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Wheatgrass
The Wonder Food
What Exactly is
Wheatgrass?
Wheatgrass is the green sprout of a
young wheatgrass plant, grown under
optimum conditions, carefully harvested
at its nutritional maximum, dehydrated
and bottled for your convenience.
Wheatgrass is not to be confused with
the common wheat grain used for
making flour. Wheatgrass is also 100%
gluten free important for anyone with a
wheat or gluten intolerance.
Potent Detoxifier!
It seems that almost everything we touch, drink or eat lately is adulterated is some way
Pesticides
Heavy metals
Pharmaceutical wastes
Rogue hormones
Industrial runoff
Wheatgrass is great for healing and detoxifying the colon walls, significantly
improves digestion as well as healing and cleansing the internal organs.
Wheatgrass can also dissolve lung scars formed from breathing acid gasses.
Wheatgrass capillary enhancement properties can actually help reduce high blood
pressure.
Wheatgrass stabilizes blood sugar, helping to prevent and if already present, control
diabetes.
rganic farming is better for the overall environment. So-called factory farming
methods tend to deplete the natural fertility of our soil. The reason they use so
much artificial fertilizer is because of this very reason the soils would be barren
without them. But many chemical fertilizers dont contain the full range of nutrients typically
found in pristine soil. Hence, crops grown are also nutrient shy.
With organic farming, biodiversity is preserved. Fields are allowed to remain idle for a
season or so, in order to rebuild its overall health. Nitrogen fixing plants such as clover or
alfalfa may be allowed to grow on these fields to further increase their nutrient levels.
Nitrogen fixing plants contain rhizobia - symbiotic bacteria within their root systems. These
bacteria produce nitrogen compounds, and when the plant dies, it releases this fixed
nitrogen back into the soil, making it available for other plants.
Weeds are typically removed by mechanical methods, further reducing pesticide usage.
allergic reactions
grotesque tumours
organ failure
gastric lesions
liver & kidney damage
GMO corn has 2 ppm of Manganese. NON GMO corn has 7 times more or 14 ppm.
GMO corn has 130,000 TIMES the amount of glyphosate that is deemed safe in
drinking water.
GMO corn has 200 TIMES the amount of formaldehyde that is deemed safe to ingest.
This does not sound like GMO crops are awfully nutritious (or safe) to me.
Fact or Fiction: GMO crops have government approval, so they must be OK.
In a perfect world, this might be true. But we dont live in a perfect world. In case you didnt
know in many cases the people heading the regulatory agencies in charge of
safeguarding the food supply come from the very same industries making the GMOs!
Conflict of interests? Sure it is but that is always the way government works.
The bottom line is this:
If you can at all avoid it, treat GMO food like the plague it is. If in doubt, ask your greengrocer
if his produce contains any GMOs. If he doesnt know, and doesnt seem inclined to
investigate, look for another greengrocer!
Vitamins
Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Vitamin K
Thiamin
Riboflavin
Niacin
Vitamin B6
Pantothenic Acid
Choline
Folic Acid
Minerals
Calcium
Iron
Magnesium
Phosphorus
Potassium
Zinc
Copper
Manganese
Selenium
Amino Acids
Alanine
Aspartic Acid
Cysteine
Isoleucine
L-Arginine
L-Lysine
Leucine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Proline
Threonine
Tyrosine
Valine
Laboratory analyses clearly indicates that the nutrients found in young green cereal plants
such as wheatgrass vary with the stage of growth, rather than with the age or height of the
plant.
Jointing Stage
Chlorophyll, protein, and most of the vitamins found in these plants reach their peak
concentrations in the period just prior to what's called the jointing stage. Although this
period lasts for only a few days, wheatgrass which is consumed as a food supplement
should be harvested precisely during this stage of development.
This jointing stage is that point at which the intermodal tissue in the grass leaf begins to
elongate, forming a stem. This stage represents the peak of the plants vegetative
development; photosynthesis and plant metabolism would be expected to increase up to
this stage.
After the jointing stage, the stem forms branches and
continues to elongate. The chlorophyll, protein, and
vitamin contents of the plant decline sharply while the
level of cellulose increases. Cellulose, the indigestible
plant fibre, provides structural stability for the growing
stem.
Over a period of several months, the green leafy plants
are transformed into golden stalks of grain. The mature
cereal plant holds the seed grains which contain the
nutrients necessary for germination and early growth of
the young cereal plant. And so the seed-grass-grain
cycle continues.
Now while polycarbonate plastics are indeed tough, the BPA bonds inside those plastics are
not very chemically stable. Over time, they break down and produce what is called gas off.
The BPA slowly releases in gaseous form adulterating whatever is in the container.
If BPA was inert, there would be no problem. But it is not inert. Far from it. In fact, BPA is what
is called an estrogen mimic its chemical composition closely resembles the structure of
human estrogen.
Here is a short list of the dangers associated with this BPA:
BPA leads to a condition called aneuploidy changes in cell divisions that can cause
spontaneous illnesses.
BPA can be a contributing factor in the formation
and growth of fat cells which in turn are factors in
the ever increasing levels of obesity in our society.
BPA has been linked to insulin resistance, a risk
factor for Type II diabetes.
BPA is also linked to lower sperm count in men.
The question is this why is BPA allowed?
The answer is simply this: MONEY!
Basically, BPA plastics are made by the five largest chemical companies, with a bottom line
of 6 BILLION EUROS per year. With those kinds of profits, you can bet their lobbying efforts
are going to be quite vigorous in defence of BPA.
Here is an eye-opening quote from an article in the online magazine Fast Company:
Of the more than 100 independently funded experiments on BPA, about 90% have found
evidence of adverse health effects at levels similar to human exposure. On the other hand,
every single industry-funded study ever conducted 14 in all has found no such
effects.
Follow the money, as usual!
If you ever notice and I am certain you often do get an off-tasting quality to food or drink
stored or served to you in plastic it could very well be this gas-off effect from BPA.
ith all the different vendors and companies offering wheatgrass, how can you
be sure of getting the real thing?
Well, one way to be totally certain is growing your own! If you have the time,
patience, and green thumb skills by all means give it a try. You will need ample space to
grow the seeds and most probably an indoor growing system as well. (As you must realize,
growing wheatgrass in the winter is impossible unless it is done inside a greenhouse or
similar contrivance.)
However, if you want to get the same health benefits as freshly grown wheatgrass without
the hassle there is a far easier way.
WheatGrass.ie is the solution you are looking for.
Heres why:
Concentrated Power
Through our exacting extraction methods, the organic wheatgrass is concentrated
essentially distilling far more wheatgrass into a smaller volume. Whether you choose our
powder or tablets you will be getting the biggest nutritional value possible for your hardearned investment.
Pregnant? No problem!
Wheatgrass is perfectly safe to take
before, during and after pregnancy. In
fact, it's smart to take Organic Wheatgrass
from Wheatgrass.ie during pregnancy,
since it is an excellent source of folic acid,
and of course many other important
nutrients.