The Super Greens!

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Interesting read, enjoy!

Most health experts will tell you that the more greens you eat, the less likely you are to develop chronic diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. The problem? Most Americans don’t eat nearly enough nutrient-packed dark-green vegetables, so they can’t take advantage of their myriad health benefits, which include reducing inflammation, enhancing detoxification and helping maintain a proper acid-base balance in the body. So what, exactly, are supergreens? The most common types include young cereal grasses, including wheat, barley and alfalfa, along with algaes, such as spirulina and chlorella. Most are edible in their natural, unprocessed form, but since most American eaters are disinclined to chew on barley grass or add sea greens to their salad bowls, they are commonly offered in powder, capsule or juice form. Such greens products are typically made from grasses and algae harvested at their peak nutritional state. They are then dried at low temperatures and powdered. Sometimes, in the case of grasses, they are picked fresh for processing in juicing machines.

Because more than a pound of greens may be used to make a mere ounce of powder, cereal grasses and algae can offer a greater nutrient density by volume than the various green vegetables you’ll find in the supermarket produce department, according to Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, medical director of the Nutritional Magnesium Association. Cereal grasses and algaes are superabundant in chlorophyll, a chemical that lends plants their emerald hue and various nutritional benefits. “Chlorophyll can help escort cell-damaging toxins like dioxin from the body via the liver,” says Victor S. Sierpina, MD, Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor of Integrative Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch. “Additionally, it’s a key compound for improving the function of essential detoxification pathways,” he says. Also, many experts believe that chlorophyll can assist healthy blood flow because the chlorophyll molecule is similar in structure to hemoglobin.

http://experiencelife.com/article/supergreens/

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Better food costs money. Just stocked up on a few vitamin supps, but I'll be on the lookout for these.

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Alpha - Highly nutritious foods & the organics have the title "premium" attached to them unfortunately, thus making them expensive like you said. I find it interesting that it costs the same to grow an apple without all those herbicides, pesticides, larvacides & growth hormones, but the agri community is hell set on doing things the old way. More & more it's becoming clearer that nutrition & modern illnesses are symbiotic. While modern medicine is vehement for "a pill for every ill", completely disregarding nutrition & lifestyle in part. Doctors would rather continue the vicious cycle of prescribing one pill after another, rather than encourage alternative treatment. It's a gross misrepresentation of what medicine should be. So, it falls on us to take care of our bodies & invest a little more in better nutrition.

Most of us may be well fed, but we are also malnourished. Are you on vitamin D supplements? I take 2,000 IU's everyday. Along with vitamin B complex super combo & a B12 supplement. Gives me the energy I need for the whole day without succumbing to Red Bull.

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I'm on D 1000 IU, A 10,000 IU, B12 1000 Mcg and E 400 IU (thought I grabbed an 800). Twice a day. I chose these instead of a multivitamin. I've done this before, but I wonder if a multivitamin will do better. Numbers are a bit small in those though. Anyway, usually down em with a glass of OJ, for a bit of C.