Posted: February 16th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
Yesterday afternoon, I wore my new anti-Obama tee shirt when I went out to do a few errands. I thought I’d be finished in an hour or so, but everywhere I went, people were stopping me to comment about the shirt, which is a picture of Obama painted as the Joker from Batman, with a caption on the bottom that says , “Why So Socialist?”
I was no sooner out of my car at the grocery store, when a woman in her mid 50′s hollered out, “Where can I get one of those?”
That was pretty funny, considering that my wife thought that if I wore it in public I was likely to get beat up. She doesn’t exactly have her finger on the prevailing political pulse, which is not running in the President’s favor.
In the produce section of the store, another two women stopped me and started talking about healthcare and the economy (I was beginning to think that my recent weight loss had made me a chick magnet). But they were angry about what the President was up to, which was no good, in their opinion. At the checkout counter, another woman said, “He really isn’t what he advertised, is he?”
This continued for the next couple of hours and all I did was to wear a tee shirt, expressing my opinion. I didn’t get one negative comment all afternoon. This surely isn’t scientific, but it sure lets you know things have changed in a big way.
But as I said the other day, this healthcare proposal isn’t going away. Word came down today that the President is going to get personally involved, and start telling Congress what is going to be in the bill. This is where the hardball starts and it’s going to be Chicago style hardball, which will get ugly. He is going to start passing money and pork around, to appease the Blue Dogs, and nothing makes a Congressman happier than money in his trough (except getting re-elected).
This is what it boils down to: big money now, versus the prospect of being defeated at the polls. If unemployment is still 10% next summer and if this bill passes, along with the equally ridiculous cap and trade, it could be 12% or higher, then the Democrats are going down. If this is their vision of the future, then they need to be put out to pasture for a long time. I say give them all a “shovel ready” job and make them work for a living.
One of our fine customers (who actually does work for a living), wrote in that he had to go off my Powerhouse Omega Formula for surgery, but he can’t wait to get back on it. Doctors most often require you to stop all medication that thins the blood before surgery, so there aren’t any complications with bleeding. He felt his energy levels drop, when he stopped, and he experienced some joint pain that he hadn’t noticed for quite some time. This is exactly the same experience I had when I forgot to pack mine, on a two week trip I took last year. I’ve taken measures to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
If you need an energy boost, because you’re feeling run down, or you’re “plum tuckered out,” as they say in the South, check out my Heart Charging Formula, which is CoQ10, delivered in way that your body can use immediately, which isn’t true for almost all other CoQ10 formulas on the market. If your body can’t absorb the CoQ10, it isn’t worth what you pay for it, no matter what kind of a deal is being offered.
Posted: February 16th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
Yesterday afternoon, I had a conference call with my partners and in the beginning of our meeting, one of them relayed a story about a visit to his cardiologist, the day prior. He had phoned for an appointment, after he experienced blood pressure “spikes” for two weeks running, and needed some help, to deal with them. He was accompanied by his wife, who had been with him when some of these episodes took place.
Just so you know, a “spike” is when blood pressure inexplicably shoots up, very quickly. My partner’s blood pressure would shoot up from normal to 185/110, and a few times, even higher. He has a blood pressure monitor at home, purchased on the recommendation of the cardiologist. He has also had the machine calibrated, meaning that he took his blood pressure with his machine, and then had it taken by the doctors office. The difference was only 2 points, which is not significant. In other words, if the machine said 132/81, the doctor’s office would read, 130/79.
When the spikes occurred, the machine was reading anywhere from 170/100…to one instance of 210/120, which is very high. My partner would then take medication, start deep rhythmic breathing, and wait for the spike to subside. Sometimes, this can take a couple of hours and it isn’t a pleasant occurrence, by any means. When your blood pressure gets that high, it is extremely difficult to concentrate on anything and even watching television is a difficult experience.
So after two weeks of this, he wanted help. He went to the cardiology office, where they did an EKG (standard procedure) and then, the nurse practicioner took all the preliminary information, including his blood pressure and medications. Then, in came the cardiologist, who had a solution… before listening to the problem. “It was normal” he said, “to walk up a flight of stairs and have your blood pressure go up. That’s how it works. And your medication, as prescribed, is fine.”
So what the cardiologist was saying was…that he was overreacting and there was no reason to worry and then, he was gone. The nurse practicioner had a horrified expression on her face, but she isn’t the doctor. So my partner called his primary physician, who graciously agreed to see him later in the afternoon.
