Dr Dave's Week in Review - part 2

Lazlo was lamenting the loss of muscle tone in Hollywood in the last blog entry.

Come to think of it, he's right; today's Hollywood heroines are not the buff babes that walked the red carpet a decade or so ago.

Yoga and Pilates have taken over the Hollywood psyche for the moment. As it turns out exercise fads in Hollywood do last longer than most of the marriages but not much.

Lazlo's pick for the next Hollywood exercise fad: Capoeira, an African martial art/dance form that is sure to hurl your heart rate into the stratosphere.

While we are predicting the future we may as well pick the next supplement du jour for diet pills: Char De Burge. This "South Amercian rain forest herb" is sure to be a big hit if the Hoodia hoo doo ever dies down.

Hoodia at least seems to work a bit by itself and works even better when compounded with other weight loss agents which you'll be hearing about soon..

Char de burge is caffeine by any other name. I guess I should point out that it might contain something a bit different, matteine. Does that sound like caffeine to you?

Well it is by any other name but because of a tiny chemical difference, some folks are trying to pass it off as caffeine free. They won't get away with it, however, as the FDA had their Instant Einstein that day and made the boys from Brazil label it as caffeine.

Moving right along we have an Instant Einstein award for the Dubai Ports Corporation.

The whole concept of letting a foreign country take over our ports got ugly when the President and the Congress/Senate went to battle over veto issues.

Seems that giving control of some of our ports to a foreign country is not a good idea, especially when they look and speak like some of our avowed enemies.

The fact that they are our allies didn't make an impression on many and bringing up that fact is political suicide.

So only a few politicians bit into that cyanide pill.

The real smarts of this move is that it takes some pressure off a beleaguered president who is at his lowest support level ever, and still allows everyone to be happy.

Dubai Ports Corp may very well transfer control of the ports to an American company that they already own.

So, contrary to what one politician said about the situation: It does mater who signs the check.

In my blog entry, "Somebody get a message to Dubya", a few days back and a few paragraphs below this one, I stressed the need for the Prez to start popping fish oil and Einstein everyday.

A day or so later was an article on how Bill Clinton is a reformed junk food addict. The now self professed helath food junky is undoubltedly popping some fish oil on a daily basis.

Which brings us to the music scene.

David Gilmore, of Pink Floyd (I could never figure out if he was Pink and Roger Waters, his "arch nemesis" and former band mate, was Floyd) celebrated his 60th birthday with the release of a new solo album.

Now that is what I call successful anti-aging.

The Instant Einstein timing award goes to country super couple Tim McGraw and gorgeous wife Faith Hill.

For those of you who don't know, country music represents the absolute epitome of fundamentalist values in this country including support for a conservative president.

For a country musician to come out against anything the president does or says is almost unheard of. The Dixie chicks did this at the start of the second Iraq war and were immediately blacklisted and their career damaged.

Times apparently have changed, however.

Now that old Dubya really does have a bona fide "deer in the headlights look" on his face because his popularity is so low it becomes safe and OK to jump on the band wagon and speak out against the war.

What was bordering on treason 3 years ago has become patriotic.

Congrats to Tim and Faith for their statements against the war. Not because I agree or disagree, but because you could not have timed it better.

The beautifully staged publicity shot of the fabulous couple speaks volumes about their agent/publicists ability to gauge the safety of the move and the end result. You get to look like the first on the block to have the courage to speak your minds.

Rumor has it the Dixie Chicks are making a bit of a comeback these days.

Sorry, girls, you should have learned a lesson from the Nash Metropolitan.

The Nash was one of the first attempts to produce a small, affordable, gas-miserly auto that was cheap to insure. It just happened to be about 30 years ahead of its time.

And you know what they say, Timing is everything. Next time pop some fish oil and Instant Einstein.

The bird flu doesn't seem to want to die. It keeps on slowly but surely advancing westward toward the U.S. now showing up in some of the Scandinavian countries.

As of this writing 175 people have died from it which is about three times the number that I first told you back in November when I first wrote about it.

