University Ulster, UK

“Eating watercress daily can significantly reduce DNA damage to blood cells, which is considered to be an important trigger in the development of cancer, University of Ulster scientists revealed today. ^{1 7}

Watercress May Help Fight Cancer!

• We know you will love Watercress Kits, it will be very easy to have hydroponic sprouts all year round. We'll help you find out how to use cress in your daily dining. And we'll show you that it's “As Easy As 1-2-3” to grow indoors, you will be impressed. We will provide recipes and links to even more recipes and we'll give you examples on how to enjoy cress! So, you will be successful in providing the utmost nutrition for your family with Watercress Kits!
• Watercress and or Cress are a Vitamin and Mineral Rich Raw Food that helps repair DNA for healthy cell regeneration¹
• New Fresh Watercress Hydroponic Sprout Kits will provide an easy way to grow sprouts which contain live enzymes necessary for the digestive process. Cress Sprouts are one of the highest sources of fiber and chlorophyll. It also contains the highest and purest form of vitamins, proteins, trace minerals and nutrients necessary for long life.
• Terri Teague and Mildred Jackson in their book 'The Handbook of Alternatives to Chemical Medication' lists watercress as a wondrous source of nutrients for the body and to help clear cancerous growths”¹ ¹
• In the Sunday Mail it was 'reported how watercress can block cancer; 'Scientists have found that the salad vegetable watercress contains a chemical, which helps prevent lung cancer...' ¹ ²
• You'll have fresh delicious Watercress, without waiting hydroponically grown in any season, and you don’t have to pay retail prices so you save money for your family.  Watercress that you buy in the store isn’t always organic, and it’s very perishable so a lot of times if you can’t use it right away it goes to waste. Not with Watercress Kits.  Hydroponically grow sprouts as you need them!  Convenience and less waste with the highest quality.
• History of watercress: It's native to Europe and considered to be a valuable raw food plant.  Watercress has a hollow stem and will produce small white and green flowers in clusters.  The foliage of the watercress becomes bitter when the plant begins producing flowers.  With the hydroponic watercress sprouts you will not see the flower, but it has green leaves within the first 3 days and green leaves mean enzymes!
• The very small white flower with four-petaled Corollas resembling a Great Cress.⁵ Watercress is a vegetable and is in the same plant family including broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, turnips, mustard, horseradish and radishes.  “This family has been recognized for it's ability to serve man with valuable health and healing properties.”⁵
• Watercress “has abundant Chlorophyll, which is purifying and stops the spread of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganism.  Chlorophyll also promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal flora.”⁴
• Watercress is a “Vitamin and Mineral Rich Food that helps repair DNA for healthy cell regeneration”¹
• Since “eating wild watercress found in streams and fields can be dangerous due to environmental runoff from sheep and cattle and pesticide; it could make your family ill and can carry a  “parasite disease.”²  called, “Liver Fluke Disease”² “It is usually associated with sheep and cattle.”² Even the conventional watercress found at your grocers can be GMO or Genetically Modified Organiziums or have diseases like Salmanella right in the seed so no amount of cleaning the plant can get rid of the illness can be GMO or Genetically Modified Organisms or have diseases like Salmonella right in the seed so no amount of soaking or cleansing treatments of the plant can get rid of the illness.  But your family will be safe with Watercress Kits we only use 3rd Party Tested Disease Free, 100% Certified Organic Sprouting Seeds!

• This is a list of foods that may carry parasites and should be washed in a “Treatment Solution” before eating you should avoid raw walnuts all produce particularly watercress (from the grocer or from the wild), lettuce, parsley, celery and water chestnuts.   These should not be eaten raw unless treated” but your Watercress Kits Sprouts are Disease Free & Organic Seeds and are safe, Vegetarian and Vegan friendly.

• Non-Hybrid Seeds are important because the push toward hybridization and GMO foods is becoming irreversible and Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO is dangerous and once these GMO Seeds are used the soil is damaged and these manufactured or engineered seeds will kill other seeds.
  
