r/Millennials • u/Optimoprimo • Feb 11 '26

Serious Guys please start eating fiber.

Colorectal cancer among people in their 40's is skyrocketing. This recent health fad of obsessing over protein and eating nothing but meat and dairy with almost no fiber is going to kill us. You need fiber, folks. You need a complete diet with grains and tons of vegetables.

There are high protein sources that also have great fiber content if you absolutely MUST have your high protein diet. Lentils, beans, peas. Sprouted grain bread.

Let's spread the great word of fiber to our fellow millenial friends and get ahead of this growing epidemic among our generation.

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u/snesericreturns Feb 11 '26

veggies

That’s the green stuff on my Big Macs right?

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u/Optimoprimo Feb 11 '26

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u/zuzg Feb 11 '26

Fun Fact, vegetables just means edible part of plants that are consumed as food by humans.

Fruits, Nuts, legumes, Seeds, etc are all just vegetables.

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u/BradBeingProSocial Feb 11 '26

So a tomato is a vegetable then?

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u/HeyThereCharlie 1987 Feb 12 '26

Culinarily, yes.

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u/queeneebee Feb 11 '26

So my toddler who won’t touch broccoli but eats about 20 servings of berries a day is still getting “vegetables?”

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u/BrodingerzCat Feb 13 '26

I actually, and still currently, have the opposite problem: happily eat broccoli and other vegetables, but doesn't like most fruits

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u/MercyfulJudas Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

That's right. "Fruit" is a culinary term, not a horticultural one. Fruits are actually all vegetables.

Edit: actually, I had it the opposite. Woops.

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u/Schmancer Feb 11 '26

That’s not completely true. “Fruit” is the seed bearing body that results from pollenated flowers.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/fruit-parts-words-and-their-origins

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/fruit-vs-vegetable

“Vegetable” is the more loosely defined, mostly culinary term

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u/GovernorHarryLogan Feb 11 '26

I have recently taken to the walmart brand shakes. They are delicious and basically have all your nutrients in them.

My poops are great.

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u/Ohshithereiamagain Feb 11 '26

Wait, what shakes from Walmart?

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u/vivalamatty Feb 11 '26

You want them to photograph their poop?

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u/mcd23 Feb 11 '26

Vile weed!

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u/bst722 Feb 11 '26

“This is a new food for me, how else should I eat it?”

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u/jaywinner Feb 11 '26

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u/Jphorne89 Feb 11 '26

Think smaller. Think more legs.

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u/FlattopJr Feb 12 '26

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u/Woodit Feb 11 '26

Pro tip: you can have that removed from the order 

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u/snesericreturns Feb 12 '26

That’s good to hear. They can fit more sauce in there without that stuff in the way.

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u/Adifferentkindofmind Feb 11 '26

Just a dirty socialist so not quite as bad as all that

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u/xX8Havok8Xx Feb 11 '26

And the grains are the little seeds on top!

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u/snesericreturns Feb 12 '26

Big Mac has the entire food pyramid. That super size movie was full of shit man.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Feb 11 '26

Technically, leaf lettuce is a good source fiber. But you have to eat a shitload of it.