Hail Merry Hypothesis and Living It Out Loud

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Rejuvenation – for both skin, body, mind – is always at the top of your and my thoughts. The difficulty comes in committing yourself to, and genuinely making a decision to do something positive for ourselves.

Having three kids and approaching the spot in life when self-fulfillment and living healthy inside-out do make a difference, this heroic woman with a bold name Susan O’Brien introduced herself to the Hail Merry hypothesis. And then took action.

Oh, you are not familiar with such a trendy hypothesis? Let me share with you Susan O’Brien’s adventure and her Hail Merry experience.

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What got started Susan on the way of personal rejuvenation is a personal challenge to eat raw. After being a busy mom and having a career in design, one day she had her mind set on green and raw living. That’s where the Hail Merry hypothesis begins.


CelebrateWoman (CW) Susan, what got you started on the path of developing your own raw products?

Susan O’Brien (Susan) For a long time, I wanted to change my life patterns and rejuvenate from inside out. What can I do to stay and feel young in mind and body? Without a delay, I went on a master cleanse for two-and-a-half weeks. Finishing it was a major accomplishment for me.

Raw eating was a natural transition to real tastes in fruit, veggies, grains, herbs. Eating healthy meals daily for eight-nine months in a row showed me true results of living a healthy, energy-ful, and joyful life. Everything inside of me was improving.

It is at that time, when I was experimenting with a zillion of new ingredients and tastes, the hypothesis of Hail Merry was born: What if all of us could eat such delicious foods without spending too much time preparing it?

Hail Merry proved excellent results in health and rejuvenation for me. Hail Merry is a proven hypothesis that raw foods can and do taste great, and can be easily available to anyone who is eager to journey into reality of new fresh tastes.

CW Susan, what was your life before you started Hail Merry ... and after ...?

Susan I had a busy career in medical lab design for hospitals. It was great and was part of my journey where I’m today.

But I always wanted to be in control of my own destiny. Being employed, I was always faced with politics. That is why the name Hail Merry represents so much ‘girl power,’ ‘independence,’ and ‘life with perks.’ That’s where the name of the company comes from.

The whole philosophy behind a concept and products of Hail Merry is the connection of mind and body, and soul. I’m not a religious person, rather I am a very spiritual person.

Experiencing so many wonderful results in my own body and soul by eating raw, I wanted to expand that concept to many more people outside just myself. That’s how Hail Merry materialized from my eating raw and having my whole body healed and starting performing like I was eighteen again. Eating raw does help to bring mind on board for the body to perform, and for a person to live her dream.

CW Who are those remarkable people that influenced your creative, professional, and personal life that lead you to starting and sustaining this company?

Susan My dear husband Steve is an amazing marketing brain. From him, I learned what makes a great Brand work and function like a natural organism. He mentored me on all things “brand.” I am very thankful and fortunate for having him in my live.

CW Susan, has your involvement with Hail Merry products and company changed your self-image, and your relationships with family, friends, romantic involvement?

Susan For sure. Kids respect me for what I do and share with other people. Having my own company taught me to be realistic in what I create and sell.

As for self-image, I always wanted to create something of my own, experiment with a lot of new things. Hail Merry gave me an opportunity of a life-time to embark on a journey of reaching goals and enjoy the process of doing so.

With all public exposure, however, I still am a very private person, protecting my family’s  personal life.

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Hail Merry hypothesis for Susan O’Brien has proved to be her life-time wanted journey into raw living foods. And she does it with joy and dedication that any passion calls for.

What’s Next: How Delicate Success Is? – Susan shares it all

PS: If you have any questions to Susan, please leave them in the comments below. She will definitely read and answer them.
PPS: If you know a woman-entrepreneur who has created healthy product(s), please let me know, so we could spread the word about her and her contribution to this planet.

Disclosure: I only review products I believe in. I am not compensated for my opinions.

Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Slow Arsenic In Child's 'Healthy Meals'

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Save Your Kids Now, While They Are Forming Their Eating And Behavioral Preferences

You love your kids and grandkids. You buy them stuff: food, toys, clothes. You mean the best for their health and quality of life. Don't you?

Have you reminded yourself about what it is in those lunch and fast-food-places' combo meals?

Sure your child needs to be fed. But does the nutrition that comes in a cartoon-embellished box truly serve your child's body's needs?

More often than not, kid's foods – a.k.a. 'happy meals' – offered by the big establishments like McDonald's, Burger King, Jack in the Box and alike, lure little ones by gifting a toy in a brightly colored package. Of course it's hard for our little ones to resist. They will take that food, in that type of package any time.

