Green Barley Leaf Powder
What is Green Barley Leaf Powder?:
Green Barley Grass is one of the green grasses and is the only vegetation on the earth that can supply sole nutritional support from birth to old age. When barley leaves are 12-14 inches high, they contain all the vitamins, minerals, and proteins necessary for the human digestion of chlorophyll. The true nutritional benefits are found in the young grass leaves. These leaves are harvested and processed into the final product. The leaves contain many of the vitamins, minerals, and proteins necessary for the human diet.
Barley grass is considered a whole food concentrate that is close to its natural state supplying the nutrients we require in a natural proportion. The colour reflects the abundance of chlorophyll and the similarity to other dark leafy vegetables. Eighteen amino acids are found in barley grass including Alanine, Arginine, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Proline, Serine, Threonine, Tyrosine and Valine.
All 8 of the essential amino acids are found in Barley grass. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are the major constituents of our body and are necessary for the continual cell building, cell regeneration and energy production that are necessary for life.
There are high amounts of vitamins and minerals in barley grass leaves. The vitamins found in Barley grass include beta-carotene, folic acid, pantothenic acid, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6 and vitamin C. The minerals include potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, phosphorus. manganese and zinc. There are many important enzymes found in Barley grass including the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and the new antioxidant 2”-O-glucosylisovitexin (2″-O-GiV). 2″O-GIV has been isolated and reported to have antioxidant activity equal to or superior to vitamin B.
Life Health Green Barley Leaf Powder comes from the South Island of New Zealand.
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Noni Juice and Digestion
What is Digestion?:
Digestion is the complex process of turning the food we eat into the energy we need to survive and creating waste to be eliminated. Digestion is the breaking down of food in the body into a form that can be absorbed and used or excreted. It is also the process by which the body breaks down food into smaller components that can be absorbed by the blood stream.
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Noni Juice and Our Liver
What is our Liver?: The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body, and it is also one of the most important. It is necessary for survival; a human can only last up to 24 hours without liver function. The liver has many jobs, such as changing food into energy and cleaning alcohol and poisons from the blood and it also makes bile, a yellowish-green liquid that helps with digestion.
The liver plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of other functions in the body, including glycogen storage, decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, and detoxification. The liver is also the largest gland in the human body. It lies below the diaphragm in the thoracic region of the abdomen to the right of the stomach and overlies the gallbladder. The adult human liver normally weighs between 1.4 - 1.6 kilograms and it is a soft, pinkish-brown, triangular organ.
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Travels to Niue Island
I have recently returned from a visit to Niue Island. I went to spend a week on the Noni orchard and the Noni juice processing plant, but as Niue is a place most people wouldn’t get to visit in their lifetime, I thought I’d share some observations.
Niue Island is situated 2,400kms north-east of New Zealand. It is 260 sq km, with a 64km coastline. Its highest point is 68m, and the Island has steep limestone cliffs rising out of the ocean. Niue does not have sandy palm-fringed beaches – the Island is surrounded by a reef, and swimming is only possible at low tide in the reef pools. There are 20,000 Niuens living in New Zealand, with only approximately 1,000 still living on Niue. There is only one commercial flight in and out of Niue every week, departing from Auckland, New Zealand at 10.00pm on a Friday night and departing Niue at 3.40am on a Friday morning.
Niue is a very scenic, beautiful place. The waters are unpolluted and crystal clear, with many tropical fish swimming in the reef pools. There is very little industry on the Island, so air pollution is also non-existent. Most food is shipped in , making items at the supermarket relatively expensive, and fresh fruit and vegetables are in short supply. There doesn’t appear to be a lot of topsoil covering the ground, which could explain the lack of fresh vegetables.
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Noni Juice and Cholesterol
What is Cholesterol?:
Cholesterol is a white, waxy substance which, despite its bad reputation, is essential for life. Without cholesterol our bodies could not manufacture a number of important hormones, and it also forms the outer membrane of some cells.
Our liver manufactures about 70 to 80% of our cholesterol, while the rest comes from the food we eat. In fact, our liver makes all the cholesterol we need, so if we eat too much or eat the wrong type of food, we get too much cholesterol circulating in our blood. It then gets stuck on the blood vessel walls, narrowing the vessels and increasing the risk of heart disease.
While a high saturated fat diet is the usual cause of a high blood cholesterol level, some people have a high level because of an inherited susceptibility. A high cholesterol level may also result from an under-active thyroid gland, chronic renal (kidney) failure, or excessive alcohol consumption.
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Noni Juice and Skin
What is Skin?:
Skin is the bodies’ largest organ, so taking care if it should be a priority for us all. Skin is made up of three layers, each with its own important role.
The outside layer is the epidermis. The bottom of the epidermis is constantly forming new cells which start to move to the top of the epidermis once they are completed. At the top of the epidermis, old cells die and eventually flake off, to be replaced with the newly formed cells. In fact, every minute of the day we loose between 30,000 and 40,000 dead skin cells from the surface of our skin!
The layer under the epidermis is called the dermis. The dermis contains nerve endings, blood vessels, oil glands and sweat glands, and also tough and stretchy collagen and elastin.
The third and bottom layer is subcutaneous fat. It is made up mostly of fat and helps our bodies stay warm and absorb shocks, such as bumps and bruises. The subcutaneous layer also helps hold our skin to all the tissues underneath.
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Compliance with Regulations
I’ve been off-air for a few weeks after a trip away …….. but that’s another story.
My topic of discussion today is compliance with the regulations that control the claims sellers are permitted to say about their products. As often happens, what appears a simple topic on the surface becomes more complex upon further thought, consideration and investigation.
What To Look For When Buying Noni
Carefully aged Noni juice should have a smooth, slightly acidic flavour. Even though flavour is not the main reason that people choose to use Noni juice, most people acquire a taste for it after time. If the flavour of well-aged, high quality Noni juice is just too much to handle, there is always the option of mixing it with either a berry or apple juice.
Fighting Heart Disease
The latest statistics available for global deaths from cardiovascular disease is from 2004, and that was scary enough. 16.7 million people worldwide died of cardiovascular disease in 2004. 8.6 million of these were women, with heart attack and stroke deaths responsible for twice as many deaths in women than all cancers combined. The WHO estimates than by 2020, 25 million people worldwide will die from cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD is now more numerous in India and China than in all economically developed countries in the world. The most disturbing statistic is that 50% of death and disability from CVD can be reduced by a combination of simple, effective national efforts and individual actions to reduce major CVD risk factors.
Stress
Stress describes a person’s physical or emotional response to demands or pressures they may experience in life, with common sources of stress including work, finances, relationships or illness. Stress can be a positive thing, helping an individual to grow, develop and be stimulated and take action. However, if stress exceeds a persons ability to cope, it can impact on their mental and physical health in a range of ways.
