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Heart Health In Bali BaliCore: for and Remote ChlorophyllRelief in Plants Diet - Villages The benefits of Parsley and Anything Green
As the candles on our birthday cakes multiply to Lucky readers who we are wonder perusingfrom this time issuetooftime the Bali alarming numbers, how Hi I’ve been reading about the health benefits associated Advertiser, poolside inWe Canggu, oreverywhere in an Ubud home our hearts are doing. can’t see what’s going on in with the celery juice craze, it’s been lately in the news, problem is most places in Bali only offer fresh office overlooking a grove of shimmering palms. You there and it’s a bit of a worry. fruit juices. did it! You Celery found is a one wayof tothe getmore freshexpensive coconutsgreens for a to buy, I was wondering if it is feasible to grow my own song, you’re surfing beautiful breaks, and maybe or are there any other alternative vegetables to grow and you’re having a tough time not gloating about it when juice for maximum health benefit? writing emails Regards Nicki. back to your friends and family stuck in the places you left behind. As the years roll on, so to do the superfood fads. People claiming to discover things which have always existed. I say, beware of the ‘Instafad’ and those who peddle them. Last year it was kale and goji before that. So, now this year it’s celery! If I was running the show next year it’ll be parsley but unfortunately for Instagram I’m not signed up - more likely fortunately if the truth be known! But despite that, one thing is for sure - I’m not trying to sell you anything, get likes or increase my subscribers, so read on without suspicion. Now while I’m all for people growing their own fruit and vegetables, just beware of the fads and fashionable foods! A healthy balanced diet is the most important thing. I find it amusing that the celery juice junkies are usually the same people posing on their Instagram feed next week, espresso Here’s in also a shout readers whotheir didn’t quitevantage get to martini hand as the out sun to sinks low from daybed that e-visa page in time, who west mightcoast. well But be point - whichapplication could be anywhere on Bali’s then again, whatorwould know…I’m nottime on Instagram right? watching sleet snowI falling, every you glance up But I love to have thethat occasional rant. fromgeez the computer screen has been ruining your eyes Cardiologist Dr Putra Antara of Ubud Care Clinic recently for thean last few is, months. Youvegetable miss Bali;juice you’dwill love to be gave excellent presentation on heart disease, followed Look, the truth any green no doubt partanofhealth it all again. have benefits, it’s just that take issue with the by intense hour of Q&A. Here areI the highlights. misinformation of the celery nuts. Yes, celery juice is good for - much better coke, beer orsource cocktail. it will By the age of ouristhan heart will have logged about 2 billion Theyou reality for70, Bali thata the primary of But income always be so much better if you grow your own. A about lot of these beats. That’s a lot of wear and tear. Just think how has been banned and the economy has been devastated. people talk the to talk, but doour they walkpumps. the walk? Where do often we have replace pond But records CoVid-19 cases have to dwindle before the government they get their celery from, and why is that important? Well, between 1900 and 2010 show that coronary artery disease PPKM restrictions areand lifted and hotels resortsfor reopen. chlorophyll is the key I’ll explain whyand it matters celery, (CAD) in the west peaked in the 1960s and 1970s then in particular. Bali’s guiding principleofforimproved prosperitymedical is three-pronged: decreased because care and harmony with the gods, harmony with countries other people, and education. People from high income are more Chlorophyll is the green pigment that gives plants their colour harmony with the environment and nature. You’ve heard likely to die of cancer these days, and those from middle and is an extremely beneficial nutrient to humans. To simplify, and low income countries of CAD. In cultural Indonesia, about half it before; it’sconverts Tri Hita Karana, and this foundation is chlorophyll solar energy into plant sugars through of the cost of the national health care plan BPJS is paid photosynthesis - without which human life on have earth fallen would out not being threatened. Thousands of Balinese on for possible! heart issues. be The benefits or snatch green juice not only such hard times that bold and come grab crime is from up, the vitamins and minerals - but the chlorophyll content also resources are being illegally poached and sold, and Risk is key. factors include high cholesterol/blood pressure, unsteady smoking, voices tellfamily of shaken faith and fears for Balinese diabetes, history and obesity. In Indonesia