Not too long ago erectile dysfunction stopped becoming a taboo subject for scores of males the world over. Prior to that, the media, let alone doctors, would refuse to publicly acknowledge such a thing existed. It was a topic relegated to the four corners of the bed.

Then just like a godsend came the little thing that could: Viagra. Suddenly aging men were able to recover the sexual verve of their halcyon days. A veritable sexual revolution ensued, as if it was the Swinging Sixties again, but on a truly more global scale.

Viagra’s grand entrance obliterated the walls keeping men from speaking out about erectile dysfunction. Now erectile dysfunction is just like any mundane topic out there, one nobody is ashamed to talk about. Every man understood the universality of this condition and the availability of its solution.

You may think every tryst has become a picnic when Viagra came. It hasn’t. Women in relationship with men suffering from erectile problems were not exactly relieved after the blue pill arrived. In the first place, they do not want to have sex. Whereas once they were only expected to cheer up their upset partners, women are now obliged to service them.

In theory, women do not require much physiological preparation for sex as that of men, i.e. erection. Vaginal lubricants are easily available over the counter. Even so, when the urge is not there anymore, sex becomes pointless.

Truth be told, women need their own Viagra too. The female libido descends steeply with age in the same way aging men lose their boners. This decrease is exacerbated by hormones gone postal during menopause and pregnancy. Low self-esteem, imbalanced diet, sedentary lifestyle, and illnesses also contribute to the decrease.

For the women reading this, do not in the least fret. At last, the female Viagra has been invented.

Named Provestra, this all-natural libido boosting pill conditions you for sex by inducing lubrication in the vagina. Above all, Provestra helps you regain the sexual drive you last felt when you were young. This libido enhancer heightens your sensitivity, raises your sexual appetite, and makes every hump pleasurable for you.

Like Viagra in its early days, Provestra is fast leveling the playing field for women all over the world by helping salvage a great gift to humanity. Age does not have to make women throwaways. Your opportunities for intimacy shouldn’t have to be compromised by it, let alone career, family and domesticity. Take back your life now with Provestra.

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External hard disks, tape units, zip drives, CDs, and DVDs are backup tools of the past. Today, nothing smacks of practicality and convenience more than online backup solutions.

Backing up online has manifold advantages, not least of which is relief from the intricacies attendant on manually making copies of files. From an application perspective, managing backup solutions is complicated enough of itself, especially if it involves tape cartridge devices. With tape backup, you need to bother with vaulting tapes offsite, at hours you certainly didn’t appoint.

Online backup fills a universal need of businesses to reduce capital and overhead. It also tremendously does away with risk, which is never more unwelcome among small- and medium-scale enterprises; remote offices; and mobile consumers.

Conventional backup solutions are a big mishmash in the market but many of them can’t guarantee effectiveness.  Entrust your precious files to the wrong backup company and you may lose them forever. Your best bet then is opting for online backup providers.

Five reasons why online backup is encouraged

1. Online backup is easier.

Unlike, say, tape backup, online backup is wholly automatic. You need not take backups home, switch tapes, and move files every hour on the hour. Simply decide on how often you want your data backed up in a day and the provider would do the rest.

On the contrary, traditional backup methods take so much of your energy and time. Since online backups are entirely automatic affairs, you can become more productive with work that needs to be done.

2. More data centers = less risk of data loss

Customarily, online backup providers rely on specially built data centers. These gargantuan repositories of information are located all across the world. What this means for you is negligible risk of data loss due to unstoppable circumstances, such as natural calamities. There simply are many copies of your data, retrievable from anywhere on earth to your system and back.

3. It puts you in charge.

With each backup, you are updated at length, via email, on which files have been changed, removed, or added. Online backup clearly puts you in control.

4. Utmost privacy  

Since online backups are encrypted—making your data accessible only through a password nominated by you—neither your closest loved one, let alone the service provider, can read your data.

5. Easy file restoration

Online backup has made file restoration easier than ever. You can do so by tapping the software or signing in the provider’s network. Either way, you can choose which files you want to recover or restore, anywhere, 24/7.

In recovering or restoring data, you have a choice of many older versions, e.g. yesterday, past week, last month, and beginning of time. You can revert to these versions in any location in your system or network.

Best Online Backup Sites

WPDesigner has pared down the best storage solutions online for your consideration. They have sorted them according to such criteria as ease-of-use, price, server security, reliability, control panel, and customer support. They also rated the providers by their repute and credibility.

Visit WPDesigner now so you can decide on whom to commend your treasured files and documents.

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Cindy Brackett’s daughter was elated upon receiving a package one Christmas morn. It contained, among other magically breathtaking items, a letter from Jolly Old St. Nicholas no less.

“My daughter’s face lit up when she read the personalized letter from Santa. Everything was wonderful. I cannot describe how excited my daughter was when she received the package,” Cindy said.

Similarly, Renee O’Donnell’s 6-year old daughter was beside herself with joy when she received a letter from Santa.

