Yeah. I'm a raw-foodist so I WILL have an occassional salad post on here. The enemy of the standard american diet (ironically enough abbreviated to SAD), eating a simple salad every day may just be what you need in order to acheive a better overall health.
Don't let is bore you. Dont force yourself to choke down a plate of green stuff for a weak until you get sick and decide just to give up on it. Put some flavor into it. Put some taste on it. Do it right and make it taste good. I dont have that obsession with salads that some raw=foodies do and i've been doing this for almost a bit over a year. When done right though, it can taste good.
Radish-Avocado Salad
Serves 1-2
Ingredients:
-2c. Mixed Baby Greens
-4 small Red Radishes (sliced)
-1 avocado (pitted, skinned, and cubed)
-2 tbsp. Olive-oil (cold-pressed)
-1 tbsp. lemon or lime juice (freshly squeezed)
-2 tbsp. ground flax seed
-2 tbsp. pumpkin seeds (raw, shelled)
Method:
-Mix together the baby greens, radishes, and avocado together.
-Mix in the olive oil and lemon or lime juice.
-Sprinkle the flax seed and pumpkin seeds.
-Enjoy.
So many different flavors mixed together to form one magnificent salad. This is one of my favorite recipes due to my love for avocado, radishes, and pumpkin seeds but don't let this stop you from making up your own combination.
Radishes tend to have high silicon and sulfur contents which helps to dissolve excess mucus in the digestive track which can be caused by eating heavy loads of carbs (pastas, breads, etc). They help to cleanse out your system and also are one of the highest vegetable sources of vitamin c.
With all of this said, they do have an incredibly strong flavor to them, so I almost always add a bit of avocado with my radishes to cut down some of it without sacrificing the benefits. An added bonus is when a healthy fat is added to a potent food, they tend to help one another digest.
I've always heard my family say after eating something unhealthy, "i'll just have a salad, and that will fix it". Every cell in your body is built based off of what you feed and nourish yourself with so eating junk food may have a toll on this but though a salad won't prevent all of the damage done, it can and will help to ease it a bit by both making your body a bit more alkaline and by putting some nutrients in your system to give you a little something better for your cells to feast off of.
Just remember for your salad that the more leafy and green, the better. Greens are both rich minerals and help to balance your bodies pH by increasing alkalinity.
A truer statement has never been made than "You are what you eat"
What foods are in your ultimate salad?
-Andrew D. Morrison-
now that is a SALAD!!
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