From Flabulous to Fabulous

Yes! That’s right, Oatmeal can drastically and almost instantly take away the pain and symptoms of hang overs. I talked about "The Power of Oatmeal" in a previous blog post, but this time around, I thought I’d give people a more practical example of Oatmeal’s illustrious power.

The Research According to The University of Wales:

Researchers fed an oatmeal breakfast to some hungover college students. Here’s why there hangovers went away. Oatmeal has slowly digestible carbohydrates which fare much better on mood, memory, and overall mental capacity compared to people’s normal simple sugar induced breakfasts like cold cereal. Mental capacity and clarity is what’s drastically reduced when you are "hungover."
The Remedy Recipe:

Prepare a packet of plain oatmeal according to the package directions, but instead of the sugar and milk you might ordinarily add to the mix, just stir in 1 Tbsp of crunchy peanut butter to increase digestion-slowing fiber and add protein, which has also been linked to improving mental performance. This recipe makes 1 serving.

Serving Details:

- 192 Calories
- 8 grams of protein
- 20 grams of carbs
- 10 grams of fat
- 2 grams of saturated fat
- 4 grams of fiber
- 157 milligrams of sodium

For those of you reading this, you can thank me latter. LOL! Hopefully this works for you. It DEFINITELY WORKS FOR ME!

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So fellas…You’ve cut back on Mickey D’s and dropped the six-pack of beer for a six-pack of abs. But yet, you still can’t get the ladies. Why not? I know the answer why. According to a poll I conducted, I found very compelling details about "what women want." From the root, women want a man who is noticeable and genuinely charismatic. Charismatic people are easy to identify. They’re the ones surrounded by a bunch of smiling faces and friends. So what makes someone so "popular" and how can you be that "popular" guy, and why does it matter?

Once again, women like men who are charismatic. If you’re at the bar, gym, or wherever and you’re surrounded by friends (male and/or females) women revert back to their dreams of dating the high school quarter back. They want to be known as the girl synonymous with  the "popular guy" in school.

You can be that popular guy by creating some static. When you’re at the bar, gym, or wherever; ham it up with your buddies. Have a good time. Laugh. Even have a lady friend around you. Make sure she’s just a friend though. Otherwise she’ll of course get jealous or make other ladies non-responsive.

Here’s the bottom line of "what women want":

1. A guy with a good sense of humor
2. A guy who can fit in with many different types of social groups
3. A guy with wit, funny, and a quick thinker
4. A man of intellect. (Although the ladies want the jock, they want the brain too)
5. A man with vision, desire, strong leadership, and style
Notice in these results, women did not declare that the man must be rich. It seems to me that is a big stereotype. Women do of course want to be taken care of though. No bums!

I hope this has helped some of you guys out.

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I’ve been getting some people that have viewed my profile and read and commented on my blog, but yet my BodySpace profile visits and blog stats counter haven’t changed in the last 3 days. What’s going on? Why isn’t it working? Is anyone else having this problem? If you are having this problem please let me know by commenting on this blog post. You can also help by contacting admin or forwarding this blog post to admin. This is a very big problem. I can’t write blog posts if I don’t know how many people are reading them. My blog posts may suck (LOL) and I need to gauge the goodness or crappiness based on the traffic stats.
Also, does anyone know when Bodyspace will come out of beta version? It’s been in beta testing for 4 years now.

I heard about this Guy (Kevin Trudeau) and this book (The Weight Loss Cure: They Don’t Want You to Know About) 4 years ago. Many dietitians supported it. Many of course also bashed it. None the less, the book sold millions of copies and became a New York Times Best Seller. If I had the $25 I would have bought it.

In the infomercial Kevin describes who “they” are and why these secrets of weight loss have not previously been exposed. Once Kevin went on to explain the circumstances and give his background, I pretty much was glued to the tv. I wanted to believe what he said because it was making so much sense. But I also didn’t want to be taken advantage of by some sleazy orator who just happened to have a good sales pitch. I decided to keep listening and afterwards I did some research on Kevin Trudeau, his books, and his federal court case.

In this blog post, I will give detailed information on Kevin, his controversial book, his Federal court case, his infomercial transcript and what my opinion of it all is. This is going to be long post;  so sit back, grab a snack, and listen carefully. This post will not be another congratulation or “hateration” article. I intend to provide facts to the best of my knowledge. This subject is very important to me personally because many of the things Kevin has been indicted for have been called “false advertising,” yet they are medical conditions I personally have and have cured!  So somebody is lying, and I don’t think it’s Kevin; especially on a few key subjects.

