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Don Bosco Fun Run

2012-01-14T12:13:00.000+08:00

St. John Bosco Parish and Center for Young Workers is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a parish on January 2012. The Don Bosco Parish is composed of approximately 5,000 parishioners including several chapels of 5 different barangays in the Sta. Rosa Laguna area.

The Parish has organized several activities to commemorate this event and will be highlighted by a Fun Run: “TAKBO PARA KAY DON BOSCO 2012” ...scheduled on January 21, 2012, Saturday, at the Nuvali Fields, Sta. Rosa, Laguna starting from 6 AM to 11 AM. Approximately 2,000 runners are expected in 5 different categories namely: 10K, 5K, 3K, and 1K. This aims promote running as an exercise and at the same time to generate funds for our parish activities such as

   - Binyagang Bayan for 100 participants
   - Youth Night
   - Fiesta Palaro
   - Karakol
   - other Parish projects such as rehabilitation of Barangay Chapels.

VENUE: NUVALI FIELDS

CATEGORY	ASSEMBLY TIME	GUN START
1K (5-10 years old)	7:45 AM	8:00 AM
3K	6:15 AM	6:30 AM
5K	6:00 AM	6:15 AM
10K	5:45 AM	6:00 AM

Takbo Para Kay Don Bosco is in partnership with Runningmate

Updates via our facebook account: Takbo Para Kay Don Bosco

DETOX Life Camp Part 3

2011-05-17T20:59:00.002+08:00

Our next schedule is on May 28 at the AIM Conference Center.

DETOX Life Camp Part 2

2011-03-20T16:16:00.001+08:00

Friends, join us for another Detox Life Camp this coming Saturday, March 26, at the St. Giles Hotel.

Discover and experience the most effective colon-cleansing and weight-loss product through a MALAYSIA-REGISTERED DIETITIAN AND A LIFE CAMP MASTER IN MANY COUNTRIES, Ms. Penny Chong
She has a Master's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and will talk about the Power of the So Easy Colon Cleanse and how it works inside the body. She will share her own 15-day colon cleansing experience and the "So Easy" success stories of people from other countries.

Lose weight in 3 days and maintain it for life with the help of a U.S.- REGISTERED DIETITIAN, MS. CHESHIRE QUE

She'll share secrets in controlling our food cravings, simple ways to perk up your metabolism, correct food selection, and proper food portion serving without measuring tools. Cheshire is actively engaged in clinic counseling and in helping several patients with weight problems.

Be colon cancer-proof through the guidance of respected ONCOLOGIST, DR. ANTHONY ABAD

Colon Cancer is deadly but it can be prevented. If you have a family history of colon cancer or you just want to avoid it, you can get away from the colon's "kiss of death" which you will learn at the camp.

Jackie Lou Blanco

Learn simple moves that will boost metabolism with ACTRESS/HOST, MS. JACKIE LOU BLANCO, SLIMMERS WORLD'S GREAT BODIES WINNER IN 2001

Fast metabolism is a key factor in maintaining the ideal weight. Let Jackie Lou, the SO EASY Wellness Ambassador teach you how to achieve that.

Registration Fee (P8,900) includes 1 set of So Easy Colon Cleanse, goody bag, learning sessions with the experts and wellness checks (Body Mass Index, blood sugar, blood pressure, level of hydration, muscle mass, body fat, visceral (stomach) fat level, metabolic age).

LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, DROP ME AN EMAIL - PINOYWHEATGRASS@YAHOO.COM.

Sweet Drinks and Hypertension

2011-03-05T23:12:00.004+08:00

Dear Readers,

Before you reach for that Coke or Iced Tea, think again. The American Heart Association has published a report on the direct link between sugar-sweetened beverages and Hypertension.

"In the International Study of Macro/Micronutrients and Blood Pressure (INTERMAP), for every extra sugar-sweetened beverage drunk per day participants on average had significantly higher systolic blood pressure by 1.6 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) and diastolic blood pressure higher by 0.8 mm Hg. This remained statistically significant even after adjusting for differences in body mass, researchers said."

Researchers found higher blood pressure levels in individuals who consumed more glucose and fructose, both sweeteners that are found in high-fructose corn syrup, the most common sugar sweetener used by the beverage industry.

Soda and Other Sweetened Beverages - Drink in Moderation

Higher blood pressure was more pronounced in people who consumed high levels of both sugar and sodium. They found no consistent association between diet soda intake and blood pressure levels. Those who drank diet soda had higher mean BMI than those who did not and lower levels of physical activity.

"This points to another possible intervention to lower blood pressure," said Paul Elliott, Ph.D., senior author and professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. "These findings lend support for recommendations to reduce the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, as well as added sugars and sodium in an effort to reduce blood pressure and improve cardiovascular health."

The researchers found that sugar intake in the form of glucose, fructose and sucrose was highest in those consuming more than one sugar-sweetened beverage daily. They also found that individuals consuming more than one serving per day of sugar-sweetened beverages consumed more calories than those who didn't, with average energy intake of more than 397 calories per day.

Those who did not consume sugar-sweetened beverages had lower average body mass index (BMI) than those who consumed more than one of these drinks daily. "People who drink a lot of sugar-sweetened beverages appear to have less healthy diets," said Ian Brown, Ph.D., research associate at Imperial College London. "They are consuming empty calories without the nutritional benefits of real food. They consume less potassium, magnesium and calcium.

"One possible mechanism for sugar-sweetened beverages and fructose increasing blood pressure levels is a resultant increase in the level of uric acid in the blood that may in turn lower the nitric oxide required to keep the blood vessels dilated. Sugar consumption also has been linked to enhanced sympathetic nervous system activity and sodium retention."

The American Heart Association recommends no more than half of the discretionary calorie allowance from added sugars, which for most American women is no more than 100 calories per day and for most American men no more than 150 calories per day. Discretionary calories are the remaining calories in a person's "energy allowance" after consuming the recommended types and amounts of foods to meet all daily nutrient requirements.

Co-authors are: Jeremiah Stamler, M.D.; Linda Van Horn, Ph.D., R.D.; Claire E. Robertson, Ph.D., R.Nutr.; Queenie Chan, M.Sc.; Alan R. Dyer, Ph.D.; Chiang-Ching Huang, Ph.D.; Beatriz L. Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D.; Liancheng Zhao, M.D.; Martha L. Daviglus, M.D., Ph.D.; Hirotsugu Ueshima M.D., Ph.D.; and Paul Elliott, Ph.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Chicago Health Research Foundation and national agencies in China, Japan and the United Kingdom funded the study.

The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by American Heart Association

Famous Doctors Who Conquered Cancer

2011-02-26T19:17:00.004+08:00

Dear Readers,

Last Thursday, a family friend told us about her sister's battle against bone cancer. She had previously survived cancer of the breast, but unfortunately, it has now gone to her bones. We assured her of our prayers, but also to look at wheatgrass, at least to help in the detoxification process when she begins her chemotherapy on Monday.

Wheatgrass Shots to Fight Cancer

I'd like to share this excerpt from an article by Ms Patricia Skinner, talking about the different techniques successful doctors use in the fight against the Big C.

My favorite, ofcourse, is Dr. Anne Wigmore, who is an advocate of wheatgrass. Her very life was a testimony to this as she overcame colon cancer herself. Her therapy is still widely used today.

Dr. Anne Wigmore

Read on ....

PRACTITIONERS

All the practitioners who have been successful with the treatment of serious disease, particularly cancer, have a reputation for being very tough on their patients, in fact some have been described as Hitler-like in their attitudes. When questioned, many say that unless a cancer patient is prepared to tackle the problem of detoxification seriously and follow the diet without diversification, then there is little hope that they will be able to overcome the disease. Often patients who are in a weakened state of health need the support of a therapist who is prepared to be firm with them.

