Over the past few weeks we have actually been pretty healthy. Graem was sick back in December and had to go to the Emergency Room...but other than that. We’re alive and well!
One thing that I’ve tried to do is the obvious thing of not being around sick people! If we know friends or their kids are sick - we stay away! We also have been keeping warm and trying to eat a lot of healthy fruits and vegetables.
We’ve tried everything to stay healthier during these winter months including: including airborne, vitamins, and even drinking tons of orange juice. But it seems like nothing has worked.
I’ve heard great things about Tibetan Goji Berries & Goji Juice. They are most recently titled “the most nutritious food source on the planet.”
Goji juice helps with the following:
* Improve metabolism
* Strengthen the immune system
* Boost energy level
* Helps regulate blood pressure
* Promote healthy joints
* Support the digestive system
All of which our family could use help with! Goji is rich in natural occurring minerals including: zinc, calcium, germanium, selenium, phosphorus, copper and iron, and amino acids.
I will be on the lookout for Goji Berry Juice next time I go to Greenstar or Wegmans. At this point it’s really worth a shot!
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I applaud you using and getting the word out about goji berries (English: wolfberries). One correction though. When you read about all the wonderful benefits of the wolfberry, please understand that there are many varieties and only one has the reputed benefits. Especially don’t buy into the "Himalayan" or "Tibetan" hype...the berries (good or bad) don’t even grow in those locations because the elevation is too high. This is among the great wolfberry info at Wikipedia. Standard variety wolfberries will be sufficient for cookies, especially because they are cheap and readily available. But people who buy the wolfberry for its health benefits should be sure to get only those grown in the Ningxia province of China, an area certified as “green” by the government, something similar to U.S. organic standards. The Ningxia wolfberry is the variety with the reputed benefits. For example, the company that originally imported the wolfberry to the U.S. does chemical analysis on each new shipment of berries to ensure that they have come from Ningxia. The Ningxia wolfberry is the only variety that does not contain mercury.
So there are one of two things happening with the people at gojiberries.us: (1) Their berries are indeed the quality they are said to be and are tagged with the "Himalayan" and "Tibetan" names because people in the U.S. have good associations with those words and don’t even know how to say “Ningxia” (ning-sha). Or (2) they are run-of-the-mill, cheap wolfberries from other areas of China that don’t have near the nutrient value or therapeutic benefits claimed.
Also, when buying the juice, be aware that most companies water their wolfberry juice down with "junk juices" such as apple, pear, and white grape. These are used because (1) they are cheap and (2) they are convenient ways to sweeten the juice without adding sugar. The problem is that they have no nutritional value and spike blood sugar levels. Whereas the Ningxia wolfberry and its fresh, whole juice may have some wonderful nutrients for diabetics, all those benefits are more than cancelled out by over-processing and junk juices.
In summary, look for Ningxia wolfberries and for juice with whole Ningxia wolfberries that is not spiked with junk juices.
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