Diet for a New America

Prelude:
"I think what I really learned in all of this was to be true to myself, to be true to my inner voice. I began to see that we really do have the power. Our own lives really do make a difference. Just by being more conscious of the food that we eat, we can heal ourselves, we can heal the environment, we can heal this planet."


This is the story of  John Robbins who walked away from his  family fortune. Below is excerpted from his video, "Diet for a New America."

"When I was young, my family was very disappointed in me. My father had built a very successful business, Baskin Robbins and he groomed me to follow in his footsteps. As I began to mature my own conscience pulled   me in a different direction. My father had accomplished the American dream, yet I felt drawn to a deeper dream, a dream where society is at peace with its conscience because it lives with respect for life, with reverence for life.

And soon enough I left.  And I walked away from the ice-cream coned shaped swimming pool in our backyard (laughter) and the whole life style. I told my family I dd not want a life trust fund, that I didn't want any access or reliance on the family fortune. I really wanted to follow my integrity, follow the call of my conscience and just see what that would do. I had no idea but being young and reckless and a little flip inside, I felt like giving it a shot.

And so I left the family's empire and moved to a little island off the coast of British Columbia with my wife and we cleared land and we built the log cabin. We began to grow all our own food and we began to weave ourselves back into the web of life and trying to our dig roots down into the earth community and feel what that would be like. We lived on about $600 a year for about 7 years. It was a real pendulum swing, I am sure you can tell. (Laughter).

And my father and family..... I mean I cannot really understand his point, he thinks I am crazy. He worked so hard to attain that success and had done so and here I was walking away from it. He couldn't understand, I didn't understand him either, I  must admit.

I was sick physically. I had a form of polio as a child that left me for a time paralyzed  from the waist down. I had some fairly substantial health problems when I was growing up. And this led me to be very, very interested in how I could regain my health.

I explored and experimented with different diets. And I begun to look at what most of us eat in this culture and I begun to wonder what impact that has on our health. Heart attacks, certain cancers, osteoporosis, diabetes and major diseases of our society may be caused in part by what we eat.

One of the physicians who helped me to understand why is Dr. Michael Klaper."


Follow John Robbins fascinating story below -a series of 8 videos:

  

Care to share what you think of this "Diet For a New America?" What can we do collectively, knowing what we know now from this video?

3 Skills Every Entrepreneur Needs

Want to start your own business? These three assets will lay the groundwork for success.

The 3 skills you need:
1. Perseverance
2. Respect
3. Innovation

Read more from Inc. Magazine

Success From Home: One To One with JR Ridinger

Success From Home: One To One with JR Ridinger
Learn from the person who started it all - candid and direct.

 

 Success From Home: The Unfranchise System with JR Ridinger

 

The Answer to a Long Life

How it all started....

It began in 1534, when French explorer Jacques Cartier led an expedition up the St. Lawrence River. He and his crew encountered bad weather, trapped and in unknown territory, they had to survive with what food were   available to them - salted meat and biscuits. Forced with such a ration, soon Cartier's men began to show symptoms of scurvy. Many of his men died before a chance encounter with a Native American who showed them how to make tea from pine tree bark and needles. This concoction proved to be a life saver to Cartier and his remaining crew members.

About 400 years later, a French Professor Jacques Masquelier; Ph.D. of the University of Bordeaux, France, was reading about Cartier's exploration, and how he and some crew members survived. Intrigued, he did research on pine bark and discovered it has amazing properties. Besides containing some vitamin C, it also contained bioflavonoids which has similar effects to those of vitamin Cs.

Other circumstances also led him to more research on his amazing discovery as you can peruse below.


Following is from the Health +News magazine, Volume 5, Number 3.

Dr. Jack Masquelier, Ph.D., is the discoverer and  world's leading expert on oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs).

OPCs can save you from the danger of free radicals.  At least sixty degenerative diseases, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and depression have been linked to free radicals. For years, scientists searched desperately for a strong antioxidant to battle free radicals.

