Los economistas lamentan el Periodismo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJjd7BE1O4dMc8K6L-C0jHVuM7SbvSmUDC9RhP34rHddv1LhNhUwd7ffsDOF-1U7XXvZN4MzYcFfTJKsgBcA1XKrVCqG6IUnttMlYY1cljCTn_LD6RlD_m2hARMbJl5oVneO9f_JZIaY/s1600/EconomistOrPropagandist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJjd7BE1O4dMc8K6L-C0jHVuM7SbvSmUDC9RhP34rHddv1LhNhUwd7ffsDOF-1U7XXvZN4MzYcFfTJKsgBcA1XKrVCqG6IUnttMlYY1cljCTn_LD6RlD_m2hARMbJl5oVneO9f_JZIaY/s400/EconomistOrPropagandist.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b>Spanish Version of original article posted on 28 Dec 2011</b><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">EL CASTIGO A ARGENTINA</span></b><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Leyendo  "The Economist"  se debe creer que sus artículos son de alta calidad y objetividad. Desafortunadamente este no es el caso cuando se trata de temas relacionados con la Argentina. Durante años, "The Economist" ha hecho un hábito de llevar a cabo "ataques a la Argentina". Cada artículo sobre la Argentina es negativo, carece de objetividad y distorsiona los hechos.<br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Mirando más de cerca a la verdadera agenda  de "The Economist", se hace evidente que sigue una causa política, influenciado y dirigido por poderosas entidades políticas que están descontentos con la política argentina y el éxito económico posterior desafiando las doctrinas económicas internacionales. Esto claramente molesta a las cupulas poderosas, ya que pone en peligro sus agendas geopolíticas y económicas de la región.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><br />Debido a su estancamiento de la economía del Reino Unido está desesperado por aventurarse en "nuevos territorios", por lo que la disputa en  curso con Argentina, tema : Malvinas (Falkland) y las posibilidades de las grandes petroleras y los hallazgos de gas alrededor de las islas en disputa, así como tener un pie en la puerta a la Antártida, una vez que las exploraciones de los recursos naturales está a punto de comenzar. Así, la causa se hace evidente por qué los medios de comunicación corporativos, como la cobertura de "The Economist" manipulan opiniones y rechazan noticias imparciales.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><br />"The Economist" es la voz de influyentes entidades Anglo American, por lo que sus artículos se centran en temas de libre mercado y el único negocio en el contexto más amplio de las potencias occidentales militar y económica. La necesidad de control del Estado en todos los asuntos, y la regulación especial, es un fundamento de cualquier comentario Economist. Esto se debe a ciertos poderosos eco - entidades políticas desean el crecimiento de los Estados-nación y la democracia reglamentarias a fin de sentar las bases para alcanzar hasta una solución eco-política de control.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><br />El artículo más reciente de “The Economist” referido a la Argentina es un ejemplo perfecto de la predisposición de la revista   cuando se trata de temas relacionados con Argentina. (Observaciones sobre el artículo se han escrito en azul debajo de cada párrafo.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">El 17 de diciembre de 2011 la revista The Economist escribió:<br /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">El presidente de Argentina<br />Cristina se prepara para desafiar la gravedad</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><br />El presidente comienza su segundo mandato frente a una desaceleración de la economía. Ella va a cumplir con una mezcla de retórica, control y austeridad</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">El título</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">en sí mismo</span> <span class="hps">es la hipocresía</span> <span class="hps">en su mejor momento</span>. <span class="hps">¿Cómo puede el</span> <span class="hps">economista</span> <span class="hps">saber cómo  el Gobierno</span> <span class="hps">argentino</span> actuará <span class="hps">frente a</span> <span class="hps">la desaceleración</span> <span class="hps">económica</span> <span class="hps">alegada</span>?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Debe su</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">aplastante victoria</span> <span class="hps">en las elecciones presidenciales</span> <span class="hps">en octubre a</span> <span class="hps">un crecimiento vigoroso</span> <span class="hps">de la economía y</span> <span class="hps">la simpatía del público</span> <span class="hps">por la muerte</span> <span class="hps">repentina</span> <span class="hps">el año pasado</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">su esposo y antecesor</span>, <span class="hps">Néstor</span> <span class="hps">Kirchner</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Alegando que el presidente debe su victoria a la simpatía del público por la muerte de su marido muestra cómo el artículo carece de objetividad y deliberadamente intenta manipular opiniones. ¿Podría ser que la abrumadora victoria fue porque el gobierno inició un programa de asistencia social que beneficiaron a la clase de trabajadores pobres en todo el país? Naturalmente, tales hechos no son dignos de mención para el economista, porque altera su eco - doctrina geopolítica!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cristina</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">Fernández</span> <span class="hps">inauguró su</span> <span class="hps">segundo mandato como presidente</span> <span class="hps">el 10 de diciembre</span> <span class="hps">aún</span> <span class="hps">vestido de negro y</span> <span class="hps">glorificando</span> <span class="hps">el nombre de</span> <span class="hps">su marido</span> <span class="hps">casi como</span> <span class="hps">una deidad</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Para una revista de noticias de renombre, como The Economist dice ser, centrarse en qué y por qué el presidente está usando luto parece patético y muestra sólo la forma en que la revista es prejuiciosa. El periodismo profesional y objetivo no tiene que centrarse en banalidades, aunque la revista no sea partidaria del gobierno o del país.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Su mensaje fue</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">triunfalista</span>. <span class="hps">Contrastando</span> <span class="hps">Argentina</span> <span class="hps">con Europa y</span> <span class="hps">los Estados Unidos</span>, ella <span class="hps">cacareó</span>: <span class="hps">"</span>Ellos gobiernan <span class="hps">con</span> <span class="hps">los objetivos de crecimiento</span> <span class="hps">para el sector financiero</span>...<span class="hps"> y nosotros</span> <span class="hps">gobernamos con</span> <span class="hps">los objetivos de crecimiento</span> <span class="hps">para el trabajo y</span> <span class="hps">el empleo".</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Tiene que ser un trago amargo para la élite poderosa finaciera Anglo Americana, de lo contrario el economista faltaría el respeto con una terminología como "cacareó". Esto demuestra que el periodismo objetivo no es un bastión de la revista! Es evidente que los objetivos de crecimiento para el trabajo y el empleo no están en el interés de los medios de comunicación social de la que el economista, obviamente, es parte!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Esas palabras pueden volver a perseguirla.La Sra. Fernández está comenzando su segundo mandato en circunstancias muy diferentes de la parte primera, allá en 2007. El crecimiento frenético de la Argentina se construyó sobre una moneda débil (un legado del default y la devaluación en 2002), la demanda mundial en auge por sus productos agrícolas, el fuerte crecimiento en el vecino Brasil, y un enorme aumento del gasto público. Los vientos de cola han desaparecido, o corren el riesgo de hacerlo. Los precios mundiales de los productos ya no están en aumento. La economía de Brasil se ha estancado. Después de años de alta inflación en el país el peso ya no es débil, y los subsidios extravagantes significa que hay pocas posibilidades o ninguna de estímulo fiscal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Hace unos 4 años el economista también predijo que el gobierno se enfrentaba a dificultades debido a la disminución de la demanda de productos agrícolas. El documento también critica al gobierno por no reducir los subsidios, ahora que el gobierno implementó recortes de subsidios, el economista ha iniciado una encuesta en línea, el cuestionamiento del gobierno argentino, y la aplicación de los recortes de subsidios, por considerar que no se apliquen adecuadamente !!!!! No hace falta decir que The Economist publicó un artículo sobre la causa de los sujetos, antes de la encuesta! Periodismo manipulador diría!