Add healthy fats to your vegetables
I’m cooking a pan of broccoli right now. It brought to mind something that I think may feel counterintuitive to someone who might be thinking about losing weight. To benefit from the nutrition packed benefits of vegetables like broccoli, you need to eat it with healthy fats. It doesn’t need to be swimming in fat, but you do want to add healthy fats like extra virgin olive, flaxseed, nutseed, avocado and coconut oil. Extra Virgin Coconut Oil is probably my favorite for cooking vegetables. I love adding a 1/4 avocado to my salads too. Yum!
In reality, you want to add healthy fats, in some form, to every meal. Many of the vitamins that our body requires for optimal functioning are fat soluble. In other words, they need fat to be absorbed properly. If you are going to go through the work of eating these high quality, high nutrition foods filled with phytonutrients, antioxidants and critical vitamins… do yourself a favor and make sure your body is able to benefit from it!