DR. MAX GERSON (?–1959). Dr. Gerson's therapy probably can be considered the original biological cancer treatment. In his book entitled A Cancer Therapy, Results of Fifty Cases, Gerson documented 50 successfully treated cancer patients. He explained to readers that the cases in his book were the most extensively documented and therefore most suitable for the purposes of demonstrating his cure.

This therapy relies mainly on fresh organic juices, but includes supplements and strict instructions for lifestyle. A vital aspect of his treatment are the coffee enema she devised to achieve thorough detoxification.

DR. LINUS PAULING (1901–1994). Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Linus Pauling, researched the properties of nutritional supplements in treating disease for many years, and he is generally accepted as the foremost authority on the subject. In 1979, he published a work with co-author Ewan Cameron titled Cancer and Vitamin C. Pauling advocated supplements, in particular megadoses of vitamin C, for the treatment of cancer and other degenerative diseases.

DR. ANN WIGMORE (1909–1993). Wheatgrass juice and sprouts are the basis for Wigmore's regimen, which she originally devised to cure her own chronic diseases including cancer, and has been successfully helping people for decades. The Wigmore diet focuses primarily on live foods. Wigmore felt that raw vegetables held more nutrition than when cooked and were without the chemical additives that processed foods hold. Her therapy is still practiced at the Hippocrates Institute and has been adopted by a number of alternative health care practitioners as the basis for their treatment.

DR. RANDOLPH STONE (1890–1981). Stone developed a system known as Polarity therapy during his career, which spanned 60 years. He felt that health should be measured by an assessment of the human energy field. This is affected by daily life, nutrition, exercise, touch, sound, etc. Stone recommended a comprehensive regimen consisting of touch therapy (where the practioner's hands are conduits of energy), diet (a vegetarian diet is emphasized because foods collected in a non-violent way hold more energy), and yoga (to tune the patient into his or her own body). This will balance health, and so produce satisfactory energy fields.

DR. MICHIO KUSHI. Microbiotics is the belief that people are influenced by everything around them, including the environment, foods they eat, and even where they live. Promoting a positive lifestyle is also encouraged in order to keep a good outlook and mental attitude. Possibly the most famous teacher of macrobiotics in the United States, Michio Kushi, in collaboration with Alex Jack, wrote The Cancer Prevention Diet in 1993. It is a comprehensive guide to the prevention and treatment of cancer with a macrobiotic diet.

Looking for Wheatgrass Distributors

2011-02-22T22:27:00.001+08:00

Dear Readers,

We are looking at expanding our business of distribution of wheatgrass (with roots). If you are the entrepreneurial type, drop me a note via email and I'd be happy to discuss with you. This business easily generates profit of at least 20%. But more than that, you get the chance to help others (including yourself) to be healthy. AND ... all via part-time.

We need you, wherever you are in the Philippines. Most of our distributors are in Metro Manila, but the demand for the product is very, very strong. If you are in the US, we have FDA approval to distribute there as well.

Join us in this unique opportunity to grow, with a minimal investment of as low as 10K pesos!

To Your Good Wealth,

Wheatgrass Man

(pinoywheatgrass@yahoo.com)

Live Blood Analysis

2011-02-21T00:02:00.004+08:00

Dear Readers,

It is really good that wheatgrass is getting a lot more acceptance here in the Philippines. This is just the beginning, our company is out to release more variations of the product (the only one of its kind with roots) very soon.

Anyway, I still encounter people who need to be convinced on how wheatgrass can help them achieve better health. What better way to explain to them by showing how their blood is "energized" - yes, through a basic blood test called LBA (Live Blood Analysis).

Natural Therapy Pages (http://www.naturaltherapypages.co.nz) defines it in more detail below:

What is Live Blood Analysis?

Live blood analysis, also known as live blood cell analysis, is the observation of live blood cells using a special microscope known as a dark field microscope. It is a diagnostic test, that is, it is used as a means of detecting health conditions. It is valuable as an early detection tool. A drop of blood is taken from the patient’s fingertip, put on to a glass plate, and then viewed using a microscope that projects the images onto a screen. The blood is not dried or stained beforehand, so the blood elements can be seen in their living state. The tester will look at the variations in the size, shape, ratio, and fine structure of the red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and other blood structures. Unlike other medical tests, you remain present during the analysis of your blood.

Information Provided by Live Blood Analysis

Live blood analysis can provide information about different areas of your health, including:

• the immune system and how well it is functioning

• possible vitamin deficiencies

• how much toxicity is in the body

• any pH imbalances

• any mineral imbalances

• fungus and yeasts within the body

• potential areas of concern and/or weakness

• if the diet is too high in fats and acids

• poor nutrition

• smoking/alcohol

• oxidative stress and free radical damage

• inflammation in the body

• the health of the liver

Why Use Live Blood Analysis?

Live blood analysis is designed to detect functional imbalances in the body that are known as precursors to disease extremely early, in some cases, before standard blood testing is able to. The practitioner is then able to recommend changes that need to be made by the client, such as nutritionally, allowing the precursors to be reversed before the disease becomes diagnostically apparent.

TO ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE HOW WHEATGRASS ENERGIZES YOUR BLOOD, LET ME KNOW. WE OFFER FREE LBA TESTING IN OUR OFFICE IN MAKATI.

To Your Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

DETOX Life Camp

2011-01-15T08:35:00.000+08:00

There's an upcoming DETOX LIFE CAMP on January 29 at the AIM Conference Center in Makati. I highly recommend this event, let me know if you are interested.

Start your 2011 right by having a clean colon, renewed body and new outlook in life!

Wheatgrass Man

Supercharging Wheatgrass

2011-01-06T18:01:00.012+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

I was reading different articles over the holidays and came upon an intriguing discussion on how to supercharge wheatgrass in the fight against cancer. While experiments have been done in the past on this subject, it is still in research phase. Please read the disclaimer here:

http://www.new-cancer-treatments.org/Disclaimer.html

Anyway, the premise of the experiment is that back in the 1940s, ultra-violet light was used to heal certain diseases including cancer. The blood is extracted from the patient and treated with light. Once the cells are "energized", they are transmitted back to the body. Now as we know wheatgrass shares the same molecular structure as hemoglobin, so instead of treating blood with light, it is being done to wheatgrass. You get the picture ...

Details of the research can be found below, taken from the Independent Cancer Research Foundation website:

Wheatgrass / Ultraviolet Light Treatment

by R. Webster Kehr,
Independent Cancer Research Foundation, Inc.

Introduction

This article is about supercharging a normal wheatgrass treatment for cancer by using ultraviolet light.

In other words, this article is not about the use of wheatgrass in the treatment of cancer. There are many websites and books which teach a person how to use wheatgrass in the treatment of cancer (such as on the Cancer Tutor website). This article is about supercharing the effectiveness of standard wheatgrass treatments.

For those new to alternative cancer research, you should understand that cancer is caused by a very special type of microbe. This has been known since 1860 and has been rediscovered over and over again. If you are new to alternative cancer research, please take the time to read this article first:

What Causes Cancer (i.e. The Theory of Cancer)

This treatment is a combination of wheatgrass juice, which has been used in alternative cancer treatments for several decades, and ultraviolet light, which has also been used in alternative cancer treatments for several decades.

The addition of ultraviolet light to a wheatgrass protocol is hoped to supercharge this treatment when dealing with cancer.

As mentioned in the article on cancer theory, every cancer cell has microbes inside of it. If you kill these microbes, without killing the cancer cell itself, the cancer cell will revert into a normal cell. This eliminates the cancer without creating a great deal of debris from dead cancer cells.