At his primary physician’s office he repeated the drill, minus the EKG. She asked about the whole sequence of events, before the spike, during the spike, after the spike, what medications he took, and what else he did to relieve his elevated blood pressure. So, he told her everything he could remember: the medication dosages, what he took when the spike started and so on. Within minutes, she had it figured out. One of the medications prescribed by the cardiologist didn’t do what he said it did. And another needed to be taken at a different dosage level and time.
Without criticizing, or blaming the cardiologist, she made it abundantly clear that he didn’t know his medications as well as he should. In less than 36 hours, my partner can already feel a difference. My partner wants to fire his cardiologist (and I don’t blame him).
Many doctors have a bad habit, which is this: They just don’t listen. They have a number of rubber stamp solutions, that they think will work for everyone, which just ain’t true. Medicine and advice has to be individually calibrated. What’s good for the goose ain’t necessarily good for the gander. I take four fish oils tabs a day. You may need six, or even eight, or in rare cases, twelve. But generally, four is good. But you have to ascertain that by having a dialogue, with two people speaking and both listening, as well.
But certainly, when something is not normal (and a BP of 185/110 isn’t), you need to dig a little deeper than cheap platitudes. When you speak to your doctor, don’t be afraid to be quite candid and let them know, in no uncertain terms, that you feel you’re being slighted. If the attitude doesn’t change, change doctors (WHILE YOU CAN!).
And if you’re looking for something to keep you out of the cardiologist’s office in the first place, be sure and give my ultra pure pharmaceutical grade fish oil a try.
The Powerhouse Omega Formula is the best pharmaceutical grade fish oil on the market with an enteric coating, which eliminates the deadly “fish burp” of our competitors. I guarantee you’ll never be hawking up any swampwater with my formula. Customers don’t call it “the best fish oil they’ve ever taken” for nothing.
Posted: February 16th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
Congress will soon be back in session and the far left Democrats have been huddling up in their bunkers for the better part of the summer recess. They are there because they are afraid of “Astroturf,” and of course, ordinary American people who can tell the difference between their dollars and Democratic sense.
Somehow average Americans (those who work hard and play by the rules…to quote a famous Democrat named Billy Jaye), figured out that you can’t add 46 million people with no health insurance (and in millions of cases…no citizenship), to a single payer health plan, without bankrupting the country.
But the people with whom the Obamessiah has surrounded himself are mostly tenured old commies, left over from the 60′s, who have never run a lemonade stand, much less a trillion dollar expenditure. They are extremely good at criticizing George W. Bush, but really have nothing else on their resume that even smacks of work, or real world experience.
But these gasbags are extremely dangerous, since they are the ones who have written the health care bill in the House, that Democrats are too busy to read. John Conyers, the old lefty from Michigan, admitted as much, when he said that he couldn’t read, or understand the legislation, without a cadre of lawyers to help, and even with that, with no time to debate, it didn’t really matter.
Well, it DOES matter! Nobody told the Obamessiah they wanted a single payer health plan, when they elected him. That’s why he has postponed paying for the bill until 2012, after he is re-elected. Then, and only then, will he break the news to the people that this is what he wanted all along.
The level of spending by this inept and bumbling bunch of frauds is irresponsible and outrageous. Everyone in the world seems to know this, except the martinets and poppinjays that pass for leaders among the Democratic Party.
But there is hope. There are signs that the Democrats are facing real opposition in 2010, which ain’t as far away as it seems. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was dissed yesterday, by the main newspaper in Nevada, after covertly threatening one of its editors, at a political gathering. Chris Dodd is running 20 points behind a political neophyte in Connecticut, Jon Corzine is dropping like a stone in New Jersey, and Barbara Boxer is facing real opposition in California.
The month of September is important. We must keep pressure on everyone who intends to vote with the President and make them pay a price for their votes, not only on healthcare, but also cap and trade (another massive scam, that will steal from each and every citizen and enrich the notorious F.A.G. (Fat Al Gore) and all his and Obama’s friends, at Goldman Sachs and General Electric).
Remember…Co-op is just another word for nothing left to lose.
I got a question over the weekend about indigestion and what you can use to soothe a bubbling belly.
There are a couple of herbs I would recommend (basil and peppermint) and one vegetable (celery).
