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Paul McCartney's Meat Free Monday Mission

June 25, 2009 -- The Telegraph

Sir Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney are leading the Meat Free Monday campaign to persuade people to avoid meat once a week. It is not an attempt to turn the world vegetarian, one day at a time, but a crucial step in the fight against climate change.

There is a charming, seemingly random video on YouTube of Paul McCartney demonstrating how to make mashed potatoes. It's a recipe from Linda McCartney's On Tour book (he is following the instructions from his own well-thumbed copy) and there is something quite endearing about the way he shows you Linda's tip of how to chop an onion, as he hacks away with the knife the way no professional chef would. He is no Jamie Oliver. Obviously, Sir Paul has many other talents and his guide to making mash the Macca way, a video he made as president of the Vegetarian Society, is just a bit of fun – the perfect accompaniment to a couple of Linda McCartney's vegetarian sausages.

Food was a key part of Paul and Linda's relationship and when they decided to go vegetarian in the seventies, it was a spontaneous and joint decision. "Linda and I, we were on the farm and we saw lambs gambolling and we were eating leg of lamb…so it was a compassionate thing. That seems to be the least important thing to people these days. It seems to have gone right out of the window, the whole idea, unfortunately, because it's rather a nice thing, a bit of compassion."

What was it that made this man hate us? These days, Linda's food still brings the family together. They are actively involved in Linda McCartney Foods, which recently had a bit of a dust off and a rebrand. The family all taste and approve any new recipes, and I imagine, their freezers are well stocked with Linda's burgers and sausages. It is important to them, their way of keeping Linda's legacy alive. So when Paul decided to launch a new campaign, Meat Free Monday, it was the perfect opportunity to get together for a rare public group hug.

As he muses over a suitable recipe for another cookery video to promote the new campaign, he remembers one of his father's favourite recipes. "Pea sandwiches," he recalls. "I remember my dad making one for John once." But his daughters groan. "It has to be mum's lasagne," says Mary.

While Mary prepares to take the photographs for this story, Paul takes a tiny mouth organ from his pocket and plays as Stella sings along. "This is why Bob Dylan wants to write songs with you," she laughs. It's a family joke. Despite the news reports that the two musicians are about to record together, Paul tells me later that the rumour is totally unfounded. "No, that's a newspaper thing. He just said some very complimentary things about me in some interviews and I love him. I think he's a great poet and writer so I've always admired him. I don't rule it out and I admire him. But we're not the kind of people who would ring each other up." Mary takes her place in the picture, arranges her dad's hair which is blowing in the wind, and presses the shutter.

The family is famously vegetarian, but Stella says for this particular debate, she wishes they weren't. This is not an evangelical mission to make the world a veggie but an attempt to do their bit to slow climate change. "It's an environmental conversation, not a vegetarian one," says Stella. "It's ok to just give up meat for one day, it doesn't make you a vegetarian if you hate vegetarians, it doesn't make you cranky, hemp wearing pot smoker. It's alright, it's allowed - it doesn't make you a kind of the person you don't want to be. It just means you are doing something positive."

Paul read about the campaign in America and decided he needed to get involved. Over the past year, he has been talking about it, writing letters to celebrities and chefs, talking to schools, and galvanising support from as many people as he can, including Woody Harrelson, Doris Day, and Ricky Gervais. Two weeks ago [Monday 15 June], he held a press conference to launch the campaign at Oliver Peyton's restaurant Inn the Park. Peyton himself – a fully fledged bone marrow sucking carnivore - has agreed to promote meat free dishes every Monday at the restaurant.

The campaign has some weighty research behind it, not least from the UN. "Dad got the report," says Mary, who is softly spoken but has a cool air of authority about her. "You were sent the report weren't you?" She looks at Paul who has joined us round the table at the Portobello Hotel in west London, quietly whistling to himself. "Yeah, I was originally sent it. Livestock's Long Shadow it was called. The UN, who are our appointed global watchdog, said 'hey, cattle rearing is more harmful than ALL transport.' That is the statistic I thought was shocking because until then I thought it was aeroplanes, cars and trucks…"

According to the report, livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, which is indeed a bigger share than that of transport which accounts for 13 per cent. "We're not just talking about a few cows," says Paul. "We're talking billions. I took a drive from Santa Fe down to El Paso, a road trip I was on, and you go past I think about 15-20 miles of cattle as you drive down the motorway and it's the same cow; it's a brown and white cow. There are billions of them! And that's where it comes home. That's where the methane is coming from, this is the problem, not just a couple of cows on a farm. It's not just Daisy and Buttercup any more."

It seems the world is coming round to the Macca point of view and this is too good an opportunity to miss. It's the first time not eating meat is being promoted by scientists – 'traditional eaters,' as Paul calls them, not vegetarians with a vested interest. For Stella and Mary, following their father's lead is perfectly natural. Linda would certainly have been there, waving her placard. She was already talking about the relationship between food and the environment long before the UN decided it was time to act. This is part of the family's way of keeping Linda's legacy alive. "Ideally yes, be vegetarian," says Mary. "But if not, just reduce your meat intake to make it fun do a meat free Monday."

Listening to them running through the arguments and the statistics backing up their campaign, you feel this is a typical discussion that would happen over a family nut roast. Occasionally, they talk over each other and finish each other's sentences. "It can be so overwhelming," admits Stella. "And you can feel so …oh god, but I've got to get that plane there and I've got to drive my car with my three kids here. You are led to believe that transport is the main problem, but actually it's diet. To be honest we could sit and bang on about it…"

Paul: "But we don't want to bang on, we don't want to say to you look, you have to go veggie. The idea of this is for the environment, for your children's future, would you consider just one day a week changing your habits? And then if you decide to do two days, three, four, then so much the better, but if people would do it, it would have a huge impact."

Stella: "If everyone gave it up on a Monday it would be more effective than everyone stopping driving their car on a Monday. We are not perfect. It's so important to get that across because it's like oh, those bloody Maccas, talking again about not killing cows! It is boring. But the reality is, I like to think I am trying to do my little bit. I will turn off the lights when I leave a room; I will turn off a socket if I don't want to be using the socket. And those are tiny little things."

Paul: "Even President Obama tells you to do that."

It is a small thing they are asking us all to do. Very few of us eat meat every day of the week, but by cutting back on what we eat, we can make a difference. On average we are eating twice the amount of meat we ate in 1961, the year the Beatles first performed at the Cavern club in Liverpool. "The idea of having one type of meat for your breakfast and another type of meat for your lunch, and then another type for your dinner, and in between having your sandwiches with another kind of meat, we really do eat too much of it," says Paul. To produce a single kilogram of beef, farmers have to feed a cow 15 kg of grain and 30 kg of forage. It is a highly intensive business that is ultimately not sustainable. Livestock production is responsible for 70 per cent of the deforestation of the Amazon jungle and by 2050, the world's livestock population is expected to rise from 60 billion farm animals to 120 billion. It is a scary fact when you consider that a single cow can produce 500 litres of methane per day, which has around 25 times the global warming impact of CO2.

"I think we forget more and more that we are animals," says Stella, "and we are part of a planetary system where all of the animals are on this planet together and you are made to feel like a hippy dippy jerk that should go and live in a tipi for even making a point of remembering."

Despite the fact that she rarely gives interviews, Stella is the most vocal of the three, passionately backing up her father, shaking her head, saying 'it's all money, money, money!' about the projected growth of the meat industry (world demand for meat is estimated to double by 2050) and butting in with the odd comment like: 'Greed is not a good look. I was brought up to think this was not a good look. Everything in moderation.' And she knows her stuff. She urges me (and you) to watch a film called Home that was made by the aerial photographer, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and launched the previous week on World Environment Day. You can link to it from her website.

As she says, she tries to do her bit. Although she already incorporates sustainable and organic fabrics in her mainline collection, she also designs a capsule Green Collection which is as purely ethical and sustainable as she can make it and is sold at Barneys in New York and Harvey Nichols in London. On her website, in between pictures of models looking supremely cool and confident in her clothes, if you click on the 'Green me' button, you can read Stella's eco tips – small things we can all do to help slow down global warming. Her London shop is powered by Ecotricity. Her skincare range, Care, is made using 100 percent organic active ingredients and is Ecocert –certified. And of course, she tells her celebrity friends off for wearing fur and doesn't use leather.

"In my industry, there is no alternative in people's minds to leather shoes. Now I'm not making a leather shoe. I'm doing alright. We can get by. Things change. Humans are the best animals - the best adapters on the planet. We adapt quicker than a tree does in the rainforest. We adapt, that's what we do."

In March, she was given an award by the Natural Resources Defence Council (which works to protect wildlife and wild places) in New York. "I was lucky enough to present that to her," says Paul. "I said that when she joined the fashion world, she first of all was employed by Gucci and my first thought, and Linda's, was uh-oh Gucci is leather city. When you think of Gucci, you think of leather. We thought about how long is it going to be before she caves in on her principles? And we waited, and we waited, and we waited, and she never did. That is a fantastic achievement… and that's what's great about new ideas, different ideas, people catch the fire, they get excited with the stuff. It's just thinking about it instead of just becoming a Gucci slave. Took a little bit of guts to do that."

Despite the fact that Stella feels she has been pilloried for her beliefs and principles, it seems to have paid off. Just as the fashion world has finally come round to her big idea of wearing jumpsuits and your boyfriend's jacket, we seem to have arrived at a moment when having principles – and a bit of compassion – is not such a bad thing. It is perhaps no coincidence that she is the only fashion person to be included in Time magazine's annual 100 most influential people list this year, an achievement she is obviously proud of, giving me a high five when I mention it. Just as any father would, Paul admits to having the magazine on his kitchen table, open at the relevant page – a tribute written by Stella's mate, Gwyneth Paltrow. "Even if you are not vegetarian somehow Stella gets you to believe," she writes. "She manages to convince you (never sanctimoniously from a soapbox) that killing animals is needless and cruel and bad for the environment."

Paul says she didn't have to be that way. "She could have caved in and we almost would have forgiven her. The pressures were so huge but the fact that she did not…" Stella cuts in. "I'm very lucky. I don't think that I am magnificent, I just think I've been very lucky. I think I've been brought up in a certain way. Mary's like that, my brother [James, a musician] and sisters [Heather from Linda's first marriage, and Beatrice from her father's second] are like that. My husband's like that. I think that you do stand out if you stand out against things. It was very hard in my industry especially to have those kind of principles and I did have the mickey taken out of me probably up to about a year ago. And people will probably read this and chuck it on their barbie and cook beef on it but the reality is I'm more impressed by people who take a risk and who stand up to good beliefs and I think in this day and age…"

Paul: "It's how the world changes."

Stella: 'The main thing is not to bang on about it too much. We don't generally bang on about it, I try to keep my head down and get on with it and design pretty frocks, that's my job. And dad makes pretty good records when he's given half an hour in between his potato mashing, and Mary's a fantastic photographer. But I don't think we want to come across as forcing people to think a certain way, I think it's just a very valid issue and life's too short to not do something you believe in. You've only got a short period on the planet to make something of your life."

With all of this passion and desire for change, I wonder if Paul will be writing a Dylan style protest song to promote their cause. "I do have a few sort of animal awareness songs, but they are very difficult to write. I wrote one called Looking For Changes that was applauded by PETA, which started off with 'I saw a cat with a machine in its brain', you know that picture? A hardcore picture. That made me write that, but it's very very hard to do and it's not my forte. I wish it was, that would be kind of nice to be driven in that direction. Songs aren't always what you are passionate about. You'd like to think that they all were but sometimes it's just about I love you, or you're great."

And with that, our time is up. Stella's phone has been ringing non-stop. "We're going to get a bit of flack for this," says Paul, who can't resist singing into my Dictaphone before turning it off. "Why do we feel we need to do it? You know what, because Meat Free Monday is a damn good idea. I mean, what are you going to tell your kids? That we can do something about it. This is one of those things that you can do."

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Is it OK to be 420 friendly on main?

It's 4/20 baby!!! It's Saturday, you're lit, brain perfectly calibrated to toasted, sparking your joy, blowing smoke rings so on point it feels criminal not to share on your Instagram story.

But something stops you from posting. And it probably sounds like the voice of your D.A.R.E. teacher yelling about how posting pictures of pot online can get you arrested and ruin your career.

"Even if you just post one picture, it comes back," said Anjela, who is very much not a D.A.R.E. teacher. Preferring to keep her full name separate from her online weed-sona, she's better known as Koala Puffs, a weedfluencer with over half a million Instagram followers. 

"You gotta be sure that's where you wanna take your life before you post. Because you have to be able to take on the judgement that's gonna come with expressing yourself."

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You'd think that in the year of our lord 2019 we'd have moved past the taboo of being 420 friendly on main. Cannabis decriminalization across the U.S. is at an all-time high, along with the general population's support for further legalization.

Yet while many of us are passing the blunt (or at least not harshing people's buzz) IRL, the stigma around talking openly about cannabis online remains. 

Elon Musk got the not-so-dank wake up call when he started posting vague (awful) 420 jokes on Twitter, culminating in a smoke sesh no one wanted or asked for that landed him and his company in hot water. Musk also drank alcohol on the same podcast, though, and no one cared two shits about that part.

And if Musk, a person with endless Fuck You Money and fame, doesn't have enough privilege to protect himself from online pot-shaming, who among us mortals does? Not even weed influencers can post to Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook without facing repercussions that feel like we're stuck in 1998.

The cost of a pot-sona 

In early 2018, YouTube went on what appeared to be a marijuana-based purge, deleting and giving strikes to swaths of weed influencers' channels. Soon after, it started happening on Instagram. While both companies cited community and user policies about depicting, smoking, and selling drugs on their platforms, others theorized that the crackdown pertained more to advertisers' trepidation after a litany of unrelated scandals from big names like Pewdiepie and Logan Paul. 

But by and large, the fear of being publicly weed-friendly on social media isn't about getting banned. It relates to the unique stigma of making cannabis part of your online persona.

Koala Puffs said the nine months after she quit her corporate job to pursue cannabis influencing was the hardest in her life. Her family, friends, boyfriend, and her boyfriend's family couldn't get behind her pro-bud rebranding.

"Nobody changed their minds until I was 200,000 followers deep," she said. But to this day her mom still thinks she's just outgrowing a college phase.

"I 100 percent still experience stigma from within my family," said Arend Richard, who went from 420 YouTuber to cannabis CEO after launching The Weedtube, a weed-friendly alternative to YouTube that's releasing a new app Saturday in response to the crackdowns. Granted, the weed stigma in his family is only exacerbated by their larger difficulty in accepting another aspect of his identity as a gay man. 

"But I will say, if you want your family to not judge you for using cannabis, just start a cannabis company, and get it written up in Forbes," he joked.

SEE ALSO: OK, everybody: Stop pot-shaming Elon Musk

Since taking on the business side recently, though, even Richard went back and deleted over 200 posts from his Instagram. Because legitimate cannabis businessmen also need to avoid the stereotypes associated with the stoner label, which seems to stick like glue in an age when social media signifiers define so much of how other people perceive you.

Reefer gladness

Particularly, Richard doesn't like to post himself in the actual act of smoking, even though a tutorial video teaching people how to smoke was what first began his path into cannabis influencing. That conscious curation is part of a larger shift in how people are expressing their cannabis use online.

"At first, over-consumption was kind of the game in the cannabis industry to get a following. You just did The Most," said Richard. 

When total prohibition was the law of the land in America, seeing copious amounts of weed, bongs, and blunts was an exciting novelty. But now it's possible for just about anyone with enough money in certain states. 

"We're in the biggest change in trends for online cannabis communities right now, moving more toward positivity and less toward over-consumption," said Richard.

Cannabis/beauty/wellness influencer and yoga instructor Brittany Tatiana (or sweettatas) quite literally embodies this positivity movement, by normalizing weed as a lifestyle choice on social media.

She got into weed influencing after a car accident left her with chronic pain. Unable to go back to her corporate job for six months, weed became her best alternative to the opioids doctors prescribed. At the time she'd already began dabbling with modeling and beauty influencing, building a following and doing promotion with a few brands.

But then she made the fateful decision to take the leap into letting her 420 flag fly. "I guarantee you I lost jobs and contracts because of it. Immediately," she said.

"It's been hard for me to represent my full self and not have people judge me based on what they see in one post," Tatiana said. Straddling the more commercial beauty industry and the cannabis-friendly world is like walking a tight rope.

"It's been a real battle with friends and brands. It's a fine line to cross. So I just try to be conscious about what I post."

Tatiana hesitates to post herself smoking too, for example. But overall, "it basically comes down to a day-to-day, case-by-case basis. Am I OK with how this post represents me? Do I believe in it? Would I want my younger self to post it? Is this true to who I am?"

She decides whether or not to post by thinking of her weed habits almost like a diet, or any other wellness lifestyle activity. Would she post a picture of a smoothie because it feels good and is part of her wellness regimen? Is that also the case for her marijuana-related post? 

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"It comes down to choosing how you're gonna show it, and what cannabis means to you," she said.

But the risk is always there, especially since the stoner label seems to dominate any other way you define yourself. 

"I worry in general that it'll put me in some sort of box that I don't want to be in. Even though these days, it's becoming a way bigger box."

