2. Phrases for business meetings, leading discussions in English. As a leader, what do you say in formal or business discussions? This video will teach you expressions that you can use when conducting meetings in English. Here's an overview. First, we'll talk about greetings and getting started. Then we'll talk about presenting topics, asking for ideas, giving feedback, moving on to the next item, seeking consensus or agreement, summarizing, and finally, closing the meeting. Let's start with greetings. To make everyone feel comfortable at the beginning of a meeting, you can say something like this, good morning everyone, or welcome, welcome to our meeting. Thanks for coming. If you haven't seen everyone for a long time, you can say, it's good to see you, or it's good to see you all. You don't want to waste too much time with greetings, you want to get into the main topic of the meeting. So you can say something like this, let's get started. We need to discuss, we need to talk about this topic. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss a certain topic or idea. Let's take a look at the agenda. The agenda is a list of items that you're going to discuss during the meeting. You see a sample agenda on the right. The next step is to present the topics on the agenda. The first thing we need to discuss is, the first item on the agenda is, then you can go through the list. The second thing on the list is, next we need to talk about, item number three is, sometimes you may want to present things in terms of options or alternatives. You can say something like this. Let's look at the options. We have several choices. We have two alternatives. We could either do this or do that. A good leader will ask participants for their ideas on what to do. A simple phrase for that could be, any ideas? Or you could say, does anyone have any ideas? Any suggestions on that? Any thoughts on this? If you want to ask a particular member of the group, you can say something like this. What do you think, Wendy? What's your opinion, Bob? Giving feedback. A good leader will encourage his or her participants to share their comments and then give them some kind of feedback. You could say something like this. Great idea. Sounds good. Sounds like a good idea. You have a good point there. I like that idea. Sometimes the leader needs to keep the discussion moving, probably because of time. So, if people are stuck on one topic, the leader might say something like this. We need to move on. Let's move on to item two. Let's continue on to the next item or continue on with the next topic. Let's look at the next topic. The next item of business is, or simply you can ask, should we move on? Seeking consensus or agreement. Sometimes the leader needs to pause and make sure that everyone is in agreement on something. You can say phrases like this. Does everyone agree on that? Do we all agree? So, is everyone in agreement? Are we all on the same page? Toward the end of the meeting, you can summarize what has been discussed. Here are some phrases for doing that. In summary, the conclusion is, so we've decided to, we're going to do this then. Sometimes you may have to talk about your plan for action. You could say something like this. Our action plan is, and sometimes you'll need to assign group members to do particular tasks. You can say something like this. The assignments are to do this or that. Finally, you want to close the meeting. So here are some phrases the leader can say to bring everything to a close. We need to finish. Let's wrap it up. That's a little bit informal. That's all for today. That's it then. Thanks for coming or thanks for your time. The meeting is adjourned. That's a little bit more formal. That's all. To see more videos like this, click on the link above or check out our websites for more free English learning resources, eslgold.com or freeenglishstudy.com.


My name is Jessica Awong and I will be your host for today. Today we are talking about fraud prevention and scam prevention. I have here with me Paul Hiligas from the district attorney's office. He is a investigator and I also have Kevin Clark here with me today, a enforcement officer with the Yellow County district attorney's office. Welcome. Thank you, thank you. So I wanted to start off with what types of crimes or fraud schemes are around the holiday seasons are most pertinent? Yes, it's a good question because right now and during this time, we go through all year trying to be aware of scams and frauds that are out in the community. And it seems during the holiday season, those tend to increase and with everybody buying things over to internet, having packages delivered, that it's very important to be aware of those scams. Yeah, and specifically, you always want to shop at a site that is secure. You can look for the green or gold lock on the website that it's secure or HTTPS when you're logging in. Also when you're purchasing things online, especially holiday gifts, you always want to be careful to not purchase from like a third party vendor or somebody that you don't know. You can go to the official websites and make sure it's sent to your house. When it's sent to your house, you could also request that a package is, when it's delivered, a signature is required or that you can pick it up from your local, the post office or UPS because there's a lot of package stuff during the holidays. Right, you see it on the news that there's a lot of packages being stolen from your front porch. So that's something that you don't want to leave out. The same thing with your mail. You don't want to leave your mail out in your mailbox because this is time of year when a lot of people will be maybe checking to see if you've left a credit card statement in the mail which gives them your information. Also, one thing I was thinking about