Saturday, December 13, 2008

Reaping The Nutritional Benefits Of Wheat Grass

By Chris Channing

You can go through most of your life not knowing that the foods you eat can really do damage to your body. You can be raised on really bad foods because most of the older generations believed in full meals or were plainly raised on bad food choices themselves and believe to be healthy. When you make bad food choices, you increase the chances of cancers and other illness. Wheat grass is one of the foods that you can simply add to your existing diet as well as include in a healthier eating plan to promote wellness.

Consuming the common wheat plant is safe for humans as well as many other animals. A juice can be derived from the blades of the plant or it may be dried to powder for use in many different ways. Many experiments on the health benefits of wheat grass were conducted on sick dying chickens in the 1930's. The experiments showed that wheat grass used as a supplement to the normal diets of the chickens healed and improved their conditions, as well as providing enough nutrition for them to produce more than double the eggs than normal chickens without the supplement did.

Any person that grows wheat grass on their own will probably wait about 7-14 days before consuming the plant. Commercially grown wheat grass is grown slowly for 200 days to reap the most out of its peak nutritional stage before flowering and producing seed. The colder climate between winter and spring provide harsher conditions that make the plants draw more nutrients from the ground during this period.

Many benefits are known about consuming wheat grass as a food and supplement. Improved digestion function, constipation relief, diabetes and heart disease as well as removal of heavy metals from the bloodstream are some of the illness and conditions known to be improved by using wheat grass under normal dosing conditions. General wellness is promoted with the usage of wheat grass in your diet.

You can get the same nutritional content of about two pounds of green vegetables in only an ounce of powdered or juiced wheat grass. If you want to maintain a healthy colon, you can really benefit from the high chlorophyll content of wheatgrass. Scientific studies on chlorophyll suggest that it can help to prevent colon cancers.

Wheat grass also possesses detoxifying properties when consumed in normal to high amounts. Wheat grass contains more protein than broccoli and spinach and has large quantities of vitamin E. Many different cancers and illness can be prevented by vitamin E because of its ability to remove free radicals from the body. There is approximately 880mcg of vitamin E contained in a single ounce of wheat grass.

Closing Comments

You can use wheat grass to really strengthen up your body and supplement your immune system. Many people believe in wheat grass so much that they make sure to include it in every meal.

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