TriVita Stevia How To Grow Your Own | 154

Growing and Using Stevia which is called : The Sweet Herb.

Stevia rebaudiana is a plant, native to Paraguay and Brazil in South America. Stevia is a broad classification of plants. Rebaudiana is the species name. Remember that name because it is the only species, out of the many found contains the high concentration of sweet glycosides making this sweet leaf such a useful and amazingly wonderful herb. The dried leaf, in fact, is 10-15 times sweeter than cane sugar! Powdered stevia leaf, known as green stevia powder, may be found for sale at natural food stores or online while waiting for your first harvest. However, if you are looking for more stevia information you can order liquid Stevia right here at the bottom of this article.

Stevia is not particularly a showy plant but its sweet taste is its most desirable feature. The plant reaches about a height of about 2 feet. It is a perennial but tender plant and will survive where winters are mild. The stevia leaves are small and narrow, notched on the end. The leaves are much sweeter than the stems. The stevia blooms are white and tiny but so abundant that the plant looks like a greenish white cloud when in bloom Farther north than zone 8 stevia may be grown as an annual.

Stevia will do well in most soils, however it prefers a sandy loam with a good amount of organic matter. It’s home area the soils are a little on the acid side but will tolerate a wide range of soil pH. Stevie likes constantly moist soil, but not watter logged. Watering is essential unless substantial rains come every week. The short days of late fall will cause the stevia plant to blossom.

You can grow stevia from seeds or cuttings from other plants. If you are lucky and know somebody with a stevia plant, you might be able to get some cuttings for your own experimenting. If you want to order some seeds you could go to steviaseed dot com and check it out.

I will be doing some experimenting with the stevia cultivation next spring and will keep you posted to the results. I will be starting them from seeds. If you live in a cold climate you can start your stevia seed under a fluorescent light several weeks before transplanting outside. Stevia is vulnerable to cold temperatures so be sure all sign of frost is past before you transplant outside. Harden the plants at least 5 or 6 days before transplanting. Bring the plants indoors on cold nights. Transplant on a cloudy day. You should put the plant a little deeper than it is growing in its container. They are best kept in beds in rows easy for maintaining, staggering the plants. Plant 12 to 18 inches apart. Using a little much around the plant will prevent drying out during sunny days. Water the plants with gentle soaking right after transplanting.

Stevia plants are brittle and tend to break in the wind. If they break, use the broken stem to start additional plants. When the main shoots are 8 to 12 inches tall pinch off the end and this will encourage branching. When the secondary branches reach 8 to 10 inches long, pinch the ends off to encourage tertiary branching. The pruned leaves are good to eat right on the spot. I’ll have to try them in my salads. Fresh and dried leaves are good for tea.

If you are energetic you can dig up plants and bring indoors for winter use. A fluorescent grow light will work well. The plants tend to look half dead by the end of winter but will sprout and grow back nicely in the spring.

Late winter and early spring are the best time for taking cuttings for propagation. However you must have at least 16 hours of lighting per day to encourage rooting. The cuttings should be at least 4 inches long with at least two leaf buds above ground. Transplant to a larger pot after rooted plant starts to grow. (About 2 to 4 weeks) Then in about a month you will be able to transplant outside, if your timing is right.

You can harvest the stevia leaves through the summer as required. The best quality harvest is just as the plants start their blossoming in the fall. Depending on how you want to develop your plants will determine how you will harvest them. If you leave the stock plant to remain over winter in the gound, you can cut about 2/3 of the stem, leaving about 1/3 for the plant to re-grow. Mixing the stevia leaves with mint make a nice sweet mint tea. Peppermint and spearmint are excellent for this use. The dried leaves of the stevia remain sweet for years. If you use a food dehydrator be sure to dry them on a very low heat. Store the dry stevia in air tight containers, preferably glass jars.

