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Recently Good Morning America reported there are PCB’s in fish oil supplements, or omega-3 fatty acid supplements, and some suppliers of these supplements are being sued.

On March 2nd, 2010 the makers and sellers of fish oil supplements were sued by the Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation in California for not telling consumers that their products contained toxic levels of PCBs.

Why is that important?  It’s important because PCB’s were outlawed decades ago.  Why? PCB’s can cause cancer.

The defendants include the world’s largest producer of omega-3 fish oil and some of the most well known and biggest sellers of fish oil supplements.

The “experts” on the show recommended you buy a fish oil with the least amount of PCB’s! No kidding.

Do you really want any PCB’s in your fish oil supplements?

Why not choose one with NO PCB’s?
 
Many of these fish-oil products also contain mercury as well.  

Get a little mercury poisoning as well.  No thank you!

It can be tempting to buy those low priced supplements seen on the shelves of your favorite drug or discount store.  Wow, the same stuff you’ve been paying more money for from your favorite supplement distributor. Why not save some money?

Do you really know what you are getting?

Your favorite supplement distributor  is a company that is trusted…a company that does clinical studies on their products and performs rigorous quality controls.

You know their products are pure, safe and effective…

BUT…

 ”After all, how bad can the lower priced supplement be?”

The answer is – pretty bad!

Many of the labels said the omega-3 supplement was treated to reduce or remove PCBs. As a consumer you were lead to believe they were safe!

The manufacturer probably didn’t test for PCBs and neither did the companies selling their omega-3 supplements to the consumer

Could it be they tested the products, knew they were contaminated with PCBs and sold them to the public anyway?  That would be even worse.

 So what can you do as a consumer? Here are my recommendations:

Get your supplements from an established company with a reputation for quality and integrity.  One that runs rigorous quality controls on their products and doesn’t trust the supplier to do the testing.

The company would also require pharmaceutical grade quality controls on their products. They would conduct clinical studies on their products and publish these studies in peer-reviewed medical journals.

What company would that be?  Shaklee Corporation. The product, the only one I know and trust, OmegaGuard® from Shaklee Corporation.

Shaklee Independent Distributor

Grace Health

PLEASANTON, Calif., March 5, 2010 – Shaklee Corporation, the leading natural nutrition company in the U.S., would like to congratulate the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding for taking home an astounding 21 medals, including six Gold medals at the Games in Vancouver.  Since 1980, Shaklee has been the exclusive nutritional sponsor of the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding to help these world-class athletes achieve peak performance through optimal nutrition.

Comprised of 14 different men’s and women’s national teams, the U.S. Ski Team, which includes leading athletes across Alpine, Cross Country, Disabled, Freestyle and Jumping/Nordic Combined categories, and U.S. Snowboarding have long trusted Shaklee Nutrition. This 30 year partnership is a natural fit because both the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding are aligned with Shaklee’s dedication to scientific research, quality control and science-based products.

“What makes our partnership so successful is our unwavering commitment to nutritional standards and product safety” says Roger Barnett, Chairman and CEO of Shaklee Corporation. “By conducting over 80,000 quality tests each year, we guarantee the purity and effectiveness of each and every product our athletes and consumers use.”

Working to optimize the athletes’ health and performance, the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding Sport Science Director, Troy Flanagan, works closely with Shaklee to create a nutritional regimen that helps to give them an edge over the competition. “Shaklee products are invaluable to our U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding,” says Troy Flanagan, USSA Sport Science Director. “By working with the number one natural nutrition company in the U.S., we’re confident that we’re providing our athletes with the best, cutting-edge products to help ensure optimal body conditioning.*” 

To help maintain health and wellness, the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding nutrition teams recommend that their athletes take several Shaklee nutritional products to boost their immune systems, whether they’re pushing through jet lag, harsh temperatures, tough training or the stress of competition. As the skiers and snowboarders travel four to five months straight each year, the Shaklee nutrient, energy and hydration products help them to perform at the highest level despite rigorous conditions.*

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About Shaklee Corporation

Founded more than 50 years ago, Shaklee has been a leading provider of premium-quality natural nutrition products, personal care products, and environmentally friendly home care products. In 2000, Shaklee became the first company in the world to be Climate Neutral^tm certified to totally offset its CO2 emissions, resulting in a net-zero impact on the environment. With a robust product portfolio, including more than 50 patents and patents pending worldwide, Shaklee has more than 1.25 million Members and Distributors around the globe and operates in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, and China.

