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To: spiral3 who wrote (20944)	10/7/2012 7:49:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 39304

how it makes me feel on a day to day basis Sure, there's some short term stuff that may be observable. The most obvious to me might be how my digestive system reacts or where my blood pressure or blood glucose are registering. But I've eaten all sorts of ways and never noticed much if any difference in how I feel. I've never noticed any difference in energy level or stress resistance or any of those things you mentioned as a result of a change in composition of my diet. Further, how I feel doesn't tell me all that much about the state of my health, only about my quality of life. The only thing I know of that makes me feel significantly better or worse short term as well as being a health indicator is my weight. If it runs up ten or twenty or thirty pounds let alone more, it gets hard to haul myself around. So I eat to keep my weight down. Weight is a recognizable health effect but that's the only measure that I have found. And my weight has nothing to do with how many veggies I eat or don't eat. I've included lots and lots in my diet and I've eaten virtually none. I have never noticed any effect on my weight let alone how I feel. It's interesting that your experience is otherwise. Perhaps anticipation bias plays a role. I'm eating quite quite a few servings veggies at the moment but it's not because doing so makes me feel better or because I expect it to make me healthier. I eat veggies because I avoid sugar or starch so that I can keep my weight down, because you have to eat something and I doubt that they are unhealthy, on balance, and because they are suitably low calorie filler. But, periodically I get too impatient with preparing them so I sometimes go for long periods without them, mostly eat meat. If someone can't tell the difference between eating veggies and not eating veggies, meaning that current quality of life isn't affected, and given that there's no good evidence of long-term improvement in outcomes, I agree with LB that you should eat them if you want to and not eat them if you don't. In the latter case, maybe take some vitamins, just in case. <g>

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