Have You Had Your Green Salad Today?
Have you had your green salad today? . Eating a green salad almost every day may be one of the healthiest and simplest eating habits you can adopt.
Here are just a few health reasons to reach for a green salad today:
1. Eat Green Salads for the Fiber
Eating a high-fiber diet can help lower dietary and metabolic acids and thus lower cholesterol levels and prevent constipation.
2. Eat Green Salads for the Health Benefits
Many experts agree that Americans need to eat more fruit and vegetables (especially dark green vegetables). There is plenty of evidence that nutrient-rich plant foods contribute to overall health.
3. Eat Green Salads to Cut Calories and Increase Satisfaction
If losing weight is your goal, you may want to start your meals with a green salad. Studies have shown that eating a low-calorie first course, like a green salad of 150 calories or less, enhances satiety (feelings of fullness) and reduces the total number of calories eaten during the meal.
4. Eat Green Salads to Get Good Healthy Fats
Eating a little good fat (like the monounsaturated fat found in olive oil, avocado and nuts) with your vegetables appears to help your body absorb protective phytochemicals, like lycopene from tomatoes and lutein from dark green vegetables.
A recent study from Ohio State University measured how well phytochemicals were absorbed by the body after people ate a salad of lettuce, carrot, and spinach, with or without 2 1/2 tablespoons of avocado. The avocado-eaters absorbed eight times more alpha-carotene and more than 13 times more beta-carotene (both of which are thought to help protect against cancer and heart disease) than the group eating salads without avocado.
I personally eat two avocados a day.
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