XanGo has put its money where its heart is-once again.
They have contributed 1million dollars to the SCERA Center For The Arts as reported by the Desert Sun.
The SCERA has been providing arts and educational programs for the public for over 75 years!
With XanGo's contribution and other contributions the center is receiving a lot of much needed renovations.
XanGo continues to shine and give also through its non-profit charities, most notably, XanGo Goodness.
Go XanGo!
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27 December 2007
13 December 2007
XanGo Recognized As One of Utah's Best Companies
Mangosteen
Utah Business Magazine highlights XanGo's "fun working environment".Lehi, UT (PRWeb) December 13, 2007 --
Global nutraceutical leader XanGo, LLC, creator of the mangosteen natural supplement category, was named the top company to "Foster a Fun Working Environment" by Utah Business Magazine at its "Best Companies to Work For" luncheon held today. President of XanGo, LLC Kent Wood accepted the award on behalf of XanGo employees.
"We are pleased that our efforts to cultivate a positive corporate culture have been recognized by Utah Business Magazine," said XanGo President Kent Wood. "It's a reflection of the value we place on our employees, who have been extremely instrumental in our phenomenal growth and success as a company.
"XanGo was recognized for its efforts to provide a positive work environment, which include generous salary and performance incentives such as cash bonuses, discounts at area attractions and iPod giveaways. XanGo also awards cash prizes for best costumes on Halloween, provides two hours of paid employee leave per month for charitable service and hosts financial, health and fitness seminars during work hours.
"We go above and beyond to ensure our employees know that they are appreciated and feel empowered to achieve," said Wood. "XanGo takes pride in the accomplishment of its employees and is interested in their well-being.
"With the acceptance of this award, XanGo continues to be recognized as a top company in the state. In October, XanGo was named 2007 Business of the Year by the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce.
Operating out of its worldwide corporate headquarters in Lehi, XanGo continues to grow, with operations in more than 20 countries across the globe. XanGo employs approximately 700 in Utah County and contributes generously to the local community through charitable donations, sponsorships and employee contributions.
About XanGo
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XanGo, LLC is a recognized category creator as the first company to market a premium mangosteen beverage, XanGo® Juice, to consumers worldwide. XanGo continues to lead the category we created by driving the development and success of functional mangosteen products.
Based in Utah, XanGo is privately owned and powered by a global network of independent distributors. XanGo's expansive operations include the U.S. and numerous international markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany and Malaysia. For more information XanGo, visit www.xango.com.
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*Publisher's Comments: XanGo has gotten many similar awards over the past few years because they know the importance of treating every employee, no matter how small a job they do, as important! Without these people, Xango wouldn't be the giant it is today.
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For more info on Mangosteen Juice, visit: XanGo Juice Mangosteen
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Utah Business Magazine highlights XanGo's "fun working environment".Lehi, UT (PRWeb) December 13, 2007 --
Global nutraceutical leader XanGo, LLC, creator of the mangosteen natural supplement category, was named the top company to "Foster a Fun Working Environment" by Utah Business Magazine at its "Best Companies to Work For" luncheon held today. President of XanGo, LLC Kent Wood accepted the award on behalf of XanGo employees.
"We are pleased that our efforts to cultivate a positive corporate culture have been recognized by Utah Business Magazine," said XanGo President Kent Wood. "It's a reflection of the value we place on our employees, who have been extremely instrumental in our phenomenal growth and success as a company.
"XanGo was recognized for its efforts to provide a positive work environment, which include generous salary and performance incentives such as cash bonuses, discounts at area attractions and iPod giveaways. XanGo also awards cash prizes for best costumes on Halloween, provides two hours of paid employee leave per month for charitable service and hosts financial, health and fitness seminars during work hours.
"We go above and beyond to ensure our employees know that they are appreciated and feel empowered to achieve," said Wood. "XanGo takes pride in the accomplishment of its employees and is interested in their well-being.
"With the acceptance of this award, XanGo continues to be recognized as a top company in the state. In October, XanGo was named 2007 Business of the Year by the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce.
Operating out of its worldwide corporate headquarters in Lehi, XanGo continues to grow, with operations in more than 20 countries across the globe. XanGo employs approximately 700 in Utah County and contributes generously to the local community through charitable donations, sponsorships and employee contributions.
About XanGo
----------------
XanGo, LLC is a recognized category creator as the first company to market a premium mangosteen beverage, XanGo® Juice, to consumers worldwide. XanGo continues to lead the category we created by driving the development and success of functional mangosteen products.
Based in Utah, XanGo is privately owned and powered by a global network of independent distributors. XanGo's expansive operations include the U.S. and numerous international markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany and Malaysia. For more information XanGo, visit www.xango.com.
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*Publisher's Comments: XanGo has gotten many similar awards over the past few years because they know the importance of treating every employee, no matter how small a job they do, as important! Without these people, Xango wouldn't be the giant it is today.
