subject: Salad Dressing [print this page] Eating salad almost every day is the easiest way to keep yourself fit and fine. Salad is a super-food with super-power and health benefits. Experts say, eating salad is the healthiest habit. Green salad is menu of almost every restaurant. A plateful of salad every day is sufficient enough to meet the nutritional demand of the body. You can easily make the healthy salad by your own that too within 5 minutes, prepared with a basket of pre-washed salad greens, a few carrots or other veggies, and a bottle of light salad dressing.
Salads are not only healthy but it is also tasty, crunchy and fun to eat because of its texture color and flavor. And most of all, fat does not make you gain weight rather helps you to lose weight. However, children sometimes do not like to eat salad, thus you can customize the salad by adding fruits and vegetables in it that your kids love to eat.
Eating vegetable high in fiber helps to control the cholesterol level of the body and also provide relief from constipation. It is hard to believe that something which we cannot eat is so good for our health. Salad made from fresh fruits and vegetables are delectable and health benefits associated with salad add on to it.
A plateful of salad satisfies your hunger. Salad has different size, structure, color and shape that make them visually more appealing. We eat the food more when it lures our eyes. Salad not only includes lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. There are number of things and combination for preparing tasty salad.
Until you add something deep fried or oily, salads are always low in calories and assist you to lose weight. Include fruits or oil like olive oil, good fats like nuts and avocados to your salad as that allows the body to absorb lycopene (in tomatoes), lutein (in dark green vegetables), iron (in spinach) and other nutrients.
Eating healthy food gives you energy and keeps healthy and disease free. Salad contains fiber that helps to reduce cholesterol level and prevent constipation. A plateful of high-fiber diet before the meal tends to help you eat less of the higher calorie food served during afternoon or at night. This helps you to lose weight to a large extent.
Salad is the best option to satisfy your hunger than that of munching cookies and potato chips. If you like sweet food or craving for sugar and candy, add fruit or fruity dressing to the salad. These not only satisfy your hunger, but it will taste good and will re-energize you.
Salad is easy to make. The basic salad only requires washing and cut the vegetables, no baking is needed. Make sure, you keep the vegetables in refrigerator after washing so as to preserve them for longer time. Salads are rich source of vitamins and minerals like vitamin A (immunity), vitamin C (fights against infection, boost iron, absorption, maintain healthy bones, gums and skin), vitamin K (strong bones, heal wounds, assists blood to clot), calcium (build strong teeth bones, assists blood clots, nerves to carry massages, muscles contract), alpha- and beta-carotene (antioxidant that help protect against cancer and heart disease), iron (maintain healthy blood) and many other vitamins and minerals.
Salads are absolutely wonderful combination of vegetable and fruit that enables you to stay healthy.
