Oprah and pomegranates -- a martini story -- will it spill into pomegranate oil skin care as well?

The Grand Dame of TV entertainment loves pomegranate martinis

Oprah's Pomegranate Martini

Recipe courtesy of Oprah Winfrey

From the show Oprah and Rachael Ray

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INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
2 oz. Absolute Citron vodka OR white tequila
1 oz. Cointreau liquor
Cup of ice
Optional: Splash of sparkling water
Optional: Squeeze of lemon Shake ingredients in a shaker and put in chilled martini glasses.

Put pomegranate fruit into glass as garnish.

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POMEGA5 is Considering Start-up TV Network Fundability to Raise National Awareness of Green Technologies in Nutraceuticals

POMEGA5, a greentech company, is considering a VC investor round

Start-Up TV Network Launches Fundability Web Site to Connect Entrepreneurs with $50 Billion in Investment Capital

FOLSOM, Calif., Feb 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Start-Up TV Network Inc. today announced Fundability as its new company brand and the launch of www.fundability.com, a new web-based marketplace where investors and entrepreneurs make serious investment connections.

With angel investors and venture capital firms investing more than $50 billion every year in seed- to mid-stage companies, Fundability's online marketplace helps venture capitalists and angel investors find quality deal flow and accelerate the early stage funding process.

Fundability uses web video and rich media to showcase companies combined with due diligence tools that simplify investors' research and communications.

"We built Fundability with a hands-on understanding of early stage investing from both perspectives - the entrepreneur's and the investor's," said Steve Nilan, Fundability's CEO and co-founder. "We start with quality deal flow and qualified investors in a friction free environment where interaction is easy and painless. It's all about accelerating time to funding through better communications, VC-caliber diligence and syndication tools in a secure environment. It's just a better way to get deals done."

Fundability bridges the gap between the fast pace of entrepreneurial startups and the slow and inefficient fundraising process.

Entrepreneurs can send their company's Fundability Deal SnapShot(TM) (a weblink to their online, interactive executive summary) directly to investors. The Deal SnapShot(TM) communicates in a single screen what otherwise would require many megabytes of email attachments or large printed documents. Qualified investors can search for deals in the marketplace that meet their personal investment criteria (industry, stage, funding round) and perform online due diligence in Fundability's DiligenceRoom(TM).

Investors can also choose to have pre-screened deals sent automatically to them by creating an "Investor SweetSpot." Investors can join or start a Virtual Investment Group and syndicate deals with other groups or individual investors within the Fundability network.

Deals are already flowing through the site.

During the company's beta phase in the third and fourth quarters of 2007, several companies used the Fundability platform, including two that closed rounds totaling more than $5 million from a venture firm, Velocity Venture Capital, with a syndicate of angel investors.

Jadoo Power (www.fundability.com/jadoopower) raised more than $3 million in less than 60 days using the Fundability Platform. Marquiss Wind Power www.fundability.com/marquisswindpowerinc) completed a $1.5M Series A in under three months.

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Fundability is available to entrepreneurs for a monthly subscription of $49.99. Accredited investors who complete an SEC questionnaire are given a free basic membership to the site. The Company also offers private-labeled versions of the Fundability platform to investor groups, investment banks, venture capital firms and later stage companies that need private deal flow management and investor relations websites.

About Fundability

Fundability, based in Folsom and backed by Velocity Venture Capital, was founded by investors and entrepreneurs who have first-hand experience with the challenges of early stage investment. We know that raising capital is tough for entrepreneurs and that finding a fundable deal is never simple for the serious investor. Fundability brings innovation to the early stage funding process and accelerates connections between quality deals and qualified investors. Fundability is the new business marketplace where deals get funded faster. For more information, go to www.fundability.com.

About the Company

Pomega, LLC was founded and is based in Marin County, California. The president and creative force behind the brand is Tzeira Sofer, a practitioner in nutritional healing and an expert on women's health and wellness. Working with doctors and experts on healing plants, she developed the Pomega5 line of skin care treatments based on ancient recipes and supported by the latest scientific research.Pomega5 skin treatment products are available at Molly Stone's, Vitamin Express, Staff of Life, Pharmaca, Cambridge Naturals and select other retailers. They are also available on line at www.pomega5.com.

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More pomegranates products in the market

Pomegranate Bars Capture Fun Fruit's Flavor, Nutrients

Pomegranates bursting with sweet-and-tart juice and slippery little seeds--or "pips"--may be the world's most fun-to-eat fruit. Now, thanks to a process invented by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in California, you can enjoy the flavor of freshly harvested pomegranates even when this fruit is out of season, or when you don't have the time to section and savor it.

A new, all natural, snack-size bar captures the taste of orchard-fresh pomegranates and apples, yet slips conveniently into a child's lunch sack, a grown-up's briefcase, or a hiker's backpack for an on-the-go treat.

