A healthy eating plan differs from the idea of “dieting”. For one thing, it’s not based on depriving yourself of anything that your body craves.

It all starts with Healthy Food

It’s also not a menu of recipes recommended to you to eat at certain times of the day.

A healthy eating plan is more like healthy ways of eating and healthy foods you can add to your diet, which may naturally change the way you eat and what you choose to eat over time.

A healthy eating plan involves an educational process – the more you understand about the foods you eat, the more you will naturally make healthier choices without feeling deprived in any way.

A good balance of alkaline vs. acid in your diet is as essential to a healthy eating plan as getting enough essential vitamins and minerals. In general, it is important to eat a diet that contains both acidic and alkalizing foods. People vary, but for most, the ideal diet is 75 percent alkalizing and 25 percent acidifying (foods by volume).

Living juice, living food and pure water are 3 essential ingredients for anyone embarking on a healthy eating plan.

Living Juice

Living juice is fresh juice, not packaged or processed, that’s made with a “living juicer”, that is a non-centrifugal juicer or cold press juicer. Centrifugal juicers create friction heat and destroy vital nutrients and enzymes, whereas cold press juicers create a juice which is brimming with life and vitality.

Living Foods

Living foods such as fresh sprouts are very high in enzymatic activity. Green sprouts are rich in chlorophyll and are the best for cleansing and detoxifying the system. Sprouted grains give us Chromium for weight stabilizing, vanadium, and manganese for nerve function, selenium that many people are deficient in, B vitamins, essential amino acids lysine and methionine.

Pure Water

The importance of pure water cannot be underestimated in the quest for good health. In most cases, the body is very resilient to illness and disease and the body’s kidneys are designed to take on the job of purifying when we put impure foods, air and water into our bodies, it’s true. But both the World Health Organization and the National Cancer Institute suggest that most human cancers, perhaps as many as 90% are caused by chemical carcinogens in the environment and unpurified water is full of contaminants from farming, industry, pollution, water treatment, etc.

Conclusion

A healthy eating plan is essential for long term quality of life and when combined with a balanced exercise routine, you can create your own sustainable recipe for a long and healthy life.

Vitality 4 Life is a world leader the design and distribution of products for a healthy home. Our criteria remains simple; the product must offer the customer superior value and quality, deliver genuine health benefits and be made in a way that recognises the scarcity of our planets resources.

During the past 15 years we have never forgotten why we started Vitality 4 Life and our belief in the healing power of living food, living juice, pure water, fresh air and sunshine.

“The most fundamental action a person can take that will dramatically increase their vitality is to increase the amount of Living Food and Pure Water they consume.”
Roger Akins, founder of Vitality 4 Life

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Broccoli Sprouts are the highest known dietary source of the potent Anti-Cancer phytochemical, Sulphoraphone (antioxidant), containing 10-100 times more than the mature broccoli head.

The sprouts also contain Sinigrin, a substance that is believed to persuade Pre-Cancerous cells to commit suicide, especially in the Colon.

PAUL TALALAY, the John Jacob Abel Distinguished Service Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, joined the Hopkins faculty in 1963 as director of the department. His recent studies on prevention of cancer by raising protective and antioxidative enzymes have attracted much attention. In 1993, he organized the first laboratory dedicated solely to the identification and development of cancer-discouraging substances from edible plants, demonstrating with his colleagues that broccoli, which contains sulforaphane, enhances cancer-fighting enzymes. Dr. Talalay is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the American Philosophical Society, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Broccoli Sprouts contain Lysine, Isoleucine, and Vit. A, C, E, K, B1, B2, Folic Acid. Quercitin, Alpha-Carotene, Lutein.

Broccoli Sprouts

Pregnant? Eat broccoli sprouts.

If you’re pregnant, you can pass good heart health on to your child by adding some crunchy, tasty broccoli sprouts to your diet, according to new findings from an animal study published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal (2006, vol. 20, no. 2). To help your baby cash in on the benefits of glucoraphanin, a compound in broccoli sprouts, munch on 200 grams of sprouts every other day during pregnancy. And don’t substitute mature broccoli; sprouts contain up to 50 times more glucoraphanin than the adult plant.