For information about Shaklee, visit our web site 

Shaklee Independent Distributor

Grace General

Start a business from scratch and the chances of survival are only 15-20%.  Not the best of odds.

Most new business owners find that they simply create a new “job” for themselves.

Current trends can predict the probable success of a new business.

Franchises can be successful but really expensive.  Start-up costs are high, from $88,000 and up.

A less risky approach could be a “personal or micro-franchise.”

Take advantage of a proven business system and start making money within a week or two!

Look around you. Have you noticed what is happening in the health industry, the green market, the anti-aging market and the beauty market?

Energy and vitality is one of the largest emerging markets today.

According to the Nutrition Business Journal sales of energy drinks, energy bars, vitamin water, etc., reached $8 billion in 2008.

Green products are staying strong.

Solidify your future by tapping into these growing and expanding current trends.

Shaklee Independent Distributor

Grace Home Based Business

You’re on a ship, it hits an iceberg and starts taking on water. It will soon sink.  Sound familiar.  It is.  The Titanic hit an iceberg. It started sinking. 

The captain knew it was sinking but ordered the music to keep playing.

People on board kept eating and drinking, having a good time.

Those on the deck saw the water rising and knew the ship was sinking.  There was a big problem…not enough life boats.  They knew they had to get in a life boat.

You know the rest of the story.  There are lessons in the sinking of the Titanic.

Life gives us economic sinking ships. What can you do?  Find what floats and grab on.

Before your ship hits an iceberg and sinks, here are some suggestions:

Build life boats

Get in the boat

Care about people

Teach others to build life boats

2010 is the 54th year Shaklee has been helping thousands of people build life boats. 

Watch “Roots of Shaklee”

Shaklee floats…we help build boats…build your boat and get in…help others build boats.

Shaklee Independent Distributor

Grace Home Based Business

Keeping your heart healthy and strong can lower your risk for heart disease.  It is not that difficult if you follow some guidelines.

Losing weight is one.  Two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese.  Could losing weight really help the heart?  The answer is YES!

According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Physiology you can improve the way your heart functions by just losing 12% of your weight, either by diet and exercise or both.

You can have a more youthful heart by dropping some of those excess pounds if you are overweight.

As we age the arteries and heart muscles stiffen and the heart doesn’t relax like it did when we were younger.

The study showed that by losing weight, the participants gained the ability of the heart to relax more quickly, recovering some of the elasticity characteristics of a younger heart.

The heart actually became younger!

Besides exercising and losing weight, here are some other things you can do to have a healthier heart.

Eat more fiber.  A study done by Harvard University, showed that men who ate at least 25 grams of fiber a day had one-third less heart attacks then men eating 12 grams or less a day.

Eat beans.  They contain a lot of good fiber that helps prevent heart disease by lowering cholesterol.  Eating a cup of beans a day can lower cholesterol by 10- 20 percent.

Eating garlic can lower cholesterol and help decrease the risk of heart disease.

A Harvard report found that women eating 1 ounce of almonds daily had a 40 percent lower risk of fatal heart disease. 

Almonds contain vitamin E and research at England’s Cambridge University found that by taking 400 IU of vitamin E for 18 months slashed nonfatal heart attacks in cardiovascular patients by 77 percent.

Vitamin C keeps blood vessels dilated. Without vitamin C, blood vessels constrict, shutting down blood flow. 