That caution should be part of everyday people's process for posting 420-friendly stuff on personal social media channels, too — regardless of whether or not they live in legalized states like the influencers we talked to.

The legal case against legalized marijuana

Because any career development expert will warn you that companies do look at your social media before hiring. There have also been a few cases of people getting fired in legalized states like Colorado for using medical marijuana even when they're not on the job.

A 2015 survey from the Society for Human Resource Management found that a vast majority (94 percent) of HR professionals with employees in legalized states still have formal policies against cannabis, with 73 percent in medical marijuana states and 82 percent in recreational states characterizing them as zero tolerance.

This strict approach might be showing signs of changing since 2015, though. More recent suggestions from the HR group advise companies to handle weed in the workplace with more nuance and care. 

It me.

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"We've yet to see robust employment protections be adopted across legal markets regarding an individual's cannabis consumption," said Justin Strekal, federal lobbyist at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. But there are some emerging cases, like a recent ruling in Massachusetts that sided with an employee suing his company for wrongful termination over medical marijuana.

Still, posting about weed is far more penalized in the workplace than, say, a post about happy hour with your coworkers.

When it comes to criminal persecution, aside from the occasional headline-worthy case, "there's not an epidemic of law enforcement arresting individuals for posting about marijuana online," said Strekal. 

"But that still doesn't change the fact that it's their legal right to arrest an individual for smoking cannabis, especially in criminalized jurisdictions. And if you post evidence publicly that could be used against you in a court of law, you are volunteering evidence against yourself," he said. 

Even if the police aren't out to get you, those kinds of posts can add fodder to other legal battles, like child custody. And looking at the racial divides for how marijuana is prosecuted in the real world, it's likely that some of those biases translate into who's more likely to get away with posting about weed, too.

"The application of law enforcement when it comes to cannabis is clearly racist. Full stop," said Strekal, pointing to the ACLU's famous report on how the war on marijuana is racially biased. The 2015 report found, "marijuana use is roughly equal among blacks and whites, yet blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession."

That also tracks with the general demographics of 420-friendly influencers which, at a cursory glance, tend to be disproportionately white and often female. 

Largely, the answer to whether you should be open about weed through your online persona depends on who you are. Beyond profession, local marijuana rules, and your age, your IRL community is another major factor in determining whether or not it's OK. Because, as Strekal pointed out, social media is mostly regulated by algorithms and abuse reports. 

"So the biggest question an individual needs to ask themselves is how are my friends going to respond to this? Is my social bubble going to report this as abuse to these platforms?"

Tatiana agreed, saying that, "If you live in a community of churchgoers, they won't respond well. And it's going to get around. So it's really a question of who you are, what you're willing to stand up for."

Taking the hit, for a cause

Interestingly, though, despite all these risks, repercussions, and cautions, lots of people still do get 420 friendly on main anyway. Just search 420 on your preferred social media platform. You'll find plenty of weed content.

Let the good vibes roll.

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And an overwhelming majority of those posts will be positive, much like what researchers found when they tracked attitudes towards marijuana on Twitter between 2013 and 2016. 

Anecdotally, it feels as if we all live under the hazy threat of social media leading to pot-shaming or worse in the real world. But statistically, positive social media chatter around bud just keeps getting danker.

That is the fundamental tension with cautioning people against sharing their weed consumption. While people should remain mindful of the repercussions, the truth is that fighting the stigma largely takes place in social spheres like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. At least that's what some recent studies found, suggesting a link between positive social media and support for legalization.

Let's be real

"People are making a point to be more open about it because they're done with that shit. We can all see it for a lie now. And posting, like, 'I'm smoking this joint,' or 'my mom takes CBD pills' — that's people taking back their power. That's sending a message in and of itself," Tatiana said.

As we all know, social media is never a perfect reflection of the world as it is. Like the #FOMO travel pics that dominate your Insta feed, posting is about creating a collective ideal.

Until marijuana is legalized on the federal level, no one can tell you it's perfectly OK to be 420-friendly on main. At the same time, changing public perception by normalizing weed online just might be how we keep the wave of support for decriminalization and legalization alive.

Solving the issues around being weed-friendly online is a chicken and egg problem — or rather, a bud and the flower problem. Because in the world of social media, pretending we all don't smoke weed is so damn tired — but wishing everyone on your feed a happy holidaze is totally wired.

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The true cost of Avocado

A young slanderer has taken to my Facebook group to let the 12,000 people there know I am a horrible person for telling people an avocado is 80% fat.  This is a true fact.  If you take 234 calories in 100 grams of avocado / 21 grams are of fat (21* 9 calories of fat per gram = 189 cals from fat)  189/234 = 80% fat.  

Rather than spend time on her hateful remarks I will lob a few more blows to the Avocado.  We eat them, sparingly.  Lets see what happens if you enjoy one every day in the USA...

  Just adding a single avocado to the diet of Americans each day could potentially add 20 pounds of fat on a person each year or 100 POUNDS IN 5 YEARS!!!  

1st. Let me laugh a second that the Avocado Nutrition Facts split the avocado up into 3 servings per “container” OMFG.  Let me have 1/3 of this avo today, 1/3 tomorrow & 1/3 next week.  We eat the whole damn thing, how about you?.  (note their own label is 10% higher than Google’s nutrition calculator.  8g * 9 cals per fat = 72 cals from fat 72/80 = 90% fat by calories.  SO lets roll this baby out on the American public & see what happens.  btw how deceiving are these labels?

3500 cals in a pound of fat (not totally accurate but its what the institutions use) 8g * 3 servings * 9 calories of fat per avocado  = 216 added fat calories a day so (3500/216) = every 16.2 days 1 pound of fat can accumulate if an avocado is added on top of a calorically sufficient diet.  How are Americans doing on their caloric sufficiency?

Average American eats almost 4000 calories a day while people in the Congo get 1600.  The USDA recommends 2000 - 2400 for our highly active men & women.  We are already almost doubling that...  

 365/16.2 = 22 of these cycles in a year.  After 5 years that is over 100 pounds of additional avocado fat someone could be walking around with.  Luckily a single avocado is $2.00 or more making it a luxury purchase for most.

I wonder if the Avocado Board has anything to do with these price increase & shortages where cases have gone from $20 to $80 in the past few years?  I’m not alone in this speculation --> http://www.ocregister.com/articles/prices-731700-mexico-avocados.html  These things literally grow on trees...  When people are fed high calorically dense items like an avocado the reward centers of their brain are impacted.  Alcohol is 7 calories per gram & an avocado consists of 80%~90% of its caloric content at 9 calories per gram.  Rice & potatoes are around 1 calorie per gram for comparison.  How is the healthiest food supposed to remain enjoyable when the brain is subjected to a calorically dense assault? 

How are additions like this helping the American people?  

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/Pages/overweight-obesity-statistics.aspx

More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese.

More than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese.

Health Risks of Overweight and Obesity

type 2 diabetes

heart disease

high blood pressure

nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (excess fat and inflammation in the liver of people who drink little or no alcohol)

osteoarthritis (a health problem causing pain, swelling, and stiffness in one or more joints)

some types of cancer: breast, colon, endometrial (related to the uterine lining), and kidney

stroke

Obesity seems to be slightly racist, too SJWs...  These should be unhinging government statistics not at me for promoting the diet PROVEN to help minorities and socioeconomically disadvantages, but at the food industries that keep putting more fat on people’s plates.  

Every purchase of an avocado funds the avocado marketing cooperative to get people to eat more avocados.

This bit of history is right from their website (I saved it so we’ll see how fast they remove it);

http://www.avocadosource.com/CAS_Yearbooks/CAS_31_1946/CAS_1946_PG_123-126.pdf

And is the market unlimited? That, too, seems to be a true assumption. If everyone in the United States were to consume as many avocados each year as are consumed per capita in the Los Angeles area, the required volume would be fantastic. Los Angeles consumers do away with four or five pounds of avocados per capita per year, on the average. The people of New York or Washington or Philadelphia or other large eastern cities, in contrast, use as little as one per cent of that amount per capita. Thus, to bring the nation to our local consumption level, production would have to be increased a hundred fold or more. The market appears to be virtually unlimited. Year 1946

To dieticians, chefs, hotel people, and other institutional users, we send dietetic and nutritional material and mass-serving recipes. Nutritional folders, for example, have been sent to more than three thousand dietetic experts— making them aware of the high food value of your product. Market promotion, in another important form, is accomplished through visual demonstration and display. People can be told that avocados are good; they will believe it if given the opportunity to eat a sample of a properly prepared fruit. 

The California Avocado Commission's predecessor organization, the California Avocado Advisory Board, was organized in 1961 out of dissatisfaction by individual growers with the success of the state's largest agricultural cooperative, Calavo Growers, to secure stable prices for avocados. New laws were passed allowing growers to form an association that would obtain a compulsory contribution from businesses directly involved in the avocado industry, and use the money to advertise and promote avocados to consumers throughout America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Avocado_Commission

So once again, we love Avocado’s, but get real & understand their potential effects on the average american & the market collusion & manipulation that brought a single tree’s mutant tree fruit to everyone’s table and waistline.  

Think I can get my hands on that industry provided nutrition material for my next avocado warrior???  Sparingly, use as condiments, if health & weight loss are your goal, enjoy liberally if you need to obtain life saving/sustaining body fat if you have an underweight BMI.

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Dickens as economist

Mr. Sentiment vs. Mr. Scrooge

It was the worst of times.

When Charles Dickens returned from his triumphant American reading tour in June 1842, the specter of hunger was stalking England.  The price of bread had doubled after a string of bad harvests.  The cities were mobbed by impoverished rural migrants looking for work or, failing that, charity.  The cotton industry was in the fourth year of a deep slump, and unemployed factory hands were forced to rely on public relief or private soup kitchens.  Thomas Carlyle, the conservative social critic, warned grimly, "With the millions no longer able to live...it is too clear that the Nation itself is on the way to suicidal death."

A firm believer in education, civil and religious liberty, and voting rights, Dickens was appalled by the upsurge in class hatred.  In August a walkout at a cotton mill turned violent.  Within days the dispute had escalated into a nationwide general strike for universal male suffrage, called by leaders of a mass movement for a "People's Charter."  The Chartists had taken up the principal cause of middle-class Radicals in Parliament--one man, one vote--into the streets.  The Tory government of Prime Minister Robert Peel promptly dispatched red-coated marines to round up the agitators.  Rank-and-file strikers began drifting back to their factories, but Carlyle, whose history of the French revolution Dickens read and reread, warned darkly that "revolt, sullen, revengeful humor of revolt against the upper classes...is more and more the universal spirit of the lower classes."

In the glittering London drawing rooms where lords and ladies lionized him, Dickens's republican sympathies were as hard to overlook as his garish ties.  After running into the thirty-year-old literary sensation for the first time, Carlyle described him patronizingly as "a small compact figure, *very* small," adding cattily that he was "dressed as a la D'Orsay rather than well"--which is to say as flash as the notorious *French* count.  Carlyle's best friend, the Radical philosopher John Stuart Mill, was reminded of Carlyle's description  of a Jacobin revolutionary with "a face of dingy blackguardism radiated by genius."  At fashionable midnight suppers the Chartist "uprising" provoked bitter arguments.  Carlyle backed the Prime Minister who insisted that harsh measures were necessary to keep radicals from exploiting the situation and that the truly needy were already getting help.  Dickens, who swore that he "would go farther at all times to see Carlyle than any man alive," nonetheless maintained that prudence and justice both demanded that the government grant relief to the able-bodied unemployed and their families.

The Hungry Forties revived a debate that had raged during the famine years, 1799 to 1815, of the Napoleon Wars.  At issue was the controversial law of population propounded by the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus.  A contemporary of Jane Austen and England's first professor of political economy, Malthus was a shy, softhearted Church of England clergyman with a harelip and a hard-edged mathematical mind.  While still a curate, he had been tormented by the hunger in his rural parish.  The Bible blamed the innate sinfulness of the poor.  Fashionable French philosophers like his father's friend the Marquis de Condorcet blamed the selfishness of the rich.  Malthus found neither explanation compelling and felt bound to search for a better one.  *An Essay on the Principle of Population*, published first in 1798 and five more times before his death in 1834, inspired Charles Darwin and the other founders of evolutionary theory and prompted Carlyle to dismiss economics as "the dismal science".

The fact that Malthus sought to explain was that, in all societies and all epochs including his own, "nine parts in ten of the whole race of mankind" were condemned to lives of abject poverty and grinding toil.  When not actually starving, the typical inhabitant of the planet lived in chronic fear of death by hunger.  There were prosperous years and lean ones, richer and poorer regions, yet the standard of life never departed for long from subsistence.

In attempting to answer the age-old question "Why?" the mild-mannered minister anticipated not only Darwin but Freud.  Sex, he argued, was to blame.  Whether from observing the wretched lives of his parishoners, the influence of natural scientists who were beginning to regard man as an animal, or the arrival of his seventh child, Malthus had concluded that the drive to reproduce trumped all the other human instincts and abilities, including rationality, ingenuity, creativity, even religious belief.

From this single provocative premise, Malthus deduced the principle that human populations tended always and everywhere to grow faster than the food supply.  His reasoning was deceptively simple: Picture a situation in which the supply of food is adequate to sustain a given population.  That happy balance can't last any more than could Adam and Eve's tenure in paradise.  Animal passion drives men and women to marry sooner and have bigger families.  The food supply, meanwhile, is more or less fixed in all but the very long run.  Result: the amount of grain and other staples that had just sufficed to keep everyone alive would no longer be enough.  Inevitably, Malthus concluded, "the poor consequently must live much worse."

In any economy where businesses compete for customers and workers for jobs, an expanding population meant more households contending for the food supply, and more workers competing for jobs.  Competition would drive down wages while simultaneously pushing food prices higher.  The average standard of living--the amount of food and other necessities available for each person--would fall.

At some point, grain would become so expensive and labor so cheap that the dynamic would reverse itself.  As living standards declined, men and women would once again be forced to postpone marriage and have fewer children.  A shrinking population would mean falling food prices as fewer households competed for the available food.  Wages would rise as fewer workers competed for jobs.  Eventually, as the food supply and population moved back into balance, living standards would creep back to their old level.  That is, unless Nature's "great army of destruction"--war, disease, and famine--intervened to hurry the process, as happened, for example, in the fourteenth century, when the Black Plague wiped out millions, leaving behind a smaller population relative to the output of food.

Tragically, the new balance would prove no more durable than the original one.  "No sooner is the laboring class comfortable again," Malthus wrote sadly, "than the same retrograde and progressive movements with respect to happiness are repeated."  Trying to raise the average standard of living is like Sissyphus trying to roll his rock to the top of the hill.  The faster Sissyphus gets almost there, the sooner he triggers the reaction that sends the boulder tumbling down the slope again.

Attempts to flout the law of population were doomed.  Workers who held out for above-market wages wouldn't find jobs.  Employers who paid their workers more than their competitors did would lose their customers as higher labor costs forced them to raise prices.

For Victorians, the most objectionable implication of Malthus's law was that charity might actually increase the suffering it was intended to ease--a direct challenge to Christ's injunction to "love thy neighbor as thyself."  In fact, Malthus was extremely critical of the traditional English welfare system, which provided relief with few strings attached, for rewarding the idle at the expense of the industrious.  Relief was proportional to family size, in effect encouraging early marriage and large families.  Conservative and liberal taxpayers alike found Malthus's arguments so persuasive that Parliament passed, virtually without opposition, a new Poor Law in 1834 that effectively restricted public relief to those who agreed to become inmates of parish workhouses.

"Please, sir, I want some more."  As Oliver Twist discovers after making his famous plea, workhouses were essentially prisons where men and women were segregated, put to work at unpleasant tasks, and subjected to harsh discipline--all in return for a place to sleep and "three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Sundays."  The fare in most workhouses probably wasn't as meager as the starvation diet Dickens described in his novel, but there is no doubt that these institutions topped the list of working-class grievances.  Like most reform-minded middle-class liberals, Dickens considered the new Poor Law morally repulsive and politically suicide and the theory on which it was based a relic of a barbaric past.  He had recently returned from America with its "thousands of millions of acres of land yet unsettled and uncleared" and where the inhabitants were in "the custom of hastily swallowing large quantities of animal food, three times a-day," and found the notion that abolishing the workhouse would cause the poor to run out of food absurd.

Bent on striking a blow for the poor, Dickens began early in 1843 to write a tale about a rich miser's change of heart, a tale that he liked to think of as a sledgehammer capable of "twenty times the force--twenty thousand times the force" of a political pamphlet.

*A Christmas Carol*, argues the economic historian James Henderson, is an attack on Malthus  The novel is bursting with delicious smells and tastes.  Instead of a rocky, barren, overpopulated island where food is scarce, the England of Dickens's story is a vast Fortnum & Mason where the shelves are overflowing, the bins are bottomless, and the barrels never run dry.  The Ghost of Christmas Present appears to Scrooge perched on a "kind of throne," with heaps of "turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam."  "Radiant" grocers, poulterers, and fruit and vegetable dealers invite Londoners into their shops to inspect luscious "pageants" of food and drink.