society. isMost Balinese are looking for aware ways tothat survive Regarding celery, most people are not store smoking the highest risk factor; Dr Putra recently treated bought celery isthis a heavily sprayed crop, so enjoy those a 22 year old heavy smoker fortrio a heart attack. which fall within powerful of stability. chemicals with your juice! Another biggie people don’t realise is that commercially grownstart celery is ‘blanched’ in the fields Prevention of CAD should in our thirties. We all know Sofew where do we privileged people fit in? I can predict a a weeks before harvest whether it’s organic or not. The the rules of a healthy heart: stay active, have a good diet, few groans of Giver Burnout, and who hasn’t groaned a bit term ‘blanched’ in this respect refers to the mounding up of lose weight, control cholesterol and blood pressure, reduce soil around stalks or from otherthe methods of light deprivation when a newthe youth club banjar comes knocking, blood sugar and stop smoking. But no matter how virtuous so that only the tops remain exposed in the final weeks of or umpteen charitable causes stack up in WhatsApp? our lifestyle, the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries growth. Why is this done? Which yayasan (charity) can you to empower people is inevitable; almost everyone willtrust experience it over time. Plaque eventually narrows the arteries, limiting blood flow. and not make acelery one-time handout? Has anyonebitterness, curated Well, ‘blanching’ makes it sweeter, reducing The progression, overitmany years, themore gradual narrowing a selection of yayasans thatstringy make is sense righttender now? whilst also rendering less and to the of the coronary arteries to plaque. Thisanyway? can leadBut to bite - but who cares if youdue pulverise it into juice angina, the pain by narrowed whichside is what I really need caused to mention is that thearteries undesirable Well, here’s a good answer for all of that. usually of triggered by stress or exertion. Typically angina effects ‘blanching’ are reduced nutrients and a lowered chlorophyll pain occurscontent! in a larger area of the chest and is relieved with
nitroglycerin or rest. (By the way, gentlemen, don’t take BaliCore 2021 its documentary project People of nitroglycerin withand Viagra; they both thestore blood Haven’t you noticed that celery stalksopen in the arevessels a pale Bali a green, way to transitioning with confidence proven yayasans. and is may cause agive blackout due to a dangerous drop in blood shade of to white attothe base? That’s not how itcan looks in my or garden that Giver is the Burnout heart of my You combat totallyand avoid justgripe by pressure.) with celery food faddists. home-grown celery is a beingthe able to see clearly what Real your money is doing, where chlorophyll filled deeper green said ‘chlorofilled’ “A going, heart thanks attack when - abetter coronary artery this gets it’s tooccurs social media. Read on, because perhaps! completely blocked; stress or physical exertion may trigger is good. a rupture of the plaque that leads to a sudden blockage,” Aexplains green juice should“An have chlorophyll levels at a an premium, Dr Putra. electrocardiogram during attack yet your aaverage store-bought celery is deficient somewhat. In April, small group of NGO volunteers will embark on a is the basic diagnostic tool. Treatment includes immediate For health it’s much better to be juicing some parsley which fact-finding charitable trek to several of Bali’s oxygen andand blood thinners, relief and nitroglycerin to reduce any is especially high in chlorophyll, and also extremely bitter - but artery spasm. Onevillages, or more stents may be inserted keep remote and at-risk and the public gets to to follow hey, no pain no gain! But you can always just throw a few the blocked open. In juice, casesyou’ll of severe a along on and facebook. sprigs in Instagram with artery a watermelon barely blockage, taste it, but coronary bypass (open heart surgery) literally bypasses the the benefits will be there as parsley is extremely nutrient blockage withamount a graftedgoes vein or redirected artery. Meanwhile, dense - a yayasans tiny The five aligned ainlong thisway. effort will channel our in those with only narrowing of the arteries, stents generally donations intolife, planned these communities, won’t prolong but mayprojects improvefor quality of life by reducing including angina.” nutritional assistance, sustainable agriculture and economic solutions, clean drinking water, veterinary It shouldn’t services, andsurprise more. us that all the old heart attack trials were done on Caucasian males. Only recently has it been recognized thatorganizer women, of Asians and Africans have BaliCore is the a charitable alliancemay of these different symptoms from the ‘norm’ of chest pain radiating to established and proven yayasans: Solemen Indonesia, the left arm. Scholars of Sustenance, Kopernik, Social ImpaKt, and Bali Living AnimalinWelfare Association (BAWA). The project Bali, it’s important to be educated and is informed. Wewidely, can’t just towith summon a fullyor being promoted and call the 911 goal, your large equipped ambulance with highly small donations, is USD $20,000 (justtrained under IDR paramedics to our door in a few minutes. 