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Everyone wants to look good, feel better, and have more energy. Yet we often
overlook simple dietary changes that can provide our bodies with the nutrients
they need to achieve the goals we want. A large body of scientific literature
suggests that the consumption of a diet of whole grains, legumes, vegetables,
nuts, and fruits along with a regular exercise program is consistently associated
with lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure and less obesity and
heart disease.
Even with the best of intentions, few of us eat the recommended five to eight
servings of fruits and vegetables everyday. Even the most sensible diet may
still lack a number of vital nutrients important to good health. Also, the foods
we eat impact the delicate acid/alkaline balance of our bodies. Factors, such
as stress, can increase the level of acidity within our bodies. By contrast,
most fruits, land and sea vegetables, herbs and spices are alkalizing, which
can help to bring our systems back into balance.
Your body needs Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) just like
it needs other essential vitamins and minerals. Essential fatty acids play a
role in everything from carbohydrate metabolism and proper immune function,
to brain and cardiovascular health and energy production. Essential fatty acids
regulate a large number of mechanisms including increasing the fluidity of cell
membranes and improving their "gate-keeping" abilities. These mechanisms
help keep toxins out and bring nutrients into your cells. Essential fatty acids
also influence the activation of cell genes, act as second messengers and produce
good eicosanoids; which help reduce inflammation in the body.
Studies underscore green foods well established, health-enhancing effects,
including: elimination of toxins (such as heavy metals), boosting of levels
of good bacteria (such as Lactobacilli) and boosting of immunity. Green food
concentrates such as barley greens, alfalfa, buckwheat, spinach, wheat grass
and aloe vera help to balance the body's pH level, offsetting the acidity caused
by many environmental factors. In addition to its nutritional value, green foods
detoxify our bodies of unwanted metals and impurities. Ounce for ounce sea vegetables
are higher in vitamins and minerals than any other food group. They are particularly
high in vitamins A, C, E, B1, B2, B6, and B12. Seaweed also contains ergesterol,
which converts to vitamin D in the body. In addition to key nutrients, seaweed
provides us with carotene, chlorophyll, enzymes, fiber and iodine. Seaweed’s
saltiness comes from sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron,
and a multitude of trace minerals found in the ocean. Spirulina also has phycocyanin,
a powerful antioxidant.
Land vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients and have
powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. In the last few years,
phytonutrients have been getting greater attention, as more and more research
uncovers just how powerful these nutrients are for our health. They are potent
in antioxidants that can neutralize free radical damage, and clinical trials
are now revealing that phytonutrients can enhance the strength of the immune
system.
Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale
and watercress are rich in glucosinolates, compounds that break down into indoles
and isothiocyanates (ITCs). Of these isothiocyanates, sulforaphane and sinigrin
are most commonly known. The unique components of cruciferous vegetables assist
the body in detoxification and preventing oxidative cell damage.
The Standardized Herbs in Vegetable Greens work collectively
to strengthen the immune system, act as powerful antioxidants, anti-inflammatories
and energize the body. The active ingredients in cranberry include chemical
compounds called proanthocyanidins; potent antioxidants that decrease bacterial
adherence to the bladder epithelium cells. Dandelion root has properties that
can detoxify the body and purify the blood. Polysaccharides from Astragalus
are used in the enhancement of the immune system by the use of glyconutrients.
It is known to be an immunostimulant, antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory
agent.
Fiber acts as a broom, sweeping the inside of the colon, taking
with it all the toxins and free radicals with it. Inulin, along with other dietary
fiber, has been shown to promote regularity. Scientists have suggested that
inulin and other fibers have potential health benefits that include improving
or maintaining colon health as a prebiotic, increasing the absorption of minerals,
particularly calcium, and improving immune function. As a dietary fiber, apple
pectin is helpful in maintaining good digestive health. Apple pectin also has
been shown to help eliminate heavy metals from the body.
Probiotics have been used for many years to increase the proportion
of protective microflora and to prevent and treat many health conditions. Fructooligosaccharides,
a prebiotic fiber, ferments in the lower digestive tract, acting as a food source
to the beneficial microflora that reside there. Prebiotics are critical to colon
health and the immune system. Besides improving digestion and preventing gas,
bloating, and bad breath, probiotics are beneficial in many other situations;
for example acidophilus may help boost immunity by encouraging healthy bacteria
growth while suppressing invading pathogens.
Enzymes promote absorption and assimilation. The importance
of digestive enzymes resides in the fact that the human body cannot absorb nutrients
in food unless digestive enzymes break them down. Black pepper extract then
enhances the absorption of the nutrients through the intestine. This ensures
that we get the greatest possible nutritional value from foods.
Ultimate Nutrition Vegetable Greens is a scientifically formulated
combination of over 62 phytonutrients from herbal extracts, prebiotics, probiotics,
plant enzymes, essential fatty acids (EFA’s), super green foods, and land,
sea and cruciferous vegetables. Vegetable Greens is dairy-free and is suitable
for vegetarians. Vegetable Greens contains no artificial flavors, colors, or
sweeteners, and has no hidden ingredients.
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