When the hot sun drives you to the table: why is green salad the best summer diet?

Admit it, on hot days, salad is the most refreshing, and why would you burden your body with foods that increase weight, cause digestive issues and maybe even diseases, which, in the summer months when we are surrounded by an abundance of vitamins and minerals ... And we move even more ... Summer is the healthiest time of the year, and you can make the best use of it precisely with green salad.

What is it about?

If you want to lose weight, or take care of your good condition, you need to eat less than you burn. You won’t achieve this with bread, flour, pasta, and potatoes, but you can with green things, although only if you eat less than you expend.

Did you know that 100 grams of green salad have only 11 calories, and if you add a cup of broccoli, pepper, cucumber, celery, and spinach, such a combination has only 50 calories. You can easily eat 4 such bowls, which is a lot. You will surely feel full. Of course, you can also add spices, nuts, and dressings, and still not go over 100, maybe 200 calories. That’s already an amount that promises healthy weight loss, and you won’t even be hungry.

Let’s also add that green salad does have a lot of water, but it also has a huge amount of vitamins A, C, E, K, and B. It contains many phytonutrients (these include carotenoids, coumarins, which are plentiful in citrus, flavonoids found in fruit, phenols which are abundant in tea and wine, as well as allium compounds, which are the base of garlic and onion)... In addition, you can also substitute (or complement) green salad with spinach, Swiss chard, radicchio, arugula...

Just watch out for one thing... If you use dressings, make sure they are not based on mayonnaise or full-fat dairy products, because that completely undermines all the good effects.

And one more thing: it’s no big deal if you stick to the green salad diet for only one day. You can continue tomorrow, or the day after. The important thing is to try to keep eating salads as many days as possible, because you will notice the difference every day. Besides, you might be a bit late for a beauty diet, but a health diet is always good.

Information on this website is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice.