How to Save Money and Do the Care 24-Day Challenge

Disclaimer: I’m not being paid to recommend any of the products listed in this post. I’ve taken all of
them myself, and many of my choices to take them were influenced by third-party testing from
companies such as Lab Door.
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a long time. I post about it on my social media feeds quite often,
and I usually get a decent response when I do, so I figured why not? If some of you who read this sell
multi-level marketing (MLM) dietary supplement products and are making a killing at it, good for you.
I’m not mad at your success. But I do have a bone to pick with the marketing tactics of these companies
as well as the value of what they’re selling. So I’m sorry in advance that I’m about to tell everyone why
they don’t need you…
I understand the MLM appeal. I really do. You went to a meeting where you were told you could make a
couple hundred grand a year by selling these amazing dietary supplements. All you need to do is recruit
your friends, family, complete strangers, and your neighbor’s dog to get under you in the pyramid (yes,
it’s a pyramid no matter how the recruiter tries to spin it) and you’re going to be living the good life in a
few short months. Sounds reasonable, right?
Let’s jump ahead with those few short months. You’ve contacted, and annoyed, every friend, family
member, and person you went to school with and haven’t seen in 10 years. A few of them signed up to
be on your “team”, but most of them have unfollowed you on Facebook after you posted about this
“great opportunity” 37 times a day for a month. “All you need to do is try this amazing 24-Day
Challenge,” you say, “and you’ll be sold for life on the magic. It’s only 200 bucks plus shipping. What do
you have to lose?!”
Why Fruit Loves to Make You Fat
A general assumption is that fructose means fruit and most of us don’t worry about getting too much
sugar from our fruits because we just don’t eat them very often. We may be getting an overload of
fructose without even being aware of it, though. An associate professor of clinical nutrition, says the
kinds of foods we eat, especially carbohydrates, influence fat synthesis and may have as big an effect on
a weight-loss diet as counting calories. Traces of sugar occur naturally in many proteins (it’s the reason
meats and pastries turn brown when cooked) but fruits and vegetables have the highest concentration
of naturally occurring fructose. To test her theory, Parks and her colleagues recruited six healthy people
for a three-part study using glucose and fructose-sweetened breakfast drinks.