Orlando Conference Highlights from Mick and Jenny Daly, NMDs

From the Orlando Fall 2010 Leadership Conference...

Highlights

1. New Marketing Materials (click for a complete list).

These include a super new DVD "Bridging the Gap". You can see a short version at your juiceplus.com website and at www.teamjp.net, and order the DVD from www.nsapromoplus.com - for only $2 each! This will be our #1 choice for Wellness Presentations.  Here's the inside of the DVD cover:

 

2. Gordon Hester's PowerPoint Presentations ... these are amazing:

• Team Building Orlando 2010

• Opportunity Orlando 2010

• Mastering the Concept of Discipline Orlando 2010

 

3. Website Improvements - as well as the all new www.childrenshealthstudy.com website (coming in a couple of weeks), our www.juiceplus.com website has had an important facelift.

First, in "Resources" you see a 'teaser' for the awesome new "Bridging the Gap" DVD.

Secondly, you can see below that the "Store" link (at the right hand end of the menu bar) is now highlighted on every page. Also, the main page of the Store itself now has several important new features:

  i. The other Juice Plus+ products are now shown (lower right) - this is great.

  ii. "100% Satisfaction Guarantee" stamp (bottom left); click on it and you see:

"Refund Policy. We offer an unconditional 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee. If you're not completely satisfied with your Juice Plus+ order, call the number below anytime Monday-Friday between 8:00am-5:00pm Central and our Customer Care department will take care of you.

Cancellation Policy. You may cancel your Juice Plus+ shipments at anytime. Just call 1-800-347-6350 or email at customercare@juiceplus.com."

  iii. "C.O.M.O.D.O Authentication" (bottom right); click on this and see the extra assurance 

        that our customers' order information is absolutely safe.

These improvements are just another example that our company refuses to stand still, instead making great tools even greater!

 

4. Children's Health Study - this highlight features a big number: $200 million.

That's how much NSA has invested in our children's health through the Juice Plus+ Children's Health Study over the past 10 years.

In that time 530,000 children (together with their partnering adults) have been enrolled in the study, in 14 countries around the world.

Those children and adults have experienced significant improvements in many ways.

We have a beautiful new brochure (right) and in a couple of weeks we'll have a totally redesigned website with updated results, videos and other cool features, including a link back to your personal juiceplus.com website, if they have already visited that site. This means when they request more information you will get their email rather than corporate.

Three new doctors have been added to the CHS Advisory Board: Dr. Mitra Ray, Dr. Valerie Miles and Dr. David Katz (of Nutrition Detectives fame).

We've blown past a half million children getting free Juice Plus+ through the study; now we're head on to a million. We're making a difference now, let's double that difference!

 

5. Live Life to the Plus+!  This was the 'tag-line' for the Bear Grylls presentation at Conference (watch here).

Live Life to the Plus+ is also the title of a campaign that will feature inspiring stories of people living life to the plus+ in many different ways. Footage of Bear and of our Team Juice Plus+ Four Deserts Runners (watch the video there which includes Dave O'Brien!) will soon feature on a new website www.LiveLifetothePlus.com. They will also star at our Long Beach Conference next March. We'll hear much more about this in the near future.

Live Life to the Plus+ is an exciting new facet to the precious gem that is the Juice Plus+ Experience. It will inspire in terms of health, wealth and life. How are you Living Life to the Plus+? Your story might qualify to be included!

From the Venice European Conference comes a superb new European website, Juice Plus+ Sports: www.juiceplussports.eu. Amongst the many others, read Dave O'Brien's profile and his comments about Juice Plus+; share them with everyone who is serious about their fitness.

We'll be back with more highlights tomorrow...http://www.teamjp.net/orlando

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Michelle Slape - Gen Y Juice Plus Gal...took it all in at the Orlando Juice Plus Conference

http://ardentadventurer.blogspot.com/2010/10/big-o.html

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article: obesity care may cost TWICE previous estimates

 

Obesity care may cost twice previous estimates
17 percent of U.S. medical costs is due to obesity, new study says

  

By MIKE STOBBE

 

updated 10/15/2010 6:48:37 PM ET

 

ATLANTA— Nearly 17 percent of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity, according to new research that suggests the nation's weight problem may be having close to twice the impact on medical spending as previously estimated.

One expert acknowledged that past estimates likely low-balled the costs and said the new study — which places obesity-related medical costs at around $168 billion — probably is closer to the truth.

"I think these are the most recent and perhaps statistically sound estimates that have come out to date," said Kenneth Thorpe, a health policy researcher at Emory University who has focused on the cost of health care.

The new research was done by John Cawley of Cornell University and Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University. It was released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization

An influential recent study released last year — which has been cited by federal health
officials — estimated that obesity-related medical costs have reached $147 billion, or about 9 percent of total medical costs.

The earlier study also estimated that obesity adds about $1,400 to a person's annual medical bills. The new study suggests the added cost is double that, exceeding $2,800.

Cawley and Meyerhoefer used a data base that other obesity researchers have used — a federal survey of U.S. citizens and their doctors and other medical providers, which is considered the most complete information on the cost and use of health care in the
country.

