BENEFITS TO YOUR HEALTH
- Weight loss by increasing metabolic rate
- Increased and sustained energy, and recovery after chronic fatigue
- Balancing blood pressure
- Helps reduce behavioural issues in children and adults
- Improved circulation
- Reduction of menopausal symptoms and PMT
- Reduces arterial plaques
- Makes for a soft and velvety skin and helps with acne, psoriasis and eczema
- Reduces inflammation thanks to the Omega oils
- Improves digestion
- Reduces arthritis and osteoarthritis
- Reduces hypertension
- Boosts immunity
- Reduces sugar and junk food cravings
- Improves brain function, probably due to the protein and EFA content
- Control of blood sugar due to the high protein content (33% when hulled)
- Contains good amounts of soluble and insoluble fibre
- Helps relieve the symptoms of AIDS
- Symptoms of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s reduced thanks to Glutamic acid - aneuro-transmitter
- Liver and kidney disease reduced due to albumin, a protein usually manufactured by the liver
BENEFITS TO THE PLANET
- Improves the condition of the soil
- Natural body care
- Chemical- free cleaning products
- Bio-fuel
- Suitable for producing paper
- Environmentally building material
- A good alternative to petrochemical- based plastics
- A fuel source for diesel engines
- Stronger and more durable than alternative fibres like cotton (which is a GMO crop).
- Hemp produces 4 times as much paper pulp as the equivalent area of trees.
- Hemp and marijuana are both varieties of cannabis – but 'Industrial Hemp' contains very little if any (0.03 or less) THC - a hallucinogenic property - while marijuana contains around 30%.