Dyan Castillejo: Drink wheat

CEBU, Philippines - Sports icon and TV personality Dyan Castillejo is the new face of Easy Pha-max, the company that brought to the Philippines wheatgrass as a health drink. She’s not just telling people to drink wheatgrass, she’s walking the talk.

“I am constantly looking for things to nourish me,” she said during an intimate gathering at the Cebu Parklane International Hotel last February 17. She said that a friend introduced her to the product September of last year, and she was hooked after the first glass. It was only recently that someone from Easy Pha-max discovered that she was using the product and decided to invite her to be its endorser.

“For me personally, (after taking wheatgrass) I wake up less tired,” she said. “I usually wake up tired because I always have a long day.”

Dyan confessed that before discovering wheatgrass, she used to take energy pills to give her a boost, but since she started drinking it, she no longer needed the pills.

She shared the difference between the energy boost she gets from the wheatgrass drink and that from energy pills: “When I take my wheatgrass I don’t get this sudden pump of energy that I get with energy pills. It just gives me a calm good feeling.”

“(When I drink it) I feel satisfied and I can go like a couple of hours (without feeling tired),” she said.

Dyan admits that wheatgrass is not a supplement or a medicine to cure diseases, however, she said that what wheatgrass is a “superfood.”

She related her recent travel to the factory of Easy Pha-max in Malaysia revealing how strict the company is in keeping the standard of their products. She said that the process that they follow ensures that all the nutrients and enzymes of the grass, from root to tip, are preserved.

She said that with the introduction of wheatgrass in our diet we are assured that we are getting the right nutrients and enzymes that our body needs. This, she said, is very important since the nutritional content of the food that one can usually purchase outside is almost always not what our body really needs.

Dyan shared that there is no secret to staying healthy. One just has to exercise and to eat healthy, and drinking wheatgrass goes with the latter. —Ritche T. Salgado