By Nikki Haas

Grass… that you eat???

Young grass of the common wheat plant

Harvested for humansNutritional valueCurative propertiesColon therapy

Whose idea was this?Ann Wigmore (1909-1994)

Born in Lithuania using herbal and home

remedies

Supported raw food diet

Founded the Hippocrates Health Institute

Made numerous claims about wheatgrass

Nutritional & Curative Claimshttp://www.hippocratesinst.org/Wheatgrass/

Benefits-of-Wheatgrass.aspx

Too good to be true?

What do we really digest and absorb

Wheatgrass alone or other factors?

The power of suggestion

http://www.jambajuice.com/#/smoothies/

References Ben-Arye E, Goldin E, Wengrower D, Stamper A, Kohn R, & Berry E.

(2002). Wheat grass juice in the treatment of active distal ulcerative colitis: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 37, 444-449.

Jarvis, W. Wheatgrass therapy. Available at: www.ncahf.org/articles/s-z/wheatgrass.html. Accessed February 22, 2009.

Shermer, M. (2008, July). How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results. Why subjective anecdotes often trump objective data. Scientific American, 299, 42.

Young, M., Cook, J., & Webster, K. (2006). The effect of topical wheatgrass cream on chronic plantar fasciitis; A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trail. Complement Ther Med, 14, 3-9.

Wigmore, A. (1985). The wheatgrass book. Wayne, NJ: Avery Publishing Group.