Basil is a member of the mint family, and a traditional remedy for an upset stomach. Basil is loaded with carminatives, which is a gas dispersing phytochemical. You can easily use basil, if you eat pesto as a pasta sauce, or as a condiment, or just load some on a spoon and eat it.
Peppermint has long been known to soothe the lining of the stomach. It has been used for centuries to treat a wide range of digestive ailments. It has also been used to relieve gas and abdominal cramps. Many people will tell you to use peppermint tea, but it isn’t as effective as the mint itself. And just for a bit of trivia, the after dinner mint came from age old digestive formulas.
Celery, one of the staples of the boring vegetable tray, is actually a bonafide stomach settler. It contains two dozen painkillers, and more than two dozen anti-inflammatories, 11 anti-ulcer compounds, and more than 20 sedatives to compliment the activities of its three main carminative compounds. All hail the celery stalk!
And to get the biggest bang for your buck, use all three together, as they have a synergistic effect on the stomach.
You can also use rosemary, cinnamon, chamomile, ginger, and radishes…athough the first three herbs I listed are tops in my book.
So there you have the skinny on a natural solution to tummy trouble.
I also received a note over the weekend from a gentleman, using my Powerhouse Omega Formula, whose joints aren’t creaking like an old staircase any longer. He said he had been taking the fish oil for almost four months and last week, he noticed that he’s doing a number of things without any pain, such as getting out of a chair, getting in and out of his car, walking up and down stairs, bending over, and so on and such forth.
He said he remembered me saying the change wouldn’t happen overnight, but it seemed his notice of the effects did. “It just kind of snuck upon me,” he said, “and it sure feels good.”
Remember, keep a pharmaceutical grade fish oiled eye trained on the politicians.
Posted: February 16th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
Earlier in the week, while taking a break during the day, I tuned in to the Little League World series, where youngsters up to the age of 13 try to imitate the heroes of the past and present. As the week wore on, I found myself tuning in every day and I witnessed a number of astonishing feats, recorded by kids who are years from driving.
This afternoon, the championship game was played at 3 PM and I decided that in spite of the work I need to get finished, I would watch. The two teams in the finals were from Taipei and Chula Vista, California. Taipei went up early 3-0, and things didn’t look good for the Americans, who have often been defeated by teams from Taipei. But in the bottom of the fourth inning, a couple of pinch hitters from Chula Vista changed the game. Chula Vista had some of the best hitters in the series, but they weren’t getting it done. Enter the benchwarmers, the guys who don’t play all the time, and pretty soon the score was 4-3, in favor of Chula Vista.
When the score was reversed, the kids from Taipei fell apart mentally. You could easily read it on their faces and in the fifth inning Chula Vista added a couple more insurance runs to make the score 6-3. That’s how the game ended and the kids got to receive a big congratulations, on a job well done, from the Vice President, Joe Biden. Then, I’m sure they all headed for Hershey Park, which is probably less than an hour away, and a perfect place to celebrate a job well done.
I’m sure Biden wanted to go along, eat a little chocolate, and maybe hit the wave pool. It sure beats facing crowds angry about the healthcare proposal his party wants to ram down the throat of the American people.
But since Joe has a problem keeping his facts and stories straight, the Little League World Series seemed like a perfect place for him. Asked to comment, Joe said, “I’m happy to be in Williamsburg, and looking forward to doing some outlet shopping. An aide had to tell him it was Williamsport, PA, and not Williamsburg, VA.
“Can we get a stromboli there?” he said.
“No,” an aide said, “That’s Wilmington, DE, where you’re from.”
Biden then shook a bunch of hands, calling everybody Joe (It’s easy to remember).
One thing I noticed during the games was that the parents could all stand to lose some weight. It didn’t seem to matter where the team was from, all the parents were carrying quite a bit of flab. Maybe we should have simultaneous games for the parents, or make them complete several trips around the ballpark, before letting them in the stands.
I say this because fitness, like many other important things, begins at home. If Dad is carrying too much lard, and Mom too, it’s all too easy for kids to follow in their footsteps. If Mom and Dad exercise, and eat right, their kids will want to do the same. A good friend of mine has been teaching exercise to kids for a couple of years now, based on animal games in the wild, and getting great results. I’ll let you know when his program is available, because it’s something the whole family can do together.
