You’ve heard it said, “YOU are what YOU eat,” right? I think we all have. But I was reminded of something very important today from a very wise and influential person, Brendon Burchard. He showed me “You are what you think.” And how to think, THIN! But what he said flies in the face of movies like “The Secret.” Why? Well, here’s why…

…without the information he shares you can actually get the wrong idea altogether and think that you can just think the right things in a vacuum. But, here’s the truth: you can’t. I won’t re-create here what he shares on his video, but let me take and apply what he is saying in a way that will will allow you to succeed in losing weight, burning fat, and experiencing wellness and health at an entirely new level.

So, let’s create a scenario that may or may not be true for you, but has happened to me in some way. Let’s say you have decided to lose weight and get in shape or burn more fat and get your health in order and you write all that down and set goals and get your “intention” right, as those guru’s tell you to. You even think about it in the morning first thing. Maybe you even pray about it and write a note on your mirror. As for as the self-help goes, you’re doing pretty good right?

Well, here’s the problem, “intention” without talking about how you get there and where you go from there is like telling someone with a car to get England from America without a ship or airplane or bridge. You can imagine being there all you want and imagine what it will feel like and the stories you’ll tell, but that doesn’t get you there, does it?

In short, you need to control the some things before and after you set your intention in order to arrive at the “island” of the new you, to lose weight and burn fat and have the health you want. Let me explain.

Before intention comes the process of identifying what you are receiving around you–in your conscious mind. And comes after you have interpreted that information. In other words, first you have the data that you come into contact with, then you examine it as good or bad, then you take and determine whether it applies to you and then and only then do you set your intention. Are you with me?

Our intentions are only as good as the data we expose ourselves to, how well we filter it, and how well we apply it to our lives. That way we can determine whether or not going to England in a car from the US is really a good or bad idea!

In terms of losing weight, achieving optimal wellness or getting your health back on track, this would mean that you need to make sure you are surrounding yourself with good quality information about losing weight and applying it to your life…and THEN setting the right intention. Simply put, the best intention for weight loss and burning fat will not come by watching TV all day where everybody talks about being fat as being OK. At some point that will shape your ability to decide between good and bad and eventually shape your intentions. Make sense?

For now, that’s it, but check in next time to apply the rest of the process so that you can build the “bridge” from where you are now to where you want to be–from flab to fab!

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Real Food Rules! Yes, there is a place for certain supplements, but here are some foods you can get anywhere that help tighten that tummy! http://bit.ly/qkCvAp

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Many, desperate to lose weight try the ‘latest technology’ or injection without comprehending the risks associated with such choices…read more here…http://bit.ly/nEzBNu

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MEET NICK VUJCIC!

This video came across our desk again recently and we had to share it with you because it is BEYOND motivational!  You think you have it hard now? What if you were born without any arms or legs?  How would that affect your everyday life?  And how would that affect your mental condition and outlook on your future?   Check out this video and Nick’s website for more info!  Don’t just get inspired, be GRATEFUL and make the most of everyday!  ~ Arthur Martens

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Check out his site at http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/about-nick

Now at 27 years old, this limbless young man has accomplished more than most people accomplish in a lifetime. Nick recently made the massive move from Brisbane, Australia to California, USA, where he is the President of an international non-profit organization; Life Without Limbs, and also has his own motivational speaking company; Attitude Is Altitude. Since his first speaking engagement back when he was 19, Nick has traveled around the world, sharing his story with millions of people, speaking to a range of different groups such as students, teachers, youth, businessmen and women, entrepreneurs, and church congregations of all sizes. He has also told his story and been interviewed on various televised programs worldwide. “If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!”

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Here’s some more evidence on why it’s a wise decision to cut meat out of your diet if you are truly seeking for optimal health!  When the animals are drugged and people eat their flesh (MEAT), health challenges are bound to result!  Read this article and let us know what commitments you’re willing to make to cut out the toxins from your life and continue on the wellness journey.

Meat and Antibiotics: Getting Our Animals Off Drugs

Posted by BRYAN WALSH Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 12:55 pm

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—gingerly, gingerly—took a step on Monday towards addressing one of the most fundamental but unknown threats to public health: the overuse of antibiotics in animal food and water. The FDA said in a new policy document that the uses of antibiotics for agriculture should be limited to treated sick animals, and that veterinarians should be involved in giving out the drugs. (See the FDA document here.) The change came in part out of concerns that the use of antibiotics on animals was helping to breed resistant bacteria—an estimated 100,000 people a year now die from hospital-acquired bacterial infections that can no longer be treated with most antibiotics, thanks to resistance.

While doing nothing to change the present oversight of antibiotics, the document is the first signal in years that the agency intends to rejoin the battle to crack down on agricultural uses of antibiotics that many infectious disease experts oppose.

Doesn’t sound like a big deal, right? Drugs like penicillin and tetracycline were developed to help sick people, and it might stand to reason that they should be preserved for use in sick people—not to speed the growth of pigs, chicken and cattle. And given the scale of the problem—according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), about 13 million lbs. or 70% of all antibiotics in the U.S. goes to food animal production—the FDA’s statement was just a baby step. As Deputy FDA Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein told reporters in a news conference after the recommendation was made: “We’re not expecting people to pick up this guidance and change their practice tomorrow. This is the first step in the FDA establishing the principles from which we could then move, if necessary, toward other mechanisms of oversight, which is regulation.” Sharfstein was so cautious he might as well have been wearing a flak jacket and a crash helmet while speaking.

But he has reason to be careful. the powerful agriculture industry has fought every attempt by federal regulators to crack down on the use of antibiotics in animals—and they’ve won every time . The meat industry argues that antibiotic use in animals is far lower than its critics say—the Animal Health Institute, a trade group, estimates that just 13% of all agricultural antibiotics are used for growth promotion, with the rest going to treat sick animals or prevent illness. And they’ll fight hard against any attempt by the government to limit their ability to dispense drugs to the millions of swine, chicken and cattle being raised for food in the U.S. “Show us the science that use of antibiotics in animal production is causing this antibiotic resistance,” Dave Warner of the National Pork Council told the Washington Post.

It is difficult to make the direct connection between an antibiotic being used on a pig in Iowa and a person dying from drug-resistant Salmonella in a hospital in New York. But there’s no disputing that doctors are increasingly worried about the rise of resistant bacteria and the threat the problem poses to each of us. The Centers for Disease Control found in its 2005 annual report that half of all Campylobacter infections are drug resistant. One in five Salmonella infections, and nearly 100,000 Salmonella infections would resist treatment with at least five antibiotics, according to Congressional testimony in 2009 by Margaret Mellon, the director of the food and environment program at the UCS. The World Health Organization has sounded the alarm of antibiotic resistance, and the Institute of Medicine has estimated that longer hospital stays because of resistant food-borne microbes cost the U.S. an additional $4 to $5 billion a year in health care costs—plus all the additional time sick people have to take off work. Superbugs like MRSA—Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus—are truly scary, resistant to nearly every antibiotic we have at our disposal. We’re in an arms race with bacteria—and we’re in danger of losing, as Dr. Ken Harvey of La Trobe University’s School of Public Health in Melbourne told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation today:

“Although we’ve developed new antibiotics, the more we’ve used them the more the bacteria have become resistant. It’s sort of Darwinian selection of the species if you like.” Dr Harvey says bacteria have the edge in this evolutionary battle. “We’re grossly outnumbered by bacteria and they’ve got very efficient mechanisms of mutating, becoming resistant, passing on that mechanism of resistance to other germs.”

And a small but growing number of studies are connecting the use of antibiotics on farms to resistant bacteria in hospitals. A strain of MRSA responsible for 20% of all MRSA infections in the Netherlands has been shown to be transmitted from pigs to farmers and their families, and hospital staff. Even news organizations as mainstream as CBS have begun to raise questions about the connection between antibiotic use in our farms and resistant bacteria, as this Katie Couric investigation from February shows.

The meat industry has argued that restricting antibiotics in animal feed will lead to unbearably high costs, but other countries have already taken that step without destroying their to make bacon. In Europe, Denmark led the way by banning antibiotics for growth promotion in 1998, after concerns grew about resistant bacteria. In the years since the industry has thrived—Danish swine production  from 18.4 million in 1992 to 27.1 million in 2008, while total antibiotic use decline 51% from an all-time high in 1992. I had a chance to see the situation for myself when I was in Denmark last December for the UN climate change summit. Pork farmers told me that the rule was a pain when it was first put into practice, but that they’d adjusted, taking better care of their pigs because they knew that they could no longer rely as heavily on drugs. (Antibiotics were still available for sick animals, but were much more closely regulated.) And in 2006 the European Union followed suit and banned antibiotics for growth promotion.

