The Magical Goji Berry

Goji berries are at the top of the super foods list. The Chinese have associated these delicious berries with good health, vitality and longevity for thousands of years and modern medicine has substantiated many of their health benefits. Here are some facts that you should know about goji berries and their leaves. Protein: Goji berries are one of a handful of plant based foods that provide all of the building blocks for the essential proteins that the body cannot make for itself. Meats contain all of these essential amino acids but the vast majority of vegetables do not. Eye health: Goji berries are rich in zeaxanthin, the pigment that gives the berry its reddish color. People who consume goji berries have a lower incidence of age related macular degeneration. Interestingly, the leaves of goji berries, from which goji berry green leaf tea is made, have all of the healthful ingredients present in the berry itself, except for Zeaxanthin. That's why I add dried goji berries to the tea I market when they are available. Longevity and anti-aging properties: The Chinese have long associated the goji berry with longevity. Modern research has revealed that certain oils in the goji berry, called sesquiterpinoids, increase the production of human growth hormone, the only compound that has been proven to produce an ant-aging effect in humans. As we age our production of growth hormone decreases, by consuming goji berries you can compensate, at least in part, for this natural age induced decrease in this important ant-aging hormone. Heart disease: The consumption of goji berries increases the level of the superoxide dismutase in the body. This enzyme prevents the oxidation of cholesterol. In its oxidized form. Cholesterol contributes to heart disease; thus, by eating goji berries, or by drinking goji berry green leaf tea, you can lower your risk of heart disease. Immune system: Goji berries contain three compounds that will boost your immune system. Beta carotene stimulates the thymus gland; germanium protects against certain types of cancer; and the polysaccharides in the berries improve the overall function of the immune system. Antioxidants: Antioxidants neutralize the free radicals in our bodies which cause mutations in our DNA. The DNA mutations cause cell damage, aging and even cancer. Goji berries contain ant-oxidants, including vitamin c, zinc and copper, which protect our DNA from the harmful effects of these free-radicals. In fact, Goji berries contain more antioxidants than any other fruit or vegetable, including red grapes, strawberries and broccoli. This is the primary reason the goji berry is called a super fruit. Auto immune disorders: One in five of us suffer from an auto immune disorder in which the immune system attacks our own healthy cells rather than the bacteria and viruses that invade our bodies. The polysaccharides contained in goji berries provide specialized sugars that help our immune system distinguish between normal and abnormal invading cells. Finally, goji berries are rich in minerals. Some, called trace elements (copper, zinc, magnesium, phosphorous, germanium and selenium) are needed only in tiny amounts; others like iron and calcium are needed in larger amounts. The goji berry and their leaves supplies all of them. So why do you have to buy dried goji berries, which are mostly produced in China under very questionable agricultural conditions. The answer is quite simple, goji berries are extremely perishable and begin to deteriorate the minute they are removed from the vine. Basically, they turn to mush a few hours after they are picked. I am presently experimenting with ways to preserve goji berries so that they can be marketed fresh. Fortunately, except for zeaxanthin, the compound that gives the goji berry its reddish color, all of the beneficial compounds found in the goji berry also are present in their dried leaves from which I produce our goji berry green leaf tea. When available, I also add dried goji berries to the tea so that you can receive all of the beneficial effects of this magical berry when consuming our delicious green leaf tea. People on blood thinners like warfarin should not eat goji berries, otherwise they are safe for anyone to consume.

A manager's guide to employee selection

A manager's guide to employee selection Whether board members of a large corporation are charged with selecting a new fortune 500 CEO or the manager of a small restaurant is in the process of hiring a new busboy the challenges involved in the selection process are similar, if not identical. Yes, from a financial standpoint, there is much more at stake when the board member's select a new corporate leader whose decisions can make or break the company. But a poor decision by the owner of the small restaurant in hiring a busboy can also wreak havoc with his operation and possibly put him out of business. In either case, regardless of the situation, good managers have the same goal- to hire the best person possible for the position they are attempting to fill. Some of the superficial qualities of a prospective hire will be obvious. A door man should be friendly, polite and not have bad-breath but how does one chose, as is most often the case, between two candidates who seem to be friendly, polite and both seemingly brush their teeth. Similarly, most candidates for the position of executive secretary will be comely, well dressed middle aged people with years of secretarial experience. How exactly do you choose the best candidate? In the selection of an executive secretary, and to a lesser extent the busboy, references, first impressions and projected compatibility with the boss undoubtedly will play a factor in the decision to hire or to reject the candidate. It is my contention that, by far and away, the most important qualification a prospective employee can bring to the table is intelligence or, if you will, IQ. All prospective CEOs vary in IQ and the board's job is to chose the smartest candidate from the list of applicants. Similarly, the IQ's of busboys vary greatly and, all other things being relatively equal, it behooves the restaurant manager to pick the smartest one available to work in his establishment. Why, because a smart busboy will outperform a less intelligent one every minute of the hour; every hour of the day; and every day of the week. It’s really as simple as that!

