Saturday, March 22, 2008

Don't be scammed by MLM selling overpriced Antioxidants

If you simply want some antioxidants, buy some welch's grape juice or an all natural juice. Forget about the nice looking bottles from MonaVie for $45 with "Acai berry" marked up with the typical MLM pyramid scheme! How about the Goji Woldberry, another MLM marked up hyped juice.
Stop spending (wasting) your money , getting talked into buying with juice "cure". Stop buying expensive cars and putting money into new tires, new transmissions, new this and that, and take control of your health.
1. Whole food Supplements.
2. Whey protein powders.
3. Detox Formulas
4. Liver cleansers
5. Fish oil and other sources of omega 3's and Cod Liver Oil.
6. Coconut Oil
7. Natural Vitamins like Vitamin C, Mixed Tocopherol Vitamin E, and the fabulous Vitamin D3
9. Cayenne Pepper, and many powerful metabolic boosters.
10. Other products that people such as Dr. Sorge N.D. from Abunda Life would recommend based on your blood and urine laboratory analysis to address your needs.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Is Goji Juice Really as Good as it is Being Promoted As?

That’s the million-dollar question being asked, and answered, in this video, which exposes the truth about the latest health craze sweeping across Canada and into the United States.

Goji juice is hyped as the cure-all remedy for 34 different ailments, including arthritis, diabetes and cancer. But the truth is both shocking and infuriating, as they uncover the lack of nutritional value of the goji juice in the lab.

Earl Mendel—the well-respected author of the Vitamin Bible—is the face of Himalayan Goji, and he’s making some pretty hefty claims about the berry. And that’s the problem. Upon probing, he admits he’s talking about the berry—not necessarily the juice!

Himalayan Goji juice is not sold in stores, but rather through a multi-level marketing plan. At about $50 per bottle, there’s lots of money being made, but there does not seem to be enough proof to back up the amazing health claims of the juice itself.


CBC News Marketplace January 24, 2007

Goji juice is hyped as the cure-all remedy for 34 different ailments, including arthritis, diabetes and cancer. But the truth is both shocking and infuriating. In the lab, goji juice proves to have little nutritional value.

Earl Mendel -- the author of the Vitamin Bible -- is the face of Himalayan Goji, and he's making some pretty hefty claims about the berry. And that's the problem. Upon probing, he admits he's talking about the berry -- not necessarily the juice!

Himalayan Goji juice is not sold in stores, but rather through a multi-level marketing plan. At about $50 per bottle, there's lots of money being made, but there does not seem to be enough proof to back up the amazing health claims of the juice itself.

Now, please understand that I have nothing against Goji berries. I fully believe that they are a powerhouse of nutrition and loaded with beneficial antioxidants and micronutrients. I even consume them myself.

However, this appears to be a classic example of sleazy nutritional marketing that exaggerates the benefits of a good food, adulterates it and then puts it in a multi-level marketing scam that fleeces good people of their hard-earned money with very little benefit.

In general, fruit juice is not the best way to consume a fruit. It is typically better to consume the whole fruit.

Most of traditional medicine fails to recognize that the sugars in fruit juice contribute to major distortions of insulin balance. I believe that fruit juice and pasteurized milk are two of the most misunderstood foods in our culture. Most people believe they are health foods, while the polar opposite is true. They tend to be pernicious fluids that worsen most people's health.