“She couldn’t believe Santa knew so much about her. She showed everyone!” Renee recalled.

Santa Claus has the power to delight children around the world with the thought of receiving something for Christmas. Every year before December 25, children write Santa heartfelt missives, convincing him that they have been nice this year and, as such, worthy of a present.

If only he’d reply: Santa, as far as one can tell, is a reclusive, if not non-existent, guy.

For parents and guardians who nonetheless want to suspend their children’s disbelief until they’re old enough, there is a way. You can have an ingenious, inexpensive, personalized letter from Santa to keep up the enchantment.

Getting a believable Santa letter can be an unforgettable experience for a child. For his or her parents, watching the whole thing unfold can be a moment worth reliving.

Sure you can make your own Santa letter for your child but face it: children nowadays are far cleverer. As much as they want to believe in Santa Claus, they need more than just an intricately made missive from the North Pole. Granted, a DIY Santa Claus letter can convince a child, but the time and energy required to create a very realistic one may be too overwhelming for the average parent, the holiday rush and all. You need to get the proper paper, envelopes and stamps. You also need to ascertain the whole thing is mailed on time, a trying ideal in an unimaginably busy season for the post. Convincing letters from Santa is, more than you think, taxing.

Package From Santa offers personalized letters from Santa Claus that can pull one over your child the easy way. Each letter comes in a package filled with bona fide, custom-made Santa Claus goodies to further prove its “veracity.” If your child still has reservations about the existence of Santa Claus, put them to rest with this package sent from the North Pole.

This package is for children of all ages. Even if this is your newborn’s first Christmas, Package From Santa will make sure he or she will never forget it.

This package is holiday cheer and joy in a box. Your child will barely be able to stay composed when it’s time to open it. It has a letter from Mr. Claus himself: a “real” letter complete with a North Pole Stamp and containing detailed info only Santa could know, like your child’s best friend and eye color. You can make it all the more believable by tailoring the letter through Santa Letter Creator.

What’s more is that each letter tells your child he or she has made it on Santa’s list of nice kids. Every kid dreams of knowing this! A customized letter from Santa can assuage their anxiety once and for all. Finally, they have a document to prove they are on Santa’s good side.

In addition to the letter from Santa, the package contains a personalized letter from Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer no less, plus a photo of him. Magical reindeers know how to write after all!

Furthermore, the package holds a colorful, removable “Santa, Stop Here!” decal ideal for windows. With this decal, your child can sleep well knowing that Santa and Rudolph can ride their sleigh right to your house. This decal will let them know they should drop by your house before others.

Your child would also be struck with awe when they see a tin of Magical Reindeer Food in the package: the very favorite of Rudolph and his compatriots on Christmas Eve. This food enables them to carry across the sky and visit children the globe over.

Not only those, but Mrs. Claus sends her warmest regards by way of her famous Sugar Cookies. Each package has these scrumptious cookies, which are made with love in Mrs. Claus’ kitchen.

Lastly, the package contains a signed full-size, glossy photo of Mrs. Claus’ beloved husband. Captured by internationally renowned photographer of celebrities Scott Maisel, this photo deserves to be framed and occupy a conspicuous part of your house at Christmastime.

This year, Package From Santa will expand their offerings with a Velvet Pouch holding a bell from Rudolph and a foil-accented collector story card. If you get a package this year, your child will also get a North Pole Pine Tree Seed, courtesy of Santa’s gardening elf Autumn. This can be planted outside your house and will grow into a sturdy pine tree, a legacy for your family.

To top it all off, the 2011 package from Santa gives you a piece of cloth cut from Santa’s red suit. Santa has cast off his suit from last year, and a generous soul cut it up for everyone to have a piece of him. Santa himself has counted and signed these pieces, each bearing a Certificate of Authenticity. Collectors would do well to snap these up before they run out.

All of these await your child. Everything has your child’s name on it.

You may know that one of the most heartwarming joys of Christmas is not the receiving part but the giving. Experience the full extent of this emotion as you watch your child read a personalized missive from Santa in astonishment.

Customers who have ordered packages last year are still savoring the joyous aftereffects and talking about them. with its personalized Santa letter and authentic goodies, this package could be the most exhilarating gift for your child this Christmas. You will never forget your child’s reaction as he or she realizes all of these may be for real.

These packages from Santa are out now for a limited time only. Place your orders today before eager parents get them all! Give love and joy to your children this season with a Package From Santa.

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In the 1990s, Big Brother Magazine editor David Ross Carnie came up with the portmanteau “bromance.” Finally, men had a word for an intimate, non-sexual relationship with persons of the same sex.

Yet the roots of bromance stretch back further than that, to days when no one even spoke English. It had no name then but bromance was first chronicled five millennia ago in the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest literary works ever. In this epic poem, the fighters Gilgamesh and Enkidu were as close to each other as men can be without necessarily being lovers. When Enkidu died in combat, Gilgamesh was so overcome with grief that he too passed away.

