In today’s world of social media, like facebook, twitter, youtube, linkedin and more, letting people know your status is pretty commonplace and reaches a massive audience if you’re active in these web sites.

So people like to add a bit of humor and share their diet and weight loss endeavors, or quote from famous diet quotes.

We’ve compiled some of these quotes so when you’re on a weight loss regime, you can bring a bit of humor with your fans, followers, friends and family!  Enjoy!

Funny, Famous or Unknown Author Diet Quotes and Sayings

When we lose twenty pounds… we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have!  We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.  ~Woody Allen

A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.  ~Author Unknown

“The journey of a thousand pounds begins with a single burger.” — Chris O’Brien

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.  ~English Proverb

“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” — Mark Twain.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

The cardiologist’s diet:  If it tastes good, spit it out.  ~Author Unknown

One should eat to live, not live to eat.  ~Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV

I’m on a seafood diet.  I see food and I eat it.  ~Author Unknown

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.  ~Author Unknown

Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket.  ~Author Unknown

I’ve decided that perhaps I’m bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.  ~Paula Poundstone

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins.  Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.  ~Stephen Phillips

It’s okay to be fat.  So you’re fat.  Just be fat and shut up about it.  ~Roseanne Barr

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.  ~Jean Kerr, “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall,” The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.  ~Author Unknown

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.  ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.  ~Elmer Rice

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.  ~Don Kardong

I keep trying to lose weight… but it keeps finding me!  ~Author Unknown

I never worry about diets.  The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.  ~Mae West

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is fourteen days.  ~Totie Fields

Rich, fatty foods are like destiny:  they too, shape our ends.  ~Author Unknown

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.  ~Author Unknown

Forget love – I’d rather fall in chocolate!  ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.  Coincidence?  I think not!  ~Author Unknown

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.  ~Andy Rooney

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.  ~Peter De Vries

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.  ~Author Unknown

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.  ~Author Unknown

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.  Kate Moss?  Well, she would have been the paintbrush.  ~Dawn French

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat.  Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.  ~George Bernard Shaw

The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.  ~Author Unknown

Food is like sex:  when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good.  ~Beth McCollister

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they’ll find me like a strip of bacon – a streak of lean and a streak of fat.  ~Texas Guinan

Life itself is the proper binge.  ~Julia Child

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.  ~Plutarch

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth’s gravitational pull has become since 1990.  ~Dave Barry

Dieting is wishful shrinking.  ~Author Unknown

Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.  ~Author Unknown

I’m allergic to food.  Every time I eat it breaks out into fat.  ~Jennifer Greene Duncan

Food has replaced sex in my life; now, I can’t even get into my own pants.  ~Author Unknown

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.  ~Author Unknown

I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.  ~Jane Wagner

It’s not women’s fault that diets don’t work.  It’s not perversity of lack of willpower.  God did this – in Her great wisdom.  ~Dr. Wayne Callaway

Where do you go to get anorexia?  ~Shelley Winters

To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.  ~Proverb

You can’t lose weight by talking about it.  You have to keep your mouth shut.  ~Author Unknown

I think I just ate my willpower.  ~Author Unknown

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.  ~Jason Love

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.  ~Author Unknown

I am a nutritional overachiever.  ~Author Unknown

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.  By the second day, you’re off it.  ~Jackie Gleason

Forget about calories – everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away.  But first I spray them with Raid so I won’t dig them out of the garbage later.  Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn’t taste that bad.  ~Janette Barber

Dieting is not a piece of cake.  ~Author Unknown

It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren’t so handy in the refrigerator.  ~Hugh Allen

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.  ~Tom Wilson

I’m not overweight, I’m undertall.  ~Author Unknown

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.  ~Dave Barry

Not afraid of heights – afraid of widths.  ~Author Unknown

You know it’s time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves.  ~Quoted in The Cockle Bur

If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy.  ~Edward “Grandpa” Jones, 1978

