Sunday, March 10, 2013
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Health - Atkins Exposed?
Here's an interesting website I found that exposes some of the health concerns of the Atkin's Diet.
http://www.atkinsexposed.org
http://www.atkinsexposed.org
Friday, February 22, 2013
Health - Michael Moss new book - Salt Sugar Fat
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Timescomes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.
Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese (triple what we ate in 1970) and seventy pounds of sugar (about twenty-two teaspoons a day). We ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, and almost none of that comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food. It’s no wonder, then, that one in three adults, and one in five kids, is clinically obese. It’s no wonder that twenty-six million Americans have diabetes, the processed food industry in the U.S. accounts for $1 trillion a year in sales, and the total economic cost of this health crisis is approaching $300 billion a year.
In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we got here. Featuring examples from some of the most recognizable (and profitable) companies and brands of the last half century—including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, Capri Sun, and many more—Moss’s explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, often eye-opening research.
Moss takes us inside the labs where food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the “bliss point” of sugary beverages or enhance the “mouthfeel” of fat by manipulating its chemical structure. He unearths marketing campaigns designed—in a technique adapted from tobacco companies—to redirect concerns about the health risks of their products: Dial back on one ingredient, pump up the other two, and tout the new line as “fat-free” or “low-salt.” He talks to concerned executives who confess that they could never produce truly healthy alternatives to their products even if serious regulation became a reality. Simply put: The industry itself would cease to exist without salt, sugar, and fat. Just as millions of “heavy users”—as the companies refer to their most ardent customers—are addicted to this seductive trio, so too are the companies that peddle them. You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again.
Praise for Salt Sugar Fat
“Michael Moss understands a vital and terrifying truth: that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar, fat, and salt. We are fundamentally changing our lives—and the world around us.”–ALICE WATERS
“[A] terrific, powerfully written book, jammed with startling disclosures, jaw-dropping confessions and, importantly, the charting of a path to a better, healthier future.”–RON SUSKIND, PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR
“A breathtaking feat of reporting…a truly important book.”–MARION NESTLE, AUTHOR OF FOOD POLITICS AND WHAT TO EAT
“A shocking, galvanizing manifesto against the corporations manipulating nutrition to fatten their bottom line—one of the most important books of the year.”–KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Moss’s vivid reportage remains alive to the pleasures of junk—'the heated fat swims over the tongue to send signals of joy to the brain'—while shrewdly analyzing the manipulative profiteering behind them. The result is a mouth-watering, gut-wrenching look at the food we hate to love.”–PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Health - Cost Rica Vacation with Dr McDougall
Hui and I joined 200 attendees at Dr McDougall's AMAZING Costa Rica Health Retreat to learn more about the health benefits of a Starch Based Plant diet.......
Dr McDougall - Costa Rica Adventure
Dr McDougall - Costa Rica Adventure
Saturday, February 02, 2013
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Spiritual - Occupy Wall Street - Assholes!
I spent my career helping to protect people and businesses....and idiots from "Occupy Wall Street" think it's fun to tear everything down and destroy our culture. They are mostly a bunch of lazy sheep that don't want to work and want wealth re-dsitribution. Instead of working for things they want, they would rather destroy everything.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Intellect - VP Debate - Disgusted!
Vice President Biden was so disrespectful with the goofy smile and constant interruptions. I wish Ryan would have put him in his place. Mr. Vice President, I don't know what's so funny. Your administration has increased the national debt, has failed to reduce the unemployment rate, doled out billions in poor investments to solar companies with political ties, has a DOJ that will not explain Fast and Furious, a failed TARP Program that wasted money instead of focusing on "Shovel-Ready" jobs, and has mislead the American Public about the events in Libya.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/12/author-ed-klein-as-benghazi-blame-nears-hillary-clintons-grow-furious/
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/12/ryans-benghazi-surprise/
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/12/krauthammer-bidens-disrespectful-hugely-condescending-undid-a-potential-debate-win/
I loved the fact that Biden through State Department under the bus!
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/12/white-house-throws-hillary-under-the-2012-bus/
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Spiritual - Prescription Coverage?
FORGET OBAMA AND ROMNEY...
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST WORRISOME STATISTICS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
25% of women in this country are on medication for mental illness!
That's scary as hell, since it means 75% are running around with no medication at all.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Intellect - 50 Life Lessons....Every 50 year old should know?
50 Life Lessons
1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, will this matter?”
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
36. Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
42. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
45. The best is yet to come.
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
48. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
49. Yield.
50. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.
The following 50 valuable life lessons where written by Regina Brett, from Cleveland , Ohio.
These gems of knowledge have been learnt over the past 50 years, why would you not want to get your knowledge up and read on for a little ‘Life 101′.
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