Why Eggs Are Good for Your Cholesterol

Dr Mercola writes: Chicken as the foundation of a delicious home-cooked meal has been an American mainstay for decades. Not centuries, you might ask? As a matter of fact, up until the 1920s, homesteaders filled chicken coops with chickens to fulfill one main purpose: to produce eggs.

Chickens weren't regarded as much beyond egg production until a new concept featuring chicken as a main course took flight in the late '40s. It was based, not surprisingly, on the food industry's initiative to find more uses for said chickens. Today we have a plethora of chicken recipes, from broth to casseroles to fried, not to mention nuggets. But what happened to eggs?

Eggs became a target based on the faulty premise of the medical establishment that eating too many yolks would drive up cholesterol and pack your carotid arteries with plaque. As recently as 2012, eggs were still being maligned and even deemed as health-damaging as smoking cigarettes, according to a Canadian journal. Many still believe this, and it's the misinformation that's damaging health, not egg consumption.

According to a recent study led by Nick Fuller at the University of Sydney, Australia, and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, eggs, "despite conflicting evidence continuing around the world," are not responsible for heart disease or high cholesterol. In fact, they're one of the most nutritious foods in your kitchen. When he led the first portion of the study, Fuller wrote that eggs can support several aspects of health, including eye, blood vessel and heart health, healthy pregnancies and fat regulation, noting:

"Despite being vilified for decades, dietary cholesterol is understood to be far less detrimental to health than scientists originally thought. The effect of cholesterol in our food on the level of cholesterol in our blood is actually quite small."

Article Source: Dr Mercola at Mercola.com 

Why Vision Really Matters in Business

“Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.” ~ Sam Walton

If you talk to small business owners about the problems they face in their businesses, many put capital first before any other problems. If capital is not inadequate, it is not available at all many always say. Unknown to these people, many small businesses struggle not for lack of capital, but lack of vision. Foremost American retail entrepreneur Sam Walton of Wal-Mart tells us that from his own experience, capital isn’t always scarce but vision is.  With real vision, you can always work out how and when to raise capital. So vision is superior. Vision by definition is an aspirational description of what an organization would like to achieve or accomplish in the mid-term or long-term future. It is intended to serve as a clear guide for choosing current and future courses of action. Without a vision therefore, it becomes difficult if not impossible to chart a clear future for any business. That is where the real problem usually is and not with capital inadequacy as many small businesses like to report.

If you run a business organization, no matter how small and you are unable to articulate and declare your mid-term and long-term goals, you clearly don’t have a vision for the business. Without these goals, it is impossible to measure progress correctly and to articulate how well you are doing in the business. In most cases, that kind of scenario is always a foretaste to the disaster lurking ahead. That is where vision comes to the rescue. Even the scriptures say, “Without a vision, the people perish.”  It is that serious believe me. Vision no doubt is really very important in the course of any successful business.

Take a look at these names, King Croesus, Pope Sixtus IV, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Benjamin Siegel and Ray Kroc. Do you know what they all have in common? They were all great visioners who made tremendous impacts in their chosen fields of human endeavor and the world appreciates them for it.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”