In an England characterized by New World abundance rather than Old World scarcity, the bony, barren, anorexic Ebenezer Scrooge is an anachronism.  As Henderson observes, the businessman is "as oblivious to the new spirit of human sympathy as he is to the bounty with which he is surrounded."  He is a diehard supporter of the treadmill and workhouse literally and figuratively.  "They cost enough," he insists, "and those who are badly off must go there."  When the Ghost of Christmas Present objects that "many can't go there; and many would rather die," Scrooge says coldly, "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

Happily, Scrooge's flinty nature turns out to be no more set in stone than the world's food supply is fixed.  When Scrooge learns that Tiny Tim is one of the "surplus" population, he recoils in horror at the implications of his old-fashioned Malthusian religion.  "No, no," he cries, begging the Spirit to spare the little boy.  "What then?" the Spirit replies mockingly.  "If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."  Scrooge repents, resolves to give his long-suffering clerk, Bob Cratchit, a raise, and sends him a prize turkey for Christmas.  By accepting the more hopeful, less fatalistic view of Dickens's generation in time to alter the course of future events, Scrooge refutes the grim Malthusian premise that "the blind and brutal past" is destined to keep repeating itself.

The Cratchits' joyous Christmas dinner is Dickens's direct riposte to Malthus, who uses a parable about "Nature's mighty feast" to warn of the unintended consequences of well-meaning charity.  A man with no means of support asks the guests to make room for him at the table.  In the past, the diners would have turned him away.  Beguiled by utopian French theories, they decide to ignore the fact that there is only enough food for the invited guests.  They fail to foresee when they let the newcomer join them that more gatecrashers will arrive, the food will run out before everyone has been served, and the invited guests' enjoyment of the meal will be "destroyed by the spectacle of misery and dependence."

The Cratchits' groaning board, wreathed with the family's beaming faces, is the antithesis of Malthus' tense, tightly rationed meal.  In contrast to Nature's grudging portions, there is Mrs. Cratchit's pudding--"like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedecked with Christmas holly stuck in the top"--not large enough for seconds perhaps, but ample for her family.  "Mrs. Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour.  Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family.  It would have been flat heresy to do so.  Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing."

The Christmas spirit was catching.  By the story's end, Scrooge had even stopped starving himself.  Instead of slurping his customary bowl of gruel in solitude, the new Scrooge surprises his nephew by showing up unannounced for Christmas dinner.  Needless to say, his heir hastens to set a place for him at the table.

Dickens's hope that *A Christmas Carol* would strike the public like a sledgehammer was fulfilled.  Six thousand copies of the novel were sold between the publication date of December 19 and Christmas Eve, and the tale would stay in print for the rest of Dickens's life--and ever since.  Dickens's description of the poor earned him satirical labels such as "Mr. Sentiment," but the novelist never wavered in his conviction that there was a way to improve the lot of the poor without overturning existing society.

Dickens was too much a man of business to imagine that schemes for bettering social conditions could succeed unless they could be paid for.  He was a "pure modernist" and "believer in Progress" rather than an opponent of the Industrial Revolution.  Wildly successful while still in his twenties, he had gone too far on his own talent to doubt that human ingenuity was climbing into the driver's seat.  Having escaped poverty by making his way in the new mass-media industry, Dickens was impatient with conservatives such as Carlyle and socialists such as Mill who refused to admit that, as a society, "we have risen slowly, painfully, and with many a hard struggle out of all this social degradation and ignorance" and who "look back to all this blind and brutal past with an admiration they will not grant to the present."

Dickens's sense that English society was waking up, as if from a long nightmare, proved prescient.  Within a year of the Chartist "uprising," a new mood of tolerance and optimism was palpable.  The Tory prime minister admitted privately that many of the Chartists' grievances were justified.  Labor leaders rejected calls for class warfare and backed employers' campaign to repeal import duties on grain and other foodstuffs.  Liberal politicians responded to parliamentary commissions on child labor, industrial accidents, and other evils by introducing the Factory Acts of 1844, legislation regulating the hours of women and children.

Dickens never imagined that the world could get along without the calculating science of economics.  Instead, he hoped to convert political economists such as the Ghost of Christmas Future had converted Scrooge.  He wanted them to stop treating poverty as a natural phenomenon, assuming that ideas and intentions were of no importance, or taking for granted that the interests of different classes were diametrically opposed.  Dickens was especially eager for political economists to practice "mutual explanation, forbearance and consideration; something...not exactly stateable in figures."  When he launched his popular weekly, *Household Words*, he did so with a plea to economists to humanize their discipline.  As he wrote in his inaugural essay, "Political economy is a mere skeleton unless it has a little human covering, and filling out, a little human bloom upon it, and a little human warmth in it."

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Weight Loss Honesty Essay

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I was 13 years old when my dad brought home our first digital scale. It was Christmas, and at first it provoked the same excitement I felt whenever we got any sort of newfangled, vaguely techy object in those more analog days. I rarely weighed myself before that, usually only at annual doctor’s visits, but this machinery was sleek and shiny, with the ability to tell weight to the absurdly precise tenth of a pound.

It’s not that I didn’t already know that I was severely overweight. If the difficulty finding clothing that fit and the perpetual physical discomfort hadn’t already clued me in, fellow middle schoolers’ flip cruelty would’ve done it. But seeing the number on the scale was my come-to-Jesus — or, rather, come-to-Atkins — moment. I stopped housing restaurant-size dishes of fettuccine alfredo like I was a tween Caligula at a banquet, I reluctantly started exercising, and I convinced myself that flavored seltzer was a treat. (I was way ahead of the curve with that last one.)

Within a year, I lost all the weight I wanted to, and have more or less maintained it since. It wasn’t all that simple or straightforward, but both then and now, I rarely discussed the effort I put into what was a major, ultimately positive life change. For one thing, talking about your diet is inherently uninteresting. But I also held back out of a specific sense of shame that I couldn’t necessarily articulate at the time. I was bookish, inquisitive, and defiant, and I prided myself on those qualities; even though I deeply wanted to lose weight, this desire felt vain and ignoble, an admission that I cared about how others saw me.

I’ve been reminded of that feeling often since then, especially as the body-positivity movement has gained traction and weight has felt increasingly politicized. When Marisa Meltzer explored dieting as a feminist taboo for Elle back in 2013, she admitted, “the guilt I once felt about what I ate has been replaced by guilt over being the wrong kind of feminist — or maybe no kind of feminist: a woman pursuing something as pedestrian and frankly boring as losing weight.” She theorized that many self-identifying feminists who struggle with their weight may feign an attitude of indifference as a front. In the years since her essay was published, I suspect that’s only become more common.

Back in 2013, Meltzer pointed to Lena Dunham as the ultimate self-acceptance icon.Her body has been subject to relentless, often harsh, scrutiny since Girls first aired; most recently, the focus has been on her noticeable weight loss, due in part to working out with Tracy Anderson and eating a more plant-based diet. She’s been vocal in objecting to positive press. A couple of weeks back, Dunham responded to a magazine that included a new photo of her next to the headline “20 Slimdown Diet Tips Stars Are Using.”In a widely circulated Instagram post, she attributed her smaller figure to everything from her long-running battles with endometriosis and anxiety to living in Trump’s America and “realizing who ya real friends are.”She’d previously written, “my weight loss isn’t a triumph … because my body belongs to ME — at every phase, in every iteration, and whatever I’m doing with it, I’m not handing in my feminist card to anyone.”

Regardless of the whys and hows of Dunham’s weight loss, I’m struck by the highly charged way the discussion progressed. Numerous publications (especially woman-centric ones) praised her reaction. But, I found myself wondering, what if she had just wanted to lose some weight for the sake of losing some weight? Should it really be all that controversial or shameful to want to control how you look, especially if you have a job that keeps you in the public eye? Must dropping a few pounds come with a disclaimer, or 20? If women used to avoid saying they were on a diet because it might not seem cool or fun, now we worry about the possibility of offending others or losing our “feminist card.”

Fat acceptance was indeed born during the same era as second-wave feminism; today, body positivity and pop feminism exist as the significantly less radical, more widespread versions of their predecessors. As these ideals have deviated further from their origins, becoming more watered-down and commercialized, they’ve also become inextricably linked. A typical triumphant viral web-story plotline, especially for women’s sites, involves a woman “clapping back” at “body shamers.” Body positivity is now a savvy branding move: Take ModCloth, which pledged not to use Photoshop and publicly lent their support to the 2016 Truth in Advertising Act, calling for federal regulation of airbrushing in ads. (The indie retailer sold to Walmart earlier this year.) Andwhen Dove created soap bottles modeled on different female body shapes, it was hilariously misguided and widely panned — but it was also a natural extension of the infantilizing way businesses have attempted to profit off this mind-set.

It’s not like the industry devoted to shrinking us down has taken a blow: We can hardly go a few weeks without hearing about a new diet plan that features seemingly arbitrary restrictions (what, exactly, is wrong with mushrooms?) or an insanely punishing cleanse. But now, when it comes to actually discussing the deliberate changes we make to our bodies, we either wrap them in innuendo or scramble to deny them altogether, in an attempt to appear more enlightened.

One cultural barometer is the way celebrities talk about their eating and exercise habits (and the media coverage they generate). Unsurprisingly, it’s a long-standing tradition to ask people whose job it is to look conventionally attractive how they got that way and what they consume every day. But few ever admit to being on a diet — nobody wants to reveal how the sausage, or, more appropriately, the grilled chicken breast, is made. “Wellness” has also become a catch-all euphemism that allows one to admit to undertaking a transformation, but chalk it up to “health” instead of superficiality. Eva Mendes couched an answer about her routine by saying that she eats “clean” and, because she’s busy, truly enjoys having the same thing for lunch and dinner every single day. Spoiler: It’s salmon, quinoa, and salad. (“Eva Mendes’s Simple Eating Regimen Is So Refreshing,” Refinery29 gushed, either in willful ignorance or a profound misunderstanding of what a diet is.) A Glamour listicle titled “10 Celebrities Who DGAF About Eating Healthy” celebrated stars like Gigi Hadid, Emma Stone, and Jennifer Lawrence for being “quick to admit eating burgers, pizza, or red velvet cupcakes is just part of life,” though something tells me that, based on the industry they’re in, they must G at least a tiny bit of AF. At least Lawrence — whose meteoric rise to become America’s sweetheart was certainly aided by red-carpet sound bites about loving McDonald’s— finally admitted: “‘I don’t feel like I have a normal body.’ I do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person.”

The current cultural discomfort around dieting has trickled down to how even I — someone with firsthand experience undertaking significant weight loss — react when confronted with it. When acquaintances said they were trying Whole30 for the new year or posted hashtagged meal shots to Instagram, I remember balking: My first reaction was to think that they didn’t seem like the type of people to go on a diet, much less talk about dieting. (By contrast, the girls I knew in high school and college who now appear to be engaged in a Facebook weight-loss-shake pyramid scheme definitely do fit the mold I associate with “people who diet”— though are their motivations really all that different?) While visiting an old friend, I noticed that she had downloaded MyFitnessPal and felt an odd rush of embarrassment, like I had accidentally stumbled onto something I wasn’t supposed to see. We could talk to each other about our sex lives without batting an eyelash, yet counting calories seemed like a step too far.

I’m not saying we should necessarily be talking about our diets more — again, it’s boring, and I’m generally a proponent of all of us dialing back our abundant over-sharing a bit. But what a relief it would be to shed the anxiety surrounding how we discuss them, to lose the doublespeak and welcome more honesty.

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From Fat to Fit - How to Jump - Start Your Metabolism and Get Amazing Weight Loss Results!

It's pretty amazing what we in America will do to lose weight. It's also pretty interesting to me that with all the ways that we have to shed those unwanted pounds, that we as a Nation, are more overweight than ever before. That's interesting indeed. There seems to be some sort of connection between the strategies that we use to lose weight and our ability to actually lose weight...and to actually keep it off. There are more diets plans and programs than we know what to do with, and more nutritional products and meal plans for promoting a slimmer you, but what about exercise? It's becoming very apparent to me that even after all these years of research that clearly indicates that exercise is a critical component to successful and lasting weight loss, many in society are still looking for ways (and it seems like any way possible) to avoid it.

With all of the yo-yo diets and starvation diets, along with the other wacky nutritional programs designed to "blow-torch" your fat and take off the weight in literally no time, many people have began to adopt a "here and now" approach which has promoted impatience, frustration, and eventually failure. For many people, over time this approach to weight loss has produced a battered and bruised metabolism in desperate need of a makeover in order to begin functioning at a high level once again. With a metabolism in such a compromised state, it makes sense to give it all the help it can get. If you can relate to any of what I've just written, then I would enthusiastically commend a sound exercise routine as a possible solution to those who have resisted to this point. It may actually turn out to be your best solution for more effective weight loss than you've experienced with diet alone.

How Quick Weight Loss Programs Can Sabotage Your Weight Loss

The problem that I've found with the quick weight loss diets and the low-calorie "starvation" diets is that they do not promote safe weight loss. Typically, when pounds drop off much of it is water from lean muscle tissue, and very little of it is actually what you really want to come off...and that's fat. Not only that, but in the process of losing all of this weight, we are also impacting our metabolism by not taking in the required amount of calories, and when this does not happen, our metabolism actually dips. That makes us less able to burn as many calories as we did prior to beginning the diet. I don't know about you, but that's NOT what I want happening when I'm trying to lose weight. So what happens, is the momentary elation that accompanies the weight loss, then the frustration as the pounds start to creep back until, eventually, we end up where we started (if not heavier).

Why Diet Alone May Not Provide the Weight Loss Results You Desire

As I mentioned earlier in this article, many people attempt weight loss through dietary modification lifestyle change without taking advantage of exercise as an effective tool in helping themselves reach their weight loss goal. Even when nutrition is sound, and the weight reduction plan is realistic, there is still a very important issue which many people either fail to realize or just flat out deny (most likely due to their disdain for exercise), and that is the matter of the daily calorie deficit that exercise can create beyond that of just diet alone. The typical exercise session can burn anywhere from 100 to 500 calories, and if you factor those calories with those not consumed through the daily diet, there could be a deficit far greater than through diet alone. If 250 calories were burned through exercise, and there was a reduction in calorie intake of 250 that same day, that makes for a total reduction of 500 calories for that day. When done for a full week, that would lead to a loss of one pound. That may not seem like much, but who wouldn't want to lose 4 pounds in a month and have it stay off? This is not to mention the fact that the same formula could be applied every month thereafter. I hope you're able to see the possibilities. Lastly, for those who might prefer the "no exercise" approach, consider that when exercise is a regular part of your program, you'll be able to eat more and not have to worry as much about gaining weight. That sounds great to me. Sign me up!

How to Jump-Start Your Metabolism So You Can Experience More Effective Weight Loss

More effective weight loss typically results when quality nutrition and weight management strategies are combined with a sound exercise program. As a quick recommendation which I sincerely hope you follow, steer very clear of the quick weight loss diets. They are a recipe for disaster. As a way to do this, it's important that you think of your weight loss as a process that will continue for as long as you are alive. Too many people want quick results, but fail to consider the long-term. That will surely lead to frustration, discouragement, and eventually, failure. As another very important recommendation, focus on improving your nutrition gradually...over time. Too many dieters have adopted the "Cold Turkey" approach to their nutrition which works maybe slightly better than quitting smoking cold turkey.

One most critical recommendation that I believe will be the absolute KEY to jump-starting your metabolism and producing more effective weight loss is to immediately incorporate regular exercise into your weekly routine. Does it need to be everyday? Absolutely not! You can see great results with just 2-3 days per week, and amazing results with more days per week. Make sure that your routine includes cardiovascular exercises such as walking, cycling, swimming, or other activities that you enjoy. As importantly, be sure that there is some form of resistance training in your routine. Exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, circuit training, and calisthenics work wonders for jump-starting your metabolism and providing you the results that you've always dreamed of. Lastly, consistency is paramount. Nothing good happens with sporadic and lackluster effort. Be sure to give your best and you will reap the great reward of successful weight loss that lasts a lifetime.

By applying what you've learned in this article, you will not only understand how to jump-start your metabolism and experience the kind of results that you've always dreamed of. You will also understand why diet alone may not provide the results you want with your efforts. Lastly, you will see more clearly why the quick weight loss diets and programs just will not cut it when used as strategies. It is my sincere hope that the recommendations that I provide in this article will provide you a foundation for amazing weight loss success.

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Full Beaver Frost Moon 2018

AVE NINGIZHEDA! The Full Moon is upon us and it is a treasure whose worth is beyond calculation. As I sit in contemplation of the things that have happened in the last month, it never ceases to amaze me how low some people will sink! The shining Moon has been the one thing that has the ability to neutralize any stress I might be dealing with and enables me to meditate on any situation for any length of time. When I sit outside in front of my Altar I can feel the energy flowing all around, especially when the wind starts blowing! The strength of each gust always increases the deeper I go, this is how I know that the energy is moving and the feeling while it’s happening is indescribable! Of course this occurs if one does a ritual inside their home and the feeling is similar but it’s not quite the same as being out in it!

