So in a future installment I will give out all the details. I am ready to bring my friends along. I want to see how they are going to do at this and if this is a duplicateable process. Right now all signs say go so I am going. I learned that if we want to get ahead in life a little hard work is all that is needed so long as one is determined. The right vehicle never hurt either and I found a sports car! No one gets hurt and everyone benefits!

Some of my criteria was also a bit prohibiting. I did not want to make a large investment. I know I can spend a million dollars and start a winner franchise, but I did not have the million to spare. I wanted no inventory to hold. No carrying costs associated with it. Heck I did not want to take orders and be in charge of fulfilling them (sorry eBay but I did not want to do that again.) That was just to start. As I looked it seemed more and more difficult to find a good business opportunity.

But guess what.. I did. I found a whopper. Not only that in my first month of working it, I showed a profit. In my next installment I will share this opportunity with you. I want to help you all make it happen. I am so excited over it I can’t wait to share it with you.

Banana Sticker Fail

I thought it would be funny today to just post something humorous. I found this sticker on a banana and thought it was just plain wrong. I mean those guys at Chiquita must have some sense of humor.

Anyway I thought I would share

I also will be posting under my account on fail blog. I do hope you all enjoy it there.  Personally I think this was probably the last sticker that these guys put on the banana before that group got the axe.

Someone else in the office commented that they had a sticker with “LOL” on it. I will try to get a picture of that one too.

Enjoy and comment.

One site I found with good information is 7 Tips For Eating Healthy During the Holidays. I liked the tips that they proposed with some exceptions.  When they say thicken with Corn Starch versus Cream simply due to calories I always consider the source and quality of the calories. Remember to stay way from processed foods as much as possible. A good organic cream is healthier for you than processed corn starch any day.

Also a good tip is to resuse the food you made over the holidays in other healthy ways. For instance in the extra turkey sandwhiches and salads use organic and light dressings. Use whole grain organic breads. I tend to prefer the Ezekiel brand myself.

Another good tip is to eat the food sparingly. I always tend to gulp down my food and eat as much as I can and it got me into trouble. I found that by eating slower and sampling the food before me without trying to eat it all kept me from over eating. I am sure it will you too.

Any other tips or hints anyone can think of, please note them below. I hope to expand on this topic in general over the coming months. Good health and good food is something we all deserve!

First what is a cold? According to the Mayo Clinic “The common cold is a viral infection of your upper respiratory tract — your nose and throat.” Certainly sounds like what I cought. There is much more information on the Mayo site.  So establishing that I was cold and in cold weather and I have a cold. Is that the cause?

The cold is viral so could it be a particular virus that inhabits and lives only in cold weather? My instincts tell me not. If that were the case then why do people get colds in warm and hot clients? It’s not like they have a sickness called the ‘warms.’

Since we are talking colds though and since I did contract something while up in DC I did want to investigate it. As thought and with minimal searching I found studies have found no correlation to cold weather and colds. Interesting. There seemed to be one for me, or is there?

I think the more likely explanation is my close proximity to people. Colds are highly infectious and pass easily from human to human. Most commonly this is through touch. Since I was just in an airport, a busy one at that, and in an airplane full of travelers it is highly likely that is were I contracted this cold.

So what can we do about it? Well there has been many studies into using zinc and echinacea and other herbal medicines and there has been no conclusive evidence supporting or denying them. I think a few simple things we can do like wash our hands and practice good hygiene will go a long way towards preventing the spread of the common cold. I also like to drink a nice cup of herbal tea and take a lot of vitamin C. Whether this really helps or not is up in the air, but I sure feel better. I also have a post on 12 common natural cures right on this blog. Please check those out. They may help you.

If anyone has a few cures/aids that have helped them in the past, please comment below. We would love to hear from you.

Still with being sick recently and totally stressed out I got to thinking if stress is something that is affecting any of my readers? Stress can come in from many situations. It can come in from pressures and issues from school, work, friends, bosses, teachers. It can come from financial situations beyond our control. Truly there is a lot of that kind of stress going on.