Tasty, fat-free and all-natural, FruitFast bars are made using food-processing technology developed by ARS scientists in California. Photo courtesy Flavonoid Sciences.

Moist and chewy, each fat-free bar contains only about 100 calories and is rich in fiber, vitamin C and anthocyanins--natural compounds that may benefit our health.

Food technologist and research leader Tara H. McHugh of the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., is co-inventor of the technology used to make the "Wonderful Pomegranate FruitFast" bars from whole fruit, without the need for artificial preservatives or other additives.

Flavonoid Sciences of Eastport, Mich., manufactures and markets the pomegranate-apple bars, as well as two other new flavors also made with the ARS-developed technique: Montmorency CherryFlex FruitFast Bar and Wild Blueberry IQ FruitFast bars. All are newly available online at www.FruitFast.com and at a growing number of stores.

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McHugh and agricultural engineer Charles C. Huxsoll of Moraga, Calif., now retired from ARS, created the food-processing approach as part of research to help find new ways to entice kids, teens and adults to eat the recommended five to nine servings a day of fruits and vegetables. It's estimated that less than 20 percent of Americans meet that guideline.

The new bars are a boon for growers and processors, giving them new markets for perishable fruits. The technology allows them to make fruit into puree and concentrate that--after the busy harvest season winds down--can be processed into the all-fruit bars.

ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency.

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A gloomy future for corn ethanol producers and a rosy future for Green Cosmetics such as POMEGA5

More investments in green cosmetics less in green biofuels

Kerry Dolan On Green Technologies

The Big Trend

Energy storage.

The race is on to come up with such technologies as advanced batteries, fuel cells, compressed-air devices and anything else that can store solar and wind energy so it can be used when needed. In transportation, recharging stations for electric and plug-in hybrid cars might double as mini-power plants.

The Unconventional Wisdom

A new breed of green technology companies-–those that hail from outside the clean energy field-–will emerge as the game changers. Wal-Mart already committed to using 100% renewable energy and has begun asking suppliers to measure their energy use. Where does the ripple effect end? Google's decision to put hundreds of millions of dollars into renewable energy research is aimed at dramatically lowering the cost of solar power. They could pull it off.

The Misplaced Assumption

Subsidizing renewable energy, in the form of tax credits or rebates, is wrongly perceived by many to be a tax on the U.S. economy. Incentivizing investment in infrastructure that enables greater use and adoption of solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric power will help to gradually wean our economy off oil and coal. And it will create plenty of jobs.

The Watch List

Clorox: Clorox will introduce this month a new line of plant-based cleaning products called GreenWorks that it says work as well or better than conventional cleaners. This could lead the way to more mainstream companies selling green cosmetics like POMEGA5, green clothing and green cars.

Project Better Place: Former SAP executive Shai Agassi raised $200 million to launch a system that operates networks of battery-charging and battery-replacement stations for electric cars. Can he change the way the auto industry works? Wal-Mart: It bought its own utility in Texas and is installing solar panels on the roofs of its stores. Will it be the first to sell solar panels, or a cheap electric car? And will it become a big purchaser of yet another green technology?

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The Bold Prediction

As many as 90% of green technology companies will fail--though not in 2008. There is too much venture capital and private equity money chasing too many similar ideas.

Do we really need another corn ethanol producer, or another me-too solar concentrator company?

In 2008, we'll see belt-tightening and cutbacks among the struggling crowd. Most of the liquidations won't begin to happen until 2009.

Kerry Dolan writes about clean technology and life sciences from Forbes’ Silicon Valley bureau.

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Can beautiful skin come in gel caps?

Does good skin come in a tablet or Gel Caps?

By Evelyn Theiss

Great skin just got another wrinkle.

Cosmetic treatments are no longer just about creams and emollients — the latest trend is about working from the inside out. "Ingestibles" are supplements such as omega-3 oils, alpha lipoic acid, grape seed, pomegranate extract and many other nutritional-sounding words you never used to hear at the cosmetics counter.

While supplements have long been a staple at health-food stores, many credit Nicholas Perricone, the New York dermatologist-to-the-stars, as fueling the beauty-biz trend with his best-selling books, such as "The Perricone Prescription." He recommends eating a lot of salmon, among other foods high in omega-3 oils. Perricone's line of supplements is sold at stores such as Sephora; a multipack is $130. Other recommend the Omega 5 oil solution.

Here's a closer look at beauty ingestibles, which hope to capture a significant share of the $45-billion-a-year cosmetic and skin-care market.

The science

Since skin is our body's largest organ, it reflects our health. So, as Harvard-trained dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon Carolyn Jacob says, "The creams and lotions and potions you put on top of your face mean nothing if you're not eating well."

