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The funny thing is that veggies and fruit were seen as unhealthy for thousands of years. Just look up some Galen, Avicenna, even books up to the Victorian era. I remember reading some bare-knuckle boxing book about the training and diet of boxers back then and they literally talked about veggies like we would talk about candy nowadays: "Yeah, you know, a bite won't kill you, but don't eat too much of it and only if you really have to". Only during and after the World Wars, food rationing became super duper important and the peeps in power (on both sides) realized they would have some pretty gnarly mass starvation on their hands if they didn't make veggies and fruit more palateable to their subjects.
So, they went with the "it's actually healthier than meat and bread and can satiate you for so much less money" route. So, out went beefsteaks and lamb chops for breakfast (seriously) and in came wholemeal bread and veggies, fruits, etc.
Now, I'm not saying people back then were 100% right and mainstream science today is a "friendly woman at the docks", but it shows how things can change. Who knows the truth? No idea. However, meat and bread worked for millenia.
Maybe, just maybe, scientists who understood things like electricity and germ theory had a better idea of what’s healthy than philosophers who based their dietary recommendations on the four humors.