Mario Cavolo

As a trainer and coach mostly on communications-related needs, health and fitness is also a topic that clients occasionally ask for guidance on. I am personally committed to good health, running 20-30km each week, watch my diet and am very familiar with wellness practices including all forms of exercise, fasting, cleansing, mind and breathing practices such as the various meditations available. Running for health and playing jazz piano as a part-time professional musician are the ways I balance against the business stresses of life.

Fake Blog Internet Scam: Endorsed Acai Berry Diet

With that quick background, I wish to alert our readers to how deceptively sophisticated fake web/blog pages have become including this recent one I found offering acai berry diet programs. They look quite genuine at first glance, promoting products and services which should be avoided because they don't work as claimed and cost way too much. It is easy to get fooled.

Take a look at this acai berry diet "blog" page to see what I mean.

http://www.newyorkchronicle.org/?t202id=423278&t202kw=ads

Fortunately, when you find nasty sites online like this or any product/service you are interested in, you have a powerful defense.

Simply type a keyword string into your search engine to quickly find out the genuine story. The internet is a neutral monster machine tool that often exposes the good and bad we need to know with just a few minutes of digging around.

For example I googled "acai berry diet channel 7 new york chronicle scam or ? " and quickly discovered these fake blogs that don't look so fake at first glance. Well they're not so much fake as grossly misleading and deceptive. There are plenty of obvious complaints about these sites to know to avoid them like the swine flu.

Here in China buyers have serious issues with www.taobao.com, China's version of Ebay. There are millions of legitimate sellers with "taobao shops" but it is another dangerous place because it is still way too easy for scammers to put up fake/copy shops just to get you to be stupid enough to "click to buy now" without first confirming the site is legit. China is a very visual-oriented society, so if it "looks" good, people are too easily lulled into a false sense of comfort and credibility.

The Easy and Better Way To Be Naturally Healthy

Acai berries are a dark, purple colored berry which like any other fruit in the berry/cherry/grape family is wonderfully healthy for you. If you want to go on a simple yet natural two week diet/cleanse type program, simply start eating much more of these foods daily and reduce the level of "American diet" foods such as white breads, cakes and oily/fried foods, plus junk foods.

For example, replace all junk food snacks such as prepackaged cookies/crackers/potato chips with fresh cherries, an apple, peach or banana. Simple. No crazy dieting, no drastic changes; just a couple of food substitutions like that and your body will feel the difference. Instead of buying any pre-made sugar softdrinks, buy fresh lemons, make fresh lemonade and store it in the refrigerator. Yes add sugar! Fresh squeezed lemons with some added sugar is a helluva lot more healthy than a bottled drink with chemicals, additives and zero fresh fruit nutrition, right?

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Google, like others, has noticed that innocuous sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are blocked in China for no good reason.

Even intelligent, respected investment analysts at Marketwatch like John Dvorak make such silly statements.

For no good reason?

Foreign companies get blocked in China because its good for Chinese companies in the same business. Its not about censorship. Its about marketshare.

Its just business people!! Don't make it into a big fancy dance about censorship and politics. Those are PR misdirections...

Cheers, Mario

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Information in this article comes from sources believed to be reliable. Mario Cavolo does not provide investment advice to individuals, nor act as an investment advisor, nor individually advocate the purchase or sale of any security or investment. The author may or may not hold positions in issues referred to in this article. No representations are to be taken as advice or recommendation by the author to buy or sell any asset. Copyright © 2010, Mario Cavolo. All Rights Reserved.