Boku Super Food was mentioned on Citizenseye.org for making a donation to the Consumer Wellness Center for its Nutrition Education Grant Program.

The program is the result of the partnership between the CWC and NaturalNews.com. It is a really fantastic program that we are thrilled to be a part of.  After the funds are collected, they are disbursed in $1,000 amounts to school educators or administrators for the purpose of promoting nutritional education to children and expectant mothers.

You can read the full article here: www.citizenseye.org/2009/10/09/world-wide-health-problems/

Or make a dontaion to the Consumer Wellness Center’s  Nutrition Education Grant Program at their site: www.consumerwellness.org

In honor of the 25^th National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this article will discuss the likely relationship between breast cancer and diet.  While there may be nothing that we can do guarantee that we will not get breast cancer in the future, there is a host of studies that report that there are several lifestyle changes that we can make to reduce risk.

As far as diet is concerned, research seems to confirm common sense. According to a September 2009 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, (Meat, dairy, and breast cancer: do we have an answer?) that women who stuck to what they called a “prudent” diet tend to have a lower risk for breast cancer. Researchers Eleni Linos and Walter Willet define this “prudent” diet as one that is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fish and low in red and processed meats, starchy carbohydrates and sweets.  During their study they found that with pre-menopausal, normal-weight women the risk for cancer declined as their scores on the “prudent” diet scale rose. In fact, those with the most prudent diets lessened their risk by a third!

There was little evidence that the more “prudent” diet lowered risk among postmenopausal or overweight women, although it was liked to a generally lower risk of estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer — an aggressive type of tumor that accounts for about one-third of breast cancers.

BõKU™ Super Food is an excellent addition to the “prudent” diet. This is because many of its ingredients are not only nutritious, but they may actually stimulate your immune system.  The Táke mushroom blend is especially known for these qualities; Reishi, Shiitake, Turkey Tail, Blazei, Chaga, and True Tinder Polypore are especially powerful.

Mushrooms are not the only  ingredient in BõKU™ Super Food that boost your immune system.  Goji berries, chlorophyll (found in all of our super greens!) and flax (which contains lignans) are also thought to have such properties.

However, eating healthy food is not the only lifestyle choice that one can make that may reduce their risk of developing cancer. Another is exercising regularly, the American Cancer Society suggests 45-60 minutes of exercise 5 or more days a week. Losing weight if you are overweight is also beneficial, as is maintaining a healthy weight after menopause. Limit your intake of alcohol. Studies have found that having one or more drinks a day will increase a woman’s risk of developing hormone-sensitive (ER+/PR+) tumor, this type accounts for roughly 70% of women diagnosed with breast cancer.

It is also very important to obtain a breast cancer risk assessment from a physician as well as an annual clinical breast exam. One should also remember to perform monthly breast self exams and make sure to get regular mammography screening once turning 40 years old.

Also, try to find a healthy way to manage the stress in your life and try to keep a positive mind set as often as possible. There isn’t a lot of evidence that this keeps the cancer away, but it certainly couldn’t hurt!

Other vitamins and nutrients may get more headlines, but experts say as many as two billion people around the world have diets deficient in zinc – and studies at Oregon State University and elsewhere are raising concerns about the health implications this holds for infectious disease, immune function, DNA damage and cancer.

One new study has found DNA damage in humans caused by only minor zinc deficiency.

Zinc deficiency is quite common in the developing world. Even in the United States, about 12 percent of the population is probably at risk for zinc deficiency, and perhaps as many as 40 percent of the elderly, due to inadequate dietary intake and less absorption of this essential nutrient, experts say. Many or most people have never been tested for zinc status, but existing tests are so poor it might not make much difference if they had been.

“Zinc deficiencies have been somewhat under the radar because we just don’t know that much about mechanisms that control its absorption, role, or even how to test for it in people with any accuracy,” said Emily Ho, an associate professor with the Linus Pauling Institute at OSU, and international expert on the role of dietary zinc.

However, studies have shown that zinc is essential to protecting against oxidative stress and helping DNA repair – meaning that in the face of zinc deficiency, the body’s ability to repair genetic damage may be decreasing even as the amount of damage is going up.

Two studies recently published, in the Journal of Nutrition and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found significant levels of DNA damage both with laboratory animals and in apparently healthy men who have low zinc intake. Zinc depletion caused strands of their DNA to break, and increasing the intake of zinc reversed the damage back to normal levels.

“In one clinical study with men, we were able to see increases in DNA damage from zinc deficiency even before existing tests, like decreased plasma zinc levels, could spot the zinc deficiency,” Ho said. “An inadequate level of zinc intake clearly has consequences for cellular health.”