when Kevin was mentioning shopping on the internet, it's always very good to make sure there's a difference between a debit card and a Visa card because if you use a debit card and something happens on the internet, somebody gets that information and they're able to make a fraudulent purchase. Well, then that money's coming, that's your cash coming out of your account as opposed to a credit card that you can file a claim on and you're not out that money. Yeah, and just to be specific, a Visa card meaning a prepaid Visa card that somebody make it as a gift? No, not exactly. It's like when you have a debit visa where you can punch in a pin number that when you use that card, that's your cash coming directly out of your checking account or your account as opposed to a Visa that you get a statement on, which is actually the banks or the credit card's money that you're paying that bill at the end of the month. You have a better protection using a credit card on the internet than you do your debit card. Oh yeah, and specifically, it could be a card other than a Visa. I mean, it could be MasterCard, American Express Discover. It is, it's a standalone credit card that's not associated with your bank account. Anytime that debit feature is used, it's drawing money directly out and so somebody can see what is that checking account and routing number. However, with the credit card, it offers a standalone credit card, offers the highest level of fraud protection and it's on the credit card to disprove that. So when you file that fraud claim, they're going to be able to re-inverse that whereas with a bank account when it's your checking account money and it's cash sometimes that cannot be re-inversed. Okay, okay. So aside from, I know Kevin mentioned some tips that people can use to prevent this from happening to them. Are there any other tips that you guys can think of? On tips on credit card, there's the multiple different types of fraud. If we get into like email scams, there are specific ones that they convert specifically for holidays. Email scams about grandparents receiving an email about a needing bail for grandchildren or the IRS scams about being late on your taxes. Those, even though some of those are on the phone, they can be done by email and all the scammers do are tweak them to fit the holiday message. And being very aware, nobody's ever going to ask you, that's a legitimate, it's going to ask you your personal identifying information, your date of birth, social security number, your home address. You never want to give those out when somebody's calling you. And calls and emails do pick up during this time, whether it's a scam, such as the grandparent one, like he said, or giving to charities, which is huge during this time, whether it's people wanting to get it in before the end of the year or because it's that holiday time where they're trying to give back. One of the most important things during this time is that you don't, you're very careful of those phone calls that come in. There's so many of them coming in. We tell people to screen their phone calls, know who they're calling. If it's an unsolicited phone call, be very careful with it. Don't give out your personal identifying information. If they're asking for account information or social security and they don't know you, then you shouldn't be giving that. And we tell them to give local in places where they do know that, where they can see face to face these people they're giving. Because especially when you're sending money, abroad or to other places in the US and you don't know if it's a real charity, we see so many news reports or reports from law enforcement that certain charities end up being fake. And so it's really important that they're careful with that too. And so we're touching specifically on the holiday time, but I know that there are different types of fraud that are identified. Can you guys give us a little bit of an explanation about that? The different types of fraud. Fraud is basically a theft by a deceit mechanism, whatever it is. So anytime there's any type of theft and they're committing fraud, whether it's through the mail, our regular mail that where you have a mailbox, where they're gonna be taking that information and using it fraudulently, or email trying to trick you into giving private information, or some of the other things like we mentioned, nobody's, a public entity's never gonna demand money. Just wanted to make sure I had my list here. And they're gonna require you to ask you to wire money, either some type of money grammar, something of that sort. And that should be a very big red flag to try to get a callback number and to make sure it's legitimate. Some of the other things besides wiring money now, prepaid cards are becoming very popular, where there's ones that they call green dot or just loading cards. And what they'll say is go down to the convenience store and load $500, a thousand, $1,500. Read the numbers off the back to me on the phone and we'll take care of this payment today. For seniors and people that are unaware that that's a payment method, they might think, oh, it could take care of it really quickly. However, the problem is that that money disappears and it cannot be recovered. A lot of times they're hiding behind the internet, they're hiding behind the phone, oftentimes in another country and they'll be calling and acting as if they're from here. And many times the caller ID says 530. They can trick the phone number to say 530, spoof it is what they'll say.  So I know I'm sending it to them and then they're close by. Yeah, yeah. So be careful of those prepaid cards, be careful of those 530 area code numbers even as well. Okay, well thank you for that explanation. So I know that you guys have been working in this field for a while.  