In the meantime, get what exercise you can, do your best to eat healthily, and take my Powerhouse Omega Formula, the greatest pharmaceutical grade fish oil on the planet.
And if you’re having trouble getting enough sleep, be sure and check out my Slip Into Sleep Formula. Study after study is now showing that not getting enough sleep is a ticket to bad health, and a major impediment to losing weight.
Posted: February 16th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
Here’s an interesting little factoid: For every 1% drop in your cholesterol levels, you get a 2% reduction in your risk of heart attack.
And while taking my Powrhouse Omega Formula will help promote your cardiovascular health, by supporting optimal triglyceride and cholesterol levels and reducing platelet aggregation.
There is more you can do to optimize your heart. What you put in your mouth goes a long way toward reducing your cholesterol levels, too.
Here are a number of foods that will help reduce high cholesterol.
ALMONDS - Nuts are high in fat, but they are a great source of monosatuated fat (“good” fat.) People who eat a handful of nuts a day are less likely to be fat, than those who don’t.
BARLEY - A lot of folks tell me that they eat oatmeal, but if you like oatmeal, you should love barley. Barley is rich in beta-glucans, the plant components that give oatmeal its cholesterol reducing power. But here’s the big kicker: barley offers three times more beta-glucans than oatmeal. In other words, one cup of barley is worth three cups of oatmeal.
BEANS - Beans, almost all of them, attack cholesterol with a two pronged approach. They contain both fiber and lecithin, a plant based fat. (Lecithin is what holds milk chocolate together, by keeping the milk and the chocolate from separating.) Studies have shown that 1-1/2 cups of lentils a day can cut cholesterol by 19%. That’s something to toot about!
OLIVE OIL - One of the richest sources of monosaturated fatty acids. Use it in place of butter.
AVOCADOS - Yes, that guacamole is actually healthy. Researchers had a group of people with high cholesterol add an avocado a day to their diet…and their cholesterol levels dropped by 16%.
CARROTS - CHOCOLATE - CINNAMON - CRANBERRIES - ORANGE JUICE - PEANUTS - GARLIC - GREEN, OR BLACK TEA
All of these foods will help, too.
One of my favorite ways to help myself is by making hummus.
Just take a couple of 15 ounce cans of cannellini beans and put them in a blender or food processor. Add some garlic cloves (you decide how many), some fresh lemon juice, salt, pepper and maybe a dash or two of hot sauce (optional).
Blend it up, and you’re ready to go. (Cholesterol medication in a dip!)
The fiber in the beans binds to cholesterol in the gut and helps escort it on out of the body. That doesn’t count the work of the garlic, which whoops ass on cholesterol, too.
Combining all these great cholesterol fighters with my ultra pure deep water Powerhouse Omega Formula should have an extremely beneficial effect on your heart. And brain. Because what’s good for the heart is also good for the brain.
So get smart and eat these foods…or is it…
Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
The Nobama Administration today released new budget numbers for the second time and it’s a good thing the Chief is up in Martha’s Vineyard, playing golf with his favorite bankers. While the Administration, and somehow that word doesn’t seem appropriate, is really good with the verbiage and loquaciousness, they seem to have a very real problem with numbers.
The revised revision tells us that they were only off their original numbers by close to THREE TRILLION DOLLARS. And as more folks, who DO understand how to count weigh in, the scenario just gets worse and worse.
But according to the White House, those SHOVEL READY jobs are just around the corner. Or in North Dakota, or going to bababillionaire George Soros, so he can drill for oil off the coast of Brazil (Because there is a sh__load of oil there).
My good friend Chuck (who voted for Obama), called me earlier this morning. I greeted him the way I always do, by saying, “How’s that CHANGE working out for you now?”
Chuck stunned me by telling me he is going to Washington, to carry a sign and protest the proposed healthcare plan. “I really screwed up,” he said, “and I want them to know that if we ran our businesses they way they are proposing to run the country…it’s all over.”
Chuck is a former Canadian who became a citizen 7 or 8 years ago, after watching the business climate in his native country deteriorate. He regularly flew his mother from Toronto to Florida, to get medical treatment she would not have received in Canada. He spent a lot of money to get that done, and would do it again.
She passed away last fall, at the age of 83. Chuck says she would have been gone ten years earlier in Canada. Two months before his mother died, he took her on a month long cruise around Europe and Africa. “She thought it was the greatest adventure of her life and I never saw her so happy. Had I stayed in Canada that trip would never have been possible.”