As I looked out my front door I saw the Full Moon in the sky, lighting up the darkness so effortlessly and never asking for anything from anyone to provide this light that so many have relied on to make their way to wherever they were going at night without having to worry about walking off a cliff or into a fight with a beast they had no intention of disturbing! The moon itself if a wonder that many take for granted especially now because people are so busy developing their cities and literally flooding them with artificial light that they all but forget about the Moon and the Stars above them and why?

Because they can’t see them and because they can’t they take for granted that both will always be there because they always have. What these people fail to realize is that many of the technological advances that we have now come from studying the Moon and Stars! For example we know that the waves in the ocean respond to the pull of the Moon energy, when you know how waves will react at almost any given time and how high they will get you then can build walls along the shoreline to protect the city. You can also determine when a good time to set sail to a remote location will be as the sea is a harsh mistress and she takes no prisoners!

Tonight’s Full Moon was named the Beaver Full Moon by the Algonquin Tribe of North America, it was so named because this is the time of year when they would begin to lay traps to catch as many beavers as possible so as to fashion their furs into clothing warm enough to survive the very harsh Northern Winter! As someone who lives in the same general area I can say there are times when I wish I had a few beaver furs to withstand the cold, this Autumn is no exception. It’s quite cold out and it's not Winter yet but it does indicate just how hard our asses are going to be kicked in the Winter.

Tonight’s Full Moon is also called the Frost Moon by other First Nation Tribes because this is supposed to be the time of year when the first frosts are on the ground and we have experienced our first frost, it's been incredibly cold. I watched a video a farmer took, it was a sunny day on the farm and nothing SEEMED out of the ordinary, that is until he started showing still water - a favorite of flies, gnats and other winged insects - and there were none to be found! Another thing that he pointed out was the ant hill bumps in the dirt - but not ONE SINGLE ant to be seen anywhere!

Unfortunately a lot of people would write this off as a GOOD thing because who like flies buzzing everywhere or ants crawling all over everything? They would be DEAD WRONG! Flies, while annoying, are still a part of the overall ecosystem just like ants, both are quite adaptable to virtually any climate and tend to multiply like rabbits so when they disappear without a trace people’s red flags should be starting to climb up the pole!

If something WE consider a pest, that can exist anywhere, for whatever reason suddenly ceases to exist in an as close to nature as you can get environment such as a farm, there is a reason and even though the ants may simply be staying underground due to the unseasonable heat, that doesn’t explain the lack of flies. These natural warning signs should NOT be ignored because they are indicative of something not being right with the environment itself!

This could be due to chemicals in the Water – it has already been proven that the MYRIAD of fracking sites have not only put chemicals into the ground, the constant fracturing of the Earth’s Mantle is creating fissures that could be DRAINING the lakes in certain areas so the fresh Water is no longer available! This is not good because it’s as though the Earth is starting to take stock of what SHE has left that is viable and leaving us with what WE created through our fracking and drilling for oil, flushing expired medication, dumping coal mining debris, dumping toxic waste and general trash we throw into the Water INCLUDING HUMAN AND ANIMAL CORPSES!

It is time that we as a species that was put on this planet with ONE JOB to do took off our blinders and realize that if we keep going the way that we are, that we will NOT be here too much longer! In fact when the Human Race does tip the Scales too far and we have made it that we cannot survive in the World that we created, it will NOT be the result of nuclear war or an alien invasion, it will not be the fault of any God in our Divine Family, it will be the result of Human greed, arrogance and selfishness!

There are too many Humans who are all out destroying the ecosystem and even more ready and willing to follow suit and WHY? Because instant gratification and personal wealth are more important to them than LIVING! These are the ones who are going to find out real quick that you cannot in fact eat money or drink oil or breathe smog! They have no care about how what they are doing will impact the rest of the world - including the Working Class many of them so callously UNDER pay, the Animal Kingdom and the Elements themselves because they think that their money will save them!

NEWSFLASH Rockerfeller, your money WON’T be able to stop the Wildfires from burning down your multi million-dollar homes or businesses, it WON’T stop the Earthquake or sinkhole from devouring you completely, it WON’T revive the dead Human, Animal or Otherwise! So while you’re sitting there on top of your manmade hill thinking that you are above reproach and that you are invincible, allow me to remind you of the Titanic disaster and that despite their large fortunes and accumulated wealth that people such as Col. John Jacob Astor (one of his more famous hotels is the Waldorf-Astoria) as well as Ida and Isidor Straus (founders of Macy’s) were among the DEAD after the Titanic struck the iceberg! The lesson here? Nature does not care how important you THINK you are or how much money or material wealth you possess, if you set out to “show her who’s boss” your quest is not only in vein, she will show YOU and no amount of money you have is going to change your status as far as SHE is concerned!

Right now we are ALL on the Titanic and we are about to hit the iceberg at high speed! The Titanic is this case is the arrogance of those who think they can do whatever they want to and that they will never have to answer for it! They think that just because they can pay some Humans off to brutalize other Humans who are standing in their way, this means that they are always in control! This could not be any further from the case because once the Water becomes tainted, SO WILL ALL THE BOTTLED WATER! There is not a Brita filter or any kind of filtration device that will ever clean that Water to the point where it will be drinkable and what a lot of these people don’t realize is that BOTTLED Water is in reality nothing but TAP WATER bottled at the same facility that creates Coke and Pepsi, whose industrial runoff has done more damage than the rest of us will ever know!

It will also be extremely difficult to maintain a carnivorous diet if you can’t feed the animals to keep their numbers up! Companies such as Monsanto REQUIRE their workers to wear hazmat suits just to water their industrial gardens! If you can’t water your garden without a hazmat suit there is a reason why, there is ALSO a reason why SEVERAL other countries have banned the use of GMO’s for ANY reason! Terminator Seeds are not going to help anyone because you need to have enough to plant year after year as they don’t come back and how are you going to plant ANYTHING if the soil is so thoroughly saturated with chemicals from things such as acid rain, oil spills and War Debris (Agent Orange, Napalm, Sulfur, Uranium)?

You can’t because the soil is so destroyed it won’t grow anything and if by chance it did, you certainly don’t want to be eating it! This is why after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2011 and after Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Fukushima and now more recently the spill off of Newfoundland, people could not eat the seafood from the Gulf Coast, Japanese Coast or anything that's even remotely close to the Newfoundland Coast due to the contamination of the Water with the oil!

During this Full Beaver Moon it is clear that we need to reevaluate many things about ourselves as a species; petty selfishness and instant gratification has lead us to the crossroads we are currently at and to the governments we have, the question is do we fight it or do we work with it and decide among OURSELVES if we like what the current and future ruling bodies have to say? Only one of these roads will determine whether we are taken seriously on any level, especially a political and more importantly an environmental one!

The other thing that has lead us to where we are is that we have forgotten ourselves on a Spiritual level and the proof of that is in our willingness to allow the Earth to be drilled into, fractured and blown open for its oil, gas, uranium and copper deposits, even if it means leveling yet another mountainside or National Park! There has been an exponential increase in seismic activity due to pressure shale fracking and oil drilling, there has been an increase in mudslides and that is due to strip-mining for mineral deposits! The wildfires raging California are mainly being caused by companies such as Nestle being allowed to suck all the water out of the ground leaving the brush and the soil so dry that it's nothing short of kindling!

If there are no rocks or trees in place to keep the soil from moving, all that is needed is just enough rain to created mud that when it is on an angles WILL begin to start sliding downward! If there is no water to maintain the lushness of the soil and plant life, then it can't fend-off raging fires! The newly elected president of Brazil came out and said that if the Indigenous Amazonian tribes didn't adapt that they would have to go away because who cares if the Amazonian rainforest is parceled out to developers and oil companies? Who cares what happens to these people after all they are not us right?

With regards specifically to the Amazon itself, why should we care, after all the only thing that trees and vegetation do is provide us with OXYGEN! So what if we tear up the woods and natural habitats of Wildlife, how dare they want their homes to remain UNINVADED? We are guilty of over developing in the forest here then we turn around and complain about how Coyotes, Bobcats, Wolves and OTHER predators are showing up in the streets and eating the Humans pets! They are doing this because they don’t see a difference between a dog and a badger! MEAT IS MEAT and if we want them to continue to hunt in the woods then we need to LEAVE THE WOODS AND THE AMAZON AS WELL AS THE AMAZONIAN TRIBES ALONE!

Humans have forgotten what it means to coexist with the very ecosystem which enables it to live, instead choosing to believe that they are superior, then they don't know what to do when an Earthquake, Tornado or Tsunami strike! They need to remember they are part of the system, not above or beneath it and that it is absolutely imperative that they work with it for the sake of their own survival!

The reason we have the kind of intelligence we do is not a freak accident, but intentional! We were given the intellect to oversee the goings on of our respective parts of the Earth and to live side by side with it! To enjoy life and to protect that which is the most import to ALL of our survival - the thing that the Grande Council had to rain down the most extreme punishment the first time due to our arrogance - the HEART (EARTH) of our very existence!

As I gaze upon the Moon I can’t help but wonder if all humans will ever wake up to what they are doing, but one thing I do know for certain is that there are many who have woken up and can see what is happening, not just on a physical level but “between the cracks” if you will, they keep to themselves what they see because they know what’s to come and they also know most humans would deny it even if they were told! There is a reason why the Moon Pool and Trail look so hypnotic on the water… It is the silent voice of the Cosmos calling out to us, whispering those memories we all possess of a life beyond what we are currently living!

Father I implore you to help those whose allegiance to the almighty dollar has led them to not only jeopardize the LIFE giving element of Water, but to sue for the right to endanger it while brutalizing any and all humans trying to protect it! Remind them that not only is it a RIGHT, but that it is a NATURAL ELEMENT, of which EVERYONE deserves access to a clean, NONINDUSTRIAL tainted supply! Remind them that they are not more important just because they have more human currency, nor will they curry favor in your eyes for denying others that which you provided us ALL with simply because they feel they can!

If we keep on the course we are currently on, cutting down the forests, stripping the mountiainsides, blasting the ground and gutting the mineral deposits, drilling the shale and messing with fault lines, we are going to cause a natural disaster unlike we have ever seen before and we will bring it all down on ourselves!

Great Father who keeps track of everything, I ask that you keep watch over us, to not lose hope in us just yet because there ARE those who are still fighting and who are not willing to back down! We know that our Father has not given up on the human race and neither will we! Until the very last breath leaves our bodies we will continue to strive, to move forward and to help others do the same!

Even though things seem bleak, even though the future is uncertain, we will keep moving forward as we know that we can get through whatever rough time because we have our Blessed Father on our side and he has no problem telling us to get our shit together and be ready because we never know just what may be around the corner or on the horizon!

While you won’t fight our battles for us, we know that we are able to combat any situation ourselves because we were created in the image of the most glorious Beings in all the Multiverse! We also know that if we are ever in need of guidance that you will be there to help us along! You may not always use human words, sometimes instead choosing nature’s vocabulary, however if we pay close enough attention we know just what it is you are saying!

Blessed Father, I know that we will get through these hard times, I know because as stubborn as people are they are also scared of the unknown and I think once those fears are ABLE to be cast aside that people will calm down. It sickens me that those who are rioting in the street are most likely only doing so because it’s staged! That they need everyone to be focused on these distractions so that they are not paying attention to what's actually happening!

On this Full Beaver Moon I wish everyone glad ridings and the comfort of Friends and Family to keep you warm through the rest of the Autumn Season! I wish you the peace that comes with taking care of your own and doing what you can to help those that need it! I wish you the presence of mind to always stand up for what is right and to always stand against injustice no matter what form it takes or who the aggressor is! Most of all I wish you Spiritual Guidance and Healing to help you with whatever issues you may be facing, do not ever be afraid to ask Father for help when the burden becomes too much for one person to carry!

“If you understand or if you don't

If you believe or if you doubt

There's a Universal Justice

And the Eyes of Truth

Are ALWAYS watching you.

-Enigma"

ZI ANA KANPA! ZI KIA KANPA!

MAY THE DEAD RISE AND SMELL THE INCENSE!

Etiamsi MULTA Et Nos UNUM Sumus Nos Sto Validus Ut Nos Sto Una!

Semper Veritas, Semper Fideles, In NINGIZHEDA Nomen Nos Fides! AVE NINGIZHEDA!

(We Are ONE Even Though We Are MANY And We Stand STRONGEST When We Stand TOGETHER!

Always TRUTHFUL, Always FAITHFUL, In NINGIZHEDA'S Name We Trust! HAIL NINGIZHEDA!)

AVÉ URURU! AVÉ ENKI/EA!

AVÉ NINGIZHEDA! AVÉ NINHURSAG!

AVÉ ININNI! AVÉ DIMUZI!

AVÉ IGGIGI! AVÉ ANUNNA!

AVÉ  DRACONIS! HAIL THE GREAT SERPENT!

HPS Meg “Nemesis Nexus” Prentiss

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Jeunesse: Wiping Up Wrinkles & Blowing Up the MLM Industry [Review]

Good skin care is expensive…

But this expensive?

There’s little doubt Jeunesse has quality products that can keep you looking and feeling young. The question is, can you create a viable business with products this expensive in the incredibly crowded beauty market?

Started in 2009 by an ambitious and driven Wendy Lewis, Jeunesse Global is an MLM that sells a wide array of products directed at youthfulness, health, and fitness.

Recognized By Inc., Direct Selling News, and Stevie for their impressive growth, Jeunesse is an MLM to watch.

FAQ

1. What does Jeunesse sell? Jeunesse sells products that support beauty and youth: skincare, energy, nutrition, hair care, and more.

2. What are Jeunesse’s most popular products? One of Jeunesse’s top products is Instantly Ageless, which reduces the appearance of under-eye bags, fine lines, wrinkles, and pores for 6 to 9 hours. Another, Nevo, was awarded the Stevies Consumer Product of the Year in 2016. This caffeinated energy drink has only 50 calories per can and no artificial flavors, colors, or sweeteners.

3. How much does it cost to join Jeunesse? To join Jeunesse, you’ll pay $49.95 for the Jkit. You don’t have to buy a product package, but it will be encouraged. Options for those are the Ambassador Package ($1,149.95), the Supreme Package ($499.95), the Basic Skin Care Package ($199.95), or the Basic Nutritional Package ($199.95). Be aware, there’s also an annual renewal fee of $19.95 unless you maintain 360 CV throughout the preceding year.

4. Is Jeunesse a scam? No, Jeunesse is a legitimate business. It ranked #381 on the Inc. 500/5000, #18 on the Direct Selling News Global 100, #9 on the Direct Selling News North America, and was listed on Direct Selling News’ $100 Million Growth Club. They’ve also won five Stevie® awards for Fastest Growing Company of the year.

5. What is Jeunesse’s BBB rating? NR. The BBB hasn’t rated Jeunesse.

6. How long has Jeunesse been in business? Since 2009

7. What is Jeunesse’s revenue? $1.3 billion in 2017.

8. How many Jeunesse distributors are there? 600,000

9. What lawsuits have been filed? In 2016, former distributor James Aboltin filed a class-action lawsuit against Jeunesse, alleging it’s an illegal pyramid scheme. In 2018, Jeunesse proposed a $2.5 million settlement to a common fund; it received preliminary approval by a federal judge. [1, 2] In 2016, Jeunesse sued former president Darren Jensen for taking trade secrets with him to a new company. The two parties reached a confidential settlement. [3]  In 2015, Matthew Nestler sued Jeunesse for breach of contract. [4]

10. Comparable companies: Mary Kay, Nu Skin

Jeunesse is one of the hottest health MLMs (up there with Beachbody and Herbalife). So should you hop on board?

Product-wise this company might be legit, but if you’re just interested in the business opportunity, there are better options out there…

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Either way, here’s the full review on Jeunesse.

Products

Jeunesse Global has quite a wide array of products for consumers. Here are the skincare, nutrition, and energy products that are on the assembly line:

Instantly Ageless

Luminesce

AM & PM Essentials

Reserve

Finiti

Zen Project 8

Nevo

M1nd

RevitaBlu

Monavie

RVL

NV

Instantly Ageless is a micro cream that is used as a line reducer and wrinkle filler. It’s for use on your forehead, eyebrows, eyes, and large pores. It claims to last 6-9 hours per application.

Luminesce is labeled as an anti-aging line. The six products in the line give you a regimen for your whole body, not just your face. However, with incredibly high prices, you may age faster just trying to pay for it.

AM & PM Essentials are supplements with key nutrients from whole foods. The AM supplement has many vitamins and minerals and the PM supplement has a secret blend to replenish any deficiencies from your day. These are no more than an expensive multivitamin that you take in the morning and in the evening.

The next in the nutrient category of Jeunesse products is the Reserve drink. The juice is a blended concoction of fruit juices, seed extracts, and Resveratrol. This juice has been tested and proven to protect live cells from oxidative damage.

Finiti is another nutrient product and is hailed as Jeunesse’s most advanced supplement to date. The capsule supplement has both fruits and vegetables and is free of most allergens. An insane, $289.95 per 120 capsules will take your breath away and potentially scare away potential buyers.