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">El gobierno sigue negando que la inflación sea un problema. Durante años jugueteó los números: oficialmente, la inflación está por debajo del 10%, pero economistas independientes lo puso más cerca de un 25%, a pesar de que muchos de las tarifas de energía y de transporte público han sido congeladas. Sra. Fernández admitió que Argentina tiene un "problema de competitividad". Pero la solución del gobierno parece ser una retirada hacia el mercantilismo, sobrio con toques de realismo.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">El tema de</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">la inflación</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">Argentina</span> <span class="hps">es sin duda</span> <span class="hps">un tema que</span> <span class="hps">debe abordarse</span>, pero “The Economist”  <span class="hps">se olvida de mirar</span> <span class="hps">en su</span> <span class="hps">propia</span> <span class="hps">puertas</span>, donde la inflación se cita como  <span class="hps">en el 5,4%</span>, <span class="hps">según la Oficina</span> <span class="hps">Nacional</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">Estadísticas</span> <span class="hps">!!!!,</span> <span class="hps">por lo</span> <span class="hps">probablemente</span> <span class="hps">hay que añadir</span> <span class="hps">un  pequeño %</span> <span class="hps">a la cifra</span> <span class="hps">así</span>. <span class="hps">actual de la deuda</span> <span class="hps">pública</span> actual de <span class="hps">Argentina</span> <span class="hps">como porcentaje del PIB</span> <span class="hps">es igual a</span> <span class="hps">41,53</span>% en comparación con <span class="hps">la del Reino Unido</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">83,70</span>%. <span class="hps">La deuda externa</span> <span class="hps">como porcentaje del PIB</span>: <span class="hps">ARG</span> <span class="hps">36.75</span>% frente a <span class="hps">la del Reino Unido</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">472,92</span>%. <span class="hps">Fuente:</span> <span class="hps">(</span>http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html <span class="hps">#)</span><br /><span class="hps">Este año, la</span> <span class="hps">carga de la deuda</span> <span class="hps">UKs</span> <span class="hps">crecerá</span> <span class="hps">por</span> <span class="hps">£ 167 900 000 000</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">En</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">noviembre, funcionarios</span> <span class="hps">anunciaron</span> <span class="hps">tímidos pasos</span> <span class="hps">para reducir los subsidios</span> <span class="hps">que</span> <span class="hps">ascienden</span> <span class="hps">al 4,2%</span> <span class="hps">del PIB.</span> <span class="hps">Algunas grandes empresas</span>, junto con <span class="hps">los hogares más ricos</span>, <span class="hps">tienen que pagar ahora</span> <span class="hps">más cerca del</span> <span class="hps">verdadero costo</span> <span class="hps">de la energía</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Suposición anterior</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">no</span> <span class="hps">refleja con claridad</span> <span class="hps">toda la verdad</span>. <span class="hps">Bajo y Medio</span> <span class="hps">hogares de clase</span> <span class="hps">no</span> <span class="hps">se ven afectados por</span> <span class="hps">los recortes de subsidios</span>. <span class="hps">Las pequeñas empresas</span> <span class="hps">vieron</span> <span class="hps">un aumento mínimo en</span> <span class="hps">sus cuentas de electricidad</span>, <span class="hps">no</span> <span class="hps">afecta</span> <span class="hps">su presupuesto</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Aún así, para equilibrar sus cuentas, el gobierno tendrá que recurrir a los mercados de dinero durante el año 2012, cree que Miguel Kiguel de Econviews, una empresa de consultoría. Una señal de que está preparando el camino es el nombramiento de Fernández de Hernán Lorenzino, que es respetado en los mercados financieros, como el Ministro de economía, estos pasos se han visto ensombrecidos por un endurecimiento de los controles para frenar la fuga de capitales. En octubre, el gobierno ordenó a las empresas mineras y de energía repatriar todos sus dólares de exportación y a los ciudadanos justificar la compra de cada moneda extranjera. Los inspectores fiscales fueron puestos en las oficinas de cambio de divisas.<br />Guillermo Moreno, el secretario de matones para el comercio interno, que ha perseguido a los economistas independientes de sus estimaciones de inflación, se ha puesto en carga total del comercio exterior también. Algunos importadores ya han sido obligados a convertirse en exportadores y si quieren hacerse con dólares.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">El tema de la</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">fuga de capitales</span> <span class="hps">no es un fenómeno</span> <span class="hps">argentino</span> <span class="hps">entero,</span> <span class="hps">y ocurre en</span> <span class="hps">muchas partes del</span> <span class="hps">mundo, como</span> <span class="hps">es el proteccionismo</span>. <span class="hps">Periodismo objetivo</span> <span class="hps">sería</span> <span class="hps">tratar de utilizar</span> <span class="hps">expresiones</span> <span class="hps">neutrales</span> <span class="hps">y no de "</span>matones", <span class="hps">al comentar</span> <span class="hps">en una</span> <span class="hps">figura pública</span>, <span class="hps">no importa cuánto</span> <span class="hps">uno</span> <span class="hps">está en desacuerdo con</span> <span class="hps">las obras de la</span> <span class="hps">persona</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">El menor crecimiento</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"> <span class="hps">probablemente</span> <span class="hps">se puede vender a</span> <span class="hps">los argentinos</span>, siempre que <span class="hps">otros países están haciendo</span> <span class="hps">peor.</span> <span class="hps">La oposición</span> <span class="hps">es débil</span>, dividido o <span class="hps">cooptados.</span> <span class="hps">Sin embargo,</span> <span class="hps">la austeridad,</span> <span class="hps">si llega,</span> <span class="hps">será necesario</span> que <span class="hps">la Sra.</span> <span class="hps">Fernández</span> <span class="hps"> ajuste</span> <span class="hps">sus</span> <span class="hps">alianzas políticas</span>. <span class="hps">Los sindicatos</span> <span class="hps">han</span> <span class="hps">advertido</span> <span class="hps">que las demandas de</span> <span class="hps">aumentos salariales</span> <span class="hps">grandes</span> <span class="hps">serán recibidos por</span> <span class="hps">los bordillos</span> <span class="hps">en el</span> <span class="hps">derecho de huelga.</span> <span class="hps">Sra.</span> <span class="hps">Fernández</span> <span class="hps">recordó a</span> <span class="hps">las empresas privadas</span> <span class="hps">que</span> <span class="hps">han hecho muy bien</span> <span class="hps">en los últimos años</span>, <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">les advirtió de no</span> <span class="hps">"escupir</span> <span class="hps">al cielo</span>". <span class="hps">Habiendo recuperado</span> <span class="hps">la mayoría parlamentaria</span> <span class="hps">en las elecciones</span>, <span class="hps">el gobierno está</span> <span class="hps">empujando a través de</span> <span class="hps">una medida</span> <span class="hps">para regular el</span> <span class="hps">papel de periódico,</span> <span class="hps">que despierta</span> <span class="hps">temores</span> <span class="hps">en los periódicos que</span> <span class="hps">han sido críticos</span> <span class="hps">de los Kirchner.