Eat Your Way to Good Health with Salad
Why should you eat a salad?
Salads are not only easy to prepare, they are also loaded with a lot of health benefits. Just cut and mix some vegetables and fruits and your green salad is ready. Salads are in the menu of most restaurants and fast food centers. You can also help yourself with a side salad with fat-free salad dressing.
Salads are also alluring both to the eyes and your taste buds. Kids love the combination of the myriad colors and textures of the fruits and vegetables.
Health benefits of salads include:
1. They provide fiber
Salads contain high amount of fiber and hence prevent constipation and reduce cholesterol level in the body. Barbara Rolls, PhD, author of the Volumetrics Eating Plan says, “Having high amount of fiber gives the feeling of a full stomach and helps in weight loss.”
2. Salads provide you the good things of fruits and vegetables
Most health experts opine that Americans need to increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables, particularly the dark green and orange vegetables. In his email interview David Jacobs, PhD, Professor of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, reveals that foods rich in plant-nutrients are essential for good health.
Green salads, with raw vegetables contain essential anti-oxidants like, folic acid, alpha and beta-carotene, lycopene and vitamin E & C. Anti-oxidants help to free the body from the deleterious effects of the free radicals.
Researches over the years have established that having high intake of fruits and vegetables lowers the risk of a host of diseases including cancer. As per a recent report from the National Caner Institute, people, who regularly eat high amount of fruits and vegetables, are less likely to be affected by head and neck cancer, even if they smoke and drink regularly. Vegetables and fruits like string beans, tomatoes, nectarines, peas, peppers, apples, strawberries, plums, peaches and pears.
3. Eating salads prevent obesity
Researches suggest that salads not only contain fewer calories, they also give the feeling of a full-stomach (even an intake of green salad with 150 calories). Hence, you end up eating less calorie-rich foods.
Rolls, head of the research team points that you may large amount of it as long as they are free of high calories, that is, they should be devoid of and fatty dressings.
4. Eating salads helps you live longer
It is believed that good fats (mono-saturated fats from olive oil, nuts etc) in fact, facilitate the absorption of phyto-chemicals like lycopene from dark green vegetables and tomatoes from the body. A recent study by Ohio State University found that people, who consumed carrot, spinach, lettuce with 21/2 table spoon of avocado were able to absorb 13 times more beta-carotene and 8 times more of alpha-carotene ( phyto-chemicals that prevents cancer & cardiac ailments) than people, who took them without avocado.
Researches in Italy that included people over the age of 60, point out that small amount of olive oil also enhance the life span of people.
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