The intent of this protocol is to kill microbes which are inside the cancer cells. This treatment is based on several assumptions which are as of yet unproven:

1) That chlorophyll will "remember" ultraviolet light frequencies,

2) That chlorophyll will enter inside of cancer cells,

3) That the chlorophyll, charged with ultraviolet light frequencies, will kill the microbes which are inside of the cancer cells, allowing the cancer cells to revert into normal cells.

Each of these issues will now be discussed in turn.

The Three Key Issues

Here is a summary of the key issues which could affect the effectiveness of this protocol:

Item #1 - Will Chlorophyll "Remember" Ultraviolet Light Frequencies?

There are two key books on understanding the use of ultraviolet light in the treatment of microbial diseases such as cancer:

1) Into the Light – Tomorrow’s Medicine Today, by Dr. William Douglass, M.D.

2) Light - Medicine of the Future, by Jacob Liberman, O.D., PhD

Both books are necessary to see the complete picture of this protocol.

Primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, ultraviolet light was routinely curing many kinds of diseases, including staph infections, cancer, viral pneumonia and many other diseases.

This protocol applies to cancer, but it also may apply to any microbial disease, including a pandemic flu, common colds, Lyme Disease, viral pneumonia, etc.

As part of the ongoing research of the Independent Cancer Research Foundation, we have been looking into, and experimenting with, ultraviolet light as a way to cure a wide variety of microbial diseases.

Remember, while most microbial diseases deal with microbes in the bloodstream, the microbes which cause cancer are actually inside of the cancer cells. This makes cancer more difficult to cure than most kinds of microbial diseases because the cancer-killing substance must safely get inside the cancer cells.

Treating blood which has been extracted from the body was able to cure cancer for two reasons:

1) The hemoglobin (red blood cells) was able to "remember" or "store" the ultraviolet frequencies they were exposed to. Actually, what probably happened is simply that the hemoglobin continued to vibrate after their exposere to ultraviolet light ended (i.e. when the blood was put back into the body);

2) While hemoglobin itself does not get inside the cancer cells, for some unknown reason it is able to kill the microbes which are inside of the cancer cells and thus revert the cancer cells into normal cells.

The second item was possible because the hemoglobin was essentially a very small "beacon" of ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light is well-known to kill microbes.

Any microbe which was exposed to hemoglobin was killed because microbes have an abnormal amount of photosensitive substances, such as photosensitive amino acids. It was actually these photosensitive substances in microbes which killed the microbes.

All of this is well understood by anyone who has read the two books mentioned above, except that these books do not discuss the theory of how ultraviolet light cures cancer. The answer is that the hemoglobin molecules, charged with ultraviolet light, kill the microbes inside of cancer cells, thus allowing them to revert into normal cells.

God’s chemistry is all about vibrations and the angular relationships of atoms within molecules.

Wheatgrass, meaning wheatgrass juice, also has a porphyrin molecule in it (with magnesium at its center). It is the chlorophyll which contains this molecule.

It is hoped that the porphyrin molecule in hemoglobin is what is "remembering" the ultraviolet light and that the porphyrin molecule in chlorophyll will also "remember" ultraviolet light.

There are actually several reasons to be optimistic that this is the case.

First, plants do not get microbial diseases, including cancer. Why not? Could it be that the prophyrin molecules, energized by the sun, kill microbes almost as fast as they enter the plant?

No one knows the answer to this question, but it is certainly logical.

Item #2 - Will Chlorophyll Enter Inside of Cancer Cells?

The answer to this question is also a logical 'yes', though it may not be necessary for the chlorophyll to enter inside the cancer cells to kill the microbes which are inside the cancer cells. Remember that hemoglobin is able to kill the microbes inside the cancer cells without entering inside the cancer cells.

Actually, freshly cut wheatgrass has been curing cancer for many decades without ultraviolet light. Exactly how it has been curing cancer is unknown. But when supercharged with ultraviolet light it is hoped that wheatgrass is even more effective at curing cancer.

Item #3 - Will Chlorophyll, Charged With Ultraviolet Light Frequencies, Kill Microbes

The answer to this question is unknown, but based on the fact that plants are rarely affected by microbes the hope is that chlorophyll will be more effective at killing microbes after being supercharged with ultraviolet light.

Other Theoretical Issues

One of the concerns about this protocol is that the wheatgrass must pass through the stomach. The chemicals in the stomach may partially neutralize the ultraviolet frequency held by the wheatgrass. Only experiments will determine if, or by how much, the stomach will affect this protocol. With blood extraction the blood does not pass through the stomach as wheatgrass must do in this protocol.

About Ultraviolet Light

There are three levels of ultraviolet light. UVC or UV-C is the highest frequency light which humans can see, but it is very dangerous to look at. The sun emits this kind of light and that is why we cannot stare at the sun.

UVB or UV-B is the middle range of ultraviolet light. It is not good to look at this kind of light, but it is not as dangerous as UVC.

UVA or UV-A is the near ultraviolet light and is the safest to deal with, though it is not safe to stare directly into UVA light for very long.

The process to cure cancer in the 1940s and 1950s was to extract blood from the patient, flood it with UVC light, with some UVB and with less UVA ultraviolet light. Then the blood would be put back into the patient. Results were astonishing with virtually 100% cure rates for all microbial diseases.

Because the bombardment of UV light using wheatgrass is also done outside the body, the same kinds of UV light which were used to treat blood can also be used to treat wheatgrass. The same safety procedures must be used for wheatgrass if UVC or UVB is used.

It is not recommended to use the sun to supercharge the wheatgrass because the sun would take much longer to generate the same amount of ultraviolet light as a lamp, which is only a few inches away from the wheatgrass.

What Is Herxheimer's Reaction?

Before getting into the details of the wheatgrass / ultraviolet protocol, it is necessary to talk about an important concept.

All of the diseases which this article talks about involve massive numbers of microbes in the bloodstream. All treatments which kill a vast number of microbes which are in the bloodstream may result in a condition called: Herxheimer's Reaction.

With regards to cancer, even though reverting cancer cells into normal cells requires killing the microbes which are inside the cancer cells, it is unavoidable that any treatment which reverts cancer cells into normal cells will also kill vast numbers of microbes which are outside the cancer cells, meaning in the bloodstream.

Herxheimer’s Reaction (also known as Jarisch-Herxheimer), is a reaction of the body to the toxins released by a large number of dead microbes. Herx typically has one or more of these symptoms:

1) Flu like symptoms (e.g. aches and pains),

2) Diarrhea (almost always happens),

3) A general sick feeling (can be severe),

4) Headaches

Thus, there is a paradox that if you want the safest type of cancer cure you need to expose yourself to the whims of Herxheimer's Reaction.

While Herx appears to be a bad thing, in fact Herx is a very good thing because it means the treatment is working and massive numbers of microbes are being killed!! However, you obviously want to do everything possible to avoid Herx!!

This section will list several ways to minimize, or hopefully prevent, Herx.

The main method is to "build up," meaning gradually increase the time the wheatgrass juice is exposed to the ultraviolet light.

Here is the strongly recommended build-up for the first few days of this protocol:

Day 1: The wheatgrass is exposed to ultraviolet light for 2 minutes

Day 2: The wheatgrass is exposed to ultraviolet light for 5 minutes

Day 3: The wheatgrass is exposed to ultraviolet light for 7 minutes

Day 4: The wheatgrass is exposed to ultraviolet light for 10 minutes

After this build-up the patient can start their normal treatment. The most effective length of time to expose the wheatgrass to ultraviolet light is unknown, but is expected to be somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes. Feedback from cancer patients who use this protocol will be appreciated.

