Nutrition Frenzy

Think you you really need meat to look and feel your best? If so, take a look at Ms. Carrie Underwood, who was recently voted World’s Sexiest Vegetarian.

Regardless of whether you’re ready to join Ms. Underwood on the vegetarian bandwagon, all of us could use more vegetables in our diets. Jam-packed with anti-oxidants and a great source of fiber, vegetables are a primo diet and weight loss tool.

But there are two major stumbling blocks to eating 5-9 daily servings:

First problem is not so many of us live on an organic farm. Ideally, we could just skip out back, collect a variety of salad greens in our apron and make a fresh salad for lunch and again for dinner. But most days, the best any of us can manage is grabbing a drive-through salad of iceburg lettuce speckled with a few wet tomato lips.

Obstacle deux is that you may think vegetables taste like Ka Ka. Take my husband, the Neanderthal - left to his own revolting eating habits the only vegetable he’d consume would be the corn in his taco shells. Lucky for him, I have a vested interest in his vigor and vitality. This would be the fact that I look forward to retiring on the Cote d’Azur with a Black Amex Card.

Because he abhors the green guys, I have become something of a culinary deviant. My success, however, has been limited.

Like me, I am sure you have read countless magazine articles suggesting simple ways to sneak in those villainous veggies. Have you seen the ones that get really excited about adding spinach to pizza toppings? It goes like this, “Stringy, nasty spinach is completely camouflaged by cheese and pepperoni, they’ll never know its in there!” Ok, well, he knew.

My man rooted out that spinach every damn time. I’m sure if you have little kids you’ve found the same dissect and remove techniques go on at your dinner table.

Another valuable “trick” I’ve tried is adding chopped broccoli to things like burritos or quesadillas. This one’s not a total loser. I know from the crunch, crunch sounds coming from somewhere under the table - that Husband had removed the organic broccoli florets I diligently chopped and Bella the Pug is scoring some Jolly Greens.

I have even tried adding shredded carrots or zucchini to muffins. The reaction being, “What’s THAT stuff doing in there?!?!”
Just when my creativity and my sweet demeanor were running low, I came across a great solution – Vibrant Health’s Green Vibrance Organic Green Supplement.

Green Vibrance capsules provide a huge dose of Organic Greens and Wild Crafted herbs along with 18 billion probiotics per dose (8 capsules). It also includes spirulina, alfalfa grass, oat, barley and wheat grasses. In addition, it supplies Lecithin and Vitamin E for cell support, 3g of fiber, antioxidants and circulatory support from Ginko Biloba, Green Tea and Grape Seed extract. The supplement is chock full of herbs for immune support, sea vegetable complexes, enzymes, phyto-minerals and tonics like Ginger Root powder.

Now, I know this may sound like a lot to swallow, so let me assure you my husband is not only a pain in the ass about eating vegetables, he also has strict capsule criteria - NO “horse pills.” So, in case you too are concerned about the dimensions of your pills, rest assured they have been tested and approved by a HUGE BABY.

A daily serving of 8 pills may also sound daunting, but if you break this into three in the morning, two at lunch and three with dinner its totally do-able. If it still seems like a lot, just think of the alternative - several bowls of Brussel sprouts along with a daily trip to the seaside to snare some seaweed and spirulina.

Personally, I enjoy vegetables and do eat a wide variety daily so I take a half dose - 2 two capsules in the am, 2 in the pm. Depending on your diet, this also may work for you.

I’m a big advocate of eating as many organic, fresh veggies as you possibly can. But I also realize the importance of “filling in” the gaps where and when they exist.

Green Vibrance is the vegetable insurance that many of us need. Well, almost all of us, Bella the pug certainly seems to be consuming more than her fair share.

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