The YH BarleyGreen Advantage:

Because YH Barley Green is a whole food supplement rich in alkaline materials such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium and has the live enzymes to promote their absorbtion, Barley Green Essence is a positive contributor to natural weight loss and helps protect the body against osteoporosis.

Barley Green Promotes a Healthy Alkaline Balance

Because of the proliferation of over-refined, packaged foods in our culture, we have become, as a people, over-exposed to more and more refined starches, sugar, salt, and a witches brew of chemicals including synthesized hormones. This has caused a shift in our biochemistry resulting in a more acidic state. The chemicals and hormones have caused lots of other problems, too.

A slightly alkaline environment helps the body burn off excess fatty acids and triglycerides rather than use those substances to protect the soft tissues in the body from acidity. Thus, the body naturally rids itself of excess fat over time and the excess weight is reduced.

In Addition to adding barley green to your diet, here are some helpful hints on including more alkaline foods in your menu.

Caffiene - Get it out of your mind, and diet. Research shows that caffiene interferes with the action of insulin - so, a cup of joe with that Krsipy-Kreme donut is about the worst combination of materials you could ever ingest: the fats used to cook the donut have no essential fatty acids - none. The caffiene interferes with the proper digestion of the sugars in the donut, which end up as triglycerides and are stored as excess fat. On top of that, the body chemistry is shifted dramatically to the acidic - in fact, it's not uncommon for coffee and a donut to cause heartburn. By substituting Green Tea in place of coffee (and cola beverages) you can reduced caffeine intake by over 90%.

Aspartame - sugar is the less of three evils. Aspartame when metabolized breaks down into amino acids and METHANOL. When methanol is further oxidized, it is converted into formaldehyde and formic acid. Formic acid is an extremely virulent neurotoxin that attacks the autonomic and the central nervous systems. The optic nerves are especially vulnerable. Over a long period of time, you can slowly saute' (fry) the nerves in your body by gulping away on those diet drinks (and other 'foods'?) that are loaded with aspartame. As bad as it is, simple sugar in moderation is a better bet than aspartame. As to acidity, almost all of the materials that you ingest that contain aspartame (and refined sugar) are acidic.

HFCS - simple sugar is the less of these two evils, too. HFCS is an acronym for high-fructose corn syrup, the most popular sweetner in the food industry because it's orders of magnitude sweeter than simple sugar and it's very cheap to produce from chemically-altered corn starch. However, the body over-reacts to the excessive fructose (grape sugar) by driving up insulin which stores both the fructose and glucose in the form of triglycerides as fat. HFCS interferes with the hormone leptin and stimulates ghrelin which causes you to feel hungry and binge eat.

The 80/20 Rule - Whether we're talking calories or grams by weight of foods, there's a decent rule of thumb that 4 grams of alkaline food materials balances every gram of acidic foods. In general, your alkaline foods are your dark green vegetables and most low glycemic fruits. Your acidic foods are the animal meats, dairy, fats and oils, and starchy vegetables. There are lots of surprises as to what is alkaline and what is acidic, so a good reference to check out is:

Some Powerful Alkalyzers. Anything with the word "Green" in it is almost a sure bet to be alkaline. Another sleeper on the alkaline side of the equation is flax seeds. Even though flax seed oil is acidic (it gets rancid very quickly if not stored properly), those little flax seeds are a wonder for your diet. Try using a coffee grinder to grind a couple of tablespoons full of the seeds each day. Put the resulting flax meal in your Green Salad and enjoy an alkaline treat that is loaded with goodness and here's why: Flax seeds are rich in the essential fatty acids (EFA's) like eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). EPA is the raw feed stock your body uses (along with cholesterol) to synthesize the prostaglandins, those cellular-level hormones so essential to organ function. DHA is essential to build and maintain nerve tissue. Flax also contains a broad spectrum of plant lignans that help your body to defend itself against the start of certain cancers. You would have to literally eat a bushell basket of brocolli to get the same amount of lignans as in that quarter cup of flax meal.

Ranked right up there with flax seeds on the SUPERFOOD scale one finds GREEN DRINKS - especially those made with wheat grass juice and barley grass juice, barley being the more nutritious and slightly more alkaline of the two. The sleeper here is enzymes. The fresh juices of wheat and barley grasses are rich in enzymes for a short period of time until oxygen, heat, and or hydrolysis renders them inactive or 'denatured'. If you can get barley grass juice and preserve the enzymes then you have one of the best natural food additives and alklyzers known to man, in my opinion.

SUMMARY

Here's a few sensible choices for an Alkaline Life:

• Substitute Green Tea for Coffee and Soda Drinks of ALL kinds;
• Eat a ratio of 4 grams of alkaline foods to 1 gram of acidic;
• Get some Flax Seeds into your diet;
• For snacks switch to Green Drinks - my favorite is two heaping teaspoons full of YH BarleyGreen (very alkaline) in a 6oz can of low-sodium V8 juice (also quite alkaline). You'll get over 1000 milligrams of potassium which is great for immunity and this will foster the release of Growth Hormone to keep you fit, active, and looking younger.