Given all that, what the FDA did on Monday is too weak, not too strong—as some public health groups argued. “Te FDA has proposed good steps, but they have not gone far enough or moved fast enough,” said Representative Louise Slaughter of New York, who happens to be the only microbiologist in Congress. “We cannot wait any longer.” Given how strong the farm lobby is in the U.S.—which I can tell you from experience—we might be waiting forever.

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How are you really feeling? Many people just settle with being symptom-free of major disease and think that they’re healthy.  But if you’re like me, you live a fast-paced life and desire OPTIMAL HEALTH to be and do MORE of what you LOVE!

Take this Vitality Checklist Quiz and let us know how you’re really doing!   If there’s a gap between WHERE YOU WANT TO BE and WHERE YOU ARE NOW, Let’s TALK! We have guaranteed solutions that provide results!

As you review your scores, consider the items you scored below “4.” Use your scores to identify your health goals, such as:

__ Lose weight, especially fat and reduce cravings.

__ Balance hormones, effectively handle stress.
__ Support immune system and help clear my body of toxins (including pharmaceutical drugs)
__ Enhance my general energy/vitality level/moods and body functioning

__ Support optimal digestion, absorption, and elimination
__ Provide overall nutritional support and anti-aging protection for myself and family

__ Achieve optimal performance for exercise/sports, reduce soreness and improve recovery time

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On today’s success call with Dr Randy Horning, he shared some great insight on Women and Business. I wanted to share the notes with you here. Let’s empower and appreciate the women in our lives so that they can achieve greater success and contribute more to society!

The Value and Focus of Women

One explanation has to do with the fact that while women in the United States start their own businesses at roughly twice the rate of men, they are still playing catch-up in most parts of the world. “Women are still at the beginning of their journey to entrepreneurship or higher levels of entrepreneurship,” says Sharon Hadary, the former and founding executive director of the Center for Women’s Business Research. According to that group, only 20 percent of all businesses over $1 million are women-owned enterprises.

Then there are more fundamental issues related to personal goals. It seems that men more often define success in monetary terms while women focus on vision and mission. “Men tend to start businesses to grow them to be large and to be the boss while women start them to do something meaningful and to make a difference,” notes Hadary, who now consults on women’s leadership through her firm Sharon Hadary & Co.

Becoming a billionaire isn’t their objective,” she adds, “As women, many are less likely to have a goal of generating personal wealth, though we are starting to see more and more of that motivation among the younger generation.” Instead they are typically more focused on building companies that reflect their values, provide employment opportunities, do what’s important to them and have the opportunity to fulfill family goals.

Teresa Nelson, McCandless Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Simmons School of Management concurs: “Research shows that women are drawn to organizations that provide values beyond wealth.”

Forbes, June 23, 2010
There is a millionaire in everyone. It just needs to be tapped and released.

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“No risk, pay the cost.  Know risk, reap the rewards.”
There’s a two sentence summary of the new book by Dr Ben Carson called “Take the risk.”  We do live in a risk-adverse culture and we put safety above everything.  We’re in the car-buying process and we want to take a pre-owned car in to the mechanic to look it over, and then we start negotiating on the extended warranty.  Dr Carson asks you to consider the following:  “by insulating ourselves from the unknown – the risks of life – we miss the great adventure of living our lives to their full potential.”

Without a doubt, I will say that life is lived fuller when risks are taken! In our case, the chronic health condition that Arthur was going through looked hopeless.  The only options medical were a radical, experimental, drug that caused more harm than the potential symptom relief.  And it was thousands of dollars out of pocket every month since it was not covered by insurance.  After doing some research we chose the natural route – not by chance, but by calculating the risks on all sides!  And thankfully, by God’s grace, and the technology of glyconutrients that he brought through this Christian company, Arthur is no longer suffering like he once did and he has been completely drug free for a years!

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Dr Carson outlines his health challenge in chapter 13 of his book.  This is what he thought when he got the news of his test results, “Not until I was driving home that day did it hit me.  I remember thinking, Wow, my life may not be anywhere near as long as I thought it would be.  I began to think of all the people I was going to be abandoning: my wife, my three sons, my mother, my colleagues, my patients.  I thought of the things I’d started that I wouldn’t be able to finish.”  He goes on to list the suggestions everyone started flooding him with and how impressed he was with glyconutrients.  “Within a week of starting a glyco-nutrient regimen, my symptoms completely resolved.”

This book challenges us to “reaffirm that our lives have great purpose, and that risking wisely is the gateway to dreams fulfilled and a legacy of influence in the world around us.”  I challenge you to open your mind whether it’s in your relationships, business, or health – that when options are presented and you don’t see a clear picture right away, do your research, calculate the costs, and TAKE THE RISK!

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If you are tired of being a statistic and want a  GUARANTEED solution to your weight issue, we have a solution that is clinically proven to give you results.  Check out the video below!  It’s definitely a boost most of us need to get the motivation to begin or continue a wellness-lifestyle!  We’re here to help – email, write, or call us and we’ll walk you through our program .. to a NEW YOU!

And in the meantime, tell us “What’s the craziest diet you ever tried?”  =D

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To your health,

Suji & Arthur Martens

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What do these 2 children have in common?  They are both malnourished!

Every 6 seconds a child dies of malnutrition.

What if you could change this?

Social Entrepreneurs have taken on the challenge.  Are you up for the challenge?  Do you know a business-minded person with a huge heart?  We are interviewing!

How?  With a giving strategy!  Our company is rolling our the “Give for Real” Giving plan with customer acquisition strategy.

The concept is simple:  based on the Law of Giving.  96% of people don’t like to sell, but most people like to give.  So, we’re tying it together.  We provide a win-win with our associates to build a business with PURPOSE!

We are looking for the following in a social-entrepreneur to partner with.  44% profit sharing compensation structure.  Interested parties must commit to 3 activities:

1. Give a gift

2. Receive a gift

3. Be passionate about children

The wellness industry is the only other industry (other than education) that has grown in the world!  And our company is poised to dominate.  We’re growing and look forward to interviewing serious go-givers who can catch the vision and want to affect the lives of a Million children around the world this year.  We’d like to invite you to a special presentation on how you can begin your “business with purpose!”

Tell us what you’re doing to “give-back” and how many children you’d like to be a hero to this year!

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WE KNOW YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE OIL SPILL, SO ARE WE! And like many of us, I’m sure you’re concerned about how this can potentially affect your health!  We’ve helped countless people with concerns just like yours.

WE HAVE FREE SAMPLES TO SHARE WITH YOU! Just use the link at the top of this website!

We flew from Chicago to South Florida today.  We looked out into the wetlands, lush green scenery, and the ocean.. it was beautiful but despite the sunshine we were down in spirits.  The saddest part of all this is the harm it will do to us!  The picture s of animals, fish, birds, nature that is devastated breaks our hearts as well.   Here’s finally someone who has said YES to the question of “Will the oil spill be dangerous to your health?”  From nausea and vomitting to major chronic auto-immune disease-symptoms!  The food supply is affected, the air is more polluted, and we have no idea what the long-term affects of this will do to our future generations, let alone our beautiful planet.  You need to guard your immune system now more than ever and we’re here to help!

We’ll look at how these GUARANTEED products can potentially help you fight against the toxins and help you have optimal health!

-Glyconutrients for immune support

-Plant Sterols for endocrine support

-Antioxidants for protection

-Plant based vitamin/mineral complex to nourish

Read this FOX News blog from Dr Manny Alvarez and let us know how you feel!

We still don’t know the extent of the devastation that 200,000 gallons a day of crude oil spewing into the Gulf waters will have on our country. So far, it’s proving to be one of the largest human-caused environmental disasters in U.S. history. We know that the effects on the animal and plant populations have been disastrous, and we’ll be watching closely as the they continue to unfold. However, one question remains: Will this oil spill affect our health?

The short answer is, yes. There are well-documented analyses on the effects of environmental pollution of previous oil spills — some which have occurred inland and certainly the Exxon Valdez spill in the Alaskan waters of the Prince William Sound in 1989. You have to remember that it only takes about a quart of crude oil to pollute 150,000 gallons of water. Crude oil contains substances such as benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that have been proven to cause severe reactions in humans — some mild, such as nausea, vomiting and fatigue. But studies have also linked exposure to these compounds to more serious conditions like leukemia and certain types of cancers.

Another negative health effect that could come from this massive environmental catastrophe is the potential for exposure to heavy metals, such as lead — which we know can be very detrimental to the health of an unborn child — resulting in low birth weight, developmental delays, miscarriage and even stillbirth. So pregnant women are especially vulnerable to these heavy metals.

