Our company sells a product called Proloftin. It is specifically designed to reduce stress in the body by lowering cortisol levels, but many people use it practically as a sleep aid. I don't have much stress, nor do I have much trouble sleeping, so I've never actually taken the product. It's funny, recently I had to complete a rather difficult assignment in a short period of time. I guess you could say I was under a lot of pressure...

And this is the point of the post. What's the difference between stress and pressure?

I believe stress is unhealthy. It doesn't necessarily come from the outside factors in your life. For instance, taking on a job that requires long hours, that's a job that puts you under a lot of pressure. However, where stress comes is when you choose to worry about the deadline, when you make an issue out of your control as important as actually getting the job done.

I don't know, I'm not really wording this right yet. I think I'll take the next few blog posts to hash out my opinion on the difference between stress and pressure until I've got a nice little essay. Until then, here's my links...

Master formula is the best multivitamin. It's that simple. Buy it. I take it, I love it, I don't have much stress because of it.

I've gone low carb, yay! It's a long journey to washboard abs, but I'm taking it one day at a time, and heck, girls don't really need washboard abs anyway, so it's not too big of a deal.

But what I'm really here to talk about is low carb snacks. What are they?

Go into any gas station or Starbucks, and you'll notice that 99.8% of the snacks available are sugary, starchy death traps. Pastries = carbs. Chips = carbs. All candy ever = carbs. My god, what's left!

For one, nuts. Nuts are ridiculously high calorie, but they're also fairly low in carbs, and you don't have to eat too many to have a nice snack, just a handful. And stay away from the peanuts!

And beef jerky. Pound for pound, beef jerky is the most filling low carb snack you can eat. Super high in protein, it gets the job done. There's just one problem: Jerky breath. Especially for a girl. No guy wants to move in for a kiss and get a noseful of beef. Plus the stuff sticks between your teeth. Jerky sucks big time before a date. It's almost as bad as popping a bunch of omega 3 vitamins as fish oil omega 3 capsules before a date, and blowing out fish breath for the next three hours.

I've come across quite a few multivitamins in my day. From flinstones vitamins, to Centrum, to eventually a one a day vitamin I was ordering through the life extension company.

Then I came across primal nutrition's Damage Control Master Formula. This multivitamin is loaded. It's got 150mg of CoQ10. It has 150mg of Phosphatidyl Serine. It's got that new antioxidant everyone is going crazy about, Resveratrol. Resveratrol is the potent antioxidant found in red wine. They even did a piece on 20/20 about resveratrol recently and the Master Formula has 100mg of it!

Just about the only thing the Master Formula doesn't have is amino acids. But, those can be found readily enough buy getting a bottle of omega 3 capsules and taken a few idea with your two packets of blended multivitamins.

I'm definitely recommending this product to newcomers in the vitamin world. I wouldn't suggest taking it on if budget is an issue as it is a bit pricey. But hey, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right?