Looking for healthy things to feed your children? (and you 2)

[Mommie24Cuties]

Ok girls lets face it... we look all over the place for healthy things to feed our children. It is virtually impossible, right? If we find it, our children won't eat it. If it is something our children will eat, we can't find it. And so the story goes.

  This is my personal experience: my daughter Kylie was born a few weeks earlier, even so she was a healthy weight. As we went to each check up, she would show a little growth but not much. Around her 15 month check up the pediatrician told me that he was diagnosing her with failure to thrive. I thought you must be kidding right? OK so she was a little small, but she was on task developmentally. Then he showed me the growth chart. To my surprise she was just barely on the line. He told me that he was going to get me in contact with a dietician. I went to the appointment as was very upset to find that she was only in the 4% for her weight. The lady told me to start feeding her carnation instant breakfast as often as I could to increase her caloric intake. Here's the thing, my daughter ate just fine. She had a healthy well balanced diet of fruit, veggies, and protein, along with dairy. But I figured they knew better than me so I tried the instant stuff, no dice. Time for our check up with the dietician, no improvement. She told me to give pediasure a whirl 3 times a day. She warned me that Kylie's appetite would be lessen because she would feel full longer. Let me think about that a minute, feed her pediasure which has alot of sugar and she isn't hungry for the nutritous food I was feeding her before or find something else. We had an appointment with a pediatric endocrinologist to make sure that it wasn't her thyroid causing her slow weight gain. After being told that all of her levels were normal, and that it would be a good idea not to give her the pediasure due to the sugar and that giving her juice on a regular basis did more harm than good my decision was easy. Find something else. My mother had been selling herbs from a company called Sunrider International for many years. As a child I took the herbs and never had very many health problems, I didn't get the colds that were going around or anything like that. Looking back now it is probably because of the herbs she had me taking on a regular daily basis. I just recently started taking the products again for myself. I had a wonderful product called Vitashake. I started to make a smoothie with the vitashake every morning for Kylie and myself. This was the only thing I changed in her diet. We had our next appointment about a month and a half later. To the dietician great surprise Kylie had gained 3 pounds in the 3 month time! She was finally at the 27% mark! Plus she had grown an inch and a half taller!! The dietician told me that the pediasure seems to be doing the trick then. I told her no, that I wasn't giving her the pediasure. I let her know that i was feeding her Vitashake smoothies every morning for breakfast, and that was the only thing I had changed in her diet. She told me to continue doing what ever it was I was doing because it was working.

    Here is a little info on the Vitashake. Vitashake is a whole food concentrate enhaned with vitamins and minerals ina delicious powder form. It helps fill in the gaps you and your children may have in your diet with the added benefit of whole fiber. Vitashake is formulated with Cios Fruit, which contains powerful antioxidants, and fructooligosaccharide (FOS), that's not sugar but a probiotic soluble-fiber carbohydrate that supports the growth of beneficial bacteria. The soy protein in Vitashake is similar to a super- concentrated tofu. This makes Vitashake a wondeful nutritious shake for young and old people who require easily digestible food. It comes in strawberry and cocoa flavors. Justadd it to a glass of milk, soymilk or rice dream!

My Vitashake Smoothie recipe:

1 packet of vitashake

1 banana

2 tablespoons of yogurt( any fruit flavor or plain)

Your favorite frozen fruit(strawberries, blue berries, peaches, etc)

Fill blender with your choice of milk(skim, 1%, 2%, whole, soy)

Let er rip and enjoy!

 

Sunrider International is a great company. The owners are health experts and they have set this company up using the philosophy of regeneration. All products are manufactured in state of the art facilities around the world. Sunrider offers the best products for our physical well being, but that's not all. Sunrider offers us all the opportunity to become financially well. If I were to ask you, if you could invest $150 a month in your health and get $1000 return on your investment would you be interested? If you say yes, please leave me a message and I will show you how to do that. I will be posting experiences in a blog daily that will highlight the great benefits that others who have used Sunriders products have seen. Do not hesitate to ask any questions that you may have. Thank you for reading my blog.

P.S. Kylie is still going strong!!