Certainly no pandemic yet but not to be ignored. The prospect of a year round flu threat becomes more and more a reality as we learn that we are not prepared to contain viral illnesses coming in form other countries very well.

Major airports around the country have admitted that they will have to rely on "state and local authorities for help" if a bunch of sick people land.

Sounds frighteningly like Hurricane Katrina doesn't it.

Better load up on Immune and Cardio Boost while you can.

Finally that brings us to the internet.

Two weeks ago I wrote to you about some disturbing trends in the way the internet is running. I used to think that Big Brother meant the government. Now I am convinced the real threat is Big Business.

If you want proof that every move you make on the internet is being tracked and analyzed and plotted go to Google and search for Ad aware SE. Download this and run it. If you've never done this, you will be horrified to find out that you have hundreds of "tracking cookies" all legally following your every move on the net.

And while you are at it remember some internet providers don't let my stuff through or hold it up for hours because it might be spam, even if you are signed up for my emails.

But I wonder where all those tracking cookies came from. Couldn't be related to your internet provider could it?

What sites you go to, where you buy and so on and so forth. Someone is watching you, I promise.

Never did I dream that I would be doing something that is cutting edge from the standpoint of the internet but it appears as if blogging is new to some. A few people were upset with me because the email titles and descriptions did not match the blog they were directed too when they clicked.

As they say, where there is smoke there is fire, so I think I'd better explain in case there are some other folks who are confused as well.

A blog is a continuous stream of consciousness type of writing. Whenever a new blog is added, it displaces the old one from being first in line. Unlike email, the way our blog and most blogs are set up the article does not have a specific site or address other than the blog.

What often happens is your Internet Service Provider didn't take their Instant Einstein that day and held up the delivery of the initial email that tells you there is a new blog to read. So you get it 6 or 8 hours later and in the meantime I've written another one with a different title and posted it.

You go to the blog expecting to see the article the meail refers to and you se something completely different

Not being of the under 35 generation I don't know how to fix this but my webmaster is working on it. At age 29 and a devoted User of Instant Einstein I am sure he will find a way.

Some of you have already balked at the suggestion that we will eventually go to a paid blog or emails even if there are costs to us associated with bringing them too you.

I can understand this as there are always free sources of information out there. However, the time of webmasters and the time I take to write is not free.

It's kind of like shipping and handling. When someone balks at the charges we simply remind them the bottles do not neatly assemble themselves on the shelves, jump off in to the boxes and wrap themselves into pre addressed boxes.

But back to free for a second. I saw a commercial for something called Focus something or other the other day. It was on TV and this woman who looked like a whole bottle of Instant Einstein and Super Wrinkle Guard wouldn't be enough, screeched into the microphone, "They let you try it for freeeeeee, it must be good."

Right.

I am sure there are no ulterior motives to giving away free stuff, like maybe it wasn't selling and you have to give it away to get people to try your other stuff.

You get what you pay for in most cases but for the moment you're getting me free too!

So I must be good too right? Like I always say, "Others will copy but none compare".

Finally a word about supplements.

Lazlo asked me if I could come up with something called "Instant Personality in a bottle".

Seems he wants a date with Jessica Alba.

That is not likely to be doable with our current technology Lazlo but I do have some things like fish oil Hercules Factor, Instant Einstein and Regenerizer to help keep you studly, smart and sexy when the big day comes.

Some of you have also asked when Super Wrinkle Gurad will be available.

Recall we released it as one day only pre production sale a few weeks back.

Here's the thing. It's done, it's awesome and is in our warehouse.
Problem is we are waiting on the labels which have to be compliant with FDA recommendations.

Therein lies the hold up. The labels may take a few weeks to be finished. For those of you who are in a hurry to get started, we can ship yours out with a paper sheet listing all the ingredients dosages etc if you send an email to nancyb405@verizon.net saying you understand there will be no label on the bottle and that you are fine with that.

I've enjoyed writing to you about his very interesting and dynamic week with all its highs and lows.

Thanks for your time and thanks for joining me.

All the Best, Always,

The one and only

Dr Dave