Who You Really Are – Kirtana

Alex Theory

An interesting presentation by Alex Theory about sound and how it can affect and interface with the physical body.

Alex Theory a sound visionary draws upon extensive training in psychology, integrative medicine, and psychoacoustic music production to innovate new styles of music and media. In Alex’s speakeasy session he discusses the power of sound and how to discover it. Alex also talks about the transformation of sound and the technology of it through the years.

Soul Power Advanced Courses June-July 2011

What is the body, where does it come from, and how does it talk?

by James Oschman at the 2011 IBA Members Conference

Jim Oschman has been fascinated by John Veltheim’s scientific descriptions of Quantum BodyTalk. Explaining this approach to life and health to others can be challenging because of the ways our thinking has been influenced by the dominant materialistic paradigm. This paradigm has been shaken to its foundations in a series of breakthrough moments that forever change our perception of ourselves and the world we inhabit.

While the basic ideas can be traced to antiquity, their modern expression began at a specific moment at the turn of the century. On December 14, 1900, Max Planck reluctantly presented to the German Physical Society meeting in Berlin his discoveries about an obscure physical phenomenon known as black body radiation. His hesitation came from an awareness that his findings were totally contrary to the accepted notions of the nature of matter. Moreover, these notions were very dearly held, for they were widely viewed as a triumph of logic and reason – a means to understand all of nature. At the time of Planck’s lecture, all matter was viewed as composed of “billiard ball” atoms moving about predictably according to the laws of motion developed by Sir Isaac Newton. Lord Rutherford summarized the physicist’s self-confidence by stating that all of science was divided into two branches: physics and stamp collecting. Newton’s mechanics had led to an industrial revolution that offered much hope and enthusiasm for the future of technology.  Max Planck’s upsetting presentation led to the birth of quantum physics, and the end of an era of comfort in which physicists knew with great confidence they had the means to fathom all of the mysteries of nature. The universe had come to be predictable as a “clockworks” and the human body could be viewed an intricate machine made of parts that could be understood and fixed if necessary.

Quantum physics led to an entirely different worldview, in which the atom, its parts, and all things made of atoms including living things were better viewed as relationships rather than as isolated things. Electrons are no longer viewed as particles orbiting the atomic nucleus like the planets orbit the sun, but more as energetic essences with sizes and boundaries that can only be approximated.

There arose from Planck’s discoveries, and those that have followed, a sometimes uncomfortable awareness that our basic concepts, our language, our whole way of thinking, are inadequate to describe the world we live in. This is not just an intellectual  problem, but an emotional issue. For it goes to the heart of the way we view the nature of reality and what we are taught about how the world works from the first days of our lives. Frijtof Capra’s Turning Point (1982) documented how this change in awareness of relationships has altered every aspect of our reality. There have been attempts to establish a Quantum Medicine, but it was not until Quantum BodyTalk that the discoveries in Quantum physics became part of the daily reality of many healthcare practitioners and their patients.

Jim Oschman will summarize his perspectives on some of the steps in the journey of discovery that has led to the development of Quantum BodyTalk. The description has to be more than an intellectual process; it has to include some group experiences. Some key issues Dr. Veltheim has raised will be discussed. For example, what is the quantum source of our physical form, the elusive “blueprint” of life? This question can be discussed by looking closely at the quantum view of the structure and properties of space and energy.

Another issue is the role of cause and effect in medicine. Conventional medicine seeks the causes of illness and the interventions that will produce predictable cures.

{1} There is no nobler aspiration of the human intellect than desire to compass the cause of things.

The Newtonian cause and effect model gathered momentum when it was discovered that pathogens cause disease and that bacteria can be reliably eliminated by antibiotics. However, the modern healthcare system is being overwhelmed with chronic diseases, for which antibiotics have little or no effect.

One place the subject of causes and effects has been discussed with special brilliance is in the work of an important physiologist, E. Edward Adolph, who spent a lifetime studying physiological regulations and integrations. Adolph’s obscure but classic essay entitled Physiological Integrations in Action. Parts of his essay can be described as a sort of poetry of BodyTalk:

{2} The biology of wholeness is the study of the body as an integrated, coordinated, successful system. The integrated human body is the sum of thousands of physiological processes and traits working together. Each breath and each heartbeat involves the working together of countless events. Huge numbers of functions are carried on simultaneously. The parts and processes within an organism are woven together with great intricacy. Coordination occurs at a thousand points. All of the systems interdigitate. This is possible because of communication. The mature observer recognizes that cause and effect are elusive because of the presence of multiple correlations. No properties are uncorrelated, all are demonstrably interlinked. And the links are not single chains, but a great number of crisscrossed pathways.

