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Originally Posted by graciegirl
You are right.
My aunt who was a wonderful cook and could make almost anything palatable, said "keep it colorful AND LOTS OF VARIETY..and far more fruits and vegetables than meat and keep it low fat and you will live a long time and enjoy it." She was also big on hot and cold foods and presenting them on pretty dishes and not serving large portions. I think she was on the right track but I do not go around being an evangelist about food.
Some people have diverticula and cannot take a lot of seeds and things, some people have the inability to digest a lot of fibrous vegetables that end of in strands and hurt their innards. Some people have such an aversion to some foods that it is almost impossible to change them. For instance, I don't believe anything could make me consume a plate of bugs now after a life of not eating them and no matter if someone said it tastes just like chicken.
We should try to improve but that doesn't always mean radical changes.
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Again, words of wisdom.
Married almost 50 years, my hubby never particularly liked any vegetables except corn and a green tossed salad.
Now, he will eat most any vegetable and has broadened his choices in all foods groups.
The one food he had a particular aversion to was red beets, which I always loved.........the pickled variety.
My mom and his mom made Polish borscht which is beet soup.
However, he had been FORCED to eat hot cooked beets in grammar school, by the nuns, around 1st grade and remembers vomiting them up.
It was traumatic to say the least........and to this day, he will not eat beets....as rich as they are in iron.
His mom would also make him grate horseradish root and beets for the holidays. Our parents and grandparents did eat all the healthy foods
as there were no processed foods back then.
Preaching never works.
I know many people with diverticulitis........so what you say above is so true. If they consume nuts and seeds, they end up in the hospital.