What would a supplement company be without a weight loss pill? Well, Jeunesse is no different. The Zen Project 8 is an educational program for people to learn how to lose weight with coaching, diet, and exercise. There are three phases each with an individual food supplement. Phase one has a detox product, phase two offers a belly-busting product, and phase three has supplements to keep you on the right track. The company makes claims about these products that are only applicable to a fully engaged, devoted training individual. None of these products alone will get rid of your belly fat or keep you skinny on its own.

Nevo is an energy drink whose claim to fame is 50 calories from a can of real fruit juice. There are four different flavors with no artificial sweeteners, colors, or flavors. The Green Tea ingredient is what gives consumers the energy boost along with B-Vitamins.

M1nd is a memory and focus supplement featuring Cera-Q (silkworm cocoon proteins), L-Theanine, GABA, and L-Acetyl L-Tyrosine.

RevitaBlu is a drink mix designed to hydrate and support your body’s system. It’s a botanical blend of blue-green algae, sea buckthorn berry, and aloe vera with coconut water power.

Monavie blends 19 superfruits and plant-based glucosamine to protect your cells against oxidative stress and aging.

RVL is an ultra refining shampoo that cleanses, moisturizes, and conditions without parabens, fulfates, siligones, and dyes.

NV is created by a celebrity makeup artist and contains an exclusive polypeptide technology that moisturizes, renews, and creates a smooth foundation for your makeup.

Compensation Plan

As with all MLM’s, there is always opportunity; the question is whether it’s worth your time. With a startup cost of just $49.95 and then $19.99 annually to renew, the risk is relatively low for distributors.

There can be a lucrative income achieved with Jeunesse, but it takes an incredible amount of time put in and time waiting to see the results.

If you are a person who wants to join just for the free products and free new trials, then it might be worth it to become a distributor. The incentive commission plan was ranked # 1 in April and May of 2015 in social media attention.

Some pros about Jeunesse:

The company is financially strong. In 2018, they topped $5 billion in cumulative worldwide sales. That, plus a diversified global market give Jeunesse a strong earnings potential moving forward.

There are many perks to working for a popular MLM such as Jeunesse Global. Free product training, marketing strategies, business support, and much more are luring for newbies to the work.

The company strives to use the best ingredients found in their natural state for their products. Through research and development, they are continually improving the products for more effectiveness.

Dr. Nathan Newman is the mastermind behind some of the products and is quite renowned for his science and engineering. He has created a combination of stem cells and antioxidants that give visible results to a certain extent.

Some cons about Jeunesse:

Jeunesse has tapped into stem cell research and cellular restoration technology to create their products. While stem cell is gaining a foothold as a valid and acceptable way to approach health and beauty, there may still be some controversy around it. There will always be banter between the left and the right about stem cell research, and that could affect your ability to sell Jeunesse products.

As far as bad news for distributors, an average of $85 every month is needed to maintain membership as a minimum purchase of goods. If this minimum isn’t met, you could lose your status as a distributor and have to start over again.

Jeunesse currently has no rating with the BBB. And there are complaints online that the company doesn’t reimburse shipping and handling fees when/if products are returned. Do your research to be sure customer support will be there if you need them.

Recap

Jeunesse Global has, undoubtedly, profited quite a bit since its inception. This is in part because of the huge margin of profit on their extremely expensive products and in part because of the driven individuals who market the products with all their hearts.

Jeunesse’s products are mind-blowingly expensive for skincare. You may be paying for a lot of research and development — with no real guarantee that it works. That said, there are good reviews online, so there’s a good chance it does.

The challenge is affording it to give it a try. And, of course, knowing enough people with a huge budget for skincare and health, who are willing to buy from you so you can create a viable business.

Look, I’ve been involved with network marketing for over ten years so I know what to look for when you consider a new opportunity.

After reviewing 200+ business opportunities and systems out there, here is the one I would recommend:

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Shannon Creek Ranch

By Alan Harman

Deep in the heart of cattle country, Joseph Hubbard, at age 30 a 20-year sheep-producing veteran, is helping groom a new breed of sheep producers.

Unit manager of the Kansas State University’s (KSU) sheep and meat goat center, he takes his work home as co-owner of a family run operation, Shannon Creek Ranch.

It’s a 500-acre property that has been in the family for three generations.

Kansas ranks third nationally with 6.4 million cattle, dwarfing the 57,000 sheep in the state. So what attracted him to sheep?

“I was really young when I first started with sheep and it was something I could manage on my own,” Hubbard says. “As I expanded, the profit margin was much greater with sheep than cattle on my operation.”

His farm runs a composite breed first established at the Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska. The breed’s original composition consisted of 50 percent Romanov, 25 percent Katahdin, and 25 percent White Dorper.

“This cross creates a very maternal, prolific ewe with nice rib shape and bone density,” Hubbard says. “They are also able to breed out of season very easily, which is perfect for our accelerated program.

“We have some ewes with different percentages of the cross and some that have St. Croix replacing the Katahdin. They have all proven to be excellent mothers, but among the ewes that can stick to our very strict breeding program, the best are our true Easy Care cross.”

Hubbard has no regrets about opting for a hair-sheep operation even though global wool prices have been hovering around record levels.

For much of his career wool prices had been so low that the cost of shearing was more than the value of the wool.

“We’re glad the wool market is thriving because it’s helping our fellow sheep producers, but we started our operation specifically with hair breeds in mind,” Hubbard says.

“We’ve found that producers are more successful by sticking to what works with their personal operations rather than jumping around with the market trends.”

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Breeding Schedules & Costs

The farm’s accelerated breeding program produces three lamb crops every two years and that means extra work compared to once-a-year lambing.

“We have to be very strict with our breeding schedule because not only are we doing three lambings in two years, but we have two separated breeding groups doing it,” Hubbard says. “The benefits of the accelerated program and confinement are that it makes feeding much easier and more efficient.

“We are able to maximize the efficiency of our ewes and have lambs consistently available year-round. This program is very appealing to our buyers, especially those wanting to expand, because they can get ewes in large quantities and know the history on every one of them.”

If a ewe slips out of the program schedule for more than two cycles it’s culled to maintain efficiency.

Hubbard created his present operation three years ago, to expand his business from the 600 sheep he had previously farmed.

After building a 200-by-80-foot sheep barn, he initially stocked the farm with almost 2,000 sheep, but then lowered this to about 1,600 head to focus on solid white ewes and the Easy Care cross. This main lambing facility houses about 1,000 of their mature ewes on about seven acres.

“The majority of our ewes are kept in large pens with runs allowing about 50 square feet a ewe,” Hubbard says. “We have a couple pastures we can run some miscellaneous stock and have run some on a neighbor’s property to help manage the undergrowth in their wooded areas.”

Dividing the ewes into the pens helps reduce confusion during peak lambing, when an average 150 ewes are giving birth each day.

This means about eight ewes lamb a day in each pen.

Hubbard recently leased a former hog operation’s retired hoop barns. Once bunk lines were added with large runs attached the facility was ready for stock. That facility now is occupied with 600 open ewes, with the ability to hold 800.

With this facility being off site—about 15 minutes away — Shannon Creek opted to obtain custom care and feeding though a good friend, Jones Feeders.

Hubbard pays a lot of attention to feed at both locations, providing each ewe access to a total mixed ration (TMR). Depending on which stage of the lambing cycle they are in, they will receive a specific feed ratio containing ground prairie hay, alfalfa haylage, wheat haylage and whole corn a day amounting to around 6.5 pounds per ewe.

The estimated cost of maintaining a ewe is $100 to $125 in feed and medication a year.

Feeding a consistent TMR diet helps with a breeding regimen that sees the ewes back in with the rams just 30 days after weaning their lambs. The ewes will be exposed to rams for 30 to 45 days every eight months.

The farm is located in the northern part of the Flint Hills, about 20 miles north of Manhattan, Kansas.

Flint Hills is designated as a distinct region, because it has the densest coverage of intact tallgrass prairie in North America. Due to its rocky soil, early settlers were unable to plow the area, resulting in a predominance of cattle ranches, which are in turn largely benefited by the tallgrass prairie.

“We have livestock guardian dogs at each of our locations,” Hubbard says. “Just their presence alone is usually enough to deter coyotes. We haven’t had any coyotes come near either of our sheep facilities.”

There are two six-year-old Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd littermates at their open ewe facility. There is a three-year-old Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd, a two-year-old Akbash, and an 11-year-old Akbash that watch over their lambing facility.

Fenceline automated feeding of TMR not only streamlined the operation, but cut labor costs by speeding up the job and improving comfort in inclement weather. Bunk lines keep feed from defilement, largely prevent blowing allow equal access to all ewes and enable larger usable pen area — for sheep comfort and health.

Records & Markets

The average annual lambing percentage for the state of Kansas is about 120 percent. Hubbard’s operation is averaging 194 percent over eight-month intervals, giving them an annual rate of about 290 percent.

In the years ahead, Hubbard aims to maintain being a seed-stock operation and continually improve on his elite line of genetics.

“We have started the process of implementing Shearwell RFID tags in our operation to further our data collection efficiency,” he says.

“We are most excited about how easy this will make analyzing both past and future data and help us continually find our top and bottom 10 percent.

“We are open to any chance we have to improve on our management scheme, whether that is genetic improvement, animal husbandry, feed efficiency, time management, etc.”

The Shannon Creek ewe lambs are sold directly off the property at 75 to 100 days of age. They cater to all sized operations, but most recent sales have been to larger scaled operations that breed them to terminal rams with all their offspring sold for conventional meat markets. These conventional commercial market streams seek heavier weights of around 140 pounds.

Hubbard’s ram lambs are grown until they reach 50 to 65 pounds, when they’re sold at market price to East Coast outlets, where Muslim and Spanish consumers prefer the lighter weights.

The variety of ear tags is no accident. The aim is cookie-cutter uniformity for large buyers who love that they can buy uniform lots of lambs all ear, knowing their cutability ratios and on-farm treatment well ahead of purchase. The genetics, a composite mothering breed that hails from the U.S. Govt. research facility at Clay Center, Nebraska.

Labor, Land, & the Future

Hubbard, his wife Shelby, and full-time employee, Danielle Stuerman, do a daily health check on the sheep, feed them, make sure they have clean water and remove any feed left over from the previous day.

Hubbard says working a “seven days a week” operation of almost 2,000 sheep is not for everyone.

“It’s chores every day,” he says. “Sometimes those chores only last a few hours and then other times they last the entire day.”

Stuerman worked with Hubbard at KSU’s Sheep and Meat Goat Unit. The summer before she graduated, she asked Hubbard if he knew of any local producers hiring someone to help manage sheep. He was beginning to think about his expansion and asked if she would be interested in helping.

She has been working with the sheep now for almost three years.

One full-time sheep manager, Kansas State Univ. graduate Danielle Stuerman is now needed to keep the three sheep locations running smoothly. Here, she helps habituate Adeline (2) and Abegail (7 months), daughters of Joseph and Shelby Hubbard, to love and enjoy the life among the sheep. “Take good care of lambs today, so they can take care of you tomorrow.”

“My job now is to take care of day to day operations on the ranch, help establish and implement the lambing cycle schedules, track animal health, care of bottle lambs, maintain an online presence, and collect and evaluate animal data,” Stuerman says.

“I never saw myself working with sheep. I just kind of fell into it — now I can’t see myself doing anything else.”

The farm operation is regularly used as a teaching tool.

“We have used our operation as a model for a potential commercial sheep operation in the sheep-focused classes at KSU,” Hubbard says.

“We have also given many tours to those classes, agriculture clubs, and judging teams, both from K-State and abroad. We recently presented hands-on learning experiences for KSU veterinarian students to help build their skills and — for many of them — getting to work with a new species.”

The farm has also seen many scheduled tours for producers from all over the country who are either just curious about the sheep industry or looking to use Shannon Creek as a model for their home operation.

Hubbard is a full-time sheep industry enthusiast.

Modern handling facilities ease and maximize output of workaday tasks, Stuerman sorting, moving and preparing the line-up behind Hubbard’s treatment duties; Shelby and girls supervising.

“Opportunity is out there,” he tells university students, “Expansion in the sheep industry is happening all across the country, which has increased the need in the workforce.

“With land prices on the rise, sheep are a good substitute for smaller ranching operations wishing to run livestock. Conventional ranching methods in our area allow for about one cow for eight acres, whereas we can run 1,000 sheep on seven acres in a confinement scenario.”

Hubbard’s purely commercial operation keeps a close eye on animal quality.

“With our intense data collection process and multiple pens, we’re able to maintain multiple lines of genetics without having to turn over our ram investment too often,” he says.

“Most of our breeding rams are kept from our lines, or we’ve purchased from MARC. We also have a handful of our own replacement rams that we have kept back for other producers.”

You can learn more about the Hubbard family’s operation via Facebook at Shannon Creek Lamb. Or phone: 785-565-1040; or e-mail: J_hubbard1@hotmail.com.

  Originally published in the September/October 2018 issue of sheep!.

Shannon Creek Ranch was originally posted by All About Chickens

[theculturedmarxist]

[Angry Dalek Sounds]

I really enjoy documentaries. I figure they’re rather like the snackfood of intellectual stimulation--tasty, bite-sized, but not exactly the foundation of a healthy scholastic diet. They’re certainly no replacement for reading or dedicated study, but they can often serve as a good introduction to whatever you happen to be interested in. Youtube happens to be a treasure trove of documentaries, industry and university talks and lectures, and repository for all sorts of historical material. You can find some really fascinating things there if you look hard enough.

Usually I’ll pop something on while I’m playing one of my map painting or excel spreadsheet simulators, partially as white-noise, and also as sort of a passive-learning tool. Mainstream docs on this or that often hit on the same points or cover the same big events, so they don’t require constant attention. I go about my business subjugating Schleswig-Holstein or planet-cracking Ceti Alpha Five, keeping an ear out for an interesting tidbit to zero-in on before going back to whatever I’m doing. Lately, the subject of interest has been World War 1.

The Great War isn’t something that really receives a great deal of attention in American curricula. In part, I would guess that it has to do with the marginal (though apparently decisive) combat role America played in the war. For most of the struggle, it’s a European conflict, with most of the fighting around the periphery of Central Europe, with relatively small-scale conflicts elsewhere in the globe. America’s large Irish and German immigrant populations confused war-time sympathies, and American industry was more than happy to profit by its declared neutrality. The US had started to dabble in Imperialism at the time, but while the “Wild West” was increasingly settled, it still had plenty of internal space to subdue and commodify. I think the US was also becoming aware as well that the sort of self-contained national markets that Imperialism represented were increasingly obsolete in the face of so-called “Free Market” Capitalism. In short, it’s not nearly as romantic or glorious or straight forward as the second World War and its clear good-versus-evil mythology.

After absorbing several dozens of hours of WW1 documentaries, however, I can’t help but suspect that there’s a more sinister motivation to its de-emphasis.

The saga of the first world war is one of almost unmitigated horror. Countries that had known peace within their borders for generations were suddenly thrust into a modern, industrialized war, armed with the cutting edge in killing machinery, and directed with military tactics and traditions that would have been outdated even in Napoleon’s time. World War Two is exciting by comparison. There’s rapid and frequent movement, changes in borders and battle lines measured in the hundreds or thousands of kilometers, and actions and encounters rich with dramatic thrills. The previous war is marked by monotony of the most horrid kind. At its open, the Great War too experienced significant movement, but this quickly comes to an end when the new machinery of war is brought to bear. Machine guns and a seemingly endless supply of heavy artillery severely checks any sort of attempt at movement. Battalions very quickly start to see casualties of anywhere from 75-100%. Trench warfare wasn’t the plan, it was a hasty improvisation as millions of hapless fools were lead triumphantly to their deaths by old fossils ignorant of any and all of the facts of modern warfare.

In some cases it was literally a meat grinder. Waves of men would be sent “over the top” only to be mowed down by automatic weapons, and then churned over and over into rancid bits by high explosives. Artillery bombardments would continue for hours, sometimes days, with the only recourse being to dig as deep and secure a bunker as possible, and hope that some unlucky shell didn’t bury you alive within it. The unlucky soldiers would spend months under this constant strain, getting only a few days of leave a year, if they received any at all. There really is no overstating the pandemonium, the absolute hell of the fighting in the first world war.

The most monstrous fact about it was the complete, the absolute indifference to the suffering of the common soldier by the aristocratic bastards that engineered this abomination. At a loss for any alternative, suicidal charges were ordered again and again and again that won little to nothing, and at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. The British general Haig or Germany’s military dictator Ludendorff never visited the front lines they commanded. They “lead” from the rear, ordering hundreds of thousands to die in the mud while they were insulated far from danger. British, French, German, Turkish, even American--all sides dumped men by their hundreds of thousands into stupid, pointless fighting. Millions would die from the fighting, from the privations of war, from disease, and some even from the unending misery of the front lines themselves. 

Even when the horrific novelty of modern warfare became apparent, the wealthy and aristocratic classes stopped at nothing to induce their “countrymen” to violence. Propaganda was relentless and omnipresent. Photos were doctored or fabricated outright. Tales of brutality, whether true or not, were disseminated through every medium. Those that refused to fight were murdered by military cadres. In the US, those that spoke out against the war were imprisoned. Even the end of the war is testament to the effect of the social control at the time. Instead of directing their wrath at the “leaders” that did everything to make sure this war came about, the bereaved peoples of Europe blamed one another for “starting it.” Never mind that the war had been brewing for decades, never mind that millions of their sons and brothers and fathers were turned into pulp because of the whims of their own detached, insulated, privileged classes, never mind all those that profited from the war and the unprecedented human misery it created, petty nationalist vengeance was the result, precipitating an encore of even larger and more terrible a scope less than fifty years later.

