This an excerpt from an article written by Micaela Karlsen, M.S.P.H, shared from a “Forks Over Knives Newsletter”.

They’re all around us – goji berries, chia seeds, maca, pomegranates, and the list goes on. Certain individual foods are labeled “superfoods” by the food industry and so concentrated powders, extracts, oils, and juices of these foods are then marketed as beneficial because of their supposed special effects. The claims around these concentrated forms of certain foods include “improves vitality,” “wards off disease,” or even “boosts libido.” The modern shopper is hopelessly confused as he or she tries to match a host of products with a wide array of specific desired benefits. Even the person on a whole-food, plant-based diet may wonder, “Should I be taking something to make sure I’m getting enough antioxidants?”

In spite of the fact that the word “superfood” is neither a technical nor scientific term, some of these claims about specific nutrients do have research supporting them. However, focusing on any single nutrient or class of nutrients outside the context of the whole, natural foods that contain them is a misplaced emphasis; the total dietary pattern is what most influences health outcomes, even if experimental evidence exists that a particular nutrient may have a given effect on the body.

Popular media defines a “superfood” as a food that contains unusually high amounts of specific nutrients, often antioxidants-substances that combat cell damage due to aging and other factors. It’s easy to fall into thinking that if some is good, more must be better.

What we are forgetting here is that eating more of a nutrient doesn’t necessarily mean that our bodies will use it; absorption and utilization are largely determined by the body’s need at the time of consumption along with many other variables. Drinking pomegranate juice or blueberry extract may do no more than put a hole in our pockets, along with encouraging overconsumption of simple sugars without the fiber those sugars are naturally paired with in the fruit. And in some cases an excess can be every bit as problematic for health as a deficiency.

The example of antioxidants illustrates the misconception around “getting enough” of this class of nutrients. When we’re eating a colorful whole-food, plant-based diet, we don’t need to concern ourselves with antioxidant deficiency. It is when we eat a diet poor in fruits and vegetables (and therefore antioxidants) that we need to worry about getting enough of them. Processed foods contain few antioxidants, because they are stripped during processing. And the antioxidants present in animal foods reside in the animal’s tissues only because it consumed plants during its lifetime. Why not eliminate the middleman and get the antioxidants directly?

When are plant-based “superfoods” good for us? When they are whole and part of a low-fat diet comprised of foods eaten fresh, as grown, then yes – absolutely! Eating colorful foods is beneficial, as long as they are whole foods and not extracts, powders, or concentrated individual nutrients.

Eating for variety and color is a strategy that will deliver all the nutrients we need (with the possible exception of vitamin B12), as long as we are consuming adequate calories. We need not worry about whether or how we are getting enough of certain single nutrients or classes of nutrients. It might be easier to just call a whole-food, plant-based diet a “superdiet” and leave it at that.

Real quick article about the 7 aspects of God’s Love for Mankind as spoken by Ty Gibson on the Three Angels Broadcasting Network recently.

Healthy Breakfast

What Is In Your Food?

Did you know that only 10 percent of the dollar you spend on processed foods actually goes towards real food? Most of the money people spend on packaged foods ( commonly found in the frozen foods section of the market ) goes into processing, adding chemicals ( do you know what some of those ingredients are ) and marketing the food.

Our best value and best option for leading a healthy lifestyle is to buy foods in their natural state. Walk in your produce section and select apples, bok choy, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, kale, melons, peaches, pineapple, spinach, strawberries, and other seasonal produce items.

The best option we all have is to grow our own organic gardens where we live. If you cannot work the garden or have a garden due to your circumstances, check your local area for an organic farmers market. There are farmers markets here where I live in California two times each week. You can taste how good the fresh fruits and vegetables are as they have just been picked recently.

By eating foods as grown, you will detox all of those chemicals out of your body and add in all the phytonutrients from the above real foods and feel great!

Most disease begins as a result of the body not having the right nutrition for keeping the immune system strong. Think of your immune system as the protective shield around your body. When you provide the right nutrients, the shield remains strong. Eat junk foods with chemicals and the shield breaks down and your immunity gets weak and the next thing you know you are sick. The time to seek wellness is NOW, not when you get sick. You are your own best Doctor. Doctor means ‘teacher’.

I can offer you a couple of excellent wellness resources. Get our free book that lists how to seek Optimum Health & Longevity. There is a short form to fill out in the upper right of my website.

You can also come on our weekly Ask Dr. James Chappell conference call and ask the doctor directly your health concern. The calls are held every Wednesday evening at 10 pm Eastern time.

