Thursday, November 29, 2007
4 Hour Work Week' a hoax?
I'm in the middle of reading this book you may have heard
of...
It's called "The 4-Hour Workweek" and it's written by a
30-year-old millionaire named Timothy Ferriss -- and this
sucker has been flying off the shelves from coast to coast.
The book's philosophy essentially boils down to this...
If you manage your time, your goals, and your priorities
effectively, it's totally possible for you to generate a
comfortable, full-time income working just 4 hours per week.
Goodbye trying to fit your social life around your 9-to-5 job,
and hello freedom and prosperity!
Seriously though -- who doesn't want that? No wonder this
book's become an instant best-seller.
But since releasing it, Tim Ferriss has come under some
serious fire from prominent entrepreneurs who are whining
(let's be honest) that designing your 'ideal lifestyle' of
minimal work and maximum play is not that simple... that it
takes YEARS of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears to make that
happen.
But I beg to differ!
I've know many people who have started their own moneymaking
Internet businesses from scratch. (In fact, I count myself
among their number!)
And I can tell you this without a shadow of a doubt:
The success people like us have achieved did NOT come as a
result of how much time we've spent working on our businesses,
but what we've DONE with the time we've spent.
For example: Someone with clear, intentional goals and a
step-by-step action plan will accomplish wayyyyy more in 60
minutes than someone who is mired in information overload and
analysis paralysis will accomplish in 8 hours.
I've seen high school drop outs, retirees who are downright
scared of computers, and even teenagers achieve *massive*
success on the Internet 'working' as little as 4 hours per
week... and in some cases, even less than that!
It's possible -- I've seen it, I've done it, and I'd like you
to do it, too.
To discover how we did it, click here now:
http://www.marketingtips.com/4-hour-workweek/t/881854
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P.S. Here's another secret for you...
You don't have to know it all, learn it all, or spend days at
a time researching your next step to generate a full-time
income on the Internet. You simply need to surround yourself
with people who have the expertise that you don't, and let
them steer you along towards success.
But where can you find such experts willing to openly share
their expertise and stand over your shoulder as you grow your
own moneymaking website? Click here now to find out!
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Motivation, Drive, Never Give Up!
in great health and happiness.
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Friday, November 23, 2007
Black Friday Fat loss Secrets by Scott White
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
My moms homemade rolls, Thanksgiving delight
By Linda Joyce Forristal , CCP
On April 25, 2001, Proctor and Gamble (P&G) put its product Crisco on the auction block, just ten years short of its 100th birthday. Crisco, initially made with hydrogenated cottonseed oil, is the quintessential imitation food, and the first to make its way into American kitchens.
The story of Crisco begins innocently enough in pre-Civil-War America when candle maker William Proctor and his brother-in-law, soap-maker James Gamble, joined forces to compete with fourteen other soap and candle makers in Cincinnati, Ohio. P&G entered the shortening business out of necessity. In the 1890s, the meat packing monopoly controlled the price of lard and tallow needed to make candles and soap. 1P&G took steps to gain control of the cottonseed oil business from farm to factory. By 1905, they owned eight cottonseed mills in Mississippi. In 1907, with the help of German chemist E. C. Kayser, P&G developed the science of hydrogenation. By adding hydrogen atoms to the fatty acid chain, this revolutionary industrial process transformed liquid cottonseed oil into a solid that resembled lard. 1
Not content with using hardened cottonseed oil for soaps, and mindful that electrification was forcing the candle business into decline, P&G looked for other markets for their new product. Since hydrogenated cottonseed oil resembled lard, why not sell it as a food?
The new product was initially named Krispo, but trademark complications forced P&G to look for another name. They next try was Cryst which was abandoned when someone in management noted a religious connotation. Eventually they chose the near-acronym Crisco, which can be derived from CRYStalized Cottonseed Oil.
Crisco was introduced to the public in 1911. It was an era when wives stayed home and cooked with plenty of butter and lard. The challenge for Crisco was to convince the stay-at-home housewife about the merits of this imitation food. P&G’s first ad campaign introduced the all-vegetable shortening as "a healthier alternative to cooking with animal fats. and more economical than butter." With one sentence, P&G had taken on its two closest competitors—lard and butter.
P&G’s next step was a stroke of genius—they published and gave away a cookbook. The Story of Crisco 2looked like most other cookbooks of the era, but there was a difference. All of its 615 recipes, everything from lobster bisque to pound cake, contained—you guessed it—Crisco.
The Stor of Crisco is recognized as a classic in the subtle art of persuasion. Its language and contextual variety are "representative of the pre-WWI social milieu and reflect the urbanization, domestication, commercialization, education (or lack thereof) and simple sophistication of the times." 3 Crisco is presented as healthier, more digestible, cleaner, more economical, more enlightened and more modern than lard. Women who use Crisco are portrayed as good wives and mothers, their houses are free of strong cooking odors and their children grow up with good characters (because, according to the tortured logic of P&G’s advertising department, Crisco is easier to digest).