Adolph’s essay provided an impossible challenge to the application of a Newtonian paradigm to physiology and medicine. How can you intervene in a system whose essence is thousands of processes working together, interdigitating, with countless crisscrossed communication pathways, with coordination occurring at a thousand points?

Andrew Packard stated the question slightly differently:

{3} How is it that an organism behaves as a whole, and not just as a collection of parts?

Mae-Wan Ho provided an answer:

{4} Quantum physics provides us with an exact science for which such a holistic view is only natural. It lets us understand how the wavefunctions of protons and electrons which make up an atom or molecule sink their individuality to a common wavefunction: an irreducible holistic property. I want to persuade you that a living organism is a quantum being, with a unified wavefunction, in the same way that an atom is.

These inescapable perspectives help us understand the need for redefining healthcare in terms of the quantum holistic approach that is the essence of Quantum BodyTalk.

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[1]References:

{1} Chamberlin, T.C., 1890. The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science (old series) 15:92.

{2} Adolph, E.A., 1982. Physiological Integrations in Action.

{3}Packard, A., 2006. Contribution to the Whole (H). Can Squids Show Us Anything That We Did Not Know Already? Biology and Philosophy 21: 189-211.

{4} Ho, M-W., 1994. The Rainbow and the Worm. World Scientific, Singapore.

DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies

by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf
Russian DNA Discoveries:
Original version

THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.

Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered “junk DNA.” The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore those 90% of “junk DNA.” Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary! According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar.

They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.

The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA. [For the sake of brevity I will give only a summary here. For further exploration please refer to the appendix at the end of this article.] The bottom line was: “Living chromosomes function just like solitonic/holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation.” This means that they managed for example to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary.

One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies are being used.

This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. While western researchers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects.

Garjajev’s research group succeeded in proving that with this method chromosomes damaged by x-rays for example can be repaired. They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus reprogramming cells to another genome. 
So they successfully transformed, for example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA. This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation! All this by simply applying vibration and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure! This experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.

Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained. Of course the frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and maturity in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA. The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency.

But the higher developed an individual’s consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device! One can achieve these results by oneself, and science will finally stop to laugh at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results. And it doesn’t end there.
The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in the vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).
These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hypercommunication is most effective in a state of relaxation. Stress, worries or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hypercommunication or the information will be totally distorted and useless.

In nature, hypercommunication has been successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in insect states proves this dramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle level as “intuition.” But we, too, can regain full use of it. An example from Nature: When a queen ant is spatially separated from her colony, building still continues fervently and according to plan. If the queen is killed, however, all work in the colony stops. No ant knows what to do. Apparently the queen sends the “building plans” also from far away via the group consciousness of her subjects. She can be as far away as she wants, as long as she is alive. In man hypercommunication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to information that is outside one’s knowledge base. Such hypercommunication is then experienced as inspiration or intuition. The Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini for instance dreamt one night that a devil sat at his bedside playing the violin. The next morning Tartini was able to note down the piece exactly from memory, he called it the Devil’s Trill Sonata.

For years, a 42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind of knowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then transmitted to him that he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a flood of information that it seemed a whole encyclopedia was transmitted at night. The majority of facts were outside his personal knowledge base and reached technical details about which he knew absolutely nothing.

When hypercommunication occurs, one can observe in the DNA as well as in the human being special phenomena. The Russian scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen a typical wave pattern was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it remained. Many control experiments showed that the pattern still came from the removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now called phantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows through the activated wormholes after the DNA was removed. The side effect encountered most often in hypercommunication also in human beings are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the persons concerned. Electronic devices like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours. When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally again. Many healers and psychics know this effect from their work. The better the atmosphere and the energy, the more frustrating it is that the recording device stops functioning and recording exactly at that moment. And repeated switching on and off after the session does not restore function yet, but next morning all is back to normal. Perhaps this is reassuring to read for many, as it has nothing to do with them being technically inept, it means they are good at hypercommunication.

In their book “Vernetzte Intelligenz” (Networked Intelligence), Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these connections precisely and clearly. 
The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier times humanity had been, just like the animals, very strongly connected to the group consciousness and acted as a group. To develop and experience individuality we humans however had to forget hypercommunication almost completely. Now that we are fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group consciousness, namely one, in which we attain access to all information via our DNA without being forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that information. We now know that just as on the internet our DNA can feed its proper data into the network, can call up data from the network and can establish contact with other participants in the network. Remote healing, telepathy or “remote sensing” about the state of relatives etc. can thus be explained. Some animals know also from afar when their owners plan to return home. That can be freshly interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hypercommunication. Any collective consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without a distinctive individuality. Otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd instinct that is easily manipulated.