This all goes deeper than Kevin, his book, and his court case. Everyone in the world needs to hear about this, especially those who are weight conscious.
Infomercial Analysis:

At the start of Kevin’s Infomercial, the interviewer immediately got down to business and asked Kevin the coveted question… Who are “They.”

His response was, “They” in this case are really several government agencies—U.S. government agencies—and other agencies around the world, and the drug industry primarily, but also it involves the food industry. There are certain groups, including government agencies, as well as the food industry, the drug industry, and even some news and television and newspaper organizations that don’t want people to know about cures for diseases that are all natural because people can’t make money on all-natural cures

- My Thoughts: They “don’t want people to know about cures for diseases that are all natural because people can’t make money on all-natural cures. There are many people that have tried to contest by saying that “natural cures and remedies make mega-bucks.”  Well, take Hoodia for example. It was a big rave last summer as an “all-natural-weight loss cure.” It grew strong popularity and made mega-money, but then the pharmaceutical companies release claims that Hoodia can be lethal. It’s funny how in a matter of months the “pharma’s” shut down Hoodia but it took almost five years just to get a federal indictment to test Fen Phen (pharmaceutical grade speed (narcotic) and people were already dying from it! And there was proof that Fen Phen was the cause.

So what’s the bottom line: The bottom line is; Pharmaceutical companies are backed by millions of dollars in corporate lobbyist money and they have the power to monopolize the diet supplement market place, and do so by shutting down private “natural cure” companies. If the public found out there was “natural remedies” for health problems of any kind, the billion dollar pharmaceutical companies will crumble.  Kevin later mentions this during his interview.

Next Kevin begins to list natural cures for some of the most wide-spread diseases. “There are in fact cures for cancer. There are cures for diabetes. There are cures for chronic fatigue syndrome. There are cures—all-natural cures—for attention deficit disorder, migraine headaches. . .  Interviewer says, “Now wait a second. Attention Deficit Disorder. Now how can that be lumped in with all of these physical maladies?

Kevin replies, “Well, when you look at . . . the way the system works today, you have the Food and Drug Administration—the FDA, and you have the drug industry. They really work in tandem. Unfortunately, there’s an unholy alliance there. People don’t know that the majority of commissioners of the FDA, which allegedly regulates the drug industry, okay, and the food industry—Food and Drug Administration, the commissioners of the FDA—the majority of them—go to work directly for the drug companies upon leaving the FDA and are paid millions and millions and millions of dollars. Now in any other format, that would be called bribery; that would be called a conflict of interest; that would be called payoffs. That’s exactly what’s happening right now. So what has occurred is the Food and Drug Administration is really working in tandem with the drug industry to protect their profits. Example: The Food and Drug Administration says that only a drug can diagnose, prevent, or cure any disease. Therefore the Food and Drug Administration continues to call more and more and more things diseases. Therefore they eliminate all-natural remedies. No one can say what a natural remedy can do if it’s been classified as a disease. So Attention Deficit Disorder is now a disease. Therefore only a drug can cure, prevent, or diagnose it. Cancer is a disease. Acid reflux is now a disease. Obesity is now a disease.

- My Thoughts: Therefore only a drug can cure, prevent, or diagnose it. Cancer is a disease. Acid reflux is now a disease. Obesity is now a disease. I can not and will not say what I believe are diseases and what are not diseases, but it seems to me that our society (especially in America) classifies every possible ailment as being a disease. Many things that are heavily publicized are simply NOT diseases. A disease is brought upon by genetic and environmental factors. Many of the things we classify as diseases are simply things we as humans do to ourselves. Our societal disconnect from this “unfavorable truth” is brought upon by the influence of the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry. Think about this: The FDA is supposed to regulate the safety of what we eat and what drugs we take. If you do some research, and I did; you will find that in fact the FDA does NOT test all foods and drugs. They only “consider” testing them if there are a minimum of 100 complaints. And even that number often gets ignored because there is no one monitoring rather or not the complaints are resolved, where they come from or how many are received. On the subject of our definitions of disease, think about this: America has the highest rate of attention-deficit-disorder, lung cancer, and heart disease than any other developed or undeveloped nation. Some countries have no cases of any of the above so-called “diseases.” You can look at each “disease” I listed and find that they are almost always self-induced. Attention-deficit-disorder is often nothing more than a mis-behaved child with parents who have no disciplinary control. Lung cancer is often from smoking, and heart disease is often from our abundance of pork and red-meat intake.