Two thousand mg’s a day dramatically restored dilation of blood vessels in heart attack patients, a Boston University study found.

Low levels of B vitamins, especially folic acid, are a heart disease precursor. 

Make sure to get plenty in your diet.  B’s are fragile and are easily destroyed by heat. 

When supplementing, use a high quality B-Vitamin supplement containing at least 100% DV of all 8 B’s.

Eat fish, lots of fish. If eating fish is not your thing, supplement with a high quality Omega-3 supplement. 

Omega-3’s thin the blood, decrease clot formation, raise HDL cholesterol and control irregular heart beats.

Every cell in the body needs Coenzyme Q10 for energy.  A healthy heart needs lots of it.  If a person is on a cholesterol lowering drug, it could deplete this important enzyme. 

Of adults age 40 and older, as many as 42% could be classified as being at an increased risk for heart disease. 

One in every four men die of heart disease and stroke, and one of every 2.5 women die of heart disease and stroke.

Maintaining a healthy heart is critically important.

 Shaklee Independent Distributor

Grace Health

Have you seen the YouTube video about the two people on an escalator when it suddenly stops?  Instead of walking up or down the steps, they start crying out for help. 

“Somebody, anybody please help.  We’re stuck.  Hello, anybody there?”

There are two major trends of 2010:

**Health Crisis—disease care is economically non-viable

 **Economic Crisis

Shaklee is expertly positioned to take advantage of these two trends.  This means you are too, IF you choose to position yourself.

Roger Barnett, owner and CEO of Shaklee says: “We now have ‘the right stuff” to move ahead.  In Roger’s first 5 years since purchasing Shaklee, $50 million has been invested in the business!

Another reason Shaklee is right today—The American Dream.  We all have the talents and capabilities to move the dream forward for others through the vehicle of Shaklee.

There are 7 ways to earn in Shaklee.  Watch this short video presentation to learn 5 ways.

Number 6 is: the “Power of 10 Bonuses;” earn $100 for each 10 points earned in the first 90 days in Shaklee.

Number 7: The Fast Track Career Path to earning up to $100,000 in the first 15 months of being in the business. 

The question isn’t “who is going to let you?”  The question is “Who is going to stop you?”  (From BYU TV)

 “Somebody, anybody please help, I’m stuck.  Hello, anybody there?”

YOU are the one YOU have been waiting for.

Take Action!

Shaklee Independent Distributor 

Grace General, Home Based Business

Corn syrup was recently vilified by a well know TV Doctor.  He said corn syrup will make you fat.

He is right and he is wrong.  It isn’t the corn syrup that is making us fat, and it isn’t the other sugars either.

The problem lies in how much we are consuming.

It is said that the average person in the U.S. consumes 158 pounds of sugar each year!

I did some calculations.  I buy white sugar in 10 pound bags. I like to make cookies, cakes and pies. If I divide 158 by 12 months, I come up with about 13 pounds per month.

According to the label on my 10 pounds of sugar, 1 teaspoon is a serving and contains 15 calories.  There are 1,134 servings in a bag.  If I do the calculations right, that is 17,010 calories in 10 pounds of sugar.

Remember, the average amount of sugar consumed per person in this country is about 13 pounds a month, not 10!

WOW!  No wonder we are suffering and weight is going up!

Where is all the sugar coming from?

Mostly from soft drinks, snack foods and processed foods sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. Thus the statement “corn syrup makes you fat.”

I checked my low-fat salad dressing, and the second ingredient after water was sugar.

When food manufacturers take the fat out, they add sugar so we like the taste.

The brain needs sugar to function.  But 13 pounds a month? 

What about Stevia?  It appears to be safe in the amounts currently being consumed. 

What if we consumed 158 pounds a year, would it create a problem?

The best way to get sugar, of course, is from a natural source like fruit.

Maybe 2010 is the year to re-discover the joys of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and whole grains.

Shaklee Distributor

Grace General, Health

I work from home.  This week as storm after storm has passed through our area, I again appreciated the benefits of having a home-based business.