Hypercommunication in the new millennium means something quite different: Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind. Fifty percent of today’s children will be problem children as soon as the go to school. The system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today’s children is so strong that that they refuse this adjustment and giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.

At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are born [see the book “China’s Indigo Children” by Paul Dong or the chapter about Indigos in my book “Nutze die taeglichen Wunder” (Make Use of the Daily Wonders)]. Something in those children is striving more and more towards the group consciousness of the new kind, and it will no longer be suppressed. As a rule, weather for example is rather difficult to influence by a single individual. But it may be influenced by a group consciousness (nothing new to some tribes doing it in their rain dances). Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies, the so-called Schumann frequencies. But those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronize their thinking or individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is scientifically speaking not at all surprising if they can thus influence weather.

Researchers in group consciousness have formulated the theory of Type I civilizations. A humanity that developed a group consciousness of the new kind would have neither environmental problems nor scarcity of energy. For if it were to use its mental power as a unified civilization, it would have control of the energies of its home planet as a natural consequence. And that includes all natural catastrophes!!! A theoretical Type II civilization would even be able to control all energies of their home galaxy. In my book “Nutze die taeglichen Wunder,” I have described an example of this: Whenever a great many people focus their attention or consciousness on something similar like Christmas time, football world championship or the funeral of Lady Diana in England then certain random number generators in computers start to deliver ordered numbers instead of the random ones. An ordered group consciousness creates order in its whole surroundings! [http://noosphere.princeton.edu/fristwall2.html] [1] When a great number of people get together very closely, potentials of violence also dissolve. It looks as if here, too, a kind of humanitarian consciousness of all humanity is created.

At the Love Parade, for example, where every year about one million of young people congregate, there has never been any brutal riots as they occur for instance at sports events. The name of the event alone is not seen as the cause here. The result of an analysis indicated rather that the number of people was TOO GREAT to allow a tipping over to violence.

To come back to the DNA: It apparently is also an organic superconductor that can work at normal body temperature. Artificial superconductors require extremely low temperatures of between 200 and 140°C to function. As one recently learned, all superconductors are able to store light and thus information. This is a further explanation of how the DNA can store information. There is another phenomenon linked to DNA and wormholes. Normally, these supersmall wormholes are highly unstable and are maintained only for the tiniest fractions of a second. Under certain conditions (read about it in the Fosar/Bludorf book above) stable wormholes can organize themselves which then form distinctive vacuum domains in which for example gravity can transform into electricity.

Vacuum domains are self-radiant balls of ionized gas that contain considerable amounts of energy. There are regions in Russia where such radiant balls appear very often. Following the ensuing confusion the Russians started massive research programs leading finally to some of the discoveries mentions above. Many people know vacuum domains as shiny balls in the sky. The attentive look at them in wonder and ask themselves, what they could be. I thought once: “Hello up there. If you happen to be a UFO, fly in a triangle.” And suddenly, the light balls moved in a triangle. Or they shot across the sky like ice hockey pucks. They accelerated from zero to crazy speeds while sliding gently across the sky. One is left gawking and I have, as many others, too, thought them to be UFOs. Friendly ones, apparently, as they flew in triangles just to please me. Now the Russians found in the regions, where vacuum domains appear often that sometimes fly as balls of light from the ground upwards into the sky, that these balls can be guided by thought. One has found out since that vacuum domains emit waves of low frequency as they are also produced in our brains.

And because of this similarity of waves they are able to react to our thoughts. To run excitedly into one that is on ground level might not be such a great idea, because those balls of light can contain immense energies and are able to mutate our genes. They can, they don’t necessarily have to, one has to say. For many spiritual teachers also produce such visible balls or columns of light in deep meditation or during energy work which trigger decidedly pleasant feelings and do not cause any harm. Apparently this is also dependent on some inner order and on the quality and provenance of the vacuum domain. There are some spiritual teachers (the young Englishman Ananda, for example) with whom nothing is seen at first, but when one tries to take a photograph while they sit and speak or meditate in hypercommunication, one gets only a picture of a white cloud on a chair. In some Earth healing projects such light effects also appear on photographs. Simply put, these phenomena have to do with gravity and anti-gravity forces that are also exactly described in the book and with ever more stable wormholes and hypercommunication and thus with energies from outside our time and space structure.