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Here is an excellent video to help you unwind in our stressful world. Tai-Chi meditation is very useful to help people with many health issues.

Get Your Protein from Plant Based Foods

Did you know that Olympic track and field super star Carl Lewis quit eating animal products when he was training for the Olympics? He says that he is still a vegetarian to this day. Watch Carl in this short interview video:

If you like to eat animal products, you are not alone. I grew up in a Southern home in the United States and it was part of our culture to eat animal products at just about every meal. My family was just going along with the mainstream concept that you needed to eat meat to be strong. Fortunately, there is plenty of protein available in plant based foods and vegetarians have known this fact for years.

The way I moved away from eating animal products was a gradual process. I cut out red meat first. I had read too many articles on the internet about mad cow disease and dead animals being ground up and given as feed to other animals.

The next thing I did was cut out eating dark chicken and turkey meat. I ate white chicken breast or turkey breast only for about 3 months. In the meantime, I began learning how to eat vegetarian and vegan foods that looked similar to what the animal dishes looked like. I have an extensive blog with a Healthy Living section that is full of such recipes. Please share these recipes with people you know.

Great Tasting Meals without the Animal Fat

By 2006, I decided to no longer put any animal products in my mouth. I have not had to worry about or deal with excess weight since then. My weight has been steady for many years now even though I am almost 10 years older when I started gradually eliminating animal products from my diet.

A couple of other motivations for me included watching some videos of how animals are slaughtered and learning that pigs have such thick skin that there is only one gland that excretes waste. Scientifically speaking, pigs can carry many harmful organisms on them which can transmit to humans, diseases like trichinosis, Taenia solium, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. Pigs are found to be having many parasitic worms in their digestive tract which can be transferred to the humans either by air or by pork. Hence, pigs are said to be unclean. Here is a video that should make you leave pork alone for the rest of your life.

Did you know that Dr. Colin Campbell did an exhaustive study that followed the rapid increase in the diseases of cancer, diabetes, and obesity in China when the people began eating more animal products? You can access much information from this website and there is a book available.

China Study

With the growth of the world’s population exceeding 7 billion people recently, the ability for the world to feed and sustain all of the people is becoming a large issue. It takes much more land to ranch cattle than it takes to grow vegetables. When we eat vegetables and plant based foods, we get the protein directly and not through the animal. I know I would rather have the nutrients straight from the source.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published an article recently about how the huge surge in demand for animal products cannot be sustained.

“Western Diet Unsustainable for Planet”

“The more animal products people consume, the less likely we are to feed future generations, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. Globally, meat and dairy consumption is expected to increase by 68 and 57 percent, respectively, by 2030. Increased demand for animal products stems not only from population growth, but from increasing affluence among the world’s population, which has shifted from grain-based diets to animal-based diets (meat, dairy products, and eggs).

Production of animal products requires more land and resources than plant-based foods, and now 75 percent of all agricultural land is used for animal production. The negative consequences of consuming more animal products affect the environment and future food availability, as well as world health. Greater animal product consumption is associated with increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.”

Cassidy ES, West PC, Gerber JS, Foley JA. Redefining agricultural yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare.Environ Res Lett. 2013;8:1-8.

Breast Reduction

Patients who suffer from physical symptoms due to their breast size can undergo breast reduction surgery to relieve their symptoms. Doctors believe that breast reduction surgery is an effective method for most patients; according to Dr. Ajaka, a breast reduction can ease pain and improve the shape and size of a woman’s bust.

Exceptionally large breasts cause a myriad of unwanted symptoms: back pain, mobility problems, sleep position problems, shoulder pain and self-esteem problems all stem from a bust that is too large. In recent years, the methods for breast reduction have improved greatly; women no longer need to worry about the scars and pain that were attributed to traditional breast reduction procedures.

A liposuction breast reduction procedure offers women an alternative; the procedure reduces breast size without scars and pain. Liposuction is a quick procedure that doesn’t take long to recover from.

According to Dr. Ajaka, liposuction breast reduction procedures have a low complication rate. The procedure is fairly easy to perform; it has predictable results. Women can undergo this procedure to reduce breast size without having to worry about complications.

The Procedure

The liposuction procedure is fairly simple when compared to other options. After visiting and consulting with a doctor, the patient is given antibiotics and anesthetized. During this time, the patient’s breasts are injected with a solution that decreases bleeding and offers pain relief.

Once the solution settles, small incisions are made on each breast; liposuction is performed through these small incisions. The doctor will remove a predetermined amount of fatty tissue. When the fat is removed, the incisions are closed and the patient is woken up.