P&G also had the brilliant idea of presenting Crisco to the Jewish housewife as a kosher food, one that behaved like butter but could be used with meats. Because it made kosher cooking easier, Jews adopted Crisco and margarine—imitation lard and imitation butter—more quickly than other groups, with unforeseen consequences.
I remember switching from lard to Crisco to make pie crust when I was a teenager. We always used lard from the farm, but sometime in the 1960s, Mom innocently brought home our first can of Crisco. We started to use it liberally. That was the overt addition to the diet. What we didn’t know was that Crisco and its cousins were being covertly added to countless food items.
We also didn’t know that the partially hydrogenated oils in Crisco—the trans fatty acids—were bad for us. In fairness to P&G, they didn’t know this either, not at first. But when reports of problems began to appear—problems like increased heart disease, increased cancer, growth problems, learning disorders and infertility—P&G worked behind the scenes to cover them up.4 One scientist who worked for P&G, Dr. Fred Mattson, can be credited with presenting the US government’s inconclusive Lipid Research Clinics Trials to the public as proof that animal fats caused heart disease. He was also one of the baleful influences that persuaded the American Heart Association to preach the phony gospel of the Lipid Hypothesis.
The truth about the dangers of trans fatty acids in foods like Crisco is finally emerging. Perhaps that is why P&G decided to put their flagship product up for sale.
Today when somebody asks me about diet, I make the following recommendation: vigorously seek to eliminate two things—hydrogenated fats and high fructose corn syrup—and you will see noticeable health improvements. Not all hydrogenated fats are made with cottonseed oil today; in fact, most are now made with soybean oil. But by eliminating just these two commodities—which is not as easy as it sounds—you will find that you have eliminated the majority of the "displacing foods of modern commerce" that Weston A. Price spoke about.
Besides all the possible health risks of hydrogenation, I believe there is another compelling reason to avoid Crisco. Just before harvest, cottonseed plants are sprayed with strong defoliating chemicals to make the leaves fall off so that it is easier and cleaner to pick. Do your own research.Type the words "cotton + defoliation" into a web browser and see what you come up with. You will be as amazed as I was. Unfortunately, without the benefits of a lab, it would be hard to know how much harmful residue Crisco actually contains.
However, I can provide some anecdotal evidence. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine who is an alternative health practitioner told me that she kept running into cases in which patients had very severe upset stomachs after eating chips. After a fair bit of investigation and inspiration, she found a common denominator was that they had all been fried in cottonseed oil. She herself had grown up in the South and knew about the practice of cotton defoliation. Since then, she has counseled her patients to avoid cottonseed oil and Crisco.
For obvious reasons, this column on Crisco does not contain recipes.
References
Schisgall, Oscar, Eyes on Tomorrow: The Evolution of Proctor & Gamble , J.G. Ferguson Pub Co., Distributed by Doubleday, 1981.
Neil, Marion Harris, The Story of Crisco: 615 Tested Recipes and a "Calendar of Dinners, Proctor & Gamble, 1913.
Pendleton, Susan C, "Man’s Most Important Food is Fat: The Use of Persuasive Techniques in Proctor & Gamble’s Public Relations Campaign to Introduce Crisco, 1911-1913," PublicRelations Quarterly , March 22, 1999.
Enig, Mary G and Sally Fallon, " The Oiling of America ".
About the author
Weston A. Price Foundation Board Member Linda Forristal is the author of Ode to Sucanat (1993) and Bulgarian Rhapsody (1998). She is currently Life Editor at The World and I Magazine . Visit her website at [HYPERLINK@www.motherlindas.com] .
Information taken From:
[HYPERLINK@www.westonaprice.org]
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving Remeber to get your Free Range Birds
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Jogging is easy and Affordable
Cardio, moving, shedding fat, what's your choice.
Running is a great form of exercise that is really affordable and easy, wake up put on cloths (optional though highly suggested) and take off for a morning job great way to get the day started, women love this allows there mind to do what it's got to do, very stress relieving.
Hey this may not be for you and that is ok, though something must be your choice, because you must choose that is the only option; run, jump rope, jumping jacks for 30 minutes. Finding time just do it right when you wake up get it done and over with so the rest of the day doesn't interfere with the best thing you can do for your mind, body, and spirit.
You may not like it, you may learn to love it, you may want to make it easier with an ipod or some tunes, or my favorite an audio book. Though as nike says just do it. "Get er done" says the cable guy.
Exercise it is the only option to a healthy, abundant life.. so get out there and do it, who needs motivation just do it.. don't worry, be free and just go, now you got it.
here's some info to help below.
Run, Forrest!
Jogging is one of the few exercises you can undertake without membership fees, classes, or expensive equipment. USATF.org provides joggers with a nationwide database of runners' routes, complete with street maps and satellite images. Find a route in your town or post one of your own!