Look, we all know what happens to us humans when our food chain gets contaminated with chemicals and the havoc it can wreak on our health. So the bottom line the best protection we have a situation like this is educating ourselves. The government is doing what they can to clean up and prevent human consumption of contaminated food, but we should also practice personal responsibility for the things we eat. It’s important that attention be paid to the communities in the immediate areas of potential exposure. And certainly, for seafood lovers like myself, be aware of where your food is coming from.

The potential for health problems resulting from airborne pollutants where oil is washing ashore is minimal. But for those living in affected areas living with pulmonary diseases, like asthma or emphysema, aromatic irritants could enhance symptoms. As of now, there haven’t been any reports of respiratory side effects, but just keep an eye on the story and take the proper precautions.

Finally, let us pray for the people of Louisiana and surrounding coastal communities, and for the fisherman whose livelihood will surely be affected by this terrible accident. In an area that has suffered great losses at the hands of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, it’s imperative that we continue to show our love and support for the communities that have been a source of joy for Americans.

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Gulf Coast Oil Slick Could Have Impact on Seafood and Air Quality

April 30, 2010 — The Deepwater Horizon incident occurred about 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., on April 22 after an explosion and fire damaged a Transocean oil rig, causing it to burn for hours and sink. There were approximately 700,000 gallons of fuel onboard before the fire, and exactly how much of this fuel burned before it sank is not known, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Md.

The spill could affect hundreds of species of fish, birds, and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, which is one of the world’s richest seafood grounds. According to NOAA, there may be risks for people working as oil spill responders, observers, and in wildlife rehabilitation due to inhalation of fumes.

Oil-derived compounds including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) tend to be readily cleared from fish and mammals, so eating fish after an oil spill generally does not pose a health risk to humans. But oysters, shrimp, and crab do not readily clear PAHs and are more likely to accumulate these potentially toxic substances after oil exposure, NOAA states.

These compounds can also be toxic for fish eggs and larvae and may can cause a wide range of health problems in other marine species.

Impact on Air Quality

LuAnn White, PhD, a professor of environmental health sciences and the director of the Tulane Center for Applied Environmental Public Health in New Orleans, is on the front lines of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

“We are watching it very closely,” she tells WebMD. “The odor from the spill could affect people with respiratory diseases such as asthma and emphysema, but the spill happened off shore, so that is good because there is no one out there,” she says. The occupational health issues are immense, but proper safeguards are being taken by oil spill responders and others involved in the clean-up process, she adds.

The oil involved in the spill was sweet crude oil. “It didn’t have sulfur, so it doesn’t smell as bad as other types of oil and it is composed of lighter compounds that will evaporate,” she explains.

So far, she says, the odor is light and transient.

There has been other reassuring news regarding air quality, White tells WebMD. “There has been air monitoring along the coastline and that didn’t pick up anything so far.”

Touching the oil can cause skin irritation and burning, she says. “Standing next to it and not touching it will not cause any problems.”

As far as drinking water concerns, there are none. “The Gulf of Mexico is a saltwater body, not a freshwater source, so drinking water contamination is not an issue,” she says.

Seafood Contamination

The risk of contaminated seafood reaching consumers is also relatively low, she says. “Fisherman won’t be allowed to collect seafood in any area with an oil spill, so seafood caught will come from other areas.”

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Are you passionate about your current work?  Are you seeking excellent in what you are currently doing?  If you’re not, we want to encourage you to consider “moving upward and onward” by starting your own business in the growing industry of wellness!  Check out Brian Tracy’s latest article and let us know how you’re striving for excellence in your current pursuits or interested in moving “onward”!! ~Arthur & Suji Martens

May 30, 2010

Moving Upward and Onward
By: Brian Tracy

Don’t Sell Yourself Short
It’s not what you have but what you do with what you have that will determine your success or failure. Abraham Maslow, the great psychologist said that the story of the human race is the story of people selling themselves short. He said people have a tendency to settle for far less from life than they are truly capable of. Many people are spinning their wheels in careers where they should be moving rapidly onward and upward. Here’s how you can put your career on the fast track.

Choose Your Parents Carefully
Someone once said that the key to success was to choose your parents carefully. That may be partially true but it is even more important to choose your job or career with great care. The choice of a job or occupation for which you are ideally suited comes before anything else. If you try to work at something you don’t enjoy or don’t believe in, you’ll never be happy, and you’ll never be successful.

Be the Best At What You Do
Which leads us to the next point. If you want to reach the stars in your career, you have to become excellent at what you do. You have to pay any price, go any distance, spend any amount of time necessary to “be the best.” Extraordinary rewards only go for extraordinary performance; average rewards for average performance; below average rewards, insecurity and failure for below average performance. And here’s a vital key, you are being paid today exactly what you’re worth – no more, no less. If you want to earn more, you must increase your worth, your value to others.

The Key to Motivation
The reason why choosing the right career, why doing what you love to do is so important, is because unless you really care about your work, you will never be motivated to persist at it until you become excellent. And until you become excellent at what you’re doing, you can’t move ahead.

The Key to Peak Performance
The antidote to these fears is the development of courage, character and self-esteem. The opposite of fear is actually love, self-love and self-respect. Acting with courage in a fearful situation is simply a technique that boosts our regard for ourselves to such a degree that our fears subside and lose their ability to effect our behavior and our decisions.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to be more successful in your career.

First, set high standards for yourself and recognize that anything that someone else has achieved, you can probably achieve as well. There are no limits.

Second, select one key skill area that is important in your job and resolve to become absolutely excellent in that area. Start today to get better and better.

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Did you see the news about how Lettuce is now recalled due to a strain of E. Coli in pre-shredded Romaine?  At least 30 people in four states got sick, 12 went into the hospital and 3 had kidney failure!  The outbreaks happened in Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Tennessee… all from a farm in Arizona.  So not only was that lettuce shipped over thousands of miles, it was contaminated.

CHECK OUT the article below and the VIDEO at this link, and then leave a comment about how you feel about the sad state of our food supply!

E. coli Outbreak From Romaine Lettuce Widens

Daniel J. DeNoon

May 13, 2010 — At least 30 people in four states have been sickened by a rare, virulent strain of E. coli in pre-shredded Romaine lettuce.

Twelve of the victims have been hospitalized, three with kidney failure. There have been no deaths to date. Some cases may have gone unreported because many labs do not test for the E. coli strain causing the outbreak. Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Tennessee have reported cases.

The contaminated Romaine lettuce was sold by restaurants and by grocery/deli salad bars and processed by Freshway Foods in Sidney, Ohio. An unopened bag of Freshway shredded Romaine lettuce was found to carry the E. coli with the same genetic fingerprints as E. coli isolated from patients.

Freshway has recalled all Romaine lettuce with a use-by date of May 12 or earlier.

Freshway got the lettuce from a farm in Yuma, Ariz. Another lettuce distributor, Vaughan Foods, has also recalled lettuce from the same farm. However, no illnesses have yet been traced to lettuce distributed by Vaughan.

Lettuce harvested from other areas does not appear to be associated with the outbreak, the FDA investigation suggests.

The illnesses occurred between April 10 and April 26. Because of a lag time between the last reported illness and testing, it’s possible new illnesses may still be occurring.

People with E. coli infection usually get diarrhea and abdominal cramps for two to eight days after eating a contaminated food. Most people recover within a week, but some cases are much more severe and last much longer.

Some people may develop a form of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome or HUS. HUS tends to appear just as the diarrhea is getting better. Symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, pale skin, fatigue, irritability, decreased urine output, unexplained bruises or bleeding from the nose and mouth, and swelling of the face, hands, feet, or body.

Seek immediate medical care if these symptoms appear after several days of diarrhea.

SOURCES:

News release, CDC.

News release, FDA.

Freshway Foods web site.

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Our philosophy about business is that we are in business to make people’s lives better!  As we have been meeting more people and learning more about the universe of “Wellness” we have learned that there is a tremendous NEED in this world that affects the most fragile segment of the world’s populations – Orphans! And we couldn’t just ignore it!

Each year, 5 million children die from malnutrition. That’s one child every six seconds. MannaRelief is a non-profit organization providing advanced nutrition to malnourished children and orphans around the world.  We have partnered with them to effectively touch the lives of 1 million of them this year!  It’s a HUGE goal and we can’t do it ourselves, but with your help, we know we can do it!  To learn more about how you can sponsor a child for 6 cents a day, goto http://www.giveoutloud.com/martens and http://www.mannarelief.org You can also see a video on the right side of this webpage.

Show everyone the HEART of your business!  Expand your territory… in how many people you can benefit!  Who doesn’t want to be affiliated with you when your intent is to help more and more people?  Social responsibility makes consumers take notice.  Follow these 5 steps to create a successful cause-based marketing campaign.

