Though the weather is still mild, it will soon be cold and that means that many thousands of people in this city will be freezing, some to their deaths.

This year we are collecting donations of winter coats, hats, gloves, sweaters and scarves to be donated to homeless shelters and directly to homeless men and women throughout the city.

If you would like to donate any items, please contact me by phone or email:

 Ray Salomone (212) 946-2090 Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 I will pick up the items from you and they will be donated within 72 hours.

 (Manhattan pick-ups only, please)

Last year I raised and donated over 1,200 coats, hats, gloves and scarves. A very generous donor also bought 500 pairs of new socks which were also donated.

 My total for the previous four years:

 3,314 hats, gloves, sweaters, scarves and coats. My ambitious goal for this year is to raise and donate 2,500 items.

We will be getting media exposure though several outlets but we most certainly can use more. Please forward this to any members of the media you may know.

 Q: What makes my clothing drive different from the more well-known organizations?

 A: I DO NOT SELL the donations to textile firms to raise money to cover operations. And I go directly into the parks, church steps and other locations to personally deliver the clothing items to the very grateful recipients.

Now is not the time to judge. Being homeless can happen to anyone. I should know; twenty years ago I was homeless for several months.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 If your child is lethargic or lazy, if he is inactive and/or overweight, NOW is the time to take drastic steps before permanent lifestyle habits take hold and become resistant to change.

As a parent you, (as do I) have a moral imperative to give your child every opportunity you can to live a full and healthy life. Anything short of this is child abuse.

Here are three tips to help you:

1. LEAD BY EXAMPLE-If you want your child to be more active, YOU must become more active. If you want your child to eat more healthfully, YOU must eat more healthfully. If you want your child to take better care of themselves and the environment as a whole, you must do the same.

 2. Before you scold your child for a consistent pattern of bad behavior, please evaluate his diet and his chemical burden.

 3. LET THEM PLAY!!! While soccer practice and tennis lessons are important, much more important to your child’s development is unstructured OUTDOOR PLAY. Like we did in our childhood. Running around, jumping up and down. Getting dirty (God forbid!).

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

Contact Me Directly at: Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Coming Soon to bookstores: The Greco Roman Road to Wellness

by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

 During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

 My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 You can’t anti-age. It’s impossible. So if any organization, service or product claims to help you “anti-age” then prepare to be ripped off. It continues to amaze me that so many people are still falling for these scams. Pills, potions, lotions and creams are being pushed on us, promising everything from fat loss to vital organ rejuvenation.

I’ve been incensed by the relentless internet scams and I’ve warned off hundreds of thousands of people around the world. But millions more, who can ill-afford to throw their money away, are doing just that in their quest for eternal youth.

Most products are outright garbage. Some are potentially dangerous. Others definitely harmful.Most of the scammers are hooked up with computer geeks who have set up elaborate layers of insulation and parked their computer servers offshore in Costa Rica or the Caribbean. They are reaping millions of dollars.

Others are “wellness gurus” pushing nonsense concoctions on vulnerable clientele who are pressured to use their credit card to rack up thousands of dollars in purchases. Still other scams are pyramid based like Taislim and Acai Berry.

Even the rich fall for this. I was on Madison Avenue last week when I paused in front of the shop of Dr. Nicholas Perricone. I was a fan of Dr. Perricone when he promoted “superfoods” like blueberries and salmon. But once he realized that there was much more money to be had in pimping potions and lotions, I’ve seen him reduced to just another huckster. Not satisfied to fleece the rich who pay his rent, he also is all over QVC promising a return to youth for women who are ready and eager to buy.

Based on my blog traffic, people are on to the Cenegenics scam, but many still fall for it. Shame to see that times are so tough that the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are running Cenegenics advertisements.

Those you can’t afford to buy these products still want a quick fix. Those with money to burn want the same. What they lack is understanding of reality and the patience to do the necessary things to age as well as possible. You can’t anti-age, but you can do a damn good job of aging.

 For a FREE copy of our special report:

 HOW TO SAVE YOUR CHILD’S LIFE (AND YOUR OWN) BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, send an email to Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 This report has been given away FREE to over 250,000 mothers and fathers around the world.

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

 Contact Me Directly at: Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness  by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

 During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

 My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

Marilyn Wann, by her own admission is fat. After reading about her new book, FAT? SO! , I believe her to not only be fat, but short sighted, naïve and somewhat ignorant.

After over 20 years of working with overweight people struggling to regain their wellness, it is clear to me that Ms. Wann is not only employing a classic defense mechanism, but is embracing it and exploiting it at the expense of defenseless children.

Her mindset is flawed and very dangerous to not only herself, but to tens of millions of others who will latch on to her easy cop-out.

My position: If Ms. Wann, or any other able-minded adult wishes to gorge themselves to death, it is their right, but if their actions in any way influence others, especially children, then she gives up that right. By authoring her book and extolling what she wrongly perceives as the virtues of being fat, she is sending a dangerous message and setting in motion a deadly cycle. Vulnerable adults will buy into her theory because it’s much easier than getting their hand out of the bag of potato chips and their ass of the couch.