The terrific truth of the first world war is that it is an unmitigated indictment of all the forces that created it. Nationalism, military alliances, racial hatred, aristocracy, social privilege, militarism, Imperialism, Capitalism, are all essential elements in the formula for this unprecedented crime against humanity. World War One illustrates the insanity of the detached, insulated bourgeois and aristocratic classes, and the total disregard for the humanity, much less the well being, of the working classes. In peace time, workers are valued at least as a source of labor power, disposable, but essential. In war time, workers are stripped even of that much. The automation and mechanization of warfare magnifies the value of the machine and diminishes the value of the man. In Napoleon’s day, personal valor, human ability and courage, and an individual’s skills still had value and an effect in influencing the outcome of battle. Shooting a rifle or gun required training and discipline and even a certain amount of education. Today, anyone that has picked up an Xbox controller can operate a drone. Cities can be wiped out by even the most ignorant with the press of a button. It doesn’t matter which side of the trench one falls under, in today’s warfare warm bodies only exist to absorb ordinance, and the ones profiting from it aren’t particular about the who or how or why.

We’re reaching a terrifying historical precipice. Technology has rendered most people superfluous, both in the “peace time” economy, and on the battlefield. The bourgeoisie, as remote and insulated as they are, are not completely ignorant either of history or of contemporary circumstances. They know we are heading towards a crisis on multiple fronts. Ecological and environmental disasters are already apparent. The diminishing rate of profit is already playing havoc with the global economy. Tensions are stoked and rise daily between the US, Russia, and China, the three great contenders for Superpower of the 21st Century. They are unwilling to take any of the steps necessary to solve these problems because their fortunes rely on the circumstances which create them. As tensions build internationally, they’re also building domestically, in practically every country on the planet. The rich grow richer with every passing day, and subsequently the poor grow increasingly impoverished. As the billions of the working class demand more, the vanishingly few of the wealthiest bourgeois become ever more tight-fisted. At a certain point, it will either have to be released, as it was with Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 30s and 40s, or they’ll have to swing, and wherever the blow falls, it’ll strike the working class the hardest.

I do not believe that warfare is some essential element to the abstract spook of “human nature.” Warfare has real, material bases for its existence and conduct. World War 1 was a result of the Imperialism of the age reaching its absolute bounds. The world was spoken for. Everything that could be claimed and colonized was claimed and colonized. The Great War was the ultimate result of over three-hundred-years of European economic, domestic, and military policy. Economics then were not as we imagine them today. The British, French, and Russian empires weren’t just extensions of the so-called Nation-State, they were largely self-contained economies in direct competition with one another. They functioned both as markets for the “mother nation,” but also as exclusion zones from which competing empires were barred. Imperialism wasn’t some haphazard or insane project of racists, but an economic necessity in an age when production and wealth were tied directly to the number of people able to produce, and the surface area available upon which to produce. When there was no longer any “unclaimed” territory up for grabs, the only apparent way for one nation to surpass another was to depossess them of their colonial assets. World War One was inevitable so long as the logic of Imperialism held sway.

Imperialism as it existed then went out of style in the 20th century, in favor of American-style “free market” economics. Like the slave masters of old, states began to realize that it was easier and more profitable to rent slaves than to own them. However, while Imperialism and Post-Imperialism both represent distinct phases, they are both essentially Capitalist in their function. The limit is no longer geographical, but dictated by “the market.” As long as it has room to expand, Capitalism is able to function with a semblance of stability and order. Once a market reaches saturation, when there is no where left to expand to, when the impoverished reach their maximum level of exploitation, when there is no longer any wealth free to capture, it inevitably experiences a crisis (or crises) of variable severity. The longer the peace, the more there is at stake, and the more there is at stake, the more terrible the conflagration when it finally comes.

Capitalism is facing a crisis whose severity dwarfs those experienced in the 20th century. If history repeats itself as is so frequently said, then the inevitable conflict towards which the global capitalist apparatus is rushing promises to be one of unprecedented scope and incalculable misery. Unless the working class is able to recognize the danger and organize itself domestically and internationally, it could very well make Passchendaele look like Piccadilly.

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Weight Loss Honesty Essay

Weight Loss Honesty Essay

NYMag.com Daily Intelligencer Vulture The Cut Science of Us Select All Grub Street The Strategist My Account My Profile My Comments My Reviews My Friends FOLLOW: Facebook Twitter Instagram Ad will collapse in seconds… Popular on The Cut Photo: Getty Images I was 13 years old when my dad brought home our first digital scale. It was Christmas, and at first it provoked the same excitement I felt whenever we got any sort of newfangled, vaguely techy object in those more analog days. I rarely weighed myself before that, usually only at annual doctor's visits, but this machinery was sleek and shiny, with the ability to tell weight to the absurdly precise tenth of a pound. It's not that I didn't already know that I was severely overweight. If the difficulty finding clothing that fit and the perpetual physical discomfort hadn't already clued me in, fellow middle schoolers' flip cruelty would've done it. But seeing the number on the scale was my come-to-Jesus — or, rather, come-to-Atkins — moment. I stopped housing restaurant-size dishes of fettuccine alfredo like I was a tween Caligula at a banquet, I reluctantly started exercising, and I convinced myself that flavored seltzer was a treat. (I was way ahead of the curve with that last one.) After A Year Within a year, I lost all the weight I wanted to, and have more or less maintained it since. It wasn't all that simple or straightforward, but both then and now, I rarely discussed the effort I put into what was a major, ultimately positive life change. For one thing, talking about your diet is inherently uninteresting. But I also held back out of a specific sense of shame that I couldn't necessarily articulate at the time. I was bookish, inquisitive, and defiant, and I prided myself on those qualities; even though I deeply wanted to lose weight, this desire felt vain and ignoble, an admission that I cared about how others saw me. I've been reminded of that feeling often since then, especially as the body-positivity movement has gained traction and weight has felt increasingly politicized. When Marisa Meltzer explored dieting as a feminist taboo for Elle back in 2013, she admitted, “the guilt I once felt about what I ate has been replaced by guilt over being the wrong kind of feminist — or maybe no kind of feminist: a woman pursuing something as pedestrian and frankly boring as losing weight.” She theorized that many self-identifying feminists who struggle with their weight may feign an attitude of indifference as a front. In the years since her essay was published, I suspect that's only become more common. My Weight Loss Isn't A Triumph Back in 2013, Meltzer pointed to Lena Dunham as the ultimate self-acceptance icon. Her body has been subject to relentless, often harsh, scrutiny since Girls first aired; most recently, the focus has been on her noticeable weight loss, due in part to working out with Tracy Anderson and eating a more plant-based diet. She's been vocal in objecting to positive press. A couple of weeks back, Dunham responded to a magazine that included a new photo of her next to the headline “20 Slimdown Diet Tips Stars Are Using.” In a widely circulated Instagram post, she attributed her smaller figure to everything from her long-running battles with endometriosis and anxiety to living in Trump's America and “realizing who ya real friends are.” She'd previously written, “my weight loss isn't a triumph … because my body belongs to ME — at every phase, in every iteration, and whatever I'm doing with it, I'm not handing in my feminist card to anyone.” Regardless of the whys and hows of Dunham's weight loss, I'm struck by the highly charged way the discussion progressed. Numerous publications (especially woman-centric ones) praised her reaction. But, I found myself wondering, what if she had just wanted to lose some weight for the sake of losing some weight? Should it really be all that controversial or shameful to want to control how you look, especially if you have a job that keeps you in the public eye? Must dropping a few pounds come with a disclaimer, or 20? If women used to avoid saying they were on a diet because it might not seem cool or fun, now we worry about the possibility of offending others or losing our “feminist card.” Fat acceptance was indeed born during the same era as second-wave feminism; today, body positivity and pop feminism exist as the significantly less radical, more widespread versions of their predecessors. As these ideals have deviated further from their origins, becoming more watered-down and commercialized, they've also become inextricably linked. A typical triumphant viral web-story plotline, especially for women's sites, involves a woman “clapping back” at “body shamers.” Body positivity is now a savvy branding move: Take ModCloth, which pledged not to use Photoshop and publicly lent their support to the 2016 Truth in Advertising Act, calling for federal regulation of airbrushing in ads. (The indie retailer sold to Walmart earlier this year.) And when Dove created soap bottles modeled on different female body shapes, it was hilariously misguided and widely panned — but it was also a natural extension of the infantilizing way businesses have attempted to profit off this mind-set. It's not like the industry devoted to shrinking us down has taken a blow: We can hardly go a few weeks without hearing about a new diet plan that features seemingly arbitrary restrictions (what, exactly, is wrong with mushrooms?) or an insanely punishing cleanse. But now, when it comes to actually discussing the deliberate changes we make to our bodies, we either wrap them in innuendo or scramble to deny them altogether, in an attempt to appear more enlightened. 10 Celebrities Who DGAF About Eating Healthy One cultural barometer is the way celebrities talk about their eating and exercise habits (and the media coverage they generate). Unsurprisingly, it's a long-standing tradition to ask people whose job it is to look conventionally attractive how they got that way and what they consume every day. But few ever admit to being on a diet — nobody wants to reveal how the sausage, or, more appropriately, the grilled chicken breast, is made. “Wellness” has also become a catch-all euphemism that allows one to admit to undertaking a transformation, but chalk it up to “health” instead of superficiality. Eva Mendes couched an answer about her routine by saying that she eats “clean” and, because she's busy, truly enjoys having the same thing for lunch and dinner every single day. Spoiler: It's salmon, quinoa, and salad. (“Eva Mendes's Simple Eating Regimen Is So Refreshing,” Refinery29 gushed, either in willful ignorance or a profound misunderstanding of what a diet is.) A Glamour listicle titled “10 Celebrities Who DGAF About Eating Healthy” celebrated stars like Gigi Hadid, Emma Stone, and Jennifer Lawrence for being “quick to admit eating burgers, pizza, or red velvet cupcakes is just part of life,” though something tells me that, based on the industry they're in, they must G at least a tiny bit of AF. At least Lawrence — whose meteoric rise to become America's sweetheart was certainly aided by red-carpet sound bites about loving McDonald's — finally admitted: “‘I don't feel like I have a normal body.' I do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person.” The current cultural discomfort around dieting has trickled down to how even I — someone with firsthand experience undertaking significant weight loss — react when confronted with it. When acquaintances said they were trying Whole30 for the new year or posted hashtagged meal shots to Instagram, I remember balking: My first reaction was to think that they didn't seem like the type of people to go on a diet, much less talk about dieting. (By contrast, the girls I knew in high school and college who now appear to be engaged in a Facebook weight-loss-shake pyramid scheme definitely do fit the mold I associate with “people who diet” — though are their motivations really all that different?) While visiting an old friend, I noticed that she had downloaded MyFitnessPal and felt an odd rush of embarrassment, like I had accidentally stumbled onto something I wasn't supposed to see. We could talk to each other about our sex lives without batting an eyelash, yet counting calories seemed like a step too far. I'm not saying we should necessarily be talking about our diets more — again, it's boring, and I'm generally a proponent of all of us dialing back our abundant over-sharing a bit. But what a relief it would be to shed the anxiety surrounding how we discuss them, to lose the doublespeak and welcome more honesty.     Click to Post

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FROM: Hanan, Natural Beauty Consultant

RE: Why Your Kitchen Holds The Key To Increasing Your Beauty

Would you like to turn the clock back and have your face look 5 to 10 years younger in just minutes a day, all while never even leaving your home?

Would you like to save money every month on those skin creams, expensive hair treatments, and even those painful “tox” procedures, and get it all while receiving the same exact benefits at a fraction of the cost?

Are you willing to spend just 5 minutes a day to enhance your beauty…naturally, painlessly, and near-effortlessly… giving you results you can see instantly…

… all for less than you will spend on lunch today?

If so, my life’s passion and devotion to empowering women of all ages with the tips and natural techniques that enhance and restore your youthful beauty is going to make you jump for joy…

Yes, Natural Beauty “Secrets” Really Do Exist

When I first became interested in enhancing my beauty—softening the fine lines that started to appear on my face after giving birth, restoring my hair’s youthful luster, and ridding myself of cellulite—I knew I was on to something that few women would ever discover…

And I made a vow to myself to share what I discovered with as many women as possible.

When I began my search for home-based, natural, non-surgical, and inexpensive beauty enhancers, I was absolutely shocked at how manipulative the beauty industry had become…

And how often they lied to women, all for the sake of selling snake oil miracles, and tricking us out of our hard-earned money.

I’m a positive person by nature, so you can imagine how hurt and devastated I felt when learning more about this multi-billion dollar scam—a scam even the smartest of women have fallen for, and one that I have devoted my life to exposing.

Did you know that one of the lies the cosmetic and skin care companies tell women is that there is no such thing as “natural beauty treatments?”

It’s true. In fact, they spend millions of dollars every year trying to convince you that the only solution to younger-looking skin, silky, strong hair, and reducing cellulite is surgery, expensive creams that cost hundreds of dollars a month, or “tox”…

… you know, those needles a lot of us have tried?

Sure, it works—yet, I have something that works without the pain and the expense… and it gives you the same exact result.

I’ll share more about this with you in a moment… first, I really want to be clear about something important. While remarkable natural beauty solutions are out there…

These Unique Beauty Tips Are Really Hard To Find

Ladies, it took me years to discover all the secrets I want to share with you today…

So please, know that it’s not your fault that you’ve never heard of some of these right-in-your-kitchen remedies that you can put on your face, hair, thighs, belly, and more…

Remedies that help to slow the outward signs of aging…

Reducing the severity of fine lines and wrinkles, restoring smooth, youthful skin on your face, neck, breasts, and body…

And that gives you back that super-silky, almost glowing hair you had in your teenage years…

And Just To Think: I Had An Unfair Advantage!

My name is Hanan, and I have a rather embarrassing confession to make before I share these tips with you today:

If I would have listened to my mother, I would have saved a lot of time.

You see, my mother was descended from Persian royalty. She is no longer with us today, and there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t miss her. Yet, as a child, as most children do, I thought I knew better.

My mother felt she had to maintain her beauty for political reasons, as well as her own passion for looking her best for my father. She would always share these “crazy” home-based “concoctions” with me (you see, I was her “little Princess.”) I wasn’t interested. After all, I was NEVER going to grow old!

Maybe you can relate to feeling that as a kid as well…

Even into my early 20s, I ignored the advice of my mother out of sheer rebellion. I was caught up in the Lebanon beauty and fashion craze… and all the rave back then was expensive beauty creams from America and Europe.

I thought my mother was just “old-fashioned”. I believed that I was younger, smarter, and more hip to the times.

It took me another fifteen years to realize how wrong I was, and how wise my mother’s beauty solutions really were. She never looked a day over 35, even though she was fifteen years older than that when she passed away too soon in a political attack.

Everything Became Crystal Clear When I Read My Mother’s Journal

I was given my mother’s journal not soon after her passing, along with photos of her throughout her life. I noticed how happy she looked, and how radiant…how beautiful, even as the years passed…

It looked as if she was born without the “wrinkle gene”.

Even with a tinge of grey in her hair, she looked fifteen years younger than most women her age…

Of course, there was so much more to my mother than her beauty. I’d love to share that with you at another time.

I was going through some really stressful, hurtful times in my life during those days…times that aged me rapidly. My once-youthful skin was aging fast, despite all those fancy and expensive beauty treatments all my friends and I were hooked on.

I was spending hundreds of dollars each and every month, and seeing nothing for my efforts. In fact, I had to face the harsh truth:

I was aging faster than I ever dreamed I would…

However, inside my mother’s journal was the answer:

She had transcribed ALL of her home-based beauty remedies for me to pass down to my own family. What a treasure!

The Answers Were Found For Pennies Right In My Kitchen

I was shocked to re-discover all of her tips, secrets, and remedies… and even more shocked to find out that they had been passed down from Persian royalty for over a thousand years!

Here I was, this know-it-all gal who thought that modern beauty manufacturers surely knew more than my mother… yet little did I know that she was using methods that were virtually sacred to our culture…

Methods of enhancing every aspect of female beauty, without relying on creams (most of which are full of toxins and chemicals that do you far more harm than good), and before the words “plastic surgery” or “the Tox” were ever used.

These were the secrets of actual REAL princesses, queens, and royalty throughout the East and Orient, and I simply could not believe that I had ignored them all these years!

I vowed to make up for my childhood silliness, and devour every word, every tip, every secret my mother passed down to me…

And what surprised me the most? Almost everything I needed to restore my beauty was 7 feet to my left… right in my kitchen.

