Yoli: Network Marketing Online – Knowing the Mechanics
April 13, 2010
Network Marketing Online – Knowing the Mechanics
Getting started with online marketing is more of a learning process than a jump in and do it over night kinda thing. You might be experiencing some of the same problems that allot of us do in the beginning; lack of leads, lack of money, lack of marketing training and lack of duplication. Not the “L word” you want…
Fortunately, I’ve experienced most of those issus myself and have even spent thousands of hours and dollars learning what it takes to figure out all of it. What I had to do is dive deeper by educating myself and learned some of the basic principals of how marketing online actually works and it helped me fit all pieces together. Understanding the mechanics of how it all fits together is part of the “magic”. Knowing these fundamental principals when your’re starting out can help cut the confusion and move you forward to build a solid foundation in your business.
Here are five key elements to building a business online.
1) You need a customized lead capture page (goYoli). Having a customized capture page with your own video or picture along with proper text tells your prospect about you, people want to know who you are before they do business with you. This along with your sales funnel has to be in place before you can start to market and build your business because capturing your prospects information is how your going to build your business.
2) Next is knowing how to market and leverage your business online. There are a lot of effective ways to market online choose one or two methods to start and stick with them until you have mastered them. When you hop around from method to method you really never get good at any of them. Work on building your list of prospects that have gone to your capture page. Its all about building your list and your relationship with the people on it. You can start to do this by sending your prospects valuable marketing information by using the preset Warm Market Wizard already positioned in the back office for you.
3) The Funded Proposal System: Having a funded proposal system will help you pay for your monthly business expenses and help the people on your list build their business with valuable marketing resources that you offer. Over the past several weeks, we’ve discussed using our own product to continue the friends and family campaign.
4) Training Platform: Once you have people in your organization you wont have time to train everyone everything personally. Having the duplicatable training platform provided for you in the goyoli back office, you can leverage your resources and time that will take some of the work load off of you. Plus we can give our team access to some of the best training in the industry over our weekly webinars.
5) Utilize the tools provided for you.When people have come to your business funnel, introducing them to your Primary opportunity will be more natural. Most people are interested and actually ask you questions about it first. How cool is that? Make sure to use the Yoli Kiss System and pair it up with the F.O.R.M method of communication and you’re already set to win.
Learning how to grow your MLM Home Business online can feel like information overload sometimes. It takes time and persistence, knowing how to network and leverage the internet the right way you will build a strong foundation in your business.
For advanced training, make sure to make it to our team training on thursday nights.
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Yoli Blast Caps Grand Tour with Founder, Rick Eisele (VIP pre-launch days)
December 4, 2009
My good buddy and Yoli partner, Dereck Arreguin, was out in Utah to meet with the founders during the early days of Yoli when they were still getting everything dialed in. Dereck had Rick Eisele, founder and Chief Operations Officer at Yoli, give you the grand tour of Yoli’s headquarters in Jordan Utah.
Dereck had a great time, learned a lot about Yoli as a company and met the staff leaders at Yoli. Good times…
Yoli Truth: Drinking more than 2 sweetened sodas a day boosts risk of hypertension, study finds
November 16, 2009
Disclaimer: Yoli products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
With Yoli bringing their signature Truth Citrus Health Drink to the marketplace, the data continues to stack up against the sugary beverage market. Stories, studies and governments abroad are finally catching on to what all these beverages that are loaded with sugar and fructose are doing to our bodies.
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) — Here’s a new reason to put down that sugary soft drink: Research suggests that a diet high in fructose, a common sweetener, boosts the risk of high blood pressure.
High-fructose corn syrup is found in many processed foods and beverages. Americans consume 30 percent more fructose now than 20 years ago, and researchers have linked higher fructose consumption to the growing obesity epidemic. But scientists weren’t sure if a connection existed between fructose consumption and high blood pressure.
In a new study, Dr. Diana Jalal, of the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center, and colleagues studied 4,528 adults without a history of high blood pressure. They examined their fructose intake and found that those who consumed more than 74 grams of fructose per day — that’s the equivalent of the amount in 2.5 sweetened soft drinks — boosted their risk of high blood pressure by 28 percent to 87 percent, depending on the level of hypertension.