I have a great diet.  You’re allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.  ~Ed Bluestone

I’m not overweight.  I’m just nine inches too short.  ~Shelley Winters

Dieters live life in the fasting lane.  ~Author Unknown

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park.  When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem.  ~Chris Adams

I’m on a 90-day wonder diet.  Thus far, I’ve lost 45 days.  ~Author Unknown

Flabbergasted, adj.  Appalled over how much weight you have gained.  ~Author Unknown

I’m in shape.  Round is a shape… isn’t it?  ~Author Unknown

My advice if you insist on slimming:  Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.  ~Harry Secombe

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.  ~Erma Bombeck

Gluttony is not a secret vice.  ~Orson Welles

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information:  french-fried potatoes are out.  ~Jean Kerr

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.  Unless there are three other people.  ~Orson Welles

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.  ~Peggy Ryan

Fat is not a moral problem.  It’s an oral problem.  ~Jane Thomas Noland

Never eat more than you can lift.  ~Miss Piggy

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.  ~H.S. Leigh

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.  ~Mark Twain

Obesity is really widespread.  ~Joseph O. Kern II

Don’t go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.  ~Author Unknown

My wife is a light eater.  As soon as it’s light, she starts to eat.  ~Henny Youngman

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.  ~Robert Quillen

Don’t go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.  ~Author Unknown

“I’m on a seafood diet. When I see food, I eat it.”

“The only two things I don’t eat for breakfast are lunch and dinner.”

“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.” — Alexander Woollcott.

“I have a great diet. You’re allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.” — Ed Bluestone.

“My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like — just don’t swallow it.” — Harry Secombe (1921- ), welsh singer, actor, and comedian.

“Can it be a mistake that “STRESSED” is “DESSERTS” spelled backwards ??”

“The devil came to me last night and asked what I wanted in exchange for my soul. I still can’t believe I said pizza. Friggin’ cravings.” — Marc Ostroff.

“I think they should put a warning label on strawberries: ‘Caution: tastes nothing like a strawberry milkshake’.” — Ryan Kaplan.

“Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.” — Lev L. Spiro

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”

Google has been granted a new patent with the name “Determining quality of linked documents” some days ago. The patent might give us further insight on how Google judges the influence of a link on the search engine positions of a web page.

What is the Google’s patent about?

Here’s the official abstract:

A ranking component ranks documents, such as web pages or web sites, to obtain a ranking score that defines a quality judgment of the document. The ranking score of a particular document is based on the ranking score of the documents which link to it and based on affiliation among the documents.

According to the patent description, Google could rank the backlinks to a web page differently based on the relation of the pages to each other. For example, links from pages that have the same author might have less influence on the rankings of a web page that have no affiliation with the linked site.

How does Google limit the value of a link?

Per the patent, Google may do the following: Google assigns a maximum value to links that come from affiliated pages. Google might assign individual values to links from independent pages. That means that three links from an affiliated website carry more value than a single link but the total value of all links from the affiliated website is limited.

How can Google recognize affiliated web pages?

The patent shows a number of methods that Google can use to determine the affiliation of web pages:

Interlinking: websites that are more closely interlinked to each other than the average pages on the websites might be considered to be affiliated.

Hostnames: web pages that have the same domain name or subdomains that are on the same domain are probably affiliated.

IP addresses: if the first two or three components of the IP addresses are identical, the web pages might be affiliated.

Visitors: web pages that share many visitors during the same browsing session can be considered to be affiliated.

What does this mean for your own website rankings?

Although Google has been granted the patent this month, they filed it a few years ago. That means that the methods described in the patent probably have been in use at Google for quite a few years.

So What Should You Do Next?

Try to get high quality backlinks from as many different websites as possible.

Do not participate in automated linking / link farm schemes.

The quality of the links is more important than the quantity of the links.

Link to Diet-Patch.com

We have our own link-directory. If you are in the weight loss, diet, health and beauty industry, please claim your link HERE.