In 1987, a patent was issued for a wonder product called oligomeric proanthocyanidins (known as OPCs), a super-antioxidant that is twenty to fifty times more powerful than antioxidants we produce in our bodies. The man behind OPCs is Dr. Jack Masquelier.

Dr. Masquelier began his study of antioxidants in 1947 at the University of Bordeaux in France. Farmers in the area were anxious to know if the red pigment from peanut skins in their livestock feed were toxic, so the government asked Masquelier to research the possibility.

While conducting his research on peanut skins and pine bark, he isolated the first OPCs ever identified. He was able to verify that the OPCs could defend against free radical attacks.

Dr. Masquelier wrote his doctoral thesis on oligomeric proanthocyanidins and registered patents for his method of extracting them from peanut skins and European coastal pine bark. He later registered additional patents for his method of extracting OPCs from grape seeds.

After the product had undergone countless lab tests for safety and effectiveness, Masquelier was granted U.S. Patent Number 4,698,360 which allowed OPCs to be used to prevent and combat the damage caused by free radicals.

Dr. Masquelier's discovery has had a tremendous impact on our modern world.  We have a heavier concentration of free radicals now than we've ever had before because of herbicides, cigarette smoke, processed foods, pesticides, and pollution we are exposed to every day.

OPCs combat the toxins we ingest and fight free radicals, preventing them from damaging our cells. These OPCs are the answer to living a longer, healthier life.

New Trend: Entrepreneurship Is The New Women's Movement

This should not come as a surprise: women leaving the workforce to become stay at home entrepreneurs! I am seeing this everyday at Market America (MA) and they are very successful at it. Even a perfunctory glance of pictures of successful people in the MA monthly magazine show a predominance of women. Their strong desire to be independent and be home to rear their children is without a doubt their chief motivation.

The Forbes magazine has this to say:

Women are leaving the workforce in droves in favor of being at home. Not to be a homemaker, but as job-making entrepreneurs.

By Natalie MacNeil

A quiet revolution is taking shape right now among women. Unlike the Quiet Revolutionthat began in the 1970s which saw women leave the home and enter the workforce in droves, women today are leaving the workforce in droves in favor of being at home. But unlike generations of women before, these women are opting to work in the home not as homemakers—but as job-making entrepreneurs.

Women have been starting businesses at a higher rate than men for the last 20 years and tend to create home-based micro (less than 5 employees) and small businesses. Women will create over half of the 9.72 million new small business jobs expected to be created by 2018 and more and more are doing this from home offices across the country. It’s a surprising statistic, especially considering that women-owned businesses only created 16 percent of total U.S. jobs that existed in 2010.

Read more from Forbes magazine....

Market America Ranks in the Direct Selling Top 100!

Great news! Market America is now ranked among the top 100 in the Direct Selling Top 100 companies in the world.

Below is from the DirecctSellingNews website:

U.S. News

2011 DSN Global 100

by DSN Staff

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The following contains the ranking for the 2011 DSN Global 100, our annual list of the top revenue-generating direct selling companies in the world. The list will be published in the June issue of Direct Selling News.

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In an effort to support transparency and verify authenticity, we implemented a new standard for our 2011 ranking: the Revenue Certification Form (RFC). In addition to an updated profile, we asked each company to submit an RCF signed by the CEO and CFO or designated agent.

The Global 100 ranking is based on net revenue before commissions are paid and without any value-added tax. In our research, we identified well over 100 companies that would qualify for the ranking; however, with the new standard in place, we applied a ranking to only those companies that submitted an RCF.

We believe the new standard allows us to present a clear and accurate picture of the direct selling industry’s top performers.  The top companies that publicly reported their numbers and those privately held companies that submitted RCFs are listed below.

Read more....

Alejandro Sanz Market America Launch Message for Mexico

18 time Grammy Award Winning Artist Alejandro Sanz sends a special greeting celebrating Market America's launch in Mexico.

