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Did you see the natural household cleaning products from Gaiam and Seventh Generation on The Today Show? If you’re like me, you typed Gayam into Google. Nope. Then Giam, Gayum, Gaiyum, Gaim… Dag-On-It !!!!

OK, so the company is called Gaiam. Here is an easy way to remember if you ever need to go back to the site and want to Google it: Gaia is actually a Greek Goddess that personifies what we think of as “Mother Earth“. So what Gaiam has done is to combine the Greek Goddess “Gaia” with “I Am” to sort of say: We are all Mother Earth. I Am Mother Earth. Get it?

Pretty neat, but very difficult to remember how to spell.

Now get on over to Gaiam.com and get yourself some of those natural cleaning products so you can keep from getting cancer after mopping the kitchen floor!

PS: They have some pretty sweet yoga stuff too.

Remember last November when Oprah had Dr. Oz on the show? I thought that was a great show, and since it happened before I started this blog… I figured it was worth a revisit.

Dr. Oz says he can help you drop a dress size in ten days, safely and without weight loss drugs. He talked about “The Biology of Blubber” and which five ingredients to avoid. Oprah also featured a few gym-free 20 minute workout videos recommended by Dr. Oz.

So here’s my double question: Did YOU buy his book, “YOU: On a Diet” and did it work for you? My guess is it did. But only if you followed the directions. How do I know? Everything he mentions is common sense. Then again, maybe it just “seems” like common sense because it’s good advice. Let’s explore:

Know Your Body
Understand how your internal organs work. Get a grasp on your endocrine system, and the digestive process. (My thoughts: They should have taught you this stuff in grade school health class. If you don’t know it, losing weight is the least of your problems.)

Waist is More Important than Weight
This is because muscle weights more than fat, and you can be losing fat and building muscle at the same time. (My thoughts: It makes sense that you can lose weight and gain muscle when first starting an exercise program, but eventually – and soon – you will have to choose one or the other. Why? Because it takes a caloric deficit to lose fat, and an excess of proteins to gain muscle. Finding a balance that allows you to do both is something bodybuilders spend all day on. And you probably have better things to do. Right?)

Stay Satisfied
The idea is not to starve yourself. To lose weight, you need to eat. It might now seem to make sense but it does. (My thoughts: Crash and fad diets require you to practically starve yourself, if not of food than at least of nutrients (Cabbage diet? Yea right…). When your body senses that it is starving, the natural reaction is to slow down the metabolism. Thus, when you come “off” your diet, the rebound can put you in a larger dress size than when you started).

Those are just a few of the ideas outlined in YOU On a Diet by Dr. Oz. They all seem to make perfect sense to me. Are they “common” sense though? Only if you can tell me the difference off the top of your head between saturated fats, unsaturated fats, monosaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats.

So what’s your excuse for not working out? No time? No Gym? Wrong! Here is Dr. Oz’s kill-your-excuse page on Oprah.

Today on Montel, we meet victims who have become vigilantes in their quest for justice. One of the guests is Roger, the father of Ali Kemp, an unfortunate victim of a murder in Johnson County, Kansas. Roger used billboard campaigns to help track down his daughter’s killer, and now works to prevent the same thing from happening to other young women.

Dedicated to the memory of Alexandra “Ali” Kemp, The Ali Kemp Educational (TAKE) Foundation provides defense training to girls and young women. Their motto is: You Have It in You.

Participants learn the basics of self-defense, in addition to awareness education. The programs goal is to build self-confidence and empower young women.

So far the T.A.K.E. Foundation has educated more than 8,000 women in self defense. I think this is a fantastic program, but I am a little confused as to how those outside of Kansas City can T.A.K.E. advantage of the classes. We suggest you contact TAKE and ask about self defense programs in your area. They may know of some to suggest. In the meantime, the TAKE Foundation has provided a few tips of how to protect yourself.

After watching the show, all I can say is WAY TO GO! My hat goes off to the victims and family members of victims who don’t give up until the twisted people who commit sick crimes like rape and murder are put behind bars. If I had my way, every man who rapes a woman (or girl) would have his private parts cut off and fed to sharks while he watched. Ok, I’m getting a little emotional. Time to stop the blogging for today.