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For many people, kicking sugar cravings is an ongoing battle. While living sugar-free might not seem easy at first, the process of cutting back on sugar is far simpler than most people think. However, while many are determined to reduce their daily sugar intake, they struggle to find tasty food options. The most important first steps are to educate yourself with the right food sugar content facts, get delicious healthier recipes to satisfy your taste buds, and learn a simple new way of eating that balances your blood sugar and eliminates cravings. All you need is the know-how.
Sugar is the #1 Ingredient Added to Food
Overconsumption of sugar has been linked to many health issues, such as diabetes, heart disease, inflammation, poor dental health, obesity, and premature aging of the skin. There are many reasons why you may want to cut out or reduce your sugar intake, but you may be surprised to learn just how hard it is to avoid.
Sugar is the most popular ingredient added to food, and its addition is not always obvious. It's hidden in our most common, everyday foods, even those marketed as health foods. In fact, it's estimated that approximately 74 percent of processed foods contain added sugars, which are stealthily disguised under more than fifty different names.
When it comes to decreasing sugar in your diet, it's critical that you:
Become sugar-aware so you can easily spot sugars in your food and make healthier choices.
Eat a blood-sugar-balancing diet that will give you natural energy and address your sugar cravings, as eating sugar can trigger you to want to eat more sugar.
Redefine Your Relationship to Sugar
Over the next ten days, you will not only learn the real facts about sugar, but you will also learn how to redefine and take charge of your relationship with it. Step by step you will be taught how to increase your awareness of sugar in your diet and our food supply and how to make healthier choices that are delicious and satisfying.
What is included in this course:
Detailed food checklist to help you identify and avoid hidden sugars in everyday food.
Sugar hacks to fix your favorite sweet treats, with expert advice on how to work them into your diet without creating setbacks.
Specific diet and lifestyle tips that will help you squash sugar cravings for good.
Delicious, simple recipes to help you create a healthy blood-sugar-balancing diet that will provide you with lots of natural energy.
Targeted action plan to help you stay on track and make lasting changes that are delicious, simple, and fun.
Who should take this course:
People who are seeking accurate food sugar content facts, delicious healthy recipes to satisfy their taste buds, and a simple new way of eating that balances blood sugars and eliminates cravings.
Anyone who wants to increase their awareness of sugar in their diet and food supply so they can make healthier and more informed choices.
Women and men who are looking for specific diet and lifestyle tips to boost their energy levels naturally, improve sleep, and achieve greater overall wellness from the inside out.
Individuals who want to reduce their sugar intake to avoid health issues such as diabetes, heart disease, inflammation, obesity, and premature aging of the skin.
Sugar addicts who are looking for all the necessary tools, expert tips, and insights they need to kick their sugar habit for a lifetime.
So, what are you waiting for? Let's get you started on this game-changing journey today.