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For more info on Mangosteen Juice, visit: XanGo Juice Mangosteen
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12 December 2007
Planting Mangosteen and Other Tropical Trees Help Global Warming
Mangosteen
Medan Plants Trees and Then Some
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:51:54 AM
Jakarta Post
MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): Wimpi Sugiono, 37, spreads his arms wide toward the 200 saplings. They reach an adult’s knee. The stands of saplings are placed three paces apart in neat rows in one quarter section of a 4,000 square meter level field.
In the background is a banner that reads: Kecil Menanam Besar Memanen, Bhayangkari Medan. (Plant Small Harvest Big, Bhayangkari, the association of the wives of police officers in Medan)
“These are mainly fruit trees. After they mature we can share them,” remarks Wimpi, a local repair shop owner who is a native of Ponorogo, East Java. Twenty years ago he settled in North Sumatra at the age of 17.
In time, the people of Bandar Setia, a village on the eastern outskirts of Medan, will enjoy a manna of sweet, tropical fruit: durian, manggis (mangosteen), belimbing (starfruit), and duku, jambu bol, asem (tamarind), to name a few. Non-fruiting trees that provide leafy foliage for shade have also been planted. These include the meranti (Shorea loprosula), mahoni (Swietenia mahagoni), and ketapang (terminalia catapa).
The previous week, Saturday, Dec. 1, the chair of the Bhayangkari Medan city branch, Meiledyawati Bambang Sukamto, ceremoniously planted the first batch of trees in this village field of public land left fallow.
“The planting is in line with the national tree planting initiative. The initiative gives a lot of benefits. It gives a green freshness to the village. Further, it helps to check global warming,” explains Jalaluddin, 38, the village head.
The Bhayangkari ladies came bearing 1,000 saplings. The remaining trees will be planted in the rest of the field and also in village households, said Jalaluddin, whose own modest house is endowed with two fully-grown mango trees that bear fruit year round.
Jalaluddin, a former school head of the local SMP (junior high school), says he is following the current Bali climate conference. “The climate is changing because plant cover is decreasing. Whatever government policy comes out that stems from the Bali meeting, I will carry it out if it’s for the people’s good.”
What can the government do now? Provide seedlings of crops that would increase the village people’s income, he exclaims giving mangoes as one example.
Bandar Setia is one of Indonesia’s more than 60,000 villages gearing up for the nation’s drive to plant 10 million trees. The considerable loss of the country’s tree cover from illegal logging, forest fires and degradation has made Indonesia a top emitter of greenhouse gases, a major cause of global warming. The plant drive aims to reverse that.
Medan, the capital of North Sumatra and Indonesia’s fourth largest city (after Jakarta, Surabaya and Semarang) has women’s organizations leading the planting campaign. Nanan Abdillah, the mayor’s wife, started the city drive at Pangkalan Mansyur, an 8,000 square meter field in Medan, Dec. 1. Similar drives were started across the nation on that date.
At least six women’s groups, including the Bhayangkari, have fanned out across Medan’s 21 kecamatan (subdistricts) and 151 kelurahan (villages) to plant 10,000 trees. The women’s organizations get the saplings from the city agricultural service. This office in turn receives its supply from the city’s Association of Plant Breeders.
The plant drive appears to be getting momentum. “It is not just the women’s groups or the government, however, that are involved in the tree planting. School children and private businesses are engaged too,” declares H. Arlan, 51, the public affairs chief at city hall.
He insists the tree plant drive is not a one-off thing. The city’s parks service has routinely spruced up the city streets and green belts as part of its regular work.
Backpacker guidebooks may label Medan as “noisy, dirty, crowded” or “filthy and chaotic.”
However, a slow drive from the Grand Mosque in the south to City Hall in the city center on Medan’s charming betor (becak bermotor, motorcycle-driven pedicab) shows the city streets are relatively garbage free. Tree-shaded lanes are still lacking, though.
How successful the tree planting initiative will be to make Medan green will depend on how well the local communities where the saplings have been planted can care for the trees. If a plant dies too quickly, it may be that the sapling was not appropriate to the soil where it was planted.
The appropriateness of a plant, the correctness in the method and the timing of its planting, and seedling selection are primary considerations other than post planting maintenance, Bogor Institute of Agriculture plant professor Supriyanto told Kompas recently.
If Bandar Setia’s seedlings grow well, the banner above the village field will live up to its message. (Warief Djajanto Basorie)
The author is a freelance writer. He can be reached at wariefdj@yahoo.com.
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For more info on mangosteen, visit: Mangosteen Juice
Medan Plants Trees and Then Some
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:51:54 AM
Jakarta Post
MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): Wimpi Sugiono, 37, spreads his arms wide toward the 200 saplings. They reach an adult’s knee. The stands of saplings are placed three paces apart in neat rows in one quarter section of a 4,000 square meter level field.
