by Bill Whitney

Created on: June 14, 2008   Last Updated: November 04, 2009

I don't know for sure if it is the greens that make us grow or the bacon grease that most people use when they are cooking them that makes us grow. Of course eating your greens make you grow. Haven't you ever seen what a can of spinach did for Popeye? What color is the Incredible Hulk. Last time I saw him he was green. When you have your money in a good interest bearing saving account, don't you watch your money (GREEN) grow? Greens may not make you really grow larger physically but they sure make you grow more healthy. The majority of us definitely do not need to be larger anyway. If many of the obese people would eat more greens and less Big Macs and Whoppers there wouldn't be near the problem with obesity that there is in the United States of America

I know there are a lot of people that don't like various green vegetables but there are a lot of ways that these vegetables can be disguised to get the green vegetables in your children. There are all kinds of casseroles with lots of cheese and various soups that kind of coverup the taste of vegetables that children sometimes do not like. I have a recipe for asparagus cookies and none of my family has any idea that they have asparagus in them. Make fruit smoothies and throw a carrot or a stalk of broccoli in it. It is easy to get by with if you don't go overboard. I guess I am fortunate because my kids all like most vegetables and my little six year old granddaughter is practically a vegetarian. She loves broccoli and carrots and spinach. She will eat meat but I think she likes greens and fruit best. Greens make you grow up healthy.

When I found out that I had Type II diabetes one thing that they told me was that I could have all the greens and salads that I could eat. I needed to lose a bunch of weight and with having to watch carbohydrates and sugars, meats and salads made up a lot of my diet and still does. Red meat needs to be limited and you can eat more chicken and fish but you can have unlimited greens. They made me grow smaller and definitely healthier. By eating a lot of greens and salads I definitely grew healthier and I lost almost 80 pounds and I still have 40 more to go to get to my final goal. If I couldn't enjoy my fresh greens year around it would have been a lot harder for me to control my diabetes.

So in the final context, greens make you grow and they make you definitely grow up more healthy because they are high in vitamins and minerals but low in calories.

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