You see, queens and princesses throughout history only had natural means of increasing and maintaining their youthful beauty…

And if you have seen any of their portraits, or could see my mother’s family line, you would know for a fact they work almost like magic…

So I Decided To Put My Mother’s Secrets, As Well As Dozens Of My Own, Into One Little Beauty “Handbook” For Women

After a few more years of studying what REALLY causes skin to age faster than it should in women, how to reduce cellulite and wrinkles in the most rapid way possible, and uncovering some of the modern era’s most powerful all-natural beauty enhancers, I decided to put everything I discovered into one simple-to-use beauty blueprint for women…

The Beauty of Food is the result, and women from all parts of the world, and of all ages, are raving about the results they are seeing… and the money they are saving… and the pain they are avoiding by using PROVEN beauty solutions that really work!

Inside The Beauty Of Food You Will Discover…

My coveted “Fifty-Cent Botox Alternative” that takes about 7 minutes to prepare, less than $.50 to make, and leaves you looking as if you just went to a Tox Party (just without those red, blotchy marks and needle marks!)

Which foods you can use topically (this is NOT a diet) that instantly improves the tightness and texture of your skin…

The Eastern shiny hair secret that blows away any shampoo…

The “Persian Princess” mixture that I use on myself and my clients to give your neck area a fantastic younger look

Tips for younger looking hands (ladies, you know how important hands are!)

How best to avoid future wrinkles, and how to deal with the ones you may have right now

The very few store-bought items I recommend (there are not many)… and ladies, these are not required (I just wanted to be thorough)

Simple “add this food” tips that will help you slow the aging process… and no, this is not a diet (personally I don’t enjoy dieting at all, but I love these tasty foods!)

The real reasons we age faster than we should, and what you can do about it, starting today…

And much, much more…

Why Spend A Fortune In Time And Money When You Can Get The Same Exact Results For A Few Dollars A Month?

If you desire, you can of course continue to use those expensive creams, shampoos, treatments, and more…

Or, you can choose to save a lot of money while seeing visible, dramatic results, right in the comfort of your own home.

You can also choose to use these secrets to simply enhance your current regimen if you like, yet why would you want to spend a small fortune, go to pricy, time-consuming salon treatments, or suffer through painful “Tox” needles when you don’t have to?

More Good News: “Beauty Blueprint” Is Only $7.99… Yet, Why?

Other than the thanks and well-wishes I receive every day from ladies of all ages, the number one comment I get is:

“Hanan, why is The Beauty of Food only $10?”

That’s a fair question. After all, not everyone has access to thousand-year-old Eastern beauty secrets, so you may believe that I should charge far more for my life’s passion…

Yet, I’m not… and for good reason.

You see, I set out on a mission to help as many women as I possibly can. So, I made sure any gal who desires more beauty can easily afford to have these secrets for herself. And I know that earning your trust is an act of good will—and such acts return ten-fold.

Also, this is my “Second Edition Debut Price”… so it’s been reduced from what I’ll be forced to sell it for (see below)….

Plus, I made a deal with an ethical publisher who agreed to make this book a digital-only “instant access” affair… that way you get it immediately, and you are not out a penny for shipping costs or printing fees.

I know if I can just show you these simple formulations for home-based beauty that I’ll earn a customer, and a friend, for life.

Besides…

I Cannot Take Full Credit For These Beauty Secrets

A lot of what I am about to share with you today comes from my mother’s journal… and still a lot more comes from my own pursuit of every little thing I could find to help women enhance and restore their beauty.

So, think of me as a fan of beauty. People call me a “beauty expert”, yet that’s not really the truth.

The truth is I found myself fortunate. I had such a great gift given to me, and the rest was a lot of searching on the Internet, trial and error, interviewing countless women, and experimentation on my own skin and hair.

If you want, you can spend about a hundred or so hours on Google and find many of these secrets for yourself. Of course, you’ll have to suffer through the trial and error I had to go through (there’s a lot of misinformation out there.) And you will have to spend a lot of your valuable time.

The smarter decision would be to allow me just to hand you a proven, all-in-one-place blueprint for beauty—and hand it to you within minutes from now. You can literally apply just one of these tips tonight and see a noticeable difference.

You save a lot of time, hassle, and energy… and you never have to think about it again. You’ll have all the answers in your hands within minutes…

I Can Only Sell A Few Copies At This Price

My publisher has agreed to allow me to sell copies — for now — of The Beauty of Food before they reconsider the price. I’m not into all the “business” side of things, however, I do know that they incur advertising costs, web hosting fees, and more…

So, they have put the following chart together to explain why you must act right now to secure your “Second Edition Debut Price” of only $7.99.

YES! Give Me Instant Access

Charter Pricing: Current Price: First Few Copies… $7.99 *Limited Time Only Next 1000… $27.00 After that… $37.00

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What If I Guaranteed Your Results And Your Satisfaction, Too?

Few people would literally guarantee that simply by using their system you would see noticeable improvement in your skin texture, the fading of fine lines and wrinkles, tighter, more youthful-looking skin, radiant, silky hair, and more…

However, I’m not most people—and I am as 100% committed to your absolute satisfaction as I am to your beauty…

So, please rest easy and know that you have a full 60 days to try The Beauty of Food for yourself on me, with full trust in your small investment today. If for any reason you are not utterly thrilled and amazed by the improvements in your skin and hair, as well as how much more beautiful you feel day-in and day-out, simply email me for a prompt and hassle-free refund.

Just One Last Word: A Loving Reminder

I really feel I can relate to what you may be feeling right now:

You feel like time is slipping by…

Some days you feel on top of the world, while others you feel as if there’s nothing you can do to stop the age-inducing damage that your stress-filled, responsibility-heavy lifestyle is producing…

You may even feel as if your “best days” are behind you…

And, if you are anything like many of the women I’ve helped over the years, you may even fear losing your partner because of time and age.

Will you please allow me to help you, and show you a simple solution that really works? These feelings will begin to fade, along with your fine lines once you do…

However, please lovingly accept the fact that you simply have to take action in order to allow me to prove it to you.

And, the cost of not acting can really add up:

You can continue spending your hard-earned money on expensive “solutions” that are anything but… hundreds, even thousands of dollars per year…

Or, thousands, even tens of thousands on surgical procedures… procedures that put you in terrible pain, and at high risk for far more serious complications…

You can continue searching as time continues to pass… and you’ll spend far more money on some modern doctor’s new “breakthrough” whatever… only to see marginal results, if any at all…

Or, you can choose to trust me, and allow me to prove to you what a thousand years of natural beauty solutions have proven to kings and queens throughout the ages…

Simple remedies and formulations you create using foods and nutrients found right in your own kitchen…

Remedies proven and guaranteed to work for you.

Accept my invitation today, along with my discounted Second Edition Debut price of only $7.99, and I’ll give you immediate, hassle-free access to The Beauty of Food.

And, more than that, I’ll give you the secrets that the most beautiful women throughout the centuries have used.

That’s what I desire for you, too: to become the Queen of your life, and reign with more radiance and beauty than you’ve ever imagined possible.

Here’s to the most beautiful YOU ever!

Sincerely, Hanan Natural Beauty Consultant

P.S. The most beautiful women in the history of the world have used many of these secrets. They went on to become icons of beauty and youthful charm, long before drugs, creams, or surgical procedures were ever invented.

I invite you to join them today…

Do You Have Some Questions For Me?

If you are still reading this letter, that means you may be facing some skepticism, or perhaps you have a few questions about The Beauty of Food…

So, I’m here to alleviate any doubts, as well as answer the most commonly-asked questions before you order today…

“Hanan, is The Beauty of Food a diet?”

Many women make the assumption that “food” always involves a diet. This is not a diet, but rather a way to use common foods in specific combinations that you apply topically to your skin.

I do give healthy nutrition tips, yet I for one love food too much to recommend an overly-strict diet plan. Besides, most of them are unhealthy, and many diets are so low in fat that they actually increase wrinkles! That’s the last thing we want, right?

“Hanan, how much money can I expect to save using your ‘beauty blueprint’?”

Quite a bit! Some women report saving over a thousand dollars a month, while others say they’ve cut out this cream and that beauty enhancer and saved $90 or more every month.

One thing is for sure: at only $10, and using mostly inexpensive foods and nutrients/herbs in our formulations, The Beauty of Food is by far the least expensive beauty solution in the world.

“Hanan, what if I just don’t see the results everyone else is seeing?”

You would definitely be among the minority…however, no amount of money is worth risking your satisfaction and peace of mind. That’s why I have included my Beauty Or Else 60-Day Guarantee to ensure you are totally happy, satisfied, and amazed by the results you’ll see. If for any reason this is not the case, simply email me using the support email within the Member’s Area for an immediate no-questions-asked refund.

“Hanan, can I still use my favorite cream/soap/shampoo/treatment with your System?”

You absolutely can! However, you may find you no longer need to. Still, if if makes you feel better, then I encourage it.

“Hanan, how long will it take me to see results?”

Nearly immediately. Some of the protocols (including my famous Fifty-Cent Botox Alternative, which is worth far more in savings than the cost of my entire solution) take only minutes, and render immediate results.

Other formulations require a few minutes a day and 10-14 days to see full results.

Now, let’s get you started right now on the road to the most beautiful YOU ever!

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Installment 2 of 2 weekly column...

Since my columns haven't been posted in a while, I decided to break it up into two installments. Here is the rest of the articles. Enjoy!

So Which One Do I Choose? Body image in the media has always been a hot button for every young person in America.  Growing up in the eighties I was constantly being bombarded with sex and body image every time I opened a magazine or turned on the television.  MTV was new and exciting and was a way for sex, drugs and rock n’ roll to become more visual.  During this time “thin was in” and exercise was not only hip and trendy, but becoming more and more a way of life.  I never liked exercise much and loved to eat, so being a chubby child I always felt bad about my looks.   It took a long time, but as an adult I realized that the fact is the thin, super model look that we all tried to aspire to is not realistic and never will be.   Today times have changed a bit.  Fast food and take out has become more and more the everyday normal.  Everyone is looking for instant gratification and therefore food portions in our dining experiences have gotten larger and larger. When you go to McDonald’s and order a small coke, you get a 21 oz cup. In the eighties that was considered a medium size drink.  What I would consider a small drink is now considered a kids size instead.  Therefore we as a society have a growing obesity problem, so it more readily acceptable that a larger body size is more socially acceptable.  The truth is that no matter what size you are, fat or skinny we always have some part of our body that is unacceptable to us. It’s just human nature, there will always be things about ourselves we would like to change in order to have “the perfect body”.   As the New Year came around I set a goal to try and lose some of those unwanted extra pounds that I have put on.  Since I am a somewhat strategic person, I usually like to have a plan when heading down a long, rigorous road like this one.  I have been doing some research on the different   types of diets that are out there, in an effort to find one that will work for me.  It isn’t an easy thing since there are about a million on the market.   To make it even harder for me I have an added difficulty having donated a kidney last year.  I have a lot of restrictions on what I can and can’t do now that I only have one kidney.  Though there isn’t any type of food I am forbidden to eat, I have to steer clear of fad diets that put too much stress on the one kidney I have left.  At the end of the day it leaves me asking the question, “So which one do I choose?” What I have discovered is that we go through ebbs and tides of different health kicks.  Science and research is always pushing us forward and changing the dynamics of the health and nutrition.  What we used to think was good for us is suddenly deemed unhealthy and quickly replaced by some other healthy trend.   In the end  I have discovered that no matter what being healthy and losing weight simply boils down to watch what you eat, eat more fruit and vegetables and get some sort of basic exercise and you will be headed in the right direction.

Keep Moving Forward Have you ever made a mistake? Being human it is safe to assume that everyone has at some point in their lives. No one is perfect.  If you are anything like me, when I make even the smallest of mistakes I will often replay the incident over and over in my mind looking to find any way I could possibly have handled the situation differently.  Usually I am harder on myself than the general public would be. Sometimes making mistakes can drive you mad, but other times making mistakes can be a good thing, for it is how we learn and better ourselves. After twenty years as a trained seamstress working in the theatre industry, I sometimes take in extra sewing projects for something to keep my skills sharp.  After spending so much time devoted to the craft, I personally feel I should know all there is to know about sewing. I recently discovered that I was wrong.   During my sewing career I have made simple mistakes when constructing a garment, but this time I made a big mistake that I could not fix.  In sewing usually mistakes are reversible unless you cut the fabric wrong. In that case it is an unfixable mistake from the get go.  In this situation I made a promise to an individual, telling them that I could create the garment they desired and for some unknown reason to me the project just got away from me.  No matter how hard I tried to fix the problem it just seemed I was making it worse.  It was an utter disaster and finally I had to admit defeat and give up. This mistake was particularly hard on me.  I am not one to give up and I definitely don’t like to make promises to people if I can’t deliver.  Being unable to deliver this product despite my multiple attempts to fix the problem, I feel it made me look inept. In all reality, to that individual I probably did look inept.  Making mistakes like this can offer a hard blow to the ego and often waddle away at your confidence.   Once your confidence is shot it is sometimes the hardest thing to recover.  I just keep telling myself that I’m only human.  I also find that it is important to remember that everyone makes mistakes, even the most knowledgeable and successful people.  When I look at these successful business man and women that we see in the media, I realize that they are not gods, but human just like me and have probably made their share of mistakes while getting to where they are today.  Where would society be if Bill Gates had given up after making huge mistakes?  Imagine what the world would be like if Thomas Edison had given up while inventing the lightbulb?  We would all still be in the dark.  Sometimes making mistakes helps us to figure out what we are doing wrong in order to get it right. To quote one of my favorite Disney Movies, Meet The Robinsons, “Keep moving forward.”  The concept of the movie is a great one, it teaches us to celebrate our mistakes because we can learn from them. If we make mistakes we just keep moving forward and never give up. Just learn from them and become stronger and better.

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Hosting the Diabetes Advocates: Well-Played, Medtronic

As many of you may know, my husband/consulting partner and I were approached by Roche Diabetes' Accu-Chek team a few years back with a challenging project request: how could we help them best "embrace" the burgeoning online diabetes patient community (what is now known lovingly as the DOC)? Our suggestion was hosting an in-person summit, to offer us cyber-advocates a rare chance to meet each other, as well as an unprecedented "peek behind the curtain" at the real goings-on of a Pharma company that serves us. Obviously, the idea was a big hit, both for Roche and competitor Medtronic Diabetes, which just hosted its 2nd annual "Diabetes Advocates Forum" at its Southern California headquarters about 10 days ago. What struck me was the ease and "warm fuzziness" with which they pulled it off, I must say.

The very first time we were all invited to visit Roche, there was a lot of animosity in the air (ooh, those evil Pharma folk!) Talking with and getting to know the people behind the brand logo helped ease the tension. But most of us — myself included — were still adamant that we'd never accept an invitation to an event that was "all about them — just a big product presentation." In follow-on summits, Roche was careful to offer substance of "bigger meaning" to us advocates, including sessions with key people from the ADA, AADE and IDF. They went to great lengths in the last few years to amp up the social side of their Summit, too, with pool tables, an open bar, karaoke machines, and photo booth, to name a few of the perks. A little fun goes a long way toward breaking the ice, of course.

Yet Medtronic didn't have to try nearly so hard. In fact, what they offered was basically an event that was "all about them — a big product presentation."

Yes, this year they did include a talk by Chuck Eichten, the funny and creative author of "The Book of Better" about insulin pumping (errr, product tie-in?) And Chief Medical Officer Dr. Fran Kaufman gave a moving talk about her work providing insulin to needy children in 3rd World countries. She's very impressive and personable; it's pretty much impossible not to like her.

But the meat of the 'Advocates Forum' actually focused on Medtronic's product pipeline, something we (gasp!) all really wanted to know about. Low-glucose suspend technology, as well as their new smaller Enlite CGM sensor are still stuck in approval purgatory, and their patch pump technology is, well... just stuck. But exciting things are on the way: they may well be the first to release a "combo" patch pump with two cannulas built right in, just inches apart: one for insulin delivery and one for CGM! An image of their "combo inserter" design appeared in the slideset (I'm trying to get a copy). How sweet would the combo deal be?!

They gave us a full demonstration of the MySentry CGM remote monitor, and even went so far as to offer a MySentry loaner system to each of us for a free three-month review if we please — which I daresay would have scandalized us DOC'ers a few years back! They're pushing product! But oh, how we want and need these disease-care tools. They make the stuff and we need it. What's wrong with that?

The congenial atmosphere of this event was surely due in part to precedents set, i.e. our familiarity with being hosted by a Pharma company nowadays (save for a few newbies who warmed our hearts by repeating, 'I can't believe I'm meeting all you guys!' You know who you are ♥)

But it also had a lot to do with the Medtronic People. The PR/Com folks who handled the hosting are passionate, knowledgeable, and down to Earth; it really felt like they "get us." You can't help loving what they're doing with their plush-toy for teaching T1 kids who are new to pumping, for example: the new and improved Lenny the Lion now has a much more fun and interactive website, and even new spots on his tummy and arms and legs for practicing infusion sites. Seems like they definitely "get" what kids with diabetes want, too.

Then there's the amazing Brainpower at that place. Product strategist Lane Desborough never ceases to blow me away — especially now that I've met his team of (literally) rocket scientists working aggressively on Artificial Pancreas algorithms. Their little corner of the Medtronic HQ is papered with sticky notes, manifestos, and complex charts. It looks like the best of any design lab in Silicon Valley. I think we were all struck by how lucky we are to have these Big Brains working on our disease problems. If they can't help us automate our broken pancreases, who can?

