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March 30, 2016March 30, 2016

Wheatgrass: Step By Step Instructions on How to Grow Your Own

Wheatgrass juice is a powerful detoxifier and floods the body with vitamins and minerals. Many consider it to be one of nature’s finest medicines!

Wheatgrass is Liquid Sunshine… here are the steps to growing your own:

Purchase hard winter wheat in the bulk section of your local natural foods store or online.
Soak 2 cups of the wheat seed in unfiltered water for 8 – 12 hours or overnight.
Sprout the seeds in a jar for 20 hours, rinsing well and draining 3 times a day.
Spread 3/4 inch of organic potting mix in a planting tray with holes in the bottom.
Spread the sprouted seeds evenly over the potting mix.

Water the seeds/soil until water just begins to drip out the holes in the bottom of the tray. Allow this water to drain, and place another empty tray on top of the tray with seeds. This provides darkness to allow the seeds to begin to grow into grass.

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Place the covered tray in an area of your home that has indirect sunlight.
Water twice a day… just until the tray begins to drip.
After a day or 2, remove the top tray allowing the grow to grow and begin to green.

Cut and juice your wheatgrass when it is 6 or 7 inches tall (6 or 7 days).

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Wheatgrass has so many benefits!

Contains all minerals known to man and vitamins A, B-complex, C, E and K
Is a complete source of protein
Is a great source of chlorophyll
Stimulates your thyroid
Boosts metabolism
Alkalizes your body
Gives you energy
And so much more!

March 29, 2014December 11, 2015

Are You Sick and Tire of Feeling Sick and Tired?

Learn how the Living Foods Lifestyle can help you gain more energy, vitality and health!

It takes effort and energy for our systems to process raw materials into nutrients that the body can use for growth, repair, and regeneration. Part of this process is isolating the useful products from the useless, or even harmful ones found in food or produced by the digestive process. Most of us don’t even realize how much energy it takes to process and divest the food we eat. Ease of digestion becomes particularly important when there is illness or poor health. The body’s resources are being strained to their limits already in an attempt to restore or simply maintain health.

The extra burden of a difficult to digest meal can be very harmful in such situations, especially if the meal doesn’t even provide the full complement of nutrients needed by the body in its strained state, or even worse, introduces more toxins which the body must work to eliminate. And, even when the body is healthy, it only makes sense that if less effort is required for digesting, then there will be more energy available for other purposes.

The Living Foods Lifestyle was developed to provide foods that are most easily digested and to provide the most nourishment possible. Register for our upcoming Living Foods Lifestyle workshopswhere you will learn a lifestyle of vitality and health!

Young Greens… Buckwheat and sunflower greens top all other greens for nutritional content, ease of digestion and flavor.
Sprouted Nuts and Seeds… Sprouts are the most complete and nutritional of all foods tested including vitamins, minerals, proteins and enzymes. They also are regenerative to the body because of high concentrations of RNA, DNA and proteins.
Cultured and Fermented Preparations… Beneficial bacteria are desperately needed to maintain health. Antibiotics, chlorinated water and antibacterial soaps destroy our beneficial flora. These foods are also rich in enzymes and vitamins.
Wheatgrass Juice… A complete food because it contains every amino acid, vitamin, and mineral necessary for human nutrition.
Blended foods are broken down into a form ready for digestion, easing the work load of the stomach and small intestines. Learn to blend for maximal absorption!
Cleanse by eating loadsof greens at every meal and using enemas and colonics!

February 23, 2014December 11, 2015

Living Foods Workshops at Living Arts Wellness

Please Call to Register… Class size limited

When: March 19th through May 14th

Where: Living Arts Wellness, 500 South Whitcomb Street, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521

Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm

Cost: $300 (Includes all foods, instruction and written materials)

March 19 Introduction to Living Foods… This workshop will give you an overview of the nutritional system of Dr. Ann Wigmore. You will be given a manual, and we will discuss the digestive process and value of Living Foods. Come hungry because there will be delicious energy soup!

April 2 Growing Greens and Grasses… Young sunflower greens are mainly used for blending into energy soup. Baby shoots top all other greens for nutritional content and ease of digestion. Living Foods and wheatgrass go hand in hand. Wheatgrass is used to help the body heal itself in cases of disease, injury and toxicity. During this class, you will learn to grow both sunflower greens and wheatgrass… all materials provided.

April 16 Energy Soup!… The Living Foods lifestyle consists of more than just eating raw foods. The most important type of food preparation used in this lifestyle is blending. Blending breaks food down into a form ready for digestion, easing the load of the stomach and small intestines and allowing maximal absorption. And, greens and sprouts contain lots of fiber, and are often difficult to ingest in large quantities unless blended. This provides a concentrated source of nutrition than simple salads.

April 30 Fermented Foods… Learn to make rejuvelac and seed cheese. These fermented foods aid in digestion and serve as antioxidants when combined with other foods.

May 7 Sprouted Cereal… Cereals provide concentrated calories, protein, and high levels of B vitamins. Learn to soak, sprout, and dehydrate buckwheat and grains to make delicious, nutritious, and easily digested cereals!