The impact has multiple different layers because to the immediate victim, victim of identity theft of fraud, number one, they're immediately out the money. And if somebody's depending on what type of fraud they're doing using their social security card, they're opening up accounts in somebody else's name and it's hurting the person's credit. And those can take a long time to get taken care of. And on top of that, the theft, a lot of the businesses will have to kind of eat the loss per se and that ends up all being passed down to the consumer. So that gets passed down to the economy. So it's kind of a snowball effect and for the immediate person that's affected at the Yolo County DA's office, we have a killer victim witness program that will assist a victim of identity theft and fraud through the process. Okay. Yeah, and especially when these people, if they call the victim services, they get help with these things. We have victim advocates that help them in those areas. But what's most important is that we, sometimes it's hard for us to get restitution payments for them. How do they recover those funds? If it's somebody that we can never track down where they took the money to, right? Who that suspect is, it's very difficult to track that. And so what we do is we say, be careful, be aware, be on alert and prevent victimization. And so with all that being said, what we try to say is if it's harder in money, whether you lose 500 bucks or some people lose thousands and thousands of dollars, whether you have a little bit of money in your account or a lot, any type of loss, it hurts that victim. It's difficult. And especially during the holiday times, especially when they're wanting to give to loved ones and things like that. So that's why we're there for victims of crime. We have a fraud hotline where they can report it at. And so it's very important. You want to give them the fraud hotline? The hotline number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And for that fraud hotline, that's not a, if you don't even know what specific type of fraud, it doesn't matter because just to quickly mention at our office, we deal with consumer fraud, human trafficking, auto insurance fraud, check prosecution unit, real estate fraud, welfare fraud, and workers compensation insurance fraud. So we try to do things on the prevention and then the investigative side and then the follow through with assisting victims. Okay, so anybody could just call and get information about all that types of fraud. Is there an email that you want to put out there or? Yes, the fraud email is fraud at yoloda.org. And that comes in, Paul and I take a look at those and we respond and reply. A lot of times people don't know, they just say, this is suspicious or I think I've been victimized. And what we can do is most of the times we're able to help them out directly or we can refer them to local law enforcement. If the investigation has to start there, we can refer them to our Victim Services Department. If they need help in their victim. What's most important is that we want them to feel comfortable contacting us so that we can help them out and look into it, investigate it and point them in the right direction. Yeah, so it sounds like to me that you work with not only District Attorney's Office, but also the whole community to assist those that are victimized or have questions. So is there any other resources besides the ones that you've listed that people can go to? Yes, because what we are, we can act as a conduit to other state agencies depending on fraud because even with myself, with workers comp fraud, I deal with contractors licensing board. So I can help refer people there or see if we need to handle it in-house. Okay. Correct, we also work with the California Department of Insurance. So especially during this time of the year, there might be people that are trying to sell fraudulent insurance, whether it's annuities, life insurance, things like that at the end of the year. And so those type of fraud come in, we work directly with them and get referrals and things like that. And a lot of times if it's something where it's not a crime and it's civil, we can refer to like legal services of Northern California or some of the other nonprofits that could help people in the community as well. Okay, so you can act as a referral, a resource referral. That's right. Okay, well thank you for being here today. Thank you for joining us in this episode of In the Studio. If you want more information, you can visit them at www.yellowda.org or you can follow them on all of their social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at YOLODA. Thank you.


The insane benefits of adding fish oil to your diet. Well, as most of you know, I'm always adding easy steps into your diet to better your health. Well, I've got another one for you today. I'm talking about fish oil. Fish oil is a great additive to your diet for a number of reasons. First, it's got some wonderful natural anti-inflammatory compounds.   Talk about a great hack to not eat as much. Third, it can actually protect your skin from sun damage since it's rich in long chain omega-3 fats. Here may be the best reason. It turns out that fish consumption is also associated with an overall bigger brain size and a bigger hippocampus, the memory centers of our brain. And one particular town in Italy, a Ciroli, they eat anchovies, a very small fish rich in omega-3 fats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And they have more centenarians, people over 100, per population than anywhere in the world. And one of the reasons we suspect is because of their significant little fish high in omega-3 fat. Now, my personal favorite reason for recommending fish oil is that the long chain omega-3 fats in fish oil allow for the speedy repair of your gut barrier. And as you know, as your gut barrier breaks down, so you break down.  