“These results indicate that high fructose intake in the form of added sugars is significantly and independently associated with higher blood pressure levels in the U.S. adult population with no previous history of hypertension,” the study authors wrote, adding that future research is needed to determine if lowering fructose intake will also lower blood pressure.
The study findings were scheduled to be presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s annual meeting, held Oct. 27 to Nov. 1 in San Diego.
Yoli goes LIVE -> Pre-launch Begins!!!
November 5, 2009
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Yoli Truth: What Soft Drinks Are Doing To Your Body
November 2, 2009
Disclaimer: Yoli products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on the sale of soft drinks continues, you should know how they affect your body so that you can make an informed choice on your own.
Soft drinks are hard on your health
Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and often food additives such as artificial coloring, flavoring, and preservatives.
A lot of research has found that consumption of soft drinks in high quantity, especially by children, is responsible for many health problems that include tooth decay, nutritional depletion, obesity, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease.
Why the sugar in soft drinks isn’t so sweet
Most soft drinks contain a high amount of simple sugars. The USDA recommendation of sugar consumption for a 2,000-calorie diet is a daily allotment of 10 teaspoons of added sugars. Many soft drinks contain more than this amount!
Just why is too much sugar so unhealthy? Well, to start, let’s talk about what happens to you as sugar enters your body. When you drink sodas that are packed with simple sugars, the pancreas is called upon to produce and release insulin, a hormone that empties the sugar in your blood stream into all the tissues and cells for usage. The result of overindulging in simple sugar is raised insulin levels. Raised blood insulin levels beyond the norm can lead to depression of the immune system, which in turn weakens your ability to fight disease.
Something else to consider is that most of the excess sugar ends up being stored as fat in your body, which results in weight gain and elevates risk for heart disease and cancer. One study found that when subjects were given refined sugar, their white blood cell count decreased significantly for several hours afterwards. Another study discovered that rats fed a high-sugar diet had a substantially elevated rate of breast cancer when compared to rats on a regular diet.
The health effects of diet soda
You may come to the conclusion that diet or sugar-free soda is a better choice. However, one study discovered that drinking one or more soft drinks a day — and it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular — led to a 30% greater chance of weight gain around the belly.
Diet soda is filled with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin. These artificial sweeteners pose a threat to your health. Saccharin, for instance, has been found to be carcinogenic, and studies have found that it produced bladder cancer in rats.
Aspartame, commonly known as nutrasweet, is a chemical that stimulates the brain to think the food is sweet. It breaks down into acpartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol at a temperature of 86 degrees. (Remember, your stomach is somewhere around 98 degrees.) An article put out by the University of Texas found that aspartame has been linked to obesity. The process of stimulating the brain causes more cravings for sweets and leads to carbohydrate loading.
Carbonation depletes calcium
Beverages with bubbles contain phosphoric acid, which can severely deplete the blood calcium levels; calcium is a key component of the bone matrix. With less concentration of calcium over a long time, it can lower deposition rates so that bone mass and density suffer. This means that drinking sodas and carbonated water increases your risk of osteoporosis.
Add in the caffeine usually present in soft drinks, and you are in for even more trouble. Caffeine can deplete the body’s calcium, in addition to stimulating your central nervous system and contributing to stress, a racing mind, and insomnia.
Skip the soda and go for:
• Yoli
You knew I was going to add this…Incorporating wholesome Vitamin C and a proprietary blend of some of the most popular ingredients of the day: acai, goji, pomegranate, resveratrol, white tea extract, Alkaplex, a ph enhancing ingredient, plus live probiotics and enzymes, Yoli Blast Caps deliver to the market a healthy alternative to all of the nutrient deprived, sweetened beverages most people are consuming nowadays.
• Fresh water
Water is a vital beverage for good health. Each and every cell needs water to perform its essential functions. Since studies show that tap water is filled with contaminants, antibiotics, and a number of other unhealthy substances, consider investing in a quality carbon-based filter for your tap water.
