Amazing Power of Live Green Foods!

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by Bera Dordoni, N.D.

Amazing Power of Live Green Foods!

 

http://www.bastis.org/articles/greens.shtml

 

Have you ever gotten the uneasy feeling there's more disease around

today than ever before? Well, you're right. There is.

 

Infertility is on the rise. Frightening, painful, deadly illnesses

such as cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and virulent viruses seem

to be everywhere. More Americans are more overweight -- dangerously

overweight -- than ever before. As David Sandoval of Green Kamut

Corporation says, " . . . if we were a frog or a lizard, we would

have been put on the protected species list already. " The question

is, why is this happening?

 

Common sense and a little thought can bring a number of contributing

factors to mind. Certainly, advertising is one:

we have gotten so confused and frightened by what we see on

television and read in various newspapers and magazines that we are

afraid to make any healthcare decision without our doctor's

approval. We think we're not intelligent enough to take care of

ourselves.

 

What we don't realize is that traditional American medicine is

crisis management via surgery or synthetic drugs. In other words,

most doctors are mainly taught how to suppress symptoms.

 

The problem with symptom suppression, however, is what it doesn't

do: address the root cause.

 

Medical doctors are trained to see the root cause of cancer, for

example, as cell mutation. Their approach, therefore, is to cut out

or kill off the mutated cells so they cannot spread and mutate more

cells. Admirable, but only partially effective.

 

The real root cause of cancer is a lack of oxygen at the cellular

level. Cancer cannot live in the presence of oxygen. Period. End of

discussion.

That's why doctors advocate no smoking and plenty of exercise:

these activities increase the amount of oxygen we take into our

bodies. But, again, this course is only partially effective, because

disease does not manifest itself over a short period of time. It

actually takes months, years, sometimes decades for a cellular

problem to incubate to the point that it takes command of our lives.

 

If we opt to suppress our symptoms rather than deal with the root

cause those symptoms are screaming at us to notice, we eventually

end up with disease. If, on the other hand, we want to live long,

healthy lives, we must take the responsibility ourselves to

interrupt those incubation cycles.

 

 

Green Foods

One common denominator that researchers have found in fully 95% of

people with diseases is a non-nutritious diet. We've all heard it a

million times, but just because it has become a cliché doesn't mean

it isn't still true: in the long run, we really are what we eat.

 

And, believe it or not, the road to disease can be altered and

incubation cycles disrupted simply by consuming living foods

(uncooked, non-pasteurized, minimally processed, live-enzyme

containing fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds) and green foods. In

fact, green foods alone have the capability of reversing the trend

toward disease.

 

So, what are green foods? They're that stuff we baby boomers have

been hearing about since we were little kids: deep green leafy

vegetables. Not vitamins or medicines, just deep green leafy

vegetables. Grandma knew what she was talking about when she told us

to eat our spinach so we could grow up to be strong like Popeye. The

power of the nutrients in deep green leafy vegetables to heal and

rejuvenate a body is unmatched by any combination of synthetic

medicines or supplements.

 

Green foods contain chlorophyll, the same green pigment found in

plants. In case you've forgotten your high-school biology,

chlorophyll is what makes life on earth possible. The oxygen we

breathe comes from the chlorophyll in plants. To bring it down to

its most simple terms: no chlorophyll, no human life.

 

Chlorophyll is identical to human blood with one exception: the

center element in chlorophyll is magnesium, whereas the center

element in blood is iron.

 

Some researchers claim that chlorophyll has the ability to release

magnesium from its center and absorb iron, and thus become

hemoglobin.

 

Chlorophyll literally becomes human blood. More blood means our body

has more ability to disburse oxygen!

 

" Plants are the " lungs " of the planet, " says Yoshihide Hagiwara,

M.D. in Green Barley Essence (Keats Publishing, 1985), " breathing

out the oxygen all animal life needs to live. Plants are also the

primary source of all that is of nutritional value. "

 

Chlorophyll not only increases oxygen levels throughout the body,

including the extremities, it also releases carbon dioxide, which

helps prevent disease incubation. Green foods take carbon dioxide

and carbon monoxide, the toxic byproducts of our breathing in heat

and pollution, and convert them into the oxygen. So it's a simple

equation: green foods = oxygen = the most powerful tool we have for

disease prevention and recovery.

 

 

Even the Side Effects Are Positive

Not only do green foods have heavy concentrations of chlorophyll

that oxygenate the body, they also have enzymes that rejuvenate and

are responsible for virtually every chemical reaction at the

cellular level.

 

When we increase our food's digestibility, we increase the speed

with which it is eliminated from our bodies, which, in turn, helps

eliminate illness. Here's why: as undigested food goes through the

intestinal system, it turns to waste, attaches itself to the

intestinal wall (sometimes hiding in little pockets) and becomes

toxic. Toxic waste is essentially slow-acting poison to the human

body.