Ancient history is teeming with more accounts of bromance. David and Jonathan in biblical times were bound to each other by it, and so were Achilles and Patroclus in the Iliad.

Truth to tell, men prized bromantic bond among themselves during the rise of Western civilization. Having a bromantic partner was the ultimate sign of manliness then. The Sacred Band of Thebes in ancient Greece was formed by pairs of bromantically linked men, all willing to defend their partners to the last breath. These men were said to have drawn bravery in battle from their inextricable ties to each other.

Bromance was esteemed in the arts as it was in war. Arguably the first to philosophize bromance, Plato founded his work almost entirely on the notion of love between men. He knew well the formidable, singular bond binding man to another. It was “Platonic.”

In the succeeding millennia, innumerable men such as William Shakespeare and Leonardo da Vinci continued the great tradition of male-to-male companionship. As late as the 19th century, men were not averse to sending each other loving missives expressing their most profound feelings for each other. In hindsight, these letters could have been homosexual in nature but many literary scholars beg to disagree. Nineteenth-century men were known to use the language of courtship for men and women alike.

Bromance has not been heard of since. Society became increasingly aware of the concept of homosexuality, demonizing blatant displays of otherwise non-sexual affection among men. In the wake of the Second World War, men were under constant pressure to rebuild and strengthen the nation by keeping families. Due to the thrust towards self-reliant and independent households, men were forced to recoil from each other, into domestic duties.

It was not until the last few decades when men began to rediscover the manly bonds of their ancestors. One could chalk it up to several factors, including – surprisingly – feminism and homosexuality.

Feminism may have reinstated bromance in two ways. First, feminist-mothers may have raised their male children since the 1970s to be more expressive of their feelings, thereby conditioning them for emotional attachments to others. Or feminism may have repelled men towards a more male-centered community with one another.

In a paradox, the growing tolerance of homosexuality in recent years has contributed to the resurfacing of the bromance. Sociologists seem to think the impediments faced by homophobia today have led heterosexual or “straight” men to build more intimate relationships sans stigmatization. Plus, this growing tolerance has somehow required the establishment of a concept separate from and irreducible to homosexuality.

With its reemergence, bromance has somehow vindicated its veracity. No amount of romantic feelings for women could take men away from bonding intimately with male compatriots. Soon, bromance’s place in society would be restored to its former glory.

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Watch a television show regularly enough and you’d bawl if one of the characters head to kingdom come. You may even grieve more for the dead onscreen than the ones on earth.

Rest in peace to the following fictional people:

Adriana La Cerva, The Sopranos

Few could stomach the death of Adriana in The Sopranos. She betrayed her husband Christopher’s role in the titular crime family to the FBI. To her credit Adriana remained loyal to her hubby and only vaguely answered the FBI’s inquiries. Alas, these were not enough to pacify Christopher. He directed Silvio to take her to the forest, where she was promptly silenced.

Anastasia Dualla, Battlestar Galactica

Just as she had seemingly patched things up with ex-husband Apollo, Dee faced the mirror, smiled, and put a gun to her head.

But while the scene was moving, it did not really dovetail with the character’s evolution on the show.

Bill McNeal, NewsRadio

Phil Hartman, the actor portraying Bill McNeal, died in real life just as NewsRadio was entering its fifth season. The show could have gone ahead with a replacement but the writers went for the higher ground. In season five’s first episode, the other characters were made to get wind of Bill’s death. Tears were shed and viewers knew fully well they were beyond fictional.

Charlie Pace, Lost

Watching Lost would as soon make you cloyed with the spectacle of death. Characters, major and minor, seem to die in every episode. Of these deaths however, Charlie’s takes the cake. His drowning in the Looking Glass Station remains a tear-jerking piece of entertainment for innumerable Lost fans.

Dan Connor, Roseanne

Roseanne’s husband Dan lived through a heart attack to enjoy a life-changing lottery win. But in the series finale Roseanne revealed all the previous episodes to be the plot of a book she had been writing. Her husband did not survive that heart attack. Everything had been fiction.

Joyce Summers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

She is unique in the Buffyverse for dying of normal causes. Being mother to a vampire killer opened Joyce up to exotic scenarios of death but no, she had to perish due to aneurysm. Fans will never forget that shot of Joyce, motionless, facing the camera dead-on.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake, MASH

MASH is one of those few programs capable of balancing lighthearted and sullen moments. But one of the show’s most popular episodes is also one of its gloomiest. It showed Radar informing the other soldiers that Blake rode a plane shot down near Japan. The actors’ emotions upon hearing the news looked genuine because the screenwriters famously deliberately handed the script at the last minute.

Maude Flanders, The Simpsons

Because her voice talent Maggie Roswell dropped out of the show, Maude became a casualty in The Simpsons universe. She went out in true Simpsons style: T-shirt guns toppled her off the Springfield Springway. Her parting words? “No foot-longs.”