Earlier generations that got in contact with such hypercommunication experiences and visible vacuum domains were convinced that an angel had appeared before them. And we cannot be too sure to what forms of consciousness we can get access when using hypercommunication. Not having scientific proof for their actual existence (people having had such experiences do NOT all suffer from hallucinations) does not mean that there is no metaphysical background to it. We have simply made another giant step towards understanding our reality.

Official science also knows of gravity anomalies on Earth (that contribute to the formation of vacuum domains), but only of ones of below one percent. But recently gravity anomalies have been found of between three and four percent. One of these places is Rocca di Papa, south of Rome (exact location in the book “Vernetzte Intelligenz” plus several others). Round objects of all kinds, from balls to full buses, roll uphill. But the stretch in Rocca di Papa is rather short, and defying logic sceptics still flee to the theory of optical illusion (which it cannot be due to several features of the location).

All information is taken from the book “Vernetzte Intelligenz” von Grazyna Fosar und Franz Bludorf, ISBN 3930243237, summarized and commented by Baerbel. The book is unfortunately only available in German so far. You can reach the authors here: www.fosar-bludorf.com

[2]; Transmitted by Vitae Bergman
[ http://www.ryze.com/view.php?who=vitaeb ]
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References: 1. http://noosphere.princeton.edu/fristwall2.html
2. http://www.fosar-bludorf.com
3. http://www.ryze.com/view.php?who=vitaeb

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Soul Power Courses in Tauranga April 2011

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability

Brene Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

BodyTalk at the Healthy Living Festival

BodyTalk at the Healthy Living Festival in Mount Maunganui

18th & 19th September

Come and have a mini-BodyTalk session!

I will be at the Healthy Living Festival again this year and will be joined by other local practitioners on the BodyTalk stand.

We’ll be offering mini-sessions of BodyTalk so that people who haven’t tried it can see what all the fuss is about! 

If you have already tried BodyTalk but would like a quick ‘tune up’ or to meet some of our local practitioners we’d love to see you on the 18th & 19th September at the Mount Sports Centre on Maunganui Road.  If you visit our stand you are welcome to add your name to the draw to win a free BodyTalk session with one of us.  We’ll also be offering some exclusive discounts to Festival visitors—make sure you don’t miss out!

And please remember to ask us to teach you the BodyTalk technique that you can do on yourself to balance your brain.  It’s quick and easy—and it really works!  A great little technique to use in times of stress.

And speaking of stress…. check out this month’s article from the HeartMath Institute that gives some insight into how our modern world is contributing to increasing stress levels.

If you already receive regular BodyTalk sessions you will know that BodyTalk is the ultimate stress management tool!  Most clients report that they feel more relaxed and stress-free after a BodyTalk session….what are you waiting for?

What Is Contemporary Stress?

A response to stress expresses itself as resistance, tension, strain, or frustration that throws off our equilibrium, keeping us out of sync. Two people in identical circumstances may respond in very different ways (e.g., one gets stressed, the other inspired) depending upon how they perceive the situation.

What contributes to contemporary stress? We have always had earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods, but the increasing volume and severity of these events has become alarming. Weather devastation generates economic stress in skyrocketing prices for gasoline, heating fuel, and food. Epidemics of influenza and other infectious diseases aren’t new, but drug-resistant strains of virulent organisms are new and threatening. The history of humankind is full of examples of conflicts, wars, and acts of terrorism. However, never before has there been such a great threat of death and potential mass destruction due to terrorist acts as there is now.

The public is understandably stressed by constant reminders from the media that any of these contemporary stressors could easily affect you or a loved one at any time. It is therefore not surprising that 8 or 9 out of every 10 visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related complaints. The World Health Organization estimated that by 2020, clinical depression will outrank cancer and follow only heart disease as the second leading cause of disability in the world. Is it because contemporary stress is somehow different and more dangerous? What people want to know is what they can do about any of this. How can they learn to avoid and cope with this avalanche of stress that seems to surround today’s world?

Stress is often misunderstood. Many people look at outside events as the source of stress, but, in fact, the experience of stress is actually caused by our emotional reactions to events. We can break the vicious stress cycle by taking a proactive role in managing our reactions. Actively self-generating positive emotions when you start to react can favorably affect your physiological and psychological processes. Positive emotions help shift stress-producing perceptions, counterbalance the effects of stress reactions, and promote regeneration at both the psychological and physiological levels (see Science of the Heart). As you gain increased management of emotions, the experience of stress then truly becomes more a choice than an automatic reaction. In learning to address and transform stress from within, you become an active contributor to your own health, balance, and fulfillment.