In the background is a banner that reads: Kecil Menanam Besar Memanen, Bhayangkari Medan. (Plant Small Harvest Big, Bhayangkari, the association of the wives of police officers in Medan)
“These are mainly fruit trees. After they mature we can share them,” remarks Wimpi, a local repair shop owner who is a native of Ponorogo, East Java. Twenty years ago he settled in North Sumatra at the age of 17.
In time, the people of Bandar Setia, a village on the eastern outskirts of Medan, will enjoy a manna of sweet, tropical fruit: durian, manggis (mangosteen), belimbing (starfruit), and duku, jambu bol, asem (tamarind), to name a few. Non-fruiting trees that provide leafy foliage for shade have also been planted. These include the meranti (Shorea loprosula), mahoni (Swietenia mahagoni), and ketapang (terminalia catapa).
The previous week, Saturday, Dec. 1, the chair of the Bhayangkari Medan city branch, Meiledyawati Bambang Sukamto, ceremoniously planted the first batch of trees in this village field of public land left fallow.
“The planting is in line with the national tree planting initiative. The initiative gives a lot of benefits. It gives a green freshness to the village. Further, it helps to check global warming,” explains Jalaluddin, 38, the village head.
The Bhayangkari ladies came bearing 1,000 saplings. The remaining trees will be planted in the rest of the field and also in village households, said Jalaluddin, whose own modest house is endowed with two fully-grown mango trees that bear fruit year round.
Jalaluddin, a former school head of the local SMP (junior high school), says he is following the current Bali climate conference. “The climate is changing because plant cover is decreasing. Whatever government policy comes out that stems from the Bali meeting, I will carry it out if it’s for the people’s good.”
What can the government do now? Provide seedlings of crops that would increase the village people’s income, he exclaims giving mangoes as one example.
Bandar Setia is one of Indonesia’s more than 60,000 villages gearing up for the nation’s drive to plant 10 million trees. The considerable loss of the country’s tree cover from illegal logging, forest fires and degradation has made Indonesia a top emitter of greenhouse gases, a major cause of global warming. The plant drive aims to reverse that.
Medan, the capital of North Sumatra and Indonesia’s fourth largest city (after Jakarta, Surabaya and Semarang) has women’s organizations leading the planting campaign. Nanan Abdillah, the mayor’s wife, started the city drive at Pangkalan Mansyur, an 8,000 square meter field in Medan, Dec. 1. Similar drives were started across the nation on that date.
At least six women’s groups, including the Bhayangkari, have fanned out across Medan’s 21 kecamatan (subdistricts) and 151 kelurahan (villages) to plant 10,000 trees. The women’s organizations get the saplings from the city agricultural service. This office in turn receives its supply from the city’s Association of Plant Breeders.
The plant drive appears to be getting momentum. “It is not just the women’s groups or the government, however, that are involved in the tree planting. School children and private businesses are engaged too,” declares H. Arlan, 51, the public affairs chief at city hall.
He insists the tree plant drive is not a one-off thing. The city’s parks service has routinely spruced up the city streets and green belts as part of its regular work.
Backpacker guidebooks may label Medan as “noisy, dirty, crowded” or “filthy and chaotic.”
However, a slow drive from the Grand Mosque in the south to City Hall in the city center on Medan’s charming betor (becak bermotor, motorcycle-driven pedicab) shows the city streets are relatively garbage free. Tree-shaded lanes are still lacking, though.
How successful the tree planting initiative will be to make Medan green will depend on how well the local communities where the saplings have been planted can care for the trees. If a plant dies too quickly, it may be that the sapling was not appropriate to the soil where it was planted.
The appropriateness of a plant, the correctness in the method and the timing of its planting, and seedling selection are primary considerations other than post planting maintenance, Bogor Institute of Agriculture plant professor Supriyanto told Kompas recently.
If Bandar Setia’s seedlings grow well, the banner above the village field will live up to its message. (Warief Djajanto Basorie)
The author is a freelance writer. He can be reached at wariefdj@yahoo.com.
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For more info on mangosteen, visit: Mangosteen Juice
30 November 2007
Mangosteen...in History
Did you know that the mangosteen…
* is a tropical fruit from Asia?
* is the national fruit of Thailand?
* contains 43 of the more than 200 xanthones found in nature, and that the name "xanthone" comes from the Greek word “xanthos,” meaning yellow?
* is really called Garcinia mangostana in scientific circles?
* belongs to the scientific family Guttiferae, which is the same family as St. John’s Wort?
* was named by the French explorer and physician Laurentiers Garcin, who called it “more cordial than the strawberry?”
* is rich in antioxidants?
* is recommended for use in preventive maintenance for the body?
* is not a mango?
* has a rind that is used in tanning and dyeing?
* is mentioned in Chinese medical accounts dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.-1644 A.D.)?