So I like my gut barrier to stay intact. And what's fascinating is omega-3 fats actually repair your gut barrier and omega-3 fat consumption prevents the absorption of LPSs, those lipopolysaccharides that are cell walls of bacteria, from getting into your bloodstream in the first place. These guys actually cause energy draining inflammation. Now, I measure the omega-3 index in all patients who come to see me. The omega-3 index looks at the amount of two omega-3 fats, EPA and DHA, that are attached to red blood cells, which looks at approximately what you've been doing for two months prior to the test. And it's called the omega-3 index. Now, the problem is most of my patients, when I see them, are deficient in their omega-3 index.  So what?  Now, here's the bad news.  And one would think you would want a big brain and big areas of memory, I certainly do.  So that's why you want so much DHA. Now, the only people I see in my practice who don't take supplemental fish oil are people who eat sardines or herring on a daily basis.  And you should supplement with fish oil. Now, how do you do that? First of all, you want to find a fish oil that's molecularly distilled. Yes, fish oil has a lot of nasty heavy metals in certain fish, although small fish usually don't have those heavy metals. But just in case molecular distillation means those toxins and heavy metals have been complexed out of the fish oil. Try to make sure your fish oil comes from small fish like sardines and anchovies or mendhen. My recommendation is when you're taking fish oil, aim for 1000 milligrams of DHA per day. Now, that's tricky, because what you see on the front of the bottle does not correlate with how much DHA is in there. You may see 1400 milligrams of omega-3s per capsule, and you go, great, that's what I need. I only have to take one, not so fast. You have to turn the bottle around and look at the label and look for the words DHA per capsule. Now, a lot of fish oil manufacturers will try to fool you, and you didn't look at the serving size, and the serving size may be two or three. So whatever you see down below for DHA, you've got to make sure that's per one capsule, or if it's for two or three, you got to divide that number to find out how much each capsule contains. And unfortunately, I see this all the time. I see that people are taking their fish oil, but have no idea that they're really looking for about 1000 milligrams of DHA per day. Now, why do I say that? Because when we put people on 1000 or more DHA per day, their omega-3 index will always be in the range that's considered normal. So that's where I got that number. Again, we measure this every day on everybody, every three months, so we know what works and what doesn't. I'm not conjecturing about this. Now, there are several good national brands that I recommend. Nature's bounty is good, but be careful. In general, you have to take four of their fish oil a day to reach 1000 milligrams. Omega via DHA 600 is a fairly small capsule that has 600 milligrams of DHA per capsule, so you only need two per day. My female patients quite frankly love it because of the size. Carlson's Elite Gems can be swallowed, or if you're not into swallowing these fish oil capsules, you can actually chew them and then swallow the capsule. And again, a lot of my female patients like this option. Kirkland Signature Fish Oil, 1200 milligram enteric-coated, won't give you fish burps, which is good, but it's got to have the blue label, not the yellow label. And I see a lot of patients using the yellow label, and quite frankly, there's very little available DHA in the yellow label Kirkland.  I personally like the Thrive Culinary brand. Now, either way, aim to take 1000 milligrams of DHA per day. Now, I recommend you take a fish oil capsule with every meal, or better yet, mixed flavored cod liver oil into your food. Now, don't wrinkle your nose. Believe it or not, modern cod liver oil has no fishy taste or no fishy smell. I love Carlson's Lemon and Orange flavors, and it's great to mix in with olive oil or perilla oil on your salad dressings or even on your vegetables. In fact, I have frequently served guests a salad in my home that's been made with half Carlson's Fish Oil, the lemon flavor, and they tell me what a great salad this is. What are you using? And I tell them cod liver oil, and they try to spit it out. It doesn't taste fishy, and it's an easy way, particularly with your kids, to get fish oil cod liver oil into them, and their brains will benefit. Study after study shows that the more DHA in a child's diet, the better they will do in school, and believe it or not, the better emotional stability they'll have. So, whatever way suits your lifestyle and routine, get fish oil into your diet. Really, the benefits are not to be missed out on, and it's a really easy step to take towards getting your health on track. First things first, let's get this straight. Not all seed oil is bad to cook with. Not all seed oils are bad to use. What we're talking about bad seed oils, we're really addressing an Omega-6 short chain fatty acid called linoleic acid. Now, linoleic acid is the primary fat, even though it's called an acid, it's a fat in a great number of seed oils. And what we've learned through the years is that even though linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid, that means we have to have it in our diet, we don't manufacture it, and believe it or not, it's an important component of our mitochondria and our cell wall. We have to have some. Unfortunately, we don't need much, and it's the excess of linoleic acid in our diet that has been attributed to a lot of mischief. Now, one of the things we now know is that linoleic acid is converted into what are called aldehydes. Now, aldehydes