Power Profile: Lisa Lamonica

Wall Street Journal  reported 2012 food stamp enrollment increased by 70 percent since 2008 from 28.2 million to 47.8 million despite a recovering economy.

Dietary Fiber Nibbles Down Stroke Risk

From MedPageToday.com

Dietary Fiber Nibbles Down Stroke Risk
By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: March 28, 2013
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner

Eating more fiber may modestly reduce the risk of stroke, although details remain uncertain and it might just be a surrogate for other healthy behaviors, a meta-analysis determined.

Each additional 7 g of daily dietary fiber intake was associated with a significant 7% lower risk of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke combined, Diane Threapleton, MSc, of the University of Leeds, England, and colleagues reported online in Stroke.

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Eggs Are Lower in Cholesterol than Previously Thought

From HealthBlog.com

Eggs Are Lower in Cholesterol than Previously Thought

According to nutrition data from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), eggs are lower in cholesterol than previously thought.

The USDA-ARS recently reviewed the nutrient composition of standard large eggs, and results show the average amount of cholesterol in one large egg is 185 mg, 14 percent lower than previously recorded. The analysis also revealed that large eggs now contain 41 IU of vitamin D, an increase of 64 percent.


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Power Profile: Debbie Justice

From thepowerprofiles.com

Debbie Justice
Executive Director



What is your freedom worth? What are you willing to do for that freedom? Market America provides the platform for YOU to create positive change in your life.

When you look at the world we live in, there are so many different options that are available to generate income. The challenge is to find something where you have the freedom to determine how much you can earn, but also control your schedule and avoid risk.

There are so many people who make a lot of money, but they have so little free time. Then, there are those who have plenty of time, but they don’t generate much income. Many opportunities are expensive, dramatically increasing risk. In a job, is there really any security? So, as there are many opportunities, there are also many obstacles to security. Here’s the exciting news I discovered with Market America – you get to decide what your financial future will look like.

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Deposit money - Sanctity no more

Cyprus is a financial petri dish of Europe.

It would be interesting to see what happens when banks open for business tomorrow, Thursday, March 28 in Cyprus.

In any event, the rescue package Cyprus made with its international lenders will change the way deals will be made in future sovereign debt resolutions. It should not come as a surprise that depositors were made to bear the debt burden of the country. The sanctity of deposit money has long been breached!

Let's look back here in the US. By artificially lowering the interest rate to zero since December 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank has basically been stealing money from depositors in favor of helping the big banks to recoup their losses. How else do you explain this prolonged depression of borrowing costs for big banks and corporations?

During the recession, it has been widely published that many elderly Americans have been dipping into their retirement funds to draw down debt. Many older Americans are already postponing retirement. It does not help that banks pay next to nothing for their savings accounts.

So where do you put your money?

How many 45 year plans?

For most of us, upon graduating from college we spend 45 years in the work force and retire at 65.

This is the so called 45-year plan before retirement.

Once we complete this 45-year plan, there is no repeating. We either have enough to retire comfortably or we don't and continue working or not and live in old age poverty. This is a darn shame!

We do not plan for this but this is how the script gets written every day. We see more and more older people continue working past retirement in low paying jobs to supplement their fixed income. This is the rather sad reality these days.

If you are just starting out in life....do yourself a favor and explore opportunities that provide you with residual income long after you retire from work!

You owe yourself at least this much.

Presenting the New UBP Video from Market America

From JR Ridinger, CEO of MarketAmerica

Presenting the New UBP Video from Market America

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I am proud to announce that Market America and SHOP.COM have created a brand new video to help explain our amazing UnFranchise Business. This incredible 23 minute video delivers a powerful message, and is a great resource to utilize when introducing the UnFranchise business to new people.

We are changing the game and changing the paradigm – and helping people all over the world create financial success by building their own economy! We are a growing global community of entrepreneurs who are changing lives and changing the way people shop – and there’s never been a better time to join us!

Stop working hard to help build success for someone else! Take control of your life and start working for YOUR future by building an UnFranchise Business of your own!

Keep Growing!

-JR Ridinger

So, What is your goal?

Spring is here!
Everything will soon come back to life again after a rather harsh winter. It is time for renewal!

Hurricane Sandy will soon be forgotten.

We all look forward not backwards.

Soon, three months would of 2013 would be relegated to just memories, to history.

So, what is your goal?
What do you want out of this diminishing life? There is no golden parachute to this earthly life. We all return to mother earth.

But before that happens, have you given any thoughts to your life's goal other than making a living?

