Can you good good nutrition by just eating salads?

Im not overweight or anything but i want to get healthy and put on some muscel. So if i eat salads everyday and nothing else and drink nothing but water is that good nutrion, if the salads have like chicken and stuff for protien or would eating nothing but salds be poor nutrion and bad for me?

and if not what should i eat

No.

Salads alone do not give your body what it needs each and every day to stay healthy and provide you with the fuel you need to maintain properly.


And an important thing for you to consider is your muscle. Where you have fat on top of muscle just loosing weight will not do anything for you as far as building lean muscle. Muscle burns fat. Plus, if you do not tone the right way you will build muscle over fat.

Eat three balanced meals. Serving size only. Look at your food pyramid and incorporate everything on it in one day, each meal by serving only. Remember a serving of meat is the size of the palm of your hand, potato the size of a tennis ball. In between meals make sure you get protein from a low calorie protein bar that offers about 12-15 grams of protein. You can even get protein drinks that do not carry as many calories as the bars do. The protein you take in will help you build the muscles you need to burn the fat you want to burn. You need 70 grams of protein a day.

As far as the calories, start with 1500 and go down to no less than 1200.

Check out this site for your food pyramid.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsou...

Check out this site for serving sizes.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/thriftylivi...

Having nothing but salads is good but you may not get the required amount of protein you need but if your salad consists of green peas and beans then you are ok.A little chicken will suffice once a while.
Salads are absolutely nutritious and consist of virtually everything from proteins to vitamins to carbohydrates and so on.Work out and yes water is the best drink you can have.

Too much salads would generally be undernourishing yourself. Instead, try having a high fiber breakfast cereal for breakfast every day, nothing but salad for lunch every day, and salad + something else like red meat or fish for dinner.

Even with chicken, nothing but salad wouldn't be great.

Also, make sure to vary the type of salad you eat, otherwise you WILL get sick of it very fast. And getting sick of the food you're eating is a sure way to get bored of your healthy eating plan and give up!

include corn for carbs, chicken/fish for protein. maybe a slice of multigrain bread too. a spoonful of virigin olive oil too. and as the person before me said have flaxseed oil for omega 3. if carbs and protein dont form 25% each of your total intake, you will get strong cravings for all the wrong stuffs. but soups and salads in large proportions are just what the dietician ordered!

Nothing but salad would be bad for you. You need way more protein than you will get even if you add grilled chicken. Not to mention all the vitamins you will be missing out on. Throw in a lack of Omega 3 acids and you're not very healthy. Eat a healthy -Balanced- diet.

No thats not good. Your body needs a balanced diet... Being healthy vegetarian way is better... You can eat oats(carbohydrate n has sugar for energy)groundnuts not peanuts! (fats n carbs) Vegetables n fruits(fibre n vitamins)try eggs(protein, fat, carb)water is good.... Cereals...n plenty of exercises...(6 days a week for 2 hours is good enough)