Experiencing Salad Health Benefits Sans The ‘Eating Boredom’
Our eating habits greatly influence our health, if disease takes over, diet becomes the first line of investigation health and wellness therapist analyze. If diet is the cause, ideal recommendations from them will suggest that we change the way we've been eating.
It makes better sense that we follow-up on the recommendations of the therapist, and adapt to a changed menu of our diet. The therapist in all probability will draw out a list of food that we must eat, and what we must not.
At the end of the day, we choose the fundamentals in the list, and draw out a menu of our own. If the choice is to go ‘green’, there are plenty of resources available on the net, suggesting the kind of healthy green foods that we must include in our diet.
If you’re not the kind of a person spending hours on the net looking for valuable piece of dietary information, the experiences of Suzanne Schaper, a Board Certified Massage Therapist in Overland Park, Kansas, US is certainly worth a review.
Published in August of 2017, Suzanne in her blog titled ‘What I Learned After Eating Salads For 30-Days” says eating healthy can be difficult “so when life gets crazy our diets and wellness are often the first thing pushed aside on our list of priorities’’ she states.
Despite being a massage therapist focusing on wellness, she felt guilty of not having followed a healthy diet. She realized that it was time for her to change her diet, so took it up as a challenge eating salad for the next 30-days to understand the impact it would have on her body.
She wasn’t eating too many fruits and vegetables as she should have earlier. An article she read in the newspaper made her aware about the importance of eating vibrant coloured raw fruits and vegetables to prevent disease and premature death.
“I want to do everything I can to live my best life and I think diet has a huge impact” she declares in the blog.
As a challenge, she set up a goal to eat salad everyday for the next 30-days, without worrying about the other meals she consumed.
Each of us has a perception that eating salads can be dull and boring. Suzanne writes “Even I thought that I would get sick of salads, but that was not the case” she explains. Further emphasizing she writes “With so many varieties and combinations of toppings and veggies , I quickly realized that the flavor possibilities are endless”.
Salad for her, she says is not just lettuce, cucumber or tomatoes, “I add as many fruits and vegetables as possible”. It became a fun part of her meal time getting creative with the dressing, toppings and veggies, she discovered.
The results after the 30-day salad eating experience, she claims.
“At every meal I felt satisfied and vibrant”
“After the first week, I had more energy during the day and slept better during the night”
“After the third week, I realized I was eating more than a salad a day, I learned to enjoy eating mostly raw food meals, and even enjoyed them more than some cooked food”.
“At the end of the challenge, I even lost weight”.
