How to Order Wheatgrass with Roots Online

Dear Readers,

People ask me if they can buy online instead of calling our office, here are the links:

For those residing in the Philippines or USA:

http://miraclefood.easyphamaxbiz.com

To Your Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

Cooking Tips for Diabetics

Dear Readers,

I am sharing with you an article sent to me by a fellow advocate of healthy living. Visit her site at http://www.diabeticmenus.org/ to learn more about her great recipes.

Wheatgrass Man

How to Cook Healthy if You are Diabetic

Diabetic patients are sensitive and they deserve only the best treatment to help them cope with their disease. If you are suffering from diabetes, you have to help yourself and fight the worst parts of diabetic sufferings and symptoms by living a healthy lifestyle. With these healthy cooking techniques, you can only imagine how immense it will be—the impact and difference these techniques will bring in your life.

When you eat, you have to make sure that you are eating healthy food. Make sure every meal you eat is prepared and cooked healthily. Go for recipes that use healthy ingredients. In terms of food preparation and cooking, employ cooking techniques such as baking, grilling, broiling, and stir frying. Stay away from foods that are deep fried because they contain too much fats and unhealthy level of cholesterol.

Delicious foods are not difficult to prepare though. So, if you are after the taste, you can still enjoy a hearty meal by eating foods that contain vegetables and are cooked in canola oil or olive oil which are known to be healthy fats. As much as possible don’t get used to using vegetable oils, margarine and butter because they can be detrimental to your health if taken in large amount. Also, settle with herbs and spices instead of using cheese and cream sauces which are both popular ingredients but not healthy.

Being aware of the ingredients you use in cooking, apart from the techniques that you should be aware of will lessen the grievous impact of taking risky ingredients from the food you eat.

Red meat is another healthy option. However, intake must be regulated and if you can, be selective with the meat you will cook and eat. The healthy choices are fish, lean cuts of beef and pork, and poultry. If you want to eat chicken, remove the skin. And there must be a limit in taking red meat, like three times a week. If you want to try other choices, go for ground turkey, turkey sausage and bacon which are considered to be good lower fat substitutes.

It is time to change your eating and cooking habits. This may require you to carefully examine the food you eat and take but the consequences of such healthy actions are really life-changing especially to every diabetic patient like you. Discipline and control are what you need apart from the healthy ingredients and healthy cooking techniques that you should be aware of.

About the writer -Patricia Harris writes for the diabetic menu blog, her personal hobby blog dedicated to suggestions to eat healthy to avoid and manage diabetes.

8 Books to Good Health

As I write this short post in Alta Vista golf course in Cebu (using Globe Visibility), I want to share some of the great books that will help you achieve good health. I am a firm believer that knowledge is potential power. What you do with it will determine your success or failure.

So here are some of the books I highly recommend worth reading:

1. Sprouts the Miracle Food Book

2. Wheatgrass Nature's Finest Medicine

3. Liver Cleansing Diet

4. Cholesterol: The Real Truth: A Natural Program to Lower Cholesterol

5. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

6. Juice Fasting and Detoxification

7. Water the Ultimate Cure

8. YOU: The Owners Manual

To Your Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

Shake Your Way to Good Health

I'd like to share with you this excellent article by Dr. Ben Kim on how to make healthy and beautiful smoothies. More info can be found here: http://drbenkim.com/

I am a big fan of juicing and make it a point to have a fruit juice at least once a day.

For the green powder being mixed below, a good alternative to consider is Wheatgrass.

Dr. Kim:

"In my book, any smoothie that's worth writing about starts with ripe bananas. You can use room temperature or frozen banana slices - both impart natural creaminess like no other fruit can.

Before we get started, here's a quick look at how I like to store bananas:

Storing bananas in this fashion - with the convex side up - helps prevent unnecessary bruising and brown spots in the flesh. Soft, mushy brown spots in bananas may not be a big deal to some people, but they just don't fly in our home.

To make visually stunning smoothies that even the pickiest of eaters won't be able to refuse, preparation is key. You want a variety of colorful fruits, some frozen, and some at room temperature.

Here's what we had to work with today:

Ripe, organic strawberries from San Diego:

Sweet, frozen mango chunks:

Frozen wild blueberries:

And of course, some ripe banana slices:

It's best to have all of your fruits laid out and ready to go before you start blending - this will make it relatively easy to combine different colors to make your custom, beautiful smoothies.

Now bring out your blender and start with about two ripe bananas, sliced:

Add about two cups of frozen mango chunks to your bananas:

It's fine to use room temperature mangoes and frozen bananas - we just happened to have frozen mangoes on hand. The idea is to create a cool and refreshing smoothie without diluting flavor by using ice.

Next, bring out your favorite type of milk - we're partial to unsweetened almond milk.

You want to add enough milk to cover about half of the fruit - this is typically enough to churn all of the fruit into a creamy smoothie.

So here's the base of your smoothies:

This makes for fine baby food, by the way.

Now fill each glass up about half way.

