McDonald’s Rejects Anti-Obesity Campaign, ‘Proud’ of ‘Responsible menu

After shareholders proposed altering the McDonald’s menu to help cut down on climbing obesity rates, particularly childhood obesity rates, it was quickly rejected by both the corporate board and retiring Chief Executive Jim Skinner. Instead of adopting the policy, which was actually drafted in an attempt to enhance worker productivity and overall quality of life, the former CEO instead stated that he was ‘proud’ of McDonald’s menu changes. The quote was matched by the incoming CEO Don Thompson, who stated that the food options were very ‘responsible’.

If you are even slightly familiar with the ingredients present in foods on the McDonald’s menu (yes, even ‘healthy’ salads), then it is obvious to you why these statements are outwardly fictitious. In fact, you need only to examine what exactly makes up a ‘chicken nugget’ at McDonald’s. You would imagine that a chicken nugget would contain the base ingredients of bread, chicken, and some seasoning. In reality, however, the ‘chicken nugget’ contains toxic substances that have contributed to its reputation as one of the worst food items on the planet.

Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/mcdonalds-rejects-anti-obesity-campaign-proud-of-responsible-menu/#ixzz1wHIrK3Vf

The ‘meat’ of a McNugget is actually compromised of 7 different ingredients, many of which have their own sub-ingredients. Real chicken is not even the main ingredient in this ‘flesh formula’, but hazardous and genetically modified ingredients. Sodium phosphate, safflower oil, wheat starch, dextrose, and a particularly dangerous substance known as autolyzed yeast extract all go into making the ‘meat’. It is interesting to note that autolyzed yeast extract is similar to MSG, or monosodium glutamate.

Disturbingly, these are not the worst chemicals found in McNuggets. Dimethylpolysiloxane, a type of silicone, is added as an anti-foaming agent to the nuggets. This is the same ingredient that is used in breast implants and silly putty (and is now being phased out due to health concerns), and this ingredient is now marketed towards children — one-third of which are obese. Apparently ‘responsible’ menu items mean serving kids chemicals that were even considered unsafe in breast implants.

“We’re proud of the changes we’ve made to our menu. We’ve done more than anybody in the industry around fruits and vegetables and variety and choice,” said former CEO Jim Skinner. “We have been very responsible,” the new CEO Don Thompson stated.

McDonald’s higher ups state that their meal choices are both highly responsible and many revolve around ‘fruits and vegetables’. What they fail to mention is the large number of industrial chemicals and contaminants that inhabit their food, and the food found in all fast food restaurants.

Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/mcdonalds-rejects-anti-obesity-campaign-proud-of-responsible-menu/#ixzz1wHJvTloe

The Hidden cause of Obesity

Diet myths abound in the health industry, but one of the biggest myths of all is the idea that a calorie is a calorie, no matter where you get it from, or what the chemical or nutritional makeup of it is. 

If you care about your health and are truly working to keep your weight down, then you need to know the truth about calories as well as the substances that distort how calories work in your body.

For example, sugar is one of the major health topics in the news these days, with "sugar is sugar" news updates, ads, and counter-ads.

Now, a new video, the "Skinny on Obesity", presents a chilling awakening on weight, weight gain, and chronic diseases like dementia, cancer, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.  

Watch it, and you may never look the same way at sugar or calories again. Your body actually treats sugar in the same way it treats alcohol and other toxins. This is in large part how sugars can damage your liver and other organs, and why Dr. Lustig refers to sugar as a toxin. I recently wrote about this at length in the article, Is Sugar Toxic?

Obesity Goes Beyond Aesthetics

While many still shrug at the notion of obesity being anything but an aesthetic issue, this simply isn't a truthful evaluation of the situation. The obesity epidemic threatens not only the health and longevity of a clear majority of people, it also adds a tremendous burden to our health care system. As Dr. Lustig explains in part 1 above, the eight primary diseases related to metabolic dysfunction account for a staggering 75 percent of the healthcare costs in the US.

 These diseases include:

Type 2 diabetes	Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (now affects 1/3 of all Americans)
Hypertension	Polysystic ovarian syndrome (affects 10 percent of American women)
Lipid problems	Cancer
Heart disease	Dementia

The four diseases listed on the top row are conventionally associated with metabolic syndrome. However, as stated by Dr. Lustig, several other diseases fall within this scope as well—which are listed in the bottom row. He also explains that while obesity is associated with metabolic syndrome and all of these diseases, obesity is not the CAUSE of them; it is simply a marker. Rather, the underlying cause is metabolic dysfunction, and excessive sugar/fructose consumption is a primary driver of that.

According to Dr. Lustig, 20 percent of obese people have perfectly normal metabolic functioning, and the excess weight will not affect their overall lifespan. Ditto for 60 percent of normal-weight people. However, the MAJORITY of obese people—about 80 percent of them—do not have normal metabolic function, and 40 percent of normal-weight people also suffer from metabolic dysfunction, and are therefore prone to these obesity-related diseases... All in all, metabolic dysfunction affects a clear majority of Americans.

But why?

What's the Cause of Rampant Metabolic Dysfunction?

One dogma that has contributed to the ever-worsening health of the Western world is the belief that "a calorie is a calorie." This is one of the first things dieticians learn in school. Unfortunately, this is completely FALSE... Another dogmatic belief that simply isn't true is the idea that obesity is the end result of eating too much and exercising too little; i.e. consuming more calories than you're expending. This has led to the view that obese people are simply "lazy."