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"This program has changed my life!" -Toni
"I've been on every fad diet on the planet! For the first time I feel that this is a plan I can live with. I'm not hungry and my energy level is steady all day. I've even started exercising. I'm so happy that I gave this a chance." -Patricia
"I am LOVING this! At first I was tired but now I feel better than I have in years. I have already lost 14 pounds and 4 percent in body fat (six weeks on my blood-sugar-balancing plan). I no longer suffer from indigestion or snore at night. My whole family is enjoying this and we all feel so much healthier. I don't even feel like cheating!" -Michelle
"I feel great for the first time in years. This is so much easier than I thought it would be. I have no more annoying cravings, and I am not hungry all day long like I used to be. I've just returned from vacationing in Spain, and I was able to maintain my diet. So far I have lost 28 pounds and 5 percent in body fat. My tennis game has improved remarkably -- I feel like I am 10 years younger! Thanks, Jacqui." -Wendy
"Yesterday was my first full day on the plan. I feel great! I have not been hungry, and I have so much energy this morning. I am in shock! Every other diet plan I've done has left me anxious, hungry, and angry! I can't believe that after only one day I am energetic and happy! The shift is so drastic that I wanted to write and let you know!" -Christine
"By far the best program I've ever found! I felt totally supported throughout and my commitment level was and is incredible! I am on track to reach my goals and I feel fabulous!" -Jen
"Cutting back on sugar in my diet has been the single most effective thing that I have ever done for my health. Jacqui ran blood work on me pre and 3 months post starting her Blood Sugar Balancing Plan. All my numbers were remarkably better: My lipids (cholesterol decreased 37 points, triglycerides decreased 29 points), my fasting glucose (decreased 7 points) and fasting insulin (decreased 4 points), and best of all my HgA1c (3 month average of fasting blood sugar) went from 5.8 (prediabetic) to 5.5 (normal). I feel like a new person and I plan on continuing this lifestyle plan for life. Thank you, Jacqui!" -Mary
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Jacqui Justice holds an M.S. and C.N.S. in Clinical Nutrition, as well as, a certification in Functional Nutrition. She has been in private practice since 1996 with offices in the NYC area. Jacqui co-hosts a weekly radio talk show and has been featured in various publications and a guest on many local and national radio and television talk shows.
Jacqui specializes in Weight Loss Resistance and is passionate in her belief that success is dependent on adopting the proper mindset. Our minds and our bodies are intimately connected -- you cannot make your body achieve what your mind does not believe. Her technique is the heart and soul of all her weight loss and wellness program.
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A meditative mood can inspire you to lose yourself in personal reflection today. Whether you simply want to encourage a feeling of peacefulness to develop within your soul or you feel the need to know more about the person you have become over time, you can likely find what you need in the depths of quiet contemplation. This can be a wonderful time to engage in meditation or meditative activities, as you will likely be more attuned than usual to the subtleties of your response to your reflections. If you feel the need to delve into your past today, you may discover that you can unearth valuable insights about yourself that help you consciously create plans for your future.
Looking into the past we have left behind for wisdom allows us to understand how the events we have lived through have impacted our development and shaped the people we are in the present. While we may not have realized the significance of certain events or situations at the time they occurred, a retrospective view gives us the power to understand how each has fit into the overall fabric of our existence. To reflect upon the patterns we see in the weave that is our lives is to examine the forces that created the assemblage of traits we know as the self. From this basic comprehension, we can then gather information regarding how our lives will unfold in the days and years to come. When you look within yourself purposefully today, you will discover insights that you can use to prosper in the future.
The routes travelled by explorers, immigrants, peddlers, and goods are a critical part of history. There would be no business or commercial history without the Silk Road or the great transoceanic shipping lanes. Here is a great story about the evolution of one of the first American routes.
Long before Europeans arrived in America, natives had created a trail from the upper reaches of the Potomac River (giving access to the Atlantic) to the origins of the Ohio River (yielding access to the vast interior). Finding the best path across some of the most rugged parts of the Allegheny mountains, the trail was eventually known as Nemacolin's Path. In 1749 and 1750, the Delaware Indian chief Nemacolin and Maryland frontiersman Thomas Cresap supervised improving the trail for the Ohio Company. George Washington also worked to improve the trail.
In 1755, General Edward Braddock was ordered to seize Ohio from the French by taking Fort Duquesne, at the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers met to form the Ohio, later the site of Pittsburgh. Six hundred men were assigned to build a military road, following Nemacolin's path from Cumberland, Maryland into western Pennsylvania. The road became known as the Braddock Road.
In 1820, as the west began to open up, the federal government approved extending the road to St. Louis. It was extended westward into Ohio (via Wheeling, West Virginia) and Indiana. The route included some of the first bridges in the west. It became known as The National Road.
