| Goji berries, as they've traditionally been known are | | | | healthy. Why? Antioxidants. |
| turning naysayers into believers worldwide and yet, | | | | Blueberries beat broccoli in antioxidants by more than |
| many still have never heard of them. Although around | | | | three hundred percent. Now, before I make your |
| long before your grandparents' grandparents it is only | | | | brain explode with possibility, let's first address why |
| lately that these berries, also known as Lycium or | | | | you may not know this information. However you |
| Wolf berries have been pushed into the spotlight | | | | care to explain it, unfortunately, the common theme |
| after men and women have caught wind of their | | | | is money, more specifically greed. It is the prominent, |
| nutritionally beneficial potency. | | | | determining reason in many things you now know |
| Health related stories cover the entire spectrum, | | | | about and those you never will. |
| from just having more vitamins than more known | | | | Do you recall the lashing a certain President took, and |
| foods to the rumored and now legendary: a 256 year | | | | the united stand that broccoli farmers took, literally |
| old man who out-lived his 23 wives. Between the | | | | showing up on Pennsylvania Avenue (where the |
| known and the downright outrageous, lies the facts: | | | | White House resides) with trucks filled to their brim |
| scientific evidence that simply cannot be ignored. And | | | | with bushels of broccoli? My question for you is: who |
| even if you are dumber than a 2 x 4, one would | | | | has more money? Broccoli farmers (a major source |
| have to agree that with the overwhelming amount | | | | of revenue in the United States) or blueberry |
| of endorsements coming out of the woodwork as | | | | farmers? Known information is known, because there |
| these wrinkly, but impressively potent, sweet and | | | | is more money to tell more people about it. |
| tangy berries reach more of the masses, each | | | | Why have most not heard of Goji berries, if they are |
| excited to tell their personal story about their Goji | | | | so darn good for you, and have thousands of people |
| berry experience, you certainly have to be curious | | | | claiming the "impossible", including reversing major |
| about what they are saying. | | | | diseases, not yet "cured" in the United States, United |
| You need not be a brain surgeon to determine | | | | Kingdom, Canada, Australia and every other |
| honesty from fiction. There are not many of us in | | | | powerhouse of medical research? |
| today's world who won't make a move unless given | | | | (Fair warning). Prepare to be mind boggled. |
| the order to do so by a medical licensed doctor. In | | | | Goji berries were discovered in Tibet. The Tibetan |
| fact, more often than not, well-intentioned individuals | | | | Goji berry is by far the most authentic, especially |
| like you and me and those we love have suffered | | | | when backed directly by the Tibetan Government, |
| results after applying a physician's advice and many | | | | officially and documented but we'll save that for a |
| times we have learned to despise it. But most folks | | | | different discussion. How many Tibetan farmers have |
| wise up, long before they become old. "Old-school" | | | | the funds to compete with broccoli farmers in the |
| thinkers may listen to the medical community words | | | | United States? |
| with intense focus, but today's generations have an | | | | If radios and televisions aren't everyday items |
| abundance of resources at our disposal to fill in the | | | | typically, how many households and businesses in |
| missing details on specifics, when needed. | | | | Tibet do you think have a computer and internet |
| That's the good news. The bad news is there are | | | | access? Any wonder why Goji berries are still a |
| often too many resources to choose from. Heck, if | | | | mystery to the most? |
| one was to narrow their research to Google alone, | | | | Broccoli is antioxidant rich, and most popularly |
| they'd have to sort through a very literal hundreds of | | | | mentioned in mainstream media. You now know that |
| millions of pages plus, to find the answers that have | | | | the blueberry outrivals broccoli 3 to 1 healthy in |
| been disguised until their enlightened discovery. | | | | comparison. What about Goji berries? (You may want |
| Information overload is the major difference | | | | to sit down). Here is undeniable, scientific fact: Goji |
| between determining fact from fantasy from way | | | | berries have twelve times as many antioxidants than |
| back when, to today. You could become buried under | | | | blueberries. Twelve times as much! This may sound |
| an avalanche of information available these days, but | | | | crazy, but this is 100 percent science. Goji berries |
| obviously with people's hidden agendas aplenty, you | | | | have a commanding by any definition 2,843 percent |
| must decipher on your own who to believe and who | | | | MORE antioxidants than the well known, often |
| to ignore. | | | | highlighted, teetering on "common knowledge" |
| Wolf berries and Goji berries and the information that | | | | superfood: broccoli. |
| continues to be published about them is such an | | | | Why care? Antioxidants in simplified, combat and |
| example. Every day, new studies are surfacing, but | | | | ideally defeat free radicals attacking your immune |
| how do you sort the absolute fact from the proof | | | | system regularly. When your immunity suffers, you |
| lacking fiction? | | | | suffer. With a suffering immune system, a common |
| Maybe you have seen the testimonials stretching | | | | virus could kill you. I'll refrain from sharing the explicit |
| from one end of the world to the other. Maybe you | | | | details, such as projectile vomiting and explosive |
| have heard the latest word of mouth highlighting | | | | diarrhea that can happen when your immune system |
| results that made you pay attention. Adding the Goji | | | | is under attack and tries its best to fight back so |
| Berry into your diet has many health benefits that a | | | | you don't die, but suffice me to say, if you lose |
| health article such as this one simply couldn't cover in | | | | control of your, or take your immunity system's well |
| full, without quickly turning this article into an | | | | being lightly, you won't be around too long after to |
| encyclopedia set. Reports have come in by the | | | | argue the point. |
| boatload: deterring Cancer growth, lowering high | | | | Tens of millions of dropping you to the knees and |
| blood pressure (BP), improving libido, slowing hair | | | | regretting the day you met them, viruses can be |
| graying, improving your circulation, shedding unwanted | | | | transferred to another by touch alone. When your |
| pounds, and the list of personal improvements, longer | | | | immunity is weak, potentially disastrous trouble is |
| than your right arm, continues. | | | | ahead. Your body becomes vulnerable. Susceptible to |
| Instead of addressing each, let's concentrate on | | | | being contagious, an inviting, unnecessary, wide open |
| what is backed by conventional and alternative | | | | door to pain, hardship and trouble that could be |
| doctors, scientists, researchers, independent studies | | | | completely avoidable, simply by taking care of |
| and end users: antioxidant potency and its effect on | | | | yourself. |
| your immunity. | | | | Broccoli, blueberries and now that you are in the |
| For years, pound for pound, the most publicly known | | | | know, Goji berries are antioxidant rich. Goji berries, of |
| superfood definitely in the United States, if not the | | | | all present choices, are the stand out option to |
| world, at what has consistently gotten the best | | | | ensure a virtual, bullet proof, Fort Knox equivalent |
| publicity are 2 every day foods: broccoli and | | | | immune system that is so unrivaled, few in their right |
| blueberries. Nutritionally, the short version of their | | | | mind, can afford to ignore its possibility. It's as easy |
| story is they pack a punch, benefit your body in | | | | as that. The real beauty? Eat sweet berries that are |
| many ways, and are a part of every ideal, healthy | | | | nearly 3000 percent better for you, or broccoli by |
| diet. Both consistently appear on "top foods to eat" | | | | the shovel full, that well, tastes like broccoli. |
| lists everywhere and anywhere, because they are so | | | | |