are compounds that, among other things, stiffen our blood vessels, stiffen our cell membranes, and many people have heard about formaldehyde, which is an aldehyde. And what is formaldehyde? It's embalming fluid, and having worked with formaldehyde for most of my life, formaldehyde makes tissues stiff. So the last thing you want is to use oils that stiffen your tissues. So every time you use these sorts of vegetable oils, you're embalming yourself. Sound like a good idea? So many seed oils are really bad for you. Now, corn oil. Corn oil is loaded with linoleic acid. Now, many people hear the word canola oil, and they think, I don't know why, that canola oil is corn oil. Now, it may be because one of the major brands of corn oil that was very popular is called mazolla oil. And a lot of my patients, a lot of you on my websites, think when I'm saying canola oil is pretty safe, you think I'm saying mazolla, and nothing could be further from the truth. It turns out that organic canola oil has actually a great deal of a very friendly omega-3 fat called linoleic acid. It does have some linoleic acid, but the ratio is actually fantastic. Now, the problem with canola oil and why it's been off of my list up until the last book is that most canola oil is sprayed with Roundup glyphosate, but we now are finding small producers of organic canola oil, and it's perfectly safe. It's not my number one oil, but you're okay to use organic canola oil. It's not mazolla corn oil. Now, grape seed oil. Let's be clear about this. Grape seed extract are polyphenols that are taken from grape seeds and grape skin, and they have some amazing health-promoting qualities, but grape seed oil that's pressed out of the grape seed has none of those benefits, and it's mostly that omega-6 fat linoleic acid. Now, someone wrote in that long ago grape seed oil was safe on my list, and quite frankly, I think it was in my original book, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution, and if you've been following my career, you know that when I learn something that's important for you to know, I will change my stance, and there's a lot of docs out there who, regardless of the information, regardless of the studies, they will never change their stance. So, grape seed oil is not friendly to you, and I do not recommend it. Same with cotton seed oil. Now, how about peanut oil? Peanut oil is used for deep fat frying, and it's very stable, and it doesn't smoke. It's probably the worst for you. It turns out that peanut oil contains a peanut lectin, and there's very good studies on multiple monkey species who are given peanut oil with and without the lectin. The monkeys who were given peanut oil with the lectin developed atherosclerosis, and quite frankly, monkeys don't get atherosclerosis, but these did giving them peanut oil. When they gave them the peanut oil without the lectin, the lectin was removed, they didn't develop atherosclerosis. You'll learn in my new book, The Mechanism that How This Happened, the lectin actually attached to the inside surface of their blood vessels, and they attacked their blood vessels. So, keep it away from you. Peanut oils in lots of foods, especially fast foods, because they use it for deep fat frying, so beware. Safflower oil. Now, safflower oil is also very heavy in omega-6 fats. Recently, safflower oil has been genetically bred to have more oleic acid, which is the mono-unsaturated fat in olive oil. But, beware, just because there's more oleic acid than normal, safflower oil and sunflower oil still is predominantly the omega-6 polyunsaturated fat that we're warning against. So, don't be confused. You can't make a silk purse out of a sowsere. Soy oil, soybean oil is loaded with lectins, and the vast majority of soy in this country is sprayed with glyphosate, and that glyphosate roundup will be present in their oil. Same with sunflower oil, same issue. Now, you'll see sometimes sunflower lecithin in supplements. Sunflower lecithin is not sunflower oil. It's an emollient that sometimes we have to use to make something stick together. It is not a huge contributor to much of anything. So, what are the oils that you can cook with? Well, sesame oil, non-toasted sesame oil, is great. My personal favorite is perilla oil. Perilla oil is the oil of Korea and much of China. Perilla oil is almost all alpha-linolenic acid, ALA, and the health benefits of ALA are just spectacular. Non-gmo canola oil is great. You can't cook with flaxseed oil, but flaxseed oil is also loaded with ALA. Now, is it important for a smoke point for choosing an oil? Not at all. Olive oil has a low smoke point, but in fact, olive oil is the least oxidizable oil that you can cook with, and so smoke point is not a deal in choosing an oil. And just because an oil is smoking doesn't mean that it's oxidizing. Oxidized oil is a rancid oil, and that's the problem. Now, remember, if you're looking at an ingredient and you're looking at the oil and the oil content, most likely the package you're looking at is a highly processed food with ground up grains or even ground up lectin-free products that are being cooked in that oil. What's worrisome is, you may say, oh, this is done with olive oil, or oh, this is done with avocado oil, and so that's safe. But look at the total carbohydrates in that package. I see many wise consumers who look at the oil and say, oh, that's good oil, that's coconut oil, or that's olive oil, or that's avocado oil, and that's good for me, without reading the carbohydrate content. And they're eating a very high carbohydrate food while looking at the oil, and that's not the problem for most of us. Finally, if you're eating a process or ultra-processed foods, the odds are you're eating a terrible oil that is omega-6 that's going to contribute to inflammation and, quite frankly, is going to embalm you slowly, and that's not what you want. All right, here in America we love convenience, and we also love breakfast, unfortunately. What's the definition of hot, filling, convenient breakfast? Well, oatmeal. Sure, it may be delicious, easy to make, and you might even think it's good for you. I get it. We've been taught to think this, but unfortunately that could not be further from the truth. In fact, oatmeal is one of the worst foods that you can put in your body. Oats used to make oatmeal are loaded with lectins, which can poke holes in your gut lining and cause serious health issues down the line. My oldest daughter is an elite horsewoman, and she assures me that the only purpose of oats is to make horses fat for the winter. And I couldn't agree with her more.  