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Economist</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">, al parecer, <span class="hps">es también el</span> <span class="hps">portavoz de</span> <span class="hps">la oposición</span> <span class="hps">política argentina</span>, así como <span class="hps">algunos medios de comunicación</span>, ya que <span class="hps">arremete en</span> <span class="hps">todas las direcciones posibles</span>. <span class="hps">Si el artículo</span> <span class="hps">se hubiera escrito</span> <span class="hps">de una manera</span> <span class="hps">imparcial y objetiva</span>, el periodista <span class="hps">tendría</span> <span class="hps">el informe de la</span> <span class="hps">verdadera razón detrás de</span> <span class="hps">las medidas</span> <span class="hps">reglamentarias relativas a</span> <span class="hps">proyecto de ley</span> <span class="hps">de medios.</span> <span class="hps">Se</span> <span class="hps">deja de mencionar que</span> <span class="hps">el Grupo Clarín</span>, junto <span class="hps">con La Nación</span>, <span class="hps">celebran una</span> <span class="hps">gran mayoría</span> <span class="hps">sobre</span> <span class="hps">"</span>Papel Prensa". <span class="hps">Además, el</span> <span class="hps">"</span>Grupo <span class="hps">Clarín</span>" <span class="hps">es dueño de una</span> <span class="hps">TV</span> <span class="hps">de gran alcance</span> <span class="hps">y el imperio</span> <span class="hps">de Internet, que</span> <span class="hps">da</span> <span class="hps">al grupo un</span> <span class="hps">cuasi</span> <span class="hps">monopolio de los medios</span> <span class="hps">en el país.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">En 2008, cuando la producción de Argentina se redujo brevemente, el gobierno equilibro sus libros por la nacionalización de las pensiones privadas. ¿Qué podría tomar? Los objetivos potenciales son ni tan fácil ni tan rico. El riesgo ahora es que la inflación y un aumento de déficit en cuenta corriente disparará una carrera para comprar dólares y una espiral de devaluación y que los precios suban como en la década de 1970 y 80. El gobierno de Fernández  tendrá la esperanza de que sus controles puede evitar que fuera, al menos hasta que nuevos descubrimientos de petróleo de esquisto y de gas pueden ser desarrollados. Pero de una manera u otra, las cosas probablemente se pondrán más ásperos en la Argentina.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Conclusión:</span><br /><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><br />En pocas palabras se podría llamar la visión de “The Economist”  desesperada "proyeccionismo" e ilusiones (malo). Demanda de materias primas agrícolas, muy probablemente será algo menor que en el pasado reciente, pero de nuevo hay que tener en cuenta que el mundo necesita ser alimentado, por lo tanto la necesidad de los productos agrícolas no cesará, con lo que Argentina, cuenta con un activo valioso para el suministro mundial de alimentos y esto es exactamente por qué el economista y político mundial eco-entidades de poder están dispuestos a representar a la Argentina como una muestra de malas medidas económicas, en la Argentina ha desafiado el sistema monetario internacional y aún así le sucedió en "eco-económico" prevalecer en medio de la actual eco - turbulencias financieras, por lo tanto los medios corporativos como The Economist no perderá la oportunidad de retratar a la Argentina en forma negativa. En su último párrafo, el economista reveló su verdadera causa, es decir, lo que he afirmado muchas veces, los intereses del Reino Unido en los recursos naturales Conos Sur!<br />Argentina, la tierra de los productos básicos agrícolas, grandes extensiones de tierras fértiles, recursos de agua dulce (el producto del futuro) y el aceite y los resultados posibles de gas en el sur son el motivo por el Reino Unido y otras entidades (FMI, Banco Mundial, etc ) están desesperados por ganar influencia política ecológica en la región con el fin de imponer a Argentina sus doctrinas políticas ecológicas y, posteriormente, obtener de los países los recursos naturales.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Aquí hay algunos comentarios de lectores sobre el artículo anterior:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><br />Si es que hay elementos de este artículo que apuntan a legitimar macroeconómica Argentina se refiere a las caras, vale la pena mirar hacia atrás en la cobertura de la revista The Economist en los últimos 8 años. Esta publicación ha preanunciado el fin del mundo en el país más o menos desde 2004. ¿Por qué? El país no sigue las recetas de austeridad y la financiarización de que The Economist ha estado recomendando desde hace años, cuyos resultados están a la vista en Europa y los EE.UU. de hoy. Francamente, toda la visión del mundo de esta revista ha sido tan profundamente desacreditado que me sorprende que nadie se lo toma en serio, particularmente aquellos con inversiones globales.<br />De acuerdo, las personas que pagan por esta revista no parecen ser demasiado inteligentes. La base de clientes objetivo de los economistas son aspirantes IQ100 +.<br />Si equiparamos el crecimiento total de la Argentina en los últimos 8 años frente al crecimiento esperado economista, entonces esta revista debe responder por una diferencia de 70%.<br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">La gente de The Economist, si te equivocas una vez que está bien,<br />dos veces ... tal vez,<br />tres veces .. espera un minuto<br />4 veces .. tal vez debería revisar su metodología<br />5 veces ... que nos mienten y lo saben<br />6 veces ... usted sabe que está mintiendo y lo hace porque tiene una agenda<br />7 veces ... que tienen una agenda y que se les paga para hacer mentir a pesar de todo la vergüenza.<br />8 veces ... todo lo anterior además de que no tienen un gran respeto por sus lectores.<br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">The Economist no tiene una explicación para el éxito de la Argentina, por lo que The Economist niega el éxito argentino.<br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Tal vez las personas que trabajan para esta revista deben ver cosas como esta<br />http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html #<br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">O mejor aún, ver la siguiente: http://www.debtbombshell.com/<br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Lo que usted dice es absolutamente cierto. Sin embargo, las empresas, personas y países no dejan de pagar la deuda como un capricho. o como política. Es el resultado de intentar todo lo posible para evitarlo hasta que no haya otra salida. Otro método de control por omisión o por defecto es devaluar la moneda de su país en una escala masiva, como lo hizo el Reino Unido a finales de 1950 y principios de 1940 cuando Argentina debía por lo menos $ 2 mil millones de USD. Por supuesto que no lo hizo para ajustar un “tornillo de Argentina", pero el hecho es que debe haber intentado todo lo posible para evitar la quiebra, y por desgracia en el mundo de la economía, son pocos los países que han evitado la cesación de pagos o quiebra, pero en un costo tan grande que puede haber sido más barato que hacerlo - como American Airlines la semana pasada. La economía del Reino Unido está vivo sólo de nombre, debido a la industria bancaria que atrae a los depositantes de todo el mundo. Casi todos venden bien allí se hace en China, y su déficit por cuenta corriente está cubierto sólo por el endeudamiento masivo, que un día tienen que ser reembolsados. Es sólo cuestión de tiempo antes de que el Reino Unido y los EE.UU. tendrán que admitir que con el desempleo masivo, la industria disminuyó, y los beneficios de no productivos comercio especulativo no será suficiente para sostener sus economías en el largo plazo. Doy el Reino Unido 5 años como máximo antes de la próxima crisis los golpea como el actual en los EE.UU..</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Los economistas lamentan el Periodismo