 

Copyright © 2006 HeartMath.  Since 1991 HeartMath has been dedicated to decoding the underlying mechanics of stress. HeartMath is internationally recognized for their solutions to transform the stress of change and uncertainty, and bring coherence and renewed energy into people’s lives. Research and clinical studies conducted by HeartMath have examined emotional physiology, heart-brain interactions, and the physiology of learning and performance. Through their research they have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance. HeartMath’s work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as American Journal of Cardiology, Stress Medicine, and Preventive Cardiology, as well as business journals such as Harvard Business Review and Leadership Excellence. HeartMath’s organizational clients include Mayo Clinic, NASA, BP, Duke University Health System, Stanford Business School, Redken, Kaiser Permanente, Boeing, and Cisco Systems, as well as dozens of school systems and thousands of health professionals around the world. To learn more about HeartMath’s scientifically validated products and programs or to learn more about their research, explore www.heartmath.org.

Kiwi is the fruit for you

Source: http://www.bewellbuzz.com/nutrition/green-and-fuzzy-kiwi-is-the-fruit-for-you/ and

http://www.healthnews.com/nutrition-diet/green-fuzzy-kiwi-is-fruit-you-2510.html .

The kiwifruit season is upon us! They are everywhere at the moment – and so good for us… read on:

One of the most underestimated fruits is probably the kiwi. Small, green, and squishy in texture, it is not usually on a person’s mind when they think of grabbing a piece of fruit. An exotic berry from the vine plant Actinidia deliciosa, the kiwifruit’s fuzzy outer surface protects the delicious inside from external forces before it is ready to enjoy.

Originally called the Chinese Gooseberry, to market the fruit more globally, it was renamed “melonette” in the 1950s and then to “kiwifruit” by exporters in New Zealand. A kiwi is the national bird of New Zealand and people from the country are also called “Kiwis,” so in order to alleviate any confusion, kiwifruit is not abbreviated in New Zealand, but most everywhere else the fruit is shortened and known simply as kiwi.

Rutgers University recently conducted a study of the 27 most popular fruits—although I do not think I can name that many types of fruit off the top of my head—and named kiwi the “most nutritionally dense” among all of them. The kiwi, with its tangy, saliva-inducing taste, gives you a day’s worth of vitamin C, blood-pressure helping potassium, the antioxidant-rich vitamin E, and lutein, which helps promote good vision. Calorie-counting alert: a kiwi carries only 50 calories and doesn’t involve any muss or fuss to eat. Slice kiwis on top of a fruit tart and bake, layer them in a yogurt parfait or on top of pancakes, or simply slice and spoon into your mouth to enjoy its best benefits.

With more fiber than apples and twice the amount of vitamin C as an orange, (minus the seeds, rind, and pulp that tend to get in the way), kiwi also helps reduce damage from free radicals which can lead to long term diseases like cancer later in life.

A study published in early 2009 shows the New Zealand-born kiwifruit as a natural body strengthener, great for protecting the body from winter colds and flu season. Zespri kiwifruit, a popular international kiwi exporter, was put into an experiment to test it against the body’s natural defenses. Research showed that the kiwi was able to boost the natural defenses of the body, improve muscle performance and digestive health, and reduce cell damage and inflammation. The findings were published in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, a Cambridge journal. Zespri’s study merely supports previous reports that the fruit has powers not unlike other defined “super foods” like blueberries, pomegranates, spinach, and garlic among many others.

The end result of the study is that it assumes the unassertive kiwi can increase the body’s natural response triggers that are associated with afflictions and diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, obesity, heart disease, and cancer. Kiwifruit protects against enzymes associated with cancers of the lower digestive tract and helps muscles repair from stress caused by exercise. Health science manager from Zespri Incorporated, Lynley Drummond says that the specific report was done to note the added benefits of kiwfruit because it is well known that eating (or drinking) fruit is good for maintaining health, “We all know that consuming fruit is good for us, but we wanted to know if kiwifruit in particular has a beneficial effect on the body’s natural defence system….These studies are an exciting step forward and support growing evidence that Zespri kiwifruit can strengthen the immune system and protect the body in many ways.”

So next time you are in the pharmacy aisle in your local supermarket or department store, you may want to forego the expensive cold remedies, vitamins, syrups, preventative flu teas, and effervescent tablets and swing by the produce section first before you open your wallet. If you are feeling under the weather or lethargic—before you get serious symptoms—slice open a kiwi, smile at the tiny black seeds staring back at you, and give your immune system a little boost.

Photo credit http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs24/f/2007/358/8/3/KiWii_by_bast_art.jpg