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TriVita Stevia For Health And Wellness | 153

According to Dr. Julian Whitaker Stevia is a natural, non-caloric, sweet-tasting plant used around the world for its pleasant taste, as well as for its increasingly researched potential for inhibiting fat absorption and lowering blood pressure. Despite its centuries-old use without reported toxicity in Latin America and Asia, including Japan, the FDA decided in 1991 that Stevia was an unsafe food additive and ordered all imports seized. The U.S. sugar industry breathed easier, and the market for non-caloric sweeteners was made once more safe for the chemical producers. The consumer was left with the choice of the empty calories of sugar, or the high side effects of the chemical substitutes.

Dr. Whitaker continues with the following: To the rescue, the 1994 DSHEA ( Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) legislation gave the (previous) leading importer of Stevia enough leverage to place a legal Hobson's choice before the FDA: Admit Stevia was safe (which would expose the food additive market) or admit it as a previously-sold dietary supplement with no evidence of toxicity. The FDA took the line of least resistance and declared it admissible as a dietary supplement, but not as a food additive. When the cheering of the sugar industry and the producers of Nutrasweet and Sweet'N Low dies down, it will be interesting to see how the FDA can maintain that a natural product deemed safe as a supplement can be unsafe as a food additive, especially for a market dominated by notoriously high side-effect chemical products.

This leads me to ask, where is the loyalty of the FDA? It certainly seems as though it’s not for the people. If we can get the banking situation corrected maybe we can jerk the FDA around and get them to do the job they were intended to do instead of working for special interests. Aren‘t we the people supposed to be their special interest?

Back to Stevia which is an herb native to Latin America it is also called sweet leaf or sweet herb, its leaves contain stevioside, a compound about 30 times sweeter than sugar. Because stevioside keeps its sweet flavor even when heated, Stevia can be used in baked goods and hot beverages and studies indicate it is unlikely to promote tooth decay like sugar does.

It is found that Stevia is a healthier alternative to sugar and can be used in baked goods and hot beverages. Stevia won't cause tooth decay like sugar and it may be a useful sugar substitute for diabetics. Several studies have indicated that Stevia is unlikely to promote tooth decay like sugar does. A Danish study published in the February 2000 issue of the Journal Metabolism suggests that Stevia might even lower blood sugar by spurring the body to release insulin.

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TriVita Vitamin C Crystals For Your Health And Wellness | 152

Would you care to speculate how mankind lost his inner ability to make Vitamin C? It’s a very interesting topic. Why can goats create their own Vitamin C and we cannot? Did you know that a 160 pound goat creates about 13,000 mg of Vitamin C on a daily basis. How is it that a goat can do this but we cannot? The answer is that a goat has a gene that does the work for him and we don’t. Our gene is faulty. (Our Gene Is Faulty would make a good English Sit Com). Now it would seem to me that this could be corrected and all it would take would be one generation because once mankind had the fixed gene, he could pass it on to his offspring. Just think, a one time fix could manage that.

Just to creep out on a limb, I believe the reason we lost this ability to make our own Vitamin C is due to the Flood Of Noah. Not the flood itself but something that happened. If I remember my Sunday School Lessons I believe that mans days were shortened from 1000 years to 120 years at that time. As you may remember Noah lived to be nearly a thousand years old, but from then on, the days of man became shorter and shorter. What is it that could have caused this kind of destruction to our genes. Was it a supernatural act from God, or was it a poison of some kind? Is there some kind of food that is missing that maybe Noah forgot to bring over on the ark?

There is good news on the horizon, the scientists are already doing it with mice. They have successfully with the use of a non dangerous virus corrected the gene problem in the mice. These little mice are now producing their own Vitamin C. Do you realize how important that is to we humans? A one time shot in the arm and you won’t have to take your Vitamin C tablets or crystals anymore.

In addition, did you know that goats are producing the same material that spiders use for spinning their webs. Scientists have successfully transferred this gene that produces the material into the goat and bang. They aren’t spinning cobwebs, but the material that cobwebs are made from is produced in the goats milk. This characteristic has been passed down to the offspring and they now have second and third generation goats that produce this material in their milk. They plan on using it to produce bullet proof vests and who knows what all. What about replacing the human mothers gene into the goat to produce human mothers milk?