Chuck is also a big fan of my Powerhouse Omega Formula. At his last check up, his doctor was delighted with his results. He told Chuck that his heart was functioning like he was was 25. Chuck is 48. Chuck doesn’t just rely on my ultra pure pharmaceutical grade fish oil.
He watches what he eats and he’s an avid biker (as in bicycle). He rides every morning for about two hours and longer on weekends.
Chuck wants me to join him in Washington for the protest and I’m thinking about it. He promised me my very own sign and that might be a hard thing to pass up. He’s also promised me that he can get us on television (he knows people). “Let them try and call us Astroturf!” he says. “Or un-American.”
That’s when he got really worked up and spit out, “Those Obama people are so dumb it takes them an hour and half to watch 60 Minutes.”
It sort of reminded me of a question put to the notorious F. A. G. (Fat Al Gore). In a campaign stop in ’96 he was asked what aspirations he had.
“I think I would like to be a better dancer,” said Fat Al.
Is it any wonder he lost that election?
Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
Over the weekend, I attended a picnic at the house of a friend. I had been there only a short while, when a group of the fella’s hustled me out to the grill, to ask me some questions about Favorite Formulas. This was a “FOR MEN ONLY” session, and the talk quickly turned to my new sex formula… MegaRex.
At first, they wanted to know how it was selling. Then, the questions were about, “what’s in it?” Then, we got around to the big question, “Does it work?”
You might find this hard to believe, but in the beginning, I didn’t think this would sell at all. But my partners, being smarter than me (well, about this, anyway), had been steadily talking with customers about what they wanted and what was important to them. In all the survey results they did, sex was coming in number one and two. They had other concerns certainly, but this was clearly on the top of the list. “Bill,” my partners said, “get to work on this.”
So off to the Billcave I went, and I dusted off some old manuals. Then I got on my computer, and started doing some research, and between the two of them I came up with the basic formula, which I then whispered to about a half dozen guys I could trust. Within about two weeks, everyone reported back their results and everyone was a happy camper. So at this point I sent it to my partners, who also passed it around to guys they could trust and again, everybody was a happy camper. So I did a little more tinkering, repeated the process, got even better results and then, I sent the formula off to be manufactured.
We started offering Megarex a couple of weeks ago and sold out quickly. We reordered… and it sold out, again. The third order is due in the warehouse tomorrow morning, so I guess you could say it’s selling briskly. That’s why I have partners that know how to market, which is not my area of expertise.
The formula is composed of seven elements. They are L-arginine, L-citrulline, quercitin, folic acid, ascorbic acid, vitamin E, and green tea polyphenols. The synergy of these ingredients causes relaxation of the smooth muscle in the artery walls, which makes them open wide up (vasodilation), which in turn, allows increased blood flow to the Chubby. It also improves blood pressure and circulation and improves your mood, mind, and memory.
Which will allow you to say, without any guilt whatsoever, that the reason you need more sex is to improve your mind (Be sure to let me know how this works).
There actually is precedent for this in Napolean Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” Believe it or not, this chapter was of the book was actually deleted for a couple of decades .
Oh, and if you’re a guy who likes to workout, this formula will also help you achieve lean muscle mass. Whatever your reason, there won’t be any side effects.
You’ll be just like the old bull in that timeless joke.
The young bull runs up to the old bull and says, “Let’s run down the hill and have our way with a cow.”
The old bull says, “Whaddaya say we walk down, and have our way with all of them.”
Megarex is easy to make, easy to take, and puts the frosting on the cake.
Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
Twas reading a newspaper account of the proposed boycott of Whole Foods, because of the editorial written by its CEO, John Mackey, in the Wall Street Journal last week. He took the position that socialists have no right to tell the rest of us how to spend our money. He says that health care is not a God-given right and he proposed alternative solutions to the one the Democratic Party has on the table.
You would have thought that someone plucked Pelosi’s short hairs out on national television by the uproar in Liberaldom. Then, a little later, I saw and listened to the loon leading the boycott against Whole Foods, because the CEO dared to have an opinion that didn’t conform with that of the wealthy Democratic snobs who shop there, buying organic cauliflower for $7 a head and free range chicken for $8 a pound.