May 14 Raw Luck!… We will gather for a raw potluck and will learn to make nut milks and a gourmet, raw dessert… Raspberry Pistachio Ice cream Pie! During this final meeting, we will talk about using living foods as a lifestyle and the benefits of using it as a cleanse.

December 12, 2013December 11, 2015

Juice Cleansing

Juice cleansing is an effective way to induce dynamic healing within the body. Over time the body fills with toxins and begins to work less efficiently. This is due to eating cooked and processed foods, bad food combining, high protein diets, eating late at night, stress, pollution and overeating. This leads to fermentation and harmful intercellular gases in the digestive tract. Juice cleansing is effective because the food is already broken down and essentially predigested. By cleansing the digestive system is able to rest and return to a homeostatic state because not as much energy is being consumed to break down foods.

A dirty digestive system is the root of degenerative and acute illness. By starting with the gut, we can start at the source. Juice cleansing allows a break from the exertion of digestion and thus increases vital force throughout the body. This vital force enables an immunological response by the body to cleanse and heal.

How It Works

Juice cleansing in particular can help boost immunity throughout the body because all of the foods that are in the juices are alkalizing. If done properly, all of the body’s needs are me through an ideal combination of protein, carbohydrates, fats, salts, vitamins, and minerals. The juice pulls endogenous acids (toxins) from body cells and restore them into the blood stream where they are expelled and processed through normal waste function.

Juicing is not for everyone. No two bodies are the same and it is important to honor your body and what it needs. Some individuals do better on a cleanse where they eat simple raw vegan whole foods. It is also important not to over cleanse or stay in the cleanse for too long. The body needs to be nourished in order to build and repair itself. By cleansing once a year and building strength through healing nutrition you can help your body thrive!

Written by Leanna Defere

October 23, 2013December 11, 2015

Growing Greens and Grasses Workshop Nov 13th 2013

Learn to grow your own wheatgrass and sunflower greens and sprout nuts and seeds. All materials included, and you will take a tray of wheatgrass and sunflower greens to grow at home. This is the beginning of a series of Living Foods Workshops including fermenting and culturing foods, making energy soup, and dehydrating.

Schedule online at online or call 970.472.0995 to register. We will be taking 10 students, $25 November 13th 6:00 – 7:15 pm

August 21, 2012December 11, 2015

Wheatgrass Has Many Benefits!

Incorporating wheatgrass into your health and wellness may prove to be one of the most effective practices known to humans. Health pioneer and “mother of wheatgrass”, Ann Wigmore, experienced this first handedly. Having witnessed her grandmother’s applications of plants, grasses and herbs, when Ann was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 50, she began using wheatgrass as a part of her healing regime along with what is now called the Living Foods Lifestyle ®. Within a year of committing to the lifestyle, Ann was cancer free. Having succeeded in her taking back her health, she continued to focus and learn about the healing properties of wheatgrass. Observation, investigation and promotion of its uses at her reputable co-establisments (the Hippocrates Institute & the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute) still exists today. At each of these healing facilities, the uses of wheatgrass are taught and implemented along with the Living Foods Lifestyle ® as well as for colon cleansing.

BENEFITS OF WHEATGRASS

-cleanses & builds red blood cells

-improves circulatory system, increasing oxygen supply within the body

-lowers blood pressure;normalizing blood pressure

-contains all the vitamins & most minerals need for human health & well-being

-complete protein, containing amino acids & active enzymes

-70./. crude chlorophyll

-dissolves tumors

-acts as an appetite suppressant because it provides adequate enzymes & nourishment

-improves energy & endurance levels

-anti-aging

-improves sex hormones

-builds muscle

-improves skin & hair

-detoxifies & regenerates the liver

-stimulates healthy tissue cell growth

-detoxifies the lymph system by break down of built up mucous in the lymph,

promoting flow of lymph fluid

-alleviates constipation because it keeps the bowels open & increases the elimination of mucous, crystallized acids and solidified & toxic fecal matter

-treatment of dandruff, eye/ear, vaginal infections, conditions of the skin

USES OF WHEATGRASS

-Drink on an empty stomach, and do not eat for at least an hour afterward.

-Wheatgrass is a diuretic. Drink juice no less than an hour before going to bed.

-Do not drink wheatgrass if you are dehydrated because it is a diuretic. Drink a large glass of water or Rejuvelac first.

-After drinking the juice, rest for a while. Nausea may occur because of it’s detoxification properties so lie down until the feeling passes.

-Drink it slowly.

-Begin with an ounce of juice at a time. Tolerance will likely increase and then you may be able to drink more.

-Do not develop a dependency on it, use it as a substitute for eating properly or as an excuse to indulge in unhealthy habits.

-Enjoy your juice at a time when you will be able to rest, relax and reap the healing benefits. Evening may be the best time for this.

-Try using wheatgrass externally and topically for wounds and burns.

Hope this is all insightful and inspirational information into to the wonderful world of wheatgrass and that you too, are having the craving for a shot of this potent medicine! Be well.

Resources:

http://www.juicing-for-health.com/health-benefits-of-wheatgrass-juice.html

http://annwigmore.org/

Author: Jen Ramirez

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