The Health Benefits of Green Salads

The Health Benefits of Green Salads: "The Health Benefits of Green Salads

What’s the Big Deal About Green Salads?
Green leafy salads are a staple in our home. Why salads? According to Joel Fuhrman’s book Eat To Live the one food that research has shown is most highly associated with longevity is leafy greens….in other words salads. This may come as a surprise to you, but leafy green vegetables are the most nutrient packed foods available to us.

Think about it, how do the giraffe, hippo, elephant, gorilla and cow get so big? Where do they get all the protein they need to create those big muscles? They get it from the leafy green vegetation they eat. All protein starts with the process of photosynthesis in green plants.
The added health benefits of green salads are that they are raw. To the leafy greens we use for our salad base we add lots more fresh raw vegetables. In Eat to Live, Dr. Fuhrman reports that a review of 206 studies showed raw vegetable consumption to be our strongest defense against cancer of any foods.

Making a Great Garden Salad
To make great salads you must start out with fresh produce, preferably organic. It’s the greens that are considered the powerhouse of nutrition, so include a variety of leafy greens in your salads. Green leaf, red leaf, romaine, spinach, kale…really any kind of greens can be added to your salad.


To your highly nutritious greens you can add a wide variety of raw vegetables. Make your salad colorful, fun and exceptionally nutritious by using all the colors of the rainbow. We love vegetables like carrots, beets, turnips, squash, sprouts, sweet potatoes, broccoli, bell peppers and red cabbage. But really, what ever you have on hand works well. To make your salad even more exotic try adding fruits, seeds, nuts and berries."