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Wednesday May 22, 2013I am continuing my discussion of my I AM ENOUGH What's Beautiful Under Armour campaign. Most of you have read my last Wednesday post about being enough. Let's talk about American Idol & the winner, Candice Glover. Please look at the pictures below & I will continue my discussion under the pictures. So, if most of you have not guessed what I want to discuss yet - it is the new single cover of her song versus the actual pictures of her from the show & appearances after the show.YES, I know this is typical out there in media & advertising land. The problem with it is that this lady has an AMAZING SINGING VOICE!!! So winning Idol & having a voice like that is not good enough to put her real face on the cover of her new single with the IRONIC title of I AM BEAUTIFUL! They changed her looks!How many of you watched Idol & then saw this & thought the same thing I thought about the cover? Honestly, I have not liked Idol the past few seasons but the top 5 ladies were all wonderful singers this year. I did enjoy all 5! The guys were, well, shall I say, less than stellar. A couple good ones but they should have left it to all ladies this year. So many good ones got caught in their effort to put 1/2 guys & gals for the top contenders.ANYWAY, so, as you can see, Candice is black, not a lighter black but a darker black yet look at the cover of her new single ALONG WITH the shape of her face, the look of her nose, her weight.. all of it has been changed to meet mass appeal. OK, again, I get it BUT WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH of this crap! When is being great at something or even good at something going to be enough.We sure don't have to wonder why young girls have image, weight & being enough problems with all this going on out there! I know this is nothing new but again, I am so tired of the lip service & mixed messages of the media! If you go back to my Wednesday post, I even discussed Disordered Eating which we know many times comes from girls, boys, women, men never feeling ENOUGH due to the media craziness.If you watch Glee, there was also an episode on there when Amber Riley who plays Mercedes decides not to work with a record promoter because he wanted to change the look of her of the promotional materials to be more provocative & mass media appealing....I mean, it all adds up! Personally, I don't think I will ever see it change in my lifetime but I will continue to write about it!So as I wrote last Wednesday, at 55, I continue to try to get past my issues of What's Beautiful, if I am Enough & more. I know there are many that feel the same way.What are your thoughts on the above?Did you watch Idol & think the same thing as I did about the new album cover?Do you think it will ever change?I have to share this video of Ellen talking about the Abercrombie BS I posted on my FB page Monday - LOVE ELLEN!

Check out this Wired piece on cameras planted in a Java rainforest which caught a few beautiful and endangered leopards. I would like to see a greater effort made to get many DNA samples of these leopards and other endangered species. As they shrink in numbers valuable genetic diversity is lost. The information we could get from many DNA samples would allow eventual identification of harmful mutations that will make it difficult for smaller populations to survive. It seems unlikely most endangered will survive in the wild. But perhaps in some future century they could be reintroduced if human population sizes ever go down....

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I met Nancy on Dr. Fuhrman’s Member Center this past year, and she’s now a totally different person than she was just nine months ago. Her enthusiasm for living life to the fullest is contagious! However, just last summer she felt like she had no life. It’s amazing what nine months of nutritarian eating can do to a person! Welcome to Disease Proof, Nancy. What was your life like before discovering Dr. Fuhrman’s nutritarian approach? What life?? I had no life! I barely left the house, and I had removed myself from all social functions, because I was just too ashamed of the way I looked and felt. I felt physically uncomfortable all the time; whether I was sitting in a chair, or the car, or lying in bed, my body felt awful. My feet would hurt even if I walked just a little bit. I ached from head to toe, and I was exhausted most of the time and had very little energy to do normal every day tasks. My life was on hold. I'm not even sure how much I weighed, because I didn't have the courage to actually get on the scales when I started following Eat to Live. I waited about a week before I actually weighed myself, and I was 195.5 lbs, so I'm pretty sure I was close to 200 lbs when I started . . . and I’m only 5'2"! Prior to starting Eat to Live my weight had gone up and down most of my adult life. I was a typical yo-yo dieter; never able to maintain an optimal weight because every "diet" always came to an end. I needed an absolute, complete lifestyle change; a way of living, not some diet fad that would be tossed aside once I reached my goal weight. How did you find out about it? I’d decided to start a healthy diet in July 2012, but I knew that I needed something different than what I’d tried in the past. Previously, I had gone vegan in an attempt to regain health and reduce my weight, but that never lasted longer than a few weeks at a time. I instinctively felt that I didn’t have a complete picture of truly healthy eating. I searched online for some help and stumbled across Dr. Fuhrman's website. I devoured everything I could and purchased the books Eat to Live and Eat for Health. The knowledge I gained from reading those books, and joining the member center, was invaluable and were the missing pieces for me. How do you feel now? My life has totally changed! I’ve lost 75.5 pounds and reached my goal of 120 pounds in just nine months. I weigh less than I did in high school, and I feel absolutely wonderful! Aches and pains are gone, energy has greatly increased, and my social life is back to normal. I have a completely new wardrobe and feel good in my skin now. This is not just about vanity; it is so much more than that. I can sit on the floor and play with my grandkids and not even know I have a body. I’m at peace with the knowledge that I’m doing what's best for my health, and I feel free! What are your success tips? I dove into the program 100% and did not deviate from it. I followed everything to the letter, and I was determined that this would be the way I would eat for the rest of my life. I completely changed my relationship with food. Initially, I stayed away from restaurants (too much temptation), and if I did eat out, I brought my own dressings with me. I participated in Dr. Fuhrman’s Member Center which helped me tremendously! Reading about others’ successes and failures in the discussion forums has been extremely helpful. There were times that I needed a kick in the pants to help get me out of temptation and reading the remorse that others felt when they had "fallen off the wagon" was the impetus I needed to keep going. And of course, reading about others who had been successful convinced me that this can be done. Receiving encouragement from the Member Center is a tool which will be useful indefinitely. I am now acutely aware that one food indiscre

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