* has been used by tens of thousands of people for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years?
* weighs generally about 80-140 grams?
* usually contains only 2-3 seeds?
* comes from a tree that can grow to a height of up to 75 feet?
* grows on a tree that takes up to ten years of cultivation in order to bear fruit, and produces fruit twice each year
* twigs from this tree are used in Ghana as “chew sticks”?
* is claimed by some to be the best tasting fruit in the world?
* has been said to have been Queen Victoria’s favorite fruit?
* is known as the “food of the gods” and “queen of fruits” in some areas around the world?
Info courtesy of: http://mangosteenfruitinfo.com/mangofacts.asp
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* is a tropical fruit from Asia?
* is the national fruit of Thailand?
* contains 43 of the more than 200 xanthones found in nature, and that the name "xanthone" comes from the Greek word “xanthos,” meaning yellow?
* is really called Garcinia mangostana in scientific circles?
* belongs to the scientific family Guttiferae, which is the same family as St. John’s Wort?
* was named by the French explorer and physician Laurentiers Garcin, who called it “more cordial than the strawberry?”
* is rich in antioxidants?
* is recommended for use in preventive maintenance for the body?
* is not a mango?
* has a rind that is used in tanning and dyeing?
* is mentioned in Chinese medical accounts dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.-1644 A.D.)?
* has been used by tens of thousands of people for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years?
* weighs generally about 80-140 grams?
* usually contains only 2-3 seeds?
* comes from a tree that can grow to a height of up to 75 feet?
* grows on a tree that takes up to ten years of cultivation in order to bear fruit, and produces fruit twice each year
* twigs from this tree are used in Ghana as “chew sticks”?
* is claimed by some to be the best tasting fruit in the world?
* has been said to have been Queen Victoria’s favorite fruit?
* is known as the “food of the gods” and “queen of fruits” in some areas around the world?
Info courtesy of: http://mangosteenfruitinfo.com/mangofacts.asp
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For more info on Mangosteen visit: Mangosteen Juice
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18 November 2007
Xango-The Launch of a Reality Channel
Xango, a nutritional company, is always on the cutting edge of technology and research; they just launched a video sharing site called XanGo.TV. It showcases distributors lives, insights, and experiences with Xango. The purpose of the site is to give distributors a feeling of community...a sense of belonging.
It will give customers and potential distributors a glimpse of the person behind the replicated website; it also offers behind-the-scenes look into the company.
It's unusual to see a company such as Xango take the lead and offer their distributors a platform to showcase their business building tactics and offer advice to other distributors.
Some channels on XanGo.TV, include:
Lifestyle – Dstributor and consumer stories on how XanGo has changed their lives.
Goodness – Documents XanGo’s global philanthropic movement.
Sports – Highlights XanGo's sponsorship with Real Salt Lake Soccr team.
Training – Broadcasts business-building tips and professional coaching from XanGo leaders.
Events – Covers local, national and international XanGo events.
Contests – Watch as distributors participate in business-building promotions and compete for top prizes.
Variety – Tour XanGo’s offices around the world and see company founders win Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
With a line up like that, who would want to go back watching mindless regular tv that doesn't make you money?
XanGo will be handing out video awards starting in February 08'. What's next for mega-giant company? Stay tuned to find out.
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For more info, visit: Xango TV
For info on becoming a distributor, visit: Mangosteen Juice
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It will give customers and potential distributors a glimpse of the person behind the replicated website; it also offers behind-the-scenes look into the company.
It's unusual to see a company such as Xango take the lead and offer their distributors a platform to showcase their business building tactics and offer advice to other distributors.
Some channels on XanGo.TV, include:
Lifestyle – Dstributor and consumer stories on how XanGo has changed their lives.
Goodness – Documents XanGo’s global philanthropic movement.
Sports – Highlights XanGo's sponsorship with Real Salt Lake Soccr team.
Training – Broadcasts business-building tips and professional coaching from XanGo leaders.
Events – Covers local, national and international XanGo events.
Contests – Watch as distributors participate in business-building promotions and compete for top prizes.
Variety – Tour XanGo’s offices around the world and see company founders win Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
With a line up like that, who would want to go back watching mindless regular tv that doesn't make you money?
XanGo will be handing out video awards starting in February 08'. What's next for mega-giant company? Stay tuned to find out.
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For more info, visit: Xango TV
For info on becoming a distributor, visit: Mangosteen Juice
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16 November 2007
Family Seeks Hope in Battle With Staph
By RANDAL YAKEY
Of The Oakland Press
Jennifer Frescura of Highland Township wonders if the staph infection that almost killed her will cause her daughter irreparable harm. She's had 12 infections, and the problem never seems to leave her family alone.
"I couldn't get out of bed. I had to have surgery twice. I'm scarred all over," Frescura said. "My husband had his last episode a month and a half ago. I think it's still in our home."