Omar Little, The Wire

Omar, a stickup dude, miffed big-time drug linchpins and the most dangerous men in a Baltimore ghetto. By season five, it was clear he was on borrowed time. Yet it took all of a little boy to shoot him dead.

Rita Morgan, Dexter

Rita’s exit from this show came as a great surprise to Dexter’s audience. In the season four finale, Dexter happened upon Rita swimming in her own blood in a tub.

Susan Ross, Seinfeld

True to form, Susan died of ridiculous circumstances in this show: poisoning by wedding envelopes. This death freed George Costanza from living a lie with a woman he really did not love.

Teri Bauer, 24

This one smarts because she had just been rescued from captivity and looked set to reconcile with Jack. Then Jack’s other woman spoiled everything by gunning Teri down, straight through her pregnant belly.

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One question passes you more than once or twice whenever you’re out shopping…

“What ingredients should I avoid (to become healthier and consequently live longer)?”

The following should be avoided like the plague, for they really can bring a plague:

acrylamides – carcinogenic compounds formed when carbohydrates are baked, fried, grilled, or exposed to high heat; can be found in anything from chips to pie crusts

aspartame – synthetic sweetener; linked to neurological disorders, among other conditions

autolyzed proteins – highly processed kind of protein with free glutamate; used to replicate the effects of MSG, i.e. taste-enhance

BPA (Bisphenol-A) – carcinogenic chemical with hormone-like properties; usually found in almost all food packaging plastics; linked to hormone disorders, infertility, and male feminization

casein – milk proteins

corn syrup – also known as high fructose corn syrup; a highly processed liquid sugar extracted using glutaraldehyde; associated with diabetes and obesity

food colors – derived from petroleum; many contaminated with aluminum, some linked to children’s behavioral disorders

genetically modified organisms/ingredients (GMOs) – includes almost all traditionally grown corn, cotton and soy; associated with infertility; may cause bacteria inside the body to virtually secrete pesticide in the gut

homogenized milk – one wherein the fats are changed into smaller molecules that stay suspended in the liquid; said to cause cardiovascular ailments and allergies

hydrochloride (pyridoxine hydrochloride or thiamin hydrochloride) – artificially produced form of vitamin B; added by companies to products in order to inflate RDA values

hydrolyzed vegetable protein – free glutamate (MSG) processed from soy protein; used as taste enhancer

partially hydrogenated oil – one stable at room temperature due to some chemical modifications; contains trans fatty acids and linked to narrowed arteries; may cause “sludge blood,” often misdiagnosed as “high blood pressure”

phosphoric acid – chemical used to dissolve carbon dioxide in soda; adds to soda fizz; highly corrosive to steel; may damage tooth enamel

propylene glycol – liquid used to winterize recreational vehicles; used to make fake blueberries in bagels, breads, and muffins

sodium (white salt) – also known as “death salt”; processed salt without trace minerals; in contrast, real salt has trace minerals that act as preventives against cancer, chromium, and contagious diseases

sodium nitrite – carcinogenic food coloring for processed meats like bacon, ham, hotdog, sausage, and pepperoni; highly associated with brain tumor, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer; USDA attempted to ban it but meat industry foiled its efforts

soy protein – one made by combining, among others, genetically engineered soybeans and hexane; used in “protein bars” eaten by many bodybuilders

sucralose – synthetic sweetener better known by brand name Splenda; contains a chlorine atom

sugar – byproduct of sugarcane processing; nutritionally deficient because cane’s vitamins and minerals all end up with blackstrap molasses, which are merely fed to farm animals; exacerbates diabetes, obesity, and nutrient deficiencies

textured vegetable protein – often made of protein derived from genetically engineered soybeans and hexane; prevalent in vegetarian foods like “veggie burgers”

yeast extract – hidden form of MSG that holds as much as 14 percent free glutamate; added to “natural” products supposedly with “no MSG”

Seeing through food companies’ sugary trick

So consumers will not freak out, companies demote sugar from a product’s list of ingredients. They place sugar further below the list to make it look like they used it more sparingly than otherwise. Usually they enumerate 3-4 different forms of sugar and then scatter them below the label: “Whole wheat, sugar, corn syrup, corn syrup solids.” In truth, sugar is this product’s most ubiquitous component.

Where to get authentically good food

You can’t go wrong with a farmer’s market, food cooperative, or CSA. Better yet, grow some of your food in a garden.

Purchase more food with unprocessed, unrefined ingredients. Check a product’s label before going to the counter. If you can’t pronounce the ingredients, you probably should not purchase it.

If you want to take healthy eating up a notch and eat organic food, look for the USDA’s organic seal on the product.

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Ficklest of all fickle diseases, cancer has a nasty way of recurring long after you’ve believed yourself to be free of the affliction. Physical activity may just stop it in its tracks however.

