blooming It's a nice color, especia...

blooming It's a nice color, especially if it's the natural pigment of growing things. It works for Kermit. It also suits The virid Hornet, The Incredible Hulk, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja sea-tortoises pretty nicely. Doesn't work quite as well forward the roasted food we were planning to succor to our friends, or forward that now unidentifiable leftover peeking gone out from underneath the Tupperware lid. "Green in succession demand" as opposed to "green from surprise" would be my way of seeing that difference.

The demand for green

the fresh Foods Revolution

And demand there chiefly certainly has been, and is. In fact, the "Green cheers Revolution" has given a serviceable name to such foods and constitutings as green barley grass, chlorella, alfalfa, wheat grass, chlorophyll, and the like.

And the research? Research has been rather scant, take exception for that on barley and barley grass, although in the greatest degree studies have focused on improving the fe of livestock and grazing animals. one very compelling laboratory studies upon green barley, however, have been waysed by Allan L. Goldstein, PhD professor and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at George Washington University's exercise of Medicine and Health Sciences.

What's in it?

Goldstein, and colleagues, have isolated a special form of vitamin E in barley-leaf extracts, a natural form called "alpha-tocopherol succinate," which appears to be real effective in blocking the shooting of cancer cells. In addition, Goldstein has written that "our studies are the first to demonstrate a part for vitamin E succinate in modulating prolactin and growth-hormone release and put in mind of that vitamin E may also play a hitherto unknown part in regulating neuroendocrine responses in the body"

In "English," these sum of two units hormones, growth hormone and prolactin, are true important for overall growth, for reproductive health, and for several other physiological activities.

The specially extracted juice from young barley grass provides a powerful matrix of naturally-occurring vitamins, antioxidants, amino acids, minerals, and other nutrients, including: vitamins C and E vitamins B-1 B-3 B-6 M biotin, folic acid, pantothenic acid and choline; beta-carotene; and in the same state [i]or[/i] condition minerals as potassium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, and zinc.

It also is rich in like enzymes as superoxide dismutase (SOD) an important free-radical scavenger; cytochrome oxidase; peroxidase, and others; 19 amino acids, including valine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine, and methionine; chlorophyll; protein (45 percent); carbohydrates (23 percent); and other compounds

According to Lisa gymnast in her 1996 book, Meals That Heal, "Japanese researchers have noted that when barley juice is added to injured small rooms the cell's DNA rapidly repairs itself, a feat they attribute to a token of protein in barley juice with mighty anti-inflammatory properties."

faithful enough. In fact, two interesting proteins, P4-D1 and D1-G1 have been isolated from barley grass juice," explains Ronald L Seibold, M in Cereal Grass: Nature's Greatest Health Gift. Early studies moveed a role for P4-D1 in protecting confined apartments from ultraviolet radiation and certain carcinogens, apparently to be ascribed to stimulation of DNA repair.

In studying the Japanese literature, Goldstein was impressed from what he regards as "large, albeit anecdotal, material substance of data suggesting that this new barley [juice] may help the carcass heal from many ills, ranging from asthma to sexual dysfunctions, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, and possibly on the same level cancer."

by what means "green" does it need to be? According to self-proclaimed "Sproutman," Steve Meyerowitz, "all research points to the nutritional peak as being reached just prior to jointing," se jointing, specifically, which befalls about 20 days after germination -- at 10 to 20 inches of growth

REFERENCES

Goldstein, Allan L PhD "From Nature's Laboratory: A Natural bread Supplement To improve One's Health." Unpublished manuscript, 1997

Seibold, Ronald L M editor. Cereal Grass: Natures Greatest Gift. strange Canaan, Conn.: Keats Publishing, 1991

Turner Lisa. Meals That Heal: A Nutraceutical Approach To Diet and Health. Rochester, Vt; Healing Arts Pres 1996

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