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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 Nutrition, Shaklee, Skiers, Snowboarders, U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Snowboarding Team

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 American Dream, Economic Crisis, Health Crisis, Major Trends, Self Reliance

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 Corn Syrup, Stevia, Sugar, White Sugar

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 Home Based Business, Work From Home, Working From Home

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 Cabbage Soup, Calories, Diet, Diets, New Year, New Year's Resolutions

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, the song rings in our ears.  We do wish for you a Merry Christmas and hope this next year is a prosperous one for all.

I finally broke down and bought a fake tree this year.  I love the smell of fresh cut trees.  Several of our trees were living trees and they now live in our yard.  They have gotten really big.

Having a tree in the house with a wood stove doesn’t make for a long lasting tree.  The needles are soon dropping to the floor and we could only enjoy the lights for a short time.  We didn’t want it to catch fire.

 So the decision to get a fake one was made this year.  It really is nice keeping the lights on.

We have many Christmas symbols and the tree is one of them. The pure green color of the Christmas tree remains all year.  This shows the everlasting hope of mankind.  The needles point heavenward to remind us that our thoughts should turn toward heaven.

The candy cane represents the shepherds crook. The crook helps bring wandering sheep back to the flock.  It reminds us to show love because we are our brother’s keeper.

Lost sheep are found by the sound of a bell.  The bell rings for mankind to return to the fold.

We put bows on our presents to remind us of the spirit of the brotherhood of man.  As the bow is tied, it is with love and good feelings toward each other.

The symbol of the present reminds us that as we give gifts of love we remember the gifts the wisemen gave to the infant Jesus.

God promised a Savior for the world and gave us a bright new star that shone down from the heavens as fulfillment of that promise.

The wreath is round and represents the eternal nature of love.  It never ceases, stops, or ends.  It is one continuous round of affection.

We can enjoy the fun things of Christmas without forgetting what Christmas represents.  It represents the birth of Christ and His great love for us.  It gives us the opportunity to show our love for each other.

May your Christmas be filled with joy and love.

Grace Family, General Candy Cane, Christmas Trees, Love, Symbols of Christmas, We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Thanksgiving dinner and other holiday meals don’t have to be unhealthy. Here are some healthy tips.

There are many ingredients in a Thanksgiving dinner that are healthy.  If prepared carefully, turkey can be a healthy, low-fat meat. Sweet potatoes, yams and pumpkin are loaded with vitamin A and other great nutrients.  Cranberries are a nutrition powerhouse.

Here are some tips to make your Thanksgiving meal one
that contributes to your health:

Don’t baste the turkey.  Cook it in a bag to seal in the moisture. Remove the skin before serving.

Refrigerate or add ice cubes to the turkey juices and skim off the hardened fat before  making the gravy.  Use a gravy cup that pours from the bottom to minimize the fat.
  

Bake the stuffing in the oven instead of in the turkey.  Use whole wheat bread, vegetables and fruits.  Add nuts and your favorite spices.

Bake your sweet potatoes or yams instead of candied and let your guests add butter to taste.

Skip the butter for your mashed potatoes. Use skim milk or buttermilk instead of whole milk.

By cooking your green vegetables with garlic, nuts and herbs instead of creamy or fat-laden sauces, you give the meal a gourmet appeal.

Serve your meal on smaller plates to help control portion sizes.  Even a second helping isn’t quite so damaging.

Use a meal replacement product for one or more meals before and after Thanksgiving.  The overall total caloric intake over the three day period will not be so excessive. 

We use a wonderful meal replacement product.  Learn more about Cinch.

Are you getting the idea?  There are many little things you can do to make your holiday dinners healthier.

Here is a little verse. I don’t know who wrote it, enjoy!

May your stuffing be tasty,

May your turkey be plump…

May your potatoes ‘N’ gravy have nary a lump.

May your Yams be delicious,

May your pies take the prize,

May your Thanksgiving dinner stay off of your thighs!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Shaklee Independent Distributor

Grace General Healthy Dinner, Healthy Tips, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Meal

Roger Barnett, owner and CEO of Shaklee, has a vision to “Make a Difference” in the lives of millions of families by providing a healthier life for everyone and a better life for anyone.

Shaklee teamed up with the recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for the Environment, Wangari Maathai.

Wangari became the Global Ambassador for “A Million Trees, a Million Dreams” a Shaklee environmental campaign that raises awareness of global climate change and initiates efforts to plant trees in North America and Africa.  Shaklee reached the “million trees planted in North America” goal this year and continues planting trees.

By taking care of the health of our families, we also make a difference in the health of the planet.