Mounting evidence has found a link between physical activity – any movement using muscles that improves fitness level – and reduced risk of cancer recurrence. In consequence then, physical activity may increase your cancer survival rate. If anything, ramping up physical activeness may help you cope with adverse effects attendant on cancer treatment, e.g. depression and fatigue. It may even reduce your risk for other conditions like heart disease and diabetes.

UK-based cancer organization Macmillan has recently enlisted the support of BAFTA-winning actress and comedian Jo Brand for Move More, its campaign to get cancer patients moving.

“People will look at me and go, why’s that fat, unfit, menopausal, middle-aged woman telling us what to do? She surely never takes any exercise. Well you’re wrong there, because I do!”

Brand is joined by no less than the National Cancer Institute in America and the American College of Sports Medicine in promoting physical activeness during and after cancer treatment. Whereas in the past doctors would tell you to rest in excess following treatment, times have changed. Lately, the two organizations have advocated the resumption of daily activities as soon as possible after treatment and slowly increasing to recommended levels of physical activity.

“I’m just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn’t, you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don’t have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels,” Brand said.

Some evidence suggested that taking up physical activity and retaining a leaner body may cut the risk of a cancer returning after remission. In the US, a study showed that breast cancer patients who walked for 3-5 hours on a weekly average cut their risk for recurrence. In another research, brisk walking for a minimum of three hours weekly has been shown to cut the risk of developing early-stage prostate cancer.

These researches are inconclusive and wanting of more duplicable evidence however. Even so, there are some telling indicators that physical activity has an unsubtle effect on cancer. Even the smallest raise in your physical activity can make all the difference.

Benefits of physical activity

Latching on to physical activity may compel cancer to remit and help you recover from its oft-stressful treatments. Physical activity holds significant health corollaries against cancer, many of which you may hitherto have not heard of. If you knew about these benefits, you would truly be motivated to move more like Jo Brand.

Done regularly, physical activity can help manage, if not thwart, adverse effects that may arise from cancer treatment. It is just as recommended thereafter, seeing as some side effects emerge as late as years following treatment. Some side effects are even permanent.

Cancer therapy is notorious, among others, for leaving you fatigued for months after treatment. Moderate or even just light physical activity, e.g. short walks, yoga, and tai chi, can help you pick up energy. However, start slow and slowly increase intensity, lest you end up tiring yourself even more.

Physical activity can also help control stress, anxiety, and depression: ever-present problems resulting from cancer therapy. It does so by compelling the secretion of mood-enhancing hormones, i.e. endorphins, in the body. At the same time, it helps hold back the body’s stress hormones, making for a better night’s sleep, if anything.

Endorphins also help alleviate joint pain caused by certain hormonal treatments prescribed with chemotherapy. Physical activity of itself can help relieve joint pain by strengthening your muscles and improving your range of movement, which may be limited by certain kinds of cancer surgery. The more flexible joints are, the less likely they are to be painful.

Walking, dancing, resistance training, and other weight-bearing activities can help strengthen your bones, especially when they’re at their frailest. Osteoporosis or bone thinning is known to result from hormonal treatments for prostate and breast cancer as well as chemotherapy-induced menopause.

Resistance training, on the other hand, is the solution to making your muscles stronger during and after cancer treatment. Muscle strength declines during this period because of longer hours of bed rest and steroids given with chemotherapy.

Steroids in chemotherapy can conspire with your sedentary lifestyle to make you gain weight, exacerbating the situation. Obesity and overweight heightens your risk for breast, bowel and womb cancers. In light of this, being more physically active can decrease your risk of developing a new type of cancer, while maintaining a healthy weight can slash the possibility of a cancer coming back.

Being more physically activity may help you regain your pre-treatment appetite too. Take short walks every day, and you would see for yourself. In addition, physical activity alongside a high-fiber diet helps counter constipation caused by particular chemotherapy drugs.

Regular exercise, particularly aerobic activities, may hold positive dividends for your heart. It preempts the risk of developing heart-related conditions, usually brought about by chemotherapy agents (e.g. epirubicin and doxorubicin) and radiotherapy administered too close to the heart. Furthermore, regular physical activity can decrease your susceptibility to other deadly conditions like high blood pressure, kidney disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.

Taking up physical activity today

Should you choose to become more physically active during or after treatment, you should be the arbiter of the amount of activity you can realistically do. Talk to a cancer specialist about appropriate physical activities for you concurrent with and subsequent to treatment.

An activity may simply be a question of lessening periods of rest. You may choose from a range of activities involving anything from walking to gardening to weightlifting. It is up to you how much of these you should do. Take into account your likes, fitness level, and other circumstances.

You may consider taking up physical activity with other individuals, e.g. family members and exercise group mates.  Also consider being active outside an enclosed space, as in a park or a forest trail.

Whether you are living with or are in convalescence from cancer, physical activity is relatively safe. At first, you may feel testy about taking your physical activeness to another level, especially if you have been leading a sedentary lifestyle for a long time. You may feel overwhelmed, with not so much an idea as how to start.

