By Peter Greenlaw and Dr. Dennis Harper

Another failed diet.  Unfortunately, those words ring hollow and true for many Americans who are left wondering why diets consistently fail them.

There are many answers to this question, but a primary reason is the polluted world in which we live.  Major studies conducted by Mount Sinai Medical School and National Geographic have shown that our bodies are storing pollution, acid and impurities in fat cells.  The more impurities we ingest, the more fat cells our bodies create.  This is one of the main reasons why over 75 percent of America is overweight, and why 3 million Americans weigh over 500 pounds.

The answer would seem to be a diet with the proper amount of nutrition – eat healthy and cleanse the body.  However, in order for the body to naturally cleanse itself of impurities, it needs proper nutrients that contain trace minerals (by ingesting trace minerals and rare earth elements in a high nutrition diet, enzymes can more rapidly break down food and cleanse the body).  The problem with this solution is that there are no more trace minerals in our food.

In a report to the US Senate in 1936, it was reported that American soil had become “almost void of trace minerals” due to the use of pesticides and herbicides, and the fact that farmers no longer rotated their fields.  Today, in 2009, the problem has only been exacerbated, and America is considered to be the most overfed and undernourished society on the planet.  In fact, our food supply is so nutritionally bankrupt that it would take about 12 apples in 2009 to equal the nutrition in just one apple from 1976.  The nutrition in a bowl of spinach from 1957 requires 51 bowls of spinach in 2009.

It’s with this dilemma in mind that 21st century thinking is taking over when it comes to nutritional health.  Scientists, doctors, health advocates and other health professionals are backing the attributes of nutritional cleansing, a viable option that is rapidly gaining momentum among people who want a new way to lose weight and achieve overall wellness in their bodies.  They are discovering the benefits of flooding their body with massive amounts of nutrients, trace minerals, fats and proteins, leaving the body satisfied without having to overindulge on food.

While trendy diets and dramatic steps such as stomach stapling continue to be the solutions people are turn to for their weight and health problems, nutritional science is an option that cannot be overlooked.  As people become more aware of the value of nutritional cleansing, it’s likely the choice they’ll make to lose weight, gain energy and improve their lifestyle.

Peter Greenlaw and Dr. Harper have spent the past several years researching nutritional science and the health benefits of nutritional cleansing.  They are both considered experts on the subject, and can be reached at 303-589-7087

Mr. Greenlaw will be speaking at the Hilton Garden Inn/Allen, 705 Central Expressway, in Allen Texas on December 3, 2009 at 7:30PM..

For more information, please contact Kerry Erling at 214-295-7631 or you may pre-register for this FREE seminar at http://www.cleansing-coach.com/seminar-signup-form.htm

– Providing individuals with the opportunity to manage and organize their busy lives; R2 Business Ventures announced today that it has launched the website http://www.groupusup.com.

The website www.GroupUsUp.com. is a social networking community site focused on allowing individuals to form groups for anything or join groups such as clubs, family, friends, neighbors, neighborhoods, HOA’s, organizations, teams, co-workers, alumni, non-profit, jobs & career, business, social, charities, nightlife, sports and more.

Managing Partner Rick Erling adds; “Our early market gap analysis uncovered a need for an easy to use community social networking site that is focused on groups, rather than individuals. We wanted a way for people to organize their lives by having a place to socialize with groups that they have a common interest with.”

With the Group Us Up! concept of “groups for anything”, there is no limit to the benefits of having an outlet to organize your members. You decide if your own profile and the groups you create are public or private and you also decide who to invite. Groups can have multiple discussion forums, photo albums, file attachments and your members can also post blogs, organize events and keep track of who’s attending those events.

Mr. Erling adds; “We have neighborhood and HOA groups that are staying connected and sharing information about their groups and organizing social events. Intramural sports teams and booster clubs are also using it to organize and provide updates on when practices are, where the games take place and plan fundraising events. Businesses are getting onboard for internal corporate communications and reaching out to new customers and partners. There is no limit to the benefits of having an outlet to organize right from your home or anywhere, anytime you have web connection.”

As Mr. Erling and his team grow Group Us Up! they will be depending on their members to provide input on functionality to make Group Us Up! as user friendly as their members desire.

Membership is FREE and signing up is quick and easy at http://www.groupusup.com/.

This fall, free outdoor concerts will be offered in downtown Arlington in the one-of-a-kind Leavitt Pavilion. Designed to be a gathering place for the community, it will be the only amphitheater of its kind in Texas.

Fifty free concerts are planned to take place at the pavilion once it opens in the fall of this year. A gift of $250,000 from the Mortimer Levitt Foundation kicked off the planning for this attraction that will become the crowning jewel of Founder’s Plaza. A fundraising campaign in underway to secure the remainder of the funds needed to complete construction.

Pavilion Gives a Cultural Boost to Downtown

As the city of Arlington continues to develop, this gem will provide an added benefit for anyone seeking to purchase Arlington real estate. The city hopes the free concerts will engage a diverse cross section of the city, providing them with social and cultural enrichment that was previously unavailable in this community.