So what’s the bottom line: Once again… These so-called “diseases” are more often than not self-induced; but The FDA and pharmaceutical companies would like you to believe that you’re the victim and that there’s a magic little pill (prescription only of course is what the say) that will save your life. So I guess were the victims of ourselves. Perhaps they’ll diagnose us with straight jackets next. That way we don’t have to be responsible for our own decisions we make. Another big distinction to understand between “natural cures” and prescription medication is… Natural cures are intended to only be used temporarily.  Prescription medications (for the big name diseases) have to be taken for the rest of your life. Do you see the issue here? They want you to be their customer for LIFE, and give you no other alternatives.

Transcript Continued:
Acid reflux is not a disease. Attention Deficit Disorder is not a disease, but it’s classified as a disease to protect the drug industries. But there are natural remedies. . . There are absolute natural cures for these problems. They don’t cost a lot. The problem is the manufacturers or the people that discover an herb, a food source—these are natural, an essential oil, a homeopathic remedy. These companies cannot by law say what the product does because if they say that this herb cures diabetes, then the Food and Drug Administration comes in and says, “Ah! You can’t say that because only a drug can cure a disease. Therefore you are selling a drug without a license. And somebody will say, “Well, why can’t that company then just apply for a drug license?” Do you know what the cost is to get a drug approved in this country? This is directly from the FDA. On average—840 million dollars. Eight hundred and forty million dollars to get a drug approved. The interviewer then says, “Okay, you’d know more about this than I do but . . . natural cures have been around forever. They were the original medicines. Kevin says, That’s absolutely correct. . . . The drug industry only started in the last 75 years. The drug industry just started. Before then, there were only natural cures. But the drug industry in America is the most profitable industry in this country. You know what else is the most profitable industry is the insurance industry and the food industry. For example, obesity, weight loss . . . there are natural remedies for weight loss that the drug companies and the food industry does not want you to know about. Now think about this. Let’s assume that you owned a food company. You sell food. Okay? You want to sell more food because that’s how you make more money. Okay? The lobbyists in Washington right now, as we speak, are demanding that the federal government and the various organizations—independent bodies—do not promote “eat less, exercise more.” The food industry does not want the message “eat less, exercise more.” Why? Because eating less means people consume less food. It’s all about money. The drug industry does not want people to get healthy. Now think about that. The drug industry does not want people to get healthy. The drug industry wants people to buy more drugs. Healthy people don’t need drugs. If everyone in America was healthy, the drug industry would be out of business.

- My thoughts: The drug industry does not want people to get healthy. The drug industry wants people to buy more drugs. Healthy people don’t need drugs. If everyone in America was healthy, the drug industry would be out of business. Have you heard of pharmaceutical salesman? They are legal drug dealers as I like to call them. They make about six-figures a year selling pharmaceutical drugs to doctors. In the 80’s there was a big scandal about this. Many of the top pharmaceutical companies gave cash bribes for doctors to “recommend” a.k.a FORCE their patients to buy their drugs. Nowadays, drug reps smooze doctors by buying lunch at 4-star restaurants and give commission kick-backs every time a prescription is written and filled from their product. If that’s not immoral, I don’t know what is. That’s called drug-trafficking 101. The main problem with this is that many doctors prescribe patients prescriptions they don’t really need just so that they can get their commission check. The biggest case of this is anti-biotics. Doctors prescribe anti-biotics for everything. If you have a common cold, doctors prescribe $40 anti-biotics. So now there’s a wide spread outburst of people who have become immune to anti-biotics because they’ve been prescribed so much. Don’t believe me? Ask friends and family, at least one person will be able to confirm.
The rest of this transcript goes on for pages and pages, so it’s safe to stop here because the underlying message has already been presented. It’s time to find out more about Kevin, his book, and why the feds came after him.Who is Kevin Trudeau:
Kevin Trudeau was a self-made millionaire by the age of 18. When he was 15, he was invited to an Amway (multi-level-marketing) business meeting. Kevin didn’t run his business as an MLM though. He sold Amway products through the distribution of mail-order catalogs. Kevin said in an interview that his greatest accomplishment with Amway was not the money he made. He said he realized that in order to make a lot of money, you have to own your own business and stay motivated. Kevin attributes his motivation by reading books about successful people. Such books include Zig Ziglar’s: See You at the Top and Napoleon Hill’s: Think and Grow Rich. After Kevin’s brief stint with Amway, he later went on to create published reports exposing several illegitimate industries. After 20 years, The Weight Loss Cure: They Don’t Want You to Know About became his first book.
The Book and the Controversy behind it: The Weight Loss Cure: They Don’t Want You to Know About:
The Weight Loss Cure: They Don’t Want You to Know About was written in early 2000  by Kevin Trudeau. Kevin shopped the book around to many publishers and after being rejected from them all, Kevin started his own publishing company, created his own press campaign and sold 6 million copies, out selling every other book of 2004 besides Harry Potter. The controversy behind the book is based on everything I mentioned above in his transcript. Kevin was brought before the FTC and forced to black list the book and take no further participation in infomercials because they believed he was mis-leading the public. Kevin exercised his freedom of speech, was able to prove the legitimacy of his “cures” and he settled outside of court. What is very interesting to note about the book is that Kevin takes no credit for any of the cures he mentions. The cures he mentions were from Nobel-Peace Prize winning doctors. What is also interesting is that Kevin has a money back guarantee. If his book was a scam, it wouldn’t have generated the buzz to sell 6 million copies, not to mention he wouldn’t have been able to follow up the book with more sequels, and his return rate would have sky-rocketed and bankrupted his enterprise.