CLICK HERE:  Read the entire article from Entrepreneur magazine here!!

Step 1. Give from the heart.

Step 2. Choose a related cause.

Step 3. Contribute more than dollars.

Step 4. Formalize your affiliation.

Step 5. Mount a marketing campaign.

CLICK HERE:  Read the entire article from Entrepreneur magazine here!!

HOW ARE YOU USING CAUSE MARKETING SUCCESSFULLY IN YOUR BUSINESS?? Leave us a comment!

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Do you understand what oxidation means? Think of a car that’s been scratched up.  Add to that the humid, salty air of south Florida and BAM! You have rust!

Oxidation means:  ox·i·da·tion (ŏk’sĭ-dā’shən)  n.

1. The combination of a substance with oxygen.
2. A reaction in which the atoms in an element lose electrons and the valence of the element is correspondingly increased.

Check out this video of Alton Brown on “Good Eats” explain what our bodies are going through and the need for antioxidants!  Leave us your feedback. =D

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So how do you choose the best antioxidant supplement for your body?  There are dozens of mega-juice or pills that claim a lot of “protection” but when looking at independent lab studies, it’s pretty disappointing!  You need a product that is completely plant based, that has blood serum ORAC values that are PROVEN to increase protection!  And we have the source.  We’d love to share the information with you.

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Have you experienced Zig?  He’s a legendary story teller, and communicator.  What are you putting in to get something out?  How much are you willing to do it?  Those things that are valuable are worth working for!  Listen to this recording and let us know what you’re putting in your best energies for?

LISTEN HERE – Biscuits Fleas and Pump Handles

“Zig Ziglar is a National Treasure. He was instrumental in training me
to see possibilities, serve customers well, and be bold in my faith.
He has done that for people worldwide for two generations.”



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This is scary stuff!  You can not read this and see this and believe that it doesn’t affect humans!  The largest organ of your body is your skin.  Drinking filtered water is great but you absorb the most water when you bathe so please consider getting a filter for your shower, too.  Read/Watch this and let me know how you feel! ~ Suji & Arthur

According to World News April 20, 2010: More and more male fish in the Potomac River are exhibiting female traits, but the reasons for the growing number of intersex fish are not known.

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The Potomac Conservancy says more than 80 percent of the river’s male fish are producing eggs or exhibiting other female characteristics.

The Potomac River supplies much of the region’s drinking water, and that has the group calling on Congress to solve the fish mystery.

Scientists say chemicals that mimic hormones and disrupt the endocrine system are believed to be the leading reason for the intersex conditions.

The chemicals may be birth control pills, pharmaceuticals or some of the newer herbicides and pesticides that are flushed into wastewater or that run off farms and feedlots.

Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., is sponsoring a bill to study intersex fish problems. He says he wants to know more about the chemicals.

“Why they are so prevalent in the water? Why they are causing these fish with both sexual organs and if there isn’t some kind of connection with human diseases,” he says.

The Potomac River isn’t the only body of water where the problems have surfaced. A U.S. Geological Survey found intersex fish in about one third of 111 sites tested in 2009.

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Paul Zane Pilzer is someone who we follow closely – he’s an economist, presidential advisor, entrepreneur, wellness industry advocate and someone who’s insights we appreciate. He has no problem being straight up with the facts, even if it’s not popular with main stream media or current administration! We’ve learned a lot from his other books and wanted to share this book with you, too. There’s a great deal online @ Amazon, so buy the book using the link below and then let us know what you think, ok? ~Suji & Arthur Martens

Unlimited Wealth
by Paul Zane Pilzer

“I began my studies at Wharton Graduate Business School in 1975 with this
belief: that human suffering and social injustice reflected nothing more than
our failure to use the tools that God had given us.”
See Preface from Unlimited Wealth

Excerpt from Unlimited Wealth — Introduction
For the past four hundred years, virtually all practitioners of the dismal science we call economics have agreed on one basic premise: namely that a society’s wealth is determined by its supply of physical resources–its land, labor, minerals, water, and so on. And underlying this premise has been another, even more profound, assumption–one supposedly so obvious that it is rarely mentioned: namely, that the entire world contains a limited amount of these physical resources.
This means, from an economic point of view, that life is what the mathematicians call a zero-sum game. After all, if there are only limited resources, one person’s gain must be another person’s loss; the richer one person is, the poorer his neighbors must be.
Over the centuries, this view of the world has been responsible for innumerable wars, revolutions, political movements, government policies, business strategies, and possibly a religion or two.
Once upon a time, it may even have been true. But not anymore.
Whether or not we ever did, today we do not live in a resource-scarce environment. That may seem hard to believe, but the businessperson and the
politician–as well as the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker–who
continue to behave as if they were operating in the old zero-sum world will soon find themselves eclipsed by those who recognize the new realities and
react accordingly.
What are these new realities? To put it simply, we live today in a world of
effectively unlimited resources–a world of unlimited wealth. In short, we live in what one might call a new Alchemic world.
The ancient alchemists sought to discover the secret of turning base metals into gold; they tried to create great value where little existed before. But an analysis of their writings shows that they were on a spiritual as well as a monetary quest. They believed that by discovering how to make gold they could offer unlimited prosperity to all of God’s children. And, although in our era the term alchemy is often equated with “false science” and fraud, the ancient alchemists were successful in their quest in a manner that they could not have anticipated.
Consider this: if the ancient alchemists had succeeded in fabricating gold,
gold would have become worthless and their efforts would have been for naught. Yet, through their attempts to make gold, they laid the foundation for modern science, which today has accomplished exactly what the alchemists hoped to achieve: the ability to create great value where little existed before. We have achieved this ability through the most common, the most powerful, and the most consistently underestimated force in our lives today–technology.
In the alchemic world in which we now live, a society’s wealth is still a
function of its physical resources, as traditional economics has long maintained. But unlike the outdated economist, the alchemist of today recognizes that technology controls both the definition and the supply of
physical resources. In fact, for the past few decades, it has been the backlog
of unimplemented technological advances, rather than unused physical resources, that has been the determinant of real growth.

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An Economic Foundation for Peace

I flew helicopter missions over the jungles of Vietnam, and I know from firsthand experience what war is like. I also know that inequity is one of the core causes of war. As long as the gap between the rich and the poor widens, it is going to be tough to create conditions of peace. We can march for peace, give speeches endorsing peace, form committees to study peace, and promote peace, but it’s going to be impossible to actually create that peace we talk about unless and until we can begin to bring substantially more economic opportunity to many millions of people.

And as huge a goal as that sounds, that is exactly what network marketing is doing.

Today, many network marketing companies are spreading peace through economic opportunity all over the world. Not only are network marketing companies thriving in all the major capitals of the world, but many are also working in developing nations, bringing financial hope to millions of people who live in impoverished countries. Most traditional corporations can only survive where people are rich and have money to spend.

It is time that people all over the world had an equal opportunity to enjoy a rich and abundant life, rather than spend their lives working hard only to make the rich richer.

It’s time you had that opportunity.

Welcome to the 21st century.

–excerpted as the final thoughts from “The Business of the 21st Century”

by Robert Kiyosaki

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Glyconutrients – the eight essential biological sugars (saccharides) you need for immune support, cellular communication, proper organ function, proper glad function…

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Endocrine system supportt – unique blend of standardized nutrients that provides a full array of hormones that can provide balance to your cells and organs.

Ultra Pure Omega-3 provides the essential fatty acids your body needs to maintain good health, especially brain and heart health.  Provides support for healthy triglyceride levels already within normal levels.  Proprietary, two-step molecular distillation process results in a pharmaceutical grade standard of purity that’s among the highest in the industry.

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Stem cells have received a lot of media attention in the last few years. What we know is that every human being has them, in varying amounts, depending on several factors. I think the important question is, “How do we increase our bodies’ production of these cells when we need them?“

Tuesday, April 27th

US Time: 6pm PT, 7pm MT, 8pm CT, 9pm ET

For Information on How to Participate, Click Here

Here’s what to expect from tonight’s webinar:

“In this presentation, we will describe stem cells and explain the differences between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells, thus giving viewers a more accurate understanding of the information shown in mainstream media pertaining to stem cells.

The core of the presentation will focus on the natural roles of adult stem cells in the body and what we can do to support those roles. Finally, we will describe the discovery and development of the first stem cell enhancer and the implications of this discovery to health and wellness.”

