Topic: How to Grow Beautiful Salad Greens with Sproutman®.  No Soil.  No Green Thumb Required
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 8:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time

Use this Coupon Code SPROUTFL at check out to get $5.00 off the Sprouting Class!

CLASS DESCRIPTION

It’s time to add more living foods to your diet. Bring the freshness of Springtime into your home even in the dark of Winter. Your diet is your best chance to change your health. You can’t beat the wealth of enzymes, nutrients and healing phyto-chemicals in these amazing baby vegetables. No Soil! One Week from Seed to Salad.® And where else can you get organic greens for only $1/lb? It’s easy. Let Sproutman® show you how. 1.5 hours, 100 slides, and plenty of time for your questions.

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Topic: How to Grow and Use Wheatgrass with Sproutman®
Date: Tuesday, October 04, 2011
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Eastern Time

Use this Coupon Code WG2011 at check out to get $5.00 off the Wheatgrass Class!

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

Much has changed since Ann Wigmore had us bringing worms and compost into our kitchens to grow grass. Today, you can have a professional grow it for you; you can buy it in a bottle; you can get highly potent wheatgrass ice cubes that last a year in your freezer; you can get delicious wheatgrass elixer called “super shots” made from organic wheatgrass extract; and you can get wheatgrass extract in a skin cream; or in a spray. And for those of you who do want to grow it, you can now do it without any soil and just as much nutrition! Join me for about 100 color slides. You’ll discover things you never knew about wheatgrass and have plenty of time to ask your questions. 1.5 hours.

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Online Class: How to Grow Wheatgrass

Plus Other Ways of Getting and Taking Wheatgrass

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011- 8pm EST

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Each session is one and a half hours which includes live slides and your personal questions and answers with Sproutman.
Included in each session:

• Soil and non soil growing techniques
• Key Factors for Avoiding and Minimizing mold
• Should you Use of Hydrogen peroxide? Grapefruit Seed Extract?
• Special emphasis on the basic Tray Growing Method usingSproutman’s Wheatgrass Grower for the example
• Alternatives to Growing your own Wheatgrass
• Frozen wheatgrass vs. Fresh wheatgrass – Comparisons
• Indoor Grown vs. Outdoor Grown – What’s difference
• Wheatgrass Nutrition
• Class documents provided at the end

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Daikon Sprouts

ISHS Acta Horticulturae 765: XXVII International Horticultural Congress – IHC2006: International Symposium on Plants as Food and Medicine: The Utilization and Development of Horticultural Plants for Human Health. T.J. O’Hare, L.S. Wong, L.E. Force, C.B. Gurung, D.E. Irving, D.J. Williams

Daikon and radish sprouts contain high levels of glucoraphenin, a glucosinolate which hydrolyses to form sulphoraphene. Sulphoraphene, like sulphoraphane from broccoli, is a potent inducer of phase 2 detoxification enzymes and consequently has potential anti-cancer action. Unlike broccoli however, daikon and radish do not possess epithiospecifier protein, a protein that inhibits conversion of glucosinolates to isothiocyanates, and consequently they may represent more suitable sources of phytochemicals with anti-cancer potential. Concentrations of glucoraphenin were highest in the seed, declining exponentially with sprout development. The rate of decline was observed to vary considerably between varieties of daikon and radish, with some varieties maintaining significantly high levels of glucoraphenin. Varieties maintaining a high level of glucoraphenin included ‘Cherry Belle’ and ‘French Breakfast’.

A scientific paper was presented at the International Horticultural Congress in Seoul (Korea) in August 2006 entitled: “Glucosinolate Composition and Anti-Cancer Potential of Daikon and Radish sprouts”. A poster presentation was made at the 6th Annual Health and Medical Research Conference of Queensland.  (November, 2006).

Alfalfa Sprouts

Forum Nutr. 2005;(57):100-11.
Branca F, Lorenzetti S.
National Institute for Research on Food and Nutrition, Rome, Italy.

Phytoestrogens are naturally occurring plant-derived phytochemicals, whose common biological roles are to protect plants from stress or to act as part of a plant’s defense mechanism. Although composed of a wide group of nonsteroidal compounds of diverse structure, phytoestrogens have been shown to bind estrogen receptors and to behave as weak agonist/antagonist in both animals and humans. Phytoestrogens include mainly isoflavones (IF), coumestans, and lignans. These compounds are known to be present in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains commonly consumed by humans. IF are found in legumes–mainly soybeans–whereas flaxseed is a major source of lignans, and coumestans are significantly present in clover, alfalfa and soybean sprouts. 8-Prenyl flavonoids are common in vegetables. Bioavailability of IF requires an initial hydrolysis of the sugar moiety by intestinal beta-glucosidases to allow the following uptake by enterocytes and the flow through the peripheral circulation. Following absorption, IF are then reconjugated mainly to glucuronic acid and to a lesser degree to sulphuric acid. Gut metabolism seems key to the determination of the potency of action. Several epidemiological studies correlated high dose consumptions of soy IF with multiple beneficial effects on breast and prostate cancers, menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis and stroke, and neurodegeneration. For the relief of menopausal symptoms a consumption of 60 mg aglycones/day has been suggested; for cancer prevention a consumption between 50 and 110 mg aglycones/day is considered beneficial to reduce risks of breast, colon and prostate cancer; to decrease cardiovascular risk a minimum intake of 40-60 mg aglycones/day, together with about 25 g of soy protein has been suggested. For improvement in bone mineral density, 60-100 mg aglycones/day for a period of at least 6-12 months could be beneficial.