Foods with antioxidants as well as foods with anti-inflammatory properties are the key to preserving a youthful appearance, says Jacob. Refined sugar and flour and trans-fats are all examples of inflammatory foods.
"Inflammation and oxidation can both a

ssist in the breakdown of tissue and cell destruction, leading to wrinkles and other skin problems."

The foods

A sampling of books by doctors, dermatologists and dietitians (including such respected names as Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz, with their latest best-seller "You: Staying Young") lists some of the top antioxidant foods as acai berries, celery hearts, onions, spinach, kale, cocoa beans, blueberries, cranberries, kidney beans, red beans and hazelnuts.

Some of the foods high in anti-inflammatory properties are lemons, salmon, seaweed, green tea, flax seed oil, cinnamon, ginger, raw almonds, walnuts and the spice turmeric.

So why add supplements?

Doctors and nutritionists say even people who make a point of eating a diet rich in healthy, unprocessed foods don't get all the nutrients they need. Whether it's food processing, a time lag from harvesting to getting produce to the table or the environment we live in, doctors say it's easy to miss out on vitamins. Vitamins and supplements, write Oz and Roizen, "are an insurance policy for an imperfect diet."

Some ingredients that have been proven to help with skin include alpha lipoic acid; pine bark extract; grape seed extract; omega-3 fatty acids; vitamins A, C, E and D; calcium; magnesium; copper; selenium; and biotin, Dr. Jacob says. You can find all of them in the vitamin and supplement aisle of grocery, drug- and health-food stores.

Do ingestibles work?

Medical experts seem to agree that supplements aren't harmful in recommended doses. But do they actually work?

"We know that things we ingest can have a positive or negative effect on our bodies and skin, and antioxidants or anti-inflammatory foods have a positive effect," says Dr. Michael Reep, a dermatologist in Westlake, Ohio. "But supplements per se haven't thoroughly been studied, so we don't know if they'd have the same effect. The FDA hasn't examined this, we don't know exactly what's in the supplements and so on.

"Theoretically, they might help, but for now you have to keep it as theoretical."

That said, Reep himself buys supplements that he thinks are good for his skin, but he gets them at GNC: CoenzymeQ10, green tea and grape seed extract, and vitamins C and E.

"If people want to spend the extra money on supplements, they can do that," he says.

What's out there?

Dozens of new ingestible lines are on the market, ranging widely in price. On the lower end, Target offers a range from the British-based Boots Chemists, designed to cleanse, purify and revive the body; it's $19.99 for a five-day supply.

The POMEGA5 line stand on its own with prices starting at $18 for the Cleansing Bar and ending with the Healing Cream at $62.

From there, prices rise dramatically. The Perricone line, available at some department stores and Sephora, includes omega-3 wild sockeye salmon oil soft gels, Super Berry Powder and a Skin & Total Body packet ($130 for a 30-day supply). The Dr. Murad line, also available at Sephora stores, offers a supplement formula that costs $125 for a one-month supply.

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Pomegranates and erectile dysfunction -- can you improve your sexual performance?

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Pomegranate Juice may improve erectile dysfunction

According to a pilot study released in the International Journal of Impotence Research (http://www.nature.com/ijir), POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice was found to have beneficial effects on erectile dysfunction (ED), a disorder that affects 1 in 10 men worldwide and 10 to 30 million men in the United States alone.1, 2 ED can be caused by several factors, including arterial plaque, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, nerve damage, endocrine imbalance or depression. Ultimately, ED is a condition that affects the blood flow to the penis during sexual stimulation.

This randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover pilot study examined the efficacy of pomegranate juice versus placebo in improving erections in 61 male subjects. To qualify, participants had to experience mild to moderate ED for at least 3 months; be in a stable, monogamous relationship with a consenting female partner; and be willing to attempt sexual intercourse on at least one occasion per week during each study period.

Mild ED is defined as the mildly decreased ability to get and keep an erection, while moderate ED is the moderately decreased ability to get and keep an erection. The majority of men with ED have moderate ED.

For the first four weeks of the study, the subjects were assigned to drink either 8 oz. of POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice or 8 oz. of placebo beverage daily with their evening meal or shortly after. After a two-week washout period during which the subjects did not consume any study beverage nor utilize any ED treatment, they were assigned to drink 8 oz. of the opposite study beverage every evening for another four weeks. At the end of each four week period, efficacy was assessed using the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and Global Assessment Questionnaires (GAQ). The IIEF is a validated questionnaire that has been demonstrated to correlate with ED intensity. The GAQ elicits the patient’s self-evaluation of the study beverages’ effect on erectile activity.