 

When we start eating green foods, with their rich digestive as well

as antioxidant enzymes, those toxins that have built up over the

years (or decades) begin to slough off from their hiding places and

evacuate.

 

Once they're voided, the foods we subsequently eat will be fully

digested and fully eliminated. In other words, our guts will feel

better, our digestive tract will work better, and our calories will

turn more to energy than fat.

 

Besides digestive enzymes, green foods also contain potassium and

cell salts, which encourage the normal elimination process. We all

know we need fiber to help avoid or correct constipation, but the

recent trend of relying solely on fiber is actually

counterproductive. Fiber is bulky; too much bulk can literally

stretch the intestines out of shape, and, thus, out of proper

functioning. Potassium, on the other hand, causes the bowel to

contract, while sodium causes it to expand. Aha! A pattern of logic:

eating green food abundant in potassium and cell salts will cause

your intestines to contract and expand, which will gently squeeze

the bowel material downwards and . . . viola! Daily, easy

elimination. Does it get any better than that?

Well, actually, yes, it does.

 

Let's face it: over-acidity is a rampant problem in America. In

fact, based on the abundance of TV commercials for antacids, it

seems just about everybody in the country has acid indigestion.

 

What you may not realize, however, is that an overly acidic body is

just courting illness or disease. On the scale where human blood

must have a pH of 7.4 to be considered healthy and everything above

seven is alkaline while everything below is acidic, most of us

gobbling Tums® and Rolaids® probably fall somewhere between five and

six. Not good.

 

The ability to alkalize our body is one of the most powerful and

important ways of interrupting carcinogenic incubations.

 

Deep green leafy vegetables have that ability! They alkalize the

body, a distinct difference from the effect of an antacid, which

neutralizes digestive acids, often for hours. Consider this: you

have pizza for lunch, get heartburn, pop an antacid.

Later, when you eat another one of those hard-on-the-stomach

combinations you enjoy so much -- like a fast-food burger or even

homemade meat and potatoes -- those neutralized digestive acids are

still unavailable to go to work.

 

Your body hadn't digested lunch because you neutralized your

digestive acids, and now it also can't digest dinner. The entire

day's food joins the accumulation you've already got sitting in your

gut, and the whole mess festers.

 

More acid indigestion, requiring more antacids, leading to more

poison in your system, creating a more disease-friendly environment.

Given enough time: gastroesophageal reflux, diverticulitis, cancer.

 

Green foods, on the other hand, are not only easily digested, they

raise the level of alkalinity in the body to counteract the acidity,

all the while helping to detach and flush out any built-up toxins.

No surgery, no laboratory-developed drug, no chemically treated

supplement can get your digestive tract back on track as easily and

effectively as dark green leafy vegetables.

 

 

But Wait, There's More!

 

Some of the other " side effects " of green foods come from their

inherent and vitally important trace minerals. All too often, trace

minerals -- abundant in nature but disregarded by modern science

until recently -- are missing from the fast foods, packaged foods,

frozen foods, and processed foods we Americans tend to make the

basis of our daily diets.

 

A lot of today's diseases can be traced back to trace-mineral

deficiencies.

 

In fact, a lack of trace minerals is quite possibly the number one

cause of disease in Western culture today. Man has never yet created

a supplement or a synthetic " foodstuff " with the same benefits of

the trace minerals found in deep green leafy vegetables.

 

Chlorophyll is the only food perfectly suited to deliver and

maintain the appropriate amounts of magnesium and iron needed to

maintain good health to both men and women. Its magnesium, for

example, goes directly to the muscle tissue and can rapidly relieve

painful cramps.

 

By the way, when we get our minerals from plants -- that is, from

raw, dark green leafy vegetables -- we never have to worry about

them building up to a toxic level. The human body either utilizes or

eliminates green-food minerals; it never stores them.

It will store synthetic minerals, on the other hand, which can

ultimately lead to another kind of toxicity.

 

The best (and safest) way to take in trace minerals is in the trace

amounts found in green foods. Want proof? Look at any mineral chart.

You'll see the number one recommended source of virtually all

minerals and trace minerals is always deep green leafy vegetables.

 

Each and every trace mineral functions in relation to the other

elements of the body. Trace amounts of trace minerals enhance the

immune system by becoming the most efficient building blocks for T-

lymphocytes -- our defender cells. They literally create a rapid

response to disease by providing the raw material necessary to

manufacture those defensive enzymes.

 

Still not convinced? Okay, how's this: green foods are far richer in

assimilable calcium than milk. Calcium, as you know, leads to strong

nails and luxurious hair, not to mention stronger bones. Calcium can

even reverse osteoporosis. Of course, you could take a lot of trace-

mineral or calcium supplements.