Spanish Version of original article posted on 28 Dec 2011 EL CASTIGO A ARGENTINA   Leyendo  "The Economist"  se debe creer que sus...

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Take a look at the Edublogs Awards winners 2011

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I always look forward in anticipation to the Edublogs Awards every year to see their choice of best blogs, wikis, podcasts, webinar series, social networks, Web tools, individual tweeters  and group twitter hashtags. Initially potential winners from the categories are nominated, and then everyone votes. This is a big affair!<br /><br />Took a look at the winners from around the world.  It is a great way of keeping in touch with what is happening on the social networking scene.   (By the way, with reference to blogs, for your blog to be nominated for the Edublogs Awards it can be part of any platform and not necessarily an Edublogs' blog).<br /><br />I am embedding the winners document below so that you can see the categories, but please visit the actual Google Doc mentioned under <b>a)</b>, or visit the Edublogs Awards site mentioned under<b> b)</b> so that you can actually visit the various links. They are fantastic!<br /><br /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="400" src="http://www.box.com/embed/b0dtf82gkabxof2.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="466" wmode="opaque"></embed><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>a) Their embedded Google Doc:</b></span><br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AlhMhHCqHvgvdERrVTVpZ1NhNmF2b2xvUm1UTFM1Z2c&single=true&gid=0&output=html">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AlhMhHCqHvgvdERrVTVpZ1NhNmF2b2xvUm1UTFM1Z2c&single=true&gid=0&output=html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>b) Their Edublogs Award website:</b></span><br /><br /><a href="http://edublogawards.com/">http://edublogawards.com/</a> </div><br /></div>