Care & Use of Broccoli Sprouts

Check seeds for stones and rinse
Soak for a few hours
Rinse seeds 2 – 3 times daily
1 Tablespoon seeds = 2 cups of sprouts
Ready in 5 days
Harvest when sprouts are 20mm to 30mm (1-1 ½”) long

15gms sprouts are sufficient for one daily serving.

Culinary uses: In Sandwiches, Filled Rolls, Pita bread, Entrees, Salads. In winter they are delicious on hot soup. Mildly, hot, peppery type taste really livens up boring sandwiches and our all time favourite is broccoli, red cabbage and clover sprouted together, as they really seem to compliment each other.

*Disclaimer: This information is derived from the writings of doctors and research scientists and is not meant to replace the services of your physician, but offered as educational information.

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Dr Brian Clement, Hippocrates Health Institute, Florida

Dr. Brian Clement, MD Hippocrates Health Institute, Florida

Dr Brian Clement, Hippocrates Health Institute, Florida promotes the use of wheatgrass at his clinic.

“The healing qualities of sprouts especially when juiced are evident, as sprouts are the most alive of the living foods”. Dr Brian R. Clement, Director Hippocrates Health Institute, Florida.

Wheatgrass juice was chosen for its healing properties by Hippocrates Health Institute founder Ann Wigmore 50 years ago and remains an integral part of the detox programs offered there today. The juice is consumed orally and used in enemas and rectal implants.

Dr Brian Clement offers this advice on how to drink wheatgrass…

Drink wheatgrass juice in small amounts throughout the course of the day, always on an empty or nearly empty stomach. In general, 60 – 120 mls every day or every other day is sufficient. Slowly sipping small quantities of the juice gives your body an opportunity to get used to its taste and effects. Taking 30 – 60ml drinks straight or mixed with other juices (Greens only) and sipping slowly will help prevent nausea or stomach upset. On a healing regime, we suggest you drink 30 – 60 mls up to three or four times a day with one day of rest periodically. As a general rule, more is not better.  60 mls at any one given time is all any one person will need.

Wheatgrass Shots

Dr Ann Wigmore

Dr Ann Wigmore was a pioneer in the use of wheatgrass juice and living foods for detoxifying and healing the body, mind and spirit.

She stated that ‘a living food diet turns the body chemistry from acid to alkaline, thus it also establishes the bodily biochemical balance for spirituality’ and ‘one gift of nature; chlorophyll, more closely approximates a miracle food than any other we’ve encountered’.

Remarkably similar to our own blood, an important nutritional aspect of chlorophyll is its similarity to haemoglobin; the compound that carries oxygen in the blood. Dr. Hagiwara, a Japanese science and health educator, is a leading advocate for the use of grass as food and medicine. He reasons that since chlorophyll is soluble in fat particles, and since fat particles are absorbed directly in to the blood via the lymphatic system, that chlorophyll can also be absorbed in this way. In other words, when the “blood” of plants is absorbed in humans it is transformed into human blood, which transports nutrients to every cell of the body.

Wheatgrass juice contains liquid oxygen. Oxygen is vital to many body pro¬cesses: it stimulates digestion (the oxidation of food), clearer thinking (the brain utilizes 25 percent of the bodily oxygen supply), and protective oxygenation of the blood (a defence against anaerobic bacteria). Cancer cells cannot exist in the presence of oxygen.

In The American Journal of Surgery (1940), Benjamin Cruskin. M.D. recommended chlorophyll: to clear up foul-smelling odours, neutralize strep infections, heal wounds, hasten skin grafting, cure chronic sinusitis, over¬come chronic inner-ear inflammation and infec¬tions, reduce varicose veins and heal leg ulcers, eliminate impetigo and other scabby eruptions, heal rectal sores, successfully treat inflammation of the uterine cervix, get rid of parasitic vaginal infections, reduce typhoid fever, and cure advanced pyorrhoea in many cases.