Forty seven percent of the subjects reported that their erections improved with POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice, while only 32% reported improved erections with the placebo (p=0.058). These results compare favorably to a recent 24-week study using a PDE5 inhibitor (such as Cialis), in which roughly 73% of subjects reported a benefit from the PDE5 inhibitor and 26% reported a “placebo effect” (i.e. experiencing improvement while on the placebo).3

Although the study did not achieve overall statistical significance, the authors conclude that additional studies with more patients and longer treatment periods may in fact reach statistical significance. The strong directional results of this pilot study are encouraging because almost half of the test subjects experienced a benefit simply by adding pomegranate juice to their daily diet, without the use of ED drugs.

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Researchers believe that the results might be due to the potent antioxidant content of pomegranate juice, which can prevent free radical molecules from disrupting proper circulatory function. In several previously published medical studies, pomegranate juice has been shown to enhance blood flow and to slow or reverse arterial plaque growth.4, 5, 6 Because an erection requires significant blood flow, these potent pomegranate antioxidants may provide benefit by mitigating arterial plaque and promoting blood vessel dilation.

According to study co-author Harin Padma-Nathan, MD, FACS, FRCS, Clinical Professor of Urology at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, “These findings are very encouraging as they suggest there is a non-invasive, non-drug way to potentially alleviate this quality of life issue that affects so many men. For men with ED, it is important to maintain a healthy diet and exercise. Drinking pomegranate juice daily could be an important addition to the diet in the management of this condition.”

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Skin care from inside out -- use botanical sources to improve your look and feeling

Botanicals to rescue the look of your skin

02/21/2008

Skin care from the inside

By Lenore S. Greenstein

Is it possible to eat your way to smoother, healthier skin? According to the latest research, changing your diet can help you look younger. New studies have shown that two nutrients, namely vitamin C and a fat called omega-6 linoleic acid, helped to prevent those inevitable wrinkles and thinning of the skin that comes with age.

A recent study of more than 4,000 women between the ages of 40 and 74, reported in "The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition," showed that women who ate more foods rich in vitamin C were less likely to have wrinkles, as well as higher intakes of omega-6 linoleic acid were associated with less dryness and atrophy of the skin.

On the minus side, an increase in certain kinds of fats and carbohydrates also increased the likelihood of aging skin.

Skin aging was defined as a wrinkled appearance or dryness as a result of aging and skin thinning or atrophy.

Researchers claimed that this is the first skin-aging study to concentrate on daily intake of nutrients from food, rather than supplements. Dermatologists even did clinical examinations of the skin to gauge the appearance of the women's skin.

Women who reported lower intakes of vitamin C in their diets were found to have the highest incidences of wrinkled and dry skin.

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that can boost your immune system and has also been shown to play a role in the synthesis of collagen, a protein that helps retain the skin's elasticity.

Some of the best sources of vitamin C are citrus fruits, like oranges and grapefruits, strawberries, red bell peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, papaya, guava and kiwi.

Eating more linoleic acid, the omega-6 fatty acid found in abundance in nuts, whole grains, vegetable oils such as safflower, sunflower corn and soybean, pumpkin seeds, wheat germ, eggs, and poultry, also proved to be associated with more youthful skin.

And finally, do not forget Omega 5 oil from the seeds of pomegranates which for centuries has been known to have health benefits.

This type of fat is very common in the American diet, especially since corn oil is found in a wide variety of foods, so it may not be necessary to increase the amount you are consuming unless you are on a low-fat dietary regimen.

The biggest offenders of unhealthy skin are foods high in saturated fats such as red meat, full-fat dairy products, butter, lard, dark-meat poultry and oils that are used in fried foods, fast food, desserts and creamy sauces.

Excessive fat and trans-fats are not healthy for your heart so substituting olive oil and omega-3 rich fats in fatty fish, walnuts and flaxseed will achieve an all-around improvement in your nutrition lifestyle.

While a diet high in carbohydrates was shown to increase the aging of the skin, all carbohydrates are not bad for you. It is beneficial to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat every day, while reducing the amount of processed carbs such as white breads, pastas, rice and sugar-filled foods like cookies, cakes and candy.

You may also find a benefit from the use of certain foods in skin products such as masques, moisturizers, scrubs and cleansers. Oatmeal, avocado and yogurt are just a few of the ingredients that are popular in commercial as well as homemade scrubs and masques.

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Recommendations for a healthier-looking skin would not be complete without a final word to:

A) Stay hydrated (especially in the warm weather in Southwest Florida) by drinking enough water;

B) Moisturize your skin to keep it smooth and avoid dryness;

C) Wear sunscreen to avoid the damaging ultraviolet rays that can hurt your skin and cause pre-mature aging.

- Lenore S. Greenstein is an award-winning journalist who has written on nutrition, health and wellness for publications in Florida, Massachusetts and Ohio. She holds a master's degree in nutrition education and has been an adjunct professor of nutrition at colleges and universities, and a consultant to health spas, physicians and health-care facilities. Read her Sun Times columns on the Web at www.marcoislandsuntimes.com, click Lifestyles.

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