This leads me to wonder, how many other genes we should have that are missing or broken? Would you like to have the sense of smell that a polar bear has? Maybe we could borrow a gene from them, but then the long snout may go with it. I’m not sure, I think that I wouldn’t like that. Or would you like the eyesight of an eagle? Maybe we could have a third eye for this purpose. This is getting too wild, even for me.

Back to Vitamin C. Right now I am content to take some extra Vitamin C on a daily basis which I purchase from TriVita. I am very satisfied with their Vitamin C Crystals. Use the links at the bottom of this article to check out the Vitamin C Crystals. It’s a wonderful product.

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TriVita Super AloeVita Drink For Your Health And Wellness | 151

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AloeVita contains these health producing nutrients: Eleuthero helps all your internal systems, especially your immune and detoxification systems, deal with stress so they remain strong. Detoxification helps your body eliminate wastes so you experience less inflammation and pain in your body. Eleuthero is a distant relative of true ginsengs that grows in Siberia, Manchuria, China and Northern Japan. It has been used by Russian cosmonauts and Olympic Champions.

Beta Glucan can help improve cholesterol and blood sugar levels, which also may help balance your moods. Beta-glucans are polysaccharides occurring in the bran of cereal grains, the cell wall of baker's yeast, certain types of fungi, and many kinds of mushrooms. The cereal based beta-glucans occur most abundantly in barley and oats and to a much lesser degree In rye and wheat. They are useful in human nutrition as texturing agents.(starches).

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TriVita Vitamin C Crystals For Your Health And Wellness | 150

Vitamin C in humans is a very interesting topic to discuss and speculate about why human beings need vitamin C and most animals produce their own vitamin C. Has there been a mistake in the design of our bodies? Yes, there is a mistake and that mistake is that a broken gene cannot repair itself. If it could, there wouldn’t be any genetic diseases and Vitamin C deficiency is a disease. We need to consume Vitamin C on a daily basis to remain well. Remember the stories of the disease of the sailors that had scurvy? If you read about it you will find that it was a most horrible disease to die from. Many young people have the early signs of scurvy and don’t recognize it.

Early signs of scurvy are tiredness, muscle weakness, joint and muscle aches, a rash on the legs, and bleeding gums. In the past it is well documented that scurvy was common among sailors and other people deprived of fresh fruits and vegetables for long periods of time. Become aware of these signs, especially in your children and young adults that are on a faulty diet. Lack of Vitamin C is deadly. Your body is a chemical factory and it must be provided with what it needs, not necessarily what you want. These are very difficult lessons to learn.

It is an established fact that animals that manufacture their own Vitamin C have a characteristic of longevity if allowed to live a normal life. They live on average about 8–12 times beyond their age when adolescent growth ceases. For humans that would extrapolate into about an age of 160 to 240 years. If this is an indication then it would only seem logical to be sure that you receive an adequate amount of Vitamin C. This coupled with a healthy life style should be rewarded with a long and healthy life.

Now we come to the question, how much Vitamin C should I be consuming on a daily basis? It is found for example that a 160-pound goat, about the same weight as a human, will synthesize about 13,000 milligrams of vitamin C per day. Do you suppose that is part of the reason that goats milk is so healthy for people? Compare the milligrams of Vitamin C that a goat produces to your daily intake of Vitamin C. I think you will find that your daily intake is extremely inadequate. I know of no studies being done at this time, but if I do, rest assured I will post it.

Some day we will probably have our own internal Vitamin C factory and be able to produce all the Vitamin C that our body needs. Until then you need to couple this with the studies that TriVita has done on Vitamin C. You may be on the path of a long and healthy life. Go to this link.

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TriVita GlucoBalance Formula For Your Health And wellness | 149

Yes, there is help for reducing your resistance to insulin and stimulate your insulin production. This will also decrease your cravings for carbohydrates and actually help you to loose weight. If you have ups and downs in your sugar level and mood swings could be a sign of pre-sugar diabetes. These ups and downs in sugar levels can trigger insulin resistance

The nutrients in TriVita GlucoBalance Formula are all from natural ingredients and will stimulate your body to produce insulin by providing the nutrients that your body needs. It will stabilize your blood sugar and cravings thus controlling your appetite which will promote weight loss. If you have a problem with your blood sugar spiking, then you are a candidate for using TriVita GlucoBalance Formula. It is recommended that you check with your Doctor before using.