Link to Diet-Patch.us

If you are running an affiliate web site or portal relevant to this, our Performance Marketing blog web site (see the sidebar for reciprocal links), please do not hesitate to contact us for a link exchange.

PART I

The Guerrilla Marketing Rogues Gone Bad

DIET PATCH ROGUE IMITATORS

Global Life Enhancements Inc., New Jersey  &  The Original Diet Patch, Illinois Steal Money, & Keywords!

So as the Online Marketing chap here at SCI,  I am sitting at my desk, fresh cup of hot coffee this morning doing my usual rounds on Google Analytics, traffic monitoring, Organic and Paid listings (PPC) and all that fun stuff.  Well it  just blew me away when I went to Yahoo and typed in the keyword string ‘the original diet patch‘.  We’ve been known for that label since we started manufacturing and selling the diet-patch online since 1997 – that is when our first website was published on the world-wide-web.

On review of the results, here at SCI Inc. we hold the Organic listings (non-paid) positions 1 and 2 for our main website aka diet-patch.com and position 10 for this website at diet-patch.us.  In between our Amazon.com account shows our product as position 7 and shopping.com the comparison engine pulls us into position 8 from our Amazon account.   So, no pun intended we are blessed (and we work really, really hard to achieve these organic placements and are very thankful that it’s paid off at the time of writing this article – eek, nearly embedded my nails into the keyboard as I know more than anyone, this can change at any moment or any algorithm change, but let’s not dwell on that!) that we are ‘plastered’ over the first page of Yahoo for this keyword string!

However, that said, there are some rather dubious ‘competitors’ (not really competitors, more like horrible companies that like to ruin the reputations of legitimate herbal weight loss manufacturing and distributors in our industry) that continue to hijack our known keywords and then are ripping consumers off with continuity plans where they do not refund monies, do not send the products, and eventually get shut down.  We’ve seen them come and go over the years but the continual bad news affects even us and the purpose of this article is to let you know again that we really have nothing to do with the firms that hijack our name and popular keywords that end up on the BBB as an ‘F’ rating for complaints, or the RipOffReport and similar ‘consumer complaint’ web sites.

Global Life Enhancements Inc.  have a BBB rating, “F” I understand why, Global Life Enhancements Inc is a SCAM.

Case in point:

On the example keyword string above, in the organic listings at position 4, a website domain called:

http://www.diet-patch-original.com/

Now further investigation, lo and behold, this website is run by a company called

Global Life Enhancements Inc

PO BOX 321, Somers Point, NJ, 08244, USA

A quick search shows a plethora of apparent bad practices with this company, a consumer complaint web site below publishes the miserable story;

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/fraud-c294631.html

Now when the word ‘fraud’ is in the URL, I shiver all over!  Not good!  Please note SCI Inc. is in no way associated with this company.

Then at position 3 and 5 a company well known to us that are on TheRipOffReport consumer web site.  On or around the year 2004, these people redirected complaints to OUR PHONE NUMBER.  At first we had no idea what these upset and irate people were saying, we had not heard of this other Diet Patch company and we had a barrage of phone calls I can tell you!  Obviously we clarified with everyone that we were empathetic but we were NOT associated in any way with this company either, namely;

The Original Diet Patch

ABP, 8301 West 183rd Street, Tinley Park, IL 60477
Tinley Park Illinois 60477
U.S.A.

The Original Diet Patch, Tinley Park Illinois ripoff this company gave me a weeks supply of patches and then sent me 2 months….  I am retired and cannot afford ….. They should put people like that in jail and throw away the key.

This bunch of scammers caused us a lot of heartache, time and administrative expense when we were so busy with our own successful and legitimate diet patch manufacturing business.   However, at short notice we added and trained customer service staff  to help calm down the many irate callers and eventually they realized we were not affiliated and went off the phone a lot calmer than they arrived after we expressed our dismay and concern they had appeared to have been fleeced and redirected to our company as a decoy.