Blogging Competitions Take a look at the Edublogs Awards winners 2011

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Wedding Update

First off, let me just say how <b>awesome </b>you all are who commented <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2012/01/needing-advice.html">yesterday</a>.  When I finally read all of the posts, I cried.  The main reason why I cried is because you helped validate my sanity.  I know that Joel often thinks I'm nuts because I cannot come to terms with living here.  Sometimes I think he must be right!<br /><br />He's said it before: "It's just a land mass Hilary, what difference does it make where you live".  But Joel has never lived anywhere else, and I've lived a lot of places.  It's hard living somewhere that you hate.   I'm lucky enough that despite how he feels, he's willing to put his wants aside to make me feel better, even if that does mean sticking it out another year and a half. <br /><br />After I wrote yesterday's post, I decided to email my landlord to find out our options.  You might wonder why I didn't just do this in the first place before worrying about all that I wrote yesterday.  The thing is, I hate to inconvenience other people on my behalf.  I figured that by asking her to accommodate our needs (meaning extend our lease just 6 months, instead of the traditional year...long enough to get us through the wedding), she would most likely say no.  I mean, she lives in Puerto Rico, and I'm sure she'd rather have someone committed to living another year over just 6 months.  I couldn't blame her at all for this.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGXmvWhegAYYTcLld4YSpnvttBziUrVDL4adRSaDkkIBIuRJ3ajX1pajzPw9YVuZYsdbXNysOZLbrilTkhj7VHyPaFZHwagzvEg9P75YwcGAr0IdbZbFvHGO-VUcB8tkiDdTEWVwaP6c/s1600/charles+cat+loaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGXmvWhegAYYTcLld4YSpnvttBziUrVDL4adRSaDkkIBIuRJ3ajX1pajzPw9YVuZYsdbXNysOZLbrilTkhj7VHyPaFZHwagzvEg9P75YwcGAr0IdbZbFvHGO-VUcB8tkiDdTEWVwaP6c/s400/charles+cat+loaf.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Side note: I'm long winded. I'm sorry. I know it's annoying.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Our landlord responded with a really nice email basically stating that she would be more than happy to work with us on the lease... and would basically do the 6 month extension with no problem. HUGE weight lifted off of my shoulders!!  Would I love to move in June? Yes.  BUT, I am more than willing to stick it out through October to have the wedding I want, and still leave here in less than a year.  I am absolutely <i>giddy</i> with excitement knowing that this will hopefully be my last year living here!  <br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Your advice is/was much appreciated!</div>

Miscellaneous wedding Wedding Update

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YouTube for Schools is introduced

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First there was YouTube, then came YouTube for Educators, and now we have YouTube for Schools. Things are definitely getting better for education. I think many parents will be happier knowing there is a YouTube that is just for schools. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For one thing YouTube for Schools lets you browse YouTube without any related videos on show, or any comments to wade through.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> This gives an uncluttered feel. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have access to a data projector or an interactive whiteboard in your classroom, an occasional YouTube clip can really bring home a concept to your students. </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is some </span>information<span style="font-family: inherit;"> about YouTube for Schools.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NegRGfGYOwQ" width="420"></iframe></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><b style="font-size: x-large;">Classroom application for YouTube for Schools</b></span></span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Introduce your lesson with a video clip related to your lesson that will engage the students' attention. </span></li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li>When your students make their own videos as part of a project, these can safely be uploaded to your YouTube for Schools channel.</li><li>Videos will appeal to the learning style of the visual learners.</li><li>Record instructions and directions using a screencasting programme (such as Screencast-o-matic) and upload this to your YouTube for Schools channel so that you don't have to repeat yourself continually. </li><li>The students can continue learning at home by exploring videos that you recommend on your topic. </li><li>You might be able to access videos from other teachers. Equally, you may be able to share your lessons with students around the world.</li></span></ul><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is so much one can do with access to YouTube for Schools in the classroom. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why not read more in this excellent post: </span><a href="http://edudemic.com/2011/12/youtube-for-schools/" style="font-family: inherit;">http://edudemic.com/2011/12/youtube-for-schools/</a></span></div>

videos Web tools YouTube for Schools is introduced

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etsy pillows

There is no better pick me up (is that a hyphenated word? I can never remember) on a hectic first day back to work than going out to get the mail at lunch and finding an Etsy package at your feet. I love working from home! Let me stop for a minute so you can ewww and ahhhh.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWtMqhol_YLOH_0kQoivwQc-bfqhYBOhjkV8KuACclAcLnsUOd9KtP0MTluL5fnRlCIrIrQxm1fDerPgksZK-9ZfE4exLLI05nED6MqJBm6ollBZNTDKIaY0EeQ7fkFCkaav3qXuxVsoJ/s1600/P1032944.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWtMqhol_YLOH_0kQoivwQc-bfqhYBOhjkV8KuACclAcLnsUOd9KtP0MTluL5fnRlCIrIrQxm1fDerPgksZK-9ZfE4exLLI05nED6MqJBm6ollBZNTDKIaY0EeQ7fkFCkaav3qXuxVsoJ/s320/P1032944.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">happy new pillows</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw32ptSyu1poxQ0ZyeOTh8G19JS_c9ie2M2SIbmzSm3wsDuf5kYNxY5s0-dMpPVdXdetQlvnCUaUjlCUh-E1tk0CgCS7ywynBhPdu29ErC5nvsNS2O76tYUYU2Oqs7t2Tzyz0BregKNpQS/s1600/P1032938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw32ptSyu1poxQ0ZyeOTh8G19JS_c9ie2M2SIbmzSm3wsDuf5kYNxY5s0-dMpPVdXdetQlvnCUaUjlCUh-E1tk0CgCS7ywynBhPdu29ErC5nvsNS2O76tYUYU2Oqs7t2Tzyz0BregKNpQS/s320/P1032938.JPG" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">wonderful pattern front</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqyn7G2FYnmFANo0TAuNWkR3z5yWmFl9Xf3IYzJNElk7C0OtiBgkDbP5I3J_Q0Y3R6oDA9RV4wBSGsIM0Hy4NmmwI1NPoCZ_HG7rc4hjxTj9L_Dd0wwFvhhT4Fto4KAGpfs7FgDd2Y457/s1600/P1032942.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqyn7G2FYnmFANo0TAuNWkR3z5yWmFl9Xf3IYzJNElk7C0OtiBgkDbP5I3J_Q0Y3R6oDA9RV4wBSGsIM0Hy4NmmwI1NPoCZ_HG7rc4hjxTj9L_Dd0wwFvhhT4Fto4KAGpfs7FgDd2Y457/s320/P1032942.JPG" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pretty velvet back</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Aren't they pretty?! Awesome pattern in the front...yummy velvet in the back. Like a really awesome mullet. OK, an oxymoron, but you know what I'm getting at. These suckers are stellar!<br /><br />"Oh yes Elizabeth, they are fab! Where did you get them?"<br /><br />Well I'm so glad you asked. Katie Peters, from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/RadianceFromRuins" target="_blank">Radiance From Ruins</a>, is her name. (I have many of her pillows saved to my favorites) And on top of the wonderful work she does, she is just about the nicest person I've encountered on Etsy so far.<br /><br />Thanks Katie for perking up my day, and my living room.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqrgildU7Clx4muDMvw8WrVjNAdybEHChQixCuiDhrCSV4kERhqscjR6pPHcrmuzsHShL6PJszcXy8la5ig0kzvj3QaauhArtlIAQZky-Eg4vK8o2CiwSH7YireIZKoGaQuQlDqHHApX3/s1600/P1032939.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqrgildU7Clx4muDMvw8WrVjNAdybEHChQixCuiDhrCSV4kERhqscjR6pPHcrmuzsHShL6PJszcXy8la5ig0kzvj3QaauhArtlIAQZky-Eg4vK8o2CiwSH7YireIZKoGaQuQlDqHHApX3/s320/P1032939.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">happy in their new home</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />

etsy pillows

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DO FAT CELLS GO AWAY?