~ Christian Drapeau, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer,

STEMTech HealthSciences

About Christian Drapeau:

Mr. Drapeau is an author (Cracking The Stem Cell Code), research scientist and neurophysiologist with over thirteen years of research experience in the fields of natural foods and nutrition. While pursuing scientific research in collaboration with various universities and research centers on the health benefits of certain botanical raw materials, he has lectured on nutrition to thousands of people since 1994, presenting profound health information and insights with clarity and humor.

Mr. Drapeau has been the Director of Research and Development at Cell Tech International and then Desert Lake Technologies, before co-founding STEMTech HealthSciences and becoming its Chief Science Officer.  Based on research he produced and information he researched produced by numerous scientific teams, Mr. Drapeau and his collaborators proposed in 2001 a breakthrough theory on adult stem cell physiology. He is the co-inventor of the revolutionary product StemEnhance and author of the Stem Cell Theory of Renewal, detailed in his new book Cracking the Stem Cell Code.

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Did you know that there are some companies that have been experimenting–successfully–with a healthcare model that is working?  Take Safeway, for example.  Rather than simply provide blanket coverage for everyone without consideration of their lifestyle choices, they have promoted Wellness.  See the Article we included from the Wall Street Journal written by none other than the CEO of Safeway himself.  What he shows is that the solution is really quite simple.  But its not easy!  Its not easy because it requires each individual to take responsibility for their own actions and choices when it comes to their health.

Read on, though and tell us what you think!

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Here’s to healthy choices!

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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?  It’s a short video clip that really inspired me.  It came at the end of a very motivating presentation given by entrepreneur, Cameron Herold.

You know how sometimes–more often than not–we get so busy making a living or ‘existing’ that we fail to even enjoy life?  Well, this clip inspired me to keep hope alive.  And more than that, it motivated me to take action towards the dream that is still alive in my heart.

This isn’t a video clip pitching anybody’s ‘stuff’ or ‘system’ to get ahead.  Its simply a clip that inspired me to become like a little child again-to dream, to live life with enthusiasm and courage.
Hopefully it will inspire you too:)

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This is what we do: give life to your dreams.  So, what are your dreams? We want to hear from you!  Please leave your comments here:

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I met John at a weekend training event in Hutchinson Island, Florida and was inspired by his wisdom and how he is so great at communicating massive life-transforming ideas through small experiential games and stories!  Klemmer events are something you have to experience to really understand what they do!  They change lives! Enjoy! ~Suji

Living Life Intentionally

Have you ever had a dream or goal that was so huge that it seemed to consume your every waking hour?  One that was the first thing you thought of in the morning and the last thing you thought of or even prayed about at night.  That something that burned deep within you with an intensity that was like nothing else?

If you have never experienced such feelings then maybe you have stopped dreaming.  People just like you live life based on circumstance rather than choice and commitment.  Life unfolds and they live with the hand they are dealt.

What if you decided, in this moment, what your life would look like and actually took the action to create that life?  Some of you, right now, are thinking, “I wish I could do that but too many people make decisions that impact my life.”  “I have no control over what they want.”  And you are right.  But you do have control over what you want, your dreams, and your goals.

Eight years ago when I first attended a Klemmer & Associates Personal Mastery seminar, I experienced such a life altering weekend that I wanted every person on the planet to have this same opportunity.  For me, it was as though I had been awakened after a lifetime of walking dead.  You too may know the feeling of sucking up oxygen and taking up space.

I had worked in a career for 30-years and really didn’t have much to show for all that time.  But now, I was feeling fully alive and I wanted to get the word out.  My wife and I began to pray for family and close friends who we intended to receive this gift of life.

Notice I said “intended.”  Brian Klemmer says in his book, If How-To’s Were Enough We Would All Be Skinny, Rich & Happy, that “Intention is not merely will power but a deep state of knowingness that comes from a deeper level.  It is a deep clarity with intensity.  It is focus, certainty and commitment.”  And boy did I have that after Personal Mastery.

Our children, grandchildren and extended family were the first ones we held an intention around attending a Personal Mastery.  Even when they said there was no way they’d ever attend such a seminar, we didn’t back off our intention.  By becoming so clear about what we wanted to create we noticed that how we showed up changed.  My Beingness shifted.  I became more open, trusting, compassionate and vulnerable in my relationships.  And it was noticed by others, so much so that in 2005 I became a team member of Klemmer & Associates’ Advanced Leadership Seminar.

Stephen Covey says, “Anytime you think the problem is out there, that is the problem.”  For me that means, one cannot solve issues in relationships until one’s own Beingness shifts.  I shifted and created myself into a completely different person.

One who is accepting of others; one who loves humanity because it is God’s creation; one who trusts easily; one with compassion for mankind; and one who is vulnerable in relationships.  And in so many other ways there is not room here to describe them.  The short of this is by BEING different, I DO different and I HAVE exactly what I want.

Over the years fifteen of my family and extended family (and countless friends and strangers that we have invited) have attended one or more of the Klemmer & Associates seminars.  And this month one more, my son, will attend and all because we declared an intention and maintained focus, clarity and commitment.  My wife, Linda and I are creating the life we desire out of choice and commitment.

You too can live life intentionally.  Join us at a Personal Mastery Seminar at locations across the globe or check out Klemmer & Associates Champions Online Webinar by enrolling at www.klemmer.com.

John Edwards

Advanced Leadership Facilitator

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Our Essential Source Omega can give you what you need to ensure you are getting adequate amounts of the ‘right’ fats.  Ask us how and a free consultation on your current diet!

What the Latest Research Says About What You Should Be Eating from US News and World Report

http://www.usnews.com/health/diet-fitness/diet/articles/2010/04/01/the-skinny-on-fats-what-the-latest-research-says-about-what-you-should-be-eating.html?PageNr=2

There are plenty of confusing topics in nutrition, but fats may take the cake. Are saturated fats like butter and animal fat terribly harmful? Should you worry about whether you’re eating too much of one kind of polyunsaturated fat and not enough of another? What about olive oil? And shouldn’t we be eating as little fat as possible, since so many of us are, well, fat? The distinctions are “enormously confusing unless you’re a lipid biologist,” says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. There’s a way to translate it all into relatively simple eating advice–more on that later. But first, here’s the skinny on fat.

First, toss out the notion that the lower the fat content in your diet, the better. A certain amount of fat is essential to your body’s functioning. And as you’ve probably heard, all fats are not alike in their effects on blood cholesterol levels, which can affect heart disease risk. Saturated fat, for example, generally increases levels of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol. But while this information was known when the surgeon general issued the first report on nutrition and health in 1988 and the National Academy of Sciences issued its own report in 1989, public health authorities felt that a message to reduce total fat would be best understood by the public. The thought was, says Nestle (who was managing editor of the 1988 report), that since saturated fats from meat and dairy products were the main sources of fat in the American diet, lowering total fat would automatically reduce consumption of saturated fat. That’s certainly true, in theory.

But here’s the rub in practice: “If you take out saturated fat, and you assume someone is in energy balance [i.e. their total calories haven't changed], what do you put in?” says Alice Lichtenstein, a nutritional biochemist and director of the cardiovascular nutrition laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. As it turns out, what you substitute for saturated fat seems to be important. “People reduced fat and replaced that fat with simple carbohydrates and refined sugar,” says Mimi Guarneri, cardiologist and medical director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, Calif.

That switch was aided by food companies, with their lines of “low-fat,” yet sugar-filled products. A review published online in January in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition said that research actually shows that subbing in a higher carbohydrate intake, especially refined carbs like white bread and sugary cereals, can actually “exacerbate” blood cholesterol problems, including elevated triglycerides and reduced HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels. To improve cholesterol, people should focus on limiting those refined carbs and reducing excess body weight, the review said. So much for unlimited SnackWells.

By contrast, trading saturated fats for polyunsaturated fats–the omega-3 fatty acids found in certain fish and the omega-6 fatty acids in vegetable oils such as safflower and soybean oils–does seem to offer a heart benefit. An analysis of existing research published in March in PLoS Medicine found that consuming those polyunsaturated fats instead of saturated fats reduces the incidence of heart attacks and cardiac death. Based on the evidence, “polyunsaturated fats are the best…fat to be increasing in the diet,” says Dariush Mozaffarian, an author of the study and an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Medicine and co-director of the program in cardiovascular epidemiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Ronald Krauss, senior scientist and director of atherosclerosis research at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, and an author of the ACJN review, agrees. In fact, he says, it’s unclear whether the benefits to cardiac health spring from removing the sat fat or adding the poly. But isn’t saturated fat a “bad” fat? Possibly, but his research, including a meta-analysis also published in the ACJN, found that despite its effects on LDL cholesterol, there’s no evidence dietary saturated fat alone is tied to the risk of coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease. He also says that even in trials where saturated fats were swapped out in favor of polyunsaturated fats, there was not much benefit in reducing saturated fats below about 9 percent of calories. It may be that saturated fats aren’t as evil as has been thought, but simply allow atherosclerosis to happen without conferring any protection; they raise both LDL and HDL cholesterols, leaving the ratio of the two little changed. By contrast, polyunsaturated fats “move the numbers in the right direction,” says Krauss.