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Zinc is often associated with animal based foods like red meat, shellfish and dairy products.  This would make it seem likely that vegetarians and vegans may be at the highest risk for zinc deficiency, as well as others who may limit their intake of such foods for various reasons. In light of this generally unrecognized health concern, taking BõKU™ Super Food on a regular basis seems like a better idea than ever.

Here’s why: The article above states that “the recommended daily allowance is eight milligrams a day for women, 11 for men”. One 9.5 g serving (scoop) of BõKU™ has 10 mg of zinc in it! That one little scoop contain about the same amount of zinc as

12 oz of mussels

or10 oz of almonds

or 7 oz of swordfish

or 7 oz of sunflower seeds

The zinc in BõKU™ is completely plant based, the major sources being the maca root juice, mesquite pods, super greens and super Táke blend. This makes it ideal for a full day’s supply of zinc without any of the fat, cholesterol or other drawbacks of many foods that are high in zinc.

Winter is at our door step and it’s time to get your body ready.  The real reason the flu virus thrives during winter is because our body’s immune system is challenged and often compromised during this naturally stressful time of year.  As the weather changes, we spend more time indoors where we are exposed to closer social contact with others and increased risk of infection.  (Kids are back to schooll!).  Additional stress related to the holidays combined with several other factors lead to the domino effect that begins with one person getting sick and the eventually infecting more and more… Our immune systems are constantly under attack but especially during this time of the year and this onslaught places us in the line of fire and more susceptible to FLU and the common COLD.  There is NO CURE for the flu or the common cold!  The only way to effectively combat it is to PREVENT it.

According to most Doctors, there are three simple ways to help your immune system fight the flu.  Wash your hands often, Get plenty of good, sound sleep, and EAT RIGHT.

For Most of us, eating right can be the most difficult step.  We are surrounded by convenience foods: fast food, microwave meals, frozen and processed foods.  These foods of convenience usually have calories, but barely any significant nutrition which the body needs to fuel and supercharge our immune system.

There are many over the counter supplements which claim to “boost” your immune system with mega doses of vitamin C and B.  But there is really no significant evidence that such emergency “boosting” by synthetic vitamins actually works.  Here at BOKU, we believe that the best way to boost your immune system and promote overall well being is with organic whole food nutrition.   Nutrients from actual foods contain the entire complex of vitamins and minerals as well as all the micro-nutrients and synergistic binders found in nature.  Vitamins found within foods are not isolated like synthetic vitamin pills. They are complex structures that combine a variety of enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, trace elements, and natural activators all working together to enable this vitamin complex to do its job in your body.  Natural, whole food nutrition that your body can recognize and assimilate within minutes!

BOKU Superfood is pure, natural nutrition.  All our ingredients are carefully selected, juiced and powdered for purity, along with rigorous testing and certification so all of Mother Nature’s goodness is preserved.  We believe that taking BOKU Superfood Daily will not only boost your immune system, it will help you achieve overall well being physically and emotionally.

Co-Founder of Boku International, Reno Rollé meets Peruvian President and delivers a powerful speech on the importance of organic nutrition

While in Lima on business,  Reno R. Rollé and his wife Lynn, the CEO of BõKU™ International, LLC ,were given the opportunity to attend a presentation at the Presidential Palace by the President of Peru, Alan Garcia, and Mercedes Aráoz, the Minister of Foreign Commerce and Tourism.

It was then that Mr. Rollé was invited to stand up and join President Garcia on stage.  He gave a stirring speech to over 200 delegates and commerce experts from around the world. The focus of his speech being the necessity of organic, whole food nutrition in today’s modern age of processed foods.

Rollé states “I shared the story of how Boku Super Food began and our mission as a company to positively impact the highest number of people possible with the healing power of whole food organic nutrition.  I also expressed my appreciation for the abundance of little known super foods in Peru and the Government’s commitment to protect, carefully develop and share this treasure.”

The Rollés traveled to Peru in order to take part in Expoalimentaria 2009, the first international food-centered trade show in Lima. They were not only there to promote their extremely popular product, BõKU™ Super Food, but to gather some of their highly nutritious ingredients right at the source. Many ingredients in BõKU™ Super Food hail from South America, the Maca root and Lúcuma fruit in particular are from Peru.  Rollé continued “We need the world’s leaders to wake up and take responsibility for the fact that we are poisoning our populations, especially children, with fattening, nutrient depleted, toxic junk food.  There are more people dying now from chronic disease than ever before in history.  One third of the children and teens in America are either overweight or on the brink of becoming so.  As a result, some experts are predicting for the first time in history, that parents will actually outlive their children.   The answer could be right under our noses in the bounty of nutrient dense, disease fighting foods available in nature”.

Reno was interviewed several times on local television which helped him to spread his message of natural nutrition and our responsibility to safeguard the health and wellness of our children by instilling proper nutritional habits and good choices.  “It’s in their hands that the future of the world truly lies”.