theoldwolf

Posting this for a worthy cause. If you repeat the post, it will help spread the message.



The Breast Cancer Site provides free mammograms for the disadvantaged - all you need to do to help is to go to their site and click the button once a day.

This campaign has been in place for several years (if you want details on how the program works, Barabara Mikkelson at Snopes.com provides a good explanation of the actual mechanism. It takes about 45,000 clicks to provide one mammogram, and they are at about 1.3 per day at this point. They could use more help.

So if it's something you can support, you can click the site once a day with your morning coffee or crumpet.

On the same topic, here's a book that every woman should read:


(Click the image to go to Dr. Lee's site)

For the record, I have zero financial interest in any of this - but my experience in working with one of the nation's most expert hormone-balancing providers has shown me that this is information which is critcal to the health of our nation's girls and women.

Other links with valuable information:

The Seventh Woman Institute
ZRT Laboratories
Utah Weight Loss & Natural Hormone Clinic

Time magazine just published this issue, the cover article of which screams to an America already 65% overweight and 30% morbidly obese: "Exercise won't help you lose weight."

Time should be ashamed of itself for foisting such a lopsided travesty off on a public already used to believing everything they read or hear in the Enquirer, Us, Cosmopolitan or Oprah. Why, if I read it on the internet, it must be true, right?

I don't have an alphabet soup after my name. Well, I do, but it's in the wrong field to make me a credible witness. Still, I've got some under-the-table experience in the field: having lost 32 pounds some years ago, and keeping it off until I suffered a divorce and self-medicated with Sachertorte and such things, in addition to working with a medical practitioner for 5 years and serving as her dietary counselor, I know whereof I speak.

Back in May, I posted this, in which I outlined a successful way of releasing weight and keeping it off. Nothing has changed. Excercise continues to be a critical part of weight release, regardless of what you may read in the above-mentioned article. Sure, increasing your caloric burn makes you hungry. But if you're eating a low-glycemic diet, you won't be spiking your blood sugar and setting off down the road to hyperinsulinemia. During my own journey, the more exercise I got, the faster I released weight. And the better I felt.

Despite the fact that almost everything stated in the article is true, wrapping it up in a populist ribbon designed to make the blubbery bulk of Americans sigh with relief and think they no longer have to exercise to release weight - and that, my friends, will be the guaranteed result - is disingenuous in the extreme.

Better information could have been disseminated in less than a paragraph. "Exercise is good for you: get off your fat backside and move. Just know that when you work out, you're going to get hungry. Have a healthy, low-glycemic snack and wait 20 minutes - you won't be hungry any more."

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A few days ago I posted "Açai, A Sigh, Assai!", a rant about the inescapable pitch for the Açai Berry/Colon Cleanse diet plan.

Here's a blatant example of the kind of criminal deception you see everywhere on the net these days:



Colon Cleansers Exposed
Warning: Avoid Colon Cleanse Scams - Read Our Free "Shocking" Report
Colon-Cleanse-Test.com

Clicking on the ad takes you to a website that

1) Claims to be a source of independent research
2) Tells you how dangerous and scary colon cleanses are, and then
3) Encourages you to use their Resveratrol/Colon Cleanse diet plan.

People, get a grip!

Q: How do you know when a salesman is lying?
A: His lips are moving.

The internet has made theft by deception as common as sunrise and dew on the grass, and it makes me sad to think how many people are throwing away their money on false hopes and outright lies.