 

Unfortunately, the calcium bioavailability in a supplement is only

a fraction of what you would get from a serving of green leafy

vegetables.

 

When new clients come to me with low-energy problems, I recommend

incorporating concentrated greens into their fresh-vegetable-juice

routine. Green juices have no calories, so they're not stored as

fat, they're used as energy.

 

Oh, and hypoglycemics and diabetics take note: drinking green juice

alkalizes the small intestine, which, in turn, regulates the passage

of glucose through the intestinal barrier.

 

Result: no blood-sugar problem -- naturally.

 

So, eat your spinach. Nibble on your broccoli. Chomp on your celery

and enjoy your kale and lettuce and leaks and scallions. And with

every bite, remember: you're taking a step toward protecting

yourself against cancer, heart disease, emphysema, diverticulitis,

adult-onset diabetes, and many other health problems. In a society

that is at once overweight and malnourished, green foods are the

best, easiest and most natural weapon we have in the fight to

prevent and reverse the trend toward disease.

 

 

No More Excuses!

" But I'm so busy... " " There's never any time... "

So you still think you can't take the time to prepare all those

leafy green vegetables, in spite of all the information you've just

read? GOOD NEWS! Numerous manufacturers recognize that fact. As a

result, they've come up with deep leafy green-food combinations,

filled with vibrant health and energy, that can easily be stirred or

blended into water or juice. Although there are many varieties and

manufacturers of these wonderful whole-food concentrates, they all

have one basic thing in common -- deep leafy green vegetables.

 

You'll need to taste them for yourself to know which one you like

best, or what gives you the best energy or makes you feel the best.

Several of them have me hooked, and I go back and forth from one to

the next for the variety in flavors. My favorites are listed below.

If you cannot find the product of your choice in your local health-

food store, visit their web sites for more information, or call the

toll-free numbers provided here.

 

Green Vibrance® by Vibrant Health Div. TAAG Ltd. Visit

www.vibranthealth.org. They can be reached at (800) 242-1835 if you

wish to place an order. For years my entire family has enjoyed the

energetic 'vibrance' provided by this product. They use only the

highest-quality ingredients.

ProGreens®, by Nutricology. Visit www.nutricology.com for more

information or call (800) 545-9960. This product is delicious and

provides just about every nutrient needed by living beings.

Green Kamut Corporation has several green-food products, all of

which work well together in a " plant-based nutritional program "

which the company will provide you with when you order directly from

them. To order call (800) 362-8482.

 

Miracle Greens™ states that they use only barley grass juice, not

wheatgrass juice, in their nutritious greens combination, due to the

fact that so many people are allergic to wheat. Their " nutrient-rich

super food " doesn't lack for any flavor due to this considerate

omission. This product really excites me, because it is so popular

that it is making its way onto shelves in commercial markets such as

Ralph's. It is also in many large health-food stores. If you cannot

find it in your local area, you can order it online by visiting

their website at www.miracle-greens.com, or call (800) 521-5867.

 

Green Foods Corporation carries the many formulas created by Dr.

Hagiwara. Delicious, but not for maltodextrin-sensitive individuals,

as their products are stabilized with this complex carbohydrate.

Most health-food stores carry these products, but if you have

trouble finding them, visit www.greenfoods.com. For further

information, call Dr. Bob at (800) 777-4430.

Green Perfection is a product I discovered recently filled with

rich, green vitality, and a creamy, delicious taste that mixes quite

well with other juices. Some of the green products must be shaken

well in a jar or blended in a blender in order to mix them without

clumps, but this combination appears to mix quite well even when

stirred. To order, ask to speak with Ron Constantine at (714) 639-

1238.

 

 

References

Corlett, Sandy D., Whole Food Concentrates... Nutrition & Diabetes,

1998, DRC Publications, Inc., Winter Haven, FL

Hagiwara, Yoshihide, M.D., Green Barley Essence, 1985, Keats

Publishing, New Canaan, CT

Kamen, Betty, Ph.D., Kamut: An Ancient Food For A Healthy Future,

1995, Nutrition Encounter, Novato, CA

Sandoval, David, The Healing Miracle of Green Foods, 1996, GKC,

Inc., Long Beach, CA

 

 

Bera Dordoni, N.D., is author of I Have a Choice?!; has her own line

of herbal formulations; is Director of BASTIS Foundation's Vitality

Program; and she conducts workshops at hospitals, wellness retreats,

national health conventions and expos. She counsels patients

suffering from AIDS, cancer, heart disease, fibromyalgia, chronic

fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, allergies, obesity

and other disabling and life-threatening illnesses. Many clients

were given no hope of recovery from their medical doctors. These

clients have succeeded in recapturing their quality of life.

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