Are raw salads actually good for you?

[Cavalier]

I can't believe someone is asking to search for, collect and post all the ample research easily available online via simple searches, including publications that summarize existing body of research (just make sure you stick to actual studies and not diet websites).

You sound like someone that has deeply drunk the modernist coolaid. If you are going to promote unhealthy habits like excessive raw vegetables and advocate low protein diets, it is on you to provide evidence for your beliefs.

 

[Maddox]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - a high vegetable/fruit diet landed me in the hospital. I had such insane amounts of reflux that it started to scar my lower esophagus.

Maybe it was an inflammatory vegetable you were eating that did that. Or something in the salad dressing if you were consuming that too.

 

[The Beast1]

I do think genetics play a factor. If your ancestry is Northern European, you probably can't handle much fiber and bread. My ancestors are from the Middle East ("the bread basket") where even today they treat bread like a main dish. Oatmeal and bread actually stabilize my digestion. It's strange but I find life difficult without bread. I make my own bread and use organic oats so perhaps the nutritional damage is not as bad for me.

Oatmeal is a soluble fiber so you get energy from it and the left overs scrap the GI tract as it goes out (you probably know this).

The problem is, most "fiber" that is added to processed food isn't soluble but insoluble. Most likely psyllium or some other non digestible cellulose.

My genetics are German, Irish, Russian, and Italian, a true amerimutt. Every night before bed, I drink a small amount of psyllium dissolved in a glass of water. In the morning, I have a bowl of oatmeal with my breakfast.

If I don't eat oatmeal, I get horrible cramps and gas. I'll still have strong number 2s thanks to the psyllium but I'll feel bloated and like crud. On the flip side, if I don't consume the psyllium I'll feel fine but have to strain to get number 2s out which isn't good either.

I figure the soluble fiber helps the gut bacteria while the insoluble fiber helps flush it all out. Regardless I eat both to continue having a "normie" body.

With those two, I can eat a remarkably high protein and fat diet with low vegetable intake. I feel great, look good (for my 30s), and this is all the while not working out — i promise to start soon.

 

[fiasco360]

Maybe it was an inflammatory vegetable you were eating that did that. Or something in the salad dressing if you were consuming that too.

No dressing.

It was a mixture of fruits and vegetables. The problem is fermentable carbohydrates/SIBO.

I was turned onto Dr. Norm Robillard and the fast tract diet https://digestivehealthinstitute.org/fast-tract-diet/ which then introduced me to the carnivore diet.