Tomorrow....let's begin a journey together...but overnight, give it a thought over. What do you want out of this earthly life?

Why the Cyprus Bail In Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think

From finance.yahoo.com

Why the Cyprus Bail In Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think
By Henry Blodget

You can be forgiven for thinking that you don't need to give a hoot about what's going on in Cyprus.

After all, it's just a little island somewhere in the Mediterranean.

But what's going on in Cyprus could actually matter — not just to the rest of Europe, but to the rest of the world.

Here's the short version of what's happening:

Some of Cyprus's banks, like many banks in Europe, are bankrupt.

Cyprus went to the eurozone to get a bailout, the same way Ireland, Greece, and other European countries have.

The eurozone powers-that-be (mainly Germany) gave Cyprus a bailout and insisted that the depositors in Cyprus's banks pay part of the tab — a startling condition that has never before been imposed on any major banking system since the start of the global financial crisis in 2008.

The deal did not touch the bondholders. Why the depositors? These are folks who had their money in the banks for safe-keeping.

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Power Profile: Dr. Milan and Sandra Moore

Power Profile: Tami Gaines

From thepowerprofiles.com

Tami Gaines
National Supervising Coordinator

"Our greatest and deepest wisdom is not given to us. It is ours to discover as we experience the journey that is ours and ours alone to take." -- Tami C. Gaines

Who would have thought that after spending $150,000 for an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, that I still wouldn't know how to create real wealth?

I have found that I've had two lives -- the life that I lived from and the life that I've learned from. Let me tell you where I was living from.

While most other kids my age were playing with dolls, I was busy launching my first business – one that would be just the beginning of a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship. Despite my ongoing desire to have my own business, I did what my parents told me to do: “Go to school. Get good grades. Get a good job making pretty good money. And stay there forever.” More a student of living than of books, I went into advertising but realized that having my own business would require broader experience, contacts and perspective. I returned to school…again. Upon graduation from Columbia’s MBA program, I began a highly successful corporate career with Colgate-Palmolive Company. I was a celebrated employee but was internally frustrated – two weeks of vacation, small raises, negligible bonuses and the proverbial glass ceiling constantly drove me toward having my own business.

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European Financial Problems not over by any means

Greek's Radical Left: The Dangers of the Disaffected and the Unemployed

By Scott Stewart
Vice President of Analysis, Stratfor.com

In last week's Geopolitical Weekly, George Friedman discussed how the global financial crisis has caused a global unemployment crisis and how Europe has become the epicenter of that crisis. He also noted that rampant unemployment will give way to a political crisis as austerity measures galvanize radical political parties opposed to the status quo.

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Poor Sleep May Signal Onset of Alzheimer's

From MedPageToday.com

By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: March 11, 2013

Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Disturbed sleep quality may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported.

In a cross-sectional study among cognitively normal people, deposition in the brain of a molecule involved in Alzheimer's pathogenesis was associated with poor sleep efficiency, according to David Holtzman, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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Are Scientists Edging Closer to a Cure for Alzheimer's?

From Benzinga,com

Tim Parker, Benzinga Staff Writer
March 11, 2013 8:58 AM



A recent Australian study points toward possible good news in the search for answers regarding Alzheimer’s disease.

The Border Mail reports that Australians will be among the first to test new drugs hoped to ward off Alzheimer’s after researchers discovered that the illness takes decades to develop in people's brains before symptoms appear.

Trials on participants whose scans show early signs of dementia could begin later this year.

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Power Profile: Gary & Judy Rodriguez

From thepowerprofiles.com

Gary & Judy Rodriguez
Professional Coordinator

"BEING A VICTIM IS NOT YOUR FAULT...STAYING ONE IS!!!"

Gary graduated from West Point and Judy went to Hofstra University, but none of our credentials helped when the unthinkable happened in 1991 and Gary was in a terrible car accident. We were victims of a careless driver, and of a flawed system...

After losing almost everything, being on welfare and food stamps, and filing bankruptcy, we (Gary and Judy) began searching for a business that we could build - together - that would provide more security than the "jobs" that we had had. We looked into opening a restaurant (Judy is a GREAT cook) and franchises, but they were cost prohibitive, and our credit was shot. We came across Multi-Level Marketing and - while the concept seemed sound - there was a problem with each of the 16 companies we researched: Either they were too expensive to start, or the products were nothing we could get excited about, or the people were...well, scary. But most of all, the Compensation Plans were sketchy at best, and it became apparent that - unless we could recruit 30 to 60 people - there would be no significant and/or ongoing income.

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Hepatitis C Dilemma: Treat Illness With Interferon Now or Wait?

