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Why should I drink wheatgrass juice?
Growing and juicing your own wheat sprouts is not only
decorative and fun, but also highly nutritional.
Wheatgrass is full of vitamins, minerals and amino
acids. The juice has many health
benefits due to the high concentration of chlorophyll,
Vitamins B-12, B-6, K & C, and beta-carotene.
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| Why Drink Wheatgrass Juice? | |
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Wheatgrass earned its reputation from people with terminal
illnesses who took it at the eleventh hour after
conventional medicine left them with no hope. In the 1970s
Dr. Ann Wigmore opened the Hippocrates Health Institute in
Boston, nourishing terminally ill patients back to health
with fresh squeezed wheatgrass. (See her story below) Dr. Charles F. Schnabel (1895~1974) chemist and agriculturalist, knew from his work with his farm animals and his research in the laboratory that wheatgrass boosts nutrition, builds good blood and strengthens immunity. More recently, there are many studies demonstrating the nutrition of grass foods, using both clinical evidence and testimonials. |
In the US there are numerous healing centers where
wheatgrass plays a key role in the diet. There are courses
run in the UK by proponents of wheatgrass and raw, living
foods
Wheatgrass has long been used like a herbal medicine ~ for its therapeutic and nutritional properties. Although wheat is the most popular, barley, oats and rye are equally potent.
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Why juice yourself?
Many juice bars today offer wheatgrass juice for sale but it can be on the expensive side. Juice bars typically charge between $1.50 and $3.00 per 1 ounce. (Shot) of wheatgrass. Powdered or dried wheatgrass is also very expensive, taste terrible and does not have near the health benefits of fresh wheatgrass. You can grow a tray of wheatgrass for as little as .30¢ which will yield anywhere from 10-12 ounces. That's less than .3¢ a shot! |
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| ANN WIGMORE | |||||
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Poor health
led Ann Wigmore to discover the value of raw foods for
herself. Twenty Six Years ago she established the
Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston (USA). The oldest
holistic health clinic in America, it takes 25 people at a
time on two-week courses to teach them how to be their own
doctor ~ and there's a waiting list. "Man is the only animal", says Dr. Ann in her categorical way, "who cooks his food. Primitive people still eat their food mainly raw, and if you watch any animal who is ill or in pain, it will go straight for to what is living and growing ~ grass." It took years of patient trials on herself, when she was ailing from ills like arthritis and colitis, to establish just which was the best grass. Wheat won the approval first from 2 animals first, a kitten and a cocker spaniel, who ran to it in preference to the others. Dr. Ann Wigmore trusted their intuition. She juiced the grass, which she'd grown herself, and "my shattered health experienced a miraculous recovery. Whereas before I was unable to work more than a few hours a day because of exhaustion and nervousness, the wheatgrass seemed to bring new alertness and energy into my body. No task seemed to be too difficult and work became a pleasure instead of a chore." "Friends agreed to try it. Without exception they all experienced more alertness, freedom from pain, peaceful sleep and longer working hours spent undisturbed by tired muscles or drowsiness."
Most of the people
who have followed in Dr. Ann's footsteps and taken the
sprout and juice "cure" (the Hippocrates Diet program is its
official title) have been as ill as she was.
People come from all over the world to stay two weeks at
the institute, some having been "given up" by medical
science. |
Ann Wigmore went further than any naturopath, vegetarian
or raw food addict. Cell Toxemia, due to nutritional
deficiency , she believes, is the only disease in western
man. All our degenerative illnesses are the result of this
process. Warnings such as fever, swellings and frequent
colds are usually suppressed until more serious
complications arise. Basic deficiencies, says Dr. Ann, come from cooked food and from the chemicals that we pile into our system.
So how do wheatgrass sprouts alleviate this situation?
At the Hippocrates they assert that it's a question of
life force. The sprouts are, says Dr. Ann, "a tremendous
source of life-giving enzymes." |
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If you have wanted to try wheatgrass juicing in the past but were put off by the high prices of other wheatgrass juicers, now is the time to purchase a quality, easy to use juicer at an affordable price. | ||||
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