But polyunsaturated fats aren’t free of controversy: namely, whether people should be worried about a too-high ratio of omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids in the diet. Omega-3 fatty acids, found in albacore tuna, sardines, walnuts, and tofu, are linked to improvement in some measures of heart-disease risk; omega-6 fatty acids, found in eggs, certain fish, and safflower and soybean oils, may cause inflammation. At one point the ratio of omega-6s to omega-3s in the American diet was about 2:1; now experts say it might be as high as 40:1 or even 50:1. But there’s no good evidence that they can actually cause clinical harm in humans, says Lichtenstein, who suggests people not fixate on the ratio.

What about olive oil, sesame oil, canola oil, and other oils high in monounsaturated fats? While they’re a good replacement for saturated fats, they don’t seem to have the same level of benefits as do polyunsaturated fats, says Mozaffarian. Most of the evidence of benefit has come from observations about the so-called Mediterranean Diet, but the health-conferring element in that eating pattern hasn’t really been nailed down, he says. And if olive oil itself is beneficial, it may not be the monounsaturated fat it contains, but the phytochemicals, But again, Lichtenstein urges people not to get too hung up on that point. Instead, focus on unsaturated fats, period. If you want to cook some things with soybean oil, stir-fry veggies with sesame oil, and make salad dressing with olive oil, that’s fine.

And that brings us to the easy guideline for consuming fat in the most healthful way possible: Think about foods, rather than chemistry, when you head to the supermarket. The fats in food are all mixtures, and you’ll drive yourself crazy attempting to figure out exact proportions, notes Nestle. Besides, fussing over components ignores the way people actually eat. “I’ve never known anyone to sit down to a tub of saturated fat,” says John La Puma, an internist and author of ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover’s Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy. “People eat food, not saturated fat or trans fat or starch or sugar.”

Lichtenstein agrees, saying we should focus on the pattern of eating, not any single dietary component. And research is fairly consistent on what constitutes a healthful eating pattern: a varied diet that’s heavy on the fruits and vegetables, emphasizes whole grains rather than processed ones, focuses on fish and a limited amount of lean meats and lowfat dairy, and includes liquid oils for food preparation. Following that sort of pattern will naturally lead you to “good” sources of fat, and will reduce levels of the not-so-good–including most trans fats, which are still considered the worst of the bunch. (Hydrogenated oils “have nothing but adverse effects,” says Krauss.)

And of course, remember that the quantity, not just the quality, of your food is important, says Nestle. Rather than having his patients count calories, La Puma recommends foods that will make them feel satisfied, gives them smaller plates, advises against skipping breakfast if it makes them ravenous later on, and suggests they try to sit down when they eat. “It reinforces the feeling of eating as something deliberate rather than just grazing,” he says. But even healthy eaters should focus on portion control. “If you eat a lot of nuts, avocados, or olive oil, you’ll get fat,” says Guarneri. And once it’s around your middle, it’s definitely no longer “good” fat.

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New studies prove Omega-3 is a huge help with the function of the brain.  Who doesn’t need a brain boost?  Check out this article and the resources and let me know if you want to compare the conventional Omega product versus our research company’s latest Omega product.   ~Suji Martens

Omega-3 Boosts Brain Function in Boys March 16, 2010 by Dr Mercola

The omega-3 fat DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) may alter the function of the brain associated with working memory, according to results of a new study with healthy boys.

Scientists showed, for the first time using neuro-imaging, that supplementation with DHA alters the functional activity in cortical attention networks in humans.

The study follows hot on the heels of backing from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for DHA-related brain and eye health claims for infants. EFSA’s Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) said DHA levels of 100 mg of per day were appropriate for 7-24 month-old infants, along with 200 mg per day for pregnant and lactating women.

Additionally, supplements of omega-3 fats, vitamins and minerals for prisoners may reduce the number of violent and aggressive episodes, according to another recent study.

Nutritional supplements containing vitamins, minerals, omega-3 and omega-6 fats were associated with a 34 percent reduction in violent incidents, according to findings of a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial with over 200 young adult offenders.

Meanwhile, there was a 14 percent increase in the number of reported violent incidents in participants in a placebo group.

Sources:

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition February 3, 2010 [Epub ahead of print]

Aggressive Behavior March 2010; 36(2):117-26

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Five Laws of Stratospheric Success:
Discussion of Go-Giver by Bo Burg and John Mann

I. The Law of Value: Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.
Quote: “No one has ever become poor by giving.” –Anne Frank
A. People want to do business with their friends, if you get more friends and you will get more business (or the problem with “prospects”).
B. Give Value First. – Jeffery Gitomer

II. The Law of Compensation: Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
Quote: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Gandhi
A. It really is a numbers game (or the fallacy of the “Big fish”)
B. Richest Americans: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, the Walton Family, and Michael Bloomberg (Think Actors and Athletes, too)

III. The Law of Influence: Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first.
Quote: “We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.” – Aristotle
A. The art of listening
B. How to land a long-term client (or how to make a women fall in love with you)

IV. The Law of Authenticity: The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.
Quote: “When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.” –Mark Victor Hansen
A. Be yourself (or why FaceBook does not cost Justin clients)
B. The key to “connecting” is the connection.

V. The Law of Receptivity: The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
Quote: “What we call ‘I’ is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.” –Shunryu Suzuki
A. “If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.” (or the Ben Franklin politics story)
B. Pay it forward

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Do you know what you’re swallowing when taking your one-a-day supplements?  Most of the supplements out there are glorified, ground up synthetic chemicals from petroleum and/or ROCKS!  This is an eye-opener and you need to share this with everyone! We can help you evaluate your current supplements and provide you the resources so that you can make the best decision for your health.  Our bodies were designed to absorb and utilize plant-based natural vitamins and minerals!

Proclivity, a continuing education, third party company holds post graduate training for all types of doctors for their continuing education requirements in nutrition. Medical doctors, chiropractors, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists, and nurses can all earn Category One, CME credits studying these nutritional discoveries.  Proevity just released a brochure looking at 23 of the best known companies and what to look for in a vitamin, mineral, and phytonutrient product.

To your health,

Suji Martens

What to look for in vitamin and mineral supplements By Thomas L. Taliaferro, D.C.

Since the 1930’s we have been educated by such governmental agencies as the F.D.A. and U.S.D.A to supplement our diet with vitamins and minerals to prevent certain diseases. Even the AMA has stated every American adult should supplement their diet with vitamins and minerals. Why do we continue to supplement? One reason is that an estimated 90% of our standard American diet (sad for short) is processed. Meat often contains growth hormones and antibiotics. Vegetables and fruits are picked green, before they are ripe and crops are grown in nutrient deficient soil, polluted with pesticides and herbicides.

Farm land used to be cultivated for seven years. One crop a season and left alone for a year to “season” the land for the next crop. Not anymore. Commercial practices of today harvest in one day, rip the next, and plant again. Sometimes up to three or four times a year.

First generation supplements were synthetic (United States Pharmacopeia-USP). These were inexpensive and standardized. The problem becomes obvious when we realize some basic chemistry. The body knows the difference between food that can be properly assimilated and synthetic variants that too often can not. Every single pharmaceutical ever produced has a side effect because the body knows the difference between food and synthetic. “A study published in the Journal of Food Chemistry stated that, with the exception of selenium, less than 10% of the synthetic minerals contained in the most popular brands of multivitamins were in a soluble bioavailable form”. (Proevity, Continuing Education Group) Simply put, a rock is a rock and can not be absorbed as food. This is one reason many physicians believe supplements are nothing more than expensive urine.

Second generation supplements are from whole food. These are from fruit and vegetable extracts as well as from single exotic plants. The problem here is nutrient deficiency, especially in minerals. Also, this category cannot be standardized. You never know how much you are getting from serving to serving. Therefore, whole food supplements cannot be labeled for nutritional values. No single plant, fruit or vegetable on the market today can meet all RDA or DV requirements.

Third generation supplements contain standardized, natural vitamin complexes, standardized, plant derived minerals, standardized plant derived phytochemicals and all sources of all a product should be identified and labeled. We can digest and assimilate a plant that has been grown using hydroponic cultivation techniques. This means all vitamins and minerals are standardized in a special formula and used as food for the plant.

Misleading labeling and claims does more than just drain your wallet. These claims can be dangerous. “Provides you with 2000% of the daily requirement of 90 nutrients.” “Offers the highest absorption.” Are you eating food?