From WSJ.com

Patient Dilemma: Treat Hepatitis C Now or Hold Out?
By PETER LOFTUS

Being diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease usually triggers immediate treatment. But a growing number of people infected with hepatitis C are putting off therapy, choosing instead to roll the dice and wait for a new generation of drugs to become available.

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Power Profile: Sandi & Steve Rodriguez

From thepowerprofiles.com

Sandi & Steve Rodriguez
Director


The Market America business model allows anyone with desire and work ethic to live by their own priorities, rather than someone else's.

Market America has been a true blessing in our lives. Steve and I met through this business back in 2004 while I was training in California.

I was introduced to the company back in 1996 by a mistaken phone call! There really are no mistakes in life, everything happens for a reason. At that time I was working in the real estate industry full time and also still in the salon as a cosmetologist part time. With the real estate, I was only as good as my last sale, and in the salon I was only making money if I was standing behind that chair. Market America came along and I looked at the business model as a back-up plan. Within seven months I walked away from both careers, and haven’t worked for anyone else since! The flexibility and time freedom, not to mention the financial freedom, is absolutely incredible! Steve had worked in the health insurance industry working long hours, fighting traffic, with no time freedom or flexibility. As an entrepreneur by heart he knew Market America was the answer. Today we are working together on reaching new goals, working with incredible ‘like-minded’ people. Market America attracts the type of people you want to surround yourself and your family with — people with integrity, work ethic, who strive to be their best in every way. That has been the example that JR, Loren, and the entire Corporate Team has set for us. We are very grateful to each of them for all they continue to do for us in the field. We urge you to take the next step, allow this incredible business model to change your life, just like it has ours! God bless you on your personal journey!

Suzy Cohen: Natural Ways to Lower Blood Pressure & Relieve UTIs

From BeingJRRidinger.com

By JR Ridinger

The past few weeks have been incredible for our business, as we’re working hard to expand internationally with some great meetings in the United Kingdom and Spain. But we’re not the only ones committed to building the business internationally!

 Here is a great story from Leo and Liz Gil – who’ve had great success building their business in Mexico. Their story is truly inspiring, as they represent the future of the UnFranchise Business around the world. Congratulations to Leo, Liz, Ana Elizabeth Hernandez Alarcon and Roberto & María for creating a tidal wave of growth and duplication in Mexico!

We are truly blessed to have them in our lives! We are red hot and rolling all around the world! We are one team with one dream! I hope you enjoy Leo and Liz’s story below, and find it as inspiring as I did! Keep Growing!

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Green Tea Extract Interferes With the Formation of Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease

From ScienceDaily.com

Green Tea Extract Interferes With the Formation of Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease
Mar. 5, 2013 — Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the brain.

The aggregation of these proteins, called metal-associated amyloids, is associated with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.

A paper published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explained how U-M Life Sciences Institute faculty member Mi Hee Lim and an interdisciplinary team of researchers used green tea extract to control the generation of metal-associated amyloid-β aggregates associated with Alzheimer's disease in the lab.

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How to Train Your Brain to Stay Positive

From Entrepreneur.com

How to Train Your Brain to Stay Positive
BY NADIA GOODMAN | February 7, 2013

As an entrepreneur, conquering challenge and failure is essential to the success of your business. You can learn to cultivate that resilience by training your brain to stay positive when times are tough.

"People tend to have a cognitive bias toward their failures, and toward negativity," says Matthew Della Porta, a positive psychologist and organizational consultant. Our brains are more likely to seek out negative information and store it more quickly to memory.

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Power Profiles: Pauline Cheng

Pauline Cheng
Executive Director

“Never miss an opportunity when opportunity knocks on your door.”

 After I graduated from college, I became a software engineer. I worked hard in my job, because my dream was to retire young and give a better lifestyle for my parents. After working seven years, I realized I was just trading time for money.

 Six years ago, my good friend introduced Market America to me, now I know my dream can become reality. I want to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny by following Market America's proven system and all the great leaders, starting with our Founder and CEO JR, Loren and the Corporate Team, with their commitment and efforts that provided us with an incredible platform and system. Average people can dream again, and the best thing is, they can have their dreams come true!

 I also want to say thanks to God, my parents, my great mentors and my amazing team for your support which has given me tremendous personal growth in this journey! Most rewarding is that I have my time freedom back. Now I can enjoy and spend quality time with my parents.

 My dream now is to share what I learned and help more people to realize their dreams can come true. With the powerful NMTSS, and the leverage of teamwork, we can truly make it happen together! See you at the TOP! Cheers!