I'd like to make a simple recommendation that can go a long way toward improving your health: eat your greens. There are very few things health practitioners agree on more than this simple tip. Why? Because no other foods, or supplements, contain the vitamins and minerals (and the substances you need to USE them) at the high concentrations that greens do.
Take kale for instance. Kale is a super-food. It contains more nutrients per ounce than any other common vegetable, fruit, or green. It's been found to contain dietary fiber, protein, thiamin, riboflavin, folate, iron, magnesium and Phosphorus, and to be a very good source of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin B6, calcium, potassium, copper and manganese. In fact, one cup of chopped raw kale has 1.5 times the vitamin C, and 2 times the vitamin A that your body needs for the day. And, steaming kale makes it capable of lowering blood cholesterol (so eat some of your greens steamed)!
Greens like kale are involved in detoxification, creation and function of healthy blood cells and a host of other necessary bodily functions. And these other greens aren't far behind: collard greens, swiss chard, spinach, turnip greens, mustard greens, dandelion greens, and the multitude of lettuce and cabbage varieties available to us. In fact, you might be surprised that iceberg lettuce, leaf lettuce, and romaine also make the list of super-foods!
Need I say more? Eat your greens!
I'm a fan of eating foods in their whole state. While you can certainly juice greens, I recommend that you eat whole greens every day, and that any juice be in addition to that. My friend Amy Glin (chef and creator of Amy's Nuts granola), shares this wonderful Kale salad recipe that has quickly become my favorite raw green dish of all time.
Wishing You Health and Happiness,
~ Craig Swogger, L.Ac.
Offering Acupuncture and Holistic Healing in Santa Monica and Los Angeles
Greens like kale are involved in detoxification, creation and function of healthy blood cells and a host of other necessary bodily functions. And these other greens aren't far behind: collard greens, swiss chard, spinach, turnip greens, mustard greens, dandelion greens, and the multitude of lettuce and cabbage varieties available to us. In fact, you might be surprised that iceberg lettuce, leaf lettuce, and romaine also make the list of super-foods!
Need I say more? Eat your greens!
I'm a fan of eating foods in their whole state. While you can certainly juice greens, I recommend that you eat whole greens every day, and that any juice be in addition to that. My friend Amy Glin (chef and creator of Amy's Nuts granola), shares this wonderful Kale salad recipe that has quickly become my favorite raw green dish of all time.
Wishing You Health and Happiness,
~ Craig Swogger, L.Ac.
Offering Acupuncture and Holistic Healing in Santa Monica and Los Angeles
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