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Salad Eating - Why are salads healthy

Salads are not only easy to prepare, but 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 on 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.

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Benefits of Salads include:

1. They provide fiber

Salads contain a high amount of fiber and hence prevent constipation and reduce cholesterol level in the body. Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., author of the Volumetrics Eating Plan says, “Having the high amount of fiber gives the feeling of a full stomach and helps in weight loss.” A high amount of fibers, which is found in Salad, are very good laxatives.

2. Salads provide you the good things of fruits and vegetables

Most health experts opine that people need to increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables, particularly the dark green and orange vegetables. Researches reveal 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 a high intake of fruits and vegetables lowers the risk of a host of diseases including cancer. As per a recent report from the National Cancer Institute, people, who regularly eat a high amount of fruits and vegetables, are less likely to be affected by head and neck cancer. Vegetables and fruits like string beans, tomatoes, nectarines, peas, peppers, apples, strawberries, plums, peaches, and pears.

3. Salad Eating prevents 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 the large amount of it as long as they are free of high calories, that is, they should be devoid of and fatty dressings.

4. Salad Eating help you live longer

It is believed that good fats (mono-saturated fats from olive oil, nuts etc) in fact, facilitate the absorption of phytochemicals 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 tablespoon of avocado were able to absorb 13 times more beta-carotene and 8 times more of alpha-carotene ( phytochemicals that prevent cancer & cardiac ailments) than people, who took them without avocado.

Researches in Italy that included people over the age of 60 points out that a small amount of olive oil also enhances the life span of people.

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