Health and Fitness Journal

Salad is good for you, right?  Filling up on Romaine lettuce and fresh field tomatoes at the salad bar is a step in the right health direction, don’t you agree? Cucumbers and carrots can only act to boost your immune system and combat workaday fatigue, wouldn’t you say?  It turns out the answers to these seemly simple questions aren’t quite what you’d expect.

Greg Lawless, of the University Of  Seattle, an award-winning microbiologist, claims in a new study, while you are what you eat, you may be eating a whole lot of things you don’t even know about. “Fruits and veggies, contrary to widespread public opinion, often do more harm than good when consumed in a diet unsupervised by health-care professionals; and I’m not just saying this because my wife’s a health care professional,” said Lawless. “Salad is more detrimental to your mental health than reading Dawkins“.

While eating veggies in small amounts is still considered a dietary plus, large helpings “fuel bacterial growth” and may lead to “late life memory loss,” said Lawless. “I don’t think it’s asking people a whole helluva lot to eat their veggies more responsibly, just as they eat their cheeses and sweetmeats,” added the bespeckled microbiologist.