But as Dr. Lustig points out, there are societal forces at work that go beyond personal responsibility. An increasing number of infants are now obese, and "laziness" is certainly not a label that can easily be affixed to a developing infant. These societal forces include:

Lack of time to prepare and consume proper foods	Alterations in mass food production. Since the 1960's, when saturated fat was incorrectly demonized as the cause of heart disease, processed foods have reduced fat content while simultaneously increasing sugar content (in order to be palatable)	Reduced sleep
Increased stress	Soil depletion (reduced nutrient content in soil)	Alterations in animal husbandry and the feed given to animals. Commercial livestock routinely get antibiotics and genetically engineered feed, for example

As mentioned in the featured video above, the societal changes over the past 60 years or so have created what amounts to a perfect storm; a confluence of dramatically altered food environment combined with reduced physical exertion and increased exposure to, and consumption of, a wide array of industrial and agricultural chemicals that have a detrimental impact on the human biochemistry.

Among the dramatic changes to our food supply is the extensive use of sugar, primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, which is added to virtually all processed foods. And this is where the fallacy of "a calorie is a calorie" comes into play, because a calorie from fat does not impact your body in the same way a calorie from fructose does.

One Calorie Can Be Vastly Different from Another...

According to Dr. Robert Lustig, fructose is "isocaloric but not isometabolic." This means you can have the same amount of calories from fructose or glucose, fructose and protein, or fructose and fat, but the metabolic effect will be entirely different despite the identical calorie count. This is largely because different nutrients provoke different hormonal responses, and those hormonal responses determine, among other things, how much fat you accumulate.

The average American consumes 1/3 of a pound of sugar a day. That's five ounces or 150 grams, half of which is fructose, which is 300 percent more than the amount that will trigger biochemical havoc. And many Americans consume more than twice that amount! Thanks to the excellent work of researchers like Dr. Robert Lustig, as well as Dr. Richard Johnson, we now know that fructose:

• Is metabolized differently from glucose, with the majority being turned directly into fat
• Tricks your body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism, as it turns off your body's appetite-control system. Fructose does not appropriately stimulate insulin, which in turn does not suppress ghrelin (the "hunger hormone") and doesn't stimulate leptin (the "satiety hormone"), which together result in your eating more and developing insulin resistance.
• Rapidly leads to weight gain and abdominal obesity ("beer belly"), decreased HDL, increased LDL, elevated triglycerides, elevated blood sugar, and high blood pressure—i.e., classic metabolic syndrome.
• Over time leads to insulin resistance, which is not only an underlying factor of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, but also many cancers.

This is why the idea that you can lose weight by counting calories simply doesn't work. After fructose, other sugars and grains are likely the most excessively consumed food that promotes weight gain and chronic disease. This also includes food items that are typically viewed as healthy, such as fruit juice or even large amounts of high fructose fruits. What needs to be understood is that when consumed in large amounts, these items will also adversely affect your insulin, which is a crucially potent fat regulator. So yes, drinking large amounts of fruit juice on a daily basis can contribute to weight gain... In short, you do not get fat because you eat too many calories and don't exercise enough. You get fat because you eat the wrong kind of calories. As long as you keep eating fructose and grains, you're programming your body to create and store fat.

Replacing Sugars with Healthy Fats is Key for Reversing Metabolic Syndrome

I believe there are two primary dietary recommendations that, if widely implemented, could help reverse our current disease trend in short order:

1. Severely restricting carbohydrates (sugars, fructose, and grains), and
2. Increasing healthy fat consumption

While health authorities insist that sugar is fine "in moderation," and that grains are an essential part of a healthy diet and can actually help you prevent heart disease, they fail to take into consideration that:

1. Fructose is the NUMBER ONE source of calories in the US. An ingredient that is found in virtually all processed foods cannot be considered "moderate." Even most infant formulas contain the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, which helps explain how six-month old babies can be obese
2. Refined carbohydrates (breakfast cereals, bagels, waffles etc) quickly breaks down to sugar, increase your insulin levels, and cause insulin resistance, which is the number one underlying factor of nearly every chronic disease known to man, including heart disease

Your Body NEEDS Fats for Optimal Function

Fats in general are considered the dietary villains, especially saturated fat, which many people still claim will increase your risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. However, this is simply untrue. The only really dangerous fat out there is trans fat (margarine, vegetable oils). Saturated fats are actually vital for optimal health as they are:

Building blocks for your cell membranes	Useful antiviral agents (caprylic acid)	Effective as an anticaries, antiplaque and anti fungal agents (lauric acid)	Modulators of genetic regulation and prevent cancer (butyric acid)
Needed for production of a variety of hormones and hormone like substances	Carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, and required for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption, and for a host of other biological processes	Useful to actually lower cholesterol levels (palmitic and stearic acids)	Provide a concentrated source of energy

When cutting down on carbs, you generally need to increase your intake of healthy (ideally organic, unprocessed and minimally heated) saturated fats. Both carbs and fats are sources of energy, but saturated fat is actually the preferred fuel for your heart. Another metabolic bonus is that fat does not raise your insulin levels, whereas carbs do. However, it's important to recognize the difference between grain carbs and vegetable carbs.

