Wheatgrass green drinks

Shots of wheatgrass juice are claimed to have wonderful health benefits. Are these green grassy drinks a fad or do they help improve our health?

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In my personal experience I find that drinking wheatgrass has few noticeable effects. That said, I think it is a worth while addition to the healthy food and drink that I consume. The more alkaline drinks I have, the better. A major part of the reason why I am unable to discern the specific health benefits of wheatgrass is that I don't drink it regularly enough to get the full benefit. I endevour to follow an alkaline diet where the focus is on healthy eating and moving away from acid diet foods and embracing alkaline pH balance.

Wheatgrass contains an abundance of nutrients. Although from the information available online it appears similar in its nutritional content to other leafy green vegetables like spinach. I wonder what the reason is that we can by shots of wheatgrass but not of spinach? Perhaps it's the taste, wheatgrass might not taste great, but spinach juice tastes bad! It may also have something to do with the speed at which wheatgrass can be grown versus the the time it takes to grow spinach.

Sceptics of the wheatgrass drinking craze point out that on the whole the vitamins and minerals found in wheatgrass are no higher than other green vegetables. This is a fair point. But drinking green vegetable juice is good for our health. Just because wheatgrass may be no better for us is no reason not to drink it.

Using all the options at our disposal to remain as healthy as possible is the course that I am taking. I don't grow my own wheatgrass nor do I have a wheatgrass juicer. However when I come across a juice bar selling it, I often have a quick shot of the green juice. The more fruit and vegetables I eat, the better I feel. On top of this, the few wheatgrass drinks that I do consume will have a positive effect on the pH balance of my body.

07.10.2009. 06:51