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Some hungry girls are obsessed with avoiding fat and gratuitous calories when making a salad. Cleansing beauties, on the other hand, take a slightly different approach. They don’t fear good-for-you raw fats; Raw fats like avocados, and good extra virgin olive oil, when enjoyed in moderation, actually help keep you slim. Additionally, these beauties focus on eating nutritious foods that fire up their bodies natural detoxification work. You see the benefits of this housework in vibrant skin, happy moods and a sleek physique (without all the calorie counting obsession).

How To Make a Nutritious, Vibrant Salad

• Toss in 2-3 types of lettuce greens

  While iceberg lettuce adds a nice crunch to a salad, it is the dark leafy green lettuce leaves that are great for reversing signs of aging. Darker greens, including baby spinach and kale, are also rich in chlorophyll, a detox agent. New to kale? Learn how to use it in a simple and tender salad here.

• Experiment with a variety of fresh veggies

  Fresh, raw vegetables are packed with enzymes which boost your body’s natural cleansing, healing and beautification work. Learn more here. Then, give some of these crunchy veggies a try:

  - thinly sliced raw asparagus tips,
  - shaved raw beets,
  - trimmed haricot verts,
  - sliced tender snow peas and
  - whole baby radishes.

• Keep nuts, dried fruit and cheese to a minimum

  Nuts, dried fruit and cheese are dense. As a result, cleansing beauties find that they limit the amount of time your bod can spend on its housekeeping work. When enjoying these goodies, stick to a tablespoon sized serving. Learn more about easy to digest foods.

• Incorporate avocados and salsas

  Add flavor to your salads with a scoop of guacamole or a few tablespoons of a tomato or fresh corn salsa. Chopped fresh herbs like rosemary, thyme and parsley are also rich in flavor and embraced by cleansing divas for their cleansing and purification properties.

• Make your own dressing

  Most bottled salad dressings on store shelves are loaded with preservatives and ingredients that your bod has a hard time recognizing and digesting. Cleansing divas believe that crud = excess weight on your bod. Consider whipping up some of this easy and fresh Lemon Thyme Vinaigrette instead.

• Choose a lean protein or whole grain (optional)

  Many cleansing beauties choose to go vegetarian and sometimes even “raw” until dinner when they are looking to boost their bod’s mid-day detoxification work. However, many cleansing divas also choose to compliment their lunch and dinner salads with a lean protein such as chicken or a better for you grain like brown rice or even quinoa. Learn more about the broad cleansing spectrum here.

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