Frescura's 8-year-old daughter, Lindsey, was diagnosed with the MRSA infection earlier this year.
"I think she got it from me," said Frescura, a registered nurse. Her daughter continues to be monitored for new outbreaks.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, which are potentially deadly, are now responsible for an estimated 12 million outpatient visits each year for skin infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC says most MRSA cases are contracted in hospital settings. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that MRSA infections are more common, both in and out of hospitals, than experts had once thought. More people died in 2005 from MRSA infections in the United States than from AIDS, the journal noted.
In Oakland County, a student in South Lyon was recently diagnosed with MRSA. A Southfield student and a student from Rochester Hills also were reported to have contracted staph infections. Ten football players from Troy High School received medical treatment, though just one was confirmed to have a staph infection. After the staph infections were reported, school districts rushed to bring in cleaning crews to scrub the walls and furniture.
"They need to test each student and not just clean the schools and throw the kids back in," Frescura said. "The infection could still be in a child's nose. They can clean the school all they want, but a child could bring it in with them the very next day."
In the JAMA study, researchers found that 58.4 percent of MRSA infections from July 2004 through December 2005 were found in community health care settings; 26.6 percent were in hospitals; 13.7 percent were infections not associated with health care facilities; and 1.3 percent could not be classified.
"This is something that you can get anywhere anytime," Frescura said. "It going to be a bigger epidemic."
The CDC already has deemed the MRSA outbreak an "epidemic" in portions of the country.
Jeff Hageman, an epidemiologist in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion for the CDC, blamed the increase on rising numbers of infections -- a trend that probably has been under way for several years -- and greater awareness of the problem.
"MRSA is epidemic in some regions of the country," he said. "The highest rates are in the Southern parts of the U.S., including Atlanta, Los Angeles and Texas. We first began noticing MRSA in 1999, when there were four child deaths in Minnesota and North Dakota."
Frescura said it started for her family last year, at the end of June. "It was on one of my husband, Richard's, legs," she said. "By the end of June, I got an abscess. It was drained but not (tested to see what it was). I have had MRSA 12 times in 12 different areas since June of '06, and have been on any number of antibiotics. My husband has had it five times and my daughter has had it once.
"I still can't get rid of it," Frescura continued. "All I have to do is cut myself or damage my skin in any way, and it will show up again. I had to go to a clinic every day for two months to take an IV, and it still didn't take it away."
Frescura said she went from doctor to doctor to find out what she had and none could help her until, finally, an infectious disease specialist diagnosed her with MRSA.
"They just said no and that it wasn't a big anything but a mild infection," Frescura said. "I ended up with a bone infection and thought I was going to die."
The CDC admitted it did not know exactly why some of the infections progress into a life-threatening disease.
"My doctor said my form is so aggressive that they don't know if they'll ever be able to get it under control," Frescura said. "I have the community MRSA. I really don't know where we I got it. I could have picked it up in the grocery store standing in line. Mine is much more severe than my husband."
Enter the superjuice
Thailand, the Moluccas and the Sunda Islands are home to a plant that some claim has an effect on MRSA.
The mangosteen fruit tree -- Garcinia mangostana -- produces a purple fruit with white sections inside that peel much like a tangerine. The tree is small and takes seven to 10 years to start bearing fruit, but can reach heights of about 30 feet. The mangosteen is not a mango.
Carl Knaus, 65, owner of a Milford-based advertising agency, said the fruit of the mangosteen tree helped dissipate his MRSA infection. "I'm not a kook," Knaus said. "I know it doesn't sound right, but I tested myself three different times and it works. The company wanted me to sell this stuff but I told them I couldn't because it's too important and there would be a credibility issue."
Knaus said he is making no money off any mangosteen juice product. "I contracted MRSA and wound up in Huron Valley Hospital," Knaus said. "The next thing I know, I was in the hospital to have surgery done to get rid of this thing. They told me it was MRSA and it didn't respond to antibiotics. I went to outpatient and I had this IV stuck in me for 10 days.
"At one point, the doctor pulled me aside and said I need to take these high-powered pills and if I didn't the MRSA was going to come back," Knaus said.
Knaus said he is anti-drug and didn't want to take the drug prescribed to him by his doctors. He turned to the mangosteen juice instead. "I bought one bottle for about $40," Knaus said. "I took 9 ounces a day and (the infection) started to shrink. I ran out and got two more bottles, and after seven days it was gone. Everybody is telling me this MRSA is resistant and this juice makes it go away."
Dr. Amod Tootla practices general surgery in Bloomfield Hills, Grand Blanc and Rochester Hills and has been in the profession for 45 years. Tootla said the fruit of the mangosteen has been used as a folk medicine for years and, though he's careful not to call it a cure, he believes the mangosteen fruit can be beneficial to those with MRSA. "The Western societies have paid little attention to folk medicines," Tootla said.
