The wonderful thing about algae is that it is so primitive. Its nutrients can keep you alive for months, youthful and vibrant too when you supplement it. Algae helps shape your appetite within normal range, helping to keep sugar cravings low. Some research has also shown algae to stabilize mood swings, sharpen and focus your eyesight, promote healthy cholesterol, enhance metabolic functions, purify the blood and encourage complete and thorough digestion. This is only off the top of my head, so be sure to check our website for more algae information!

In addition to this, research has shown that what your body assimilates and absorbs is more important than the specific foods you eat. In the end, it doesn’t matter how many nutrients, vitamins and minerals are in the foods you eat, but how much of them your body actually absorbs. Since algae are at the bottom of the food chain, they provide an extremely simple yet extremely essential form of nutrition. The soft cell walls of AFA algae are very easily digested by the body, but also assimilated and absorbed. Your required vital nutrients will be present for you to reach your full potential.

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Not bad, don’t you think? The product literally stops all the damage caused by swelling, loss of mobility and pain.

User reports from health professionals about Recovery tell the whole story.

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Unfortunately, in the times we are living in we are bombarded by advertisements. Many of these advertisements are telling us to eat their products, the majority of which are fast food no-nutrients products that are not going to help us stay healthy.

Even if you are stopping to get a nice sandwich or salad, a problem can arise if the vegetables have been grown in soils depleted of nutrients. These vegetables grow too quickly, pushed by fertilizers, to absorb essential trace minerals from the soil.

Nutrient poor and calorie rich foods go straight to your waist, and no one wants that, right? Check out superfoods instead.

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People don’t often remember that we are a collection of 30-some trillion cells, but this is what we are. Even if the glow only goes up a tiny increment in each cell, that can make a huge difference. We can physically “glow” and this is known as the “healthy glow” that we sometimes see in people. This is why you get these comments about how great you look.

It is also known as the human aura, which may sound a bit too “New Age” for some of you but trust me it is not. People have claimed to have seen it. You can train yourself to see with a little work. I have seen it a few times. You have to look with your peripheral vision. You can learn to see these things. People who have a gift for this will see not just the glow, but also the size of the glow itself and the different colors. The aura itself can be photographed and Kirlian photography has demonstrated that it exists.

I believe that labels on food products do not adequately describe their content, because the really important aspects of food quality don’t even make it on the label.

It is hard to tell if a product is healthy just by looking at the label. Let’s say that one ingredient we find on a health food label is alfalfa. There are a number of questions we should be asking ourselves about this ingredient. Was it grown organically? Was it grown in a field rich with the minerals and nutrients? Was it harvested “at the peak of perfection?” Was the whole plant used, or only the selected beneficial parts? How was it preserved? Was it milled carefully to protect all enzymatic activity? The list of additional points about each of the ingredient could go on for a long time. The simple word “alfalfa” suddenly tells you next to nothing.

Some companies have even gone so far as to hide the ingredients they are using. Many people are now aware that MSG, a flavor-enhancing agent most commonly used in Chinese food, is not very healthy. However, I have become aware of companies advertising their products to be MSG-free, but simply mixing the MSG in with a spice or other ingredient. The same idea applies to foods with “zero trans-fats” that often contain twice as many calories because of it.

The biggest issue that is missing from the label is “vitality”. If you compare a bag of almonds that are raw and full of life force against a bag of roasted almonds, the labels will be identical. And yet, one will nourish you, and the other will be a health reducing bar-food (maybe barf-food).

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In some areas of the US, including mountain regions, the Mississippi River Valley, the Ohio River Valley, and the Great Lakes regions, the soil has always had a very low iodine content. But even in other areas of once iodine-rich soil, industrial farming has depleted this iodine content.

We cannot get adequate iodine from the food we consume. To compensate for this, iodine used to be added to salt, bread, and milk. Bread and milk were dropped from the list, and the amount of iodine added to salt has been lowered over the years.

Iodine deficiency is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies in the United States.

Really low iodine levels in the thyroid end up as a thyroid goiter (enlargement of the thyroid). Areas of the world where iodine deficiency is high, such as in Switzerland and parts of Asia and Africa, have also high incidence of thyroid cancer.

Iodine is also needed by breast tissue, and a lack of iodine in the breasts manifests as fibrocystic breast disease (painful breasts with nodules and cysts and often more symptomatic prior to menstrual periods – PMS). 93% of American women have fibrocystic breast disease and the longer the deficiency persists, the higher the risk of breast cancer.

Iodine is needed in the ovaries, and Russian studies done some years ago showed a relationship between iodine deficiency and the presence of cysts in the ovaries. The greater the iodine deficiency, the more ovarian cysts a woman produces. In its extreme form, this condition is known as polycystic ovarian disease.

With much hope and excitement,

The Edible Schoolyard Project Team

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• Regulating the water content throughout your body
• Balancing excess acidity from your cells, particularly your brain cells
• Balancing your blood sugar levels and helping to reduce your aging rate
• Absorbing food particles through your intestinal tract
• Clearing clacifications (arthritis & bone spurs from random deposits)
• Stabilizing irregular heartbeats and blood pressure
• Acting as a natural antihistamine to clear congestion (particularly useful in asthma and cystic fibrosis)

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Scott is of course generally very health-conscious but we all have points in our lives where this is going on and we are just trying to hold on. What people often experience during these times is internal inflammation, or oxidative damage. You are not allowing your body to take time for itself to recover before it has to get going again. When you push and push and push like this, you create this internal fire which is burning. The sad part is, this is probably what it feels like to be eighty years old.

This is why I always try to encourage the basics of proper nutrition, eating well and getting plenty of rest. Anti-oxidants are a huge help in preventing this kind of inflammation and if you start when you feel the symptoms it may be too late for it help to help in the long run, which is what we always aspire to here at the Life Enthusiast Co-Op.

Related to this, if you are interested, is the work of Aajonus Vonderplanitz whose work I became aware of in 1997 through M2M magazine. I later attended a seminar he gave to a number of doctors. In this seminar, he claimed to have a revolutionary diet that cured 236 out of 240 cancer patients after only three months of each patient being on the diet. There is a wonderful interview with Dr. Vonderplanitz at our website, along with plenty of other information about health and well-being.

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A while back I listened to Tony Robbins interview John Wooden, one of the most successful basketball coaches known for his work with the LA Lakers. He spent ten years coaching the club and during these ten years the club won the championship nine times.

As I was listening to this interview, I was struck by the emphasis Wooden put on the fundamentals of the game. Tom Robbins asked him at a point, “What exactly do you do as a coach?” Wooden’s answer was very simple; he trained his players in the basics of the game. A large percentage of the training for the team was doing simple drills such as lay-ups and free throws.

This makes sense if you consider the following scenario: The clock is running down. There is only a minute left in the game and your team is behind by a single point. In the last 5 seconds of the game there is a foul committed by the opposing team. Now you must sink two free throws in order to win the game. The crowd is cheering you on in anticipation.

Making the free throw, you have no time to think about anything. You simply must let your body do what it already knows to do. If you are not grounded in your basic training or if your mind interferes, you will not be able to make the shot. It’s the same in our everyday lives, which get filled with all manner of excitement. Without the basic building blocks in place, running on muscle memory automatically, we will never be able to live how we want.

So just what are the basics that are important to our health and well-being? They include the habits that maintain your body’s pH level, amino acids, enzymes, minerals, water, air. Be sure to check out the Health Education page of our website for more information.

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