If you want to lower your insulin levels and reduce fat accumulation, reduce the amount of grains and sugars you eat; NOT your vegetables. In fact, you actually need to radically increase the amount of vegetables you eat when you cut grains, as by volume grains are far denser than vegetables. As for healthy fats, good sources include:

Olives and Olive oil	Coconuts and coconut oil	Butter made from raw grass-fed organic milk
Raw Nuts, such as, almonds or pecans	Organic pastured egg yolks	Avocados
Grass-fed meats	Palm oil	Unheated organic nut oils

Keep in mind that olive oil should not be used for cooking. Instead, use coconut oil for cooking, frying and baking, and save the olive oil for salad dressing. Another healthful fat you want to be mindful of is animal-based omega-3. Deficiency in this essential fat can cause or contribute to very serious health problems, both mental and physical, and may be a significant underlying factor of up to 96,000 premature deaths each year. For more information about omega-3's and the best sources of this fat, please review my previous article:Are You Getting the Right Type of Omega-3 Fats?

How Much Fructose is Too Much?

As a general recommendation, I suggest keeping your total fructose consumption below 25 grams per day, with a maximum of 15 grams from whole fruit. The table at the bottom of this page can help you calculate your fructose from fruit consumption. However, if you have ANY of the following health issues, then you'll want to be very careful to limit fructose to just 15 grams per day or less, and thisincludes fructose from whole fruit. Ideally, you'll want to avoid ALL sources of fructose until your insulin stabilizes, and then proceed with caution.

Insulin resistance	Diabetes	High blood pressure
High cholesterol	High uric acid	Obesity

High uric acid, in particular, is a potent marker for fructose toxicity, so if your levels are above:

• 4 mg/dl for men
• 3.5 mg/dl for women

... then you would be wise to avoid all forms of fructose until your levels have normalized—just as you would with high insulin levels. Here's a quick reference list of some of the most common fruits that you can use to help you count your fructose grams:

Sugar is Both a Fat and a Carb, and this Combo Drives World-Wide Obesity-Related Disease Rates

Sugar is the only calorie source that correlates with the increase in diabetes. In 1985, when the world-wide sugar consumption was 98 million tons, diabetes affected 30 million people. By 2010, sugar consumption had risen to 160 million tons, and global diabetes prevalence reached 346 million people. Overall, sugar is 50 times more potent than calories, in terms of causing diabetes. But why does it have this extraordinarily potent effect?

The answer lies in its unique structure. As just mentioned, it metabolizes as both fat andcarbohydrate, and the reason for this is because it contains both glucose and fructose. These two sugars are not interchangeable, and your body processes each of them differently.

Sucrose (table sugar) is 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is anywhere from 42 to 55 percent fructose depending on which type is used. Glucose is the form of energy your body is designed to run on. Every cell in your body uses glucose for energy, and it's metabolized in every organ of your body; about 20 percent of glucose is metabolized in your liver. Fructose, on the other hand, can only be metabolized by your liver, because your liver is the only organ that has the transporter for it.

Since all fructose gets shuttled to your liver, and, if you eat a typical Western-style diet, you consume high amounts of it, fructose ends up taxing and damaging your liver in the same way alcohol and other toxins do. In fact, fructose is virtually identical to alcohol with regards to the metabolic havoc it wreaks. According to Dr. Lustig, fructose is a "chronic, dose-dependent liver toxin." And just like alcohol, fructose is metabolized directly into fat—not cellular energy, like glucose. So eating fructose is really like eating fat—it just gets stored in your fat cells, which leads to mitochondrial malfunction.

Not even fatty fruits like avocado or coconut have this effect, because your body treats them as either a fat or a carb—not both. Sugar is the only food that functions as both a fat and a carb simultaneously, and it is this combination of fat and carb that causes metabolic derangements and, subsequently, disease. So, please, don't be fooled: when it comes to sugar, the claim you hear on TV, that "sugar is sugar" no matter what form it's in, is a misstatement that can, quite literally, kill you—albeit slowly.

To further explain the differences between glucose and fructose, and the similarities between fructose and ethanol (alcohol), let's review how each is metabolized in your body.

Glucose Metabolism: Glucose is a product of photosynthesis and is found in rice, corn and other grains. Once you take in glucose from a meal, 80 percent of it is used by all of the organs of your body; 20 percent goes to your liver to be metabolized and stored. The following is what happens to that 20 percent, once it reaches your liver (this is normal, and how your body was designed to operate):

• Whatever glucose your body doesn't need immediately gets converted into glycogen for storage in your liver. Glycogen can be easily converted to energy when you need it. Your liver has no limit to how much glycogen it can store without detrimental effects.
• A small amount of pyruvate is produced, which ends up being converted to ATP (the chemical storage form of energy) and carbon dioxide.
• Insulin is released by your pancreas in response to the rise in blood glucose (i.e., blood sugar), which helps the glucose get into your cells. Without insulin, your cells would not be able to process the glucose and therefore would have no energy for movement, growth, repair, or other functions. Insulin is key to unlocking the door of the cell to allow the glucose to be transferred from the bloodstream into the cell.
• When you consume 120 calories of glucose, less than ONE calorie contributes to adverse metabolic outcomes.

