Admit it, on hot days, a salad is the most refreshing thing, and why would you burden your body with foods that increase weight, cause digestive problems, and maybe even diseases? Especially in the summer months, when there's an abundance of vitamins and minerals around us ... And we move more ... Summer is the healthiest time of the year, and the best way to take advantage of it is with a green salad.

What is it about?

If you want to lose weight or maintain good fitness, you need to eat less than you burn. You can't achieve this with bread, flour, pasta, and potatoes, but you can with green things, provided you eat less than you burn.

Did you know that 100 grams of green salad has only 11 calories, and if you add a cup of broccoli, peppers, cucumbers, celery, and spinach, such a combination will have only 50 calories. You can easily eat 4 such bowls, which is a lot. You'll definitely feel full. Of course, you can also add spices, nuts, and dressings, and you won't exceed more than 100, maybe 200 calories. This is already an amount that promises healthy weight loss, and you won't be hungry.

Let's also add that green salad has a lot of water, but it also contains a lot of vitamins A, C, E, K, and B. It has many phytonutrients (such as carotenoids, coumarins found in citrus fruits, flavonoids found in fruits, phenols found in tea and wine, and allicin compounds that are the basis of garlic and onions) ... In addition, you can replace (or complement) green salad with spinach, Swiss chard, radicchio, arugula ...

Just watch out for one thing ... If you're using dressings, make sure they're not based on mayonnaise or full-fat dairy products, as this will completely negate all the good effects.

And one more thing: it's okay if you stick to the salad diet for just one day. You can continue tomorrow or the day after. The important thing is to try to stick to salads as many days as possible, because it will make a difference every day. Moreover, you may be a bit late for the beauty diet, but a health diet is always a good idea.