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There are Biblical references that suggest that all we need eat is grass, the bounty of the Earth. Advocates of the Wheatgrass Diet don't go quite that far, but the benefits of wheatgrass are profound. And before you decide that grass for health is a far-fetched, California-nuts-and-berries hippie notion, better consider this: it's as based on Nobel-prize-winning laboratory work as on anything else. More on the lab work later. "GREEN, GREEN... IT'S GREEN THEY SAY..." One of our most common grains, (though 1.8 billion Chinese nationals prefer rice,) is wheat. Wheat is nutritious, wholesome and packed with vitamins and enzymes. The only problem is, by the time it makes it to the consumer, it too has been adulterated and is generally missing the real thing that we need in our diet: vital life energy. I remember what I learned from my friend Chris Blobaum, head chef at the toney Beverly Hills eatery, La Poubelle. I had done him a favor once and as a thank you, he wished to cook dinner for my lady friend and me at my home. I asked him if I could at least help him shop, so we went to the store together. We divvied up the shopping list and I returned to the cart location with my items, one of which was a cello bag of carrots. He was aghast. "Sorry, Michael," he said, "but those things are virtually useless. They've been dead for who knows how long. We call them 'horse carrots' and using them for horses may be cruel." Chris explained that no proper chef would use them. They have little taste. They have little nutrition. And they are devoid of life force. He said that is what makes a truly epicurean adventure: the life force and the intention in the cooking. He sent me back for real carrots, as he called them. Real carrots have tops on them, and though they are no longer in the ground, they are still alive. They are still processing oxygen with chlorophyll. They have their leaves on still and can do that. They have life force. He's right you know. Be well. |
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Michael Braunstein is Executive Director of Heartland Healing and certified by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners in clinical hypnotherapy. He graduated from the Los Angeles Hypnotism Training Institute and was an instructor at the UCLA Extension University for 11 years. Heartland Healing is devoted to the examination of various alternative forms of healing. It is provided as a source of information and not as medical advice. It is not meant as an endorsement of any particular therapy, either by the writer or by Heartland Healing Center, Inc. © 1997- Heartland Healing All Rights Reserved. |
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