Fructose Metabolism: 100 percent of the fructose you consume goes directly to your liver. Fructose metabolism creates a number of adverse effects, including:

• Fructose is immediately converted to fructose-1-phosphate (F1P), depleting your liver cells of phosphates. This process produces waste products in the form of uric acid. Uric acid blocks an enzyme that makes nitric oxide, which is your body's natural blood pressure regulator. Hence your blood pressure rises, leading to hypertension. Elevated uric acid levels can also cause gout.
• Almost all of the F1P is turned into pyruvate, ending up as citrate, which results in de novo lipogenesis, the end products of which are free fatty acids (FFAs), very low-density lipoproteins (VLDLs are smaller, denser LDLs that get stuck beneath your epithelial cells and stimulate plaque formation), and triglycerides. The end result is hyperlipidemia.
• Fructose stimulates g-3-p (activated glycerol), which is the crucial molecule for creating triglycerides within fat cells. The more g-3-p that is available, the more fat is deposited.
• FFAs are exported from your liver and taken up in skeletal muscle, causing skeletal muscle insulin resistance. Some of the FFAs also stay in your liver, leading to fat accumulation, hepatic insulin resistance and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
• Insulin resistance stresses your pancreas, which pumps out more insulin in response to rising blood sugar as your cells are unable to get the sugar out of your bloodstream, and this can progress to type 2 diabetes.
• When you consume 120 calories of fructose, about 40 calories contribute to adverse metabolic outcomes.

Ethanol Metabolism: After consuming an alcoholic beverage, 10 percent of the ethanol gets broken down by your stomach and intestine as a "first pass" effect, and another 10 percent is metabolized by your brain and other organs. The fact that ethanol is partially metabolized in your brain is the reason you experience that familiar "buzz." The remaining 80 percent is broken down by your liver, causing the following metabolic cascade:

• Your liver converts ethanol to aldehydes, which produce free radicals that damage proteins in your liver. Excess citrate is formed in the process, stimulating the production of FFAs, VLDL and triglycerides.
• The resulting lipids, together with the ethanol, create a cascade of inflammation, causing hepatic insulin resistance, liver inflammation and cirrhosis. Fat accumulation in your liver can also lead to fatty liver disease.
• FFAs cause your skeletal muscles to become insulin resistant. This is a worse form of insulin resistance than hepatic insulin resistance and can lead to type 2 diabetes.
• When you consume 120 calories of ethanol, about 40 calories contribute to adverse metabolic outcomes—the same amount as fructose

As you can see, in nearly every way, fructose is metabolized the same way as ethanol, creating the same toxic effects in your body. However, while Dr. Lustig uses the term "liver toxin" to describe fructose, he's also careful to note that it's not fructose per se that is toxic. There are instances when your body can use it. The problem is that people consume so MUCH of it that it turns toxic by virtue of the fact your body cannot use it. It simply gets shuttled into your cells and stored as fat. So it's the MASSIVE DOSES you're exposed to that make it dangerous.

When you compare the health outcomes of fructose versus alcohol consumption, you end up seeing a very familiar pattern—the diseases they cause are virtually identical!

Chronic Ethanol Consumption	Chronic Fructose Consumption
Hypertension	Hypertension
Cardiomyopathy	Myocardial infarction
Dyslipidemia	Dyslipidemia
Pancreatitis	Pancreatitis
Obesity	Obesity
Hepatic dysfunction (ASH)	Hepatic dysfunction (NASH)
Fetal alcohol syndrome	Fetal insulin resistance
Addiction	Habituation, if not addiction

 For further education on this subject visite Dr. Mercola at:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/07/the-sweetener-that-is-more-dangerous-than-alcohol.aspx?e_cid=20120513_SNL_MV_1

Porque los Biligues son mas Inteligente

No podia resistir poner esta inportante informacion, especialmente para mis compañeros de negocio que les falta aprender el ingles. De los mejores cursos caseros en el mercado, el mas reconocido se llama, the Roseta Stone. Es usado por el ejercito de los estados unidos. En 8 semanas hablan fluido en cualquier idioma.

Disfruta: Terry F. Muniz

SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development.

They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.

Bilinguals, for instance, seem to be more adept than monolinguals at solving certain kinds of mental puzzles. In a 2004 study by the psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Michelle Martin-Rhee, bilingual and monolingual preschoolers were asked to sort blue circles and red squares presented on a computer screen into two digital bins — one marked with a blue square and the other marked with a red circle.

In the first task, the children had to sort the shapes by color, placing blue circles in the bin marked with the blue square and red squares in the bin marked with the red circle. Both groups did this with comparable ease. Next, the children were asked to sort by shape, which was more challenging because it required placing the images in a bin marked with a conflicting color. The bilinguals were quicker at performing this task.

The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving.

Why does the tussle between two simultaneously active language systems improve these aspects of cognition? Until recently, researchers thought the bilingual advantage stemmed primarily from an ability for inhibition that was honed by the exercise of suppressing one language system: this suppression, it was thought, would help train the bilingual mind to ignore distractions in other contexts. But that explanation increasingly appears to be inadequate, since studies have shown that bilinguals perform better than monolinguals even at tasks that do not require inhibition, like threading a line through an ascending series of numbers scattered randomly on a page.

The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompea Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it.

The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old age (and there is reason to believe that it may also apply to those who learn a second language later in life).

In a 2009 study led by Agnes Kovacs of the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, 7-month-old babies exposed to two languages from birth were compared with peers raised with one language. In an initial set of trials, the infants were presented with an audio cue and then shown a puppet on one side of a screen. Both infant groups learned to look at that side of the screen in anticipation of the puppet. But in a later set of trials, when the puppet began appearing on the opposite side of the screen, the babies exposed to a bilingual environment quickly learned to switch their anticipatory gaze in the new direction while the other babies did not.

Bilingualism’s effects also extend into the twilight years. In a recent study of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals, scientists led by the neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals with a higher degree of bilingualism — measured through a comparative evaluation of proficiency in each language — were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset.

Nobody ever doubted the power of language. But who would have imagined that the words we hear and the sentences we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint?