Not to gush too much, but picking up on their passion, it really felt like we truly are ALL on the same team.

Then Fran Kaufman does the unthinkable. She invites a bunch of diabetes bloggers to dinner at her house, with her husband, son, daughter-in-law and a few personal friends in tow. It's like we matter. It's like we're her peers. It's like she's as appreciative of our work as we are of hers. This is a former president of ADA, consistently named one of the Best Doctors in America, with a resume that would knock your socks off.

So, are we becoming "corrupted" by this close association with Pharma? Or, are we finally finding the path to "move the conversation forward" between the patient community and the industry/medical community? I hope the latter... I hope we still remain patient/consumer "watchdogs" on the lookout for abuses — but not the kind of watchdogs that bite and attack just for the sheer pleasure of it. Rather, I hope it's possible to be on a first-name basis with the Powers That Be and still offer constructive criticism when it's due.

* * *

Here's a roundup of what our peers reported from this year's Medtronic Diabetes Advocates Forum:

♦ David Edelman gives a blow-by-blow description of the entire day, including comments from the attendees. Very informative!

♦ Leighann Calentine gives her own brief overview of the technology Medtronic is working on: Enlite sensors anticipated to be out by the end of 2013, the patch pump / CGM combo in development, and the work being done by Lane's team on the APP.

♦ Karmel Allison shares a detailed overview of the discussion on how to build the closed-loop system and the current hurdles in making it reliable.

♦ Bennett "Badshoe" shares his impressions of how building the closed-loop system is like "engineering art."

♦ Kim Vlasnik includes a video of the demonstration of the MySentry product.

♦ Sarah shares her thoughts on better use of CGM data.

♦ Scott Johnson writes an overview of the Forum, and also ponders the ethics of borrowing the MySentry.

♦ Sara K includes a 9-minute video of Lane's talk with the attendees.

♦ Jess writes mostly about her excitement in meeting others from the DOC and being part of the Medtronic DAF event.

♦ Karen Graffeo is simply inspired.

♦ Abby had a whole array of emotions to share.

♦ Naomi Kingery, who actually works for Medtronic, is all about the "hope, faith and friendship" that advocates share.

♦ Kelly Kunik is... um... obsessed with cupcakes?

♦ Mike Hoskin's post is a photo scrapbook of the event, and also of the touristy stuff his gang did on Saturday around LA 🙂

♦ And finally, Amanda Sheldon, one of the hosts from Medtronic PR, writes on the company's blog about how glad they are "to hear from the online community about what is working, what is not, and to determine together areas to focus on."

Well-played, Medtronic!

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FROM: Hanan, Natural Beauty Consultant

RE: Why Your Kitchen Holds The Key To Increasing Your Beauty

Would you like to turn the clock back and have your face look 5 to 10 years younger in just minutes a day, all while never even leaving your home?

Would you like to save money every month on those skin creams, expensive hair treatments, and even those painful “tox” procedures, and get it all while receiving the same exact benefits at a fraction of the cost?

Are you willing to spend just 5 minutes a day to enhance your beauty…naturally, painlessly, and near-effortlessly… giving you results you can see instantly…

… all for less than you will spend on lunch today?

If so, my life’s passion and devotion to empowering women of all ages with the tips and natural techniques that enhance and restore your youthful beauty is going to make you jump for joy…

Yes, Natural Beauty “Secrets” Really Do Exist

When I first became interested in enhancing my beauty—softening the fine lines that started to appear on my face after giving birth, restoring my hair’s youthful luster, and ridding myself of cellulite—I knew I was on to something that few women would ever discover…

And I made a vow to myself to share what I discovered with as many women as possible.

When I began my search for home-based, natural, non-surgical, and inexpensive beauty enhancers, I was absolutely shocked at how manipulative the beauty industry had become…

And how often they lied to women, all for the sake of selling snake oil miracles, and tricking us out of our hard-earned money.

I’m a positive person by nature, so you can imagine how hurt and devastated I felt when learning more about this multi-billion dollar scam—a scam even the smartest of women have fallen for, and one that I have devoted my life to exposing.

Did you know that one of the lies the cosmetic and skin care companies tell women is that there is no such thing as “natural beauty treatments?”

It’s true. In fact, they spend millions of dollars every year trying to convince you that the only solution to younger-looking skin, silky, strong hair, and reducing cellulite is surgery, expensive creams that cost hundreds of dollars a month, or “tox”…

… you know, those needles a lot of us have tried?

Sure, it works—yet, I have something that works without the pain and the expense… and it gives you the same exact result.

I’ll share more about this with you in a moment… first, I really want to be clear about something important. While remarkable natural beauty solutions are out there…

These Unique Beauty Tips Are Really Hard To Find

Ladies, it took me years to discover all the secrets I want to share with you today…

So please, know that it’s not your fault that you’ve never heard of some of these right-in-your-kitchen remedies that you can put on your face, hair, thighs, belly, and more…

Remedies that help to slow the outward signs of aging…

Reducing the severity of fine lines and wrinkles, restoring smooth, youthful skin on your face, neck, breasts, and body…

And that gives you back that super-silky, almost glowing hair you had in your teenage years…

And Just To Think: I Had An Unfair Advantage!

My name is Hanan, and I have a rather embarrassing confession to make before I share these tips with you today:

If I would have listened to my mother, I would have saved a lot of time.

You see, my mother was descended from Persian royalty. She is no longer with us today, and there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t miss her. Yet, as a child, as most children do, I thought I knew better.

My mother felt she had to maintain her beauty for political reasons, as well as her own passion for looking her best for my father. She would always share these “crazy” home-based “concoctions” with me (you see, I was her “little Princess.”) I wasn’t interested. After all, I was NEVER going to grow old!

Maybe you can relate to feeling that as a kid as well…

Even into my early 20s, I ignored the advice of my mother out of sheer rebellion. I was caught up in the Lebanon beauty and fashion craze… and all the rave back then was expensive beauty creams from America and Europe.

I thought my mother was just “old-fashioned”. I believed that I was younger, smarter, and more hip to the times.

It took me another fifteen years to realize how wrong I was, and how wise my mother’s beauty solutions really were. She never looked a day over 35, even though she was fifteen years older than that when she passed away too soon in a political attack.

Everything Became Crystal Clear When I Read My Mother’s Journal

I was given my mother’s journal not soon after her passing, along with photos of her throughout her life. I noticed how happy she looked, and how radiant…how beautiful, even as the years passed…

It looked as if she was born without the “wrinkle gene”.

Even with a tinge of grey in her hair, she looked fifteen years younger than most women her age…

Of course, there was so much more to my mother than her beauty. I’d love to share that with you at another time.

I was going through some really stressful, hurtful times in my life during those days…times that aged me rapidly. My once-youthful skin was aging fast, despite all those fancy and expensive beauty treatments all my friends and I were hooked on.

I was spending hundreds of dollars each and every month, and seeing nothing for my efforts. In fact, I had to face the harsh truth:

I was aging faster than I ever dreamed I would…

However, inside my mother’s journal was the answer:

She had transcribed ALL of her home-based beauty remedies for me to pass down to my own family. What a treasure!

The Answers Were Found For Pennies Right In My Kitchen

I was shocked to re-discover all of her tips, secrets, and remedies… and even more shocked to find out that they had been passed down from Persian royalty for over a thousand years!

Here I was, this know-it-all gal who thought that modern beauty manufacturers surely knew more than my mother… yet little did I know that she was using methods that were virtually sacred to our culture…

Methods of enhancing every aspect of female beauty, without relying on creams (most of which are full of toxins and chemicals that do you far more harm than good), and before the words “plastic surgery” or “the Tox” were ever used.

These were the secrets of actual REAL princesses, queens, and royalty throughout the East and Orient, and I simply could not believe that I had ignored them all these years!

I vowed to make up for my childhood silliness, and devour every word, every tip, every secret my mother passed down to me…

And what surprised me the most? Almost everything I needed to restore my beauty was 7 feet to my left… right in my kitchen.

You see, queens and princesses throughout history only had natural means of increasing and maintaining their youthful beauty…

And if you have seen any of their portraits, or could see my mother’s family line, you would know for a fact they work almost like magic…

So I Decided To Put My Mother’s Secrets, As Well As Dozens Of My Own, Into One Little Beauty “Handbook” For Women

After a few more years of studying what REALLY causes skin to age faster than it should in women, how to reduce cellulite and wrinkles in the most rapid way possible, and uncovering some of the modern era’s most powerful all-natural beauty enhancers, I decided to put everything I discovered into one simple-to-use beauty blueprint for women…

The Beauty of Food is the result, and women from all parts of the world, and of all ages, are raving about the results they are seeing… and the money they are saving… and the pain they are avoiding by using PROVEN beauty solutions that really work!

Inside The Beauty Of Food You Will Discover…

My coveted “Fifty-Cent Botox Alternative” that takes about 7 minutes to prepare, less than $.50 to make, and leaves you looking as if you just went to a Tox Party (just without those red, blotchy marks and needle marks!)

Which foods you can use topically (this is NOT a diet) that instantly improves the tightness and texture of your skin…

The Eastern shiny hair secret that blows away any shampoo…

The “Persian Princess” mixture that I use on myself and my clients to give your neck area a fantastic younger look

Tips for younger looking hands (ladies, you know how important hands are!)

How best to avoid future wrinkles, and how to deal with the ones you may have right now

The very few store-bought items I recommend (there are not many)… and ladies, these are not required (I just wanted to be thorough)

Simple “add this food” tips that will help you slow the aging process… and no, this is not a diet (personally I don’t enjoy dieting at all, but I love these tasty foods!)

The real reasons we age faster than we should, and what you can do about it, starting today…

And much, much more…

Why Spend A Fortune In Time And Money When You Can Get The Same Exact Results For A Few Dollars A Month?

If you desire, you can of course continue to use those expensive creams, shampoos, treatments, and more…

Or, you can choose to save a lot of money while seeing visible, dramatic results, right in the comfort of your own home.

You can also choose to use these secrets to simply enhance your current regimen if you like, yet why would you want to spend a small fortune, go to pricy, time-consuming salon treatments, or suffer through painful “Tox” needles when you don’t have to?

More Good News: “Beauty Blueprint” Is Only $7.99… Yet, Why?

Other than the thanks and well-wishes I receive every day from ladies of all ages, the number one comment I get is:

“Hanan, why is The Beauty of Food only $10?”

That’s a fair question. After all, not everyone has access to thousand-year-old Eastern beauty secrets, so you may believe that I should charge far more for my life’s passion…

Yet, I’m not… and for good reason.

You see, I set out on a mission to help as many women as I possibly can. So, I made sure any gal who desires more beauty can easily afford to have these secrets for herself. And I know that earning your trust is an act of good will—and such acts return ten-fold.

Also, this is my “Second Edition Debut Price”… so it’s been reduced from what I’ll be forced to sell it for (see below)….

Plus, I made a deal with an ethical publisher who agreed to make this book a digital-only “instant access” affair… that way you get it immediately, and you are not out a penny for shipping costs or printing fees.

I know if I can just show you these simple formulations for home-based beauty that I’ll earn a customer, and a friend, for life.

Besides…

I Cannot Take Full Credit For These Beauty Secrets

A lot of what I am about to share with you today comes from my mother’s journal… and still a lot more comes from my own pursuit of every little thing I could find to help women enhance and restore their beauty.

So, think of me as a fan of beauty. People call me a “beauty expert”, yet that’s not really the truth.

The truth is I found myself fortunate. I had such a great gift given to me, and the rest was a lot of searching on the Internet, trial and error, interviewing countless women, and experimentation on my own skin and hair.

If you want, you can spend about a hundred or so hours on Google and find many of these secrets for yourself. Of course, you’ll have to suffer through the trial and error I had to go through (there’s a lot of misinformation out there.) And you will have to spend a lot of your valuable time.

The smarter decision would be to allow me just to hand you a proven, all-in-one-place blueprint for beauty—and hand it to you within minutes from now. You can literally apply just one of these tips tonight and see a noticeable difference.

You save a lot of time, hassle, and energy… and you never have to think about it again. You’ll have all the answers in your hands within minutes…

I Can Only Sell A Few Copies At This Price

My publisher has agreed to allow me to sell copies — for now — of The Beauty of Food before they reconsider the price. I’m not into all the “business” side of things, however, I do know that they incur advertising costs, web hosting fees, and more…

So, they have put the following chart together to explain why you must act right now to secure your “Second Edition Debut Price” of only $7.99.

YES! Give Me Instant Access

Charter Pricing: Current Price: First Few Copies… $7.99 *Limited Time Only Next 1000… $27.00 After that… $37.00

Price Today: $47.00 $39.95 $27.00

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What If I Guaranteed Your Results And Your Satisfaction, Too?

Few people would literally guarantee that simply by using their system you would see noticeable improvement in your skin texture, the fading of fine lines and wrinkles, tighter, more youthful-looking skin, radiant, silky hair, and more…

However, I’m not most people—and I am as 100% committed to your absolute satisfaction as I am to your beauty…

So, please rest easy and know that you have a full 60 days to try The Beauty of Food for yourself on me, with full trust in your small investment today. If for any reason you are not utterly thrilled and amazed by the improvements in your skin and hair, as well as how much more beautiful you feel day-in and day-out, simply email me for a prompt and hassle-free refund.

Just One Last Word: A Loving Reminder

I really feel I can relate to what you may be feeling right now:

You feel like time is slipping by…

Some days you feel on top of the world, while others you feel as if there’s nothing you can do to stop the age-inducing damage that your stress-filled, responsibility-heavy lifestyle is producing…

You may even feel as if your “best days” are behind you…

And, if you are anything like many of the women I’ve helped over the years, you may even fear losing your partner because of time and age.

Will you please allow me to help you, and show you a simple solution that really works? These feelings will begin to fade, along with your fine lines once you do…

However, please lovingly accept the fact that you simply have to take action in order to allow me to prove it to you.

And, the cost of not acting can really add up:

You can continue spending your hard-earned money on expensive “solutions” that are anything but… hundreds, even thousands of dollars per year…

Or, thousands, even tens of thousands on surgical procedures… procedures that put you in terrible pain, and at high risk for far more serious complications…

You can continue searching as time continues to pass… and you’ll spend far more money on some modern doctor’s new “breakthrough” whatever… only to see marginal results, if any at all…

Or, you can choose to trust me, and allow me to prove to you what a thousand years of natural beauty solutions have proven to kings and queens throughout the ages…

Simple remedies and formulations you create using foods and nutrients found right in your own kitchen…

Remedies proven and guaranteed to work for you.

Accept my invitation today, along with my discounted Second Edition Debut price of only $7.99, and I’ll give you immediate, hassle-free access to The Beauty of Food.

And, more than that, I’ll give you the secrets that the most beautiful women throughout the centuries have used.

That’s what I desire for you, too: to become the Queen of your life, and reign with more radiance and beauty than you’ve ever imagined possible.

Here’s to the most beautiful YOU ever!

Sincerely, Hanan Natural Beauty Consultant

P.S. The most beautiful women in the history of the world have used many of these secrets. They went on to become icons of beauty and youthful charm, long before drugs, creams, or surgical procedures were ever invented.

I invite you to join them today…

Do You Have Some Questions For Me?

If you are still reading this letter, that means you may be facing some skepticism, or perhaps you have a few questions about The Beauty of Food…

So, I’m here to alleviate any doubts, as well as answer the most commonly-asked questions before you order today…

“Hanan, is The Beauty of Food a diet?”

Many women make the assumption that “food” always involves a diet. This is not a diet, but rather a way to use common foods in specific combinations that you apply topically to your skin.

I do give healthy nutrition tips, yet I for one love food too much to recommend an overly-strict diet plan. Besides, most of them are unhealthy, and many diets are so low in fat that they actually increase wrinkles! That’s the last thing we want, right?

“Hanan, how much money can I expect to save using your ‘beauty blueprint’?”

Quite a bit! Some women report saving over a thousand dollars a month, while others say they’ve cut out this cream and that beauty enhancer and saved $90 or more every month.

One thing is for sure: at only $10, and using mostly inexpensive foods and nutrients/herbs in our formulations, The Beauty of Food is by far the least expensive beauty solution in the world.

“Hanan, what if I just don’t see the results everyone else is seeing?”

You would definitely be among the minority…however, no amount of money is worth risking your satisfaction and peace of mind. That’s why I have included my Beauty Or Else 60-Day Guarantee to ensure you are totally happy, satisfied, and amazed by the results you’ll see. If for any reason this is not the case, simply email me using the support email within the Member’s Area for an immediate no-questions-asked refund.

“Hanan, can I still use my favorite cream/soap/shampoo/treatment with your System?”

You absolutely can! However, you may find you no longer need to. Still, if if makes you feel better, then I encourage it.

“Hanan, how long will it take me to see results?”

Nearly immediately. Some of the protocols (including my famous Fifty-Cent Botox Alternative, which is worth far more in savings than the cost of my entire solution) take only minutes, and render immediate results.

Other formulations require a few minutes a day and 10-14 days to see full results.

Now, let’s get you started right now on the road to the most beautiful YOU ever!

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