We've been focused on health and nutrition for many years.  We tried the "no simple sugars" diet for a while; excluding all sugar, all fruit, all bread, all dairy, or any other source of sugars.  Excluding all sugars was difficult to maintain, and with all the focus on exclusion we had no real emphasis to include any nutritional plan. 

Before the kids were born, we were juicing organic vegetables and fruits every morning with no solids until noon.  Although this was very healthy and nutritious; it was also extremely expensive and time consuming.  

While I was pregnant, I ate better than ever in my lifetime. I took a plethora of prenatal multivitamins recommended by our perinatologist (Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist) Richard Porreco, MD.  We took excellent care of my sleep, health and nutrition. Yet, when the babies were born, lack of sleep and my own battle with M.R.S.A. acquired a month after the babies were born became our focus.  The children were extremely healthy and their needs were being met. We had amazing help from friends, twins and triplet support group members and even strangers.  We were all on the road to our once again more balanced, healthy lifestyle.  We found it exceedingly difficult to keep up the expense and time necessary which juicing required with three new babies in the house.

After returning to a more balanced diet and focusing on primarily organic vegetables and fruits, low dairy, whole grains, meats free of antibiotics, we started supplementing with the gummy vitamins from Costco which the kids loved.  We were hoping to minimize illness as they started preschool in January of 2010; we just weren't sure the gummy vitamins from Costco were providing any real foundation for their health as our children were sick multiple times with colds throughout their first three months of preschool. Even this past preschool year, we have had several colds and viruses that have given them secondary ear infections, their first ever.  We knew that we needed to change what nutritional supplements we were feeding our love bugs.   The Omega-3 gummies from Costco were not well received by our kids; and after tasting them we could understand why.

Then we discovered Shaklee as a family by running into a neighbor of ours who supplements with Shaklee.  This is a company that has been around since 1956 and the integrity of the company rates high in our opinion for research and product development; in addition they guarantee all of their products.  My mother used to purchase and share Shaklee vitamins and fruit bars with me and my three siblings throughout our middle school and high school years.  I lost touch with Shaklee after 1985 when I headed off to college.  Reconnecting to the Basic-H cleaning solutions and supplements for stronger health, as well as the meal shakes only makes me feel like we’re giving the best to our family as my folks did back then.  

As we transitioned our children away from warm milk in the mornings; we began to use Bavarian Cocoa Meal Shakes with So Delicious Coconut Milk and a touch of 2% milk.  After breakfast, we provide our morning supplements to our kids.  Their first choice in supplements is always the MightySmart DHA followed quickly by the chewable Incredivites (with 600 IU of vitamin D and 100% of the Daily Value of all eight B vitamins and vitamin C) and their Chewable Vita-C.  I no longer have a morning battle over them taking their morning supplements.  Their night-time supplements are calcium magnesium chewables which they gobble up before brushing their teeth.  We are confident that our children will have fewer illnesses and recover more quickly with the aid of Shaklee supplements for children.

Mark and I are both on the Shaklee Vitalizer packs, and we can really appreciate why they named them so.  With three 3-year old children in the house; we've had three years of exhaustion before we found Shaklee.  Now with Shaklee's comprehensive Vitamin B-C complex, our energy levels keep going all day long with their patented 12 hour sustained release system. Folic acid, a critical B vitamin, isn't easily absorbed. Shaklee's patented folic acid coating makes the nutrient more accessible and bioavailable.  

We know that improved health also depends upon freeing our home of hazardous chemicals.  Because our children love to assist in our home with their practical life skills such as spraying and washing the tables and dishes; helping with cleaning and dusting, and cleaning windows; Mark and I feel confident and assured that Shaklee’s products won’t harm our children or us while cleaning our home.  Studies have proven that asthma and respiratory illnesses are associated with children and adults who are exposed to toxic cleaning chemicals in the home.  We want to make sure we eliminate this danger, and I was familiar with Basic-H as a child when I helped my mother clean our home.

We’re excited and have a sense of relief now that we’ve rediscovered Shaklee.  Understanding that many of our health concerns were being caused by a lack of proper nutrition.  Dismissing health issues as age related, or “because we have young children in preschool,” were just excuses.  We’re looking forward to increased energy and vitality and improved health now that we have a solid foundation in Shaklee supplements.