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Friday, May 14, 2010





American Heart Association Journal, "Circulation", Publishes New Peer-Reviewed Study Involving Protandim(R)

American Heart Association Journal, "Circulation", Publishes New Peer-Reviewed Study Involving Protandim(R).

Study Concludes that Protandim Preserved Heart Function and Demonstrated Strong Cardioprotective Effects in an Animal Model of Lung Disease.


Osteopontin levels reduced by more than fifty percent; heart output preserved and cardiac fibrosis prevented in animals
SAN DIEGO, November third /Newswire-FirstCall/ -- LifeVantage Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: LFVN), announced that in a peer-reviewed manuscript published in the prestigious American Heart Association journal, "Circulation".


Dr. Norbert Voelkel and researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), demonstrated the ability of Protandim, the Company's patented dietary supplement, composed of five highly synergistic "indirect antioxidants", to protect the heart in a laboratory model of pulmonary hypertension in rats.

There's $Dough$ in them thar Cookies

Tips to Help You Start a Home Cookie Business

Ask anyone and they will tell you how much they love homemade cookies. Packaged cookies simply are not the same. If you have great cookie making skills and love to spend your time baking, you may want to consider making money from it. Many people start their own businesses based around a hobby and these are the kind that stand a better chance to succeed. The following are 5 tips to help you start a home cookie business:

Do not start a home cookie business until you have contacted your state and your town to determine what type of business license you need. You will also need to contact your state’s Department of Health to register with them as a local baker. They have specific guidelines to follow to protect the health of anyone who eats the food you make.

When you start a home cookie business, you will need to invest in some baking supplies. Before you take the money out of your savings, do some research to find out if you qualify for any special government funding to help you get started.

You will also need to determine how you are going to sell them. Are you going to sell them locally only or do you plan to ship out cookies all over the country? The Internet makes anything possible.

Plan your marketing strategy. What do you plan on doing that is going to grab the attention of cookie lovers? If you are selling locally only, a simply flyer announcing your start up may be all that it takes. However, if you are selling on the Internet, as well, you will want to find out the best way to reach your potential customers.

Get creative with your cookies. While the chocolate chip may be a favorite, everyone likes to try something new. The more time you spend in product development is only going to help you to further your success.

You will also want to be creative when you package your cookies. This can help you brand your business and make your business stand out far above your competition.

prepare yourself and your business for the holidays. The orders you will get during the holiday season may be more than you can handle on your own and it is always best to have help readily available.

When you start a home cookie business, you will also need to make certain that all members of your family are on board. Your cooking may have an effect on where your kids do their homework and what time meals are served. Keeping them informed of what changes are likely to happen will make for a much smoother start up for you.

And if you can't sell them all break out a quart of milk and enjoy

Roy Butler

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How to Start a Home Food Business

If you enjoy cooking, baking, or growing your own food, you may want to learn how to start a home food business. First, it will allow you the luxury of working from you home and second, it can help you to earn a pretty decent income. Many people prefer to buy their food locally and, if you can offer something unique, you may find people all over the country will want your food shipped to them.

If you are interested and want to start a home food business, the first thing you should do is practice. Spend a lot of time on what you plan to offer to your customers so that you can work out any issues that could arise. Set up a test for yourself to see how well you can meet deadlines. Does the food always come out the same or does the quality change when you are under pressure? This is where the practice comes into play. Remember, practice will make perfect.

Contact the state you live in, as well as your town, to ask whether you will need any special licenses. Many states will also require that you contact the Department of Health to set up an inspection for the area you will be doing your food preparation.

The next step is to create a business name for yourself and then create a business plan. This will help you to formalize all of the details, including what you will offer, your price points, how you plan to finance your operation, and how you plan to promote your business. Anyone who does not create this written business plan will immediately put their business at risk for the lack of organization. It will also put you out of the running if you need a business loan.

Prepare for your business by creating a website for your business, as well as business cards. If you plan to sell locally only, marketing could involve ads in the newspaper, on the radio, and even on the television. However, if you plan to ship the products outside your location, go wild with your online marketing strategy. You will find that press release marketing will be more than helpful and can get your business off to a great start.