Well, times are changing. We learn more. We self-educate. We implement. A child's body cannot wait... for good nutrition.

Here are good references to remind you and me of making healthy choices for our kids and ourselves.

Health.com website offers some great reminders for us, grown-ups.

10 Kid-Targeted Junk Foods
Do you think it is ethical to use cartoon characters to market junk, literally junk, foods to your children?

25 Diet-Busting Foods You Should Never Eat
These foods may list all great ingredients in the world. However, when they have two pounds of sugar per serving, is it really good for you?

25 Suprisingly-Salty Processed Foods
Same story here: great ingredients, but something's wrong with proportions per serving plus food preservation mechanism.

You may be interested to read this manifesto by Boyd Jentzsch:
Prevent Childhood Obesity. Save Generation of Kids.

We need to make food marketers stop marketing unhealthy foods – slow arsenic – to kids, using cartoons and other kids-favorite things. How? Just stop buying such products for your child's sake. Stop feeding slow arsenic to your children. Your child does have a chance to grow up with chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, on such super-cartoonish diets.

Do you wish the best for your child?

Make your mind and choices now.

Celebrate Your Choice Today

Disclosure: I only review products I believe in. I am not compensated for my opinions.

Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Grilled Vegetable Salad with Feta and Kalamata Olives

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Here's a healthy meals recipe by Mareya Ibrahim, Eat Cleaner Creator.

Do use Eat Cleaner to wash your fresh veggies in the recipe to enjoy their fresh and true taste!

Grilled Vegetable Salad with Feta and Kalamata Olives

Marinade/Dressing:

3T fresh lemon juice
3 T balsamic vinegar
1 1/2 T extra virgin olive oil
2 plum tomatoes, chopped
2 tsp fresh oregano, chopped (1 tsp dried if fresh isn’t available)
Kosher or sea salt
Freshly cracked black pepper

To Grill:

1 small eggplant
1 fennel bulb, trim the fronds (leaves)
2 small zucchini
1 head radicchio
1 red onion, peeled
1 lemon
2 T olive oil

More on Mareya's Success Story

California Mother Puts End to Contaminated Food Eating
How To Eat Produce Treated With Pesticides... And Be Healthy
California Woman From Egypt Saves You Big Bucks on Produce, Poultry, and Fish

PS: If you know of a woman-entrepreneur with healthy product(s) she created and developed, please let me know, so we could spread a word about her and her contribution to this planet.

Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

How To Eat Produce Treated with Pesticides... And Be Healthy

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(Well, before you eat all those yummy fruit and veggies from your store – be sure to employ Mareya’s invention Eat Cleaner!)

RECAP: Mareya Ibrahim started the Eat Cleaner movement that uses Eat Cleaner to get rid of pesticides, wax, organic residues on the surface of fresh produce, fish, and poultry.

Mareya, an incredible business woman with a human touch and her passion for everything organic and sustainable, took her entrepreneurship seriously when it came to  market her newly developed product Eat Cleaner.

Passion for clean and decontaminated produce drove her efforts to find a way to make her invention available for you and me in the market place.

CelebrateWoman (CW) Mareya, is there anything that was a surprise to you that you didn’t expect on your way creating your product Eat Cleaner?

Mareya Ibrahim (Mareya) There were a few surprises in my business. One of the biggest is how long it takes to get simple answers from retailers. The bigger the retailer, the longer the time to get what you need to know. Smaller stores will get usually much faster with all of their information and answers to your questions.

Another surprise was that it took more money to develop a business than it was planned. That’s why a good solid business plan is a must for anybody who endeavors into building a company.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Talk to people who are pros, with experience. Consult with them. Fewer mistakes in the beginning will ensure your better-off in the future.

(CW) Mareya, how do you see your Eat Cleaner product will effect your life in the future?

(Mareya) Eat Cleaner has become part of my life philosophy. My children feed off my knowledge. My philosophy encourages them to eat cleaner and make them think when they shop.

My building a new business and jumping through many hoops made me tougher. There’s not a whole lot more I couldn’t do.

(CW) What is the #1 Thing you would like your customers to know about Eat Cleaner?

(Mareya) The #1 Thing is that it took two full years to give birth and grow this baby, and bring it to the market. I am proud of the integrity of my product: inside and outside the package, it’s all natural, non-toxic, and helps people to eat cleaner and tastier fruit and vegetables, fish and poultry products.

(CW) What keeps Mareya going day after day?

(Mareya) My family keeps me going.