Tootla said key active ingredients called xanthones are found in mangosteen juice. Xanthones are biologically active chemicals found in a few tropical plants. Current research on xanthones suggests they are beneficial in helping fight many conditions including allergies; microbial, fungus and viral infections; high cholesterol; inflammation; skin disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; and fatigue, Tootla said.
Tootla said xanthones have been found to support and enhance the body's immune system, and exhibit strong antioxidant activity. "I'm not saying we don't need drugs. We do," Tootla said. "We should look at all our alternatives."
Tootla said there also needs to be studies on the mangosteen plant. Tootla said there have been studies on the mangosteen fruit in Southeast Asia, but it has not been extensively studied in the United States.
"There have been a lot of studies on this, but in Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand," Tootla said. "There are a lot of natural things that can benefit but in the Western world we ignore them."
Dr. Michael Seidman, medical director of the Henry Ford Center for Integrative Medicine in Novi, said one must be "very careful" in making any kind of claim about the beneficial effects of the mangosteen fruit. "Mangosteen is a fruit and it has a great deal of xanthones, which have antioxidant properties that may have some antibacterial properties," Seidman agreed. But he noted there have not been any scientific studies to show that mangosteen cures anything.
"Is it possible that *mangosteen cured MRSA? Probably not," Seidman said. "Is it possible that the ingredients in mangosteen can help fire up their immune system so people don't die or something? My answer is sure, it's possible."
Contact staff writer Randal Yakey at (248) 745-4631 or randal.yakey@oakpress.com.
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For more info on mangosteen, visit: Mangosteen Juice
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Of The Oakland Press
Jennifer Frescura of Highland Township wonders if the staph infection that almost killed her will cause her daughter irreparable harm. She's had 12 infections, and the problem never seems to leave her family alone.
"I couldn't get out of bed. I had to have surgery twice. I'm scarred all over," Frescura said. "My husband had his last episode a month and a half ago. I think it's still in our home."
Frescura's 8-year-old daughter, Lindsey, was diagnosed with the MRSA infection earlier this year.
"I think she got it from me," said Frescura, a registered nurse. Her daughter continues to be monitored for new outbreaks.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, which are potentially deadly, are now responsible for an estimated 12 million outpatient visits each year for skin infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC says most MRSA cases are contracted in hospital settings. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that MRSA infections are more common, both in and out of hospitals, than experts had once thought. More people died in 2005 from MRSA infections in the United States than from AIDS, the journal noted.
In Oakland County, a student in South Lyon was recently diagnosed with MRSA. A Southfield student and a student from Rochester Hills also were reported to have contracted staph infections. Ten football players from Troy High School received medical treatment, though just one was confirmed to have a staph infection. After the staph infections were reported, school districts rushed to bring in cleaning crews to scrub the walls and furniture.
"They need to test each student and not just clean the schools and throw the kids back in," Frescura said. "The infection could still be in a child's nose. They can clean the school all they want, but a child could bring it in with them the very next day."
In the JAMA study, researchers found that 58.4 percent of MRSA infections from July 2004 through December 2005 were found in community health care settings; 26.6 percent were in hospitals; 13.7 percent were infections not associated with health care facilities; and 1.3 percent could not be classified.
"This is something that you can get anywhere anytime," Frescura said. "It going to be a bigger epidemic."
The CDC already has deemed the MRSA outbreak an "epidemic" in portions of the country.
Jeff Hageman, an epidemiologist in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion for the CDC, blamed the increase on rising numbers of infections -- a trend that probably has been under way for several years -- and greater awareness of the problem.
"MRSA is epidemic in some regions of the country," he said. "The highest rates are in the Southern parts of the U.S., including Atlanta, Los Angeles and Texas. We first began noticing MRSA in 1999, when there were four child deaths in Minnesota and North Dakota."
Frescura said it started for her family last year, at the end of June. "It was on one of my husband, Richard's, legs," she said. "By the end of June, I got an abscess. It was drained but not (tested to see what it was). I have had MRSA 12 times in 12 different areas since June of '06, and have been on any number of antibiotics. My husband has had it five times and my daughter has had it once.
"I still can't get rid of it," Frescura continued. "All I have to do is cut myself or damage my skin in any way, and it will show up again. I had to go to a clinic every day for two months to take an IV, and it still didn't take it away."
Frescura said she went from doctor to doctor to find out what she had and none could help her until, finally, an infectious disease specialist diagnosed her with MRSA.
"They just said no and that it wasn't a big anything but a mild infection," Frescura said. "I ended up with a bone infection and thought I was going to die."
The CDC admitted it did not know exactly why some of the infections progress into a life-threatening disease.
"My doctor said my form is so aggressive that they don't know if they'll ever be able to get it under control," Frescura said. "I have the community MRSA. I really don't know where we I got it. I could have picked it up in the grocery store standing in line. Mine is much more severe than my husband."