Minerals are typically salts and have less than a 10% absorption/solubility rate.

Chelated minerals are tricks by companies attempting to psych out the body to think a mineral (rock) is actually an amino acid. This has the potential to increase absorption. This is only marginally better than mineral salts.

Plant sourced minerals have an absorption/solubility rate of 80-100%.

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How many people do you know that are facing the risk of low bone density? Most of our mothers, aunts, and grandmothers!  It’s scary to think of the potential dangers from the complications.

The market is flooded with drugs which make clams to increase bone density but with each and everyone one of these drugs there are side effects. Many times the side effects end up being worse that having poor bone density.  Women ask frequently – What can I do to increase my bone density without having to worry about the negative side effects that come from taking drugs? There has to be natural elements that will benefit me.

The research and development company that supplies our nutraceuticals have been doing extensive 3rd party research into this issue.  They chose theHealth and Medical Research Center in San Antonio Texas, an independent research entity that conducts clinical trials on health-enhancing product and technologies. Gil Kaats, PhD is the executive director of the center. Their web site is http://www.ihtglobal.com/

They have conducted over 40,000 body composition and bone density test using the most accurate technologies. Their database now has over 19,000 study participants of all ages from nearly every state in the US plus 5 Canadian provinces.

The results of all that study have now been published.

Gil Kaats, PhD has now published a book on his findings which you can order from the Health and Medical Research center in San Antonio Texas.

Results to bone mineral density (BMD) from taking the wellness program from our research company were impressive.  Here is quick summary of the study.

We have now completing our 14th year of the trials and have accumulated over 8,000 DEXA and blood tests from people taking our wellness program. I’m often asked for a “bottom line” describing our findings of our 14 years of research. In responding, I typically limit my remarks to the published findings and state that our studies suggest that taking these glyconutritional plant polysaccharide supplements can:

1. Improve bone strength by increasing bone mineral density

2. Aid in the reduction of excess body fat

3. Help maintain or increase lean (muscle) mass

4. Facilitate or maintain healthy cholesterol and blood lipid levels

5. Increase self-reported quality of life

Improve immune health as measured by C-reactive Protein (CRP) levels.

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~Suji Martens

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Technique 1: Search Engine Optimization

The mistake many website owners make is not spending time on Search Engine Optimization or SEO. In order to conduct a successful SEO campaign you must identify your target market, determine what keywords or phrases your prospective patrons are likely to search, and optimize your website accordingly. To reap the most out of SEO you must have a clear understanding of how and why it works. Without this your efforts will be in vain. Learn and implement search engine optimization methods.

Technique 2: Link Building

Once your website pages are properly optimized, your next step is to multiply your link popularity by building as many quality inbound links as you can. There are lots of ways to achieve this mission. First, submit your website to as many trustworthy Search Engines and online directories as possible. Next, display your expertise by writing articles related to your website and submit them to top article directories. Write and submit press releases to top press release directories. These efforts will create long lasting back links raising your website’s presence.

Technique 3: Social Media

People receive a great deal of their information online from search engines and social media websites. This is why it is essential for you to join leading social networking and social bookmarking sites. Fill out your profiles completely and add applicable content including a link back to your website. The main element to using social media is interaction. Go beyond posting information about you and your business. Give to each of the the networks you join by socializing (interacting) with other members. You don’t have to tell your life story, but it is essential that you participate in some way to these communities by being social. This is truly the only way to obtain high traction from your social media marketing efforts. After all, that is why they are dubbed as social sites.

With so many websites popping up every day, you have to take an assertive approach to make yours stand out among the rest. Use these 3 straightforward techniques consistently and watch your website soar to the top.

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After analyzing plenty of market research information you’ve finally determined the right niche for your home business blog. You’ve chosen your hosting company and selected a domain name. You’ve even written several blog entries in advance so that you have plenty of fresh content to post. Your intent is to blog to make money and you’ve just posted your first of many blog entries so your site is now ‘live’ on the internet. Where do you go from here?

The early phases of your blog development are critical in determining how quickly you will be able build a list of subscribers and make money.

Now that your blog is live here are 5 things you’ll need to do to accelerate the growth of your business to earn an income.

Schedule Your Work

You will need to determine the tasks that will have to be completed on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. This schedule will be your ‘action plan’ and should involve those activities necessary for the growth of your blog.

Your initial focus will be on marketing your site and insuring that it is being presented to your readers in professional manner. Early duties should include traffic generation, content creation, and networking out within the blogging community of your particular niche.

Content Creation

This phase of your blogging efforts will always be important but never more so than the infancy stages of your blog. This is the time for you to make your first impression and begin attracting your reader base. Your content should be useful and relevant to both the blog reader and the blog theme.

Post frequently in the early stages but as you see your subscriber base grow you will want to spend time both listening and responding to their comments. Encourage their interaction by asking them questions or for their comments on your posts or site design.

Hold Off on Your Marketing

In the beginning your sole focus will be satisfying the blog reader who visits your site. By attempting to sell anything too early will only drive your readers away. Build up their allegiance first by supplying great content for them to read.

Link Development

This will be significant part of your marketing strategy. By building links with other blogs and sites that have higher rankings you will boost your blog higher in search results. Reciprocal links from other sites will also create a flow of traffic to your blog. This can be achieved by leaving insightful and useful comments on other blog sites. Submitting articles is another way to develop links with higher ranking article submission sites that will link back to your blog after your article is published.

Rinse and Repeat

By focusing only on generating traffic and creating relevant quality content in the early stages of your blog you will be able to establish a solid reader base.

Although these actions may seem slow to yield the results you want the longer you stick with it the faster your blog will grow.

A home business blog can earn you a comfortable living provided you’ve first based it upon accurate market research information. Once your site has been launched you are now in the blog development stages of your site. During this time it is imperative you continue to post fresh blog entries with relevant and useful information to attract readers to your site. If you blog to make money it’s important to first build a subscriber base before attempting to market anything to your readers. The 5 steps we reviewed above will provide you direction during the early stages of your site. Your intentions will be to build a healthy reader base. With a little patience and resolve there is no reason you can’t successfully grow your site into a blog that will earn you a significant income.

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Twitter is a wildly popular microblogging service. It involves writing Tweets, which are short updates of a maximum of 140 characters that tell your followers what you are up to. Although your Tweets are technically supposed to answer the question, “What are you doing?” Twitter has moved far beyond that. Tweets are used to share stories, link to photos, promote content, break news, and a whole lot more. Twitter has also become an incredibly important tool for social media marketing professionals. Here are 12 ways in which Twitter can be used in your social media marketing campaign.

1. Sharing Links to Items of Interest

As soon as you read something online that you think is interesting, it is easy to share it on Twitter with all of your followers. Twitter is highly effective in this manner because it is such a quick way to be able to reach a large group of people. You can also get a lot of great ideas for blog posts from Twitter since many new ideas and stories are floating around that haven’t even made it to the blogosphere and definitely not to mainstream media.

2. Building Your Network

Using Twitter is a great way to build your network because it allows you to find and follow people with similar interests. You can use Steeple to find people who live in your geographical area. You can also use other tools that help you find new people to follow based upon who your Twitter friends follow.

3. Build Relationships within Your Current Network

People in different networks often use Twitter to connect with their contacts instantly rather than using instant messaging for that purpose. Furthermore, many people use Twitter to connect with their network during events like conferences.

4. Re-Distributing Content from Your Blog or Website

Twitter can be used to redistribute content from your blog or website. However, you should take care to do this thoughtfully since many of your Twitter followers may already read your blog. For that reason, you may want to avoid using a blog plug-in that automatically Tweets your posts. Your best bet is to Tweet your content manually and customize each Tweet so it doesn’t get old.

5. Get Involved in Live Tweeting Events

Twitter launched at SXSW last year, catapulting microblogging conferences to fame. Live Tweeting events are great because they are a form of citizen journalism that allow you to connect with several new people in your niche while making active and valuable contributions to current discussions in your community.

6. Pitching Stories to Journalists on Twitter

You can send a direct message to a journalist who is following you on Twitter to pitch a story idea.

7. Communicating with Your Team

You can use Twitter as a company intranet that connects all of your employees. Twitter can be particularly useful in this regard if you have a virtual business with employees in different geographical locations. You can set your updates to private for security reasons. Anytime you are working on group projects, you can stay in touch with your team members using Twitter.

8. Brand Monitoring

Stay up to date with any mentions of your business on Twitter. If there is anything negative, you will be able to counter it quickly. You can also use Twitter as a way to receive feedback from your customers and improve your business. Just ask your followers to give their opinion on something. For example, if you designed a new website, ask your followers what they think about it and get their constructive criticisms so you can make your site design even better.