Once you start marketing your business, be prepared. When you start a home food business and offer quality products, you could immediately receive a large amount of orders. Be prepared for this to happen, but most important, have fun with your new business. You will be getting paid for doing something that brings you joy.

Roy Butler

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Nine Biomarkers of Aging You Can Control Through Exercise

Research at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) shows that people can reverse many of the physiological declines associated with aging through regular aerobics, flexibility and strength training exercise. By making positive changes in you own “biomarkers” you can prolong vitality and prevent development of “sarcopenia”—weakening of the body’s muscles, loss of balance, reduced mobility and frailty.

Nine biomarkers you can change are:

  1. Muscle Mass. No matter what your age, you can increase the strength and mass of your muscles through resistance training. Otherwise, muscle mass will decline, accelerating at an alarming rate after age 45.
  2. Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). BMR is the rate of your metabolism sitting still or resting. BMR declines starting kicking in at age 20. Every decade reduces the number of calories needed daily to maintain a constant body weight by roughly 100 calories. Since most people continue to eat the same amount of food (if not more) this is one of the reasoWeight_Lifting_-_Cartoon_4ns they get fat. Aerobic exercise will speed up your BMR. Do enough of it and you can eat like a 20-year-old!
  3. Body Fat Percentage. Just as people with a greater ratio of muscle to fat enjoy a higher metabolism, the opposite is true. The fatter you get, the less efficient your ability to burn off calories. The best way to attack excess body fat is a combination of exercise and moderate calorie restriction. In other words: exercise more and eat less.
  4. Aerobic Capacity. For healthy lungs, a strong heart and an effective vascular network, you need good aerobic capacity, which is the amount of oxygen your body can process within a given time. This capacity typically declines by 30-40% by age 65. Regular exercise can increase your aerobic capacity, but the positive change in older people comes almost entirely in the ability of muscles to utilize oxygen (“oxidative capacity”). Thus, you need strengthening exercises as well as aerobic exercises. When you build muscles you create more muscle cells to consume oxygen. The more your body demands oxygen, the greater you utilize it and the higher your aerobic capacity.
  5. Blood-Sugar Tolerance. By age 70, some 30% of women and 20% of men have an abnormal glucose-tolerance curve, increasing their risk for Type II diabetes (if they don’t already have this). Factors related to glucose metabolism that you can control are: (1) Increase in body fat; (2) Diet high in saturated fat; and (3) Inactivity.
  6. Total Cholesterol/HDL Ratio. To compute your total cholesterol to HDL ratio, you simply divide the total cholesterol number by the HDL-cholesterol number. Of course, it helps to know these numbers. For middle-aged and older men and women, the ratio goal should be 4.5 or lower.
    LDL cholesterol can be lowered by the use of statins such as Atorvastatin or by supplements including niacin and red yeast rice. Or it can be lowered by reducing the amount of saturated fat in your diet. To increase HDL, however, you need to exercise. Aerobic exercise seems to be particularly effective for raising HDL.
  7. Blood Pressure. Controlling blood pressure is absolutely vital. Regular, vigorous exercise is one of the best tools for preventing and even treating high blood pressure.
  8. Bone Density. On average, a person loses 1% of bone mass per year. When this decline reaches the point where risk of bone fracture is substantial, we call it “osteoporosis.” The effectiveness of calcium supplements to fight this is the subject of much debate; however, the effectiveness of weight-bearing exercise is not. Stress repeatedly placed on your bones through exercise makes them grow. Any number of studies have show that a prolonged span of weight-bearing exercise including walking, running, or bicycling reduces the rate of bone loss. Research at Tufts University indicated that exercise also increases your body’s ability to absorb dietary calcium.
  9. Internal Body Temperature. Thermoregulatory ability is one more thing that diminishes with age. You have a harder time cooling off when you’re hot or warming up when you’re cold. The reasons are complex, but include a requirement for a warmer internal body temperature before sweating sets in, dehydration caused by impaired kidneys, and a lower overall amount of sweating. By exercising on a regular basis, you sweat more, increase thirst and total body water content. Remind yourself to drink lots of water.
--David Bunnell