Remember that any amount of physical activity is light years better than not moving at all. Physical activity offers infinite, hitherto-unknown opportunities for cancer recovery. If Jo Brand can do it, her pounds and all, so can you.

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There is overkill in the use of the word “natural” in the marketing campaigns for cereal products. Thinking these products are free of artificial ingredients, consumers are wont to pick these products off the shelves. Some consumers even praise the makers behind these products.

“Natural” in the context of cereal products is one big, fat misnomer. These products are not free from insecticides and genetically modified components, which are what “natural” is all about. In fact, in an expose by the Cornucopia Institute, some so-called “natural” brands of cereals contain high levels of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and toxic chemicals.

About GMOs

Contamination from genetic engineering is quite pervasive. Even purportedly “non-GMO” food more often than not has trace levels of GMOs, between .01 percent and 0.5 percent. The Cornucopia Institute was able to expose several supposedly “natural” products for their high GMO contamination levels, which hover between 28-100 percent. Such figures indicate that the key components of these products are absolutely genetically engineered from the source and are not contaminated just by chance.

That said, the results of a GMO test may not hold true long after. Items determined to be free of GMOs now may be found to contain whopping high levels later because of supply source changes, supply line errors, and so forth. The reverse is just as true. Food that tests positive with high levels of GMOs now may be determined to have reduced levels later.

It is not unusual for suppliers to deceive cereal manufacturers. Some manufacturers sift their supplies for any trace of GMOs. Others don’t bother because they’d rather not know.

Just because a cereal is “enrolled” in the Non-GMO Project does not mean it is free of GMOs. If it is “enrolled,” a product is simply on course to ridding itself of GMOs; it is not free of them yet. If it is labeled “verified,” a product has gone through strict audits along the supply line and met GE testing requirements.

Don’t be too overwhelmed by these facts. The important thing to remember is that most cereals claimed to be “natural” hold vast amounts of genetically modified ingredients, to say nothing of carcinogenic, toxic insecticides. Get ready to know which products are guilty of “cereal crimes.”

Shocking results

Cornucopia has quite astounding insights on the real state of today’s most popular breakfast cereals. In a “scorecard,” Cornucopia enumerated Arrowhead Mills, Back to Nature, Barbara’s Bakery, Bear Naked, Bob’s Red Mill, General Mills, HealthValley, Kashi, Mom’s Best, and Post Natural as those brands that are not as natural as you may have thought.

Kellogg’s Kashi brand of cereals particularly holds a substantial amount of genetically engineered components. These components are genetically modified from the outset. Cornucopia contended that virtually all of the soy (100 percent) used in Kashi cereal was genetically engineered.

In fact, some Kashi products as well as those of Bear Naked, were determined to use traditional soy protein. This is usually derived from soybeans immersed in “hexane baths,” which are teeming with neurotoxins, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In addition to Cornucopia’s test, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) found that the non-organic grains used to make Kashi Heart to Heart Blueberry cereal have vestiges of pesticides like malathion, carbaryl, azinphos methyl, and chlorpyrifos.

PepsiCo is another repeat offender, with its Quaker Oats and Mother’s brands of “all-natural” products. Quaker Oats runs a factory that annually spews approximately 19,000 lbs. of the toxic greenhouse gas known as sulfuryl fluoride. Mother’s, on the other hand, has been found by Cornucopia to hold GMO levels as high as 28 percent.

Whole Foods’ 365 Corn Flakes trumped Mother’s, using 50 percent genetically engineered corn. Like 365 Corn Flakes, Barbara’s Bakery Puffins is no better, using 50 percent GE corn.

Wild Berry Crisp, made by Peace Cereal, meanwhile tested positive for the harmful chemicals phosmet and captanin. Similarly, Mom’s Best Naturals Raisin Bran holds phosmet and malathion.

Several other brands tested positive for GE contamination, according to Cornucopia. These include Mother’s Bumpers, General Mills Kix, and Nutritious Living Hi-Lo.

Conclusion

You still have choices in steering clear of GMOs at breakfast, the Cornucopia Scorecard showed. Meeting California’s required GMO labeling requirements, the Nature’s Path brand of cereals seem to be a good choice, as do Two Moms In the Raw, Lydia’s Organics, Laughing Giraffe, and Kaia.

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Your looks bespeak the kind of food you take. Unhealthy food are known to deprive you of muscle mass and energy while giving you much fats, digestive problems, and skin conditions. A lot has been said about what you should eat and reasons for doing so but you can whittle them down to eight. Here are eight rules that can help you bulk up, lose fat, and grow stronger.

1. Eat breakfast

If you energize yourself at your waking hour, you’d find yourself less ravenous throughout the day. So get into the habit of eating breakfast. It sets a trend for the day as it compels you to choose healthier meals thereafter. Go for omelets, cottage cheese, and smoothies. Here are a few more healthy breakfast ideas and tips.