On the go? Try using a stainless steel thermos or glass bottle, filled with filtered water. Enhance the flavor of your water with a refreshing infusion of basil, mint leaves, and a drop of honey.
• Fruit Juice
If you are a juice drinker, try watering down your juice to cut back on the sugar content. Buy a jar of organic 100% juice, especially cranberry, acai, pomegranate, and then dilute three parts filtered water to one part juice. You will get a subtle sweet taste and the benefit of antioxidants. After a couple of weeks, you will no longer miss the sweetness of sugary concentrated juices.
• Tea
Tea gently lifts your energy and has numerous health benefits. Black, green, white, and oolong teas all contain antioxidant polyphenols. In fact, tea ranks as high or higher than many fruits and vegetables on the ORAC scale, the score that measures antioxidant potential of plant-based foods.
Herbal tea does not have the same antioxidant properties, though it is still a great beverage choice with other health benefits, such as inducing calming and relaxing effects.
If tea doesn’t satisfy your sweet tooth, try adding cinnamon or a little honey, which has important health benefits that refined sugar lacks. Drink up!
I hope you find the ways and means to avoid soft drinks. I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.
May you live long, live strong, and live happy!
Yoli Truth: Junk food gets air time on kids’ channels
October 29, 2009
Disclaimer: Yoli products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
As parents we have to keep a close eye on the messages that our kids are getting. Unfortunately, advertisers are taking advantage of our children when watching TV…
There are good kids programming out there that don’t run these types of commercials and some that are commercial free.
Junk food gets air time on kids’ channels
Nearly all the food advertised on leading television channels aimed at toddlers to tweens is unhealthy, newly released research shows.
Brian Cook, a research consultant at Toronto Public Health, analyzed advertisements shown on Teletoon and YTV over four days in January during children’s peak viewing times geared to kids ages two to 11.
The preliminary results, released on Wednesday at a conference about public health nutrition reform hosted by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, show that food ads made up the single largest category, at 37 percent. And an overwhelming number of them – 95 percent – were for unhealthy foods.
Breakfast cereals with high sugar and low fibre content represented the single largest percentage of unhealthy food ads, representing 28 per cent.
The remaining three categories each represented 24 percent of the ads: fast food restaurants and meals, snack foods, and high-fat, sugary or salty spreads, soups or pastas.
Milk and juice made up the bulk of the five percent of ads for healthy foods.
The sample was based on 41 hours of programming, of which 16 hours had channel promotions in place of product advertising.
The data was collected after Canada’s leading food and beverage companies launched, in April 2007, the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, a voluntary code to promote healthier dietary choices and lifestyles to children under the age of 12.
By February, 11 of the 16 companies had already implemented their commitments; the remaining companies have agreed to have their commitments fully implemented by the end of 2008.
Among the core principles, they have committed to devoting at least 50 per cent of their ads to promote products that represent healthy dietary choices or include healthy lifestyle.
Cook said there are too many gaps in the industry initiative to make it effective.
“The self-regulatory route just doesn’t work,” he said in an interview, pointing to a recent analysis conducted by Dr. David McKeon, medical officer of health at Toronto Public Health.
Cereals defined as “healthier dietary choices” for children include Froot Loops, Reese’s Puffs, Corn Pops, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Alpha Bits and Kool-Aid Singles.
Janet Feasby is vice-president of standards at Advertising Standards Canada, a national advertising industry self-regulatory body overseeing the initiative. She said the current approach is sound because products that make the cut for a healthier dietary choice must meet established scientific and government standards.
They include foods that meet the standards for participating in the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Health Check program and foods that meet criteria for nutrient content claims in Canada’s Food Guide, namely those with “free or “low” claims for calories as well as fat, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar and salt.
“This is an industry initiative that they’ve taken on their own to be responsible and to make a difference in the childhood obesity issue,” said Feasby.
The preliminary findings are part of a broader global project coordinated by Australian researchers looking at TV food ads to children in 12 countries.