Second, and just as important, after every day of treatment, a person should drink plenty of purified water. This will help dilute the toxins released by the dead microbes. Do not use distilled water for several reasons.

Third, a person who has an ozonator (such as used in the Bob Beck Protocol) can create ozonated water by bubbling the water for 10 minutes. This also should be done after the treatment.

Fourth, many people have water ionizers or treatments which can make water alkaline. These can also create water which will help prevent Herx. These too should be taken after the treatment.

Both ozonated water and ionized water will not only dilute the toxins, they will also help oxidize them, making these things far better than just water.

Thus, there are several ways to minimize the Herxheimer Reaction.

One final comment about Herx. If Herxheimer's occurs on any day after the first full day, this is an indication that some of the chlorophyll "remembers" the UVA frequencies for more than 24 hours.

Introduction to the Protocol

It is not known how fresh the wheatgrass must be in order to use this protocol. It is felt that as long as the chlorophyll molecules/cells are still active and strong, this treatment will work.

The idea scenario would be the following:

1) Cut living wheatgrass,

2) Wait 3 hours,

3) Juice the wheatgrass and then,

4) Expose the wheatgrass to the ultraviolet light for the time mentioned above,

5) Drink immediately after exposure to the UV light.

More details will now be provided.

It is essential to put the wheatgrass you intend to expose to ultraviolet light into a wide glass pan or wide Pyrex pan. For example, it should not be put into a tall glass, but it should be put into a wide glass or Pyrex pan. This is because you want the maximum surface area possible, of the wheatgrass, exposed to the ultraviolet light.

The wheatgrass itself should not be more than 1/8 inch deep in the pan. This will maximize the surface area of the wheatgrass that is exposed to the ultraviolet light. Thus, you want a wide area, not a tall area.

You can use UVC lamps, if you wish, but most likely you will use UVB or UVA. UVB lamps can be purchased at pet stores (UVB lamps are used for snakes).

Use only ONE kind of light because mixing light frequencies dampens their effectiveness.

UVA lamps, which are called "black lights," may be even more effective at treating cancer. However, UVC and UVB lamps are also acceptable, but far more safey rules need to be in place when using UVB or UVC lamps (the manufactuer should have the safety rules with their product). However, a person should not stare directly into UVA lamps either.

The times the wheatgrass should be exposed to the UV light is mentioned above. Always be aware of Herx when using ultraviolet light.

The best UVA lamps can be purchased from Spencer Gifts stores. The 13 watt, 6 inch bulbs actually generate more UVA light than the tube bulbs.

If you do not have a Spencer Gifts store handy, here is one of many websites which sell black lights (i.e. UVA) (buy at least 2 bulbs because you will want to use 2 bulbs if you use the tubes):

Vendor of 18 inch, 15w black lights

To me the ideal would be to use 4 of the 13 watt bulbs purchased at Spencer Gifts.

The bulbs should be about 4 inches above the surface of the wheatgrass and the room should be pitch black during the exposure!! In other words, the ONLY light the wheatgrass should be exposed to during the protocol is the light from the UVA or UVB bulbs!!

Do not stare at the bulbs during the actual protocol. Drink the wheatgrass juice as soon as the exposure is complete.

The safety of this protocol is absolutely certain if safety rules are observed both in preventing Herx and keeping the eyes from being damaged by ultraviolet light. The only “experimental” part of this protocol is its effectiveness, not its safety.

How to Order Wheatgrass with Roots Online

2010-08-30T22:05:00.011+08:00

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:

h ttp://miraclefood.easyphamaxbiz.com

To Your Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

Cooking Tips for Diabetics

2010-05-29T17:37:00.006+08:00

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

2010-04-14T10:55:00.009+08:00

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

2010-03-13T22:33:00.008+08:00

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!

2010-03-06T00:56:00.009+08:00

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

2010-02-07T08:33:00.004+08:00

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

Not All Wheatgrass Products are the Same

2009-12-29T09:08:00.008+08:00

Dear Readers,

I've been asked many times how different this wheatgrass product that I endorse versus the many options available in the market today. Aside from the fact that it is very convenient to take, tastes relatively well, and costs less per drink, it really is more nutritious due to its inclusion of the roots. This is made possible through its patented Indoor Organic Aeroponic Cultivation (IOAC) technology.

Read on ...

Indoor Organic Aeroponic Cultivation (IOAC)

IOAC is patented, award-winning cultivation method recognized in Malaysia and Geneve, Switzerland. In this cultivation method, wheatgrass is grown indoors in a fully automated and sterile laboratory. This allows us to have full control over the moisture, temperature and indoor growing environment of the wheatgrass to ensure optimal growing conditions. Aeroponic farming means that our wheatgrass is grown in the air without the use of soil or water as a base as in traditional farming or hydroponics. This allows the roots to grow and stay sterile making it possible for the company to process and include the roots of wheatgrass in every sachet of wheatgrass powder. All essential minerals and nutrients that the regular wheatgrass absorbes from the soil, is mixed with the water that is misted evenly on to the farm 8 times every day to ensure that each tray of wheatgrass gets equal amounts of moisture and nutrients. Artificial sunlight is provided by special lights that simulate the same lighting properties as natural sunlight.

Aeroponic farming is also employed in IOAC to intentionally subject the wheatgrass to stress from the absence of soil and low temperatures maintained in the farm. These conditions force the plant to produce ABSCISSIC ACID which is an essential enzyme that is highly effective in fighting cancer cells or can help prevent cancer formation. This plant hormone turned enzyme can only be found in the most amounts in Easy Pha-max Wheatgrass.

One pound of fresh Easy Pha-max wheatgrass with leaves and roots goes into every 2g sachet of wheatgrass powder. This is the most amount of fresh wheatgrass per serving that you will find anywhere in the market. The fresh wheatrgass is dried and processed through centrifugation and turned into a fine powder for ease of consumption and the convenience of our consumers. No other product matches this amount on a per peso basis. Don't be fooled 8-)

To Your Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

Why Going Vegetarian Supports the Environment

2009-11-02T23:05:00.005+08:00

Dear Readers,

I'd like to share this article from Hewo.Com. It is a very relevant topic as Global Warming is becoming a major agenda in governments worldwide. And with upcoming movies like 2012, this is REALLY a becoming a serious issue.

I am not a vegetarian, well not just yet. But I try as much as possible to avoid meat to the best of my abilities. I believe this has helped me a lot in my quest for good health.

Read on ...

"Since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth short documentary movie came out in 2006, it has awakened people to the alarming Earthly facts, especially the hot cake topics surrounding global warming. We talk about industrial pollutions, drastic changes of weather patterns, deforestation and a whole lot more of big scale issues. But, there could be one issue that people might have overlooked. And that is meat consumption.

“Why? Meat does not look “polluting” enough to me. Are you being serious that if I continue eating hamburgers, chicken drumsticks and juicy sirloin steaks, I would actually be polluting Earth? I think you are preaching your religion of eating spinach to me.”

People can be sceptical when presented about how meat consumption should be reduced to tackle global warming. And you must be wondering why eating meat could cause damage to our Mother Earth.

The meaty effects

First of all, meat industry emits more greenhouse gas than any factor given. According to the United Nations, total amount of greenhouse gas emitted by livestock farms and meat-processing factory is around 18% of the total greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, making it the largest single factor in causing greenhouse gas.

Second, meat production takes more resources than growing vegetables and fruits. Growing meat is never efficient. We need 16 times as much grains to produce meat, and we need another 16 times as much resources as to produce these grains to feed our cows, lambs, goats and chickens. Around 70% our grown vegetations are being used to feed livestock, just for them to produce enough meat for us. Besides that, we also need to put in power to refrigerate our meat, to process them, and to ship them throughout the world.

