By the Root, photograph by Janice Taylor, Self-Help/Weight Loss Artist

Sometimes people tell me that they are afraid to eat too many root vegetables, because they are higher in carbs than green vegetables, and they don’t want to gain weight.  My standard response is, “I don’t know anyone who got fat by eating too many root vegetables.”

As you click through this week’s Get Jiggy Weight Loss JigSaw Puzzle, “By the Root,” review your “vegetable belief systems.”  Seriously…folks, I can’t imagine that eating too many beets, carrots or roots of any kind is the problem.  Can you?

Click through:  By the Root Puzzle
Send the e-card to a friend: By-the-Root Card