A Surprising Link to Obesity
In this screen-shot, the numbers are probability values of the correlation between datasets. Of 130 factors, obesity has the strongest link to green salad. Equally concerning is that green salad and fruit are both linked to a 12% difference in death rate.
https://mystic-sagery.com/hypothesis-generator.html
The following list of nutritional inadequacies is from a 2005 US government study. The values are the "All US" ones, and are reversed from adequate to inadequate for clarity.
https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-bhnrc/beltsville-human-nutrition-research-center/docs/california/
The list is missing vitamin k1 and linolenic acid, two vitamins known to be lacking in the average diet. With those included, the average inadequacies would be greater than 8. Of the 8 average dietary problems, 2 or 3 may be serious enough to cause a degenerative disease. The data from that study is included in the hypothesis generator, and a few of those inadequacies show strong links to obesity and the death rate.
One reason that so many dietary deficiencies are common is because commercial food processing removes parts of food to make a better tasting product. Fibre, and the nutrients bound to it such as potassium, are filtered from human food and then added to animal food as a nutritional supplement. Linolenic acid, the anti-inflammatory omega-3 vitamin, has been stripped from processed food because it goes rancid quickly when exposed to light and air.
Even if you stop eating processed foods you will still have a hard time trying to avoid deficiencies. You will soon learn this if you try to arrange a nutritionally complete diet with a nutrition app. This is because modern people have central heating and cars and power tools that greatly reduce our energy needs compared to our ancestors. We now eat far fewer calories and nutrients than nature tuned us for.
The evidence presented here suggests that fruit and green salad suppress the desire to consume excess calories. If so, then developing an enthusiasm for them will fix a chronic weight problem, regardless of how much dressing is added to the salads. However, have a peek at the mixed vegetable dataset and see that it shows no positive links to health other than stress and depression. It actually seems to increase the death rate: Don't confuse green salad with other vegetables. Dark green leaves is what to look for.
My post about the hypothesis generator:
https://www.minds.com/mystic_sagery/blog/brad-s-hypothesis-generator-1344159353552244741