The actions (or inactions) of these adults will directly harm defenseless children.

As I always do when I call someone to account, I have sent an email to Ms. Wann with a link to this posting.

For a FREE copy of our special report:

 HOW TO SAVE YOUR CHILD’S LIFE (AND YOUR OWN) BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, send an email to Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 This report has been given away FREE to over 250,000 mothers and fathers around the world.

Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

 Contact Me Directly at: Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

 During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

 My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

Though one would need to put a gun to my head to get me to take the swine flu vaccine, I’m still annoyed that the big players on Wall Street (the ones who had to beg for money to survive) were given advance shipments of the vaccine.

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley were somehow determined to be in most need of the rush shipment. What a surprise. To Morgan Stanley’s credit, they decided to donate the vaccines to local hospitals. Apparently Goldman or Citi couldn’t be persuaded to do the same.

For a FREE copy of our special report:

 HOW TO SAVE YOUR CHILD’S LIFE (AND YOUR OWN) BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, send an email to Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 This report has been given away FREE to over 250,000 mothers and fathers around the world.

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

 Contact Me Directly at: Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

 During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 This is no surprise but when I see it in print it makes my blood boil. In laboratories all over the world, toxic potions are being added to food to make us sick, fat and lazy.

* Food Additives that ALWAYS contain MSG *

* Food Additives That MAY Contain MSG Or Excitotoxins *

Carrageenan
Enzymes
Soy Protein Concentrate
Soy Protein Isolate
Whey Protein Concentrate
Also: Protease Enzymes of various sources can release excitotoxin amino acids from food proteins.
Aspartame – An Intense Source Of Excitotoxins
Aspartame is a sweetener made from two amino acids, phenylalanine and the excitotoxin aspartate. It should be avoided at all costs. Aspartame complaints accounts for approximately 70% of ALL complaints to the FDA. It is implicated in everything from blindness to headaches to convulsions. Sold under dozens of brand names such as NutraSweet and Equal, aspartame breaks down within 20 minutes at room temperature into several primary toxic and dangerous ingredients:

DKP (diketopiperazine) (When ingested, converts to a near duplicate of
a powerful brain tumor causing agent)
Formic Acid (ant venom)
Formaldehyde (embalming fluid)
Methanol (causes blindness…extremely dangerous substance)

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HOW TO SAVE YOUR CHILD’S LIFE (AND YOUR OWN) BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, send an email to Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

This report has been given away FREE to over 250,000 mothers and fathers around the world.

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Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

Contact Me Directly at: Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness

by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 This would make a debate for the ages. Is wellness the same as medicine? Are their goals the same? I don’t believe they are and in fact, I believe them to be polar opposites.

Wellness is a proactive approach to wellbeing. It is a lifestyle that relies on traditional, ethnic and cultural practices to help one achieve an optimum quality of life.

True wellness is not profit driven. (Scam wellness is)

Medicine is reactive, employed only when health declines either acutely or chronically. Medicine relies on pharmaceutical efforts to improve health. Medicine profits enormously from its followers.

In recent decades, medicine has been the preferred and first choice of most. Medicine’s best marketing play is that it is quantifiable. You’re sick, you take medicine, if you get better, it’s a victory for medicine. If you don’t get better, medicine has positioned itself so that it largely avoids blame. Medicine is a master at covering its own ass.

Wellness doesn’t have the same mechanisms in place, nor do true seekers of wellness need to declare every small victory. Wellness isn’t selfish. Medicine is. Wellness spreads the message. Medicine pours the juice for its followers to drink.

 The time to take control of your wellness is at this moment. Don’t wait until you need medicine.

 For a FREE copy of our special report:

 HOW TO SAVE YOUR CHILD’S LIFE (AND YOUR OWN) BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, send an email to Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

 Contact Me Directly at: Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

 During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

 My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Remember Chitosan and Lipoban? I do. All the ads showing sexy women with their long lean legs. Turns out Chitosan was all a scam and consumers lost at least $16 million dollars.

 Here’s the link from the Department of Justice announcing the conviction in Federal Court.

 http://www.justice.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/091030-04.html

 Most of these products are pure garbage. If this one scam totaled 16 million, the total rip off is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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 HOW TO SAVE YOUR CHILD’S LIFE (AND YOUR OWN) BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, send an email to Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

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 Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness  by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

The soaring rates of childhood obesity, asthma, allergies and cancer is no accident. It has been a calculated and concerted effort by Big Food, Big Pharma and Big Medicine to make your child fat, sedentary and sick. It is by far the greatest injustice of our time.

Defenseless children are being saddled with a litany of life-long ailments and the related suffering. What were once anomalies is now the norm. Who doesn’t know a child that is not obese, asthmatic or allergic to many foods? If you do not know a child with cancer, consider yourself very fortunate.

 Why is this? And why was it not so just fifty years ago?

Children are under a relentless assault by the well-orchestrated actions of Big Business, who certainly would not approve of the way my wife and I are nurturing our child:

By assuring that the placenta and umbilical cord remained attached long enough to fully drain back into our just born son, we deprived Big Business of their first opportunity to make our child vulnerable to many illnesses and ailments. We also deprived them of the opportunity to process the placenta into high-priced personal care products.