Power Profiles: Dr. Sheryl Duchess

From thepowerprofiles.com

Dr. Sheryl Duchess, ND
National Supervising Coordinator

As a naturopathic doctor, I fell in love with Market America's products when I discovered that so many of my clients received great results using the Isotonix® supplements.

With todays economic environment and the many challenges that health professionals are facing, I feel so blessed to have found Market America with their nutraMetrix® program. Ten years ago I was introduced to this company through an amazing product called Isotonix OPC-3®. At that time I had never heard of isotonic vitamins and was looking for IV therapy for clients who needed strong nutritional support due to serious conditions. After seeing results with my clients, I was impressed enough that I had to add this line into my practice. Little did I realize that the business system of this company would change my financial future and outlook on business. Today, I enjoy time freedom to do what I want, when I want and with whom I want. To me, that is the definition of success. Being a part of a company that stays on the cutting edge of the ever-changing wellness industry and offers so much diversification and flexibility. Because of the support, flexibility and systemization, I was able to fold the business into my life with ease. Now I can't imagine not having the ongoing income that it has provided me. Once you understand how powerful ongoing income is— it just doesn't make sense to do anything that doesn't create leverage for you and your love ones.

Healthfully yours, Sheryl Duchess, ND

Market America Launches in Mexico with Tremendous Success

Reported from Market America June 11 Blog:

What a successful launch for Market America Mexico this past weekend — we are in yet another country! It was quite a turnout with many enthusiastic new Independent Shop Consultants. Carmelo Anthony, Duane McLaughlin and Amber Ridinger were all in attendance, helping to build momentum and motivate!

These are certainly exciting times for all of us and Market America Worldwide/SHOP.COM!  Our global community of entrepreneurs continues to grow as we duplicate the UnFranchise® business, our brands and our technology into new markets.

Eva Longoria introduce Market America to Mexico!

Slowing World Economies

As an entity, the European Union is the biggest economy in the world. But sovereign debts are causing it to coming unglued. Greece had 3 bailouts. Spain just received a massive $125 billion for its banks.

The US, second largest world economy was already reported by the CBO to be close to falling off a fiscal cliff. It would be utter chaos and ugly if and when it happens.

Among the BRIC nations, India is under pressure to be the first to be downgraded by Standard & Poor. The Telegraph reports:
The rupee weakened and shares tumbled after Standard & Poor's warned that a slowdown in economic growth and the political paralysis on economic development gripping the country carried the risk of re-rating.

Currently India's BBB- rating is just one level above junk status and the lowest in the Bric 'club' which has Brazil, Russia and China as its other members.

Joydeep Mukherji, a New York-based S&P analyst, said: "Setbacks or reversals in India's path toward a more liberal economy could hurt its long-term growth prospects and therefore its credit quality." 

Not only is India slowing, Japan and China, among the biggest Asian economies, are slowing growth. China is the first country to react with an interest rate cut.

Do investors get the message that world markets are slowing?
Do governments have limitless power to prevent financial  meltdowns? How would a slowing economy affect you?

What are your thoughts?

Social Selling

Entrepreneurial capitalism......
begun by the determined first settlers and continued through the centuries, it built these United States into the economic powerhouse of the world. In our current times of economic downtown, some consider social selling - otherwise known as direct selling or network marketing - as the best example of the continuation of this spirit. In both domestic and foreign markets, sales are up, forecasts are good and more people than ever are starting their own businesses using this model..........

So it begins, in this special supplement to the Wall Street Journal, WSJ, Friday, June 8, 2012.

In view of the current job market, the recent dire economic forecast by the Congressional Budget Office, CBO, and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, it behooves each one of us to examine our own situations and ask how all these external forces will affect our own financial well being and future retirement. What other opportunities are out there that can supplement or enhance one's financial future beyond retirement?

The timing of this WSJ supplement could not come at a better time as it writes, social selling is on an uptrend. Even during the housing bubble in 2007-2009, and the subsequent fallout of financial markets, when most industries were affected, social or rather direct selling was not only marginally affected but in many instances were on the rise and thriving.

