# things you eat for health reasons that you hate
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 22, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579 "2016-09-22T15:28:37Z")
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### Author:  [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/1 "2016-09-22T15:28:37Z")
What are foods that you don’t like but you eat for health reasons? For example I can’t stand fish but it’s good for my heart so I eat it.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/2 "2016-09-22T15:29:29Z")
Bran buds. I dress them up by putting them in yogurt, but it’s only so I get enough fiber.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/3 "2016-09-22T15:43:34Z")
nothing. I limit some of the things I love to avoid getting fat, but I don’t eat anything I hate for health (or other) reasons.
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/4 "2016-09-22T15:49:01Z")
Yoghurt. I’m not a fan. But I choke back smoothies, etc, whenever I’ve had a round of antibiotics.
Whole, multi grain bread, is WAY too heavy for me, I can only eat one piece of bread, then I’m done. Since I don’t eat much bread, it’s not too much of an issue. (I could buy white bread but I eat so little it just goes off!)
That’s it, I don’t see the need to eat things I hate as there’s almost always another way to go, I find!
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/5 "2016-09-22T16:48:24Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> nothing. I limit some of the things I love to avoid getting fat, but I don’t eat anything I hate for health (or other) reasons.
This. There are very few foods that I actually hate, and none of them have health benefits (e.g. haggis and Limburger cheese).
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### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/6 "2016-09-22T17:11:28Z")
Based on the amount of salad greens that I throw away, I’d say that I would really like to enjoy eating salads more than I do. I guess I’m just not a fan of cold food in general. Except ice cream, of course.
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/7 "2016-09-22T17:31:34Z")
Rosemary Tea, to prevent kidney stones. Tastes awful, I add sugar and lemon and gulp it down. Otherwise, I love everything I eat. I was taught to like everything put in front of me, or sit there until I learned to like it.
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### Author:  [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/8 "2016-09-22T17:38:45Z")
No. I like food. Food is such a simple source of pleasure. I was raised with the attitude that food is love. Why would I want to spoil that?
There are a lot of healthy foods I really like. I would far rather eat them, than force myself to choke down something just because it’s supposed to be good for me. Blech.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/9 "2016-09-22T17:48:31Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> nothing. I limit some of the things I love to avoid getting fat, but I don’t eat anything I hate for health (or other) reasons.
This, also.
The Ukulele Lady only eats brown rice and WW pasta, for her health. I don’t eat enough white rice and nothing else to get beri-beri, so I do what my Asian friends do and eat white rice (“Brown rice? We fed that to the PIGS!”). And I don’t eat enough white pasta to give myself diabetes, so I do what my Italian American friends do (“WW pasta? What the FUCK for?”)
I also eat lots of red meat and sausage because it’s what my Czech and German ancestors did. And a lot of whiskey and beer because it’s what my Irish ancestors did.
I’d rather die at 65 eating dumplings than 97 eating quinoa and kale.
(Kale is really good in _caldo verde_, though! Look it up and try some!)
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/10 "2016-09-22T17:49:18Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> nothing. I limit some of the things I love to avoid getting fat, but I don’t eat anything I hate for health (or other) reasons.
Pretty much this. I can’t tell you how many salads I’ve thrown away that I brought to work with good intentions and then when it came time, I just didn’t want to eat them. I don’t hate vegetables, per se, but they are in no way satisfying and frankly, more of a pain in the ass to eat than to just go hungry. Most mornings I drink a glass of Naked Green Machine (one of those fruit & veg blends) and I really just have to swig it down because it tastes like grass. I wish I did have the discipline (?) stomach(?)to eat things for health’s sake but it just ain’t happening.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/11 "2016-09-22T17:55:10Z")
I don’t hate it, but I drink a green smoothie everyday.
The secret is to add chocolate milk powder to it. I’ve tried it straight and almost vomited.
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/12 "2016-09-22T18:29:32Z")
I never specifically order broccoli, but if it comes as a side dish for whatever I order, I’ll at least eat some of it.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/13 "2016-09-22T18:38:42Z")
Broccoli.
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/14 "2016-09-22T18:40:18Z")
I have been making an Herculean effort to drink green tea, but it is so bitter and unpleasant tasting that I am likely cancelling its benefits with the agave syrup I use to sweeten it.
Besides the green tea, the only other healthy food I force myself to consume is cranberry juice, due to its urinary tract benefits. It actually does help, so I will continue to consume it, but once the green tea I purchased is gone, I won’t buy more.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/15 "2016-09-22T19:50:57Z")
It used to be V8. But over the years I’ve went from just tolerating it, to craving it. Nothing like a cold glass of V8 after a good work out at the gym.
Same with skim milk. Now it’s the whole milk I can’t stand.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/16 "2016-09-22T20:37:22Z")
Nothing. I’m sure that asparagus, say, has some great vitamins in it. But I can get those same vitamins from other vegetables that I enjoy, so I do.
Though of course, this is made a lot easier by the fact that I dislike very few foods.
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/17 "2016-09-22T20:41:43Z")
Spinach. I don’t like it but I long to be more like Popeye.
Toottoot!
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/18 "2016-09-22T20:43:17Z")
Why eat something you don’t like? There are tons of healthy foods out there. Eat the ones you like.
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### Author:  [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/19 "2016-09-22T22:20:14Z")
eggs
Breakfast is a tough meal for me. not supposed to eat a lot of starches like cereals. Fruit is not filling and is high in sugar. Breakfast meats are high in fat and salt. not much left.
When I have time, I have scrambled eggs with salsa and some chopped veggies and a couple pieces of turkey bacon.
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### Author:  [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-eat-for-health-reasons-that-you-hate/766579/20 "2016-09-22T23:35:03Z")
If I don’t like a food no matter how good it’s for me I don’t eat. I am my own boss. 🙂
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