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a staff writer at Science.

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Ingredientes de FLUSH

Detoxify/Desintoxicar (primera parte español - the rest in English)

Desechos metabólicos; son substancias sobrantes del proceso de excreción celular o sobrantes del consumo de energía.  Substancias son materia de compuestos químicos constantes como el agua, sal, sucrosa, sulfa, etc.… Alguna de estas substancias no puede ser usada por el organismo, inclusive pueden ser letales para el sistema. Estos incluyen la familia de compuestos de nitrógeno, Dióxido de carbono, sulfa, medicamentos y aditivos comestibles, etc.

Ingredientes en Flush:

Senna Benefits

Senna is an herb that is generally used for its laxative properties. Senna is also known as cassia senna, wild senna, cassia marilandica, or locust plant. It works by interacting with the bacteria in the digestive track, resulting in intestinal contractions. These contractions are caused by the anthraquinone that is contained in senna. These dimeric glycosides anthraquinone derivatives are known as Senna glycosides or sennosides. They are named after their abundant occurrence in these plants of the genus Senna. The main forms of these glycosides are often referred to by: A, B, C & D. Both leaves and pods of the senna plant are used for their laxative effects. The pods are less potent than the leaves.

Senna is found in many tropical countries. The plant has been used in India for thousands of years as a laxative. It can be found in capsule and tablet form, tea bags and loose tea, as well as liquid extracts. The undiluted dried root can be found in health food stores.

How Does Senna Work?

Senna contains glycosides, which are a group of organic compounds that are commonly found in plants. These compounds work as a laxative by smoothing the muscles as digested food moves through the intestines. This helps to enhance the stool volume and move it out of the colon. The process is caused by the chain of fatty acids that promote digestion, fermentation, and successfully converting the glycosides into a purgative agent.

How to Use Senna

Senna is generally used by people suffering from constipation. For relief, a person should take ½ teaspoon of the liquid, or one 50 or 100 mg capsule or tablet. After taking the Senna, a bowel movement should occur within six to 12 hours. There is also a tea available, but since Senna has an unpleasant taste naturally, it is good to mix the tea with another flavor of tea.

Senna is the ingredient in the commercial laxative suppository called Senokot. The suppositories are inserted into the rectum for constipation relief.

Herramientas para distribuidores de Xyngular.

(Traducido por Carole Gelpi)

Cómo encender sus negocios con herramientas que se puedan llevar a todas partes.

Las muestras, volantes, y  tarjetas de visita de Xyng ™ y los folletos de Ignite ™ son herramientas que se pueden llevar a todas partes para que estés preparado para compartir cada vez que comienzas a entablar una conversación. Una herramienta es como otra voz, diciendo a su interlocutor que usted tiene un negocio real apoyándolo.

Pero no deje tirado un montón de folletos, volantes, y tarjetas de visita por ahí. Cada vez que dé alguno de ellos a alguien a la mano, es de vital importancia dejarle saber a la persona su valor antes de entregarlo. De lo contrario, no es probable que lo lea. Cuando usted los vuelva a llamar le van a decir, "no los he mirado todavía."Si usted escucha esta contestación, usted sabe que usted no ha hecho su trabajo dándole a su  herramienta el valor que merece. Además, que al así hacerlo sus probabilidades de poder llevar a cabo el mensaje deseado aumentaran.

Déjeles saber  lo siguiente diciéndoles: "Con lo que  tienes en tu mano ahora mismo, en tan sólo unos meses la gente de nuestro equipo están haciendo cientos de dólares al mes a tiempo parcial. Algunos están haciendo tanto como $ 10 y $ 15 al mes, y el mismo tipo de cosas está comenzando a sucederme a mí también. ¡Es increíble! Es necesario echarle un vistazo. No importa si en estos momentos usted solo esté haciendo 50 dólares al mes si continua siguiendo el sistema de Xyngular, lo logrará.”

Pero si usted aprende a contar su historia, diciendo que está comenzando a suceder para usted, al igual que para otros, entonces usted no tendrá que explicar exactamente cuánto dinero usted está haciendo ahora, ya que usted está construyendo su propia historia que ellos pueden verificar. Así usted nunca tendrá que responder a las preguntas inquisitivas de sus padres o sus hermanos, "¿Cuánto dinero estás haciendo?" Nunca surgirá motivo para  plantear la pregunta. Siempre apunte utilizando a una de las herramientas (folletos, volantes, tarjetas de visita) cuando esté hablando con alguien. Diga, "por lo que hay en este pequeño folleto, un amigo mío perdió 100 libras en 90 días. Es increíble. Y yo he estado perdiendo hasta 5 libras por semana."

Si usted le da valor a estas herramientas, las probabilidades son de 3 a 5 veces mayor que las leerán. Si cuando usted los llame para dar seguimiento  todavía no han mirado el material, cuénteles otra historia similar. Dígales que, debido a lo que van a leer en este folleto o ver en la página Web de Xyngular, que lo mismo les puede suceder a ellos.

Las muestras de Xyng han logrado hacer toda la diferencia en los negocios de algunas personas porque son fáciles de regalar, los contactos se sienten obligados a probarlas, y luego se sienten obligados a responder a su llamada de seguimiento. Es mucho más probable que alguien se inscribe cuando se les ha dado a probar una muestra de lo que es Xyng, en vez de presentarles el producto mediante llamada telefónica o presentación solamente.