Name a business out there that can satisfy your entrepreneurial itch with a startup cost you can afford without hurting your pocket book? And name a business you can own and work part time while still fully employed? You got it - internet direct marketing! It offers an entrepreneur the opportunity to put up shop in the internet - it is a shop with no overhead and is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and no payroll to contend with. And most amazing of all, it is a business opportunity without borders! What other businesses out there can beat this! And to boot, direct selling was a $42.6 billion dollar market in 2011 and rising!

This is plain good news for One-to-One marketing and social shopping up and coming giant e-tailer, Market America/SHOP.COM. It has grown from Market America, MA, to Markets Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines and beginning early this year, expanding to U.K, and this month in Mexico. MA offers opportunities for an average person to setup an internet retail portal without borders.

Even Jim Cramer has jumped onto the bandwagon and bullishly said, "Latin America, Asia/Pacific region and Russia offers vast potential for social selling. The direct selling model could be the best way to sell goods in the developing world."

What do you think? Care to share your thoughts?

Oxidative Stress

Imagine a soldier being attacked 10,000 times in a day! Will the soldier succumbed? You think? No person, even with herculean strength can withstand such onslaught.

And yet this is what is happening in our bodies every day. Each cell is estimated to cope with 10,000 attacks by free radicals every single day! When the number of free radicals exceed the availability of antioxidants to combat these free radicals, oxidative stress occurs. As you may already know, oxidative stress causes cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease. There are many ongoing research that claims that oxidative stress also causes muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, cataract formation and Crohn's disease.

A healthy person's body produces enough antioxidants to do the job of  eradicating free radicals. But the majority of us do not consume enough of the necessary nutrients to enable the body to build up an immune system capable of defending all its 7 trillion cell universes from all the stresses the body is exposed to daily. In view of this, it goes without saying that we need dietary supplements to fill the dietary deficiencies.

Further reading on Oxidative Stress and Supplements:
Antioxidants: The Case for Supplements - by Hans R. Larsen, MSc ChE

Market America's 20th Anniversary

Let's Celebrate!

This year is Market America's 20th Anniversary, and we want to celebrate with you.

Those in attendance at the 2012 International Convention, August 9-11, will understand the extent of our excitement as we host an event that truly lives up to such a monumental achievement.
To commemorate our 20 years of success, Market America will be giving away several amazing prizes throughout the event—but you must be present to win, so solidify your travel plans now.

Prizes include:

• Three (3) FREE three-day vacation cruises for two (2) people, departing from Miami, FL., to the Caribbean.

• One (1) ma^® University training package for up to two (2) people from the winning distributorship, allowing FREE access to 2013 World Conference and International Convention, Regional Conventions, Specialty Trainings, one (1) Special Business Building Seminar of your choice, along with other select NMTSS events and $3,000 in travel expenses.

• Cashback giveaways totaling $20,000. That's right $20,000!

• ma product giveaways.

Multiple drawings will be held daily August 9-11. You MUST BE PRESENT to take part in the celebration with Market America, so if you don't already have your tickets, get them now!
Log on to your UnFranchise^® Business Account to order 2012 International Convention or call 800.232.8590.

In addition, there will be a special prize drawing eligible to all 2012 MAIC Challenge Winners for three (3) VIP behind-the-scenes, all-access passes for up to two (2) people each to 2012 International Convention.

Catapult your success and maybe even win one of these great 20th Anniversary prizes. What could be better?

CBO warns of US Falling off 'Fiscal Cliff'

With all eyes focused on Europe, this piece of news slipped through the cracks when announced here in the US. It paints a dire economic picture if no action is taken by the government. Read below the AP report from the Congressional Budget Office, CBO, a non-partisan federal agency within the legislative branch of the US government that provides economic data to Congress.


ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Published: May 22, 2012 6:12PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new government study released Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession.

