I bet there isn't a mother in the world who hasn't fought her children over eating greens and vegetables, right? ... Well, I couldn't help but share how you can win the battle!
Take a good look at this picture ...
This was taken of our youngest son at 5 months eating Uri International's "Barley Pure (TM)" !! That's right ... pure Barley Juice Powder that has been derived from fresh, young, certified organic barley grass.
Incredible ?? ... I wish I could show you a video of how he devours this twice daily and how he can't wait till we feed it to him. My wife simply takes a teaspoon of the Barley Pure powder and adds just enough water to make a paste that she then feeds to little B.
After 4 kids my wife has some experience you might say, and when #5 came along we had not only transitioned to a much healthier diet as a family, but she began to notice that when you feed kids healthy food they do not yearn for all the sugary carbohydrate laden foods that dominate so much of the Western diet.
I experienced the same thing when I began to consume The Feast from Uri every day. I too noticed that when I drank down the goodness of the over 176 natural ingredients that are in the Feast for breakfast every morning before 8.00 am, I lost all desire to go "snacking" on junk food and was satisfied well until lunchtime at 1.30 or 2.00 o'clock. Not that I had a particularly bad habit but hey, bad habits creep in and I was partial to looking for chocolate, corn chips, cookies etc particularly during times of work related stress or, conversely, inactivity.
When I was at the University of Tasmania (!) I remember that during a Zoology lecture our professor explained that an animal eats for nutrition, NOT until its stomach is full. When I first heard this I found it hard to believe. After all, I was a young growing 88+ kilogram (195 pound) rugby playing eating machine who would not only "down" two large plates of mamma's macaroni for dinner but also clean up any left-overs as well!
"Surely you ate until your stomach burst", I thought, " ... Wasn't that the whole point?!"
Yet here was my University profesor claiming that there existed this mythical ideal state of being wherein an animal or human would actually stop eating if its body told it that it had consumed all the nutrients and energy it required for the time being?! Needless to say I challenged the professor's claim as it was simply way beyond my realms of posibility.
"Yes", the professor conceeded, "an animal mostly eats until its stomach is full, but if in that meal it does not get what it actually needs to sustain life and growth, then it will simply start eating again until it is nutritiously satisfied."
Unconvinced and full of scepticism I dismissed the dear professor's argument as a frivolous academic moot point that would never seriously be experienced as truth by anyone in the "real world of food". Well, long after that 1st-year Zoology lecture, with the mist of 20 years of time obscuring now even the professor's name, I stumbled unexpectedly upon the "proof" I'm sure he had wished to have had on hand to demonstrate his theorem ... and it came half way around the world in the mountains of North Carolina where my friend Brett Rademacher first shared with me how he had stumbled upon the "motherload" of healthy, satisfying nutrition The Feast.
While I was now 20+ years wiser and had learned over the years not to argue with an acclaimed health and nutrition marketing "guru" like Brett Rademacher, and it was undisputable that the Feast had an impressive list of super healthy ingredients, I had developed a new scepticism ... How anyone could drink down these yukkie tasting health drinks that seemed to have sprouted up everywhere during the new millenium??
So I reluctantly accepted the invitation to try a sample with the proviso that I would only drink it if both my 6-year old and 8-year old boys would first try it and like it ! (Gee ... what happened to that rugby playing, wind-surfing macho machine ??!!).
Guess what?... I had not counted on the nutritional genius of David Uri LeBaron. But then, how could I have known that after more than two decades of organic farming and developing the proprietary and revolutionary procecesses that have made him an undisputed leader in whole food nutrition, he would know a thing or two about how to preserve GREAT TASTE?!
I suppose I'll never quite know what made my "fussiest" eater drink down the whole glass of the Feast that February morning and then wipe his mouth and exclaim, "What was THAT? Can I have some more Mr Brett?" ... Could it have been the taste of the 30 fruits and berries? Was one of those 30 greens and vegetables maybe somewhat tasty after all? HANG ON ... What did I just say??? My boy just drank down THIRTY greens and vegetables ?????
To say that I was convinced, was an understatement !! I couldn't wait to start telling all my friends and business clients about this stuff.
Back to my youngest boy in our family ... for now we'll stick to the Barley Pure. He likes it so much that he prefers it over anything sweet like apple sauce. I can imagine that if any mother wisely sticks to that kind of routine they can avoid much grief over the "greens and veggies" wars that are traditionally fought in most families.
Next time I'll go more into what makes Barley Pure (TM) so incredibly healthy but for now I'M HAVING A FEAST !!! ...
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Happy Holiday greetings to you and your Loved Ones,
Harold K.
Uri International Sales Manager
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