Enter the superjuice
Thailand, the Moluccas and the Sunda Islands are home to a plant that some claim has an effect on MRSA.
The mangosteen fruit tree -- Garcinia mangostana -- produces a purple fruit with white sections inside that peel much like a tangerine. The tree is small and takes seven to 10 years to start bearing fruit, but can reach heights of about 30 feet. The mangosteen is not a mango.
Carl Knaus, 65, owner of a Milford-based advertising agency, said the fruit of the mangosteen tree helped dissipate his MRSA infection. "I'm not a kook," Knaus said. "I know it doesn't sound right, but I tested myself three different times and it works. The company wanted me to sell this stuff but I told them I couldn't because it's too important and there would be a credibility issue."
Knaus said he is making no money off any mangosteen juice product. "I contracted MRSA and wound up in Huron Valley Hospital," Knaus said. "The next thing I know, I was in the hospital to have surgery done to get rid of this thing. They told me it was MRSA and it didn't respond to antibiotics. I went to outpatient and I had this IV stuck in me for 10 days.
"At one point, the doctor pulled me aside and said I need to take these high-powered pills and if I didn't the MRSA was going to come back," Knaus said.
Knaus said he is anti-drug and didn't want to take the drug prescribed to him by his doctors. He turned to the mangosteen juice instead. "I bought one bottle for about $40," Knaus said. "I took 9 ounces a day and (the infection) started to shrink. I ran out and got two more bottles, and after seven days it was gone. Everybody is telling me this MRSA is resistant and this juice makes it go away."
Dr. Amod Tootla practices general surgery in Bloomfield Hills, Grand Blanc and Rochester Hills and has been in the profession for 45 years. Tootla said the fruit of the mangosteen has been used as a folk medicine for years and, though he's careful not to call it a cure, he believes the mangosteen fruit can be beneficial to those with MRSA. "The Western societies have paid little attention to folk medicines," Tootla said.
Tootla said key active ingredients called xanthones are found in mangosteen juice. Xanthones are biologically active chemicals found in a few tropical plants. Current research on xanthones suggests they are beneficial in helping fight many conditions including allergies; microbial, fungus and viral infections; high cholesterol; inflammation; skin disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; and fatigue, Tootla said.
Tootla said xanthones have been found to support and enhance the body's immune system, and exhibit strong antioxidant activity. "I'm not saying we don't need drugs. We do," Tootla said. "We should look at all our alternatives."
Tootla said there also needs to be studies on the mangosteen plant. Tootla said there have been studies on the mangosteen fruit in Southeast Asia, but it has not been extensively studied in the United States.
"There have been a lot of studies on this, but in Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand," Tootla said. "There are a lot of natural things that can benefit but in the Western world we ignore them."
Dr. Michael Seidman, medical director of the Henry Ford Center for Integrative Medicine in Novi, said one must be "very careful" in making any kind of claim about the beneficial effects of the mangosteen fruit. "Mangosteen is a fruit and it has a great deal of xanthones, which have antioxidant properties that may have some antibacterial properties," Seidman agreed. But he noted there have not been any scientific studies to show that mangosteen cures anything.
"Is it possible that *mangosteen cured MRSA? Probably not," Seidman said. "Is it possible that the ingredients in mangosteen can help fire up their immune system so people don't die or something? My answer is sure, it's possible."
Contact staff writer Randal Yakey at (248) 745-4631 or randal.yakey@oakpress.com.
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For more info on mangosteen, visit: Mangosteen Juice
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
15 November 2007
Global nutraceutical leader XanGo, LLC, creator of the mangosteen natural supplement category, is launching the XanGo Goodness Meal Pack (Meal Pack), a meal replacement product formulated to treat the severely malnourished.
With this announcement, XanGo’s network of independent distributors will be able to expand their influence to help improve the lives of those affected by poverty, famine or other disasters.
XanGo Goodness is the company’s worldwide charitable initiative focused on improving the lives of children and families in need.
"This is the next step in empowering the XanGo Goodness movement to extend its worldwide impact," XanGo's Founder and President of Sales and Marketing Gordon Morton said. "This program helps ease the suffering of people living in the most impoverished areas of the world, and is the first step out of starvation."
The Meal Pack will be sold through XanGo’s global distributor network; each purchase will provide 50 meals. The innovative product formulation provides a dry powder that is effective in meeting basic nutritional needs by simply adding water. The meal strengthens those who cannot properly digest solid food, due to long periods of malnourishment.
"As our distributors build their businesses, they are helping children and families in need,” said Morton. "Through the XanGo Goodness Meal Pack, we have the ability to save countless lives."
XanGo Goodness advocates the philosophy that participating in cause-related ventures enriches the human experience.
Xango is one of those companies that come around once in a lifetime.
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To learn more about XanGo Goodness please visit: www.xangogoodness.org.
