An antioxidant superfood you may not have heard of...

Did you know that one of the most potent antioxidants on the planet has been typically just thrown away for years as garbage?

While most people have heard that blueberries, pomegranate, red wine, green tea, and even coffee are potent sources of antioxidants... most people have never heard that coffee-berry (the berry that covers the coffee bean) is actually one of the most powerful antioxidants on the planet.

Up until recently, most of the "coffee-berry" was just seen as waste and thrown away. In recent years, researchers have discovered the super-antioxidant abilities of coffee-berry and are now making it available as an antioxidant supplement.

Of course, we know that getting high levels of antioxidants in your diet is important for fighting the free-radicals involved in aging, cancer risk, and other degenerative diseases -- as well as supporting a healthy immune system, and skin protection.

Can you imagine how powerful of antioxidant protection that you can get if you combine all of these super-antioxidants into one:

• high ORAC coffee-berry
• acai-berry
• pomegranate
• green tea
• wolf berry
• red wine

Well, that's exactly what I wanted to do... so a couple months ago, my friends at Prograde Nutrition actually called me and asked for my recommendation for a new antioxidant formulation they were developing.

I recommended formulating it with 5 or 6 of these super-antioxidants all into one to get the best of all worlds.

The final formulation, which includes all six of the antioxidants listed above, came out with an ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) high enough that you'd have to eat a full pound of raspberries to get the same ORAC.

The red wine antioxidants are actually from something called Biovin Grape, which is extracted from red wine grapes.

I think that when you combine several powerful antioxidants like this all together that they will work synergistically to provide an even stronger antioxidant protection than any one of them alone.

Prograde has called this new formulation - Prograde Longevity.
http://natural.getprograde.com/longevity

To celebrate the launch of the new antioxidant formula, Prograde is having an 11%-off sale for this entire week from Nov-24 to Nov-28.

When you're checking out, you need to put in this code in the coupon bar to get the 11% off:
thanks (in lowercase)

And you can also use the 11%-off sale to stock up on Prograde Cravers (the organic snack bars) and the Krill Oil (for omega 3's, phospholipids, and even more antioxidant protection)... just look on the left sidebar for "nutritional bars" and "essential fatty acid".

**Unfortunately, Prograde is still only available for shipping in the US and Canada, but trust me... I've been hounding them to make it available overseas as well. Hopefully, that is coming soon, and I'll let you know when it is available.

Here's the page to take advantage of the 11%-off launch sale on the new Prograde Longevity Antioxidant Formula (this week only):

>> http://natural.getprograde.com/longevity

Enjoy!

I'll be back in a few days with more exercise and nutrition tips for you.
Til next newsletter,
Don't be lazy... be lean.

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - TruthAboutAbs.com & BusyManFitness.com


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3 Random Fitness Tips - onions, watermelon, and workouts?

Here's a new newsletter with a few random fitness tips about watermelons, onions, and unique workouts.

Ideas for Adding Some Fitness to Your Holiday Shopping

The holiday shopping season is here now, and why not consider giving some fitness related gifts to friends and family?

I know I did about half of my holiday shopping on Amazon (so convenient), so if you're going to be there anyway, here are some great products that I recommend adding to your cart:

1. The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, by Dr Jonny Bowden (I love this one... highly recommended, and great gift too)
at Amazon >> http://tinyurl.com/healthiest-food

2. Nourishing Traditions, by Sallon Fallon (the first 90 pgs or so of this book is probably the best nutrition overview I've ever read... the rest is mostly recipes, some of them pretty unique)
at Amazon >> http://tinyurl.com/nourish-traditions

3. The Cheat to Lose Diet, by Joel Marion (I met Joel recently and he's a great guy with a great book here... this is similar to the method that I recommend of "strategic cheat days")
at Amazon >> http://tinyurl.com/cheat-to-lose

4. The New Rules of Lifting, by Alwyn Cosgrove and Lou Schuler (Alwyn is one of the guys in the fitness industry that I've always respected highly)
at Amazon >> http://tinyurl.com/new-lifting-rules

Another Holiday gift idea:

If you know anybody that's been suffering from back pain, one of my colleagues has a great DVD program that could be a good gift for them:

>> http://MyBackPainExperts.com

Happy shopping!

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - TruthAboutAbs.com & BusyManFitness.com

Beware of the "Acai-Berry-Cleanse" Scam

Don't fall for these FAKE blogs selling the Acai-Berry Scam!

