Thursday, June 26, 2008

Reliv and Soy Dangers - Is there Proof?

Hello Readers! - Below is a question I received from one of our readers. I thought that you all might like to read the question and answer.

I was wondering, have you ever found any research published that shows the ill effects of soy, excessive vitamin intake, or Reliv itself? I NEED resources to show my mother in law...the problem is I don't know where to look. If you have any information, especially some from resources that are non-partisan like doctors or research labs in universities, i'd really appreciate it.

My Response;

I have many articles on my Blog but I will give you the website that I got them from so you get find them easier.


For Soy - http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/index.htm

Soy is the easiest to prove that it's dangerous. You will find many articles at the link above. Also you can find some good articles at,

www.mercola.com

You will need to register at that one but they have some really good articles also. You will want to search for Soy and also you can do a search at the Mercola website for high dosage vitamins. I have found a few articles about this as well.

If you have anymore questions, let me know!

June 26, 2008 10:28 AM

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Shaking the Money Tree

Shaking the Money Tree

From Amway to Equinox, multilevel marketing schemes have won 7 million devotees on the promise of unlimited wealth and freedom. But when the numbers don't add up, distributors lose more than their dreams.

By Ami Chen Mills

MY EXPERIENCE with multilevel marketing began with Mark, the classified sales rep in a small newspaper office where I once worked. After an unremarkable stint at an ad desk, Mark announced that he had struck gold--and was leaving us to make a fortune in his own business.

He would work for the Boss Man no more, and we who stayed behind would regret our miserable lives when, in a few years, Mark* tore himself away from the country club to visit, and paid for lunch with a tiny fraction of his $50,000-a-month salary.

"You'll be sorry," he said on strolls to and from the taqueria for our usual low-budget burritos.

"You'll see." Mark was suffering from an acute case of Americandreamitis, the symptoms of which first surfaced, as he now tells it, at a recruiting meeting in Santa Cruz for Equinox distributors. For two months, the only language Mark could speak was the language of Equinox International, an ostensible environmental and health company which produces herbal supplements, water filters and other sucking and sifting gadgets to ward off air- and water-borne toxins. Yet the miraculous Equinox products were not the main event for Mark. Rather, Equinox and its executive progeny had convinced Mark that if he did not sign up to become an Equinox distributor right away, he would be squashed flat by the thundering steam train they call the Opportunity of a Lifetime.

When we coworkers learned that Mark had already maxed out two credit cards to fly to Equinox "training seminars" in Portland, Denver and Hawaii, when we learned Mark was preparing to take out a $5,000 loan to buy into the company as a "manager," we each decided to take our turn with Mark, to talk some sense into the boy.

My own conversation with Mark took place in the office after hours, and went something along the lines of, "So, are you sure you can make all that money? "

"Oh yeah, no problems." Mark looked at me askance, considering something, then retrieved a magazine from his desk. "Look at this," he said, flipping through pages filled with pictures of Equinox founder Bill Gouldd. (The extra "d" was added by Gouldd according the advice of a "spiritual adviser." Mark told me it stood for "dollars.") There was Bill Gouldd next to his sports car collection. There was Bill Gouldd at his expansive mansion on a hill. There was Bill Gouldd with a buxom blonde at his side. According to the magazine, there was no doubt that Bill Gouldd was making money.

My next approach was to question the fundamental premise of multilevel marketing, the sketchy business of selling not a product, but a dream. The conversation was making Mark uncomfortable. I saw a flash of panic in his eyes before they glazed over. Then he said this: "They told us there'd be ripe apples who are ready--who see it. They told us there'd be green apples that weren't ripe yet. And they told us there'd be rotten apples. ... You're a rotten apple," he said. There was an uncomfortable silence. I smiled thinly and suggested we both go home.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

The Business and The Products - My Experences

First of all, I would like to say that Reliv has good products and I know that many people have been helped by them. But there are some concerns that you need to consider before #1 Taking the Reliv products and #2 before joining the business.


I was a Reliv Master Affiliate for 2+ years and honestly I saw a lot of people who got results from the products but I also saw a lot of people make "claims" of things the products did for them but from the outside I knew were completely a lie. And I have seen Reliv destroy peoples lives.

When I joined Reliv I wanted to "help" people and it really turned me off to see everyone around me get so hung up on making money and the strictly against approach to selling the products cheaper. But this is what I did, I sold the products just above my cost until I was finally kicked out of the company. My upline was happy for a while as I was selling almost 10,000 dollars of products a month.

And then we started doing some research into Reliv and three things came to the surface, #1 Reliv is HIGH in Soy and if you do just a small amount of research on the Internet you will find that SOY is quickly becoming VERY dangerous due to the fact that is now one of the causes for Cancer and especially Breast Cancer in women. #2 Reliv products are very high in Calories and can cause you to gain weight. In a society today where the American public are already over weight, we don't need Reliv to help this happen. Not to mention all of the problems that come from gaining weight. #3 I gave Reliv to a close friend of mine in Europe and they took the product into the doctor during a regular visit. The Doctor HIGHLY suggested they not take the product as he explained that High Dose vitamins are not healthy for the body.

And then, about a year ago Reliv "reformulated" their Classic and NOW products and I have received many complaints from people after this happened and I am sure Reliv has too. Many have stopped feeling the results they once had and one person even told me it causes their daughter to go from getting better to getting worse.

So let me ask you, is Cancer and Gaining weight worth it?

After I was kicked out of the company, one of my clients switched to a new company. She had been using Reliv for a number of years but this new company is completely natural and she says she has never felt better. She has received wonderful results way more than she got from Reliv and the best part, it's all Fruits and Veggies, no soy in them. If you would like to know more, please check out my friends website. And no, I get nothing from this. :)

Dr. Organics - www.puredrorganics.com

And then, before taking Reliv, you need to consider the benefit but also the dangers of taking a Soybean based product.

http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/index.htm
http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/index.html

There are too many other products out there, like Life Force, Vibe, etc that offer a liquid form of nutrition and the body can absorb this a whole lot faster than the powder or pill forms of nutrition. But like I said, many of had wonderful results from Reliv and so you must decide. And maybe it's worth experimenting, try Reliv but also try the other products and see which is truely better for YOU.

Here are a number of sites that I would suggest products from. Try them see for yourself if the results are as good or better than Reliv.

  • Dr. Organics
  • Lifeforce
  • Eniva Vibe
  • Dr. Mercola


IF you do choose to continue using the Reliv products, I would highly recommend that you purchase them from eBay. This way you can still get the products but without having to deal with the MLM part of Reliv and you get the products at basically the 25 to 35 % discount level, depending on where you live and how much you paid for the products.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Help Get The Truth Out About Reliv

Hello Readers!

I just wanted to post this little note and ask if you have had any experience with Reliv Products or Business and have suffered in any way, please take a moment to share your stories with us. I hope that someone else might be saved from making a mistake.

Please don't send me your success stories as this is not the purpose of this blog.