If you have some mango smoothie left over, add a teaspoon or tablespoon of nutrient-rich green food powder.

Each pound of the green food powder that we use is the result of juicing and drying thirty-three pounds of fresh, nutrient-rich greens, so adding just a small amount to your smoothies is an excellent way of ensuring regular intake of a wide variety of minerals, vitamins, and cancer-fighting phytonutrients.

And what kid or picky adult eater isn't intrigued by a light green smoothie?

Getting back on course, add a cup of fresh strawberries (or any other variety of berries that you have on hand) to your blender (after you've given your blender a quick rinse).

Add milk to about the half way mark.

And blend on high speed for about 15 seconds or until you come up with something like this:

And now the second best part of this whole process - add your strawberry smoothie in a slow and gentle drizzle to your mango smoothie until you get this:

Beautiful and fun, right? Trust me, if you have children who like cookies, candy bars, and potato chips more than fresh fruits, this is the way to get them loving healthy smoothies.

You'll have some strawberry smoothie left over. Add a cup of frozen blueberries and blend on high speed until you create this:

You know what's next, right?

So there you have it. A relatively simple and fun way to make gorgeous, nutrient-dense smoothies that will help fuel good health for you and your loved ones.

And now the best part of making these smoothies - standing back and seeing your loved ones enjoy the fruits of your labor.

In our home, we call this "being too busy for small talk."

Hope you and your family and friends have some fun with smoothie making."

Problem getting pregnant? Wheatgrass to the rescue!

After being a "grass pusher" for more than a year now, I continue to be amazed on the many benefits of wheatgrass. This time, I got an interesting message from a friend who sent me a note on Facebook, it read:

"Pare itong wheatgrass ba can improve fertility (sperm motility,,etc..)? kasi we just found out that my wife is pregnant again (for our 3rd child). The last time she got pregnant was 5 years ago. Itong wheatgrass lang naman ang major change sa diet ko and yung endurance running ko. Im just curious.."

I had a theory and I told him that it is possible that with him being more active and healthy that it has increased his frequency of you know what. But aside from that, if you look at it scientifically, there is actually a link - MAGNESIUM.

I had written in the past that wheatgrass is green blood. It has a very similar molecular structure as hemoglobin, the only difference being is that magnesium is at the core of chlorophyll in wheatgrass vs iron in blood.

The high content of magnesium in wheatgrass actually builds enzymes that increase fertility hormones. A small clinical study of infertile women as well as women with a history of miscarriage found that low levels of magnesium may impair reproductive function and increase the risk for miscarriage. The authors of the study suggest that one aspect of the treatment of infertility (particularly in women with a history of miscarriage) should include magnesium along with selenium. More research in this area is needed though. For more info, read Magnesium Miracle, by Carolyn Dean MD,ND.

There are many other practical ways to increase fertility. Some of the good ones I found are in this site: http://www.beginnerbaby.com/improve-fertility.

To Your Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

The Satiety Index - A New Concept in Food Rating

Dear Readers,

Traditional measurements like the Glycemic (GI) Index may not be enough in providing guidelines for good health. It is certainly an important measure especially for diabetics and people watching their weight.

The Satiety Index (SI) is one of the most interesting concepts created by rating foods by their ability to be more or less satisfying than white bread, which is used as a reference index of 100. Food items rated less satisfying and filling over a two-hour period following their consumption were given a score below 100, while food items that were rated more satisfying and filling compared to white bread were given a score above 100. Dr. Susanne Holt, who developed the satiety index, found that:

• Cakes, donuts and candy bars were among the least filling, averaging about 65 to 70%.

• French fries, breakfast cereals, white pasta, rice, and bananas ranked from about 100 to 150%.

• Cheese with 146% was about 3x more filling than croissants, which were rated at only 47%.

• Eggs, beef, apples, oranges, grapes, brown pasta, whole grain bread and popcorn averaged from about 150 to 200%.

• Oatmeal and fish ranked 209% and 225% respectively.

• Potatoes were the clear winner with 323% as the most satisfying food.

According to this satiety index, several interesting - and somewhat unexpected discoveries emerged:

• Fat is by far not as satisfying as thought.

• Protein made it into a higher, but not as high as expected category.

• Pastries and most sweets were the least satisfying, which was expected.

• Potatoes (unlike French fries with the fat) were by far the most satisfying foods, which took everyone by surprise since they rank rather poorly according to the glycemic index and the glycemic load.

Variations of these scores for individuals with different biochemical backgrounds can be expected, since eating fruit makes some people hungry very quickly, while in contrast to the findings in the study above, fatty foods do provide longer-lasting satiety for them, however the poorer scores given to donuts and candy bars certainly supports their reputation of not only being addictive, but the least filling and satisfying. It is unfortunate that the satiety of these foods was studied for 2 hours only instead of extending the trial period to perhaps 4-5 hours. This would have more realistically reflected the time in-between meals for the average person, and so made it more practical to apply the satiety index on a day-to-day basis.

For more info, visit: http://www.acu-cell.com/gi.html