Now we are sure there may be legitimate continuity providers out there, but so many of these scams are by aggressive marketers that have no experience in the diet, health and nutrition industry.  These scoundrels just see a fast buck at the consumers expense and will then be  shut down leaving not just the consumers to pick up the pieces, but legitimate businesses feel the wrath of media and bad press as a result.  So no, we don’t like nor condone this type of business practice either.  Unfortunately, these rogues generally just keep truckin’ and move to another trending product or service leaving behind a real mess.  This company to our knowledge was closed but yet they are, 6 years on, still embedded in the first page of the Organic Search Engine Listings to our dismay.

Everyone wants to look their best at all times.  A little effort and some discipline can make this a reality for most of us.  Your total image is how you present yourself to the outside world.

If you are overweight or underweight, no matter, a little effort and you can achieve a desirable total image.

Start off with a quick one day 5lb weight loss (not to be extended).

Take one day where you put on your Diet-Patch and eat ONLY 6 medium sized apples or 6 medium sized  bananas  plus all the tea, coffee, diet and  club sodas and water …NO JUICES.

Now that you feel good about yourself let’s keep up the good work.

When the Duchess of Windsor said “you can’t be too rich or too thin,” she should have added “but you can be too wrinkled”!

Too many lovely slim bodies are topped by haggard wrinkled faces. What you want is a lovely trim figure with a smooth unlined face.

What is the magic elixir for this phenomenon?

Water. Water  will help keep you shed those excess pounds while you plump up your skin. Voila!

Drink six 8 ounce glasses of water every day.

Follow this advice and you will curb your appetite, and hydrate your skin cells without adding a single calorie to your body.

When I ran my modeling agency, my models were always told to party with a glass of the old H2O to keep their system cleansed.

Do not make your water drinking a chore, rather change it to a pleasure.

Try a bottle of Perrier or Evian water before each meal and in between.

Remember that each glass of water you intake during your weight loss will stop your skin from looking wrinkled and baggy.

No matter how sleek you make your body,  if the face is dehydrated you will look older than you should.

Once a week or for that special night out you should put on the Anti-Wrinkle Patch to keep those wrinkles at bay.

The tendency to get caught up in the weight loss without giving enough thought to the dehydration that is taking place on your face is all too  prevalent.

So Beware!  Remember that the total body image is what you are trying to achieve.

So you are on a Diet or you wish to track your weight loss.  You blog a lot obviously to use these plugins!  Now you can blog and write to your heart’s content and keep a journal of your weight goals online, thanks to these 4 plugins for wordpress that are each unique in their own way:

The Hacker’s Diet

First up is The Hacker’s Diet plugin, the author explains;

Want to lose weight? Need help? Use WordPress? (of course you do!)

The Hacker’s Diet is a simple way to count calories and track your weight to make sure you are really losing the pounds. By calculating your average weight, you don’t have to be scared of those days when you “gain” 2 pounds overnight. You’ll see exactly your rate of weight loss and be able to predict when you will hit your weight goal.

This plugin serves to provide a web-based version of the Excel spreadsheets provided by the diet plan. This lets you use the familiar interface of your blog to keep up-to-date on your diet. After you hit your weight goal, it helps you maintain your weight by keeping you within a set window around your goal.

The plugin page does not have any screenshots, so I decided to download it, install and activate the plugin into diet-patch.us which runs on the wordpress platform.

The plugin operates from within the administration interface, it is not a shout out sidebar, widget or insert into post type of plugin so leaves your privacy intact.  You can of course announce your own weight loss achievements yourself, should you desire to do so So just like checking your online stats or blog comments, the Hacker’s Diet plugin is in your Dashboard, an easy reminder before you grab that cup of tea or coffee and want a slice of chocolate cake to go with it!