Una vez más, asegúrese de darle a Xyng la publicidad y su valor antes de dar seguimiento, sino quiere que lo guarden en un botiquín para un día ya olvidado deshacerse del mismo. XYNG es un nombre tan convincente y consigue resultados tan rápidos, que es fácil recordar cómo se sintió la primera vez que lo probó. Pero asegúrese de dar seguimiento rápidamente después del día que lo dio para probar.

Es muy bueno dejar una muestra cuando se anda apurado o de prisa. Ofrece una oportunidad para dar seguimiento y conseguir que una persona acceda a recibir una llamada de 3 vías. La muestra va a despertar curiosidad y urgencia  en la persona a la cual usted se la dio, y ésta será más propensa a responder positivamente cuando usted llame.

PASOS A SEGUIR:

1. Imprima suficientes folletos de su back office para repartir 3 al día durante una semana. Ordene suficiente folletos de Ignite, para siempre tener bastante a mano. Solicitar tarjetas de negocios. Ordenar Xyng extra para entregar muestras.

2. Practique como va a presentar los productos adecuadamente dándole el valor merecido a las muestras que entregue. A continuación, monitorear la respuesta cuando  le devuelva la llamada o usted de seguimiento. ¿Cuántas personas leen el folleto o se fue a la página Web? Cambia su anuncio hasta que usted pueda maximizar su eficacia y ayudar a los nuevos distribuidores con sus anuncios también.


Link to article in english
https://www.xyngular.com/email/blubrs_popups/ignite22412.htm

Thanks Terry. comment.

Middle East problems

Referring to the Middle East problems – my comments on a Blog:

Rather than give an opinion on such a complex issue, I decided to educate myself in this whole issue of Muslims and Christians. To understand I read the book. Infidel, by Ayaan Hirshi Ali. I got a pretty good insight on how Muslim women live. Especially her graphic explanation on how she and her sister suffered when two clerics – not doctors – cut off their “clitoris” in cold blood and without any regard for infection, pain or anything else. Wow! That was a wake up call. The rest of her life is a really profound incite on these Muslim beliefs. If American females were to ever read this, it would surely change their perspective. The person on the enclosed website explains where the next world conflict might be. I make no judgments… you decide.  http://www.agorafinancial.com/reports/OST/NewWar/vp/OST_NewWar_vp.php?code=LOSTM514

Then I read, Hatred’s Kingdom, by Dore Gold. I didn’t even know what a Wahhabi was and how they have fanned the flames of Al-Qaeda’s fury and how and why the Saudi support all of this. On the other side of the fence I read this thick book called, Israel’s Secret Wars.  Westerners, Americans, believe me; we are very innocent about the happenings on this earth. OK so both sides are dead set on that they OWN the TRUE God; so how are we going to consolidate this. Hum! 

Let’s put Christians into the soup. The continents of North and South America believe in the Bible, yet only 31 % have read some parts of it. 24% have never read it, yet they would die for the principle of the bible. Now if you really want to blow your mind read, “The Book the Church doesn’t want you to Read” by Tim C. Leedom. If you are a True Christian, you’re going to have a lot of trouble finishing this book. You are not going to want to release all your beliefs, and neither are the Muslims, nor the Jews. Clash is inevitable.

Why does the Vatican own one of the worlds best telescopes? For that I read, “The Christ Conspiracy” by Acharya S. The entire bible and all Christian belief are based on… astrological readings!? Impossible! Hum!  All current wars, Middle East, Africa, etc… are based on clashes of religious belief. Ah! I found the solution. I found It. The Book, “The End of Faith”. He suggest that if we erase every historical reference from the time the astronauts landed in their Rocket Ship on Mount Sinai to hand over the 10 commandments (which 90% of Christians don’t know what they are anyway) to the invention of the Biblical Christ at the Counsel of Nisea, and we got rid of all reference to a God and replaced it with “something like” the Buddhist belief, all wars would end. Well… wishful thinking, but that is not going to happen… is it?

But wait a minute… what about all this Mythology, by C. Scott Littleyton. Well, it is just a bunch of stories, right. Well maybe not. Why is it that all the mythological stories are very similar regardless of what part of the world they are coming from or referring too? Is there a common point of reference? National Geographic’s thinks so. Ancient Sumerian tablets which date back 20,000 years have begun to be deciphered recently. Some of this secret information is held by the Masson’s… Is it possible that Homo sapiens evolved from Homo erectus, or was there a genetic intervention somewhere? If so who? Well, Graham Hancock in his book Fingerprints of the Gods begins to revel some INTERESTING thing about man kind, but Michael Tellinger, in his book “slave species of god” blow the whole lid wide open, If ALL the people on this planet open up to all this information, we would make a enormous progress. Maximillien de Lafayette makes some pretty wild and extensive claims in the Encyclopedia of the Anunnaki… but maybe it is NOT so wild. NASA is not calling the approaching Neptune size planet Nibiru, but they are calling it Nemisis. So, were we going to end up people? The “48 Laws of Power” shows us that we have no choice. The choice has been made; it is a matter of when the world will act on it. And it is very destructive. Robert Kiyosaki in his book, “Conspiracy of the Rich” demonstrates WHO is doing the pushing and why. Can we mere mortals get prepared? Where did you say your moving to; Costa Rica or was it, never mind… don’t let the Invisible Gorilla get you by Christopher Chabris.

Are Cell Phones Killing The Bees?