300,000,000). A classic heart attack is harder to diagnose in women, The initiative lists these three targets: especially if they are over 65 and/or diabetic. Heart attack 1. To assist in development sustainable farming symptoms in the women can beofany combination of the efforts and socialininitiatives following, bearing mind that symptoms may be more 2. To bolster the supply of food & essentials to outlying vague and atypical: communities until international tourism resumes - To Chest pain (the pain mayofbe dull, hard to pinpoint the 3. increase the capacity critical feeding and medical But exact as forlocation, store-bought new it maycelery be in as thethe back or superfood? may radiateSorry, to for it! 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BAWA responds crisis all kinds chlorophyll, think parsley, kale, wheat grass, spring onions, Room with heart attack symptoms are much more likely animals, not just our island’s mascot, the Bali Heritageto spinach etc. The word is derived from the be dismissed than men.chlorophyll Drhas Putra suggests that anyone Dog. High-profile Solemen an island-wide network of Greek words: Chloros (meaning green) and phyllon (meaning experiencing a possible heart attack should immediately tell volunteers who go to work without hesitation. Scholars of leaf) - no more explanation needed! the doctor they have never felt anything like this before, Sustenance which should partner be a reddaily flag. with the F&B industry to end The chlorophyll are extensive here’s a food health waste benefits and giveoffamilies the nutrition to stay- healthy. quick rundown. Chlorophyll detoxifies the liver, alkalizes the And Social ImpaKt’s simple water filtration system issmall so Heart attacks are somewhat common in the blood, boosts immunity, regulatesmore iron levels, assistes healing, hours of the night. For this reason, Dr Putra suggests that amazingly portable, it’s another one of those miraculous regulates blood sugar, activates metabolism, aids weight loss blood blood on thinning medications should be inventions whichand upgrades living with very little and haspressure anti-ageing effects thestandards skin. taken at night, while beta blockers be taken in the morning. cash outlay. What about demon cholesterol? Highcancerous cholesteroltumour alone Research hasthe shown chlorophyll to retard does notItnecessarily into plaque,ofinlung fact cancer, about half of all growths. slows downturn the progression allowing other agents don’t to eliminate the cholesterol. already present cancer hearthealing attack victims have high Around 20-
30% of our total cholesterol level is determined by diet, the idGuides, a community-based ecotourism education balance is genetic. Science nowthe sees the obesity epidemic, cells. It has been shown to stop division of breast cancer group, has a track record ofrefined successfully teaching fueled by kills sugar, salt, and morevillagers serious cells and existing ones. It canflour, alsoas killa existing colon how to to guide and ‘fat’ responsibly maintain and use cancer cells. threat hearttrekkers health than or cholesterol. foot trails for visitors who want something authentic and IfI’ve you’re a sceptic, do some of your own to uncover always hadAshigh cholesterol, andresearch a idGuides few years ago back-to-nature. a BaliCore advisor, has the facts. during a check up in Bangkok asked to have a CT coronary mapped a challenging route for the trekkers, at 15 to 20 angiogram which was the only test I was aware of to kilometers per with State low impact sleeping eating According to theday, Oregon someand of the most visualize coronary plaque. Dr University, Putra explained that there chlorophyll dense rawdistancing vegetablesand areother (mg per cup): arrangements, social strict CoVId-19 were risks associated with this test, and it was also • Parsley in - 38 protocols place the get safety of theseCalcium seldom-visited expensive. In Bali for we can a Coronary Scoring • Spinach - 23.7 villages. CT Scan at Siloam, Kasih Ibu and other hospitals which • Cress - 15.6 only Rp 700,000 to Rp 1,500,000. Even if we have •costs Green beans - 8.3 no symptoms, it might be a good how idea these to seevillages what’s going • Arugulavolunteers (rocket) - 8.2 BaliCore will tabulate have onLeeks in there and give us a baseline. By the way, although •been 7.7 impacted by Bali’s tourism closure, film the stories I’ve always had high cholesterol including the ‘bad’ or LDL that need to be told, learn