Simple and easy to use, we don’t recommend you update daily (standing on the scales every day can demotivate as your weight will most likely fluctuate for a number of reasons during your weight loss).  So if you’re an avid blogger and use the WP as your platform, you can visit HERE to download the plugin.

Rating 4 out of 5

Weight Loss Calculator

Here we have a calculator that you embed into your web site page or posts, so people on your website can quickly calculate their weight loss goals based on age, height, levels of activity and what weight they desire to be at a certain date.  You can try it for yourself as I’ve popped it into this article below.

The calculator is fine for those that are calorie counting, however, the warnings are a bit extreme and may scare the dieter to forget about dieting at all!  See an example below of my results…

So we’d rate this as a 3 out of 5.

WP – DailyBurn Plugin

This is more of a Commercial App for a social community website that was started and obtained investor funding and has recently sold to MindSpark, which is wholly owned by IAC, who owns internet properties like Match.com, Evite.com, Ask.com and many more.  Here’s the author’s intro;

DailyBurn is a great website if you’re trying to lose weight or get in shape. You can count calories, track your weight loss and exercise progress, and find other like-minded healthy folks to discuss health related topics, and offer encouragement to each other.

The WP-DailyBurn widget displays your DailyBurn profile stats in your blog’s sidebar.

You can sign up for an account at DailyBurn for free and this sidebar widget is useful if you are looking to network or share your latest stats on your blog, however, most of your calculators and fitness goals are set at the web site itself.

Rating 3 out of 5 – as it’s a commerical social marketing tool/app.

WP Calories

For a nice graphic widget, look no further than WP Calories Plugin.  Author description;

WP Calories is a wordpress plugin that allows you to add new widget to Your sidebar. WP Calories shows a beautiful food photo with big calories ( kcal ) description. WP Calories is an essential plugin for all site/blogs the subject of health food and diets.

Description:

1. All of the photograph link (nofollow) to the relevant Wikipedia pages, so anyone interested can learn more about the fruit shown.
2. Photo is described by the large text of amount of calories, as well as a one-line description under the photo.
3. All photographs are optimized for web (jpg, quality 90%)and have a title and alt attributes.
4. Plugin adds the contents with the best practices of SEO.
5. When the page refreshes widget show different (random) photo.

Now unfortunately, this mod ‘broke’ the sidebar when I installed it but that may well be just the specific template I am using or that as I run the latest version of WP, the author has not had the opportunity to update it yet.  I really like the author linking this to wikipedia to learn more about the fruit shown.  If you’re running a diet, health, fitness, pregnant moms blog or similar, this is a really neat visual and we can also learn more about the fruit itself.

Rating 4 out of 5

So there’s plenty of good add-ons that you can use with your wordpress platform to interact with your subscribers and visitors.  That concludes this review, if you have any other plugins or something to say relevant to this article, feel free to leave a comment!

Yahoo has just announced that the transition for organic search results will begin as early as this week.

This is an important step toward our goal of improving the overall relevance of Yahoo! organic search results and attracting a larger audience to Yahoo! Search, to ultimately put your ads in front of more potential customers.

Along with organic search results, Yahoo is also working with Microsoft to transfer Yahoo Search Marketing accounts.

Soon, you’ll be able to access a transition portal from within your Yahoo! Search Marketing account, which will walk you through the simple step-by-step process of creating a Microsoft Advertising adCenter account and importing your campaigns, or linking an existing adCenter account you may already have.

Here at SCI, we’ve seen our fair share of misleading and disturbing web page adverts (otherwise known as landing pages) on the web that innocent web visitors get fleeced due to the “small print”.

We wish to clarify to all our own performance marketers (affiliates) that we will not tolerate adverts similar to the example we highlight  below  and will result in your account at Diet-patch.com being permanently terminated and all commissions reclaimed.

