Martin Meadows - How to Eat More Vegetables: A Concise Guide to Help You Eat and Enjoy the Most Important Food for a Fulfilling Life

How to Eat
More Vegetables

A Concise Guide to Help You
Eat and Enjoy the Most Important
Food for a Fulfilling Life

By Martin Meadows

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I want you to become a superhero.

To claim your superpower abilities, you dont need to travel to a remote temple high in the mountains and train for decades. All you need to do is invest a few weeks into creating a new habit in your life that will give you more energy, optimize your performance, and ultimately help you live a more fulfilling life.

What is this habit? Its proper nutrition, and more specifically, eating vegetables daily .

Food has an unbelievable impact not only on our bodies, but also our psychology. Optimizing your diet can have an immense impact on your life.

Take dark green leafy vegetables like Brussels sprouts, kale or spinach. Did you know that theyre a rich source of folate which helps regulate mood and whose shortage is linked with depression?

Little folate in your diet = little happiness in your life.

It isnt just dark green leafy vegetables that regulate your mood: all vegetables can help.

In a study on over 80,000 people, individuals who ate more fruits and vegetables felt happier and had a higher life satisfaction than people who didnt eat enough portions (well-being peaks at approximately 7 portions per day).

Again, little veggies = little fun.

Now consider beta-carotene, a red-orange pigment found in large amounts in carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, spinach and collards. Eating beta-carotene rich foods will give your skin a nice, healthy glow that most people think you can only get with expensive skin creams.

According to a small study conducted by psychologists at University of Western Australia, beta-carotene not only enhances your facial color, but also makes you more attractive and look healthier.

The more veggies you eat, the better you look. How cool is that?

There are plenty of other surprising benefits of vegetables, but I think that you get the point: vegetables are like Gummiberry Juice, the secret concoction gummi bears in the animated television series consumed regularly to gain superpowers that enabled them to escape from all sorts of troubles.

Yet, because so many people think that vegetables are unappetizing, expensive, hard to prepare, or otherwise challenging to consume, they dont eat even a quarter of what they should be eating.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that only nine percent of Americans met the intake recommendations for vegetables.

Nine percent! Its incredible that vegetable growers arent out of business yet.

Seven of the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States are from chronic diseases diseases can be largely prevented with a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables.

As a self-certified veggie addict and personal development writer, I had to write this book. It pains me that so many people lack energy, struggle with depression, obesity, high blood pressure and other unpleasant conditions largely because they lack key nutrients vegetables provide in spades.

If this book helps at least a handful of people, Ill be happy knowing that I made at least a small positive impact on the world.

Lets proceed to the first chapter addressing one of the biggest questions: how do you get motivated to eat more vegetables?

You know that eating vegetables is good for you. Yet, you dont eat them as often as you should. Vegetables being good for you is not a good enough reason to convince you to change your ways.

In this chapter well go through the most effective techniques to get yourself motivated to eat more vegetables. These techniques are simple, but dont let their simplicity fool you. Done right, they will inspire you to change your diet.

The argument that vegetables are good for you is weak because it fails to produce an emotional impact. Yes, youll be healthier when you eat vegetables, but so what? How do the benefits apply specifically to you?

Start by identifying your most important values. Dont spend a lot of time on this exercise as I dont want to lose your attention. Five items are more than sufficient. Lets say that your top five most important things are:

1. Your family.

2. Your career or business.

3. Financial security.

4. Helping kids as a sports coach.

5. Playing golf.

Now that you have your list, its time to create what I call a motivational link a bridge between a new habit and your current set of habits.

The goal is to sell yourself the new habit by identifying how it can have an impact specifically on what you hold dear. Considering that we are talking about vegetables, it might be a strange exercise, but please try it: Im sure that something will strike a chord with you. Heres how you can link the aforementioned top five items with eating more vegetables (adapt them to fit your unique circumstances):

1. Your family. You want to take care of your family. They want you to be vibrant and happy so that together you can enjoy life to the fullest. Eating more vegetables will dramatically improve your health, make you more energized, and ready to serve your family on all levels even better than ever before.

2. Your career or business. You need to operate at maximum efficiency. You need to be productive and creative to ensure that your career or business constantly grows. A supercar needs high-quality fuel. You are this vehicle.

3. Financial security. It takes discipline to save money for your dreams and to be prepared for emergencies. Vegetables are not only cheaper than processed food: theyre also more economical due to their highly nutritious content. One pound of leafy greens satisfies your bodys needs for vitamins and minerals more effectively than a pound of processed and prepared snacks. Healthy eating will also help you protect yourself against some unpleasant and costly disordersand with less money spent on medications, you have more money you can save for the future.

4. Helping kids as a sports coach. The kids you coach to become confident, healthy and athletic adults need you to be their mentor. Leading by example is the best way to inspire change in others. By eating more veggies youll develop real-world nutritional knowledge to pass on to your proteges.

5. Playing golf. All professional athletes, no matter the discipline, pay close attention to their nutrition. If you want to finally lower your handicap this year, you need all the help you can get. Veggies can be one of your most powerful allies.

Can you see the difference that translating the benefits of eating vegetables to your own unique situation makes? What produces a more motivating emotional response: Vegetables are good for you, or eating more vegetables will help you serve your family on all levels even better than ever before?