To learn more about Mangosteen juice, visit: Mangosteen Juice
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With this announcement, XanGo’s network of independent distributors will be able to expand their influence to help improve the lives of those affected by poverty, famine or other disasters.
XanGo Goodness is the company’s worldwide charitable initiative focused on improving the lives of children and families in need.
"This is the next step in empowering the XanGo Goodness movement to extend its worldwide impact," XanGo's Founder and President of Sales and Marketing Gordon Morton said. "This program helps ease the suffering of people living in the most impoverished areas of the world, and is the first step out of starvation."
The Meal Pack will be sold through XanGo’s global distributor network; each purchase will provide 50 meals. The innovative product formulation provides a dry powder that is effective in meeting basic nutritional needs by simply adding water. The meal strengthens those who cannot properly digest solid food, due to long periods of malnourishment.
"As our distributors build their businesses, they are helping children and families in need,” said Morton. "Through the XanGo Goodness Meal Pack, we have the ability to save countless lives."
XanGo Goodness advocates the philosophy that participating in cause-related ventures enriches the human experience.
Xango is one of those companies that come around once in a lifetime.
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To learn more about XanGo Goodness please visit: www.xangogoodness.org.
To learn more about Mangosteen juice, visit: Mangosteen Juice
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02 November 2007
Xango Convention Draws 10,000!
By Tom Harvey The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 10/27/2007 03:18:02 AMMDT
Top XanGo officials touted the Lehi-based supplements marketer Friday as quickly building toward a billion-dollar company after only five years of operation.
In front of about 10,000 of its distributors of the multi-level marketing company that sells a drink made from a Southeast Asian fruit, the founders and top officers pointed to the company's growth-rate since it was founded in 2002 and promised much more is to come as it expands globally.
"XanGo is a billion-dollar today," CEO Aaron Garrity said to loud cheers. "We are a billion-dollar in less than five years."
The privately held company does not release its financial results so the company's size is not known publicly. Under a multi-level marketing plan, distributors receive part of the sales from distributors they recruit.
Utah is a hotbed of multi-level marketing companies, most of them in the supplements industry that had $4.2 billion in revenues in 2005,according to the United Natural Products Alliance, a trade group.
Companies such as XanGo use conventions to inspire their distributors with show business atmosphere, inspirational speeches and promises of financial success in return for hard work.
The theme of this year's convention, the company's fifth, was Invasion, keying off the theme of the "British Invasion" of theBeatles in 1964 when the group came to the United States.
Company officials walked and ran on a glowing stage flanked by huge television screens that showed their images as they exhorted the crowd to organize sales networks that would capitalize on the company's international growth plans.
The company was set to announce its expansion into Taiwan and Garrity promised entry into countries around the world and touted the opportunities that would create for distributors.
"XanGo is hitting the beaches around the world," Garrity said in aspeech filled with stories about World War II, the Beatles and theRolling Stones and quotations from Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and Benjamin Disraeli, a British prime minister from the 19th century.
"For many of you in this room fortunes will be made," he said.
The convention continues through today. You Think About That!
tharvey@sltrib.com
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For more info on Xango, visit: XanGo Invasion
OR
visit: Xango Distributor
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Top XanGo officials touted the Lehi-based supplements marketer Friday as quickly building toward a billion-dollar company after only five years of operation.
In front of about 10,000 of its distributors of the multi-level marketing company that sells a drink made from a Southeast Asian fruit, the founders and top officers pointed to the company's growth-rate since it was founded in 2002 and promised much more is to come as it expands globally.
"XanGo is a billion-dollar today," CEO Aaron Garrity said to loud cheers. "We are a billion-dollar in less than five years."
The privately held company does not release its financial results so the company's size is not known publicly. Under a multi-level marketing plan, distributors receive part of the sales from distributors they recruit.
Utah is a hotbed of multi-level marketing companies, most of them in the supplements industry that had $4.2 billion in revenues in 2005,according to the United Natural Products Alliance, a trade group.
Companies such as XanGo use conventions to inspire their distributors with show business atmosphere, inspirational speeches and promises of financial success in return for hard work.
The theme of this year's convention, the company's fifth, was Invasion, keying off the theme of the "British Invasion" of theBeatles in 1964 when the group came to the United States.
Company officials walked and ran on a glowing stage flanked by huge television screens that showed their images as they exhorted the crowd to organize sales networks that would capitalize on the company's international growth plans.
The company was set to announce its expansion into Taiwan and Garrity promised entry into countries around the world and touted the opportunities that would create for distributors.
"XanGo is hitting the beaches around the world," Garrity said in aspeech filled with stories about World War II, the Beatles and theRolling Stones and quotations from Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and Benjamin Disraeli, a British prime minister from the 19th century.
"For many of you in this room fortunes will be made," he said.
The convention continues through today. You Think About That!
tharvey@sltrib.com
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For more info on Xango, visit: XanGo Invasion
OR
visit: Xango Distributor
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