9. Acquire More Votes on Social Media Websites

If you have submitted a story to Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, or any other social voting website, tweet a link to that submission to try to score more votes from your followers. If your followers like what they see, they are sure to vote for your content.

10. Hiring People

Looking for a programmer, designer, or writer? Whatever type of professional you seek, try finding them on Twitter. Simply send your followers a tweet telling them you are looking for someone for a job. They can either recommend someone to you or offer themselves for the job. Using Twitter in this way is ideal for finding qualified freelancers. It is much more convenient than putting out a classified ad.

11. Build Your Personal Brand

When you use Twitter to talk about things as mundane as what you ate for breakfast or how you are going to sleep early tonight, you make your followers feel like you are casual and approachable. Even those with running a company that has a cold, corporate brand image could create more appeal and build a unique personal brand using Twitter.

12. Streamline Electronic Communications

When you use Twitter, you’re likely to find yourself using IM, email, and other electronic communication methods less. Twitter not only provides public chatting through Tweets, it also allows you to send direct messages. Twitter will help you streamline your electronic communications, allowing you to scale back online.

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Usually when I am working into the night, I shut down all communication devices so I can get some productive work done.  This time I forgot to exit Outlook and what do you know, my email notification pulled my attention from writing training modules for an affiliate system I am working on.

To my surprise, I received a gift from self-help legend Tony Robbins.  Okay, so it was not a personal email from Tony, but regardless he is a man of great value so when he send an email out to his list, I immediately check it out.  Tony was giving a heads-up on a video he put together just for the holiday season.  He talks about giving thanks and he also talks about some of the darkest moments of his life and how instantly he was able to turn any situation into a positive.

Tony was not always a $30 million per year man.  He had some pretty low points in his life where his parents split, had no money, was homeless and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  You may be able to relate or even make this look like a tea party.

Regardless, we all go through tough times.  It’s life.  The one who will overcome anything is the one who is willing to face the pain and struggle head on because they are not satisfied with mediocrity. You could be facing something that looks like the Great Wall of China and someone who has life experience may see it as walking over a speed bump.  It is all a matter of perception and how you respond, not react, to the situation.

Being a life teacher of these principal, Tony wanted to give away his five best tips for someone to overcome anything in their life.  I wanted to put a huge emphasis on these points as they have helped me as I overcame some pretty tough times.

Tony Robbins 5-Keys to Thrive:

Feed Your Mind

What is the first thing you do when you wake up?  I am guilty as charged for being the one who goes and checks his email every so often.  If you really think about it, we are giving our power away to the people on the other end of the communication channel.  What is even worse is when people reach for the newspaper, Google the news, turn on the TV, listen to the radio or any other broadcast of constant negative information.

I have never felt as good in my life then when I would spend one hour every morning reading and journalizing. I would begin each day on a positive note and I know that after I take care of me, I can begin to serve everyone else.  No matter how tough things may get, reach for a book.  You will find that every problem out there has been battled before.  And remember, as soon as you stop growing, you start dying.

Feed Your Body

We are a living species.  What kind of nourishment can we really get when we eat dead, processed foods?  Think about that.  Even Tony Robbins is a raw food activist.  By no means, do I want to influence your diet in any way.  In fact, I could care less what you put in your body.  As long as you are happy.  When you put bad foods in your body, it will cause disease, you will not be healthy and therefore it is quite difficult to be happy.

When you have the proper nourishment, you will be full of life and operating at your highest vibrations to overcome.  You also want to find a way to release energy stored in your body through strenuous exercise.  And I am not talking doing 7 push-ups.  I am talking about running until you want to faint or your feet bleed, whatever happens first.  I am talking about stretching your boundaries.  Even when times get tough, you don’t have to sit around an mope all day.  Get fired up and push yourself to the extreme.  I regularly feel that after my morning eats, read and run, there is nothing on earth that can bring me down.

Find a Role Model

Mentors speed up the learning curve for young entrepreneurs. The have gone through the gamut and know about the things you are facing.  What is powerful is that they can prove to you that thinks aren’t as bad as you think they are. .  Without them, I would be nowhere.  I actually have had many over the past 3+ years.  There will be times when these people pick you up even when you don’t believe in yourself.  It could even be a virtual mentor.  Someone out of a book or a video that becomes your role model and inspiration.  You can study and watch them from afar.  Don’t be afraid to reach out to them.  You never know what can happen.

Take Massive Action

At this point, it doesn’t really matter how much you know or how talented you are.  The fact that you don’t take action with trump it every time.  You can never go anywhere prominent in life if you pass up every opportunity you see.  Entrepreneurs who take action are different from risk takers.  Entrepreneurs take planned, calculated risks.  They do not make careless decisions, instead they think things through.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has said, “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

Feed Your Spirit

When I am driving in my car, I just like to think in silence.  Sometimes I rock out, but others I reflect on how lucky I am just to be alive.  There have been so many time where I have pushed the limits of life.  To look upon what I am creating now and how many lives I am about to change gives me the chills every time.  I sit there and say “I am so grateful.”  And I will just repeat those words as I think of everything including the challenges I am facing in my life.  “How lucky I am to even have these problems” I can boldly remark.  Why are you grateful for?  I find the best way to bring up your spirits at a low point is not to receive a gift from someone, it is to give one.

There will always, always, always be people out there worse off than you.  Think about some of the ways you add value to someone’s life to where you can bring up their spirits when they are down.  I remember being on the Go-Giver Tour with two incredible young brothers (click the link to view the entire story).  We were driving from Florida to Chicago and midway into our trip we saw a young kid with his car broken down on the side of the highway.  We went to help him and he had already been sitting there for a while.

We found out he was hundreds of miles from home and he was out of gas and money.  It just so happened he left home originally to party and smoke pot with friends.  We had just enough money to get back home but Ivan and Emmanuel convinced me that we leverage our credit cards to help this kid out.  He really needing something uplifting in his life.  So we ended up getting him gas, lunch, cash in his pocket and my copy of the book The Go-Giver and sent him on his way back home.  He questioned why we helped him and broke down in tears.  He requested that he pay us back and we told him there is one way he could.  The next time he sees someone in a bad situation, he goes and helps them out.  I’d like to think that he did.

What works the best is when these five points come together in harmony.  One change in one area of your life will have a small effect, but a shift in all five areas will set you up to create long-lasting change.

Please watch the video for yourself here and tell me what you think of it below.

Article taken from http://unstrappd.com/2009/11/17/how-to-overcome-anything-like-tony-robbins/

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Being the best blog site in your niche carries many advantages especially if you blog to make money. Operating a blog that has a strong following is a reflection of the dedication and commitment invested into the ongoing process of the blog development itself. Any blog owner/operator knows what it takes to attract and retain the average blog reader and this is not something that happens overnight.

Now if you blog to make money you can see how a strong reader base could benefit you financially. In addition your authority within the niche will make it all the easier for you to attract additional readers since other blogs will have the tendency to link to your site.

What we’re going to focus on here today is the importance of paying attention to the comments left by subscribers at your site. Within these comments you can find valuable nuggets of information that can be used to improve not only the blog but even your marketing strategy.

Here are 3 ways to use these blog reader comments that can help you become a more effective blogger and marketer.

Market Research Information

Putting out questions to your subscribers asking their opinions on certain products or trends could yield useful market research information as to current consumer preferences. Another approach could be polling your readers on what are some of their more pressing problems to which they wish they had a solution: what bugs them!

In both these scenarios the response of your subscribers could uncover a previously hidden niche or trend you could capitalize on. Market research information like this can easily cost a significant sum for a large corporation but you can collect this information right from your blog and use it to your advantage.

Blog Performance Feedback

Asking for opinions on the subjects of your post or perhaps the content itself can give you feedback as to whether you may need to make a change. Even simple inquiries about the layout of your blog, the graphics that are used, or the format of your posts could lead to dramatic improvements for the site.

Remember your blog is really for your readers so you should strive to give them what they want.

Encourages Interaction

Involving subscribers in these polling processes or even merely responding to their comments helps complete the ‘cycle’ of interactivity. This creates a sense of community for subscribers and increases their satisfaction. People like to know that their words or opinions are being heard and better yet acted upon.

Being the best blog site within your niche comes with many advantages and benefits but it also translates into a certain amount of commitment. When you blog to make money the stakes go even higher. Learning to tap into any available resource that can enhance your blog development and marketing effectiveness is a valuable skill. Using comments left by blog readers as we discussed above will allow you to put more distance between yourself and your competition. It is simply up to you to recognize and act upon any useful information a blog reader may have already left on the site for you even if it hasn’t been solicited.

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