I occassionally patronize Whole Foods and buy a few things nobody else sells. For the most part, the stores are clean, well organized, and the the lines aren’t long. But I learned a long time ago that if you shopped there on a regular basis, you were going to have to give something up, in order to do it. Like a friend said a few years back, “I could shop at Whole Foods, or send my daughter to a good school.” Organic, though very chic, is not cheap. It reminded me of the time Obama told the good people of Iowa that it was hard to get good arugula. To which most Iowans responded, “WTF is arugula?” Only big city foodies and Chicago con men seem to know.
So this old time communist, I mean the guy leading the boycott, wants Mackey to let his people hand out boycott literature on the premises, to which I say, in my best French, “Kissamus my tucchus.”
You wanna leaflet my store? Take it off the property. Or take your fascist derriere to jail.
Less than two years ago, Pelosi defended the outrageous actions of Code Pink in San Fransisco by saying, “I like rabblerousers. They’re good for America.” Now, the new Queen of Mean calls protesters “astroturf” and “un-American.” This Whole Foods boycott leader is cut from the same cloth. They are only for free speech when you agree with THEM.
The good news in all this is that the people are waking up from the slumber that produced victory for a neighborhood canker sore that didn’t have anything going for him other than a silken voice and a good script. Well Barry, as Guns and Roses so eloquently put it years ago, “Welcome to the Jungle.” The more “splaining” Barry does on health care, the angrier people get. And there is no getting around those weekly polls, which Team Obama previously reveled in, week in, week out. The numbers for Barry and company are in a nosedive and a poll today showed that Harry “The Poppinjay” Reid is running behind both Republican candidates in Nevada.
But it isn’t over. The Democrats will surely add a Trojan Horse to this debate, before it ends.
Every day, I read things I disagree with. Every day, I listen to things I disagree with. To organize a boycott of a food store because the CEO has an alternative opinion is absolutely ludicrous. Not only did he have an opinion, he offered solutions to the problem, things his company is doing right now to alleviate costs. He is someone who has built something, in this case a multimillion dollar grocery store. Who 25,000 jackanapes want to ruin. You have to love liberals. Only they seek to destroy what pays the bills, and in this case, the health insurance, of those who work there.
Here’s what I suggest. If they succeed in ruining the company…which is possible…then, they should be forced to pay the salaries and health insurance for those from whom they took the jobs. (Their names are all on the internet petition…but watch how fast they would try to keep it private and site their first ammendment rights.) Here’s a better idea. Boycott liberals and, of course, honk if you’re paying their mortgage.
If you’re still with me, you know it’s time for me to take my evening dosage of my Powerhouse Omega Formula, which helps to soothe and calm the nerves after a good rant. It also helps clear the passageways to the brain, which is why more liberals should take it to begin with and at a much higher dosage than the rest of us.
Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
A couple of moons back, I wrote about why I stopped drinking diet soda. Diet Coke was my beverage of choice, and in those days, I thought I was doing myself a favor, keeping the calories off, and the flabola at bay. It turns out that I was wrong on both counts, and that didn’t even factor in the more serious elements for getting artificial sweeteners out of your diet.
Recently a British supermarket chain called Asda decided to go the wholesome route, by ridding its shelves of all storebrand products containing unhealthy fats and additives (Whole Foods says it is going to do the same thing here). Asda publicized the fact by placing labels on healthy products that said: “No hidden nasties–no artificial colors, or flavours, no aspartame and no hydrogenated fats.”
That’s it. Not exactly like taking out a full page ad in the NY Times, or buying millions of dollars of television advertising.
But they really pissed off a Japanese company, Ajinomoto Sweeteners, which holds a 45% share of the aspartame market in Europe. Ajinomoto sued Asda on the grounds that calling aspartame “nasty” might contribute to the impression that the sweetener is actually unhealthy. An Ajinomoto spokesman said, “The words of the packaging…would have been understood to mean that aspartame is an especially harmful or unhealthy, or potentially harmful or unhealthy, sweetener and is one that consumers concerned for their own health would do well to avoid.”
They went further, asserting that given the obesity problem and aspartame’s usefulness as a sugar substitute, “it’s unconscionable that Asda would try and vilify a safe and beneficial food ingredient.”
The case went all the way to the High Court of London, where the judge ruled against Ajinomoto.
The judge said that the word “nasty” does not necessarily imply that aspartame is unhealthy and the message gives shoppers a choice if they are worried about aspartame.