what the communities need and cholesterol, hadlist no- evidence of significant arterial plaque. Parsley tops Ithe so let’s talk about its apigenin content want, and lay the groundwork for sustainable solutions in while we’re here! harmony with local powers. That’s the tradeoff to the lifestyle we’ve chosen. So we Preclinical research shows that apigenin which is found in need to take more responsibility. parsley, retards mesothelioma cancer cell A resulting project called People of Bali willdevelopment. serve as a Natural compounds are often shown to interrupt cancer If you think you may be having a heart attack and arecells not documentary of the ten-day journey, from preparations and their spread. Over 50% of chemotherapy drugs come already on blood thinners, Dr Putra suggests immediately onward. We can begin following this extraordinary directly from plantalready sources or were developed in theit’slab by chewing 160-320 mg of aspirin/aspilet (in a pinch, fine synthesizing a plant compound into a drug. Dried parsley, project on social media. Stories of compassion, purpose, to take a full tablet of 500 mg) and 180 mg ticagrelol or 300 with progress 13,000 mg of already apigenin per 100 grams is one of the most and are posted. site mg clopidogrel with a full being glass of water. The I hadfacebook to order both abundant natural sources. Fresh parsley is abundant also, isofBaliCore 2021, their is balicore2021 these through the Instagram clinic as account they don’t seem to be with 225 to 300 mg per 100 grams. available in pharmacies in Ubud. Have someone drive and the group can be emailed at balicore2021@gmail. you to Siloam, Kasih Ibu or Sanglah. Sanglah a com To get. a 10 mg dose as used in the clinical trial by Prof. has Harald special cardiac unit called ‘Ruang Emergency PJT’need (be Hoensch of the University of Frankfurt, you would only suretablespoon to use this one chopped and not the ordinary emergency one of raw per day, otherwise Support is growing, as seen in a parsley crowdfunding account at entrance) and,dried because it’sonto a teaching hospital, always sprinkle a little parsley your food. Other sources https://www.gofundme.com/f/bali-ten-day-fundraiser?qid= a cardiology onpeppermint, duty. The thyme, next best option ofhas apigenin include resident grapefruit, celery, and 3339817436e2fa885ee777bd41c142e0 even tea. Hospital Emergency as they have the wouldchamomile be the Siloam most cardiologists of the private hospitals. Bear in mind The so slow abundant in parsley hasUbud been found thatapigenin Sanglahthat canisbe andalso bureaucratic. Care Alternatively, donations may be made via bank toClinic have in remarkable anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects Teges has an emergency ward where heart transfer: as well. Parsley has more vitamin K than to kale, with just attacks can be also stabilized before the journey hospital in Yayasan Derma Atas Pangan 2their tablespoons of raw parsley containing 155 percent of the ambulance. Bank Umarvitamin. (Bank Code 008) I RDA. Mandiri VitaminKCP K is Denpasar known asTeuku the blood The more write the more I side with parsley over celery, though in reality Account No.to145-00-1338377-9 According Dr Putra, forced coughing is used only for a little bit of everything good is usually the way to go. Parsley Address: Jalan Teuku problems, Umar 85, Denpasar, Bali, certain heart rhythm but definitely notIndonesia for heart is just so potently good for you that you can’t afford not to 80111 attacks pain). couldtime even make worse and have it in(chest your diet - soIt next eat yourthings garnish! trigger a blackout. Phone: +62 (0) 361 257566 In conclusion, grow and juice whatever green leafy vegetable SWIFT code: BMRIIDJA Thislike, hasn’t been veryparsley cheerfulis read, but because forewarned is you I just thinka that so good of the forearmed. I don’t about I’ll be preparing a health benefits and know the fact that you, it willbut effectively grow on its Long-range, when Bali is healthy enough to reopen, you small flowering, container with aspirin and ticagrelol carry at all own, attracting bees, easily to self-seeding, will have the on some of that trail multiplying andopportunity sprouting upto in get rock crevices times. I personally believe than being happyand andpavement positive yourself, and seeand with your own eyessohow -ishence common name - rock celery. a bigits part ofyou’ll mental physical health, takethese a big dose of that too.enhanced All bright blessings 2020. villages have their Tri for Hita Karana with Quite possibly parsley will be the next years fad sustainable and healthy solutions. Thanks to- especially you and if I can have anything to do with it….now how about that BaliCore. Instagram account! By Ibu Kat The Boomer Corner is a column dedicated to people over 60 living in Bali. 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