Nutrition Health Goji, Comments, Observations and Skeptics

General comments observations and more. Have you ever noticed how negative the news reporting is. And it’s not just in one particular area. It could be in anything from the Iraq war to discrimination.

Speaking of discrimination I saw an article discussing the perceived difference in pay between men and women. I’m not here to totally discuss that issue. However, a study by economics professor Linda C. Babcock of Carnegie Mellon University, reported recently in the Washington Post, women may not actually ask for as much money as men. And ultimately this costs them in both starting pay and in earning higher raises.

Babcock and her colleagues observed how men and women reacted when told they would be paid according to a sliding scale. Men were eight times more likely to ask for higher compensation than they were initially offered to participate in a simple experiment.

That’s a little bit off point but I found that quite interesting. And let’s face the facts most employers aren’t likely to offer their employees if they don’t ask anymore than you would volunteer to ask to pay a store clerk more money for an item. So women, start asking for more money.

I guess the old adage is true bad news sells. Thee bad news is how it affects us as consumers. We could hear 10 unbiased stories about how great a product or restaurant is and then if one person says they thought it stunk we tend to believe the person with the negative comments.

Why is this – I think our mind has been programmed to look for negative things. Think about it, not everyone likes everything. Everyone has different tastes so when someone says they didn’t like something why don’t we just chalk it up to their personal taste especially in the light of when 10 other people say they love the product. So who’s right and who’s wrong in this case? Actually none of these 11 people are wrong provided they are being objective and don’t have a prior biased motive behind their statements.

Below are several articles that further investigate negativism and skepticism.

Article the Goji Skeptic

Analyzing Skeptics in Nutrition and Other Areas

Nutrition Skeptics - Are They Always Bad? - An Examination!

Nutrition Skeptics - Are They Always Bad? - An Examination!

Thoughts on why negative skeptics aren't always bad and can even be good. Their published skepticism usually means the product they are being skeptical about is working and it's competition to them.

Whenever a new product comes along it almost always comes out in a niche where there is established competition. Initially smart competitors will ignore the new product, hoping it will never catch on and eventually go away.

Now if it doesn't and the product becomes highly successful competitors who stand to really lose financially will try to discredit the product hoping this will influence people to stop buying it and it will go back to obscurity. Eventually though if that doesn't work competitors will eventually just have to keep quiet or risk appearing to be fools and simply learn to compete. So often when competing interests try to discredit a product it usually means the product is working too well. After all it's usually not necessary to be skeptical about a bad product as it will fail on its own.

Let's examine Himalayan Goji Juice in this light, holy cow for several years now it's been receiving all kinds of positive press. Here are just very short list of them.

Time Magazine in July, 2006 called goji the SuperFruit of the year.

It has been featured on MTV cribs.
New Woman magazine in Australia showed a photo of a bottle of goji juice and proclaimed, "Madonna, Mischa Barton and Liz Hurley can't get enough of the powerful antioxidant-packed...

Goji juice was in Golf Magazine in Australia - with Catherine Zeta-Jones talking highly of it.



Mischa's immaculate complexion is the result of a daily dose of goji juice.



Nobody is going to love everything, no matter how good something is there will always be someone who doesn't like it.

So the point is with Himalayan Goji Juice you have 43 straight months of record double digit sales growth with people raving about the product and a 60 day money back guarantee. I can see some people being skeptical as most people tend to have negative thoughts about things, but on the other hand if I drove by a restaurant everyday for 43 straight months and I saw people standing in line out the door, I might just figure they had a pretty awesome product.

A Story of Service to Others

Recently I attended an Internet Marketing Seminar in Atlanta with some of the top Internet Marketers in the World. One theme kept reoccuring over and over, how can I build better relationships, how can I be of service to others? One of the items discussed was "extending the free bar." Before someone might think I'm referring to a candy bar I'm referring to giving away more valuable information and techniques to improve the lives of others. In otherwords what more can we give away to help others knowing that the more we give the more we will get back in return.

John F. Kennedy once said; Think not what your country can do for you, think what you can do for your country. It's too bad not more people in positions of leadership think that way today.

The following was taken in part from a letter from Ray Faltinsky CEO of Freelife which shows in my humble opinion his committment to serving others.

A very wise and spiritual man once said, Service is the rent we pay for the life we live.
I believe that statement is profound. Life is a precious gift. At FreeLife, we have a principle that we try to practice constantly. It is the principle of Constant and Never-Ending Improvement.

Similarly, we ought to practice Constant and Never-Ending Service. Then, the life we are privileged to live takes on such meaning and value.

Young Casey Mayor lay in an Army hospital in Texas. A roadside bomb in Iraq left him with a mangled left leg. He was alone, discouraged, and after 12 surgeries, uncertain about his future.

Then she walked in. She was a secretary at the hospital. She came with movies, small gifts, and home-cooked dinners. She came to cheer him up because he had no family or friends close by.

Nicole Cartmill wanted him to know that somebody cared—and that his service to his country was appreciated. Young Nicole instinctively knew what many people never come to understand in their lives: Service is a verb!

It really is. It is love in action. And often, it is given in small doses over a long period of time. Then, Nicole Cartmill made another discovery: We can never love anyone who we do not serve!

When Spc. Mayor returned home on convalescent leave, he talked with Nicole every day. Finally, he returned to Ft. Bliss, and while still in a wheelchair and in front of a small crowd at an airport in El Paso, Mayor popped the question.
I told her, I've never met someone like you before, he said. She started crying and she said, YES!

Last February 13, they married. Then Casey Mayor made this profound observation: Something so bad turned into something so good.

That’s what service does. It helps bad things become better, eases burdens, lessens pain, and provides a fertile seedbed for love and appreciation.

When you think of how meaningful the first four words of our mission statement are—TO SERVE EACH OTHER—it gives us the opportunity to frame our FreeLife business in an entirely new context. We can truly become a service business, reaching out to millions of people who need our help.

We have wrapped our FreeLife business around core principles that encourage us to be of service every day. For instance, consider the all-encompassing Law of Giving. The more of anything you give, the more you get back. Or, how about the Golden Rule that tells us exactly how to treat others? What of the Principle of Abundance that allows us to view the world and people in it with generosity and appreciation?

It is so true. Service is the rent we pay.

Letter to All the Goji Juice Skeptics Out There!

Letter to All the Goji Juice Skeptics Out There!

All of us all skeptical in one way or another, we should be. I was very skeptical about Goji Juice when I first heard about it.

There is an article on the web about goji juice by a so-called friendly skeptic basically wanting people to question the validity of goji juice and it's health benefits. Let's examine what he gas to say and see if he has any merits.

First the author is using a classic magicians trick. Distract the audience to get them so focused on one area that they miss seeing you actually performing the trick. Making it appear like magic. In this case he get people so focused on whether the product is beneficial in one very narrow area that he doesn't even address whether the goji berry may be helpful in other areas. He looks at the product through a very narrow set up parameters, which I believe misses the entire point.

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