You can always tell when someone really understands what they are talking about. The first sign is by how humbled they are by the astronomically large amount of information we don't quite understand yet. The more they know, the more they realize they know very little. These individuals want to know more, want a deeper understanding, and are willing to dig deeper for information to questions unanswered.<br /><br />On the other hand, there are others who think they know everything, have no desire to seek new information and continue to believe there is nothing more to learn. The less they know, the more they think there is nothing else to learn. They only discuss the superficial information, and never go deeper to understand the human body. In this case, because they know very little they are naive to how complex the body really is, so they can't go deeper than memorized statements. The more you know, the more complex the body becomes, and the more information you seek to learn.<br /><br />Here's an example. How many "experts" profess that once you have a fat cell they only shrink, and will never go away? This is one of the most naive, and quite sad, claims about the body. Once a cell loses it's function, it will go through natural cell death, or apoptosis. When fatty acids are depleted from an adipocyte, the cell has lost it's primary function and will go away. This is a "use it or lose it" situation. In the case of hCG, does hCG "unlock the hypothalamus"? Does hCG convert fat into energy? No. Not at all. <br /><br />This was written in Dr. Simeons' "Pounds & Inches" in 1967. Let's get updated into 2012. You'd think that by now, self proclaimed  hCG protocol "experts" would have looked deeper into the human body, but because most people selling hCG products or programs don't really know that much about human physiology, they continue to proclaim Dr. Simeons' theories as fact. Without thought to the idea that we understand the human body more profoundly than we did in 1967.  These protocol experts don't realize that they look naive and superficially motivated to others who study the human body and physiology. <br /><br />The most interesting observation I've made is that I've yet to meet a doctor or physiologist who wasn't interested in a modern hypothesis. These doctors may have written books, workbooks, and created an entire program based around Simeons' theories, and yet they still were thrilled to know the modern science that might relevantly explained why hCG prevents starvation. Where have a met resistance? Self-proclaimed experts who don't understand human physiology. People who don't have the education or understanding of the human body to a level that is necessary in order to comprehend the complexity of the endocrine system, and the hormonal influence on energy homeostasis would rather repeat Simeons' theories. The more the listener knows about the human body the more they appreciate the profound explanation. The less the listener knows, the less valuable a complex explanation is.<br /><br />In writing a hypothesis for why hCG prevents starvation, I did the best I could with what I could understand. My hope is that another person who may have a deeper understanding than myself, will take what I've started and will describe it to an even deeper level. I look naive to a micro-cell biologist, similar to how others seem naive to me. Why am I writing this? Because the standard "expert" in the hCG diet industry doesn't really know much at all. Really? Fat cells don't go away? Now that's naive.<br /><br />It's time we set the bar quite a few levels higher and it's time for many of these "experts" to go back to school. Until then, the hCG diet industry will continue to look naive, stupid, and money hungry, just like the rest of the diet industry.

DO FAT CELLS GO AWAY?

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Needing Advice

I need some advice today, and it's actually not related to my weight loss journey at all.  Well, it <i>kind of</i> is but... just bare with me if you can.<br /><br />I've lived in the DC area for the past 5 1/2 years.  I hate it here.  I <i>have </i>hated it here for 4 1/2 of those years.  The basic reason why I hate it is that I'm not a city person.  I enjoy smaller towns and smaller cities and the slower way of life.  Of course, it goes much deeper than this but that is the gist. <br /><br />The only thing that has kept me here so long is my relationship with Joel.  We began dating after I had lived here for just a year.  Joel also grew up in a suburb of the city, so he isn't much bothered by this way of life.  However, I've been wanting to leave badly since about the last 3 years.  It never seems to be the right time to make the move though.  There is always some excuse as to why we need to continue living here longer. <br /><br />Today that excuse is the wedding - we have to stay in the area for at least another year and a half in order to pay for it.  While October is less than a year away, our lease is up June 2012, and it's hard to find a place that will allow a 6 month lease (for a reasonable price).  Plus neither one of us want to move AGAIN just for 6 months to then move again (I have a hate HATE relationship with moving - I've moved 12 times in the last 10 years.)<br /><br />So... with every "new year" that rolls around, it's another reminder that I'm still not in the place in my life that I'd like to be.  I cannot bear the thought of having to live here and work in my current job (which is another thing I strongly dislike) for another year and a half.  Believe me, my hatred and sadness go very deep with this place.  I'm actually to the point where I don't even like going on out of town trips because I cannot deal with how sad I am when we return... and the sadness goes on for days afterward. <br /><br />Joel and I have discussed some options:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>Option 1 - Stay</b><br /> We'll stay the year and a half and then plan to move in June 2013.  That way we will be able to afford the wedding that we both would like to have.  This also means that I will be stuck working at my current job for the next year and a half and living in this area that I hate.  This also means that Joel will put his career plans on hold as well.  He wants to be a police officer and doesn't want to apply to places locally if we're just going to move in a year and a half.  He's not getting any younger.  I'm not getting any younger... and the thought of trying to muddle through another year here makes my heart hurt.<br /><br /><b>Option 2 - Leave</b><br />We would make it our goal to have jobs by June 2012, and move out of the area.  This is where it becomes complicated with the wedding part.  I know that the places we are considering moving to will not provide me with a job where I am making anywhere close to what I make now.  That means we won't be able to pay for the wedding that we are currently planning, which means we'd have to try to plan something else.  Perhaps we would then have to have a very small ceremony within the next 3-4 months and that would be it.  It would be small because we just don't have the money saved right now to afford the same size wedding in 3-4 months that we are planning for October.  This isn't what I really want for our wedding, mainly because I really want to have a considerable amount of weight off before the planned October wedding.  There's no way I can drop 60 lbs in 3-4 months.. at least not in a healthy way.  I don't really want to wait until after we've moved to start wedding planning either.  It's been hard enough to secure a wedding site looking 11 months in advance of a wedding, much less 4-5 months in advance of one.  We want to be married in 2012... preferably on or before October 6.         </blockquote><br />Ugh... it's just not so cut and dry as you can see.  Life never is, this I know.  Joel is leaning strongly toward Option 1, and I am stuck between the 2.  As I said early on, there are always excuses as to why we cannot move.  What will happen in a year and a half?   What will be the excuse then?  I also think of it like this: we only get to do life one time.  Why waste it being miserable?  Weddings are really supposed to be about God and two becoming one, and all the religious aspects (at least this is how I feel)... not about a big lavish affair.<br /><br />So I need your advice.  Have you been in a similar situation?  What would you do?  Please, PLEASE I welcome any advice you have!! 

Miscellaneous Needing Advice

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How to calm job interview jitters