The Congressional Budget Office report says that the economy would shrink by 1.3 percent in the first half of next year if the government is allowed to fall off this so-called "fiscal cliff" on Jan. 1 -- and that the higher tax rates and more than $100 billion in automatic cuts to the Pentagon and domestic agencies are kept in place.

There's common agreement that lawmakers will act either late this year or early next year to head off the dramatic shift in the government's financial situation. But if they were left in place, CBO says it would wring hundreds of billions of dollars from the budget deficit that would "represent an additional drag on the weak economic expansion."

CBO projected that the economy would contract by 1.3 percent in the first half of 2013, which would meet the traditional definition of a recession, which is when the economy shrinks for two consecutive quarters.


The last time US debt exceeded 100% of GDP was
during WWII.


Click here to read more.

Ubiquinone

Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine 2000; 15(2):63-68.

A Brief Update on Ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q10)
John T. A. Ely, Ph.D.
Radiation Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
and
Cheryl A. Krone, Ph.D.
Applied Research Institute, Palmerston North, NZ

Abstract
Ubiquinone is one of the two most important essential nutrients (the other being ascorbic acid). These two molecules, along with other essential nutrients, have been rejected as unpatentable and unprofitable by certain "authorities" and interests, according to expose's by Pauling and others.[1,2] This has been one of the most lethal errors of modern medicine because no cell, organ, function, remedy, etc, can avoid failure unless essential nutrients, especially these two, are optimal. Supplementation of both is mandatory: for ascorbate, lifelong (since humans can't synthesize it); for ubiquinone, increasingly with age. In this update, to facilitate study of ubiquinone, we seek to assemble in one place vital information that is not widely known.

Click  A Brief Update on Ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q10)  to read the rest of the update.

However You Slice It!

Power Profiles: Pam and Tony Bowling

It is such a wonderful gift that so many people are willing to share their stories. Each story captures the unique journey, struggles and true grit of the person. It captures their thinking and circumstances that lead them to pursue their goals with a single mindedness, to an outside observer, seems to border on insanity.

What we can discern from these stories is the common trait these successful power profilers share - an intense desire to be independent both of time and money.

Below is part of the story shared by Pam and Tony Bowling:

"Market America has been an unbelievable dream-come-true for us. It truly has been, and continues to be, a modern-day miracle! When we were first introduced to the Market America business opportunity, we were experiencing serious trouble with our photography business. Tony was senior vice president of a publicly-traded company and Pam was a regional director for the same company. The business took an irreversible turn for the worse and we began desperately looking for other opportunities where we could work together. We could see the writing on the wall. The industry we were in failed to keep up with the changing times and many companies were going out of business, including ours. Since necessity requires decision, we had to find a better way if we expected to survive."

Click pam and tonybowling to read more of their story.

US Markets: Did You Sell in May?

The saying, sell in May and go away, rang true for 2012. If you did that, congratulations! you can relax.

Today is Friday, June 1st and the unemployment report for the month of May was UGLY. Only 69,000 jobs were created in May, raising the unemployment rate from 8.1% to 8.2%. The reasons for the markets melt down are not new. All of May, the markets world-wide have been under pressure because of Euro sovereign debts, China slowing and slowing growth in the US.

The unemployment report released this morning, exacerbated the already weak markets. The consensus estimate among pundits was for 150,000 jobs created. The actual number was even less than 0.5%

It will be a long summer for new college graduates looking for jobs. High school students looking to make some pocket money will be hard pressed to find jobs, as businesses are holding back hiring with market uncertainties.

There is talk the FED will intervene but after quantitative easing, QE1 (about 1 trillion freshly minted dollars injected into the financial marketplace),  and  QE2 (about 600 billion dollars printed) with little gain to show forth, it is doubtful but one never knows what the FED will do.

Below is the monthly chart of the S&P 500 index as of May 2012. With today's meltdown, the red moving average line will clearly indicate a sell for the market.

It will be a long hot summer. Will it?