And if that's not enough to stop you, I've got plenty more reasons. Interestingly enough, the ancient Egyptians actually ate a lot of oats, but analysis of thousands of Egyptian mummified remains has revealed that the health status of those odors wasn't very good. They often died overweight with clogged arteries. Their teeth were decayed from a diet high in grains, which are full of simple sugar, and were worn down to the gums by grinding these grains with their teeth. In fact, other mummies have suggested that some of the Egyptian queens died with diabetes. Now there's a study that I've alluded to in my earlier books of children and orphanages in England at the turn of the century who were fed oats as their daily food. These children had dramatic dental carries, and of course in those days, there was no option for dental work. But an interesting study, half of these children, their oats were taken away, and they were given fish oil in the form of cod liver oil, and their gruel was changed to other grains that we'll talk about in a minute. Those children actually reversed their dental carries. So every time you put that bowl of oatmeal in front of your kids, think about that the next time you're going to the dentist. Now are there options for people who just have to have that healthy warm bowl of breakfast cereal? Yeah, both millet and sorghum are hauls and have no lectins. And there's even a type of millet called fornio, which if you cook it tastes almost identical to cream of wheat. So you'll get that breakfast mouthfeel that you're looking for without the harmful lectins. Now it gets worse than that. Even gluten-free oats have proteins that cross react with gluten. And so many of my patients unfortunately have been eating gluten-free, but they've been eating gluten-free oats. And when we take those gluten-free oats away from them along with other lectin-containing foods, their leaky gut and their autoimmune issues resolve. Now just remember, gluten-free does not mean lectin-free. Give me another example. 70% of my patients who are sensitive to gluten react to oats and corn as if they were gluten, even though they say gluten-free. The other thing to realize is so many of our oat products are predigested to make you be able to cook them in 30 seconds and not water. And when we predigest these oats, they basically are a bowl of sugar and that's the last thing you want. Now you might be listening to this right now and you've already decided that you still want your oatmeal. I get it. Something that we thought was healthy for so long can be hard to give up. But there's one more huge issue with oats and oatmeal. Our oats are sprayed with chemicals and I'm not sure you actually want to eat chemicals. Consumer Reports, the environmental working group, have analyzed oats in our breakfast food, oats in our granola, oats in our oat bars, and have found very high disturbing levels of glyphosate in almost all oats in the United States. That's Roundup. Now why don't we want Roundup? Turns out Roundup is a recognized carcinogen by both the World Health Organization and other environmental agencies. Why you would purposely want to eat a carcinogen for breakfast is hard to believe. Secondly, there is another chemical that I talk about in my upcoming book that is banned as an agricultural herbicide in the United States but is still used on oats in the United States even though it's banned to make oat stalks not grow as high as normal. Now why would you want to do that? It turns out that oat stalks get very spindly and wind can actually blow over that oat stalk and that ruins the crop. So cleverly you can spray oats with this herbicide and make them not grow as high. Sounds brilliant from an economic standpoint. The problem is this chemical is also a known carcinogen. Now it was banned by the EPA as not allowed to be used but during the recent previous presidential administration the EPA was told to loosen that allowance and new studies by the environmental working group has shown that all of our oats in the United States have up to 400 times the allowable allowance of this herbicide including some of our favorite old-fashioned oatmeal. So if you want chemicals in your breakfast, cancer causing it chemicals in your breakfast then please have a healthy bowl of oatmeal but wait there's more not only does glyphosate cause cancer but glyphosate is now a known disrupter of gut law integrity and glyphosate also kills off the serotonin producing bacteria in your gut. So if you want to get depressed, if you want to get anxious, if you want to expose yourself to cancer causing chemicals all for the sake of having your healthy bowl of oatmeal quite frankly there's nothing I can do probably to stop you except please try a healthy alternative like millet or sorghum or the tiny millet fornia. Let me just reiterate there was a 23 year long study done in California tracking glyphosate levels in our bodies the amount of glyphosate with each year has been dramatically increasing in our bodies it affects our energy