Here’s the pay-per-click advert:

When you click on the advert you are redirected to the landing page and it’s full of fake ‘success stories’, blog comments and more:

Alice’s Diet Blog

How I lost 47 lbs in 4 Weeks with 2 amazing Free Products!
“I didn’t have to go to the gym everyday. I didn’t starve myself on any crazy diets. I just took these 2 diet pills together, and look at me now. “

My name is Alice Cooper from YOUR TOWN and I wanted to share my weight loss story with you. I’m no medical guru or anything like that. I’m just a normal woman who figured out a system that works better than all the famous diets you tried (you know, the ones that didn’t work?). Hopefully my TRUE story inspires you to get the same results as me without killing yourself on a treadmill.

Then the before, during and after image;

That’s my transformation after using Acai Ultra and Advanced Cleanse for 4 weeks.

Then the product(s) pitch,  which is way too long to post here but it’s merely embellishes the fake advert to an extreme and urges that the offer is only valid today!

The free trial offers are expiring on TODAY’S DATE INSERTED HERE … I advise you to go and grab those free trial offers right this minute.

Next we have the fake comments, a small extract of the many posts shown here:

The offers are for a free trial and they are what is called a “continuity plan”, which we have written about before.  It’s where the seller gives you a free trial but takes your payment information and bills you automatically for a subscription within a certain amount of time.  In the above case, subscribing to both products will cost you appx $400 plus s&h and taxes where applicable.

The affiliate marketer then adds their disclaimer in small print:

This webpage is an advertisement. This page is a fictious demonstration of what an individual who uses the advertised products could potentially experience. Results are not typical, and will vary. The statements made on this website have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. The FDA only evaluates foods and drugs, not supplements like these products. These products are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease. Ordering free trials for either product discussed in this advertisement contains a negative option. S&H charges do apply. Results will vary by person, and the special offers may only be available for a limited time. Some of the products described on this site have terms regarding continued billing after the trial period ends. This is referred to as negative option, or continuity billing. Therefore, it is important to ensure that you are fully aware of the terms associated with each product before you order. To make this easier for you, we have included links to the billing terms for each of the products below. Please keep in mind that these are separate companies and we are not the best source for information about orders or specific policies. Because these companies control their own policies, shipping and other fees may change periodically. We have linked away from our website directly to their terms and conditions pages.

The affiliate marketer links to the product web sites and the consumer is prompted in a flashy landing page to add their information, personal and billing to receive their ‘free trial’ and if the unsuspecting consumer does not read the Terms & Conditions on that web site, they will be billed for the products.

At Diet-Patch.com, we do not condone either this affiliate marketing advertisement nor the continuity plan offered by the vendor.  Transparency is our goal at SCI and that is why we are the leading weight loss patch manufacturer in the US.

We have banner ads and marketing materials that are approved for your use.  If you wish to use your own marketing landing pages, we have no problem with that, as long as the contents are ethical, fact based and transparent.  Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments or wish to run past a landing page by us for review.

Happy prospecting!

Today, I read an article in the Times of India that made me smile.  It also made me realize that I must be getting older!

Like The Beatles in the 1960′s, we now see singers like the very young looking Justin Bieber sporting the haircut style of the most famous Music Band in the world and that look has been replicated by thousands of young Bieber fans across the world.

It’s the same with the Original Diet Patch.  We’ve been around since 95, so saying weight loss patches are a ‘”fad” diet is an incorrect statement.  Fashion, diet, lifestyles, trends, all rotate on a cyclical basis, and weight loss products, like our very own #1 US manufactured Diet-Patch.

Here’s the Times of India news article extracts below:

“While nicotine patches enable smokers to kick the butt, the latest fad is weight loss patches, already popular with celebrities including Paris Hilton.“

There you go,  the journalist uncovers the real reason why there is a new ‘fad’ – it’s nothing to do with being a fad, it’s because celebrities and stars are seen wearing products that create a stir on the world wide web and news media, thus generating a huge interest!

“Every week there’s a new fad diet out. Thousands of Britons struggle to lose weight and these complex diets add unnecessary hassle to the process,” the Daily Express quoted a spokesman as saying.