2. Eat every 3 hours

In addition to your three square meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), eat two meals, one after workout and one before bed. Eat two snacks in between too. Be sure to stick to a schedule for these meals, to train your body to become hungry at the appointed time. Example: 8 am, 11 am, 2 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm, 8 pm, and 10 pm.

Consequently, you’d be less hungry and have fewer cravings. Unlike taking in a few large meals, plenty of small meals can slim down your waistline. You’d be satisfied faster. Overlong intervals between meals tend to make you overeat.

3. A protein for each meal

To build and keep muscle, you need protein. It is also a great weight loss aid because it has the highest thermic effect and makes you feel full longer.

“How much protein should I eat?” you ask again. Aim for a gram per pound of your body weight. If you weigh 200 lbs, then eat 200 g daily.

To meet your requirements ever day, choose whole protein sources for your meals. Good choices include red meat like beef, lamb and pork; eggs; poultry like chicken and turkey; fish like tuna, sardines and salmon; and dairy like milk, cheese and yogurt. Whey is not really needed but it makes for a good post-workout shake. If you’re vegan or vegetarian, you can research for other protein sources.

4. Never forget fruits and vegetables

Incorporate fruits and vegetables into every meal. Calories are the least you have to worry about; fruits and vegetables are most certainly low in them. eat them to the hilt without having to worry about weight gain. They will help you gain vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants instead.

Great fruit and veggie choices are apples, bananas, beans, berries, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, oranges, pineapple, pumpkin, roman lettuce, spinach, and tomatoes chicory.

5. Only eat carbs after workout

You cannot completely boot out carbs from your diet. You still need it for energy. Just don’t exceed what you need. Eat whole grain and avoid white carbs. The best carb blocker is non other than Meratol – blocking up to a massive 82% on carb intake. If you’re scrawny, eat carbs not only immediately after workout but also post-workout, more if necessary.

6. Eat healthy fats

Fats of the nutritious kind hasten loss of fats and improve your fat loss dividends. As they are slow to digest, fats can be satiating, not to mention affordable. Stay away from margarine and trans fats.

Conversely, go for saturated and monounsaturated fats. The former, e.g. real butter, red meat, and whole eggs, is known to improve levels of testosterone, which is needed for muscle building. The latter, e.g. extra virgin olive oil, olives, and mixed nuts, guards you against cancers and cardiovascular ailments.

Polyunsaturated fats may also help you raise testosterone levels, lose fat, and reduce inflammation. Fish oil and ground flaxseeds are best choices.

7. Hydrate

Since weight training gets you to lose so much water from sweating, interrupting muscle recovery, make sure to drink water. Other than preventing dehydration, drinking water can also avert hunger since it fills your stomach somehow.

Strive to drink a gallon of water daily. Drink a cup first thing upon rising from bed. Have two more cups in every meal. Also drink lots in the course of the workout.

Then again, you should be on your guard against water intoxication. Don’t go overboard like guzzling three gallons of H₂O in 20 minutes.

8. Almost all of the time, eat whole food

Eat whole food 90% of the time. Whole food refers to unrefined, unprocessed fodder or one close to its most vigorous state. On the contrary, processed foods are what they are, usually with sugar, trans fats, sodium, corn syrup, and chemical additives. Example: fruit bars, pizza, sausages, and frozen meals.

You need not eat healthy 100% of the time. The difference in health benefits between eating healthy 90% of the time and all the time is middling. So feel free to eat 4 unhealthy meals out of 42 meals every week, for the same reason you can down sweet beverages and alcohol 10 percent of the time.

Sample Diet

Ignore portion sizes and calorie counts. Only take care to eat your belly full. So long as your food choices are healthy and you exercise, you won’t fatten up. Using the aforementioned healthy lifestyle rules, here is a diet template:

Breakfast: eggs with vegetables, orange, green tea

Morning snack: pear, mixed nuts

Lunch: tuna, olives, roman lettuce, olive oil

Afternoon snack: cottage cheese, apple

Post-workout: ground round, quinoa, banana, spinach

Dinner: chicken, spinach, baby carrots, pear

Pre-bed snack: cottage cheese, berries, ground flaxseeds, fish oil

Since you probably have no time to cook six times daily, try preparing all your meals for the day in the morning.

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Millions of people around the world believe they won’t be for long in existence. Come December 23, 2012, the apocalypse will take them to kingdom come.

It’s all just a crock of baloney.

Doomsday has already started. It does not mean humankind’s end but rather the transition from the old age to a new one. This upheaval is guaranteed not to be a smooth one. It would be very turbulent, to say nothing of exorbitant.

End-of-the-world signs have already manifested some time ago but contemporary people see them as a series of random events not bound to one chain. In the future, the fact will be as limpid as crystal; future generations will see these events as one pivotal moment in history. They are telltale signs the world is passing from one epoch to the next.