Yoli Truth: Top 10 Secrets To Alkalizing The Body
October 28, 2009
Disclaimer: Yoli products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Before we dive into the secrets…here are some aspects regarding pH you may find useful…
The body’s pH is measured on a scale of 0 – 14. Midrange at 7 is where the pH is balanced. Anything below 7 is acidic and a state where your body does not function as designed. Above 7 is called Alkaline. Alkaline is the state in which your body thrives. Toxins cannot live in an alkaline environment. At the bottom of the list is a chart of foods on the pH scale for a reference.
Making the changes below can drastically improve the way you feel. I’ve experienced it first hand. I hope this information will help you improve your life and well-being.
Here’s how to rid your body of that over-acidic state:
Alkalizing Secret #1 — Drink Pure Alkaline Water – lots of it! – Yoli fits the bill. Even if you use another water source the patented Alka-Plex technology will raise the pH of any water that you use.
Pure water meaning water that is filtered. At a minimum, you should be drinking 7 ounces of water for every 10 lbs of your body weight. So, if you weigh 130lbs, you need to drink a minimum of 91 ounces of pure water (that’s about 3 liters). Pure water meaning water that is filtered – the finest choice is an alkaline ionization unit (Jupiter is one of the finest on the market). If you don’t have this resource available, distilled water is a great choice with reverse osmosis coming next. Alkaline water means water with a pH over 7.5. Alkaline water adds oxygen to your water and helps to neutralize acids. A simple way to alkalize your water is with a dash of baking soda. There are also wonderful alkalizing agents you can purchase to buffer and alkalize the water.
(P.S. Avoid: coffee, black tea and sodas. – These drinks are highly acidic and do not count towards your daily water intake)
Alkalizing Secret #2 — Eat Celery…. This is one of the most alkaline foods you can eat. It quickly neutralizes acids. Eat it before, after or during a meal. Celery is so high in water content that is also works as an excellent thirst quencher. Celery is excellent for digestion.
Alkalizing Secret #3 – Eat Green Salads – forget the cheese and croutons!
Always have a green salad on hand. Make a huge salad every 3 days and keep it in your fridge to make it very easy to alkalize your body. Some greens that have the highest water content are: cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, celery, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, cauliflower, carrots, and onions. A great dressing would be cold pressed extra virgin olive oil with some lemon juice. Keep this in a bowl in your fridge (tip: add cucumbers and tomatoes right before eating). Eat a HUGE salad with every meal!
Alkalizing Secret #4 — Switch from cow’s milk, to coconut or almond milk.
Cows milk has shown to produce an abundance of mucous in the human body. There are also few adults who can metabolize the protein in cow’s milk properly. This protein, casein, is what a cow’s metabolism needs for proper health, not for a human beings health. Also note that most dairy cows are injected with hormones such as the Bovine Growth Hormone to increase their milk production. Many of these hormones have potentially horrific side effects that can be passed on when consumed. Coconut and almond milk are excellent alternatives to dairy. They are well worth trying out.
Alkalizing Secret #5 — Avoid artificial sweeteners! – Yoli only uses the natural sweeteners
This includes: NutraSweet, Sucralose, Aspartame, Saccharin…. Not only are these acidic they also have other highly detrimental effects on the nervous system and neurological disease. Saccharin even tells you right on the package that it may cause cancer.
There is one natural sugar substitute that has had no reported side effects: Stevia. <- its in Yoli
Alkalizing Secret #6 — Eat a grapefruit in the morning wait 15 minutes before ingesting a carb or protein.
Grapefruit, similar to lemons, is also alkalizing when ingested. Some people believe grapefruit to be a miracle fruit and I tend to support that group. Grapefruits have a very high water content and are highly alkalizing. Eat one first thing in the morning, and wait 15 minutes before eating a carbohydrate or protein (one or the other – do not mix). (The 15-minute suggestion is in accordance with proper food combining and allows your system to more easily digest. This recommendation applies to eating any fruit – fruit shouldn’t be combined with any other food type. Once eaten, wait 15 before consuming any other food type…ie: protein or carbohydrate). <- Maybe Yoli will come out with a grapefruit blast drink!