Now I am not sure whom this Daily Express ‘spokesperson’ is, as the Times of India does not name if it’s a journalist or a qualified health adviser.  However, this statement is probably a general statement regarding weight loss food plans and HCG diet plans and such, after all, how ‘complex’ is it to wear a diet-patch a day as part of your weight loss regime?

Obesity is  growing  at a rapid rate and is a worldwide issue.  With our new generation of children exercising less and eating larger portions of unhealthy foods,  we all need to regulate our weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle to set an example for our children.

Learn more about the Original Diet Patch HERE

Learn more about how to become a Diet Slimming Patch Distributor, Wholesaler HERE

Read the full Times of India article HERE

WHEN IS RAMADAN?

Ramadan in 2010 will start on Wednesday, the 11th of August and will continue for 30 days until Thursday, the 9th of September. In North America, in 2010 Ramadan will start a day later – on Thursday, the 12th of August. Note that in the Muslim calendar, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Muslims will celebrate Ramadan on the sunset of Tuesday, the 10th of August.

ARE DIET PATCHES ALLOWED DURING RAMADAN?

There is a lot of continued discussion about using the diet-patch during Ramadan and in our findings, there is leading Islamic Professors and academics stating that use of a weight loss patch during the Holy Month is allowable.  You can read our previous article on this topic HERE.

If you are Muslim and wearing a slimming patch during the month of fasting, here’s a few tips and comments from Diet-Patch.com:

• During the days of Ramadan it is easy for people to overeat in the evenings which are normally spent enjoying family and community meals.

• While engaging in prayer and spiritual reflection it is wise to wear your diet-patch as a sharp reminder not to over indulge.  The diet-patch is a good way to counteract these thoughts.

• The diet-patch is permissible under Islamic law as it falls under the term of being a Halal product.

• The diet-patch contains nothing that would upset Allah as it contains no banned ingredients.

• The diet-patch is a completely pure product and is very effective in helping to achieve a natural weight loss.

• Muslims during Ramadan have the chance to establish a more healthy lifestyle and good habits—particularly with regards to diet.

May Allah bless you all during Ramadan and throughout the year.

Is Google going to add their own links to your web pages? A recent patent application of Google indicates that this might be coming.

The name of the patent is “Enhanced document browsing with automatically generated links to relevant information”. It is an update of the patent application that Google filed in 2006.

So What the heck is  Google’s Patent Application about?

Here’s the official abstract:

“Additional documents are automatically located that are relevant to an original document, such as a document being read by a user, and also potentially relevant to personal information of the user.

The additional documents may be located based on descriptive information that includes personal information of the user and content information of the document being read.

The additional documents, or links to the additional documents, may be incorporated into the document being read. In some implementations, the additional documents may be presented in-line with the document being read, such as through an in-link link or text snippet. The user can thus be efficiently presented with additional information that is relevant to the original document being read.”

Summary: Google wants to read the contents of your web pages and then might insert their own links on your web pages.

On review of the patent application, the links will be based on the personal search history and the geographic location of the web surfer as well as on the contents of the page on which Google will insert the links.

So How can Google change the content of Your web site pages ?

It’s easy if the web surfer has Google’s toolbar installed.

Google’s toolbar does not only send information about every page that you visit to Google.  This also allows Google to change the content of each page that you visit through the document object model.

If you use Google’s toolbar then Google can add any content to the web pages that you visit and you wouldn’t notice that the original content has changed. Note that Google could do this. That does not mean that Google actually does this.

What type of content would Google be planning on putting on your website’s pages?

Google might enter simple text links on your pages, they might link existing content or they might add whole new paragraphs on your web pages. Technically, all of this is possible. It’s not clear what Google will do with the methods described in the patent.

It seems that Google are serious about this.

Google knows a lot about you and they control a lot of the information that we get on the Internet. So will they change the content of your web pages in the near future, we will have to wait and see…