By the 1850s, railroads were all the rage, carrying people and freight across the country with unprecedented speed and ease. Foremost among these was the Pennsylvania Railroad, founded in 1846. Initially connecting Philadelphia with Pittsburgh, over time the lines stretched eastward to New York, Baltimore, and Washington. Equally important, the Pennsylvania reached west and paralleled the National Road, passing through Columbus and Indianapolis enroute to St. Louis, reaching that city in 1870. (This line became part of Conrail after the collapse of the Penn Central in 1969, and then became part of the Norfolk Southern Railroad.)
By 1912, automobiles had come into use, and a national movement for "better roads" arose. The first routes were called "auto trails" and given names. Routes were marked by signs tacked onto telegraph and telephone poles. The most prominent among these was The National Road, ultimately stretching from near Pittsburgh to Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and westward.
Other auto trails routes were given equally colorful names and heavily promoted.
The Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway paralleled the National Road, but was meant to be faster because it did not go through the big cities of Columbus, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. It even went through my hometown of Anderson, Indiana, just north of Indianapolis. I lived the first 13 years of my life two houses away. Unsurprisingly, it was not as successful as the National Road.
In the 1920s, the top highway authorities from each state met and worked out a national highway numbering system to replace the old named roads. While following the same routes, the new numbers simplified travel for everyone. Odd-numbered highways ran north and south, starting with US 1 on the East Coast. Even-numbered routes ran east-west, starting with US 2 near the Canadian border. The most important, the National Road, became US 40 in 1927. Millions of cars, trucks, and buses followed this route.
At the same time that America was rationalizing its highway systems, air travel began to arise. The early airlines survived by carrying the US mail. In 1930, US Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown devised a national system of routes, forcing the airlines into mergers to achieve his goals. United Airlines got the northern route, from New York to Chicago to San Francisco. American Airlines received the southern route, from New York to Dallas to Los Angeles. And Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) got the central route: New York to Pittsburgh to Columbus to Indianapolis to St. Louis and on to California. In other words, the National Road. These airplanes had a limited range, and hopped from city to city. (Today the hub-and-spoke airline system has replaced those traditional hopping routes.)
In their first transcontinental efforts, airline passengers flew in the daytime and took the train at night, because airfields had no lights and nighttime flying was too dangerous. (The Pennsylvania Railroad was an investor in TWA predecessor TAT, giving the lie to the myth that the railroads dismissed the future of air travel. But the federal government did not approve of the powerful railroads investing in the embryonic airline industry.)
(Later, Howard Hughes got control of TWA. After WW II, TWA received government approval to make flights to Europe, breaking the monopoly — among US carriers — of Pan American Airways on transatlantic travel. Keeping the same initials, Hughes renamed the airline from Transcontinental & Western Air to Trans World Airlines. TWA was acquired by American Airlines in 2001.)
The most recent evolution in this story was the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system. The number planners reversed the old system. Odd numbers were still north and south, even were east and west. But I-10 was across our southern edge, I-90 on the north, I-95 along the eastern seaboard, and I-5 up and down the west coast. Thus US 40 was paralleled by the new I-70, in the east following the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad and TWA. Construction of I-70 began in 1956, but was not completed through the west until 1992. It includes the highest point on the Interstate system, at over 11,000 feet in Colorado. More millions of vehicles use this route each year.
Interstate 70
Nemacolin's Path and its extensions thus became the path, even today, for cars, trucks, buses, trains, and planes.
With this historical context, it wouldn't surprise us to see this same old route used for high speed rail and hyperloops. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
"Study the past if you would define the future" – Confucius
Dr. Rand Paul Releases 2020 'Festivus' Report on Government Waste
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (FSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), released his 2020 "Festivus" Report, totaling over $54 billion in government waste.
This marks Dr. Paul's sixth edition of the Festivus Report as he continues working to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.
This year, each story received a "Platinum Pig Award" that ranked the waste on a scale of 1-5 (with 5 being the most wasteful).
Sections are broken down into Health Care; Foreign Aid; Environment, Energy, Science; Military; and Miscellaneous, and highlights include lizards on treadmills, losing over 100 drones in Afghanistan, and combating binge-watching.
