August 12, 2007

Excerpt from Bragg’s Healthy Heart Book — Chap­ter 12
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Pro­tein foods are nuts, seeds (such as sun­flower, sesame, pump­kin), nutri­tional yeast, wheat germ, soy beans, dairy prod­ucts, whole grain cere­als, meat, fish, poul­try and pro­tein sup­ple­ments. Pro­tein is one of the most impor­tant food ele­ments and is essen­tial for keep­ing the heart fit. You must have pro­tein for build­ing every cell of your body. This fun­da­men­tal demand of Mother Nature rules every crea­ture liv­ing on the face of the Earth.

Pro­tein is you — flesh, mus­cle, blood, heart, bones, skin and hair — all the com­po­nents of the body are essen­tially com­posed of pro­tein. You are lit­er­ally “built” of pro­tein. This basic func­tion of your body — of con­vert­ing food into liv­ing tis­sue — is one of life’s mir­a­cles. Your life processes and the fac­tors that help you resist dis­ease are all com­posed of pro­tein (amino acids) com­po­nents. Every time you move a mus­cle, every time your heart beats, every time you breathe, you con­sume pro­tein in the form of amino acids. The link between pro­tein and body tis­sue is the amino acids — and the blood­stream car­ries them to every part of the body where they work to repair, rebuild and main­tain body tis­sues. They enrich blood and con­di­tion the organs, includ­ing the heart.

Amino Acids — The Body’s Build­ing Blocks
Human tis­sue is renewed daily. Sci­en­tists once believed that there were great masses of pro­tein in the body in an inac­tive state — stores of pro­tein built up in the mus­cles, tis­sues and organs which remain there until the body might need them. Now we know that the great builder pro­tein is not sta­tion­ary, but in motion. This activ­ity requires a replen­ish­ment of essen­tial pro­tein for the rebuild­ing process, espe­cially in older peo­ple. What is the con­nec­tion between Amino Acids and pro­teins? Amino Acids are the build­ing blocks from which dif­fer­ent food pro­teins are con­structed. When we eat a pro­tein food, such as meat or soy­beans, the nat­ural hydrochlo­ric acid in the stom­ach digests the pro­tein, releas­ing the Aminos Acids. They are the link between the food we eat and assim­i­late for our body’s tis­sues. Amino Acids are what makes our food turn into us! Unlike vit­a­mins, the acti­va­tors in our nutri­tion, Amino Acids actu­ally enter into the struc­ture of the body tis­sue itself. They are the very foun­da­tion of all pro­tein foods. They build mus­cles, tis­sues and organs and cir­cu­late freely in the blood — the body’s vital lifestream. Your blood is your pre­cious river of life — pro­tect it! The phy­to­chem­i­cals found in soy are specif­i­cally known as isoflavins. These isoflavins have been shown to be strong antiox­i­dents that help repair cel­lu­lar dam­age in the body, and they have anti-tumor effects. Soy can con­tribute to opti­mal health and has remark­able health– pro­mot­ing properties.

Amino Acids — Life-Givers & Life-Extenders
Famous Pio­neer Endocri­nol­o­gist and Bio­chemist, Dr. W. Don­ner Denckla, with the National Insti­tute of Health, has been immersed in pathfind­ing research on longevity for years. Dr. Denckla has the opin­ion that aging is not inevitable and that Amino Acids and their inter­ac­tion with a hor­mone secreted by the pitu­itary gland seem to be the key to slow­ing down age­ing. If we could look within the body, we would see all the liv­ing cells that make up the tis­sues, organs and blood­stream are in a highly active state. Paul C. Bragg was the first to preach the gospel of Amino Acids, their rela­tion­ship to age­ing and how they can help keep you younger, longer! He stressed that when the pro­tein sup­ply — the Amino Acids — are replen­ished reg­u­larly, the new cells that are con­stantly grow­ing and being born can then thrive and live with more pos­i­tive inten­sity! Another impor­tant ben­e­fit of Amino Acids — they help form anti­bod­ies to fight germs, infec­tions and disease!

Bragg Intro­duces Mir­a­cles of Soy­beans
Over 88 years ago my father intro­duced Bragg Liq­uid Aminos to the health-minded as a way to help them increase nat­ural, life-building veg­etable pro­tein intake in a form that’s eas­ily digestible and deli­cious to use! It’s a liq­uid form of soy pro­tein from pure, healthy (cer­ti­fied non-genetically engi­neered) soy­beans — a 100%health prod­uct that con­tains no col­or­ing agents, preser­v­a­tives or added sodium. Lack of ade­quate Amino Acids in your body may make it impos­si­ble for the vit­a­mins and min­er­als to per­form their spe­cific duties. Amino Acids are insep­a­ra­bly inter­wo­ven with vit­a­mins and min­er­als for good sound nutri­tion. Bragg Liq­uid Aminos con­tains no meat, and adds deli­cious nat­ural fla­vors and zest to most all foods by sprin­kling or spray­ing on foods. It’s the most deli­cious, nutri­tious and unique gourmet health sea­son­ing, for it con­tains 16 impor­tant vital Amino Acids and Isoflavins for super health.