My Closing Thoughts on Kevin, the book, the Feds, and “the industry”:
As I stated initially, this post/article is not be another congratulation or “hateration” article. I understand the health care industry entirely. I’ve gone through medical science programs, I’ve studied medical journals, I have doctors in my family, and I know the ins and outs of unscrupulous doctors. I will not say rather or not everything Kevin mentions in his book is true or false, but what I will say is… It’s a worthwhile read. I know this article was long, and I hope you got some positive insight.

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Is Bodyspace turning into Adult Friend Finder?  Or better yet Myspace?  Or Better yet Match.com?  I talked about the ass shots.  And we apparently cleared up that issue. [Blog Archive: I’m Tired of the Ass Shots Ladies] But there’s a few people that slipped through the crack.  (Excuse the pun)

My girlfriend was just scrolling through the ladies profiles looking for good ole’ inspiration (5 minutes ago) and then she runs past some of the most provocative pictures imaginable.  What makes it so bad, is the profiles are FAKES! IMPOSTERS.  Members: Putzi, Thebartender, Storytyme, Blondechick post pictures that are not even of them.  As an avid blogger, I know that these profiles were more than likely created by a man/spammer who is trying to use the profiles as a means of hacking people’s computer or sending them to a "personals website."  And when I say personal, I really mean a paid porno site.  This s**t just disgusts me!

I’m not taking cheap shots at the ladies that are here to show progression on their bottom halfs.  But what these profiles above show are images with explicit sexual indecent title tags.  Is it really necessary to title your picture: "just teasing."  Bodyspace is not an online strip club.  We don’t need any tramps here that are insinuating a flash of the boobies.

And guys:  Stop making crude comments, like the following: "Oh my God you make me weak" or "you are beyond sexy" or "I’d like to tap that."  You losers will never in a million years see, touch, or talk to these women.  Have some accountability fellas.  Many of the women her have husbands, boyfriends, spouses, or otherwise significant others.  You better be glad they haven’t kicked your a**.  My girlfriend has a bodyspace account, and sadly she doesn’t feel comfortable showing her body because nasty pigs are going to make crude comments.  Some jerk off (excuse the pun) posted a nasty comment when she posted a simple picture of her face.  What a loser!

Do I sound angry right now!  You can only imagine!  If you’re looking for a booty call, there’s places for nuts like you.  Join adultfriendfinder and stay the f**k off bodyspace.  What I don’t seem to understand with the ladies is; what do you have to gain by posting your naked pics all over the web?  You do realize this site is global right?  If you want to be seen naked in front of the whole world, perhaps you should start a career in the adult industry.  But not on bodyspace.  What I don’t understand about the guys is; there’s plenty of other sites you can visit if you’re trying to "comment molest" somebody (I should copyright that).  Why not go to those dirty sites?  Many of the girls you comment don’t like hearing the crude remarks.  They’ve told me.
To the ladies:  If you’d like to show your "butt pics" that’s fine, but make sure it’s in contest attire.  (Low back - V cut) Please, no thong bikini’s.  For those of you who are crossing the line in an obvious way, bodyspace admin is coming after you, because you are being reported.  I’m going to keep the sanctity here if it f**king kills me.

- Peace

First and foremost, I’m not here to knock them.  I think they are GREAT and provide a great deal of help to the bodyspace community.  Plus the obvious… Everyone thinks they’re HOTT and find inspiration.  I think there’s more to it than that though.

