One day Ambot opens his
expensive box of shit from Amway and pulls out a bunch of Nutrilite vitamins
that his upline has brainwashed him into believing he had to have.
One of the useless vitamins he pulled forth was called Concentrated Fruits and
Vegetables.
What the fuck do we need this for? I asked him.
This is to make sure we get our 5 to 10 fruits and vegetables each day he says.
Are you shitting me? I ask.
I mean what is wrong with this picture? Taking 2 vitamins a day because some
asshole from the Amway cult stage says you can take them instead of eating
healthy fresh fruit and vegetables. What kind of a fucking moron believes that
bullshit? Answer - a brainwashed IBO.
Since when do we have trouble getting our 5 to 10 a day? OK, maybe when we have
to attend an Amway function getting in healthy meals might be challenging.
I was brought up to eat an orange or half a grapefruit with my breakfast every
day so that is probably the only meal of the day where I might only have one
serving of fruit. Sometimes 2 servings if you count juice. I’m not real big on
drinking juice and calling it the same thing as a serving of fruit. I guess its
the same way I feel about eating a vitamin and calling it the same thing as
eating a fruit. I usually have juice in the house but I don’t necessarily
drink it at breakfast time. I’m more likely to make a strawberry or banana
smoothie to drink at breakfast or mid-morning than drink juice.
For lunch and dinner I usually eat 2 or 3 fruits and/or vegetables. Salads made
with either fruits or veggies or sometimes fruit is part of the dessert. Gotta
love those banana splits!
I was always told if I was hungry to eat an apple. If I wasn’t hungry enough to
eat an apple then I wasn’t hungry. I remember that old saying about how an
apple a day keeps the doctor away. I eat at least one apple everyday, usually
more. Seems to be working. No health issues. A person like me who shops at
least once a week at a produce store has a good selection of fresh fruit and
vegetables in the crisper. I also grow my own fruits and vegetables. I have a
few fruit trees around the yard and grow rhubarb, strawberries and raspberries
too. Nice going out in the morning when they’re in season and having fresh
berries with my cereal. I’m not big on growing vegetables and technically that
rhubarb is a vegetable but I have potatoes, onions, lettuce, pumpkins, and
tomatoes on the grow. Except not all of them grow so well…. It’s kind of fun
trying though. Kind of like burying the top of a pineapple and hoping for a
crop. I keep doing it no matter how many times I don’t get a pineapple crop. So
much for those fucking Amway losers who stop by this blog and call me a
quitter.
Do I sound like a person who needs to take 2 Nutrilite vitamins daily to get my
5 to 10 servings of fruit and vegetables? Sometimes I can get in my daily
intake just be wandering around the garden and snacking!
Nutrilite Fruit and Vegetable vitamins cost $40.99. There are 60 vitamins in a
bottle but you gotta take 2 a day so it only lasts a month. Amway was kind
enough to break down the amount down on their website - costs $1.37 per day.
They are very careful to say 2 vitamins a day = the amount of phytonutrients in
over 10 servings of fruit and veggies though it excludes mentioning which 10 fruits
and vegetables were part of this study. Hell they exclude who did the
survey. Maybe some Amway employees penned it after a night of
drinking!
I usually spend less than $20/week on fresh fruit and vegetables but lets call
it $20 for the sake of rounding up. Divided by 2 people is $10/week for this
good stuff. Divide by 7 days = $1.43 a day to get 5 to 10 servings of fresh
fruits and vegetables daily. Just pennies a day more than Amway’s 2 vitamins.
For real food. Good food that you can actually eat and not feel hungry
afterwards. I can’t say that about vitamins!
The bigger picture is what are people not getting by eating those shitty
vitamins instead of fresh fruit and vegetables. The health benefits. Many
fruits and vegetables are thought to be cancer fighters, help prevent
osteoporosis, and other possible benefits for preventing some illnesses. What
about fibre? What about Vitamins A, B, and C? What about Potassium? What
about Iron? I could go on and on but I’m sure you get the picture.
None of that in those Nutrilite concentrated fruit and vegetable vitamins. Or
maybe there is but its not listed on Amway’s nutritional information on their
web page. Could be trace amounts.
There are other options available such as V8 juices and similar juices
that equal 2 fruit servings by drinking a glass. Its not my first choice but it
would be preferable to gulping back 2 vitamins.
I can not fill up on 2 vitamins a day the way I can by eating an apple, a
banana, a cup of grapes, sticking a sweet potato in the microwave, or adding a
tomato to my sandwich. I’m already at 5 servings of fruit and vegetables and
its probably not even dinnertime. Its not hard to get those servings in.
Nutrilite sucks! So do those fucking Amway assholes that tell you to eat
vitamins instead of fresh produce!
And now its time to go water my garden!
Nutrilite vitamins were the very first product that those two scam-artists (DeVos and Van Andel) were involved with, before they started Amway in 1959. Nutrilite had been invented back in the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteThey had to get out of that racket because the Pure Food and Drug Administration was after them for fraudulent advertising. So they quit the Nutrilite business and started up Amway, figuring that there couldn't be any health complaints about selling soaps and cleansers. They retained the same business scheme that was used for selling Nutilite -- a very early MLM set-up.
Years later, when their Amway enterprise had become big, they actually bought out the rights to Nutrilite vitamins and added them to the Amway catalogue of products. The thing that they had run away from prior to 1959 was now a part of their Amway operation. Sort of like dumping your first wife, and then remarrying her twenty years later.
Anonymous - those scammers had to start somewhere. LOL on the analogy! Because they'd done the Nutrilite thing before they knew the mark up on selling them was huge and Nutrilite would be very profitable for them. Same thing with cosmetics. It costs about $2 to manufacture a lipstick including the container. And what does ScAmway sell lipstick for? Huge mark up so the owners can make the majority of the money and all the Ambots in the upline of the loser who sold the lipstick can all make a few pennies commission.
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