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Why Minerals Matter
Mar 15th
If there’s one group of foods that has the perfect balance of minerals, it’s dark, leafy greens — and that includes BarleyMax.
Dark, leafy greens are a good source of minerals, both macro minerals (that you need a lot of), and trace minerals (that you need in very small amounts).
Greens have lots of calcium, for example, and many of the greens also come with as much or more magnesium as calcium. That’s important because calcium without magnesium creates an imbalance.
Dairy ads, by the way, don’t mention how much you need magnesium with the calcium — because dairy doesn’t have magnesium.
Magnesium helps anything that is tight, cramped, or sore; it’s essential for muscle fibers to relax. And that means it’s also good for the heart.
Incidentally, many people following the SAD diet have low intracellular levels of magnesium, but people following The Hallelujah Diet tend to have good to excellent magnesium levels. This is because of the high amounts of leafy greens and BarleyMax that they consume.
On the trace mineral side, the amount of trace minerals in your greens depends on what was in the soil they were grown in.
For example, the barley grass used to grow BarleyMax comes from soils that are heavily composted and naturally fertilized. This means BarleyMax is a good source of the trace mineral chromium. It’s also a good source of many other trace minerals you won’t find on the label.
With all of its macro and trace minerals, it’s not surprising that BarleyMax has an amazing ability to protect human DNA. And yet, science has yet to explain how BarleyMax energizes, invigorates, and promotes whole-body healing.
One thing, however, is certain.
Empower your body with BarleyMax and you’ll never want to go back.
Your turn…
Do you consider BarleyMax a whole food or a supplement?
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Do You Speak Manganese?
Mar 8th
We hear this all the time…
“Manganese? Sure, that’s what you need to balance calcium, right?”
Actually, that’s magnesium.
Manganese is important, too, but nobody really knows what it does — even though you’re probably getting a ton of it every day on The Hallelujah Diet!
Manganese is found in generous amounts in spelt, brown rice, spinach, pineapple, oats, chickpeas, pumpkin seeds, and the kale used to make Hallelujah Acres Kale Chips.
It’s involved in protein and fat metabolism, and is important for the bone structure process, so we understand why people get manganese mixed up with the calcium/magnesium relationship.
Manganese is also a component of certain enzymes and is even thought to be an important building block of thyroxine, a thyroid hormone.
However, one of the most interesting things about manganese is its ability to change its structure. When the body is short on iron, manganese is turned into iron as needed.
This is why some health practitioners recommend taking manganese supplements for an iron deficiency.
This transmutation also happens when you sprout seeds that contain manganese. When the seed sprouts, the manganese in the seed is converted into iron in the young plant.
Manganese works well with B vitamins to give you a sense of calm and well-being; which would explain why a deficiency in manganese (though exceedingly rare) can result in convulsions, rapid pulse, tremors and a host of other nervous conditions.
In fact, some people eat manganese-rich foods or take manganese supplements to combat stuttering.
So, now that you know a bit about manganese, you can correct those who still think it’s magnesium! 
Your turn…
Did you know these things about manganese?
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Greens For Great Health
Feb 16th
Leafy green vegetables (including the barley grass used to make BarleyMax) stand out in population studies as being one of the major classes of vegetables that are most protective from disease (the others are cruciferous vegetables and onions and garlic).
In fact, green leafy vegetables have been shown to reduce disease risk including:
• squamous skin cell cancer in Australia
• gastric cancer in Sweden
• colorectal cancer across the USA
• colorectal adenomas in Tennessee
• breast cancer in China
• pancreatic cancer in San Francisco
• non-Hodgkin lymphoma across the USA
• lung cancer in women in Iowa
• diabetes in women
• coronary heart disease in women
• ischemic stroke in women
That’s because green leafy foods are nutritional powerhouses that are good sources of several nutrients.
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll is the green pigment in the leaves that builds better blood and helps bind carcinogens in the gut.
Carotenoids
Because of the dark green of chlorophyll, you don’t see the yellow and orange pigments of the carotenoids, but they’re in there!
And that means dark leafy greens are a good source of beta-carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A, or used by the body as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound.
Dark leafy greens also contain lutein, which helps keep your vision clear.
Folate
Green leafy vegetables are the best dietary source for folate (dry beans are another good source).
Folate is a critical B vitamin for synthesis and methylation of DNA.
It’s also needed to metabolize homocysteine, which builds up to damaging levels without adequate folate present in the body.
Calcium and Magnesium
Greens have abundant calcium, but many of the greens also come with as much or more magnesium as calcium.
This is important because your body needs magnesium to balance calcium. Ideally, your calcium-to-magnesium ratio should be 2:1.
Many people following a standard American diet have low intracellular levels of magnesium, but people following The Hallelujah Diet tend to have good to excellent magnesium levels.
So, drink your BarleyMax, eat your salads, make green smoothies, and enjoy the taste of good health!
Your turn…
What’s your favorite leafy green?
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Mainstream News Questions Dairy
Feb 22nd
Hallelujah Acres has long associated dairy intake with weak bones, but now a respected news agency has published a story supporting our position.
MSN.com recently published an article titled “Why Calcium Is Complicated” written by Barbara Seaman and Laura Eldridge, authors of The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause.
Though it does not advocate a plant-based, whole foods diet like Hallelujah Acres does, the article does deserve some merit for declaring that calcium derived from cow’s milk is NOT, with respect to preventing hip fractures, all it’s “cracked” up to be (pun intended).
Citing the fact that magnesium is required for the body to process calcium, the authors reveal that plant-based, whole foods (fruits and vegetables whose average calcium-to-magnesium ratio is of 1:1), are much better suited for those looking for extra calcium than dairy products.
Another problem with dairy products is salt, especially when speaking of cheese. “Kidneys have to let go of calcium in order to get rid of salt from the body,” the authors note.
The authors also cited the Nurses Health Study, which looked at various health patterns in 121,701 women. The study “found that neither milk nor calcium consumption seemed to make a difference when it came to preventing broken bones.”
That’s not to say that calcium is not important, especially for women. But the methods of getting calcium need to be re-examined.
As Dr. Robert Heaney, an endocrinologist and internist at the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, says, “The five best sources of calcium are food, food, food, fortified food, and supplements in that order.”
How To Make A Baby (Girl)
Jan 4th
Can what you eat determine the gender of your baby? A new study from the Netherlands says yes — about 80% of the time.
Participants included green leafy vegetables, fruit, rice, and mineral supplements in their diet several weeks before trying to conceive in order to increase their blood levels of calcium and magnesium (study researchers hypothesized that consuming a diet rich in calcium and magnesium in the weeks before conception may result in having daughters).
“We assessed the efficacy of a maternal diet low in sodium and potassium, high in calcium and magnesium, in combination with timing of intercourse well before ovulation as a method to improve the chances of conceiving a girl baby,” researchers said.
Some 32 couples completed the trial. To the researchers’ surprise, a full 81% (26 mothers) delivered girls.
“People now know that if they do everything we have suggested, their chances of having a girl will improve dramatically,” the researchers said. “This method is experimental, but we have proved it works.”
Boy or girl, having a healthy baby is the hope and dream of many would-be parents. Incidentally, we have received many testimonies over the years from infertile couples who were able to conceive once they adopted the principles of The Hallelujah Diet.
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