I urge you to take a deep breath and realize that it is invariably not as bad as it initially seems. We can get through any situation once we step back and take a good look at it. Find ways to calm down. For me that is a good video game, book, cup of coffee or even a beer.  For others it is whatever you might enjoy! Take your mind off the situation and relax with a good book and a hot bath.

For now I will destress myself and get back to providing good information for you all to read. Signing out..

My personal favorite is tea for sore throats. I have a few herbal teas I take and they really do soothe and help me get through.

Do you have any that help you? Share them with everyone below.

Pretty scary indeed. Now I have nothing against good proper corn, specially when it is organically grown, but I also believe that everything should be eaten in moderation.  This is a case where not a lot of moderation is happening.  Already a good portion of our processed diet consists of corn via HFCS in one form or another, but the prevalence of corn in our diet is amazing.

To me our body was made to take in many kinds of food and be the most efficient when its in balance. This is a case where there is no balance. Whether it is corn or soybeans or sugar are any of the other major food products that seem to find their way into our mainstream food, too much of it is bad. Even the silly commercials from the Corn Industry that try to convince us that HFCS is ‘all natural’ and OK to eat state it by saying ‘in moderation.’ Please where is the moderation in this?

What do you think?

I started to work more and more and my activity dropped. Further my ‘normal’ diet of processed and fast foods started to catch up with me fast. Unhealthy, fatigued, over worked, stressed out and 207 pounds I felt I needed a change.  My wife also wanted to make many changes in our life and together we researched what we could do.

Now I am not a doctor nor do I have any expertise other my general search for knowledge and wanting to better my life and others. So any advice I give on here unless stated otherwise will be based on personal research and studies. Having said that, so much of alternative and healthy medicines are this way and I hope my own personal journey will help others which is why I wish to share it.

So back to where I was, 207 pounds and unhealthy. My wife, wanting to make changes switched our diet to predominately organic foods cutting out nearly all processed foods. In addition we started juicing vegetables and fruits in the morning. Only pure organic fruits and veggies. Delicious. In a very short time, all while still working sometimes 100 hours in a week, I started losing weight and feeling better.  Within a year I was down to 165 pounds.

Now I am still not working out as much as I should at that time so my weight loss was simply amazzing to me. Those around me that witnessed it all asked how I did it. All I could say was a simply ate better and for me that was the truth. However, I noticed that my diet was expensive and it was not easy for everyone to follow it.  This is where we started to look for cheaper ways to eat as well as we could.

We started using more and more home remedies and looked for simpler, easier, healthier, more life sustaining ways to live. While I am sitll going through this tranformation process we have learned a lot along the way and I simply wanted to share it with the world.

So please enjoy what is here and comment on wht you can. I am always looking to better myself, others and the world and any suggestion or correction on what I have I am happy to hear.

After my little post about saving money by using a Co-op I was informed that there are also more ways to save money. How? Well by volunteering at one!

One of our future contributors mentioned that she volunteers every time there is a chance. Why volunteer? Well since the organic buying club she belongs to are 100% volunteer based, it is just a good thing to do. Someone has to separate out all the deliverables into the individual packets to be handed to all the organic buying club members. So why does this help save more money?

Well by using volunteers the buying club or co-op does not have to spend money for employees hence the food stays cheaper. But it gets better than that! At her buying club the volunteers get to save 15.00 dollars off their individual bags for helping that week! How awesome is that?

Not awesome enough you say? They also have to separate out the slightly damaged food, but they don’t throw it away. Any volunteers that might want it, can have it by splitting it amongst themselves. This means any bruised fruit or vegetables that are still good get to be added to the volunteers now cheaper bag. Also some volunteers do not like certain foods and they usually have left overs.. that’s right.. The other volunteers get to split it amongst themselves!

In the end she says she usually gets two or three bags of food, while providing a needed service and for a cheaper price than normal. It really pays to volunteer!

If you have any further tips on using a coop or any comments on this article please share it below. We would love to hear from you!