The Benefits of Wheatgrass

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Wheatgrass is a dietary wonder: It contains loads of vitamins, and it may even stave off some diseases.

Have you ever watched cattle or horses grazing and wondered how such large, strong and downright magnificent creatures sustain themselves on a diet that’s primarily composed of grass? Well, I have, and the notion never ceased to amaze me…that is, until I did some research and found out just how much food value chlorophyll-rich grasses offer.

Of course, more and more folks are finding out about the outstanding nutritional value of raw foods such as fresh greens, sprouts, and — although it’s less well known than the others — wheatgrass, thanks to the tireless crusading efforts of a few nutritional scientists, most notably Dr. Ann Wigmore of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston. It seems that — as a young woman — Dr. Wigmore was once afflicted with gangrene in both legs. She cured herself through the use of nutrition-rich, freshly grown wheatgrass, and went on to become one of this country’s leading experts on sprout and wheatgrass therapy, a regimen that has been used in the treatment of nearly all chronic disorders.

The Benefits of Wheatgrass 

Nutritionally speaking, wheatgrass is one of the best of all grasses. It has the ability to absorb more than 100 elements from the soil (depending on the quality of the seed and the medium it’s grown in, of course), and is a rich source of vitamins A and C and the B-complex, as well as of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulfur, cobalt and zinc. What’s more, the food is abundant in vitamin B-17 (more commonly known as laetrile), a substance that’s said to selectively destroy cancer cells in the body.

In one of many studies conducted by Dr. Wigmore, two flocks of chicks were fed identical diets, but one group received a supplement of chopped fresh wheatgrass. Within a few weeks the chicks that were fed the supplement had grown much larger than the others, were more alert and had more feathers. Further tests with rabbits and kittens produced similar results.

  • Published on Jan 1, 1983
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