Finally Found It: Wheat Grass Juice for Colitis

If you walk into most health food stores, juice bars, or restaurants a loud grinding sound can be heard. Regular visitors will recognize this sound as wheat grass being macerated into a shot of bright green juice, usually an ounce or two. For this luxury of turning living grass blades into juice one might pay $2-4/ounce. Fans of wheatgrass juice indicate that an ounce of wheat grass juice has the equivalent nutritional value of eating or juicing 2 pounds of vegetables although this claim has been questioned (http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/WheatGrass.htm). Is there any support that demonstrates a benefit to the "cult" of wheat grass juicing for health? The story goes that Ann Wigmore used wheat grass juice to help heal herself of cancer and went on to found the Hippocrates Health Institute (http://hippocratesinst.org/wheatgrass-2). I have visited there and people from around the world travel to that site to use a raw food diet with daily wheat grass juice to maintain or better their health. It is impressive sight to see guests cut their own grass, juice it, and drink it all under 10 minutes from the roots being in the soil. Periodically I have searched for published medical evidence in peer reviewed journals examining the potential health benefits of wheat grass juice and was dismayed not to find too much. Of course, there is no wheatgrass lobby to fund such studies but the interest in wheat grass juice is quite large and well known. It appears that when you search ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news