Third, we need enormous water supply to produce meat. According to a statistic made by John Robbins in his book Food Revolution, we need 99.6% lesser water to grow one pound of potatoes, than to grow one pound of beef, and 97% lesser water than to grow one pound of chicken. Aside from supplying water to livestock as their drinking water, we need to constantly wash them, clean up their cages from accumulating faecal wastes, as well as to clean up the mess after we butchered them. To be specific, it takes 5214 gallons of water (or about 19731 litres) to produce one pound of beef.

Last but not least, eating meat cuts more land. In fact, raising animals for food takes up more land than to grow crops directly. We need 16 pounds of grains to produce 1 pound of beef. This means in order to grow beef, we need 94% more land to cultivate grains for them, and more land needed means more pesticides needed. Instead of producing food for us, they are more like processing food for us, in a reverse way. According to a recent study by PETA.org, more than 90% of Amazon rain forest was cleared since 1970 is used for global meat production.

To be green, we don’t have to sweat. We just need to change what we eat, because what we eat determines how we get it, and how we get it determines what kind of effects our surroundings will get. You can keep earth green by simply not eating any animals.

Quit meat! It’s not just good for your body; it’s good also for your earth."

Less Acid For Better Health

2009-07-26T07:39:00.012+08:00

Look around the market, and you see countless products promoting "alkaline" food and supplements. Vitamin C, which is an important daily supplement now has an alkaline version under the generic name of "Sodium Ascorbate". Manufacturers still cannot remove the name "Ascorbic Acid" as I heard it is required by the BFAD. Fern-C is a very successful brand today. I personally use Daily-C, at least 1000mg a day. The flipside to this is ofcourse cost. An alkaline version of vitamin C is many more times expensive than the regular "acidic" version.

I spoke to one of the local Pharma companies producing regular vitamin C and they actually had a valid point. They have to make the vitamin affordable so a lot more people can buy it. And besides, according to them, only a very small fraction of the population cannot tolerate the acidity introduced by the vitamin they produce. That's another way of looking at the picture I guess.

But for me, Alkaline is King! If you can afford it, why not?

Alkalinity or Acidity is measured in pH (potential of hydrogen). The range is from 0-14, and a reading below 7 is acidic while above that is alkaline. A healthy body should have a pH reading of at least 7.4. In fact, studies have shown that in an environment where the pH reading is at least an 8.5, cancer cells die! (Otto Warburg, MD, PhD Nobel Laureate) That is why an alkaline lifestyle does help prevent cancer.

Not all acidity though comes from what you take in your mouth. Psychological factors like stress, also contribute to acidity. Even too much exercise where muscles get strained and thereby release too much lactic acid will cause cramps.

You know when you are acidic when you have low energy level, frequent aches and pains, poor indigestion, high blood pressure, shortness of breath, and insomia.

Some very quick ways to solve this is to drink water - lots of it. Eat more of the living foods as we call it - raw vegetables like cabbage, brocolli, carrots, cauliflower, spinach, tomatoes, and ofcourse WHEATGRASS! You can also increase your fresh fruit intake from apple, lemon, mango, papayas, pineapple, watermelon, and grapes.

Ofcourse, avoid acid foods or as much as possible reduce your intake. Examples: red meats, corn, peanuts, sugar, chocolate, softdrinks, dairy, alcohol, and coffee. Imagine, coffee alone has a pH level of 4! Not good .... But, did you know that there's Wheatgrass Coffee already available in the market today? So essentially it removes the acidity issue of coffee. NO, it is not colored green. It looks and tastes like the real thing and it is made from arabica beans. Let me know if you are interested.

So as a general rule, try to eat 80% more alkaline food. Do yoga or whatever it is that will relieve you of stress from time to time. Remember, we only live once, let's make the most of it.

To good health,

Wheatgrass Man

Chocolate is Good, BUT ...

2009-06-27T10:49:00.007+08:00

I would like to share this nice article by Steve Meyerowitz, one of the experts in healthy living promoting organic food. He was pronounced "Sproutman" by Vegetarian Times Magazine in a 1979 feature article that explored the why's and wherefores of his 100% sprout diet.

"Are you familiar with Green and Black? They are the leading British chocolate maker in the organic sector and they are quite successful. Last year the company increased their sales by 69%. (Imagine if you got a raise in salary by that much!) They grossed a healthy 41 million dollars. One of their lead products is a 70 percent cocoa 100 gram bar that is popular with health-conscious consumers. Pure chocolate, without the milk and sugar and the pesticides, contains many antioxidants and flavonols, which have numerous health benefits (see below).

Evidently, Cadbury Schweppes found them delectable, too. The London based company, which manufactures Europe’s best selling Dairy Milk brand, just acquired them for an undisclosed sum.Previously, they had owned a 5% stake in Green and Black. The good news is that Green and Black will continue to operate independently and be able to maintain its ethical values. Green and Black was the first UK company to source its cocoa beans under Fair Trade agreements and its Mayan Gold chocolate was the first organic chocolate product to be awarded the Fair Trade Mark in 1994.

More and more information is coming forth about the health benefits of chocolate. It turns out that cocoa actually contains antioxidants and many different types of flavonols, such as quercetin and rutin, which belong to the larger family of bioflavonoids. Flavonols are famous for their protective properties against cardiovascular disease, but they also have numerous benefits to the immune system, reduce inflammation and increase blood flow to all sorts of important places including the brain.

Buyer Beware- This is good news especially if you buy organic chocolate and avoid the milk and sugar and buy from brands like Green and Black. But beware as other manufacturers try to enter the market to take advantage of this good health news. You see, candy manufacturers have been on the receiving end of a lot of negative criticism for their role in the obesity epidemic and everything else from cavities to diabetes.They see the health benefits of chocolate as a way of improving their unhealthy image.

For example, Mars, the giant confectionary company, wants to synthesize the flavonols and turn them into drugs that can be marketed in their candy bars. “We have been able to identify the molecular structureof flavonols found in nature ....But we are also able to synthesize not only those found in nature but also compounds tailored to specific needs,” says Marlene Machut, communications director for Mars Nutrition.She says they are in “serious discussions with large pharmaceutical companies” for a licensing or joint venture agreement that could see some flavonols extracted from its chocolate developed as prescription drugs.

The problem is that chocolate contains these benefits naturally and that all chocolate companies can claim health benefits. But companies like Mars seek to carve out a unique position in the marketplace by synthesizing and patenting these antioxidants for commercial use.

So, enjoy your chocolate, but choose wisely about from whom and what kind you buy."

LIVE Longer by Taking Care of Your LIVER!

2009-06-20T09:44:00.023+08:00

If I can single out one organ in our body that is the key to good health, it is no doubt the liver. If you look at the liver, it is really a highly organized mechanical filter, cleansing the blood of impurities and toxins as it returns it back to the right side of the heart.

Unfortunately, our society today is built on fast-food and refined food and this is not doing any good to our liver. It is NOT true that only alcoholics will be at risk of liver disease - in fact, you and me, even our kids who do not drink alcohol are at risk. Consider the following IFs:

- if your diet is high in refined carbs,

- if your diet is high in bad fats like deep fried foods (fries anyone?), chips (typical school snack), preserved meats (tocino, tapa), and hydrogenated vegetable oils (high in trans-fat which are free radicals),

- if your diet is low in fresh colored vegetables and fruits,

- if your diet lacks antioxidants like vitamin C, and

- if your diet is low in good quality protein (fish, tofu, nuts)

THEN, the risk for FATTY LIVER DISEASE is there.

But what is fatty liver disease exactly?

In the world of medicine, this is referred to us NAFLD or Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. This is the entry-level stage, of which the liver contains an excessive amount of fat, to the point where healthy liver tissues are partly replaced with unhealthy fats. Because of this, the liver becomes enlarged and swollen, and has a yellow greasy appearance.