Alkalizing Secret #7 — Eliminate consumption of red meat, pork, lamb…substitute chicken, turkey or fresh fish in small quantities. Red meats, pork and lamb are highly acidic a very low water content, not to mention being hard on the digestive system. If you must have meat, opt for chicken or turkey. Fresh wild fish is another excellent route to take.
Alkalizing Secret #8 – Reduce stress daily by adding yoga, tai chi, meditation, and proper breathing. An additional factor that adds to acidosis (acidic bodies) is stress. When the body moves into stress mode the digestive system shuts down and toxins cease to be eliminated. Thus the more toxins you keep in your system, the more the body will store them away (acids) in fat cells! Anything we can do to calm the mind/body will have a huge impact on alkalizing the body.
Alkalizing Secret #9– Drink a top quality super green supplement. – Yoli Truth includes huge amounts of minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, probiotics and more – a Super Greens Blast is in the works also.
Organic super greens are known to be some of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. They infuse the body with easily absorbed vitamins, minerals, amino acids chlorophyll, enzymes, phytonutients and alkaline salts that help neutralize acids in the blood and tissues.
Alkalizing Secret #10 — Minimize/Avoid… processed and refined foods.
That means anything made with white flour and white sugar or food coloring. Our bodies were not designed to digest these chemicals and so it must do one of three things:
- Eliminate them (if you are not hydrating properly this is very hard to do) or
- Neutralize them by pulling alkaline buffers where it can – from your bones leaching calcium, or from your blood, leaching iron. or
- Park them away (in fat cells). Bottom line here – stay away from processed food as much as possible.
In Summary: If you will start out by going down the list of tips and add one secret each day, there’s a tremendous possibility that you will be amazed with what you experience. Simply increasing the amount and type of water you drink can and often will be a HUGE shift in how you feel. Let me tell you – it only gets better! And remember…the name of the game is progress not perfection.
Be gentle with yourself – for many people, these secrets represent a huge life change. I urge you to educate yourself on alkalinity and the pH balance.
Use Yoli to help you get a jump start on this list of alkalizing secrets…
Alkalizing Secret #1 — Drink Pure Alkaline Water – lots of it! Pure water meaning water that is filtered. At a minimum, you should be drinking 7 ounces of water for every 10 lbs of your body weight. So, if you weigh 130lbs, you need to drink a minimum of 91 ounces of pure water (that’s about 3 liters). Pure water meaning water that is filtered – the finest choice is an alkaline ionization unit (Jupiter is one of the finest on the market). If you don’t have this resource available, distilled water is a great choice with reverse osmosis coming next. Alkaline water means water with a pH over 7.5. Alkaline water adds oxygen to your water and helps to neutralize acids. A simple way to alkalize your water is with a dash of baking soda. There are also wonderful alkalizing agents you can purchase to buffer and alkalize the water.
(P.S. Avoid: coffee, black tea and sodas. – These drinks are highly acidic and do not count towards your daily water intake)
Alkalizing Secret #2 — Eat Celery…. This is one of the most alkaline foods you can eat. It quickly neutralizes acids. Eat it before, after or during a meal. Celery is so high in water content that is also works as an excellent thirst quencher. Celery is excellent for digestion.
Alkalizing Secret #3 – Eat Green Salads – forget the cheese and croutons! Always have a green salad on hand. Make a huge salad every 3 days and keep it in your fridge to make it very easy to alkalize your body. Some greens that have the highest water content are: cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, celery, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, cauliflower, carrots, and onions. A great dressing would be cold pressed extra virgin olive oil with some lemon juice. Keep this in a bowl in your fridge (tip: add cucumbers and tomatoes right before eating). Eat a HUGE salad with every meal!
Alkalizing Secret #4 – Switch from cow’s milk, to almond, soy, or rice milk. Cows milk has shown to produce an abundance of mucous in the human body. There are also few adults who can metabolize the protein in cow’s milk properly. This protein, casein, is what a cow’s metabolism needs for proper health, not for a human beings health. Also note that most dairy cows are injected with hormones such as the Bovine Growth Hormone to increase their milk production. Many of these hormones have potentially horrific side effects that can be passed on when consumed. Almond, soy and or rice milk are excellent alternatives to dairy. They are well worth trying out.
