The multi level marketing of Mona Vie really grates my nerves.

http://www.nutri-info.com/food_and_nutrition.htm

but I know MANY many many people (in my own family included)–that are the ones spending so much money on processed foods and then go and buy mOna Vie–and fish pills and think it will al be dandy!

I have read your posts and I agree with you. There are alot of people taking advantage of the ignorant in health foods. I had this guy at work trying to sell noni juice when it first came out.

This state is full of idiots. That is why network market scams are such a big thing in this state.

But the one thing we here are concerned with is nutrition. We want to eat the most nutritious foods that we can with the least amount of extra calories. For example, dark chocolate, I am sure it has some nutrients in there but what about all the other stuff they put in it? And what about the processing of it?

But pure unaltered cacao or cocoa whatever you want to call it allegedly has alot of nutrients. Also according to wikepedia 90% is grown without the use of chemicals. I am sure this is because the people who grow it can’t afford them. So by default you are getting an organic natural product.

So the question is how many nutrients are you getting at what price. I don’t think we should dismiss these other plants just because they are exotic. I also think we should not take for granted plants we have that are easily accessible.

Also I know from being a farmer just because its a plant doesn’t mean its wholesome. Farmers get paid by the pound. Also farmers don’t make alot of money. They reality of it is, farmers can’t afford to care or do they even have the means to know how nutritious their fruits and vegetables are.

So how nutritious is your green smootie when the things you put in it are not very nutritious in the first place. There is just no getting around it, if you want something done right you have to do it yourself or pay someone alot of money to do it for you. So everone needs to grow a garden and get back into canning.

I could give the details, but I can’t think how to write them. These people pretty clearly had some mental health or developmental delay issues. They were very painfully overweight. I just really wanted to give them lots of good food for their $100. They kept talking back and forth about the money; they were clearly very stressed out about the expenditure. It was killin’ me. And I’m not even describing the whole experience. (They didn’t know about the discount keychain card that everyone who shops there has–thus my perception that they’d never been there before.)

If you can afford the acai packets, go for it. Please understand that my motive here is to convince people that returning to health, through whole foods, is really doable, if we keep our focus on the basics rather than the bells and whistles.

I don’t fault any individual doctor, although I’d love to meet and shake the hand of that pediatrician.

It’s the system within they work that is the problem, and at the ROOT of that problem is not the Rx industry or the fast food industry or anyone else.

It’s US, the people. We created the demand. Sure, there’s a vicious cycle here, but doctors are simply supplying what we want.

I was reading an article yesterday about how much pressure doctors are under to WRITE A PRESCRIPTION. Even docs who are uncomfortable writing a lot of Rx just cave in. Most people are not like those who read GSG: they are angry if they leave the pediatrician’s office without some “medicine.” (I can’t write that without the quotation marks, since to me it is a euphemism.)

If you go to an M.D., the office staff will paper clip a prescription paper to your chart (if they’re sharp). When I’ve been to doctors, they start to tell me what drug they are going to give me, and I have to stop them as they begin writing, to say, “Thanks, I’m actually not interested in that, but I appreciate you looking in my daughter’s ears” or whatever.

Without fail, the doctor looks VERY surprised, pen poised in hand.