Wheatgrass neutralizes toxic substances like cadmium, nicotine, strontium, mercury and polyvinyl chloride, increases red blood cell count, lowers blood pressure, cleanses the blood, organs and gastrointestinal tract of debris. It stimulates metabolism and bodily enzyme systems in enriching the blood by increasing red blood cell count, and in dilating the blood pathways throughout the body, reducing blood pressure.

The thyroid gland is also stimulated and normalized by the use of wheat grass juice – an important step toward the correction of obesity, indigestion and a host of other complaints.

Its abundance of alkaline minerals helps reduce overacidity in the blood. It can be used to relieve many internal pains. It has been used successfully to treat peptic ulcers, ulcerative colitis, constipation, diarrhoea, and other complaints of the gastrointestinal tract.

The enzymes and amino acids found in wheatgrass can protect us from carcinogens like no other food or medicine can. It strengthens our cells, detoxifies the liver, bloodstream, and chemically neutralizes environmental pollutants.

Recent studies show that wheatgrass juice has a powerful ability to fight tumours without the usual toxicity of drugs that also inhibit cell-destroying agents. The many active compounds found in grass juice can cleanse the blood and neutralize and digest toxins in our cells.

Whether you have a cut finger you want to heal or you desire to lose five pounds, enzymes must do the actual work. The life and abilities of the enzymes found naturally in our bodies can be extended if we help them from the outside by adding exogenous enzymes, like the ones found in wheatgrass juice.

Wheatgrass implants have been known to reverse damage from inside the lower bowel. In the case of illness, they stimulate a rapid cleansing of the lower bowel and draw out accumulations of debris.

One enzyme found in wheatgrass; SOD, lessens the effects of radiation and acts as an anti-inflammatory compound that may prevent cellular damage following heart attacks or exposure to irritants.

Applied externally, wheatgrass juice is soothing and healing for cuts, burns, scrapes, rashes, poison ivy, athlete’s foot, insect bites, boils, sores, open ulcers and tumours. It will soothe sunburned skin and also acts as a disinfectant. Rubbed into the scalp before a shampoo, it will nourish damaged hair, soothe itchy, scaly scalp conditions and can help eliminate itching almost immediately.

As a relaxant, placing a tray of living wheatgrass near the head of your bed, will enhance the oxygen in the air and generate healthful negative ions to help you sleep more soundly.

As a gargle, wheatgrass can be used as a preventative for gum disease.

Fresh Wheatgrass

Wheatgrass will cleanse your blood and help rejuvenate aging cells, slowing down the aging process, restoring fertility and promoting youthfulness. Daily consumption of Wheatgrass and sprouts can turn grey hair to its natural colour again, and give you a limitless energy level and it will help tighten loose and sagging skin.

Just soaking in it can double your red blood cell count…Dr. Bernard Jensen, found that none of the blood builders are superior to green juices and Wheatgrass. In his book Chlorophyll Magic from Living Plant Life, he mentions several cases where he was able to double the red blood cell count in a matter of days merely by having patients soak in a chlorophyll-water bath. Blood building results occur even more rapidly when patients drink green juices and Wheatgrass regularly.

Ann Wigmore on her own experience with wheatgrass states that “At fifty years of age my hair was grey, I had a terrible case of colitis and other colon problems, I suffered from low energy and had no clear direction in life. Out of desperation I turned to nature for relief. …In Wheatgrass, raw foods and exercise, I found what I feel is as close to the fountain of youth as we are going to get. Twenty-five years after my discovery, my hair was turned fully natural brown again. My weight has been a stable 119 and my energy level is limitless”.

What’s So Great About Wheatgrass Juice?