The supermarket is delighted.
At a glance, this lawsuit may seem frivolous. But hundreds of studies have found that aspartame is indeed “nasty.” And the word “nasty doesn’t begin to do aspartame justice.
Aspartame has been implicated in over 90 health issues. A 2007 study found that the sweetener causes lymphoma, luekemia, and breast cancer in rats but the FDA concluded that humans don’t consume enough to make it a worry. On the other hand, 75% of all food additive problems reported to the FDA are caused by aspartame (this is government health care at work).
Health issues tied to aspartame include temors, blindness, Hodgkin’s disease, seizures, insomnia, brain damage, ulcers, mood disorders, and many, many more. Last year, a study found that artificial sweeteners do not lead to weight loss at all and in fact, may do just the opposite (ie., make you FAT!).
The British don’t get a leg up on us very often and I’d almost bet Ajinomoto might have won their case in the United States. But “Cheers” to the Brits on this one.
There are sweeteners on the market that are not harmful, such as stevia, and xylitol. You can find them in Whole Foods, or most health stores.
But it’s much easier to eat some watermelon, or a peach.
That reminds me, folks who are carrying too much flabola often suffer from insomnia (among other things). Artificial sweeteners often play a big part in their diet and so, they can’t sleep. Not getting proper sleep is a terrible thing for someone who needs to lose weight. No matter if you’re consuming only 1200 calories in a day, if you can’t sleep, no weight is coming off.
First, get off the diet soda, and any and all low cal, no cal, low fat, no fat food. It’s junk, pure and simple.
Then, if you still can’t sleep, try my new Dr. Bill’s Slip Into Sleep Formula, a 100% natural sleep aid that helps you relax, reduces your fatigue, and allows you to wake up feeling refreshed. It’s gentle on your stomach, and also gives you more energy during the day.
And I guarantee you won’t need to worry about “sleep” driving heavy machinery in the middle of the night, like those folks in the television commercials.
Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »
In my snail mail today was a letter from a fruitcake company in Texas that sells about 4 million fruitcakes a year. Usually, I remember getting this letter later in the year, but I could be wrong. I know that they sell 4 million units, because I saw a television show about the company, a couple of years back.
The family bought the business, against all advice and declining sales for fruitcake. If I remember correctly, the business was moving about 600,000 units, when they bought it. The one thing in their favor was that it didn’t cost them much.
The family hired a copywriter, who wrote a new ad for the fruitcake and they mailed it out. They doubled the sales the first year, then doubled them again and sales are still rising. The fruitcake hasn’t changed one iota in over 80 years. The recipe is still exactly the same, but the new ad made the family a sweet chunk of change.
I tasted a fruitcake about 40 years ago and it was god awful. I’ve never had another piece. I would receive a fruitcake, or two, every year as a gift when I practiced surgery. I dutifully wrote a thank you note… and then tossed the fruitcake.
Here are some ideas on how to use a fruitcake, if you’re lucky enough to get one.
1) Use the fruitcake as a doorstop.
2) Use the fruitcake to prevent your car from rolling.
3) Use the fruitcake as a dumbbell.
4) Use the fruitcake in a carnival game.
5) Use it as bookends.
6) Turn it into an art piece.
7) Use it as compost. (This may take several years.)
There. I hope I’ve performed a small, selfless act of public service.
The warehouse received another shipment of MegaRex this afternoon and already, half of that order is spoken for. I’ll be reordering again in the morning. Just in case you’ve been away, MegaRex is my new sexual enhancement formula, which we launched just about two weeks ago. The first order was gone before we could blink and the orders are still coming in.
MegaRex is an all natural alternative to Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, who are with us every night, starting at about 9 PM EST, if you watch any television. The commercials have folks singing, dancing and sitting in separate bathtubs, while the sun sets in the middle of a cornfield (I never have figured that out).
The singing and dancing, yes, except for those guys singing and dancing by themselves, at 1 AM in the morning. But the separate bathtub thing is a mystery. Even the best hotels I have stayed at over the years only have one bathtub. Maybe it’s the 2009 version of Ward and June Cleaver’s separate beds (that’s my theory).
Anyway, with my MegaRex formula, there’s no danger of running to the hospital with a Woody that’s lasted for four hours. Or of having heart palpitations, or sudden blindness (we all know where THAT comes from.)