The Mortimer Leavitt Foundation has a History of Enriching Lives

The first Leavitt Pavilion was established over 30 years ago in Westport, Connecticut. The foundation has continued to bestow the gift of artistic enrichment on chosen communities who will benefit from such a gift, including Pasadena, California and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Proposed openings of new pavilions, in addition to the one planned in Arlington, include Memphis, Tennessee and MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. All three new pavilions are expected to host their first concerts during 2008.

The addition of the Leavitt Pavilion to Founder’s Square will provide a wealth of beautifying open space and enriching artistic showmanship to those lucky enough to call Arlington home.

As Colleyville keeps an eye on the future in terms of the city’s potential growth, it has asked the Fort Worth Transportation Authority to include a proposed Colleyville light rail station as part of an upcoming environmental impact study. Existing rail service connects Fort Worth and Dallas, and is becoming an increasingly popular way to decrease traffic and pollution.

The addition of a light rail option for commuters could boost the values of Colleyville real estate, offering an attractive transportation option for those who wish to live in Colleyville but work in Dallas or Fort Worth.

Fort Worth Transit Helps Boost Home Sales

Fort Worth real estate has received a shot in the arm from The T, with a special program offering incentives for homebuyers who purchase property within one-quarter of a mile from a T transit route in southeast Fort Worth.

The program, called Smart Commute®, allows potential home buyers to add the estimated decreased commute expenses to their income, increasing the amount of qualifying income and opening up more purchasing options. Under the program, single income households can add $200 per month and dual income households can add $250 per month to qualifying income.

Loans under this program are available through participating program lenders and applicants must meet normal loan qualification requirements.

The use of light rail in metropolitan areas only makes sense. It offers a convenient commuting option that will reduce the amount of traffic and lower pollution levels. The addition of a light rail station to Colleyville could provide an easier transit from this community’s beautiful neighborhoods into the employment centers of Fort Worth, Dallas and the Metroplex.

My friend told me Halloween night at Prestonwood (Baptist Church) previous years, but we never went because my husband feels it’s important to go around our own neighborhood even though not many kids (almost none) go around Trick or Treatin’ around here. She said there are rides and games and it’s really fun for kids. We’re likely going to go for other reasons, but you can check out the website for more info here.

There’s also a site that lists things to do for Halloween around Dallas.

It’s kind of sad because Halloween seem to be so different from what I remember when I was a kid. We use to be able to go out (by ourselves) and just have fun. Now everything has changed and it’s all so scary (not in the Halloween sense) and parents go with the kids and also goes to other neighborhood intead of their own.

So there’s an article on the neighborhood Little Forest Hills on the Front page of the Dallas Morning News. It was title ‘We got discovered’. I knew the article was coming out, but didn’t know when. The mention of Subdivided by local documentary film maker Dean Terry was in there. It was made as an artistic and personal piece but really turned into something that is powerful and gets you to think.

The film had been broadcast on PBS’ KERA for the Dallas Metro area the beginning of this year and has garnered awards including the World Fest Award for Creative Excellence (and another one that has not been announced, so I can’t mention yet). It was also selected in the Utopia Film Festival which runs October 26-October 28 in Maryland. The film has been quoted as “absolutely beautiful” by Rober Wilonsky of The Dallas Observer. The film has touched many and brought out feelings they were not able to pin point before. It features interviews from Andres Duany (Suburban Nation), Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone, Better Together), and others who had studied the effects of sprawls and suburbia. The DVD has extra interviews that were left out of the final cut.

I personal know the story and I lived it just as the film was made. I lived in Little Forest Hills a month or so prior to finding our first home in North Dallas. The mistake we made was looking for a kind of house (contemporary) and didn’t spend as much time with researching about the neighborhood. At Little Forest Hills, we took afternoon walks and people waved and says hi (yes even if you don’t know them). Far different in far North Dallas. People don’t wave hi or say hi, they sometimes walk across the street to the other side of the sidewalk to avoid any eye contact (yeah, amazing but true). This is of course my experience and I can’t say the same for others, but it really was a “cold” feeling living in North Dallas. Luckily, we found another neighborhood that had the friendly vibe of Little Forest Hills, but I’m not going to say where since I don’t exactly want it to be “discovered”…at least by the developers (although you can tell they are sneaking in).

Majority of the people at Little Forest Hills have been trying to get the neighborhood to be a conservation neighborhood and they’ve been using the tagline of “Keep Little Forest Hills Funky”. Which is a perfect fit. It is indeed “funky” and you just can’t create neighborhoods like this and developers are coming in and building the McMansions. This does ruin the neighborhood’s feel of funkiness and uniqueness. Alot of people want the conservation to go through just to provide guidelines for rebuilts (a lot of houses are on the small side, but rebuilding does not mean it has to be huge and look like every other house), but because of some that don’t, it makes it hard to get it done. The City of Dallas should just make the call and save this neighborhood and maintain it’s funky charm. I mean, does Dallas really want all the houses to turn into McMansions?

*Subdivided DVD is also available at some libraries: Harvard, UT Dallas, Dallas Libary, and more. But of course, you should support independent art and buy the DVD!