Now this is a BAD thing because instead of the liver functioning efficiently as a filter, it is not able to properly do its task. And this results in a variety of symptoms, such as: fatigue, abdominal bloating, abdominal fat (pot belly), reflux, hemorrhoids, overheating of the body, excessive sweating, gall stones, inability to lose weight (even if you are eating less and exercising regularly), high cholesterol and triglycerides, and poor memory.

A more severe form of fatty liver is called NASH or Non-Alcoholic Steato-Hepatitis and is characterized by more inflammation. The real danger here is if not treated, it will progress to sever liver scarring known as Cirrhosis.

My advise is at least once a year, have your liver checked with blood tests, and an ultrasound scan of the abdomen. Better to be safe than sorry.

I've been often asked why some people who are overweight have a harder time losing weight than others. With a strict diet and regular vigorous exercise, someone who has a fatty liver will take a longer time to slim down vs another with a non-fatty liver. This is because it is necessary to remove the fat first from the liver before it can function properly. A fatty liver has forgotten how to burn fat because it has been accustomed to storing fat. But once it is rejuvenated and detoxified, weight management becomes easier as the Yo-Yo effect is avoided.

Taking wheatgrass daily as a supplement helps the liver rejuvenate as wheatgrass cleanses the blood. I have said before that if you just drink it daily, in 20 days, you would have consumed 350 lbs of the choicest vegetables !!!

I highly recommend this book by Dr. Sandra Cabot. I've read it and I know it will help you to be a healthier person.

https://www.liverdoctor.com/index.php?page=shop&subpage=cat1&id=3

To Your Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

The "So Easy" Way To Detox

2009-06-12T09:16:00.019+08:00

When I lost 20 lbs and 4 inches off my waistline over a 5-month period, it wasn't solely because of drinking wheatgrass daily, eating properly and going to the gym twice a week. I also did a detox program, which I want to share with you today.

Detox can be done in a variety of ways. If you have the time and the money, you can enroll yourself in one of the health and wellness spas in the country, like San Benito Farm in Batangas (Email: info@thefarm.com.ph Tel: +63 2 884 8073 / 74 / 75). Or, if you want to prepare your own diet, there's an excellent 8-week plan from Dr. Cabot in her best-selling book called The Liver Cleansing Diet. It's a very good book that I highly recommend. Another book which I encourage you to read is called Detox, by Rosalyn Patrick.

If you are a busy professional like me with a modest budget and don't want the hassle of having to prepare your own diet and have only 3 days to detoxify, then the So Easy Cleansing program is for you. You can do this at home, which I advise you to do since you need to have ready access to the rest room.

But why detox in the first place?

Over the years of eating acid foods, our colon is not able to properly expel these waste materials. This build up of mucous, dead cells, and impacted waste covers the inner lining of the colon which over time if not removed will eventually cause auto-intoxication. This has been researched by Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC, ND, Ph.D. in his book Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management. No wonder why most diseases like cancer start from the colon!

There are ways to remove this mucoid plaque. One is through Colon Hydrotherapy, which is a medical procedure involving the safe and gentle infusion of around 95 to 130 liters of water into the colon via the rectum. Another is by going through a home-based detox program which I did.

Going through the So Easy Cleansing program first involves fasting 2 days before. This means reducing your food intake by 50% on the first day and 75% on the second before the actual start of the detox. You also need to prepare yourself mentally for this, as it will not be a walk in the park.

The detox program follows the schedule below:

All ingredients of this detox package are all-natural, so you can be sure it is safe for your body.

One of my tips during the detox phase is to do abdominal massages, you can do this by yourself, just make circling motions with your hands on your abdomen, to assist the flow of mucoid plaque out of your colon. It is also very important to drink lots of water. You shouldn't feel hungry during this time, as the detox program contains complete nutrients. However, if you do feel the need to eat, it is largely psychological in nature. Instead of eating, just drink water and remember your ultimate goal - to be healthy! Discipline is key.

On my second day of detox, that's when I began to release mucoid plaque. I went to the rest room 7 times in 2days, and you can be sure it is mucoid plaque by the way it looks (like the shape of your colon) and the way it feels (rubbery, which I didn't touch btw - you can use a barbeque stick like I did). For those who want to see how mucoid plaque looks like, here are some pictures from the Internet:

I lost between 3 to 4 lbs during my 3-day detox. My abdomen also became "soft" and I felt lighter. In fact, in the weeks that followed my body began to search for different kinds of food. I used to be a chocoholic before, but after detox, my craving for chocolates disappeared. I still enjoy eating it though, but now it is more controlled as I don't have to give in to this craving after every meal. I also began to look for more greens and fish, which in turn resulted to me losing more weight. Call it a psychological effect, but in my opinion, it is more than that. I guess after you've seen all these junk released from your body, you will be more careful in what you eat.

After the 3rd day of detox, you have to break in your body before resuming your normal eating habits (which hopefully will change like what happened to me). The 1st day after detox, you need to do a liquid diet - fresh fruits and vegetable shakes. On the 2nd day, you may now eat solid foods, but limit to vegetables and fruits only. On the 3rd day, you may add fish to your diet. On the 4th day, you can resume your normal diet.

I really hope this information will help you to become more healthy. I did this and I know it works for me. May it be the same for you.

To Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

P.S. We should detox at least once a year ...

Is Wheatgrass Gluten-free?

2009-06-06T17:24:00.005+08:00

I've been asked a couple of times by my friends if wheatgrass has gluten. Some people cannot take gluten as their body will react to it, especially since it has the word "wheat". Celiac disease is a medical condition that is particularly sensitive to gluten.

From Cynthia Kupper RD celiac diseaseExecutive Director, Gluten Intolerance Group, 206-246-6652; www.gluten.net:* :

"Q: Is barely and wheat grass safe to use in a gluten-free diet? What about sprouts?*
A: According to information from USDA research chemists, specializing in wheat gluten and cereal proteins and a statement from the American Association of Cereal Chemists, gluten is found only in the seed kernel (endosperm) and not in the stem and grass leaves. If the grass is cut from a growing plant and does not include the seed kernel, it should be safe for persons with gluten intolerance to use."

So juicing wheatgrass should be safe since you consume the leaves only. The powder versions from Easy Pha-Max are also safe since it contains the roots and the leaves when the plant reaches 8 days old.

Wheatgrass Man

Weight Loss Tip: Eat Peanut Butter!

2009-06-06T11:52:00.009+08:00

A colleague of mine who competes in Mr. USA would you believe is over 60 years old, but is in excellent health? In his recent trip to Manila, he shared this tip on weight management. Before a competition, if he needed to lose weight, he would take 2 teaspoons of peanut butter (not the commercial ones like JIF or Peter Pan, but those from health food stores) before sleeping. According to him, it really works. I love peanut butter, and I make it a point to snack on peanuts during the day (as much as possible the unsalted, not fried variety). I find that peanuts and peanut butter keep you more satisfied than many other snacks.

"A study conducted at Purdue University showed that those who consumed peanut snacks were more satisfied than those who ate high carbohydrate snacks like rice cakes. Those who ate the peanut snacks lasted about 2 ½ hours as opposed to ½ hour for the high carbohydrate snacks.
Peanuts and peanut butter are high in protein, healthy fats, and fiber. These attributes contribute to helping you feel fuller longer. Eating peanuts and peanut butter will also help to keep your blood sugar more stable partly because they have a low glycemic index (GI). Peanuts have a GI of 14 on a 100-point scale, whereas pretzels have a GI of 83. Eating pretzels would produce a much larger rise and fall in blood sugar than the peanuts, and this is what can make you hungry and sluggish.

