Aloe Vera – Gift Of Nature And Powerful Healer
Aloe Vera has been used for thousands of years for treating burns, infections and parasites. The plant has been known 6,000 years ago to the Ancient Egyptians as the “lily of the desert”, the “plant of immortality”, and the “medicine plant”.
Today, Aloe Vera is being used all over the world in herbal medicine with an endless number of applications. Aloe Vera is non-toxic, with no known side effects. Both topic application and internal consumption are very effective and full healing therapies. The health benefits of Aloe Vera strong anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-biotic extracts are due to the presence of more than 20 amino acids, 8 vitamins, enzymes, minerals and other beneficial nutrients such as polysaccharides, mannans, anthraquinones and lectins.
There are few scientific studies of the plant’s medical properties as an immune system booster. The plant contains a newly discovered compound called acemannan which improves the number of T-lymphocyte cells that play a central role in cell-mediated immunity. Acemannan has been approved in Europe to stimulate the immune systems of AIDS patients. As an enhancer of all immune system, Aloe Vera can help fight cancer. Lectins and emodines contained in Aloe Vera destroy malignant cancer tumor. A Brazilian monk uses a mixture of Aloe Vera, bee honey and rum as a natural treatment to cure and to prevent several types to cancer.
Aloe Vera extracts have been documented to be effective in the treatment of wound and burn healing, to improve blood glucose level in diabetics and lower blood lipides in humans. A long array of disorders of the digestive system, skin and hair care, eye and gum care, skin disorders such as psoriasis, eczema, acne, wrinkles from aging, sunburns, bruises and frostbites are treated with Aloe Vera. Many people take Aloe Vera internally in congestion, intestinal worms, indigestion, stomach ulcers, colitis, hemorrhoids, cirrhosis, hepatitis, kidney infections, urinary tract infections, and prostate problems.
Aloe Vera extracts or dietary supplements contain three anti-inflammatory fatty acids that are healthy for the stomach. They are beneficial to people suffering from peptic ulcers, impaired digestion and stomach problems.
Boost your immune system, restore your health by using Aloe Vera everyday in your diet – a powerful healing source of more than hundred nourishing nutrients!
Must Buy Organic And Low Pesticide Foods
So which produce are Must Buy Organic?
Common growing practices make the crops shown on the left above and listed below the most likely to contain pesticide residues:
Try to buy these organic as much as you can!
1.Celery
2.Peaches
3.Strawberries
4.Apples
5.Blueberries (Domestic)
6.Nectarines
7.Sweet Bell Peppers
8.Spinach
9.Collard Greens/Kale
10.Cherries
11.Potatoes
12.Grapes (Imported)
These are the produce that, when grown conventionally, poses the least risk of exposure to pesticides:
1.Onions
2.Avocados
3.Sweet Corn
4.Pineapples
5.Mangos
6.Sweet Peas
7.Asparagus
8.Kiwi
9.Cabbage
10.Eggplant
11.Cantaloupe (Domestic)
12.Watermelon
13.Grapefruit
14.Sweet Potatoes
15.Honeydew Melon
Avocado Is Rich In Minerals And Nutrients
In his book Purseglove named the avocado ” …the most nutritious of all fruits.” (Purseglove, J. W. 1968. Tropical crops: Dicotyledons. Wiley, New York). The avocado fruit provides 20 vitamins, minerals (fourteen minerals), and phytonutrients.
Avocado is as a “nutrient enhancer” by allowing the human body to absorb lipophilic alpha and beta-carotene and lutein in foods that are prepared with the fruit. Adding avocado to salsa increases body’s ability to absorb health promoting lycopene and beta-carotene a few times higher than the amount of these nutrients absorbed from avocado-free salsa.
Avocado is rich in both monosaturated and polyunsaturated fat and contains potassium. Avocado is better than banana because contains more potassium and much less sugar. The fruit also is an excellent source of vitamin K, vitamin B6, vitamin C, folate, copper, and dietary fiber. One avocado contains 30 grams of fat (300 calories), but 2/3 of them are health-promoting monounsaturated fats, including oleic acid. Oleic acid is a monounsaturated fat that may help to lower cholesterol. A diet high in avocados may help decrease the unhealthy levels in total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, and increase the level of health promoting HDL cholesterol. Avocado meets the dietary guidelines of the American Heart Association, established to eat a diet that is low to moderate in fat.
By eating organic fresh avocados chopped in a salad, spreaded on sandwiches and toast or a few slices on a plate you lower your cholesterol level and increase your immune system!
Organic Hemp Is An Excellent Brain And Immune System Health Food
Hemp seeds are an excellent and healthy super food. Hemp is legally grown in recent years in the U.S.A., Canada, Europe, UK and Australia using a naturally selected strain of the plant, Cannabis sativa, which contains no detectable tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) the main psychoactive element that produces the “high” associated with marijuana. Established by law, the Canadian-grown hemp must contain less than .01% THC. This is the approved level that protects the consumers to get “high” from eating large amounts of seeds or ground powder.
Hemp foods are the highest source of easily digestible, essential fatty acids (EFAs) in the plant world better than nuts and cashews. Hemp seed oil contains 54.4% linoleic acid (Omega-6), 18.3% linolenic acid (Omega-3), 2-5% gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) and 1-2% stearidonic acid. Hemp seeds, rich in vitamin E and minerals, are 33% protein and contain all the essential amino acids and essential fatty acids. The seeds contain eight essential amino acids the human body cannot make and two that human body cannot make in a sufficient quantity in a perfect ratio of omega-6-to-omega-3 which are necessary to maintain brain health, memory, mood, and concentration.
Hemp’s ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 fatty acids close to 4 makes hemp products a wonder healthy food. This ratio of fatty acids and in particular omega 3 fatty acids is beneficial for the prevention of heart disease and cancer. Hemp seed protein contains 65% edistin – a plant globulin which is the highest content in any plant on earth. Human body uses globulin proteins to make antibodies that are the main entities to create a healthy immune system.
Eating raw, organic, pure hemp seeds provides the body all the essential amino acids required to maintain health and supply the specific amino acids to make immunoglobulins.
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