The bowl in front of you is not a belly‑fat eraser. No salad can selectively melt abdominal fat, because adipose tissue responds to whole‑body energy balance, not to the color of your lunch. What a salad can do, however, is manipulate total calorie intake and satiety so that, over time, fat stores across the body begin to shrink.The mechanism is blunt and metabolic, not magical. Body fat changes f...More