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://emj.cbdr.com/artieimages/fc/ar5l4176zxvzrpybs7fc.gif?time=6/7/2011%2011:49:48%20am" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://emj.cbdr.com/artieimages/fc/ar5l4176zxvzrpybs7fc.gif?time=6/7/2011%2011:49:48%20am" /></a></div><div class="ArticleHeadline" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: -30px;"><div class="hdr_org_bld" style="color: #ff6600; font: normal normal bold 18px/normal arial, helvetica;"><h1 id="articleHeadline" style="color: #ff7700; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h1></div><b><span id="cbArticle_lblByLine">Larry Buhl, Special to CareerBuilder</span></b><br /><br /><div class="cbmsnArticleImage">Interviews can strike fear in the hearts of the most seasoned job seekers. If you don't have a lot of experience interviewing, it's not unusual to feel mild jitters or even outright terror at the thought of sitting down with a potential employer. But you don't have to let emotions turn that important hiring hurdle into a horror show. Experts offer several tips for preventing anxiety from torpedoing your chances of landing the job.</div></div><div class="ArticleContent" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Put yourself in the interviewer's shoes.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Interviewers are not trying to make your life miserable. Really. In fact, they are hoping you are "the one." They need to fill the job with the best person, and if they don't succeed their jobs could be on the line. Just keeping that in perspective can help calm your jitters.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Prepare, prepare, prepare.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Preparation is 90 percent of success in job interviews," says Dr. Linda Smith-Gaston, career advisor at <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/california/los+angeles/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Los Angeles</a> Trade Technical College. Smith-Gaston encourages role-playing with a friend before the interview and anticipating the questions you'll likely hear. Typical interview questions include:</div><ul><br /><li>Why are you the best person for the job?</li><br /><li>Tell me about yourself.</li><br /><li>What are your best/worst traits?</li><br /><li>Why do you want to work here?</li><br /><li>What did you learn in school (or at an internship) that prepares you for this job?</li></ul><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"You should always know what the company actually does before the interview," Smith-Gaston adds. Finding out could be as simple as a two-minute Internet search.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Plan your day around the interview.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Running late will stress you out. Avoid rushing by mapping out the directions to the interview site and allowing more time than you think you'll need. Budget for traffic jams, parking snafus, bad weather, road closures and just getting lost. Make sure you budget enough time off from your current job or school, so you don't feel like you have to run out of the interview if it runs longer than you anticipated. Hiring managers, like doctors, can sometimes keep you waiting.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>De-stress before the interview.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">After you check in with the <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/receptionist/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">receptionist </a>-- being pleasant and professional when you do this -- try some relaxation techniques, recommends Smith-Gaston. This could be as simple as closing your eyes or doing a few deep breathing exercises. But beware: If your idea of relaxation is kick-boxing or a yoga routine, do those at home. "You want to be memorable to the employer, but not for making a scene in the waiting room," Smith-Gaston says. And don't even think about taking a drink or using substances to calm down; that should be obvious, but for some it isn't.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Listen, think, speak</b>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Whether your interview is in person or over the phone, it is important to listen to what the interviewer has to say, and then think before responding, according to Paul Bailo, author of "The Official Phone Interview Handbook." "Take a few seconds to understand the question, and then prepare a quality answer before simply blurting out something less intelligent," he says. "Focusing on the interviewer will take your mind off your own jitters and actually help calm you down."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Prepare your own questions.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">You'll know the interview is almost over when the interviewer asks whether you have any questions about the job or the company. When you hear this, don't say "no," and bolt for the door. Use this opportunity to solidify the good impression you've made. "Well-thought-out questions show you're really interested in the company and the job," Bailo says. Also, if you have sent in your résumé, have a copy in front of you (and make sure it's the same version). Always wait until the interviewer has finished asking about you and your background before launching into your own questions.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The day after the interview, send a thank you note to the interviewer. "Use the thank-you note to add something new, like an award or a small honor you received," Smith-Gaston says.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>Larry Buhl researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues for CareerBuilder.com. Follow @CareerBuilder on Twitter.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div></div>

How to calm job interview jitters

Larry Buhl, Special to CareerBuilder Interviews can strike fear in the hearts of the most seasoned job seekers. If you don't have a lot ...

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2012 goals

It <i>was</i> the whole point of starting this blog after all, so I might as well commit them to (digital) paper. Its been a yearly tradition, even before we had a house, for Luke and I to have a glass (or bottle) of wine and write our 'house list' for the next year. And while I won't share the whole list with you (#12 get new basement windows) here is the top 5. Does anyone hear a drum roll?<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21TjlDfFAW2BsETPL1LoSDtNIqLzta8ieTFQLYFz6eaTlx7m__wWk_YdhtrwTB8rIeZhb6dpun205PbHms7s-vrxD0_YL7KlDESV_B1ccoF5xo2N_Yf3P8H6Hjki5f4HkuY9TlsdjvxpP/s1600/129619295494760453_SoDq8poz_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21TjlDfFAW2BsETPL1LoSDtNIqLzta8ieTFQLYFz6eaTlx7m__wWk_YdhtrwTB8rIeZhb6dpun205PbHms7s-vrxD0_YL7KlDESV_B1ccoF5xo2N_Yf3P8H6Hjki5f4HkuY9TlsdjvxpP/s320/129619295494760453_SoDq8poz_c.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://www.fromtherightbank.com/2011/08/on-my-radar-blue-dressers/" target="_blank">From The Right Bank</a></td></tr></tbody></table>1. <b>Redo the master bedroom.</b> We swapped bedrooms with Amelia right before I got pregnant with Eve, as they are roughly the same size (the rooms not the girls). But a year and a half later we still haven't gotten around to doing anything to it. A common problem I know. I'm over the lavender nursery walls, and we need some grown-up curtains, among other things. The room needs some major love.<br /><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMpvDBbo2oZf28o2igbzf-6PMSr7kLTXQvfCvZ_IaQLw_RplgnQDPAr4MFOYLoNY6YMNEvaUb_u1L5aE0c-UR8QXortWNI2lxcq91-m_7HZt516kwU7O1jWlqANLCAUcRSSi49XPv9lfXZ/s1600/274227064779836635_7qEs811R_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMpvDBbo2oZf28o2igbzf-6PMSr7kLTXQvfCvZ_IaQLw_RplgnQDPAr4MFOYLoNY6YMNEvaUb_u1L5aE0c-UR8QXortWNI2lxcq91-m_7HZt516kwU7O1jWlqANLCAUcRSSi49XPv9lfXZ/s320/274227064779836635_7qEs811R_c.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://www.elementsofstyleblog.com/" target="_blank">Elements of Style</a></td></tr></tbody></table>2. <b>Repair and redo deck and stairs.</b> This has been on our list since we bought the house (can you tell how much we are dreading it?). In fact, when we were doing our walk thru the inspector said, "You are probably gonna need to redo those stairs in the next year or so." Five years later...we are finally getting around to it. I think it was the visible jiggling they make when our 30 pound dog runs down them that made us push this up the list. They are officially unsafe and so they're outta here. There are also several rotting boards to replace and we need to redo the railings. We have never used our deck as much as we'd like for these reasons so its time to give this extra room a spruce. This is going to put Luke's wood working and midar cuts to the test.<br /><br />3. <b>Plant a herb garden.</b> We've got the space, I've got an interested and energetic 4-year-old helper and as many herbs as we use, it might even be a money saver.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibyNOn5rwOOFwf4qIpTTcuGEmHe_FRWL5Bk7gkBFmJ6XacKLJVXXfIzgQOnI2XKGZaVqjOrBshKpyT7MS1fjR48FBo3dGmYh5ZdvM4L8z3BPXB6PLFkUjyWPCqA68yaE8SFVBikGS7KP8Z/s1600/57913545177729084_UX7fMDhs_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibyNOn5rwOOFwf4qIpTTcuGEmHe_FRWL5Bk7gkBFmJ6XacKLJVXXfIzgQOnI2XKGZaVqjOrBshKpyT7MS1fjR48FBo3dGmYh5ZdvM4L8z3BPXB6PLFkUjyWPCqA68yaE8SFVBikGS7KP8Z/s320/57913545177729084_UX7fMDhs_b.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://pinterest.com/search/?q=herb+garden" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table>4. <b>Lighting.</b> Always on my list. We need to resolve the chandelier issue in the dinning room ( i.e. I hate it), replace the light in the hallway and twist someone's arm into helping me figure out a way to add outdoor scones to the deck. Ugh, that damn deck. Its gonna kill me. Refer to number 1.<br /><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO29xUyernqyyvXOomYRb5XnO0Db81sojJkA-Vmftb2V4TeLU3TpggBt8zSjA7JtSZzJh3PMiRc5q-pq5LipATbiaEVwikXjYBjtbvzGLbqVreSm7skrBjcLJpsdt61rWmPhgwEV36sD27/s1600/5629568253886968_kU72QZjI_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO29xUyernqyyvXOomYRb5XnO0Db81sojJkA-Vmftb2V4TeLU3TpggBt8zSjA7JtSZzJh3PMiRc5q-pq5LipATbiaEVwikXjYBjtbvzGLbqVreSm7skrBjcLJpsdt61rWmPhgwEV36sD27/s320/5629568253886968_kU72QZjI_c.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://www.fromtherightbank.com/2011/11/my-new-very-old-settee/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+fromtherightbank+%2528FROM+THE+RIGHT+BANK%2529&utm_content=Google+Reader" target="_blank">From the Right Bank</a></td></tr></tbody></table>5. <b>Reupholster couch.</b> I got the best little love seat for my birthday last year but it has one flaw - the nastiest, ugliest fabric on earth. Unbearably ugly. Since its can't get any worse, I'm toying with the idea of taking a crack at it myself. Stop laughing, its not the worst idea.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0sLK2BDW2EpB3s6RC_s1cvQrRz35Vdw6_-O6Vms5vuj-j4ZUuU4V5cHyK_lc5cvxC9iRTgTXtUz8HWbbOUoVmcnwiVQIuwA_bmPiecyu0jcWGpkgFebBmCnZ2iRpZ-1qaLXGTFy81HKLk/s1600/6896205648958039_qBFSBSLK_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0sLK2BDW2EpB3s6RC_s1cvQrRz35Vdw6_-O6Vms5vuj-j4ZUuU4V5cHyK_lc5cvxC9iRTgTXtUz8HWbbOUoVmcnwiVQIuwA_bmPiecyu0jcWGpkgFebBmCnZ2iRpZ-1qaLXGTFy81HKLk/s1600/6896205648958039_qBFSBSLK_b.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://bijouandboheme.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bijou and Boheme</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />OK, I showed you mine. 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THE SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS: WHY LOW DOSE HCG PREVENTS STARVATION

