How to Get the Green In!

 My 5 Keys to Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Health Through Eating, Part 4 (4/17 Health) 

1. Eat daily during an 8 hour window. [see The 5 Keys to Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Health Through Eating, Part 1 (1/17 Health)]
2. Stop eating animal flesh--cooked or raw [see The 5 Keys to Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Health Through Eating, Part 2 (2/17 Health) ].
3. Eat more fresh raw fruit  [see My 5 Keys to Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Health Through Eating, Part 3 (317 Health) ].
4. Eat more fresh raw or cooked vegetables

One way to increase the amount of vegetables and leafy greens that you are consuming is to eat leafy salad, eat cooked vegetables, or drink your grrens in the form of a green smoothie or a green juice. Me? I hardly eat vegetables at all! :( and of the vegetable that I do eat 4-6 times/month I include raw lettuce, raw spinach, raw carrot, raw celery, cooked onion, cooked broccoli, cooked potato and/or cooked cauliflower. However I am determined to eliminate cooked food and to schedule a 2 or 3 green salads a week (lefy greens plus root vegetables, broccoli, cucumber, tomato and mild peppers. They are tasty I just dont care for the bulkiness of it all.

I have given away or gifted my last 3 juicers and I have never owned a dehydrator. The most practical way for me to get in my greens is to add them to banana smoothies (water, ripe bananas, spices), to eat them in salads or to cook them (which is really not nutritionally ideal for me).  At this time I neither eat leafy greens nor vegetables every day. I think it would be a good idea for me to have a green salad once a day just to make it more likely that my diet had a rich and broad spectrum of minerals. We shall see if I can build up to a once a day salad habit.

           5. Drop the dairy and the grains

STEEM on!

The video in this post was uploadd to YouTube

. You may watch it there on Jack Albritton's channel.