Another interesting fact is that peanut and peanut butter eaters tend to have lower Body Mass Index (BMI) values and lower body weights than non-peanut eaters. While those who eat peanuts have been shown to naturally adjust their calorie intakes throughout the day, some evidence shows that resting energy expenditure is actually increased after peanut consumption – so you are burning energy by eating them."

You can read more on this here:

http://www.peanut-institute.org/PDF/PeanutsandSnacking.pdf

Wheatgrass Man

WONDROUS, WONDROUS WHEATGRASS

2009-06-03T07:47:00.007+08:00

Sharing this article from the Daily Tribune written by my friend Happy Tugade. - Wheatgrass Man

Colon and prostate cancer, heart disease and diabetes, anemia and constipation, obesity and premature aging, bad breath and body odor: what we would all pay to cure these conditions or at least prevent them from afflicting us?

Not much, it seems, or at least not as much as a lifelong regimen of therapies and maintenance medicines would cost us and that not just in money. A food-supplement remedy for these ills first tested successfully in the US in the 1930s, it has amassed a loyal following over the decades, even with members of the medical community.

Who would think all these restorative properties would be found in grass, specifically wheatgrass (*Triticum aestivum*), the plant that when full-grown yields wheat flour for our bread? This humble herb is said to be effective in detoxifying the body and making it alkaline by eliminating excessive acids and neutralizing the pH level of the body. Too much animal protein, fat, preservatives and artificial sweeteners make the body acidic. Wheatgrass, like greens, unpolished grains, vegetables and fruit, makes it alkaline. It does this through its active component chlorophyll, 17 amino acids, 10 minerals, 13 vitamins including A, C, E, and B complex, fiber and over 100 enzymes.

The wonder herb can be grown and juiced at home. Abroad, it is dispensed in juice bars alone, or in mixed fruit and/or vegetable drinks. It is sold in many health food stores fresh, in tablet form, frozen juice or powder. An average dose of 3.5 grams (powder or tablets) is consumed per day or a fresh-squeezed 30 milliliter shot once daily. A higher dose up to 2–4 oz taken 1-3 times per day on an empty stomach and before meals is recommended for more therapeutic benefits. Users may increase their intake to 3–4 times per day for detoxification. However, persons with a poor diet may experience nausea on high dosages of wheatgrass.

Easy Pha-max, the Malaysian Largest Producer of Wheatgrass and maker of Wheatgrass Powder Drink now available locally, is recognized and certified by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia; the Food and Drug Administration of the US; the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand; the National Agency of Drug and Food Control of Indonesia; the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan; and the Bureau of Food and Drugs of the Philippines.

Easy Pha-max Wheatgrass Powder Drink is mixed with cold or room-temperature water and taken on an empty stomach upon waking up in the morning. Dr. Hans Fischer and associates noticed that the human blood is practically identical to chlorophyll on the molecular level and can stimulate blood production. Increase of blood cells means better circulation and oxygenation and rapid body cleansing. A British study also found that animals made anemic through bleeding sped up their hemoglobin regeneration when fed with raw unrefined chlorophyll, they said. (US studies in the 1930s also found that animals could survive on grass alone but failed on other well-known healthy vegetables like carrots and spinach.) Chlorophyll has also been found by a Texas study to inhibit the activity of carcinogens and (by a Hawaii study) to shield the body from the effects of carcinogens from smoked meats and food molds. Its antiseptic properties were the subject of an article in the *American Journal of Surgery*, which suggested that the chlorophyll helps clear up foul odors, neutralize strep infections, heal wounds and hasten skin grafting. Gahan, Kline and Finkle also reported the benefits of chlorophyll in treating gastro-intestinal ulcers and colitis.

It is also the chlorophyll that, when taken in adequate quantities, reduces or eliminates offensive body and breath odors caused by food, beverages, alcohol, tobacco and metabolic changes. Wheatgrass also contains significant amounts of the antioxidant [Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), which protects DNA from damage by free radicals, as well as the compound P4D1, a glycol protein, which stimulates the repair of damaged DNA. It promotes bowel movement and helps flush out toxins in the liver, and beats aspirin's anti-inflammatory effects through the combines potency of the glycol proteins D1G1 and P4D1 and the antioxidant SOD.

Easy Pha-max Wheatgrass, however, is unique in that it is grown indoors in a sterile, air-conditioned environment aeroponically, that is, without soil, which enables makers Easy Pha-max to use both the leaves and the roots in making the powder. Only balanced and complete nutrients developed in the firm's laboratories using organic raw materials are fed to the growing plants that are harvested after eight days. Japanese research found that eight days is enough time for wheatgrass to maximize its full health potentials. Processing, drying, and packing are also done under low temperatures. Now available in the country, Easy Pha-max Wheatgrass was awarded the silver medal in the 28th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products 2000 for Indoor Aeroponic Cultivation Method for Wheatgrass. It was also the first wheatgrass tea producer awarded the Superbrands Malaysia 2005 status by the Malaysian Consumers and the Superbrands Council.

"We believe that there is a world trend to change from synthetic to alternative medicine, and we know it's going to be big in Asia," Mr. Edward Ling, CEO of Easy Pha-max Philippines, was quoted as saying. The company reportedly has projects underway to maximize herbal products in the Philippines in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology and Philippine Council for Health Research and Development. Mr. Ling said that 120 local herbal species are proven to be medicinally useful and Easy Pha-max would like to bring these herbal products to the world through our global platform.

"Philippine herbal products will make a big impact and enhance the livelihood and economy (of the country)," Mr. Ling said.

For more information on Easy Pha-max Wheatgrass powder, visit http://www.myeasycenter.com/miraclefood

The Philippine headquarters of the company is at 10/F Herrera Tower, 98 V.A. Rufino corner Valero Sts., Salcedo Village, Makati City, Philippines. Contact numbers are (632) 890-1111 or Toll-Free at 1-80010-890-1111. Mention the code MIRACLE FOOD to avail of a special discount. You may text your inquiries to (0917) 861-2008, (0918) 951-2008, or (0927) 426-0430.

The Story of a Lupus Survivor and Wheatgrass

2009-05-20T16:24:00.008+08:00

I'd like to thank my friend Vic Milan who shared this testimonial from one of his listeners. Vic has a radio program called Kalikasan Vigilante, which airs Mondays to Fridays from 7:15pm to 8:30pm at 104.3FM - Wheatgrass Man

A LUPUS SURVIVOR’S STORY
BY MARIA CHRISTINA M. CASTILLEJOS

(23 Years Old)

"I was in second year college in 2003 when I was diagnosed with Lupus Nephritis (Class 4). I was hospitalized for more than one month. Two years later, after a seizure, the diagnosis was even more stunning: I had Lupus Cerebritis, which means that the disease had reached my brain. I was also told I could no longer go back to school. I was so devastated I just wanted to die.

I was told to see a psychiatrist so I could accept the fact that lupus would forever be in my system. I did not follow the suggestion. I was determined, and I began to believe in my heart, that prayers and research would help me find a cure.

Lupus is a disease where the immune system goes on a rampage, attacking even healthy cells, resulting in severe damage to my kidneys, lungs and hemoglobin count. In my case this happened whenever I experienced pressure and depression. I was hospitalized three times for long periods, put under heavy medication all the while, and the effect on my family’s finances was just as devastating.

Subjected to all kinds of procedures, my body became almost immune to pain. One procedure involved taking out 4 liters of liquid from my lungs… it was so painful I wished for death just to escape the pain, but I just let them do it anyway. My pain threshold went up some more, and during another open surgery I was awake during the whole procedure because the anesthesia no longer had any effect on me… possibly also because of all the drugs that had been given to me.