One of my goals for this newsletter has always been to try to make sure that I can help give you a "heads up" when I see another fitness scam entering the market.

That way, I can save you from becoming another victim of these rampant products, pills, and gadgets that are pure garbage.

This latest scam is ALL OVER the internet everywhere you look. What they are doing is setting up FAKE blogs with women's names appended to some type of "fat loss" or "weight loss" term in the blog name and then claiming such things as:

"Hi my name is Annie, this is my blog, and I lost 72 lbs in only 5 weeks using this miracle acai-berry fat loss pill...without any exercise"

or

"my name is Heather and I lost 41 lbs in only 19 days by taking this miracle fat loss acai-berry pill"

or

"Hi my name is Suzie... you'll never believe it, but I lost 29 lbs in 1 week by using this new acai-berry... it's really a miracle!"

Well, I can tell you that Suzie, Heather, and Annie DIDN'T lose any weight by taking some ridiculous acai-berry pill. Because Suzie, Heather, and Annie DON'T EXIST!

They are all fake blogs with made up people and made up stories. You'll see this with dozens of other fake women's blog names as well - Kim, Elen, Destiny, etc, etc... they're all fake!

Now here's the real deal...

Acai berries are actually an extremely healthy and anti-oxidant rich fruit... but they ARE NOT a miracle weight loss cure. They are a good source of antioxidants, plain and simple.

So any of these new companies popping up all over the internet claiming that they have the new miracle fat loss cure with their acai-cleanse supplement... well, I would steer clear of them altogther... If they are lying about the benefits of the supplement, then how can you trust them to even know if they're actually using any real acai ingredients in the capsules? You actually don't.

My point here is to not trust anyone that claims their acai-berry supplement helps with fat loss. It doesn't.

Keep in mind that I do believe that acai berries are a great source of antioxidants. In fact, they are even a more concentrated source of antioxidants than blueberries. I even use acai-berry frozen puree to make smoothies fairly often.

I actually like acai as an antioxidant so much that I recommended that it be included in a new antioxidant formulation that my good friends at Prograde Nutrition (one of the VERY few supplement companies that I trust) recently put together.

I'm actually pretty excited about this new antioxidant formula because I got to give some of my recommendations and they are putting together 5 or 6 of the most powerful antioxidants into one formula.

Check it out here: http://natural.getprograde.com/longevity

Keep in mind that a lot of the fake blogs out there lately are also promoting various "colon cleansing" products and "miracle wu-tea" products, so beware of those in addition to the acai-cleanse fake blogs.

Last note for today: My friend and colleague Craig Ballantyne has an exclusive new package he just put together of DVDs, bodyweight cardio workouts, his brand new hotel workouts, and lots more...

http://tinyurl.com/5arcaj

Til next newsletter,
Don't be lazy... be lean.

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - TruthAboutAbs.com & http://busymanfitness.com/


How to Lose Your Belly Fat

Who is Crazy Enough to Actually Try to Gain Weight by Overeating?

Well, that would be me!

Yes, this article I did recently created quite a buzz as people couldn't believe that I actually did a 6-week experiment on myself where I purposely was overeating every day.

There is a caveat... this doesn't mean that I was gorging myself with donuts, fried chicken, candy, cupcakes, and other junk food.

Instead, I was sticking to pretty healthy foods, but believe me... I was eating a LOT of full-fat foods, and it's shocking to some people that I didn't gain a single pound during these 6-weeks of constantly overeating on full fat foods.

Check out the details of the story here:

My 6-week Overeating Experiment in Weight Management & Hormonal / Appetite Response

Enjoy!

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
TruthAboutAbs.com & BusyManFitness.com

The best abs & obliques exercises

I have a good article for you today with some ideas for exercises for the obliques and ab workouts you can do at home as well.

With all of the useless "torso twist" machines and other worthless oblique exercises out there, this will help with some better alternatives.

My friend Craig Ballantyne contributed the article for this ezine issue.

Check out the article below, which includes exercise pictures and descriptions:
http://www.truthaboutabs.com/ab-workouts-oblique-exercises.html

Enjoy the workouts! If you want to share these exercise ideas with your friends, feel free to post this link on your facebook or myspace pages, or on your blog.

Also, if you didn't know, Craig has a new program dedicated to abdominal workouts that can be done at home. Check it out:

HomeAbdominalWorkouts.com

I'll be back in a few days with more Lean-Body Training & Nutrition Tips.

Til next ezine,
Don't be lazy... be lean.

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - TruthAboutAbs.com & BusyManFitness.com


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