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Arizona Governors Council on Health, Physical Fitness and Sports Award
Nominate Arizona's Top Personal Trainer Scott White for this award for the outstanding leadership award or professional preparation award,
if any fitness, health, and wellness educator should get it it should be Scott White Arizona's top health, physical, and fitness Guru
read below and contact the award department to nominate your favorite personal trainer Scott white
AWARDS PROGRAMS
Nominate corporations, government agencies, media, professionals, schools and individuals to recognize them for successful contributions to the improvement of the health, fitness or recreation opportunities available in the State of Arizona.
In 1989, Arizona Governor Rose Mofford announced the establishment of a statewide physical fitness awards program to recognize both public and private sector efforts to promote a health lifestyle for Arizonans.
The award program was created by the Arizona Governor's Council on Health, Physical Fitness, and Sports. The Council will administer the nominating procedures, the judging and the awards presentations.
From the First Awards Program in 1990, the corporate sponsor has been the Phoenix Suns, whose generous support is greatly appreciated.
The program will honor those individuals, businesses, schools or agencies judged to have made successful contributions toward the promotion or improvement of the health, fitness or recreational opportunities in the state.
Awards are given in the following categories:
- Corporate Wellness Award
- Government Agency Award
- Media Award
- Outstanding Leadership Award
- Health Club Award
- Professional Preparation Award
- Public / Private School Award
- Senior Award
To nominate a person or organization for one of the above awards, complete this form or contact:
Arizona Governor's Council on Health, Physical Fitness and Sports
150 N. 18th Avenue, Suite 300
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
602-364-2401
602-542-1265-Fax
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Children's Physical Activity Guidelines
For more information, contact:
Paula Keyes Kun (703) 476-3461, pkun@aahperd.org
RESTON, VA, December 30, 2003 - - Five years after releasing the first physical activity guidelines for children five to 12 years of age, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) is increasing the recommended amount. The first of four new guidelines recommends at least 60 minutes, and up to several hours of physical activity per day. This is not surprising given the fact that inactivity has contributed to the recent obesity epidemic and sedentary living is a known threat to health.
“With escalating obesity and physical inactivity rates for children, the public’s attention should now be focused to help schools and families across the country bring into action these important guidelines,” said NASPE President George Graham, Ph.D., of Pennsylvania State University. “Schools are critically important to increasing physical activity of children because school programs can affect the behavior of ALL children on a daily basis.”
Lead authors of the revised Physical Activity for Children: A Statement of Guidelines for Children Ages 5-12, are Drs. Charles B. Corbin and Robert P. Pangrazi of Arizona State University. The purpose of this document is to provide parents, physicians, physical education teachers, classroom teachers, youth physical activity leaders, school administrators, and all others dedicated to promoting physically active lifestyles for children with guidelines about appropriate physical activity for pre-adolescent children.
Summary Guidelines
Among the recommendations are the following:
- Children should accumulate at least 60 minutes, and up to several hours, of age appropriate physical activity on all, or most days of the week.
- Children should participate in several bouts of physical activity lasting 15 minutes or more each day.
- Children should participate each day in a variety of age-appropriate physical activities designed to achieve optimal health, wellness, fitness and performance benefits.
- Extended periods (periods of two hours or more) of inactivity are discouraged for children, especially during the daytime hours.
- Expose youngsters to a wide variety of physical activities
- Teach physical skills to help maintain lifetime health and fitness
- Encourage self-monitoring so youngsters can see how active they are and set their own goals
- Individualize intensity of activities
- Focus feedback on process of doing your best rather than on product
- Be active role models.
When asked about barriers to promoting physical activity, the researcher said, “Without any question, the number one barrier to physical activity in schools is the perception that time spent in activity such as physical education and recess will undermine academic learning. The evidence does not support this assumption. We now know is that making time for physical education and physical activity does not reduce academic learning and it may actually increase it.
“Our research shows that children who are physically active during the day in school are much more likely to be physically active after school as well. Energy begets energy! The more fit and alert adults feel the better they perform. This is also true for children.”
Corbin said, “The bottom line is that sedentary living contributes to obesity and chronic diseases later in life. Starting the activity habit early in life is crucial. Children need at least 60 minutes and up to several hours of activity daily. It can be accumulated in many short (15 minutes minimum) intermittent bouts of activity and need not be done in continuous exercise periods that are appropriate for adults. Long periods of inactivity (more than two hours in length) are discouraged.”
To order a copy of the new physical activity guidelines, visit the online bookstore at www.aahperd.org or call 1-800-321-0789. The cost is $12 for NASPE/AAHPERD members, and $16 for non-members. Stock number is 304-10276.
Information about the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) can be found on the Internet at www.naspeinfo.org. NASPE, the largest of the six national associations of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), is a nonprofit membership organization of over 18,000 professionals in the fitness and physical activity fields. NASPE is the only national association dedicated to strengthening basic knowledge about sport and physical education among professionals and the general public. Putting that knowledge into action in schools and communities across the nation is critical to improved academic performance, social reform and the health of individuals.
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