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Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

it’s nasty af and makes most people’s stomachs bloated and inflammed

You never eat vegetables, do you? Much of the world lives off legumes. Having these issues with their digestion is caused by a poor gut microbiome from eating an extremely low-fiber diet.

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CherryBullets@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I do eat vegetables, simply not legumes as they give me gas and bloating (and I’m not the only one it happens to, it’s so common, there’s a reason comedians joke about eating them and farting). Can we stop pretending legumes don’t cause gas and bloating? 😂 As if me pointing it out means I don’t eat veggies, gtfo here.

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- queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  In my experience your body gets used to high fiber content. It’s only when you don’t eat legumes regularly that they cause issues, now that I’m eating them several times a day there’s no issues.
  
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- Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  it’s so common, there’s a reason comedians joke about eating them and farting
  
  The average American eats a dearth of fibrous vegetables.
  
  The article you quote literally says what I said, so I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Your quote even points out that beans are not the only fibrous vegetable that causes gas when you don’t regularly eat enough fiber (brocolli is another non-legume example). If you kept reading, you would see:
  
  Fiber is particularly difficult to digest compared to some other foods. If you suddenly start eating 1 cup of beans per day, that’s a big increase, and it may take some time for your body to get used to your new fiber intake. But as you continue to consume legumes regularly, your gas levels will eventually return to normal.
  
  Btw it’s beans AND legumes in general that do this
  
  Yes, beans are legumes, that’s why we’ve been using the word legume this whole thread
  
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  - CherryBullets@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    My point still stands, you don’t HAVE to eat legumes to get veggies in (that’s what my main post was about, hello?). You are allowed to rave and drool about legumes and I’m allowed to point out that many people struggle with them way more than other veggies amd to not recommend them to the persom that asked for healthy foods with nutrients in them. What do you not understand about this? Do you really think only legumes are healthy? Broccoli is not nearly as bad as legumes for most people. No one makes jokes about broccoli making people fart and you don’t even have to wonder why… it’s because most don’t struggle with broccoli, duh.
    
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