  

◊ Treatment:   Soak all greens in a mild solution of Apple Cider Vinegar and clean water for 15 minutes, 1 tablespoon per gallon of soak water or ¼ cup per sink full of water”⁴ I actually treat all of my produce before consumption.  Most fruits and vegetables are heavily sprayed with chemicals and pesticides, and it isn't always possible to find a variety of organic foods all year-round.   Remember when you have a Watercress Sprout Kit you will be able to grow sprouts & all kinds of sprouting seeds including cress anytime, all year-round!  The soapy solutions you can buy at your grocers may be adding their own problems to the rinsing and cleaning process, that is why I like to use the vinegar, it's natural and healthy!

• Watercress:  “Being eaten whilst extremely young, “alive” or "baby watercress" and rapidly developing, sprouts have been acclaimed as the “most enzyme-rich food on the planet”^{1 5}  “Greens in the cabbage family have almost three times as much calcium as phosphorus.”  That is a very beneficial ratio since high phosphorus consumption has been linked to osteoporosis.  The high consumption reduces the utilization of calcium and promotes it's excretion.”^{1 5}  So what this is saying is that Watercress Kits Sprouts will provide the correct balance of calcium and phosphorus for the utmost benefits!        
• Breast Cancer Research by Science Daily (September 14, 2010) -- States that; "New scientific research from the University of Southampton has revealed that a plant compound in watercress may have the ability to suppress breast cancer cell development by "turning off" a signal in the body and thereby starving the growing tumour of essential blood and oxygen."  Additional information can be found at: sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100914115240.htm  Research lead by Professor Packham, a molecular oncologist.
• The research, carried out by a team from the University’s Coleraine Campus and published in this month’s American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “found that in addition to reducing DNA damage, a daily portion of watercress also increased the ability of those cells to resist further DNA damage caused by free radicals.”
• Watercress contains more sulfur than any other vegetable.  Sulfur rich foods play an important part in protein absorption, blood purification, cell building and in healthy hair and skin.⁷
• Isabel Shipard Book: 'How can I use herbs in my daily life?'⁷  States that: “The Potassium content of watercress is valued for weight loss!”⁷
• Dr. Kamen PhD. In her book 'Germanium a New Approach to Immunity' shares research on the benefits of plants that contain the mineral germanium^{1 8} (B-17). Watercress is a source of the germanium it acts as an antiviral, antibiotic, and body detoxifies; an oxygen carrier and catalyst; strengthening bone-mass, the immune system and biologically stimulating electrical impulses at cell level”⁸
• In the book, 'World without cancer, the story of Vitamin B17'^{1 3} by Edward Griffin, the book explores the revolutionary concept that cancer is a deficiency disease, the substance missing being B17 (also called laetrile),^{2 2}discovered by German Chemist Leibig in 1830, and further researched by Dr. Ernst Krebs and others.^{1 3}
• Remember all fruits and vegetables offer outstanding health benefits.  Easily include cress and other sprouts to your daily diet.  To get the maximum health benefits, experts recommend eating a variety of fruits and vegetables along with other natural foods.¹⁵
  
• The key findings of the watercress diet are as follows:^{1 7}
  • Significant reduction in DNA damage to lymphocytes (white blood cells), by 22.9 per cent.
  • Reduction in DNA damage to lymphocytes (white blood cells) when a sample was challenged with the free radical generating chemical hydrogen peroxide, by 9.4%.
  • Reduction in blood triglyceride levels, by an average of 10%.
  • Significant increase in blood levels of lutein and beta-carotene, which have antioxidant activity, by 100% and 33% respectively(higher intakes of lutein have also been associated with a lower incidence of eye diseases such as cataract and age-related macular degeneration).^{1 7}
• Give Watercress Kits as a gift to a loved one and friend.  If you have someone you care about that smokes^{1 7} you will find this very informative.  Studies have shown the benefits of “eating watercress for smokers”²′^{1 7} Since, health and nutrition are a main concern for families everywhere, Watercress Kits provide a cost effective “Super Food” rich with raw nutrients year-round!