By rejecting the hepatitis vaccine at birth, we set in motion our patent rejection of the inoculations, thereby denying Big Pharma the opportunity to profit from our child and once again try to set in motion a pattern of illness and dependence on pharmaceuticals.

Exclusively breastfeeding for the first eight months, my wife deprived Big Food from forcing formula (many with dubious ingredients) upon our child. By rejecting formula, we rejected Big Business’ opportunity to set in motion a life-long craving for junk processed foods.

Buying and preparing only organic fruits, vegetables and eggs, we are rejecting the processed baby foods, many containing processed fillers that clog a baby’s vulnerable digestive system, opening them up for a litany of digestive disorders.

 My wife, my son and I are most certainly bad for Big Business.

 Here is what Big Food, Big Pharma and Big Medicine hopes you do from the instant your child is born:

 1. Immediately cut the umbilical cord, ensuring that the placenta is still filled with valuable agents that can be processed into personal care items.

2. Minutes later, they want to inject your child with the Hepatitis Vaccine, setting into motion an endless string of vaccines that now reach well into adulthood.

3. Forego breastfeeding, instead opting for the heavily processed baby formula. Breast milk is miracle milk. In my opinion, baby formula induces your infant to nap and sleep better. And what new and exhausted parent does not want that?

4. Along with formula, Big Food is poised to push jarred baby food as the best option for your child. While they will try to use the nutrition angle, they will mostly rely on convenience and cost message.

5. At this point, the subliminal influence campaign will be in full force with an onslaught of television, magazine and internet ads aimed directly at parents and indirectly at children who will be exposed to a relentless stream of messages professionally designed by pediatric behavioral psychologists on the payroll of Big Business.

6. All is going according to plan and your child is now progressing to a diet of highly processed junk food, devoid of vital nutrients. He or she is gaining weight and moving less, adopting a sedentary lifestyle with over reliance of gadgets and other high technology. Perhaps your child has developed a peanut allergy or is lactose intolerant. Asthma may be looming. A life of reliance on pharmaceuticals, sugar satisfying junk foods and frequent visits to the doctor awaits.

 Just as Big Business planned it.

 For a FREE copy of our special report:

HOW TO SAVE YOUR CHILD’S LIFE (AND YOUR OWN) BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, send an email to Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 Eat Fresh, Whole Foods. Exercise Intensely

PLAY ROUGH AND LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!

 Contact Me Directly at: Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com

 Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness

by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

 During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.  

My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.

Before I became a parent, I paid NO attention to parenting. Now that I am a father, it has become a consuming pursuit. Being a non-conformist in every sense of the word, I look for ideas that go against the mainstream. That’s why I was thrilled to read that these Baby Einstein videos have been shown to be less than effective at helping kids to become happy, grounded and curious children.

But they have allowed parents to park their kids in front of the video screen and get some much needed rest. While I can appreciate and empathize, I do believe that we are doing a major disservice to our kids when we do this. Every time I am exhausted but I need to be front and center for my son, I remind myself of my duty and I say to myself:

 “Don’t be a lazy father.” Short of abuse, there may be nothing worse than a lazy father.

My first exposure to Baby Einstein was when a friend propped his child in front of the TV and exhaled at how content and mesmerized his baby was by the activities on the screen. Unable to forget my Psych Ops training in the Army, I wondered if there wasn’t something in the videos that made kids become entranced, immobile, silent and compliant.

“Put your kid here,” said my buddy, “He’ll love it,”

My son would have no part of any quiet play on a beautiful summer afternoon. He only wanted direct, outdoor engagement. We went on the swings and yes, I was getting tired. I had been a long day. But my son was hanging on to the swing with a smile a mile wide. My friend’s daughter was consumed by Baby Einstein. Somehow, instinctively, I knew where I wanted to be on this issue.

I recently read a passage in the new book NUTURE SHOCK by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, citing research that showed these videos to be detrimental to a child’s development.

Of course Disney (the makers of the DVD) rushed to Baby Einstein’s defense, citing the oft used excuse of “Flawed Research.”

 (The Flawed Research excuse is what’s keeping anti-pesticide activists like me at bay for the time being)

I’m convinced these DVD’s and many other baby items deemed indispensable to a child’s development are actually genius marketing creations that are designed to help relieve parents of their burden (responsibility) of engaging their children.

 My son’s favorite toys continue to be the BPA free bottle top and a non-treated wooden spoon which he loves to bang on an old cooking pot.

Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

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Coming Soon to bookstores:

The Greco Roman Road to Wellness

by Ray Salomone and Dr. Katina Ioannidis

Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Greco-Roman-Road-Wellness-Old-World-Times/dp/0982139209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243604904&sr=8-1

 During my vast amounts of free time, I am also a fiction writer. My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU, a psychological drama of addiction and redemption, was published in 2007.

This is the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Peace-Be-You-Raimondo-Salomone/dp/142414812X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256656950&sr=8-1

 My next novel, HUMAN TRAFFIC, a story of love and vengeance, will be finished sometime in the next decade.