levels it causes leaky gut it strips the micronutrients from the food you eat and if that isn't bad enough it actually suppresses an enzyme you need to have adequate vitamin D levels in your body. So millet, fornia, sorghum if you want to add a sweetener to these foods please use allulose allulose is a natural sugar that was first discovered in figs it's now being produced get it from non-gmo allulose sources if you want to increase the fun in your breakfast add some cocoa nibs chop out some healthy nuts like walnuts or macadamias or pistachio put it in fornia put it in sorghum put it in millet and please please please take your oatmeal away from you and your kids you'll be doing everybody a favor and we'll stop poisoning ourselves in one simple step. I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Dr. Gundry podcast make sure to check out the next one here. Believe it or not two and a half eggs per day will meet your entire protein requirements for 24 hours so if this is how you want to get your protein fine


Good afternoon folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 2 p.m. update. We have a slightly mixed bag out there. That mix goes like this. The Dow is trading down 127 points while the S&P is up four. NASDAQ is up 13 or nine tenths percent. Summizer up one and a half percent of 43 points. New York Stock Exchange is up 54. You've got gold down 12 bucks right now. 16.98 is a print. Silver's off eight pennies at 18.62. Light's recouped back a buck 30 at 99.45 natural gas up 58 cents at 773. 30-year treasury printed out at 138.15. That is back three ticks. Let's do what we like to do during this segment. Go take a look at the indices out here. Let's start by taking a look at some of the A to B equals CD patterns. Either the other way or maybe underway. The ones that are underway are, right now, you've got the NDX100. You can see prices hit the one-to-one price projection. That's at 12461. You need a bearish reversal candle to confirm a sell the D point pattern. The Russell 2000. It's making its way up to its one-to-one price projection at 183150. Again, you would need a bearish reversal candle to confirm a sell the D point pattern. You've got the semiconductor index zero and A to B equals CDT upside. Their next price projection is 2902. The only thing that's assuming that there's no bearish reversal candle at forms, which would confirm a sell the D point pattern. The Dow needs a close above 31885. If it gets that, then you've got a one-to-one price projection of 3275, 1-to-1.272, 32982. The S&P 500 needs a close above 394586. You're at 3941 right now. So a close above that would give you an A to B equals CD price projection of 4030 out there. Nothing in the transports with regard to A to B equals CD patterns. Let's go take a look at a white background. In to see charts out there, see if there's anything else worth noting and sharing with you. What do we see out here? The semis could actually be targeting 3080 to 38. That is a TD9 count breakdown level. Today is going to become bar number 5. They are the most ahead with regard to their TD9 counts out there. So that says 6 and 7. That really says next week might be a timeframe, but no idea whether this pattern is even going to come through fruition or not out there. The transports, they may be targeting the 14478 level. Folks, stay tuned. Your favorite polar bear, David White, is up next. I'll be back with you tomorrow at 1 o'clock sharp. Have a wonderful Wednesday, and we'll see you on terrific Thursday.


Hello, thank you for joining me. We are continuing our walk along the old railway line which runs from Leek up towards Macklesfield and we're just coming up to Rushton Spencer station. Now this one it opened with the line in 1849 and it closed with a line in 1960 so unlike Cliff Park Stroke Rudyard it's which opened later and then it changed its name and everything. This one just existed with the railway and also unlike Cliff Park Stroke Rudyard later it's more to see. So when we get here now immediately we can see the platform is still here and it looks as though the station buildings here by the way I've not actually seen any of this before so as I do this video I'm showing it to you as I see it for the first time. There appears to be a good chef standing which is great so whether there were two platforms I'm not sure because most of the formation seems to be double track going by the size of the bridges etc so I'm not sure if there ever was a platform there. I'm not sure that one. So yeah I'm unsure whether there was a platform there but it looks like going by the edge of that stone under the fence there was two platforms and you just see the station building. What I think we'll do is we'll walk around here. Obviously we can't have any choice because that is now someone's garden so we won't obviously walk through there but we should be able to see the front of the railway station and we'll see if we can see any more. So it looks like that possibly was a very small good shed that building there certainly in the right place. The pub just here called the Not-In so if you're waiting for your train and you had a while to wait then you could have gone another pint or two in the pub which I think is nice when you get these remote railway stations. That's a bit of an interesting one about the actual name of the village because it was originally called Rushton Spencer but for what I've been told it's now just called Rushton. I'm not sure why that is but if anyone does know wants to come in and tell me why they dropped the Spencer bit please do but I'm going to call the station Rushton Spencer because the Spencer bit I think was dropped way after the railway closed. So there is the station building lovely little north Staffordshire station building similar to Chedalton which we haven't actually