• Wheatgrass juice is 70% chlorophyll.
• Chlorophyll is the first product of light and contains more light energy than any other element.
• Wheatgrass juice is crude chlorophyll and can be taken orally and as a colon implant without toxic side effects.
• Chlorophyll is the basis of all plant life.
• Wheatgrass is high in oxygen like all green plants that contain chlorophyll. The brain and all body tissues function at an optimal level in a highly-oxygenated environment.
• Chlorophyll is anti-bacterial and can be used inside and outside the body as a healer.
• Dr. Bernard Jensen says that it only takes minutes to digest Wheatgrass juice and uses up very little body energy.
• Science has proven that chlorophyll arrests growth and development of unfriendly bacteria.
• Chlorophyll rebuilds the bloodstream. Studies of various animals have shown chlorophyll to be free of any toxic reaction. The red cell count was returned to normal with 4 to 5 days of the administration of chlorophyll, even in those animals which were known to be extremely anaemic or low in red cell count.
• Farmers in the Midwest who have sterile cows and bulls put them on Wheatgrass to restore fertility. (The high magnesium content in chlorophyll builds enzymes that restore the sex hormones.)
• Chlorophyll can be extracted from many plants, but wheatgrass is superior because it has been found to have over 100 elements needed by man. If grown in organic soil, it absorbs 92 of the known 102 minerals from the soil.
• Wheatgrass has what is called the grass juice factor, which has been shown to keep herbivorous animals alive indefinitely.
• Dr. Ann Wigmore has been helping people get well from chronic disorders for 30 years using wheatgrass.
• Liquid chlorophyll gets into the tissues, refines them, and re-makes them.
• Wheatgrass juice is a superior detoxification agent compared to carrot juice and other fruits and vegetables. Dr. Earp Thomas, associate of Ann Wigmore, says that 15 pounds of wheatgrass is the equivalent of 350 pounds of carrots and other vegetables.
• Liquid chlorophyll washes drug deposits from the body.
• Chlorophyll neutralizes toxins in the body.
• Chlorophyll helps purify the liver.
• Chlorophyll improves blood sugar problems.
• Wheatgrass juice cures acne and even removes scars after seven to eight months of treatment. The diet must be improved at the same time.
• Wheatgrass juice acts as a detergent in the body and is used as a body deodorant.
• A small amount of wheatgrass juice in the human diet prevents tooth decay.
• Wheatgrass juice held in the mouth for 5 minutes will eliminate toothaches and poisons from gums.
• Gargle with wheatgrass juice for a sore throat.
• For pyorrhea of the mouth; lay wheatgrass pulp soaked in juice on diseased area in the mouth or chew and spit out pulp.
• Drink Wheatgrass juice for skin problems such as eczema or psoriasis.
• Wheatgrass juice keeps the hair from greying.
• By taking Wheatgrass juice, one may feel a difference in strength, endurance, health, and spirituality and experience a sense of well-being.
• Wheatgrass juice improves the digestion.
• It is great for blood disorders of all kinds.
• Wheatgrass juice is high in enzymes.
• Wheatgrass juice is an excellent skin cleanser and can be absorbed through the skin for nutrition. Pour green juice over your body in a tub of warm water and soak for 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse off with cool water.
• Wheatgrass implants (enemas) are great for healing and detoxifying the colon walls. The implants also heal and cleanse the internal organs. After an enema, wait 20 minutes, then implant 120 mls of Wheatgrass juice. Retain or 20 minutes.
• Wheatgrass juice is great for constipation and keeping the bowels open. It is high in magnesium.
• Dr. Birscher a research scientist, called chlorophyll “concentrated sun power.” He said, “Chlorophyll increases the function of the heart, affects the vascular system, the intestines, the uterus and the lungs.”
• According to Dr. Birscher, nature uses chlorophyll as a body cleanser, rebuilder and neutralizer of toxins.
• Wheatgrass juice can dissolve the scars that are formed in the lungs from breathing acid gasses. The effect of carbon monoxide is minimized since chlorophyll increases haemoglobin production.
• Wheatgrass juice reduces high blood pressure as it enhances the capillaries.
• Wheatgrass juice can assist to remove heavy metals from the body.

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