Alkalizing Secret #5 – Avoid artificial sweeteners! This includes: NutraSweet, Sucralose, Aspartame, Saccharin…. Not only are these acidic they also have other highly detrimental effects on the nervous system and neurological disease. Saccharin even tells you right on the package that it may cause cancer.
There is one natural sugar substitute that has had no reported side effects: Stevia.
Alkalizing Secret #6 – Eat a grapefruit in the morning wait 15 minutes before ingesting a carb or protein. Grapefruit, similar to lemons, is also alkalizing when ingested. Some people believe grapefruit to be a miracle fruit and I tend to support that group. Grapefruits have a very high water content and are highly alkalizing. Eat one first thing in the morning, and wait 15 minutes before eating a carbohydrate or protein (one or the other – do not mix). (The 15-minute suggestion is in accordance with proper food combining and allows your system to more easily digest. This recommendation applies to eating any fruit – fruit shouldn’t be combined with any other food type. Once eaten, wait 15 before consuming any other food type…ie: protein or carbohydrate).
Alkalizing Secret #7 – Eliminate consumption of red meat, pork, lamb…substitute chicken, turkey or fresh fish in small quantities. Red meats, pork and lamb are highly acidic a very low water content, not to mention being hard on the digestive system. If you must have meat, opt for chicken or turkey. Fresh wild fish is another excellent route to take.
Alkalizing Secret #8 - Reduce stress daily by adding yoga, tai chi, meditation, and proper breathing. An additional factor that adds to acidosis (acidic bodies) is stress. When the body moves into stress mode the digestive system shuts down and toxins cease to be eliminated. Thus the more toxins you keep in your system, the more the body will store them away (acids) in fat cells! Anything we can do to calm the mind/body will have a huge impact on alkalizing the body.
Alkalizing Secret #9 – Drink a top quality super green supplement. : Organic super greens are known to be some of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. They infuse the body with easily absorbed vitamins, minerals, amino acids chlorophyll, enzymes, phytonutients and alkaline salts that help neutralize acids in the blood and tissues.
Alkalizing Secret #10 – Minimize/Avoid…. processed and refined foods. That means anything made with white flour and white sugar or food coloring. Our bodies were not designed to digest these chemicals and so it must do one of three things: 1. Eliminate them (if you are not hydrating properly this is very hard to do) or 2. Neutralize them by pulling alkaline buffers where it can – like from your bones leaching calcium, or from your blood, leaching iron. Or: 3. Park them away (in fat cells). Bottom line here – stay away from processed food as much as possible.
In Summary: If you will start out by going down the list of tips and add one secret each day, there’s a tremendous possibility that you will be amazed with what you experience. Simply increasing the amount and type of water you drink can and often will be a HUGE shift in how you feel. Let me tell you – it only gets better! And remember…the name of the game is progress not perfection. Be gentle with yourself – for many people, these secrets represent a huge life change. I urge you to educate yourself on pH balance with the acid/alkaline dance.
Yoli Truth: Kids mimic parents’ diets from an early age
October 28, 2009
Disclaimer: Yoli products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
With Yoli about to take the beverage industry by storm, I wanted to share with you even more ways that we as parents can make a difference in the lives and wellbeing of our children. This study shows that as parents if we improve our own eating habits and the drinks we consume that our children will follow in our foot steps.
Sometimes the obvious has to be stated for it to sink in. For most people, I recommend just replacing the existing sodas and drinks that you are currently buying with Yoli’s Truth Citrus Health Blast. This will give you and the kids a better option without the need to spend more money on beverages. Also, if you drink coffee in the morning, try to replace that with Yoli. I found that I get similar energy levels that last much longer.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Parents who want their preschoolers to eat their vegetables may need to take a hard look at their own eating habits, new research suggests.
In a study of 120 young children who were allowed to “buy” food from a play grocery store, researchers found that even 2-year-olds tended to mirror their parents’ usual food choices.