A difficult alternative would be in your diet, which many people just aren’t able to handle. You might consider the use of cayenne pepper in your diet because it helps the circulation of blood in your body which is vital to diabetics. By study and searching you may find other minor changes to your diet that will be of benefit to you. Another product that you might consider is the use of TriVita Stevia, which is a natural sweetener made from the Stevia plant. It is safe to use.

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TriVita Green Food Complex For Your Health And Wellness | 148

TriVita Green Food Complex - Capsules Item #37010 will provide your body with nutritional support that is needed and will boost your energy, aid and support your digestion. It will strengthen internal cleaning and regularity and improve your immune system.

TriVita Green Food Complex is rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and getting the recommended number of daily servings of fresh vegetables and fruit (7 for women 9 for men) is downright difficult. 7-9 servings are essential because they give us antioxidants to strengthen our immune systems and numerous nutrients to stay well. Now there’s a nutritious formula that helps us accomplish our daily nutritional needs: Green Foods Complex. Your daily serving contains only plants, so it’s filled with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals that help your immune system and cells stay strong. There are only two ingredients in our formula: Young Barley Grass and Young Alfalfa Grass.

Barley grass is the leaf portion of the barley plant and for use as a food supplement preference is the use of the leaves of the young plant before it has developed it’s seeds. Barley is an annual and has to be replanted on an annual basis.

It is interesting to note that barley appears to have been used by the ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Vikings. Columbus brought it to the Americas in 1493. It has been used in both nutrition and medicine. The seeds when boiled release a thick substance that soothes sore throats.

Barley is the only vegetation on earth that can supply the sole nutritional support from birth to old age. It had become so commonly used that people have forgotten the real value of this lowly grass and seed.

The juice from the barley leaves contain nutrients such as vitamins C and E which are more potent when taken together rather than separately. It is also high in calcium, iron, all essential amino acids, vitamin C, the falconoid, vitamin B12 and a number of enzymes and minerals. The grass can also be used to treat disorders of the stomach and duodenum, pancreatitis, and as an anti-inflammatory agent. It also contains super oxide dismutase, a powerful antioxidant enzyme that protects the cells agains toxic free radicals.

It is interesting to consider that I make barley soup about once a week and it’s really good. It’s always better the next day. Cold or re-heated. I have a recipe for it in my free recipe book on line. Many people shun the use of barley and after realizing just how beneficial it is, will want to include it regularly in their diet.

It is claimed that barley grass is good for the following: skin diseases, hepatitis, asthma, anemia, diabetes, arthritis, and obesity.

As for alfalfa there is so much to relate that there isn’t enough room and time to incorporate all the importance of this plant. It is a plant that is used as a hay crop for animals and it is a legume and has very-very deep roots and is probably why the plant is so filled with nutrients and vitamins. I remember feeding the alfalfa hay to the farm animals. They loved it and kept munching on it until it was gone.

I also like alfalfa sprouts made up in a sandwich. Not only do they taste good, they are good for you. Do a research project on alfalfa and you will be surprised at what you will learn about it.

By this time you should begin to see what makes TriVita Green Food Complex unique. It is made from organically grown plants in nutrient-rich soil. Only pure juice, not milled grasses are used. The plants are harvested at their nutritional peak. They are cold processed to preserve vitamin nutrients and enzymes. No fillers, artifical colors, flavors, preservatives or yeast or gluten. TriVita uses 100% Vegetarian and Kosher powder and capsules; and only 6 calories per serving.

Did you know that grasses are the only land-bound plant on Earth that can serve as our sole nutritional support from birth to death. There are 4,700 spieces of grass and none are harmful. Also diets high in barley were found to lower total cholesterol levels, according to early results from a long-term Agricultural Research Service study. In addition eating barley-containing foods improved several cardiovascular risk factors. For example, in a study of male participants, researchers found increasing whole grain foods in a healthy diet could reduce high blood pressure.

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