FDA approves Barley Grass

GREAT NEWS: Food Drug Adminstration (FDA) approved Barley Products! About four months ago (December 23, 2005), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved food manufacturers to claim that any kind of barley reduces heart disease. Heart disease is the cause of almost 500,000 deaths annually. Risk factors for heart disease include high cholesterol levels and high levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Scientific research shows that adding barley to one's diet can help lowering the cholesterol level. This is good news for you to share with others! To visit the official news from FDA website: “FDA Allows Barley Products to Claim Reduction in Risk of Coronary Heart Disease” http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2005/NEW01287.html

Diarrhea and nausea when taking barley grass? Some of our members stopped taking our barley grass because they were having diarrhea or nausea. They thought that they are allergic to barley. What they are actually experiencing is positive! This reaction is part of detoxifying process in which barley grass cleans out the toxins in your body. If you happen to have similar experience, do not stop. Instead, reduce to smallest amount you can take and gradually increase until you are able to take 3 or more teaspoons a day.

Shanada experienced diarrhea and nausea for 3 days! When Ron started growing barley grass in the juice form back then, Shanada thought she was healthy enough to drink four cups of juice even when Ron warned her. Shanada ignored Ron’s warning and drank them. She had diarrhea and was nauseous for 3 straight days! Eventually, she doesn’t have any problems with diarrhea or nausea, even when she consumed more than four cups of juice.

Be patience while your body get used to the barley grass potency. You will be happy to continue taking it because it is a healthy vegetable!

Minerals: Potassium Minerals such as magnesium, calcium, and especially potassium are important to maintain the balance of cells in our bodies and to stimulate the life activities. Unlike plants that can absorb the minerals from the soil, we need to eat proper nutrients with proper minerals. Minerals have a valuable role to maintain the delicate balance between acid and alkaline. The lack of balance usually causes tiredness. Majority of food we eat has acid and it does not balance with alkaline. Barley grass is an alkaline food and it balances acidic cells.

Most of the Living Food Farm members mentioned feeling tired when asked why they want to take barley grass. Their responses showed that they have not been eating food with enough minerals for our bodies and our energy level.

If you would like to know the general nutrient value for barley grass, it has 8,800 mg of potassium per 100 grams. Compare this to spinach which has 490 mg of potassium per 100 grams. As for calcium, barley grass has 1,100 mg per 100 grams. Compare this to cow milk; it only has 100 mg of calcium per 100 grams.

Source: Hagiwara, Yoshihide (1985). Green Barley Essence: The Ideal Fast Food. Keats Publishing.