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post 1664543863 07-17-2022, 01:09 PM
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Does salad provide a lot of health benefits?

I told the wife I wanted to start eating a salad every night with dinner and she said salads don't really have much nutrition. Long story short, I got super sick with covid last fall and haven't touched fast food since. Lots of protien but I want to up my leafy green's. I want to have a dark green salad every night with a protien . What do the misc say?
post 1664543923 07-17-2022, 01:10 PM
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Explain to your wife how important it is to have your salad tossed very night
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post 1664544203 07-17-2022, 01:14 PM
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Explain to your husband how important it is to have you salad tossed very night
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post 1664544273 07-17-2022, 01:16 PM
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Explain to your sister how important it is to have your salad tossed very night
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post 1664544713 07-17-2022, 01:22 PM
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Salad with dark greens, certain vegetables and beans, throw some salmon, chicken, or steak on there and don't put ranch or cheese on it of course.

You've ever run into a fat person who eats salad regularly OP?
post 1664544863 07-17-2022, 01:24 PM
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Explain to your grandma how important it is to have your salad tossed very night
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post 1664547063 07-17-2022, 02:04 PM
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Salad is just filler. Just cook up some veggies with dinner daily. Tastier and way more nutrients.
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post 1664547303 07-17-2022, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted By crupiea⏩
Salad is just filler. Just cook up some veggies with dinner daily. Tastier and way more nutrients.
That's what the wife said. Just a filler really. Bummer.
post 1664552413 07-17-2022, 03:51 PM
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Air Fry some veggies, broh.

Switch to all whole grain / whole wheat if you don't already go with those.
post 1664552723 07-17-2022, 03:56 PM
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Salads are the biggest scam in the diet world. What if I told you most those salads you order st a restaurant have as many, if not more calories than a burger. Not to mention they provide little to no protein or nutrition
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post 1664553403 07-17-2022, 04:11 PM
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Of course salads are beneficial but you don't need to make a meal out of it - just a small daily salad.

Its main benefit is fiber. So pick the veggies that have the most fiber.
Kale is also a nutritious leaf but not that tasty.

I'll go to a salad bar and go with Kale with some Romaine lettuce: add radish, carrots, black olives for flavor, 3x broccoli, 3x chickpea cause I like them. I find that tomato and cucumber aren't that high in nutrition, or at least not the nutrition I'm looking for. I'll also add a small spoon of each: pumpkin seeds, walnuts and almonds (nuts are high calorie but packed with nutrition)

If I'm at the salad bar, I'll ask for strawberries and grapes on the side for my dessert - berries are the best fruit and grapes have plenty of antioxidants.


I eat salads when cutting, but just make sure you aren't dowsing it in salad dressing which is extremely high calorie and cholesterol, you have to pick the best ones.
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post 1664553453 07-17-2022, 04:13 PM
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dafuq is this salad chit, stop being a pussy and just pound a kale smoothie then pound a celery smoothie and then have a real damn meal
Would kick em in the nuts
post 1664553583 07-17-2022, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted By gixxer0.6g⏩
Salads are the biggest scam in the diet world. What if I told you most those salads you order st a restaurant have as many, if not more calories than a burger. Not to mention they provide little to no protein or nutrition
The human digestive system is not capable of digesting raw plant matter, except for some fruits.
Most plant material comes out pretty much the same as it went in. Except oxalate, which your body is quite good at absorbing and then depositing in your kidneys and joints.

The benefits of eating plants are constipation, IBS, kidney stones, wasting your money and social clout with NPCs.

Salad is what food eats to become food.
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post 1664554463 07-17-2022, 04:40 PM
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Add protein to the salad. Chicken,beans cheese, other veggies. Replace rice with lettuce and boom.
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post 1664554873 07-17-2022, 04:52 PM
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I've tried both NoSalad and Saladmaxxing

I feel the best when I have one once in a while like 2 or 3 a month
post 1664554963 07-17-2022, 04:56 PM
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Green smoothie everyday to get my leafy greens in.

The only salad I like besides a good restaurant caesar or wedge, are these chop salad kits that are terrible for you:


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I’m using a lot of frozen veg lately.

Boil water. Poor a cup of frozen veg in water.

Zero preparation and cheap.

Salad is meh.

I’d have tomatoes, carrots, avocado, grapes. Not salad leaves. Leaf that for rabbits, op.
post 1664555083 07-17-2022, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted By God_Given⏩
Salad with dark greens, certain vegetables and beans, throw some salmon, chicken, or steak on there and don't put ranch or cheese on it of course.

You've ever run into a fat person who eats salad regularly OP?
Actually yes. Usually followed by complaints of failing to understand why they can't lose weight.
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Just vary vegetable sides. I can't even remember the last time I've had a salad. Maybe 3+ years? I'll make sautéed vegetables, add organic sauerkraut to stuff like with cooked grass fed bison and sweet potatoes mixed together, have kosher pickles with meals, or add them into things like adding peppers into bacon bison/ground beef meatball mix.

The problem with salads is that they usually don't add that much nutritional value for the volume. It's almost unnecessary unless you add a good variety of things.

I'd rather make a fresh raw chimichurri for my skirt steak than a salad on the side with it.
post 1664555443 07-17-2022, 05:12 PM
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lettuce is basically just fibre with very minimal vitamins and minerals. Spinach is better but you still have to eat a LOT of it to get benefits.
If you add something like bell peppers however.. just a piece of it has a ton of vit c, a and others.
Broccoli is also really good.

But they are still good regardless and should be in everyones daily diet.
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Most people put so much dressing on a salad it's far from healthy.

Put some ranch dressing in the freezer overnight and when it thaws it'll seperate and the oil will float to the top. About 1/3 of it is vegetable / seed oil.
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Potato salad yes
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Originally Posted By SUPERH0T⏩
The human digestive system is not capable of digesting raw plant matter, except for some fruits.
Most plant material comes out pretty much the same as it went in. Except oxalate, which your body is quite good at absorbing and then depositing in your kidneys and joints.

The benefits of eating plants are constipation, IBS, kidney stones, wasting your money and social clout with NPCs.

Salad is what food eats to become food.
I agree. I began feeling FAR better and my digestion improved dramatically when I cut out greens/vegetables.


I think salads and veggies are kind of a meme.
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Are antisaladcels arguing that the micros from greens cannot be absorbed during digestion or are they simply ignorant regarding their presence
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
Are antisaladcels arguing that the micros from greens cannot be absorbed during digestion or are they simply ignorant regarding their presence
You are not capable of absorbing them from raw plant matter.
Firstly, you cannot break the cell walls to get at the nutrients and secondly, plants use things like oxalate and lectins to bind the nutrients and stop you from absorbing them.
They also tend to be in plant forms where the conversion to the animal form is minimal, so even if you absorb them, they aren't doing chit for you.

Plants do not want you to eat their leaves, stems, roots or seeds. They heavily defend them with chemicals which will phuck you up.
Fruits on the other hand, they do want you to eat, which is why they are tasty and digestible.
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If by salad you mean burger and fries then yes
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