Here are 14 signs the modern world as we know it is ending:

1. Tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes

Over the past months or so, there has been no letup in natural calamities to beset the planet. The weather, for one, is pushing to the extreme. The American Midwest has recently played host to 120 tornadoes. Yet it seems like nature has only begun to unleash its freaky side.

2. Failure of nuclear science

Japan’s Fukushima disaster proved a lot of things but one more so than the others: Scientists could be perilously bigheaded in their designing of large-scale nuclear projects, without taking into account the impregnability of natural forces. Where it once vowed to give a non-carbon energy source, nuclear science has spewed unseen agents of death into the air.

3. Dogged pursuit of Wikileaks

Truth and honesty are indeed growing ever so lonely in an age of omnipresent deceit. People who do speak the truth, as in the team behind Wikileaks, are relentlessly prosecuted as if they were guilty of the most hideous crimes.

4. Continuing GMO contamination

In probably the worst sign that the end is nigh, genetically modified organisms are laying the planet to waste on a global scale. You could call the creation of these things as a crime against humanity. The damage may never be undone as GMOs can perpetuate its lethal DNA among edible crops around the world, resulting in crop failures and wholesale famines.

5. Silence of the bees

Colony Collapse Disorder is as strong as ever throughout the North American continent. Chemical pesticides, plus the rise of GMOs, are probably to blame but of course, the insecticide industry is not ready to make nice. So continues the fall of the world’s pollinators.

6. Rise of the medical police state

What happened to Maryanne Godboldo in Michigan looks to be the start of a healthcare system that takes to guns to enforce its policies. Armed and dangerous, the medical system can just vaccinate and serve drugs without people’s consent. It has atoned for its uselessness by invoking weapons to force people to get treated.

7. More frequent food shortages and crop failures

Those spikes in food prices will not abate. They could only reach skyscraping figures because of extreme weather, dearth of pollinators, and the GMO-led contamination of crops worldwide. This world is getting short on real food and soon your only recourse would be your garden.

8. Energy companies destroying the world

Energy companies are ravaging the globe. Case in point: BP’s Deepwater Horizon caused a tremendous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a spill so large that satellites could see it. It is not even finished yet. One year to the spill, Corexit is still being sprayed in the Gulf.

9. Real food being made the enemy

Across America, there is a movement that is barely perceptible to jaded shoppers. The government is cracking down increasingly on sellers of real food from the farm. Even the Amish are not spared. Something truly wicked this way has come before 2012.

10. Counterfeit money circulating

When an economic system moves from failure to out-and-out collapse, the idiotic officials in the government can only mull solutions that speed up the fall. Even though the negative ramifications are manifest to anyone who knows numbers, they still persevere at them. Take for instance the Federal Reserve’s wanton counterfeiting of money. This is a surefire omen that the system that has worked so well in the past has reached its threshold.

11. Disappearing intelligentsia

Just because people are watching BBC or CNN does not speak much about their intelligence. The masses are being dumbed down by what’s currently on TV and resultantly nothing of value to offer to society. As it were, they are mindless drones who believe everything presented to them by the government. When the new age comes, most of them would be nowhere.

12. Fabrication of mainstream news

Nowadays, the news being peddle on mainstream media outlets should be taken with a hefty chunk of rock salt. Did you actually believe most of the coverage on the war in Libya; Barack Obama’s birth certificate; and so on. The conventional media is handing out fiction after fiction, which only truly intelligent persons can discern.

13. Global pharmaceutical pollution

This planet is being poisoned by the residues of pharmaceutical factories. After making products that supposedly extend people’s lives, pharmaceuticals offset whatever benefits these products have by throwing their wastes into waterways. Pharmaceuticals can implement the pollution indirectly too. Since more than half of the world’s inhabitants live on medicines nearly every day, these products are ejected alongside waste out of the body and end up in the H2O supply. Enterprising people then collect this waste and sell it as “organic soil.”

14. Radioactive contamination of the food supply

Now this one takes the cake. The radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plant is more widespread than the mainstream media admits. In fact, the world’s food supply is now contaminated with radioactive materials. Radioactive cesium isotopes linger in the food supply for hundreds of years, if you haven’t known already.

Add to radioactive food the radiation you unwittingly get from CT scans, X-rays, TSA body scanners, and hidden mobile X-ray vans. Radiation is affecting the human race, not just the people of Japan.

Practices of a failed civilization

What you just read are the practices of a failing civilization, all created or enacted by the Big Government. When this civilization collapses, all its failed ideas fall with it, fortunately. If there’s one idea that people need to hold on to through the New Age then, it’s one that allows for less government, more freedom.

Always beware not just the government but the private industry though. Those non-profit institutions should even be treated as suspect too. For all you know, they may just be fronts for the world’s most profiteering private companies.

Never let yourself dictated by the despots of any institution. More than anything, be prepared for the quickening end of the world. You are yoked by yourself to live through it intact, healthy, and even more intelligent.

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