Why Clinton lost the election

Hillary Clinton did not lose the election because she was a congenital liar and "crookeder" than a dog's hind leg. No, this scum bag lost the election because she was a member of the Obama administration, it's as simple as that! Most people living in flyover country detest Obama and almost everything he stands for. They concluded that eight years of his liberal incompetence was enough and took it out on Clinton at the poles. This thrashing was unforeseen by almost all of us, but not surprising considering the Obama's record of executive failures. This also, by the way, is the end of the "pay for play" Clinton foundation. Here are a few of administrative blunders that resulted in Clinton going down in flames. Leading the list of fiascoes, of course, was Obama's infamous "affordable care act" which did not provide affordable care to anyone who worked for a living. The average guy on the street has not forgotten Obama's claim that his health care plan would allow us to keep our present insurance plan and keep our doctor is we chose to do so. The average Joe also has not forgotten that this disastrous health care initiative was passed without a single republican vote in the senate, not a single one! Clinton paid a high price for supporting this ruinous piece of legislation. Close behind his deplorable "affordable care act" was Obama's endless list of executive orders, none of which had the support of a majority in congress or the average guy on the street. Basically Obama became our first imperial president and acted as if he was a dictator in some third world country like Cuba or Venezuela. The result was an economy that hasn't grown more than one or two percent a year for the past eight years. The numb sculls in the white house incessantly rave about the low unemployment rate. The average guy on the street, who voted for Trump, knows that this is a fictitiously low number which ignores the 93,000,000 people who have given up looking for work and includes those who are working part time but would rather have full time employment. In truth, for most of the working class, the economy is a disaster which has provided stagnant wages, fewer job opportunities and little hope for improvement in the future. Most people also resent greatly what has happened to America on the world stage. They begrudge Obama's tendency to bow to the kings of third world dictatorships and the fact that most of the world's leaders now have little or no respect for America or its bumbling president. In truth, Obama is a laughing stock on the world stage and everyone knows it. Do you really think Putin gives a damn what Obama thinks? More importantly, Putin knows what he will do, which is nothing! The average guy on the street knows that Obama's foreign policies have been an abject failure and, if it were not for the fact that he is a black man, he would have been tarred and feathered and rode out of town on a rail long ago. Most of us know that we must have a strong military for us, and the rest of the free world, to survive in today's world. Obama doesn't! Our military is now is worse shape than it has been since the start of the second world war. Because of our military weakness and the general impression that our feckless president does not have the balls to use military force of any kind we now pay multi-million dollar bribes to countries like Iran to free innocent civilians who they have taken hostage. A fearless leader Obama is not, a coward he is and everyone knows it, including, most importantly, our enemies in the Islamic world. Finally, most people cringe at the fact Obama throws a baseball like a girl and spends more time on the golf course than he does in the oval office. You will note that he never is filmed swinging a golf club, that must be quite a sight, don't you think? So, crooked Hillary did not lose the election. No, the liberal idiots in the demoratic party, lead by the most incompetent president in American history, are primarily responsible for her defeat and nothing could have saved her from the drubbing she received in the 2016 presidential election.

I never thought I would live to see this day, never!

When I went to bed last night I thought all was lost. I could not contemplate waking up this morning to find that, not only did conservatives and anti-Clinton democrats win the presidency, but also both houses of congress. Unbelievable! More importantly, this also means that at least one constitutionalist will be appointed to the supreme court, with any luck, two or three. This will change the way the court rules, and the country is governed, for three or four generation! How did this happen? It's really quite simple. The blacks did not suddenly wake up to the fact that they were they have been getting screwed by the demorats for the past 150 years. No, the vast majority of blacks voted, as they always do, for the lying crooked Hillary Clinton and the rest on the liberal self serving simpletons running for public office. Similarly, Americans and illegal's of Mexicans heritage did not suddenly wake up to the fact that they were getting the shaft by the constant flow of South American illegal's who cross the borders by the thousands each and every day to take their jobs and lower their standard of living. No, the Mexican population continued to vote for the demorats as they always do. What happened was more basic and deep rooted. The average American, especially those living in flyover country, was sick and tired of way things worked in Washington. They were fed up with the corruption of the politicos on both sides of the isle and they decided to elect a president with no political ties to either political party, in the hopes that he might actually build the damned wall, strengthen our military and, most importantly, bring jobs back to America and put our citizens back to work. It's just as simple as that. Whether Trump will fulfill these promises remains to be seen, but he has the opportunity to do so and, by so doing, become the most significant president in the past 150 years, maybe the most significant political leader since George Washington.