In 2007, they started giving me 5000 units of Recormon injection due to very low hemoglobin count. (Normally, blood count is at 12-17 G/DL; mine went down to 8.1 G/DL) which caused me to have shortness of breath and weakness almost to the point of collapsing. I could not sleep well. Black circles began to form under my eyes and other sensitive parts of my body. Also at this time my mother was suffering from slight anemia and symptoms similar to mine.

Then one evening while she was listening to her favorite radio station, she heard about wheat grass and its health benefits when taken regularly. She immediately contacted the person in the radio program to ask where she could get the grass.

Just two days after taking the said grass, she felt strong and was relieved of feeling weak after just minor household chores. She then encouraged me to take it also and see if it could help me. However, my doctor said I should not take it because it might conflict with my other medicines and that it might harm my kidneys.

My mother was so persistent and suggested that I should try the wheatgrass without stopping my medicines. I started taking two sachets a day for two weeks. I stopped my injection then so we could observe the effect of wheatgrass.

In just two weeks I started feeling so fantastic. I felt strong, my sleeping improved and my dizziness was gone. I had my hemoglobin count tested again and the result was amazing: it had gone up from 8.1 to 12 G/DL (normal) and my creatinine was normal.

My doctor was surprised. We had not told her I was taking wheatgrass. She must have thought it was due to Recormon injections and other maintenance medicines.

After just six months of daily wheatgrass intake, I am testing negative for protein, my pus cells normal… no more urinary tract infection (UTI) though all these past years I had been taking high dosages of antibiotics for UTI. My doctor continues to be surprised at my progress; I should be out of steroids soon. I am praying that with this new non-synthetic food supplement I will continue to improve and completely heal my disease and I will be normal again to continue my studies. I feel very strong now and am more confident because I have not had any attack the past six months.

I am now allowed to study at the University of the Philippines home-stay program. I now have a temporary job in the day time to test my endurance and ability to cope with pressure. I want to finish my studies so I can find a permanent job so I can continue my regular dosage of wheatgrass.

I will take this product forever and have recommended it to other lupus victims like me. "

A Brief History of Wheatgrass

2009-05-18T20:17:00.008+08:00

“Fifteen pounds of wheat grass is equal in overall nutritional value to 350 pounds of ordinary garden vegetables. We have not even scratched the surface of what grass can mean to man in the future.”—Dr. Charles Schnabel, Father of Wheat Grass Therapy

So, what makes wheatgrass such a potent nutritional treasure? Today, informed health experts agree that the young green shoots of wheatgrass contain a phytonutrient or group of phytonutrients still not able to be isolated or synthesized in the laboratory. This is known as Grass Juice Factor. Its health benefits are profound.

In the late 1920s a Kansas City food chemist Charles Schnabel who was looking for a nutritional source to be added to poultry feed to promote fertility and reduce mortality tried to increase the percentage of alfalfa; next, he tried combinations of twenty different green vegetables. They did not have the health promoting effect Dr. Schnabel sought.

In 1931, he desperately tried something unique, using feed with immature wheat and oat grasses. The poultry responded fantastically. Their winter egg production increased 38 to 94 percent. But not only were more eggs produced, they also had stronger shells, therefore increasing the number of healthy hatchlings. A higher proportion of the layers and offspring remained free of diseases.

Following up on Schnabel’s work, esteemed nutritional scientist Dr. George Kohler and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin were studying the differences in the nutritional value of cow’s milk produced at different seasons of the year. The researchers discovered that laboratory animals fed summer milk thrived, but became sick and died when given winter milk. Clearly, the higher nutritional value of the summer milk was found to be due to the young grasses cows grazed on in the spring and summer. Thus began research on the Grass Juice Factor, thought to be responsible for this growth effect.

Meanwhile, at the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Mott Cannon and his colleagues found that guinea pigs failed rapidly when fed a stock ration plus high levels of all the then-known nutrients. Wheatgrass expert author Steve Meyerowitz notes, “When the researchers added standard food supplements such as liver extracts, wheat germ, and brewer’s yeast to the animals’ diets, the guinea pigs remained sick and often died. Addition of dehydrated grass or grass juice brought about dramatic recovery and stimulated growth in these animals.”

Unfortunately, World War II changed that. After the end of the war, large corporations influenced American eating habits and medical choices towards chemicals and drugs, and the companies Dr. Schnabel was associated with discontinued distribution of his grass products. By 1950, Americans had been shifted from a natural to a synthetic approach to health care, and it wouldn’t be until the 1970s that natural grasses would make a comeback, largely due to a few committed individuals. Today you can find fresh wheat grass juice in most natural foods stores and juice bars because of those pioneers, and for good reason.

REFERENCES: Cannon, M. & Emerson, G. “Dietary requirements of the guinea pig with reference to the need for a special factor.” The Journal of Nutrition, 1939:18:155-167. Graham, W., et al. “Grass as a Food: Vitamin Content.” Paper presented April 10,1940, at the 99th meeting of The American Chemical Society. Kohler, G., et al. “Growth stimulating properties of grass juice.” Science, May 8,1936:445. Schnabel, C. “The biologic value of high protein cereal grasses.” Paper presented to the biologic section of the American Chemical Society in New York, April 22,1935.

Becoming Healthy with Wheatgrass

2009-05-16T07:46:00.006+08:00

All of us should get back to good health, the natural and preventive way. In this day and age, getting sick can be expensive, or worse, might even cost you your job. So many products today give many promises but in my opinion, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Last year, I was introduced to this "miracle food" called wheatgrass. I consider myself a healthy person (at least that's what I thought) and my regular annual executive checkup was essentially "ok". I did find though that as I was getting older (I'm 37 years old now), my energy level wasn't the same as it used to be. My BMI (body mass index) was also above normal treshold, so I was a little overweight. My doctor wanted me to bring down my weight to 165 lbs from about 180 then. Ofcourse I thought it was a crazy idea, the last time I weighed that much was when I was still in college.

So I did consider trying wheatgrass, but didn't want the hassle of juicing it myself. Good that with the advent of technology, there was now a powder version of wheatgrass which you mix with water and drink straight up. I expected a really "grassy" taste, but to my surprise it wasn't that "grassy" :-). I also tried the powder version with honey and it gave a natural sweet taste.

Drinking wheatgrass first thing in the morning gave my body a certain "kick". I noticed that I was able to go through 10 hours in the day without a drop of energy, and the usual sleepy feeling after lunch wasn't there anymore. I also did notice that my bowel movement became more regular. After a month of drinking wheatgrass, I started to lose a few pounds ...

The active component of wheatgrass if you recall elementary science is Chlorophyll. Advocates call it the natural green blood, because of its resemblance to the chemical composition of Heme, our own blood. The similarity of the molecular structure between Chlorophyll and Heme results in the effective assimilation of phytonutrients by the body and makes it a powerful blood purifier

Why do they call it Miracle Food? Studies done show that 15lbs of wheatgrass is equivalent to eating 350lbs of veggies! Imagine that, it is difficult to eat that much vegetables but it is certainly easy to drink one glass of wheatgrass daily.

Wheatgrass has been used historically by patients of cancer and other diseases for years to get back to good health. Certainly, this topic is a controversial one but there are many many cases of testimonials around the world on this. I for one have met a Lupus survivor here in Manila, a 19-year old student who after using conventional medicine and burning through cash, she didn't get well. After taking wheatgrass twice a day for 5 months, she got healed!

My personal experience after 5 months of wheatgrass and doing a 3-Day Detox (more to this in another article) is I lost 20 lbs, and now back to a normal BMI of 24.75. And the reason I'm sharing this with you is because it really works!

To Good Health,

Wheatgrass Man

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