You can find Dr. Paul's 2020 Festivus Report HERE.
'Kill him with his own gun': Police describe facing the mob at the Capitol
Washington (CNN) — As DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone lay on the ground at the US Capitol building, stunned and injured, he knew a group of rioters were stripping him of his gear. They grabbed spare ammunition, ripped the police radio off his chest and even stole his badge.
Then, Fanone, who had just been Tasered several times in the back of the neck, heard something chilling that made him go into survival mode.
"Some guys started getting a hold of my gun and they were screaming out, 'Kill him with his own gun,'" said Fanone, who's been a police officer for almost two decades.
Fanone, one of three officers who spoke with CNN, described his experience fighting a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters who'd invaded the Capitol in an insurrection unheard of in modern American history.
Federal officials have said the details of the violence that come out will be disturbing.
"People are going to be shocked by some of the egregious contact that happened in the Capitol," acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin said Tuesday in reference to attacks on police officers.
Fanone, a narcotics detective who works in plain clothes, heard the commotion at the Capitol and grabbed his still brand-new police uniform that had been hanging in his locker and put it on for the first time, he said. He raced to the building with his partner and helped officers who were being pushed back by rioters.
Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone
But Fanone, who said he'd rather be shot than be pulled into a crowd where he had no control, was suddenly in his biggest nightmare as an officer. And in those few moments, Fanone considered using deadly force. He thought about using his gun but knew that he didn't have enough fire power and he'd soon be overpowered again, except this time they would probably use his gun against him and they'd have all the reason to end his life.
"So, the other option I thought of was to try to appeal to somebody's humanity. And I just remember yelling out that I have kids. And it seemed to work," said the 40-year-old father of four.
A group within the rioters circled Fanone and protected him until help arrived, saving his life.
"Thank you, but f*** you for being there," Fanone said of the rioters who protected him in that moment.
Fanone's anger and frustration was a sentiment felt by law enforcement around the country, furious that Trump supporters had breached the grounds of the Capitol on the very day Joe Biden's win was confirmed by the House and Senate.
Fanone's dramatic encounter with the Trump supporting rioters was repeated all over the grounds of the US Capitol as law enforcement officers battled to push them back. Fanone, one of scores of officers who were injured in the brutal battle, shared his story for the first time, still suffering the effects of a mild heart attack.
Since the breach of the Capitol, investigators have been dissecting every aspect of the day's events, from the response of US Capitol Police to the nationwide manhunt for everyone involved.
Hear photographer describe terrifying moment on Capitol Hill02:24
Investigators are now looking into the notion that here was some level of planning, with enough evidence to indicate that it was not just a protest that got out of control, law enforcement sources tell CNN.
"Certainly some things that we saw on the ground were some indication that there were some coordination going on, but I think as we get further into the investigation, a lot of that will be revealed," acting MPD Chief Robert Contee told reporters Thursday.
Fanone said the rioters had weapons, either of their own or taken from his fellow police.
"We were getting chemical irritants sprayed. They had pipes and different metal objects, batons, some of which I think they had taken from law enforcement personnel. They had been striking us with those," said Fanone, who added that he wasn't going to be sitting at a desk while an insurrection was happening at the Capitol.
"And then it was just the sheer number of rioters. The force that was coming from that side," he added. "It was difficult to offer any resistance when you're only about 30 guys going up against 15,000."
Fighting off 'bear mace'
Officer Christina Laury, a member of the Metropolitan Police Department's gun recovery unit, got to the Capitol at around 12:30 p.m. ET and saw the riotous groups gaining ground.
Laury, who was guarding the line to make sure there were no gaps for anyone to slip through, was hit with a much stronger type of pepper spray that's supposed to be used only on bears, she said.
"The individuals were pushing officers, hitting officers. They were spraying us with what we were calling, essentially, bear mace, because you use it on bears," she said.