Through the sale of Gold Ambassador Mission PAKs, money is still being raised and trees are still being planted.

This year, Shaklee teamed up with Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner.  Mr. Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983. He is “Banker to the Poor” giving micro loans to men and women to start businesses.

In 2007, Shaklee was recognized for its leadership in offsetting carbon emissions by creating renewable energy in Africa.

In 2008, Shaklee was awarded the Stevie for Best Corporate Environmental Responsibility Program by the American Business Awards.

This year, Shaklee was named to the Top 20 Retail Partner list by the EPA Green Power Partnership and is honored with the Business Environmental Award for Sustainability from Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet.

By using and sharing Shaklee Products with friends and neighbors, we participate in these awards and we help create healthier lives for everyone and a healthier planet.  JOIN US.

See other Shaklee accomplishments from 1915 to 2009, by clicking THIS 2010 PRODUCT GUIDE LINK.

Shaklee Independent Distributor 

Grace General Business Environmental Award, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, Roger Barnett, Shaklee, Wangari Maathai

Is Stress Making You Sick? It is very possible.  Stress affects the heart, weight, the skin and more. 

Under stress, the heart beat increases and the heart has to work harder.  Blood thickens and clots more easily.  Blood clots that form when there is no wound, is not good.

The Immune System slows down substantially and you are more susceptible to illness, infection and degeneration,

Colon function is impaired, resulting in constipation, diarrhea, and gas produced by undigested food.  The digestive process turns off causing stomach upsets.

Adrenal secretions increase, pumping adrenalin into the blood stream to temporarily give you strength, speed, and stamina. 

If you are being attacked by a bear, this needs to happen, but in everyday life, the “fight or flight” syndrome day in and day out takes a toll on your health.

Under stress, the skin may break out with acne, psoriasis, hives or rosacea.

Stress can change the balance of chemicals in the brain and narrow the blood vessels which may cause headaches.  Tension in the shoulders and neck may make them worse.

Things you can do to lessen stress are:

Identify what is stressful; talk with someone important to you; plan ahead; exercise; tackle problems 1-1; have a positive attitude; avoid alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, caffeine and sugar; know what you can and cannot change; Supplement your diet with nutrients that feed the cells.

The body manufactures 55,000 new cells every second!  Cells require protein, vitamins minerals and more.  Under stress these nutrients are used up extremely fast and must be replenished.

Our family uses quality nutritional supplements, one of which is Stress Relief Complex. I invite you to view a short video “The Shaklee Difference.“  There is a difference in supplements.

 Shaklee Distributor

Grace General, Health Adrenalin, Blood Clots, Heart, immune system, stress

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I would write about “spooky” foods.  Spooky because they make you think you are eating healthy.  Spooky because they pretend to be something they are not and hope to pass themselves off as the real thing. 

The first is pretzels.  I love them.  They are crunchy and salty, two favorites.  The package shouts “fat free,” always a warning flag.  What is in them to make them “spooky?”

They’re made from refined white flour which has been stripped of any nutritional benefits, such as vitamins and antioxidants.

They are packed with carbs and calories. 

Have you eaten 24 slices of white bread in a sitting?  Well a 15-oz. bag of pretzels is like eating all that bread at one time.  Spooky!

Another “spooky” food disguised as healthy are spinach wraps.  They look good, taste good and you would think they are healthy.  Isn’t spinach healthy?

Spinach wraps contain only a scant amount of spinach powder, hardly enough to mention.  They get their green color from food colorings and are made from refined white flour.

Not too many good vitamins in this “spooky” food.  The A and C found in fresh spinach are gone from spinach wraps.  A typical wrap contains 170 calories.  One cup of cooked fresh spinach contains about 65 calories.   Spooky!

How about those blueberry scones you love so much?  Blueberries, how healthy could that be?  Sounds healthy to me.  How spooky could they be?

They are packed with over 400 calories and artery-clogging saturated fat, over half the maximum amount needed in an entire day.  They don’t even count as a serving of fruit and just try to find the fiber.   “Spooky.”

How spooky could water be?  Some water I’ve tasted is pretty bad.  This “spooky” water cost some bucks.  It is vitamin water.  Sure it’s loaded with some inexpensive vitamins, but it is also loaded with up to 200 calories per bottle.  It’s a great way to pack on the pounds if they are not burned off.

Purified water would be a better choice. 

Have a safe Halloween and watch out for the spooks and goblins roaming around and especially watch out for the “spooky” foods masquerading as healthy.

Shaklee Distributor

Grace General, Health Blueberry Scones, Halloween, Spinach Wraps, vitamins