When it is cold and snowy, I can sit in the comfort of my home office.  I can email, hold conference calls, or have on-line meetings.  I can visit on the phone with my associates, place orders or do research.

I don’t have to get up before the sun, get into a cold car and drive on icy roads to work.

My heart goes out to parents who have to get up early, bundle up their precious little people and drop them off at a day care center.

Would they want it differently?  Maybe.  Choosing and operating a home-based business could be intimidating.

My home-based business has many other benefits. I don’t have to produce, test, distribute or deliver products.  That is done for me.  I get paid for advertising.

I have a customized, search engine optimized web site complete with a shopping cart.  It even has Google Analytics.

Could what I do be for you?  Most certainly if you decided to.

You  may ask who’s going to let you? You should ask who’s going to stop you?  Either way, that person may be you.

Explore the Infinite Possibilities of my home-based business opportunity.

Shaklee Independent Distsributor

Grace General, Home Based Business

Are you waiting to get sick before you try to get healthy?

Why not get healthy before you get sick?

If you are ready to take control of your health, you may have questions of where to start. 

Prevention is always better than disease.

Health care, or lack of it, has been a major issue in Washington and around the country.

Staggering numbers of people are completely unaware they may have a chronic disease that afflicts millions.

For example, it is estimated that forty percent of diabetics are walking around undiagnosed.

Sometimes the first sign of heart disease is sudden death.

Your body gives you clues as to when things may not be right.  Are you listening?

Through the science of Nutritional Symptomatology, you can answer a few questions and receive a Personal Wellness Review. 

You will be alerted to areas that may need attention.

The Wellness Review can help you make choices to stay healthy or get healthier. 

The Wellness Review is a gift.

To get started, Click on this LINK.

Shaklee Distributor

Grace Health

Happy 2010 New Year!  It’s time for the annual making of resolutions.  What will yours be?

One resolution many make in the New Year is to lose weight.  Is that you?  If it is, you have lots of company and lots of choices.

Those choices may not always be the best.

There are books about magic formulas, low fat, high fat, low carbohydrate, high protein. 

There are magic foods…grapefruit, cabbage soup, berries and chocolate.

I’ve tried a variety in my lifetime.

Cabbage soup….not my favorite.

The worst diet I tried was over 30 years ago.  I see it is still around.  My friend and I decided to do it together.  It was guaranteed to help us lose 10 pounds in 10 days.  This is the diet: Lemon juice, pure maple syrup mixed together and a cayenne pepper capsule.

Whenever I got hungry, this is all I would consume.

I lasted the entire 10 days without cheating.  On the 10^th day, I up-chucked, and it burnt all the way up.  I felt cheated because I only lost 5 pounds and for the next 2 months, my friend and I both caught every “bug” that flew by.  Not a pleasant experience.  It’s still a “Yuck” in my book.

Diets come with hype and lots of scientific sounding mumbo jumbo to show they work.  Despite what you read or hear, losing weight is solely based on the difference between calories in and calories out.

There is no “magic formula”, no “magic diet” and no “magic diet food.”  There are helps though.  Remember calories rule!

Calories in, calories out. 

The diet doesn’t have to be weird to work.

The diet should be healthy in the long run, not just for the diet’s duration.

Remember to exercise.  It increases lean muscle mass which in turn burns more calories.

Don’t start if you’re not going to finish.  It has to become a way of life, otherwise, you go back to your same old habits that got you where you are in the first place.

How did you do over the holidays?  The average weight gain is about 5 pounds.

This year I decided to do something different.  I drank a CINCH SHAKE twice a day as much as possible.  CINCH is a great meal replacement and the best breakfast on the planet.  I also took 3 in 1 BOOST to keep my metabolism going.

To my surprise and delight, I did not gain anything and even lost a bit. 

When making this year’s resolutions, change your life not just your weight.

 Shaklee Distributor

Grace General, Health