How to Eat Your Veggies
Think of vegetables on your plate like guests at your next dinner party. How do you seat those guests to maximize dinner conversation? Not unlike seating a wallflower next to a rock star, when it comes to salsa and squash, how your vegetables are partnered on the plate makes for a very interesting dynamic. Most importantly, you can aid your body's ability to absorb essential nutrients by pairing fats with veggies!
From a recent New York Times article on finding the best way to prepare vegetables (from a health standpoint) comes this interesting bit of information:
“Studies at Ohio State measured blood levels of subjects who ate servings of salsa and salads. When the salsa or salad was served with fat-rich avocados or full-fat salad dressing, the diners absorbed as much as 4 times more lycopene, 7 times more lutein and 18 times the beta carotene than those who had their vegetables plain or with low-fat dressing.”
Can I get a side of buttermilk ranch please?
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