Benefits Of Liposuction Breast Reduction

Women choose this procedure because it is not very invasive; the surgery is quick and relatively pain-free. Older methods use large incisions around the areola; this leaves an ugly scar. The large incision tends to be much more painful. Small incisions heal quickly and are less painful.

Traditional breast reduction surgery can take anywhere from two to four hours. A major procedure like this is very tough on the body. In general, it is wise to avoid going to the hospital for a major surgery unless it is important. With liposuction, the procedure takes no longer than an hour; generally, patients are done in half an hour.

According to Dr. Ajaka, recover times with liposuction are fast. The nature of liposuction is much less invasive than traditional breast reduction procedures. A patient can expect to be fully recovered within a couple of days.

When a woman gets liposuction, her breasts maintain their symmetry; doctors can easily extract fat with this procedure. The ease of this procedure allows your doctor to sculpt your breasts so they both look perfect; they can do this without damaging nerves and blood vessels.

Direct Sales Pay Plans

Are you tired of joining home business programs that promise the moon but never seem to deliver for the average person? Every day people are sending my the latest high yield investment programs, gifting programs, cyclers and other get rich quick deals that spring up almost over night on the internet. I admit that when I was desperate to make some money, I fell for some of those so called fast money cyclers. These types of programs prey on new people that think the internet is like a lottery ticket.

There are over 40 million people in North America that make a living online. This number will just continue to grow as the baby boom generation keeps retiring at over 10,000 people every single day!

Why do marketing program compensation plans put barriers to making an income in a home based business? Are the companies just interested in making profits instead of empowering the distributors in the field?

One of the most used statements is that only the people at the ‘top’ or ‘beginning’ ever make any money in a home based business.

Today I can say with certainty that the last statement is just not true. I have been with the same wellness company since 2007 and have downline members that earn more money each month than I do! That makes me feel good! I spend a few minutes each day in prayer asking God to bless the products that I market and sell. I also ask God that the people that are my customers will get measurable results and improved health and well-being.

I also pray for the success of my team members because when someone is making a nice monthly residual income  because they followed our system, we become more successful and the effort just keeps blessing more and more people!

I am in the same direct sales marketing company since 2007. We have a powerful feeder program that pays out 50 percent as wide and deep as you can go on a $40 a month product that gives 9 out of 10 people a significant result in one day.

So unlimited $20 bills is the beginning. Watch this video that is the webinar recorded on 16 September 2013 to learn more about how we use some simple easy to follow steps to home business success in the wellness industry!

The parent company pays out 60 percent on a unilevel that goes down 6 levels. You earn at least $10 on each member of your sales team and the best thing is the volume that people generate includes all of their customers volume. This means you have downline members with $300 to $500 and more of monthly volume and you earn 10 percent on each level of your organization. I have never seen a company pay out $30 to $50 per member.

Let me know if you would like to know more! We even have a free sample that goes out to people around world so it is totally free for people to get introduced to the most powerful system in the industry!

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Hope Can Be Found Within the Human Soul

Have you ever noticed that every man, woman and child has the capability of love?

Love is the ultimate human emotion. This emotion is placed inside the human soul by our Creator.

Why are some people motivated and other people seem to struggle with life? Is it a lack of motivation? Do some people just have more drive or desire in life than other people?

I am not an expert about human emotions. I am not a trained health care provider. I AM a small business person that has noticed human behavior extensively since I began working for myself on the internet in 2005. My watching human behavior comes from having interacted with people from all over the world.

People that succeed are motivated. People that struggle give up for various reasons. How can a human being learn to motivate themselves? Watch this short video that I made about this issue.

So spending time developing our minds and training ourselves with healthy behaviors has a large impact on motivation. I know in the past I was depressed because I listened to network television news programs. Do you have any idea what the goal of these news programs are? Having as many viewers as possible. How do they get the most viewers? By broadcasting bad news and other breaking news about human problems, wars, suffering and disasters that are taking place every single day now.

In 2005, I began my self-development program. Here are some of the key adjustments I made to help myself overcome depression from putting negative media into my mind.

1. Continued Daily Exercise Program That I Started in 1999

2. Cut Out Listening to Negative Programs

3. Participation in Faith Based Church Twice a Week

4. Read Success Books and Motivational Books

5. Started Asking for Guidance on a Daily Basis

6. Started Daily Bible Study

My mood is much better. I do my best to be a positive witness in the world today. I am not perfect. I do not have a lottery ticket for anyone that is looking to build an internet business. What I do takes work. If  you want to come and work on our team and are not scared of doing a little consistent work every day, give me a call.