featured properly in Henry's adventures yet I have been there but I haven't actually gone and made a video there so we will do that section of the Churnick Valley line one day and as I said that is the Not-In. So there would have been a level crossing just up there so let's go and have a look at that and the track bed would have continued that way on towards Macklesfield. This road didn't actually join going to Macklesfield itself and we'll get onto it later but it joined the line which is the line that goes comes off the west coast main line at Shugborough and carries on up to Manchester. I've just noticed something right here look at the edge of this see where these cobbles are look they've actually used a piece of railway of rail that trains would have ran on. They've bent it obviously it would have been in this shop. There must have been some rail lying around. They've got it and they've used it which is quite good to see so the path continues that way. Look at that didn't expect to see that there's a signal look a semaphore signal and it says go so that means we should carry on going which we will but having a look here you can see the station platform this is someone's garden but as I can see it from a public right away I don't see why not so you can see where the platforms are so it's like two trains could have passed here so let's just have a look. Is that a path or not? I'm not sure it doesn't overly look like it I just wanted to see the signal from this side let's just go up here a little bit just so we can see what the signal is. There you go so there's a signal behind me as I said it is signaling to go so we carry on now and what I'm going to do this section of the railway well all the way from leak up to beyond here is a public footpath but I think what's going to happen is later on it won't be a public footpath so back on the track but again so we are going to carry on up there but later on it won't be a public footpath so I think it's going to come fragmented as to what I can show you of it because some of it will be in private property as in farmlands and I don't overly fancy getting chased by any dogs and so probably what will happen is up here the railway line crosses the river so what I think I'll do with this video is I won't record all the way because it will just be me walking through a tunnel of trees for 20 odd minutes. I'll stop filming now as if by magic I'm going to appear further up the railway line so as I said I'd magically appear further on up the track well in the last two seconds I've gone three-quarters of a mile obviously I paused the camera and walked but anyway we've now come this bit further up the track now what has been a very long path all the way from Leek continuous this huge railway looks as though it's about to come to a bit of an abrupt ending so this section of path is part of the Staffordshire way it's something I'm not sure when but I would like to do in the future and obviously I'd make a series of Henry's adventures videos on it starts up on Kinver Edge finishes at Mal Copps are both great places both National Trust, Kinver Edge has the rock houses, Mal Copp has the folly so definitely places worthy of making a video while many others on the way well it looks as though let's have a look does it say Staffordshire way yeah look the Staffordshire way goes down those steps and leaves the trackbed doesn't actually follow the trackbed away from Leek it goes around the other side of Rudyard Lake up past Cliff Park Hall so to walk along the Staffordshire way you wouldn't only just be walking along here do lots of other exciting bits give you an idea where we are that hill you can see in the distance that is the cloud which towers above Congleton and again somewhere I'd like to go in the future sort of path I think this might be an unofficial path now but it kind of carries on a bit so let's have a look what I'm thinking is we'll probably come to the river and the bridge will be missing but I'm not entirely sure because as I said I haven't actually done it I'm doing making the video as I discover it so let's wait and see what happens but I think we are no longer on an official public footpath you never know it might carry on the bridge might be there not sure if I'm gonna be able to just carry on because I think there's a path I'll carry on but if there isn't a path I won't start wandering across Farmsfield so I mentioned earlier I kind of did expect it to be that as soon as the Staffordshire way left the formation the bridge would be there straight away but it appears not quite to be the case so we'll have to keep exploring I can hear someone's out shooting you might be able to hear the bang bang I can see a fence ahead I think we might be going to go as far as I can go for the time being on the railway line so what I'm going to have to do is find an alternative route to the next railway station I wanted to show you so I'll work that out when I finish filming I think but let's just enjoy the last bit trap bed we're actually going to go along for this idea so we have been able to walk along the trap bed from the other side of the tunnel what leak unhindered all the way along until this point now here we are it says it's all fenced off so it doesn't look like I've got any chance of getting on to the bridge it says no public access beyond River Dane bridge so as I said it's all farmlands really and you can't really see a lot but it looks as though the bridge is still there I can just see the water of the river below but it looks actually quite hard for me to be able to show that to you can we see not really no but the river is down there so from the River Dane on the old railway line from leak up towards Macklesfield hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching and I'm going to retrace my steps so goodbye