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14 Why should we grow Spirulina ?
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therapeutic effects of Spirulina |
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Why should we grow Spirulina ?
It has been shown in more than 30 child nutrition
centers, hospitals, and dispensaries throughout
the developing countries that Spirulina,
in doses of up to 10 grams dry weight per
day, returns kwashiorkor and other protein-energy
malnutrition victims to normal health within from one to three weeks' time. This
is rehabilitation 2 to 3 times faster than with conventional
treatment.
Spirulina is a solution to the tragic problem of malnutrition that needs not to depend on aid or purchase
of a product from outside of one's country?
. It can be produced locally. Its spectacular
action against malnutrition is reason enough
to grow Spirulina. But there are other reasons
as well.
There are over 1000
published scientific
articles concerning
the biological effects
of Spirulina; many
books and university theses.
Two grams a day protects against xerophthalmia, a disease caused by vitamin A deficiency.
The provitamin-A or beta-carotene in Spirulina
has been shown to guard against certain cancers
because of its antioxidant properties. It
has a cholesterol-lowering effect. And through
the action of its unusually high content
of the non-saturated essential fatty acid,
gamma linolenic acid, it strengthens in general
the immune system.
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Its high amount of assimilable iron and unusually
level of vitamin B12 (not counting the B12
analog) makes it very effective against anemia
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Two very important therapeutic effects of
Spirulina are associated with the polysaccharide
which it produces: it helps DNA to repair
itself after damage by radioactivity - helpful
for Chernobyl, and other nuclear disasters
yet to come.
And, it inhibits the HIV-1 virus from replicating itself and from penetrating
the membrane of the host cells. This action
also has been documented concerning Herpes
simplex, Influenza A, Mumps and Measles.
You don't have to ask yourself
again if it
is worthwhile to cultivate Spirulina.
The question is,
"Why have those responsible
for public health
been so slow to get Spirulina
to the people who
need it ?" Probably
because they have
not heard about Spirulina,
nor ever had the
satisfaction of growing
it, feeding it to
malnourished children,
and seeing the wonderful
results.
Malnutrition is a crushing burden for the
one who is malnourished.. It is a wasteful
burden for a country .It is a dangerous burden
for the international community. It is a
burden we impose upon ourselves because we
have not taken the trouble to think deeply
about it. It is not a necessary burden.
Malnutrition in young children - and kwashiorkor
is found most often in children between the
ages of one and five - malnutrition causes mental retardation and physical weakness. This makes education from difficult to
nearly impossible. Lack of learning is an
invitation to disadvantage, less money, lower
standard of living, lower social status,
underproductivity, multiple illnesses, and
dependence on the charity of others. Victims of malnutrition are a wealth that
slips through the fingers of their country
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Healthy children can absorb education. Knowledge
leads to opportunities, to inventiveness
and success. Good health means more productivity,
through more hours at work and fewer being
sick; it means better interaction between
the individual and management, and administration,
and government goals. Good health leads to
a higher standard of living, and that leads
to having fewer children
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The fall of population growth leads to better
utilization of ressources between
fewer people,
and to reduction of pollution.
Education and good health fight
poverty and
make living in peace possible.
Good health,
just as bad health, flies to
all corners
of the Earth.
A most helpful step in this direction is
to provide Spirulina particularly in emergency.
This has been an introduction to Spirulina
- to its history, its composition,
its value
to health, its production and
use, and its
message to the international
community.
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