Greta Recommends Barlean's Products

BARLEAN'S
We love this company because it offers the highest-quality product available in each category for which it develops products. First, for those who want their daily dose of fish oil WITHOUT the fishy, after-burpy taste, this is a no-brainer. Next, Barlean's makes it easy to get important daily nutrients found in whole, fresh foods. Last, Barleans's has proven itself a leader in creating the most effective, quality products in the field.

First, why the need for any Barleans' products?
Let's start with their Greens Powder. We all know by now the importance of eating enough fresh fruits and veggies every day. The problem is not a lack of information or understanding, it's a question of time, availability and ease of compliance. Most of us are at a dead run and shopping, preparing, and remembering are issues.

The facts: The quarter of the population eating the fewest fruits and vegetables has over three times as much heart disease as the quarter of the population that eats the most. WE know that we should eat a minimum of six servings of fresh vegetables per day. This isn't as much as it seems, yet most of us still fall short. One serving equals only one-half cup or one cup if they are leafy vegetables. A good rule of thumb is to stay with brightly colored veggies. And eat a wide variety-mostly raw and organic, if possible.

You can make sure you get your money's and your health's worth of the recommendations by using your juicer. Or find any way to drink five glasses of fresh juiced fruits and veggies every week. But if you are finding that hard to do, there is a solution and Barlean's has it: Use their high quality "green drink" in powder form. Mix with water and drink every day. Barlean's Greens can truly be called a lifesaver for those of us on-the-go but concerned about getting proper nutrition.

Barleans' Omega Swirl should be mandatory in anyone's daily program when you consider the following:
Supplementation with a daily high potency multi-vitamin and Omega-3 fatty acids can help you avoid stroke, diabetes, arthritis, macular degeneration, Alzheimer's and much more. Ninety-seven randomized trials involving over 275,000 subjects showed omega-3 fatty acids, like fish oil, reduced cardiac mortality risk by 32% and overall mortality by 23%. You may also consider krill oil. It contains potent antioxidants, and fish oil doesn't.

This could be a drawback for most fish oil product usage, because as you increase your intake of omega-3 fats by consuming fish oil, you actually increase your need for even more antioxidant protection.

That's because fish oil is pretty perishable, and that causes oxidation, which leads to the formation of the unhealthy free radicals we discussed earlier. Therefore, antioxidants are required to ensure that the fish oil doesn't oxidize and become rancid inside your body. So, you should take additional antioxidants when using "regular" fish oil.

One exception may be Barlean's Omega Swirl. In a clinical study conducted by The Centre for Nutritional Studies, Omega Swirl, an emulsified fish oil product, was found to be 90% more bioavailable than standard fish oil.

In the study, the total percentage of oil that reached the blood stream was ten times greater with Omega Swirl than with the same dose of fish oil. Their technology creates a product resembling the taste and texture of a fruit smoothie-while significantly reducing the size of fish and flax oil molecules-allowing the oil to more efficiently pass through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream.