you gag? Sorry.

Scratch all that. Try a baked potato. Plain. If you like that, you could add chopped scallions, ground pepper. Maybe a baked sweet potato would be more palatable. I'm now starving just thinking about all of these foods. Good luck.

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Seriously you are an adult. Eat some veggies and take care of your self.

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What do you eat?

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My husband hates vegetables too. Were you forced to eat them as a kid? He wasn't so he never developed a taste for them. As an aside, are you childfree?

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Try fresh salsa with chips.

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If you take a multivitamin, you are unlikely to get scurvy or rickets, which are the result of severe Vitamin C or Vitamin D deficiencies, respectively. Plus, only children or adolescents get rickets, so if you don't have it now, you don't have it. I do know a graduate student who got scurvy, so that's possible.

That said, not eating vegetables or fruit is not healthy. You are likely not getting enough fiber, which increases your risk of colon, gastrointestinal, and heart disease, as well as of obesity, diabetes, and certain kinds of cancer. So, you know, do what you want, but you know that what you are doing now is not healthy.

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who cares?
You seem to be doing fine. Better than if you were smoking all the time. (Assuming you're not?)

Do you exercise?

Relax, bub.

We all underestimate state of mind as a root of illness. The attitude with which you eat is as important as what you eat, or more so.

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How about vegi pizza? Would you eat that?

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OP, I'm the same. I don't know how everyone here seems to eat veggies up so great and I can't stand them. There has to be a way for people like us to ease into it!

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if u take vitamins you are fine

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Anonymous wrote:You'll die of something. That's for sure. I'd bet that 75% of the world (probably much higher) doesn't eat much vegetables. However, most of the world also has a lower, sometimes much lower, life expectancy than we do here in the U.S. If you hate veggies so much, I'd eat a lot more fruit and swap the gummy vitamins for something stronger.

Wow. I take it you have never left the States?

LOL, I know, right?

DH is Asian and when we are there -- pretty much 90% of every meal is vegetables. The other 10% is rice and maybe a tiny bit of fish or meat.

Americans have shit diets (I say this as an American) which is why we're so fat and everyone's on 10 medications as soon as they hit 50.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm the same. I don't know how everyone here seems to eat veggies up so great and I can't stand them. There has to be a way for people like us to ease into it!

Take a radish, smear on butter then salt.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You'll die of something. That's for sure. I'd bet that 75% of the world (probably much higher) doesn't eat much vegetables. However, most of the world also has a lower, sometimes much lower, life expectancy than we do here in the U.S. If you hate veggies so much, I'd eat a lot more fruit and swap the gummy vitamins for something stronger.

Wow. I take it you have never left the States?

LOL, I know, right?

DH is Asian and when we are there -- pretty much 90% of every meal is vegetables. The other 10% is rice and maybe a tiny bit of fish or meat.

Americans have shit diets (I say this as an American) which is why we're so fat and everyone's on 10 medications as soon as they hit 50.

50 yo who isn't on any! I eat vegetables, although not 7 a day.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously you are an adult. Eat some veggies and take care of your self.

Geez, I know. Just be a god damn adult. Your excuses are exasperating.

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OP, can you post what you DO eat? What does a typical week of meals look like for you?