The new study looked at the data base's information on nearly 24,000 non-elderly adult patients from the years 2000 through 2005. Results were reported in 2005 dollars.

Why did Cawley and Meyerhoefer come up with larger estimates?

• Past studies have relied just on self-reported weight, and many people understate their actual weight. The new research made statistical adjustments to come up with
  what are believed to be truer figures.

• The authors tried to better establish that excess weight was a cause for the medical
  costs. Previous studies stopped short of saying obesity caused the costs because there was too great a chance other factors could be  responsible. Cawley and Meyerhoefer tried to overcome that problem by also looking at the weight of study subjects' relatives to determine if obesity ran in the family. If so, they labeled the medical costs of a fat person in that family to be caused by obesity. The two researchers at first were a bit surprised by how large their estimates were, but obesity is clearly a major burden on society, said Cawley, an associate professor of policy analysis and management."

It's hard to find conditions that aren't worsened or made more expensive by obesity," he said.

Thorpe said the new estimates highlight a need to invest more in obesity-fighting programs.

 

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

 

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The World Trades the Majority of Its Hours for Dollars and is Never Satisfied

Have you ever thought about your job in terms of it being a piece to the big picture as to your purpose?  The only really "happy" people that are know are the ones who have discovered their giftedness, identity, and purpose.  Money can buy things to make the moment happy, but those whose jobs become the platform that allows them to pursue their purpose instead of things are by far the happiest.  Think for a minute… am I on the road that is leading to the place where I can stand on a platform to pursue what will make me the happiest???  Read a small blog entry by Seth Godin below to see his perspective on different optional roads you might be on.  A few more things:

• if the whole purpose thing is way beyond you… send an email to juiceplus@thebeavers.net (put "PURPOSE" in the subject and make sure you include your address) and we'll be happy to send you a booklet from Rick Warren on "The Purpose Driven Life"
• try and create a business/job that doesn't require you to trade hours for dollars… that will give you the freedom to spend your time to pursue your God given purpose (it probably won't be an overnight change, but the effort will be worth it)
• thinking that the pursuit of being "happy" is selfish… read this

Four roads

1 - You might be stuck because you pick the wrong fork on a looping road. You keep getting better at the route you cover, but it doesn't go anywhere, you just keep doing it over and over. Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

2 - You might be impatient or unable to stick to your decision to take this particular road, and thus you're always starting on a new road. Since the new road is always strange to you, you rarely get any better at getting where you're going.

3 - You might be on the wrong road. Sure, you get better at navigating your way, you can walk faster, you feel more comfortable--but this road is never going to lead much of anywhere.

4 - And, if you're lucky, you might be on the right road, and getting better as you go.

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The World Trades the Majority of Its Hours for Dollars and is Never Satisfied

Have you ever thought about your job in terms of it being a piece to the big picture as to your purpose?  The only really "happy" people that are know are the ones who have discovered their giftedness, identity, and purpose.  Money can buy things to make the moment happy, but those whose jobs become the platform that allows them to pursue their purpose instead of things are by far the happiest.  Think for a minute… am I on the road that is leading to the place where I can stand on a platform to pursue what will make me the happiest???  Read a small blog entry by Seth Godin below to see his perspective on different optional roads you might be on.  A few more things:

• if the whole purpose thing is way beyond you… send an email to juiceplus@thebeavers.net (put "PURPOSE" in the subject and make sure you include your address) and we'll be happy to send you a booklet from Rick Warren on "The Purpose Driven Life"
• try and create a business/job that doesn't require you to trade hours for dollars… that will give you the freedom to spend your time to pursue your God given purpose (it probably won't be an overnight change, but the effort will be worth it)
• thinking that the pursuit of being "happy" is selfish… read this

Four roads

1 - You might be stuck because you pick the wrong fork on a looping road. You keep getting better at the route you cover, but it doesn't go anywhere, you just keep doing it over and over. Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

2 - You might be impatient or unable to stick to your decision to take this particular road, and thus you're always starting on a new road. Since the new road is always strange to you, you rarely get any better at getting where you're going.

3 - You might be on the wrong road. Sure, you get better at navigating your way, you can walk faster, you feel more comfortable--but this road is never going to lead much of anywhere.

4 - And, if you're lucky, you might be on the right road, and getting better as you go.

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You're Famous- Great Customer Care Ideas (from Seth Godin)

What makes a celebrity special? She was just an ordinary person a month or a year ago, but now, suddenly, your heart goes flitter-flutter when you meet her, or you want an autograph.

One way to consider fame is that it increases the options for the person at the same time the number of demands go up. In other words, celebrity makes the celebrity's attention more valuable.

It's exciting to shake hands or get an autograph from a famous person, then, because the celebrity has something others want, you're getting a slice of attention from someone who has other options. But she didn't exercise those options--she chose you.

By this definition, you're famous. Compared to just a few years ago, more people know you, you have more options and your attention is far more precious than it ever was.

Not just you, of course. Your customers too. They're famous now.

Time to start treating them that way.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/10/youre-famous.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/sethsmainblog+(Seth's+Blog)

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Bear Grylls

www.LiveLifetothePlus.com coming soon.

Bear explains why the juice plus nutrition regimen compels people to do things above and beyond the ordinary life.

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