Knowledge is a huge driving force for me. Knowing that there are a lot of people looking for information we have for them and can give it to them.

Personally, I wanted to know what I could create and make it available to a lot of people, contribute to their healthy lives. That all makes me feel proud of my efforts.

(CW) Does your family, friends know what Mareya has been up to for the past two years? What would they tell me about you?

(Mareya)  They definitely were in the “know” of what’s going on with Eat Cleaner and my company.

They would tell you that I am on a mission and am passionate about what I do.

My 4-year-old can recite what Eat Cleaner does, “Eat Cleaner helps you ‘cause it takes away stuff you don’t wanna have.” Everyone has been supportive of my tremendous efforts to build the company.

(CW) How do you celebrate: your achievements, mistakes and miscalculations, and even failures?

(Mareya) When I make mistakes, I like to sit down and think about “why’s.” I don’t want to forget any of that.

Success to celebrate... Usually, what I truly like to do is to thank people around me who with their insights, advice, actions helped me to build this company. I do realize that the biggest celebration of success is still ahead of us.

(CW) After a long day, when you close your eyes and reflect on the day, just before you go to sleep, what goes through your heart and mind?

(Mareya) Every day, I’m amazed how much I’ve learned. How much yet to be done.

I would love to see Eat Cleaner on every single counter in the U.S., in North America, in the whole world.

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Mareya is a dreamer. Creator. Implementor. With her passion for cleaner and healthier produce in every home, we definitely can eat fruit and veggies covered with pesticides and organic residues and remain healthy. Of course, we need to use Eat Cleaner before we start munching on any of fresh and organic treats!

What’s Next? How Eat Cleaner saves you big bucks. In detail.

More about Mareya Ibrahim's Success Story

California Mother Puts End to Contaminated Food Eating
California Woman From Egypt Saves You Big Bucks on Produce, Poultry, and Fish


PS: If you know a woman-entrepreneur who has created healthy product(s), please let me know, so we could spread the word about her and her contribution to this planet.

Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Theory of Relativity. And Healthy Food Choices.

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With apologies to Albert Einstein, I would like to explain how the Theory of Relativity relates to making healthy family food choices.

Have you ever been on the way home after a long day at work and realized you had nothing healthy in the house to feed your family when you got home?

Have you ever been home preparing a healthy meal for your family, and someone says, "Oh mom, not that again"?

Have you ever sat in the bathroom skimming a magazine, looking for something new, AND HEALTHY, to feed your kids?

Have you ever been in a grocery store, quickly reading labels, trying to figure out if the ingredients on the package match the hype in the ads, while your kids impatiently want you to go to a "funner" aisle?

Time and healthy choices.
Family food choices always begin with you reading labels, trying to figure out what is right for your family. But it almost always comes down to time – how much time do you have to research new, healthy alternatives. How much time do you have to really read the labels? How long does it take to actually fix the food for dinner?

Of course you want to make your meals interesting, and healthy. But you don't always have the time. Sometimes isn't it just easier, quicker, to go with what they ask for, even when you wonder if it's something they really should be eating?

Moms don't have time.
Not enough time to do it all right. Not enough time to learn what you know you ought to about healthier food alternatives. Not enough time to seek out smaller brands that may be healthier for your family – or drive a little further to get them.

When you finally have time to think, and evaluate, wouldn't you rather just relax and think about nothing? Sometimes?

Moms. Enough Time. Healthy Food Choices.
Those are concepts that don't seem to fit well in the same sentence. They certainly seldom fit together well in life.

Which brings us back to the Theory of Relativity.

Mr. Einstein famously said "The theory or relativity can be explained quite simply. When you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. When you sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute."

Taking a minute to make informed food choices for your family can feel like you spent an hour you didn't have. Taking and hour to prepare a healthy meal and sitting down to eat it with your family – watching them loving every bite – can feel like a stolen minute in time.

I am not Einstein, but I'd like to help you.
I'm spending more and more time researching healthy products for your family (mine too, of course). Plus I'm spending the extra time to tell you about the wonderful women behind them – I know sometimes that can make a difference – you’re not just consuming a product, you’re ingesting someone’s passionate quest to give it to you.

If you have just a few moments every week, I promise I’ll review some great healthy products for you, and meet the very interesting women behind them. That way, you can spend some thinking time for yourself. And less time worrying about discovering healthy products for your family.

If you have a product to recommend, please let me know and I’ll pass it on to my readers. Perhaps you can save them some time too, and give them one more meal-time hour with their family that will seem like a minute.

You can contact me via my LinkedIn profile

VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.