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.

 ======================================================

 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

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

www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

Blog: www.GrecoRomanWellness.wordpress.com

The Most Provocative Wellness Blog on the Planet

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

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.

My first novel, PEACE BE WITH YOU was published in 2007.

It’s a psychological drama of addiction and redemption.

 This is the Amazon link and the publisher’s summary:

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

 PEACE BE WITH YOU is the riveting story of a Catholic priest who finds himself trapped between his dogma and his loyalties to his immigrant upbringing. He becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to cover up a deadly, alcohol-fueled crime, where a father chooses to pay for his earlier sins by going to prison in place of his son. The priest’s conscience refuses to free him from the torment of guilt. His fall from grace into an earthly hell is pushed even deeper by the appearance of a flame-haired temptress who sparks his latent and prurient desires. PEACE BE WITH YOU is a compelling examination of faith and salvation, of loyalty and honor. It’s a battle between right and wrong and good and evil. HOW FAR WILL A PRIEST GO TO KEEP A SECRET?

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

Ray@GrecoRomanWellness.com   (212) 946-2090

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 I saw a segment on CNBC about an obesity drug summit. Interviewed was Michael Narachi, the CEO of Orexigen. While he blah-blahed about how great his new drugs, Contrave and Empatic, performed in clinical trials (because they’re so objective) I could only think about how many times I’ve heard this all before.

Let me lay out the very predictable scenario.

 1. FDA approves drugs

2. Massive media hype follows

3. Overweight rush to their doctors, begging for a   prescription, or to the drug store if Orexigen gets OTC approval.

4. In the short term, some people lose weight, others don’t. Side effects appear, hopefully not severe.

5. Internet scams appear, ripping off hundreds of thousands of people.

6. Fanfare dies down

7. Those who lost weight, gain it back (and more) after       they stop taking drug.

8. Somewhere, someone is ready to launch the

next “miracle drug.”

Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

Blog: www.GrecoRomanWellness.wordpress.com

The Most Provocative Wellness Blog on the Planet

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

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.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 From Reykjavik, Iceland

Because of the collapse of the local currency, the Icelandic Krona, it was announced this week that all three McDonald’s Restaurants on the island nation will close, effective immediately.

While this may seem as yet another financial blow to this beautiful country and its wonderful people, this news should be greeted with a national day of celebration.

I clearly remember when they opened a McDonald’s in the German village where I was stationed in the US Army. The youth cheered as the statute of Ronald McDonald was raised. The middle aged and elderly cried in the streets, knowing that another part of their culture was lost.

By rejecting McDonald’s and other unhealthy foods, Icelanders can return to their incredibly healthy ethnic diet and regain their wellness. Unlike most other industrial nations, the damage isn’t irreversible.

Now, if the rest of the planet will take Iceland’s lead and duplicate this measure we would have some real progress.

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

Blog: www.GrecoRomanWellness.wordpress.com

The Most Provocative Wellness Blog on the Planet

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

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.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 On the same radio show when I was asked about my favorite exercises, another guest called me a “foodie.” I was rather insulted.

I love food. Good food can make me cry. But please don’t call me a foodie. Here in New York City, Foodies are a self- proclaimed elitist society that claims to value everything wonderful food has to offer.

In reality, these “Foodies” know nothing about real food. They eat in over-hyped and over-priced restaurants, either pretending to enjoy their meal or not knowing what they are really missing. Celebrity chefs are rarely in their own kitchens, and even if they are, they are working on their latest “Haute” creations. Globally, with respect to restaurants, the best food is found far away from the cosmopolitan cities. The best food is in the countryside, where the owner/chef celebrates their peasant traditions by going into their backyard to the freshest, most delicious and healthiest ingredients.

In Italy, the center of the good food world, the best eating is NOT in Milan, Rome or Naples. It’s in the rural countryside where generations of a family have worked the land and cultivated the food they serve.

That all said, I rarely go to restaurants. I’ve been out to eat 11 times in the past two years. My breakfast is at home, my lunch is leftovers from the night before and dinner is of course at home.

 Nothing compares to my wife’s cooking. (and mine).

Nothing compares to the pleasure of a home cooked meal at our dining room table that has been in our family for over 100 years. Nothing compares to holding my 10 month old son’s hand as we thank God for our blessings.

 I like to finish my dinner with a small glass of red wine and a pear or a handful of grapes (with the seeds). This instead of having a $14 dessert pushed on me if I were in a restaurant.

 So while I love food, please don’t call me a Foodie!!!

Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

Dr. Katina Ioannidis, Chiropractor

www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

Blog: www.GrecoRomanWellness.wordpress.com

The Most Provocative Wellness Blog on the Planet

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

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

My ongoing struggle to ban the spraying of poisonous pesticides in Central Park was recently chronicled in the New York Post.

Among the toxic pesticides used in Central Park:

Glyphosate (Roundup), Imidacloprid, Trifloxystrobin, Pyraclostrbin, Clopyralid, Halosulfuron-Metlyl, Azoxystrobin, Bacillus Lichenitormis.

Pesticides cause birth defects (perhaps they caused mine), promote miscarriages, are a known carcinogen and neurotoxin. Yet the crown jewel of New York City has decided to lace the park with these poisons. Neil Calvanese, the VP of Park Operations, has confirmed to me that a new round of pesticide spraying is slated for the spring of 2010.    NCalvanese@CentralParkNYC.org

I have alerted the Community Board 8 which has shown no interest in the issue. Same for City Councilman Daniel Garodnick and to date, Borough President Scott Stringer. I will continue to pressure the Central Park Conservancy to stop the spraying. Until I do:

The Poisonings Continue.

Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

Blog: www.GrecoRomanWellness.wordpress.com

The Most Provocative Wellness Blog on the Planet

 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

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.

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 I was on a national radio show recently when the host asked me what my favorite exercise was.

 I am known as the Push Up Warrior and of course I love push ups. They’re a great upper body and core move. They challenge your strength, stamina and discipline. They’re free to do and require no equipment. And I’m a confirmed push up junkie and I do 100 push ups before I leave for work at 4am. On most days I do upwards of 300 push ups throughout the course of the day.

 But I am also addicted to deadlifts. As efficient as push ups are, deadlifts are just as productive and challenging for the legs and core. On Monday mornings I do a three set rotation of a deadlift, bicep curl and shoulder press combo. I do reps to 30. This takes about four minute’s total time, after which I often feel as if my heart will bust through my sternum.

 On T,W,TH and F, I do one set of thirty reps with a 50lb dumbbell in each hand. My legs have never been stronger or more responsive and as I inch closer to fifty years old, I’m starting to think a lot less about how defined my arms are and more about how important leg strength, balance and dexterity is to a long and active life.

 So what’s my favorite exercise? I love them both and I don’t want to live without either one of them. Sort of like Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

 Push Ups and Deadlifts are a great way to go through life.

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

Blog: www.GrecoRomanWellness.wordpress.com

The Most Provocative Wellness Blog on the Planet

 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

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

Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

 I’ve been asking everyone I can if they are getting the swine flu vaccine. The large majority say no. Many say “no fuckin’ way.” Some say yes.

Disclosure: My wife, our child and I are not getting the vaccine.

 I have received over 400 email queries asking about the vaccine. I am NOT able to give advice as to whether or not you should get vaccinated. It is a personal decision.

 But I do have an idea.

 I think that any public official who says we should be vaccinated, should themselves get vaccinated on live television and the dose must be verified prior to the injection.

 Ray Salomone   Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist

www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

Blog: www.GrecoRomanWellness.wordpress.com

The Most Provocative Wellness Blog on the Planet

 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

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