Pesticides, climate changes, fungal pathogens and more are thought to cause the world’s rapid bee decline. A new Swiss study tested the theory that cell phone frequencies are confusing and interrupting bees’ communications. Researchers observed the bees after nearby calls were placed. They showed increased swarming activity and increased hive noise by 10 percent. Confused worker bees are unlikely to return to their hive, especially when cell phones are nearby.

It isn’t the first study of its kind. Last year, Indian research found the same results when they attached devices to certain hives. Before that, there were more reports of bees abandoning their hives after cell phone exposure. Some of the information found more incidents of swarming – remember all the strange swarming reports? Just a few days ago, bee swarms and attacks disrupted a Philippines airport, affecting seven flights! At lease one passenger was stung by multiple bees.

An officer was trapped in his patrol car for three hours after 50,000 angry honeybees descended

There’s already an internet backlash claiming that cell phones killing bees is a stretch, that studies did not suggest instant death. Sure, cell phones are not a type of electro-Raid, though disturbances and confusion have been proven. “The study did not show that mobile phones were deadly for bees.” Favre said. ”But one hypothesis is that electromagnetic fields could be contributing to the disappearance of bee colonies around the world,” he added.

But the Indian study did in fact note a population and egg decline with hives carrying a device. The limited use of cellular frequency, however, won’t necessarily stop the bee colony collapse disorder, which can be caused by a number of factors.

It’s unlikely there will be any kind of limited cell phone use, but it is possible to use a different frequency and preclude bee deaths. The lead researcher below concluded that bees in a more natural state away from mobile phone apparatuses could produce hopeful results. Perhaps these findings will lead to changing frequencies and to shifting colonies and replenishing the bee population in cleaner, remote areas, with more nutritional bio-diversity and less cellular frequency and pollution.

~Health Freedoms

Are Cell Phones Killing The Bees?

New experiments find that cell phone signals may confuse bees. What does this mean for our food supply?

Do you enjoy eating? Then you may not be too happy if bee populations plunge. That’s because out of the 100 crops that provide 90% of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees–and according to the UN, local drops in the bee population are being reported by beekeepers all over the planet. And the whole thing may be our fault: A new paper (PDF) from Swiss researcher Daniel Favre claims that part of the problem is our obsession with cell phones.

According to Favre, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, phone signals may confuse honeybees so much that they become fatally disoriented. Favre and his team performed 83 experiments that recorded honeybees’ reaction to nearby cell phones in off, standby, and call-making mode. The result: Honeybee noise increases by 10 times when a phone call is made or received. Normally, an increase in noise, or “worker piping,” is used as a signal for bees to leave their hives. But in this case, it just makes them confused. Favre explains:

Worker piping in a bee colony is not frequent, and when it occurs in a colony, that is not in a swarming process, no more than two bees are simultaneously active (Pratt et al. 1996). The induction of honeybee worker piping by the electromagnetic fields of mobile phones might have dramatic consequences in terms of colony losses due to unexpected swarming.

A similar report in 2007 showed that bees won’t come back to their hives when cell phones are placed nearby–another hint that handsets disrupt bee orientation. There isn’t too much we can do about this without dismantling our cell phone culture, and that’s never going to happen. In any case, neither of these studies conclusively prove that cell phones are behind all the recent bee deaths.

Bayer’s clothiandin, a pesticide used to pre-treat corn seeds, is also thought to be killing honeybees. And the UN suspects that several other factors are all working together to kill bees, including air pollution (this can disorient bees), virulent fungal pathogens that are spread via trade, and climate change (altered rainfall patterns can change plants’ flowering times, which in turn affects nectar supplies). It’s possible, in other words, that modern society in general is to blame for the death of the bees. So unless we shut down all of our factories and power plants, nix international trade, stop using pesticides, and turn off our cell phones, we may need to find some other pollination solution–or some more cell-phone and climate change-friendly bees.

Update: Daniel Favre emailed us the following statement regarding his study:

“Active mobile phone handsets have a dramatic impact on the behavior of the bees, namely by inducing the worker piping signal. In natural conditions, worker piping either announces the swarming process of the bee colony or is a signal of a disturbed bee colony. For future experiments, in complement to the present original study and in order to reach more ‘natural’ conditions, mobile phone apparatuses should be placed at various increasing distances away from the hives. We should ask ourselves, whether the plethora of mobile phone masts also have an impact on the behaviour of the honeybees. Among other factors such as the varroa mite and pesticides, signals from mobile phones and masts could be contributing to the decline of honeybees around the world. I am calling the international scientific community for more research in this field.”

BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ

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Acids the Good and the Bad

Acids Good And Bad

Para los Naturópatas, esta es una de nuestras mejores herramientas - leelo.

April 25, 2011 by Bob Livingston

There are good acids and bad acids in the body. Unfortunately, most people spend their time and money neutralizing the good acid with over-the-counter medications while they increase levels of the bad acid with a diet of processed foods, too much meat and exposure to toxins and pollutants.

The body needs to be slightly alkaline with a homeostatic pH of 7.35 to 7.45. (The term pH refers to the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, 7.0 being the neutral level of most water. The pH scale runs from 0 to 14. Above 7.0 represents increasing levels of alkalinity. Below 7.0, substances become exponentially acidic.)

The bad acid is the acid that builds up in the body tissues. Excess acid in the body — or low pH — causes fatigue and shortness of breath and prevents apoptosis (normal cell death). This leads to malignancies and the breakdown of body tissues and organs. Individuals with chronically acidic systems use up oxygen reserves quickly, whereas the body in an alkaline state produces oxygen.

