What's it all about?
Of course there are many advantages to adding this to your diet…
“Fifteen pounds of wheatgrass is equivalent to 350 pounds of the choicest vegetables”, just one of the many reasons to enjoy adding wheatgrass to your diet. Packed with all known nutritional elements, wheatgrass is the perfect health food, (and drink!). Scientists have even described it as the perfect life sustaining food- with many creatures being able to have a diet of 100% grass! So wheatgrass can help to maintain the perfect healthy diet. Wheatgrass is also a complete protein, and so adds to every aspect of the essential diet.
Wonders of Nutrition
Chlorophyll is one of the wonders of nutrition, and wheatgrass has one of the highest percentages of it in any food stuff known to man. The benefits are widespread, it has been reported that it increases the functions of the heart, affects the vascular system, the intestines and lungs- it also raises the basic nitrogen exchange. It is also proven to help boost the amount of blood in the human body.
Wheatgrass is the perfect energizer, two ounces of wheatgrass juice is equivalent to roughly 4 pounds of organic green vegetables in terms of vitamin and mineral content, these nutrients and enzymes are absorbed quickly into the blood stream, which provides the instant boost of energy!
Benefits, benefits, and more benefits
One of the key benefits of wheatgrass is that it is a key source of enzymes, helping to relieve indigestion and help toward colon cleansing making you feel fresher and more ready to tackle whatever the day may chose to throw at you. These qualities are especially relevant as people age, because as we grow older the pancreas which produces our digestive enzymes become much less efficient, and so the additional enzymes supplied by wheatgrass helps compensate for these- allowing for easier digestion of food.
One of the greatest things about wheatgrass- no matter how much you have it can never be toxic to your body! Many western diets contain high amounts of foods that add to the poisonous toxins in your body, causing ill health- the anti-oxidants in the wheatgrass actually works to remove these toxins from your body, leaving you feeling healthier than ever! This combined with the addition of iron provided by the wheatgrass can actually help reduce high blood pressure!
It began from a miracle
Many of the facts do, of course, mean very little unless they are actually applicable in our everyday lives, and so we call upon the life of Ann Wigmore, a pioneer in the development of the wheatgrass trade. Born in Lithuania in 1909 she had a very poor start in life, and her grandmother often used traditional herbal remedies. Due to a horrific automobile accident, her leg was badly injured and doctors wished to remove it, however she refused, and gangrene set in. She began applying some of the traditional medicines that her grandmother used to use, and sure enough- in time her leg was completely healed- even when doctors believed it to be impossible, and this miracle cure just happened to be wheatgrass! Ever since that point, she helped pioneer this miracle substance. This is only one in a long list of cases whereby wheatgrass, the wonder drug, has had a huge impact on people’s lives- Heather McCartney being, of course, one of the most famous cases- whereby her healthy organic diet of which wheatgrass played a major role, helped her overcome cancer.