Children who stocked up on sweets, sugary drinks and salty snacks generally had parents whose typical grocery list featured such items. Similarly, children with the healthiest shopping habits seemed to be following their parents’ lead as well.
The findings, reported in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, suggest that even very young children do not indiscriminately reach for candy when given the chance. Instead, they seem to already be forming food preferences — potentially lasting ones — based on their parents’ shopping carts.
“The data suggest that children begin to assimilate and mimic their parents’ food choices at a very young age, even before they are able to fully appreciate the implications of these choices,” write the researchers, led by Dr. Lisa A. Sutherland of Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
That, the researchers say, means that the grocery store can be like a classroom, where parents teach their children that foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains take priority over snacks and desserts.
For the study, Sutherland’s team had 120 children aged 2 to 6 years old each take a turn in a play grocery store. The children were told they could buy anything they wanted out of 133 items: “healthier” foods included fruits, vegetables, whole-grain cereals, bread and milk; “less healthy” items included desserts, candy, potato chips, soda and sugary cereals.
Parents completed questionnaires on how often they bought specific foods and beverages. All said they brought their children with them on grocery store trips.
Most of the children, the researchers found, bought some sugary, salty treats; on average, their carts were filled with equal parts healthy and unhealthy items.
However, 35 children bought significantly more healthy fare than junk food. In general, the study found, the health-consciousness of a child’s shopping cart mirrored that of her parents’ grocery list.
“Nutrition interventions for children most often begin with school-aged children,” Sutherland and her colleagues write. “This study suggests that preschool children are already forming food preferences and are attentive to food choices made by their parents.”
Giving preschoolers a taste for healthy foods, the researchers add, could ultimately make it easier for them to keep up a lifetime of smart eating.
My Yoli Reason Why…Detailed Video Exposes Why I Really Joined Yoli
October 23, 2009
Disclaimer: Yoli products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
I’ve been asked by a handful of people why I joined Yoli. It’s a great question and one that each of us needs to answer so we truly understand why we do the things we do in our lives.
I think that before you commit yourself to anything you need to truly understand your “Why”. Above is a detailed video that exposes why I decided after 6 years of being out of network marketing that I got back involved when I saw what Yoli was bringing to the table.
I hope that this video helps you better understand why I joined Yoli and I’m focused on helping others understand the Yoli Blast Cap technology and opportunity. I look forward to your feedback and hearing your Yoli “why”…
Yoli Truth: Advertising Watchdog says Vitamin Water claims are misleading…
October 7, 2009
Disclaimer: Yoli products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Publicity for vitamin-enriched water made by Coca-Cola fell flat with the advertising watchdog for “misleading” claims about its nutritional benefits.
Watchdog bans Vitamin Water adverts… Posters and a leaflet for Vitamin Water featured slogans such as “more muscles than brussels” and “keep perky when you’re feeling murky”.
An advert for the “power-c” drink said: “Popeye had it easy. A can of spinach and he bulked up … the nutrients in this bottle won’t enable you to walk on mud, or become a strapping sailor man, but they will help you beat your granny in an arm wrestle.”
Another read: “If you’ve had to use sick days because you’ve actually been sick, then you’re seriously missing out my friend. The trick is to stay perky and use sick days to just, erm, not go in.”
Complaints were made about the implications that the drinks were equivalent to vegetables and had health benefits such as raised energy levels and resistance to illness.
Two people also said that the adverts implied that the drinks were “healthy”, even though they contained 4.6 g of sugar per 100ml.
Coca-Cola insisted the advertising was “humorous and irreverent” and the reference to “brussels” referred to the nickname for action film star Jean Claude Van Damme aka “the Muscles from Brussels”, not sprouts.
The reference to staying “perky” meant mood rather than fighting illness, and consumers would not think that arm-wrestling their granny would need more energy.
But the Advertising Standards Authority upheld the objections.
The ASA also found that the drinks contained nearly a quarter of the recommended daily amount of sugar in 500ml but the publicity made it likely that consumers would think the products were “healthy”. The adverts must not be used again.
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