They stay really active here.  They’re consistently on the "Top Profiles" list, "Most Comments Left" list, and "Most Comments Received" list.  I made a post a few days ago: I’m Tired of the Ass Shots Ladies.  Cnstnce gave her two cents about why she posts "ass shots" on her profile page.  I thought that the three ladies above stay on "top lists" because they "show some ass," but that proved to be wrong.  Cnstnce immediately changed her profile picture and stayed on the "top lists."

Another thing interesting on that note is, "SpanishBelle" got popular really quickly last week, and she had the biggest, most, desirable ass. (from members comments) But yet, she’s been knocked off her pedestal.

I’m starting to think people aren’t here just to "hook-up" and look at ass.  People really do seem to be looking for inspiration, motivation, and improvement.
So if it’s not about half naked pictures, or ass shots, what makes these three ladies so popular?  I’m in support of them, but why are you?  ChickenTuna, Cnstnce, Amy Kessler and MsFitness… Feel to to reply if time permits.

Yesterday I made a blog post testifying to the help of a fellow bodyspace member.  I can’t use there name, because bodyspace may try to flag them again.  Anyways, I was approached by a member of bodyspace that Private Messaged me after reading about my new competition craze.

She solicited me with a domain name, domain redirect, and email address.  I took her up on her offer for $20, and she  delivered exactly what she said she was going to do.  I had no technical knowledge to do this on my own, so the $20 was worth it.  I then posted this testimony as a blog post and Bodyspace admin then left me a comment stating that I should "not promote another member that way."

I wasn’t promoting anybody.  I was just giving a TRUE account of another bodyspace members’ help.  Although she emailed me and this is considered SPAM, it was a great and necessary help.  Bodyspace Admin then goes further to comment and say that the service sounds good, but yet it was cheaper to do so on GoDaddy.

Now here’s my BIG PROBLEM, how can they tell me and "my helper," that we can’t solicit or testify, but yet they’re giving FREE exposure to GoDaddy.  Isn’t it more ethical to help out your members and not third party businesses?  Not to mention, here’s the other problem, GoDaddy ISN’T cheaper.  Sure it may cost $10 for a domain name, but if you need them to perform the other services my "helper," performered, it would cost well over an hour of frustration.  Plus GoDaddy has year long contracts.  I also hear nothing but crap about them.
I am very hot and bothered by this.  But whatever.  Life goes on I guess.   I guess I’d just like to know the rules.

A year ago, I decided to mix my two passions… Fashion and music.  I came up with an idea to design and handle the sales process for musicians who needed their own clothing lines and novelties. 

I got alot of interest, had a good time with it.  You may want to take this idea and apply it for yourself.  So here’s my idea to you…

Create a t-shirt for yourself and maybe a few for friends and family.  Put your URL and picture (if it’s professional) on the shirts.  When you’re at the gym, people may find interest, visit your site, and become a fan.  Don’t expect to become a local celebrity, but whenever you get a chance, where it out.  Everywhere you go with it on, people will notice you and more than likely gain interest.  You have to remember… We live in a very stimulus oriented society, so if you have a smokin’ body, people will DEFINATELY visit your site.

Where do I make my shirt, how much does it cost, and how do I do it.  I recommend using cafepress.com or zazzle.com.  Depending on what shirt you choose, it’ll run you between $20-$30 per shirt.  They have very easy instructions on how to format your shirt, so don’t worry if you’re a design newbie.

This is a topic more about consumer psychology more than anything else.  Many people say that they prefer going to a fitness club so that they can get motivated better, while others prefer the 0 minute commute to their home gym, while others prefer the drill sargent accountability of personal trainers. 

I’m torn between a home gym and a fitness club.  I’ve had both and love the 10 ft. stride to my home gym, but also love the community feel of a fitness club.  My problem with fitness clubs though is… People flirt around and **** around on the equipment, so you can never get the job done.  Essentially throwing you of tempo (very important) plus the equipment is broken or stolen half the time, plus you have the dreaded commute their.  I’m just too lazy to dedicate the drive their.  By the time you get off work, you just want to kick back at home.  The problem with a home gym, is that I start feeling like I’m in a jail cel and am working out under solitary confinement.  It really sucks working out by yourself.  But the benefit of keeping up my tempo and staying focused is really nice.  Plus, I like to work out topless.  They frown upon that at health clubs.  LOL. 

Well anyways, enough about me.  Where do you workout?