Vegetables are important sources of many nutrients, like potassium, dietary fiber, folate (folic acid), vitamin A, and vitamin C. Moreover vegetables are low in fat and calories. Eating diet rich in vegetables prevents you from many chronic diseases.
If this is true, then I have lived my life of 66 years without any of these vegetables, so how come I'm as fit and healthy as possible for someone who most of the decade since the turn of the new century, was so ill? I was diagnosed in 2012.
Where do I get these nutrients and I don't take any supplements or vitamins. I am also lactose intolerant.
Calories are not worth worrying about, because it doesn't seem logical that something is measured, when everyone burns calories differently. A calorie is a measurement of energy. If you have no energy, especially if you have insulin resistance and high circulating insulin levels, then how can a caloric diet be controlled?
This is very similar to the brain function issue. The main advice is to eat carbs with every meal because you need complex carbs for brain function. Why am I the opposite? And it is starchy vegetables that I am totally intolerant to them? You don't need complex or any other carbs for brain function.
Quite a few in this country are disadvantaged and are food poverty. The main source of cheap food is carbs, like cereal, bread, rice, starchy vegetables for chips and what ever they can get or afford. Meat is not cheap, but you have to know where the best bargains are and cook them properly.
You cannot beat fresh food, there is too many additives that are not good for you in the marketplace and supermarkets.
And I have found that vegetable oils are responsible for health problems and fat burgers found in the drains.
Saturated fats do NOT make you fat!
Starch, carbs, sugar, additives, and oils will cause inflammation. And that is the start of a precursor to those who are likely to get diabetes because of food.
You make the choice. I also hate vegetables, I miss my chips!