"Unfortunately, it shuts you down for a while. It's way worse than pepper spray," Laury added. "It seals your eyes shut. ... You've got to spray and douse yourself with water. And in those moments it's scary because you can't see anything and have people that are fighting to get through."
She was lucky enough not to be struck with anything but saw others beaten with objects.
"They were getting hit with metal objects. Metal poles. I remember seeing pitchforks. They're getting sprayed, knocked down," said Laury, who added that reinforcements kept rotating in so others could rest during the hours-long battle.
"Just puling officers back to heal up and (reinforcements) stepping in to get to the front line. And then they go down and more officers step in and the officers that were knocked down, they're better again and they're just battling because the bottom line is, we're not letting anyone through."
'He was practically foaming at the mouth'
Officer Daniel Hodges was one of those officers who tried to battle back rioters but was roughed up in the fight. Hodges gained notice after footage of him circulated being crushed by a door. The 32-year-old officer is seen in the clip with blood dripping through his teeth as he kept gasping for enough air so he could yell "Help" at the top of his lungs.
Hodges raced to the Capitol to offer support like many others and soon found himself being assaulted from an angry mob that, he said, believed they were patriots.
Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges
"There's a guy ripping my mask off, he was able to rip away the baton and beat me with it," said Hodges, who was stuck in the door and added that his arm was bent before they ripped the weapon away.
"He was practically foaming at the mouth so just, these people were true believers in the worst way."
Hodges was eventually rescued by other officers who eventually came to his aid.
"You know things were looking bad," said Hodges, who miraculously walked away with no major injuries and may have suffered a minor concussion. "I was calling out for all I was worth, and an officer behind me was able to get me enough room to pull me out of there and get me to the rear so I was able to extricate myself."
This was Hodges's first visit to the Capitol building.
Ex-FBI director on what investigators are looking for after Capitol riot02:06
'They felt entitled'
The patrol officer said he had been hearing about the possibility of violence for years so he wasn't surprised that the rioters would storm the Capitol. What did surprise him was how the insurrectionists thought the police would be on their side.
"Some of them felt like we would be fast friends because so many of them have been vocal," Hodges said. "They say things like, 'Yeah, we've been supporting you through all this Black Lives Matter stuff, you should have our back' and they felt entitled."
He added, "They felt like they would just walk up there and tell us that they're here to take back Congress and we would agree with them and we'd walk in hand in hand and just take over the nation. But obviously that's not the case and it will never be the case."
Now, only days before Biden's inauguration, federal authorities are warning of other threats that may come.
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has publicly warned people not to come to the city for the inauguration.
Hodges echoed her sentiments, and wanted not only residents, but Trump supporters and extremists to stay home too. But with one caveat.
"Stay home. Stop this," said Hodges. "On the other hand, I hope they're caught. Let's leave it at that."
America's Biggest Owner Of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates
by Ariel Shapiro
Bill "Asshole Virus&Vaccine Monster Gates", the fourth richest person in the world and a self-described nerd who is known for his early programming skills rather than his love of the outdoors, has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private farmland owner in America.
After years of reports that he was purchasing agricultural land in places like Florida and Washington, The Land Report revealed that Gates, who has a net worth of nearly $121 billion according to Forbes, has built up a massive farmland portfolio spanning 18 states. His largest holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Nebraska (20,588 acres). Additionally, he has a stake in 25,750 acres of transitional land on the west side of Phoenix, Arizona, which is being developed as a new suburb.
According to The Land Report's research, the land is held directly and through third-party entities by Cascade Investments, Gates' personal investment vehicle. Cascade's other investments include food-safety company Ecolab, used-car retailer Vroom and Canadian National Railway.
Jacqui Justice holds an M.S. and C.N.S. in Clinical Nutrition, as well as, a certification in Functional Nutrition. She has been in private practice since 1996 with offices in the NYC area. Jacqui co-hosts a weekly radio talk show and has been featured in various publications and a guest on many local and national radio and television talk shows. 