Over-acidity leads to toxin accumulation and oxygen depletion. The body tries to combat excess acidity by trying to neutralize it with oxygen. To do so it must continually divert oxygen away from its primary metabolic functions and direct it toward the acidic cells and tissues. This means that as we get more acidity we have less oxygen and shorter breath.

Older people are, of course more acidic. Acidity interferes with our electromagnetic currents, creating more acid in the body. An acidic body means death.

Blood pH must be in balance (slightly alkaline) to prevent clumping of red blood cells so they can flow into the smallest capillaries to deliver oxygen.

Acid actually strips away the negative charge of red blood cells and causes them to clump. This means less oxygen gets to your cells.

Acid also weakens red blood cells and they begin to die. We get fewer nutrients and our energy level begins to drop.

Infectious micro-organisms thrive in low pH or acid environments.

The modern American diet of refined foods is highly acidic. This creates a volume of waste acids which is symptomatic of acid indigestion or "heartburn." This is discomfort from fermenting waste acids, not from too much of the good acid, which is the hydrochloric acid (HCl) in the stomach.

Instead, it is a symptom of too little HCl. Adequate HCl would prevent organic acids (waste acids) in the first place, and negative symptoms would never appear.

HCl is the only acid the body produces. All other acids in the body are toxic acids of fermentation created by our environment and diet.

HCl is absolutely essential for life. Without it the body cannot make the proper chemical conversions to alkalinity.

The life-giving and life-sustaining function of HCl is to break down food as it arrives in the stomach. If HCl is insufficient, food becomes a mass of poorly digested acid waste residues called organic acids of fermentation. It manifests itself in what is termed acid indigestion and heartburn. Acid reflux is a symptom.

As most of you know, the pharmaceutical answer to this is antacids. These compound the problem by making the low and insufficient stomach acid even lower. Temporary relief hides this fraudulent commerce.

If you take antacids you must understand that all they do is temporarily quiet the waste acids of fermentation caused by low stomach acid in the first place. The only therapy for low stomach acid — or low HCl — is more hydrochloric acid, not less.

Over time, reduced HCl foretells and guarantees illness — and finally death — with stomach cancer.

Hydrochloric acid begins a disturbing decline around age 40, though today it shows up at all ages because of our refined carbohydrate diets.

Adequate HCl is our first line of defense against the various destructive microbes that enter the body by way of food. HCl actually kills and digests pathogens. It also cleans up detrimental waste acid byproducts. Therefore, it is critical that everyone understands that adequate HCl levels greatly reduce tissue acid waste buildup.

HCl keeps us alive by maintaining proper alkaline/acid balance and then becomes alkaline after its vital job in the digestive process is done. Eight essential amino acids, two vitamins and 15 minerals are dependent on proper HCl for absorption. Vitamin B12 and folic acid simply will not be absorbed from food sources without adequate HCl in the stomach.

So what can we do to help our bodies maintain a proper pH and proper levels of HCl?

First, diet is essential. There foods and drinks that help prevent high acidity:

Water — Drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water each day. To every other glass of water you drink add one-fourth teaspoon of sea salt (unless you are salt sensitive or have high blood pressure). Be sure to alkalize your water using an alkaline supplement available from a company that sells nutritional supplements.

Fruits and vegetables — Most fruits and vegetables are alkaline-forming foods, especially citrus fruits, which are acidic but turn alkaline when consumed. They are best eaten in raw form as often as possible. At the top of the list are pears, apples, watermelon, bananas, strawberries, cucumbers, egg plant, onions, pickles, string beans, asparagus (even canned asparagus is an acid reducer), shiitake mushrooms, spinach, carrots, radishes, cabbage, squash, sweet potatoes, turnips and turnip greens and garlic.

Potatoes — They are alkaline-forming when eaten with the skin on.

Other foods — Coffee, egg whites and cayenne pepper.

Natural sea salt mixed in water or a supplement of betaine hydrochloride can help you maintain adequate levels of HCl in the stomach, which can eliminate the symptoms of heartburn or acid indigestion.

HCl therapy to combat infections was an oft-employed tactic in the first half of the 20th Century. Burr Ferguson, M.D., and Walter Bryant Guy, M.D., advanced the knowledge and use of the principles of HCl therapy.

They and a few other forward-thinking physicians administered HCl intravenously and intramuscularly with astounding results in patients showing severe distress, high fever or with large tumors. The results were recorded at the time in The Medical World Journal. That research was compiled into a book, Three Years of HCl Therapy, by Roy W. Huntsman.

Among the success stories of people were treated with HCl therapy:

• An 87-year-old woman whose large colon tumor disappeared in four months.
• A 50-year-old man with a growth in his gallbladder who was told he was near death but had his tumor vanish in less than a year.
• An 8-year-old girl with tuberculosis whose lungs were healed.
• A 73-year-old woman had her breast cancer disappear.
• A 15-year-old girl, near death with a massive infection after childbirth and suffering from extremely high fever and delirium, recovered after a couple of weeks.
• A 43-year-old man received complete relief from migraines after two weeks of therapy.

There are many more stories just like these. They are stories you never hear from mainstream medicine.

The information for this article was taken from the books Acid and Alkaline by Herman Aihara,Alkalize or Die by Dr. Theodore A. Baroody and Three Years of HCl Therapy.

The book, Three Years of HCl Therapy is no longer in print. It is currently selling on Amazon.com for as much as $51. It contains documented cases of HCl therapy success stories in treating diseases and conditions like diabetes, pneumonia, malaria, meningitis, toxemia and many others.