Poverty and Diet

[Jade]

I understand your point totally, Aion, but on the other side there are so many different options as far as grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, etc go, many of them tending toward the plain side. I'm not sure how facette's post implied that one had to focus on eating foods that made them sick. Not to mention, tastebuds change over time, and so can psychological associations with food. If you eat tons of processed food with artificial flavors, that seriously alters your tastebuds. (artificial sweeteners are the worst culprit) Abstaining/detoxing from these things can help revert the taste buds to a normal functioning.

Sure, but that is more a matter of preservatives and chemicals than a matter of the exact foods you are eating. These I have grown very sensitive to and am moving more to whole foods, but I still have a somewhat narrow pallette.

It's definitely a process. After I "went vegan", I still had many times where I would have bite of this or that with dairy in it to taste it, as I was working in a restaurant, and felt it was my duty. So I tasted things. Until one day, I tasted something with dairy in it, and it tasted rotten and sour. This was more than two years ago and I haven't 'tried' anything with dairy since, but it was over a year of being vegan with random 'tastings' before that piece finally fell away. So I think diet change is really exemplary of what it really is to just embrace the process of letting that which is no longer needed fall away.