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have never had an opportunity of conducting the laboratory investigations which are so necessary for a theoretical understanding of clinical observations, and I can only hope that those more fortunately placed will in time be able to fill this gap</i>.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">– Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pounds & Inches</i></span></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">DR. SIMEON'S HCG PROTOCOL: A NEW HYPOTHESIS</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Robin Phipps Woodall, Author of Weight-Loss Apocalypse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span><a href="http://www.mindbodyhcg.com/">http://www.mindbodyhcg.com/</a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">HCG injections of between 100IU and 150IU might stimulate, from fat cells, sufficient amounts of leptin to prevent symptoms of starvation imposed by the very low-calorie protocol (VLCP), as described by Dr. Simeons. The controlled hCG/protocol environment should stimulate enough leptin to minimize hunger, to maintain a normal and healthy thyroid signal, and to prevent significant reductions in lean body mass by effectively maintaining energy homeostasis through fatty acid oxidation of leptin-sensitive fat stores. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The controlled demand imposed by participant adherence to the VLCP will prevent fat gain by offsetting the susceptibility to over-stimulate leptin. This controlled demand with optimized fat utilization should, with time and physical adaptation, up-regulate mitochondrial biogenesis. During the second phase, as energy demand on fat is significantly reduced, new smaller mitochondria might progressively increase oxidative power, measuring an increase in resting energy expenditure (calories, per pound of body weight, per day).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Using this hypothesis as the basis of future research might explain what is observed during the protocol. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The following material is meant only to start new discussion about how hCG might influence energy homeostasis when food is removed.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">To start, let’s acknowledge the inherent difficulty of understanding the body’s integrated system of organs, each requiring its own nourishment and energy demands, in addition to understanding the systems of tissues dependent upon these organs. The energy needed to sustain our organs and tissues is a system that feeds and depletes. It gives and takes from one organ to the next, all while accommodating the complex influence from both physical activity and food. This balance of energy demand and energy sharing is called energy homeostasis, and maintaining homeostasis sustains these integrated systems during both feast and famine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All systems integrate fuel and energy demands not only daily, but over a lifetime. This constant striving for homeostasis is what stimulates the feelings of hunger that prompt us to eat, and to stop eating when we’re satiated. Perhaps the most critical element in achieving homeostasis is maintaining a stable blood glucose level. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We are fed from many sources other than food; some sources of fuel are fat, muscle and liver glycogen, body protein, and blood glucose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>These “tissue” fuels are not stocked equally. Some have more reserves than others. Fat and body protein by far surpass the fleeting amount of energy reserves held in both glycogen and blood glucose. The total integration of these fuel systems for short and long-term metabolic homeostasis is vital to life, hourly, and over the period of our body’s life. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The energy our body captures is powered not only by food, but also by our tissue reserves. However, these substrates must be converted into what can be captured before the body can use it as energy. As you eat, the food you consume is not yet in a form that can be captured as energy, so tissue reserves are readily available to meet immediate demands. But for tissue reserves to be released, key hormones that determine when and how much energy is needed must be accessed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Leptin is one of the most important energy-controlling hormones. Since its discovery in 1994, we more fully understand leptin’s key role as a fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibitor, and most notably as an anorexigenic hormone affecting the signal of hunger, the function of the thyroid, and fat metabolism. ^{2 15} </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Similar to insulin, leptin levels fall and rise in coordination with blood glucose, signaling to the body and brain when and how much energy reserve is available. ³ Leptin helps maintain blood glucose levels by regulating fatty acid use in skeletal muscle for energy, and preserving blood glucose for other more important organs to use. ⁴ </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Leptin is primarily found in white and brown fat cells, but could also be produced in the mouth, placenta, ovaries, skeletal muscle, stomach, mammary cells, bone marrow, pituitary and liver. ^{5 6}The rise and fall of leptin levels influence hunger, thyroid stimulus, fat metabolism, and fat gain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>To successfully apply the modern science of leptin’s functions to Dr. Simeons’ protocol, I will discuss leptin as it relates to four areas; the hypothalamus, skeletal muscle, fat, and the thyroid. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LEPTIN: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE HCG PROTOCOL AND HUNGER.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">As a diet begins, and food is restricted, blood glucose levels fall. As blood glucose levels drop in the body and brain, leptin also depletes. ^{7 12} As leptin levels fall, there is a reduction in malonyl-CoA, a recognized intermediate, in the hypothalamic-signaling pathway that controls feeding behavior and energy expenditure. ¹⁵ Recent evidence suggests that food deprivation, and the associated decrease in hypothalamic malonyl-CoA, increases the expression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti-related protein (AgRP), which produces the sensation of hunger. Conversely, as blood glucose and leptin levels rise after eating, the resulting increase in malonyl-CoA reduces the expression of NPY and AgRP, producing feelings of satiety when hunger is alleviated. ^{7 10}</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Studies have shown administration of a fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibitor (such as leptin) to the central nervous system in obese mice, dramatically reduces feeding behavior, with the increase in hypothalamic malonyl-CoA concentrations.^{13 25} These findings show that during very low-calorie diets, a stimulant of a FAS inhibitor like leptin, would raise malonyl-CoA levels, and decrease the expression of NPY and AgRP. Theoretically, this should sustain feelings of satiation for longer periods of time with less food.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">LEPTIN: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE HCG PROTOCOL AND FAT MOBILIZATION.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Leptin is primarily expressed and secreted by fat cells. As fat mass increases during energy surplus, blood leptin increases and interacts with its receptors in the central nervous system (CNS), leading to increased malonyl-CoA expression in the hypothalamus, and decreased hunger. ²² Although there could be fat loss due to lack of hunger with a FAS inhibitor, studies have shown central administration of FAS inhibitors transmitted to the skeletal muscle from the CNS, increases fatty acid oxidation and, with time, increases resting energy expenditure. ^{16 23}<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">As FAS inhibitors increase in skeletal muscle, the result is a decrease in muscle malonyl-CoA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This outcome essentially determines whether or not fat is used for energy. ⁴ Muscle malonyl-CoA is a potent allosteric inhibitor of muscle carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT-1). CPT-1 is like a doorway on the mitochondrial membrane, opening or shutting access for fatty acids to enter and be converted into fuel for the body. When CPT-1 is deactivated by muscle malonyl-CoA, entry of fatty acids into mitochondria for β-oxidation is inhibited. ¹⁵ </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Muscular malonyl-CoA formation is catalyzed with increased activity in the enzyme Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC). ACC is strongly inhibited by AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), which is stimulated by leptin. ¹¹ So, as leptin levels decrease, AMPK is deactivated, which activates ACC. ACC creates malonyl-CoA, which inhibits CPT-1, and thus reduces fatty acid oxidation. ^{13 15} </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This happens as a response during starvation when blood glucose and leptin levels fall, preserving fat for longer periods of time, and forcing muscles to use other tissue substrates instead.¹² However, eating has the opposite effect.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">After eating, when blood glucose and blood leptin levels increase, the activation of AMPK deactivates ACC, which decreases muscular malonyl-CoA. As muscle malonyl-CoA declines, CPT-1 activates and opens access for fat into the mitochondria, where energy can be supplied through β-oxidation. ^{4 11} This might explain how eating food that is not yet in a form that can be captured as energy, stimulates the use of stored fuel for immediate use. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">New science has shown that this system can be successfully manipulated, not only to counteract symptoms of starvation, but to improve metabolic rates. Centrally administered FAS inhibitors during food restriction, rapidly increases the expression of skeletal muscle peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPARα), a transcriptional activator of fatty acid oxidizing enzymes, and uncoupling protein 3 (UPC3), a putative thermogenic mitochondrial uncoupling protein. ²³¹⁵ Daily administration of FAS inhibitors over time increases the number of mitochondria in white and red skeletal muscle. This could explain why studies show increases in metabolisms tested through indirect calorimeter. ^{23 26 27}<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This evidence shows that if there was a way to safely increase a FAS inhibitor such as leptin, as well as create energy demand with food restriction, the response over time should be to acclimate with more mitochondria, resulting in a higher caloric-burning capacity. But without a FAS inhibitor, one should expect with the same food restriction to see a slowed loss in fat, increased loss of lean tissue reserves, and a resulting decline in resting energy expenditure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">To prevent the natural decline in fat mobilization with a very low-calorie diet, there must be an alternative way to stimulate leptin to decrease muscular malonyl-CoA, This allows fatty acids to have continuous access into the mitochondria, where fat could provide substantial fuel for the body without significantly depleting blood glucose. This optimized fat utilization would prevent the need for the body to use lean tissue reserves during extreme caloric deficits and, over time, stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis, ultimately increasing the rate at which a person burns energy fuel at rest.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LEPTIN: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE HCG PROTOCOL AND FAT GAIN.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">High levels of leptin in adipose tissue, without equally sufficient expenditure, have the opposite effect. Studies show that extremely high levels of leptin, similar to those seen in the obese, increase peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma), which is the master control switch for fat storage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>^{21 22 14} </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">PPAR-gamma activates a host of enzymes that promote the esterification of fatty acids to create triacylglycerides (TAG), and advances the formation of lipid droplets from these TAG.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>When administered to mice, high levels of leptin increased the cellular expression of PPAR-gamma by 70-80%. ¹⁴ Leptin signals to the brain that there’s ample energy in storage, but also forewarns pre-adipocites to make room for more fat cells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The more fat a person has, the more leptin his or her body produces. ²¹ Essentially, if you were to compare two people who have the same exact metabolic rate, but extreme variance in body fat composition, their bodies would have a different response to the same food. If they ate the same exact amount and type of food, the more obese person would have much more blood leptin stimulated, due to their larger amount of body fat. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The excess amount of leptin, without equal excess energy expenditure, can cause an imbalance in energy homeostasis, making the body more sensitive to resulting fat gain as a need to recapture and compensate for the imbalance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Leptin’s stimulus of PPAR-gamma would complement insulin as a survival mechanism to make room for more fat, aiding in the preparation for more energy storage cells as an adaptation for long-term energy homeostasis. A person with less fat would have less leptin, which might better compliment their metabolic energy balancing system, thus making him or her less sensitive to fat gain—even when eating the same exact meal as a more obese counterpart. Hence, fat gain and loss is not a linear function of calories eaten and expended because fat hormones, such as leptin, greatly influence energy homeostasis, and the body’s resulting compensations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Both fat-preserving and fat-creating effects of leptin will function to conserve fat during starvation, and to form fat when food is excessive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Leptin’s fat burning and storing/preserving relationships seem to follow an “inverted U” model. Leptin’s fat-conserving functions are maximum with high and low levels, and its fat-burning functions are optimal in the middle. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">If leptin is stimulated by an outside influence, there might be less necessity for food and more sensitivity to over-stimulate leptin production. This excessive stimulus of leptin relative to expenditure would cause an expression of PPAR-gamma and an increase in fat when relatively small amounts of food are consumed. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LEPTIN: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE HCG PROTOCOL AND MAINTAINING THYROID FUNCTION.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Leptin’s elevation and depletion in the brain signals a fed or starved state, not only through hunger, but also through the metabolic suppression or stimulus from the thyroid.⁸ When elevated, leptin stimulates thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) that controls the release of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH acts on receptors in the thyroid to promote synthesis and release of the thyroid hormones (T3 and T4), which increases the body’s basal metabolic rate. ⁸ As blood glucose levels fall with very low-calorie diets, the depletion of leptin in the brain inhibits this cascade affect, resulting in a weaker metabolic signal from the thyroid. ⁹ </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The natural drop in thyroid signal is an essential, life-sustaining mechanism that occurs during starvation. This mechanism slows down the rate at which the body needs fuel, thus preserving energy stores and life for a longer period of time. However, when leptin is administered during induced starvation, the thyroid signals stay strong. ¹⁰ If the thyroid signal stays strong, the body maintains a normal basal metabolic rate, and requires the same amount of fuel as if in a fed state. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">To counteract the natural metabolic suppression of the thyroid, an energy-preserving survival mechanism, during sustained very low-calorie diets, an alternative stimulus of leptin would be needed. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LOW DOSE HCG AND LEPTIN.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Not only is there clear evidence that the placenta produces leptin, but there’s evidence that hCG might exert a negative feedback loop on trophoblastic release of leptin.^{17 18 19 20} This means that specific quantities of hCG stimulate leptin production. If there were too much hCG, leptin levels would decline. If there were too little hCG, not enough leptin would be produced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Based on these findings, hCG could be a viable stimulant of leptin. But the question yet to be answered is, would injections of hCG with Simeons’ protocol:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">         </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stimulate sufficient blood leptin levels to interact with its receptors in the participant’s central nervous system, acting as a potent FAS inhibitor in the hypothalamus, reducing hunger? In the hypothalamus to sufficiently stimulate the thyroid? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">         </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stimulate enough leptin production in the skeletal muscle to increase fatty acid β-oxidation? The right amount of leptin in the fat cells to prevent fat storage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And enough time and constraint for mitochondrial biogenesis to significantly increase resting energy expenditure? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 10pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">         </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Could other forms of hCG administration, including homeopathic hCG, do the same? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Simeons’ findings left many questions unanswered, and science uncharted by the refuting research of his protocol. Based on the evidence I’ve presented, hCG isn’t burning fat, it doesn’t directly reduce the appetite, and it doesn’t stimulate the metabolism. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rather, it is the energy demand of the protocol, combined with how hCG influences leptin, in the brain and body, that allows the body to metabolize fat and function as if fed, when food is not available.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weight-Loss-Apocalypse-Emotional-Protocol-ebook/dp/B0068E5F0W/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">BUY THE BOOK</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">REFERENCES</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: auto auto auto 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Lijesen, G.K.S., et al. 1995. 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