Wanna know what pisses professional writers off?
Check out the ads on Craigslist.com for writers and editors. They want 1,000 word articles for $12.
That’s absolute crap. Unless I cut and paste from the web it would take four hours research and write the article. Adding in interviews and that goes to a at least a full day.
But wait. This is what you get for crap. It’s shit writing, unsourced, dubious information and clumsy. Here’s a sample of what they said was an approved piece and something I should shoot for. HAAAAAAAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHA:
Yes – You Should Take a Good Quality Multivitamin
Multivitamins have long been referred to as a cheap insurance policy for safeguarding health and well-being. In recent years, however, some in the medical and nutrition industry have created doubt in this long-standing belief, suggesting that taking a multivitamin is not necessary to obtain optimal health. Some even suggest that taking multivitamins can be harmful to one’s health.
The facts, however, tell a different story. In order to get at the truth, it’s helpful to look at the big picture.
Typical Diets
Use of multivitamins is widespread, partly due to the fact that people are becoming increasingly aware of the dangers posed by an unhealthy diet. A recent survey by the trade association Council for Responsible Nutrition found that while 80% of respondents believe a healthy diet to be important, only 20% actually adhere to one. This indicates that many people acknowledge the need to improve their eating habits.
Quality Multivitamins - Bridging the Gap
Since eating healthy foods has become a challenge in today’s society, many of these same people turn to vitamin and mineral supplements. In the CRN survey, 41% of respondents said that they take a multivitamin every day. While there is no substitute for eating healthy foods, a quality multivitamin offers a way to fill in the nutritional gaps created by a less than optimal diet.
Even with the best of intentions, the average consumer often finds it difficult to live a healthy lifestyle. Healthy food options are hard to come by for people in some areas of the world. Also, the high cost of many organic and whole foods and the convenience of packaged, processed, low-nutrient foods make good eating habits harder to establish and maintain. Multivitamins provide some of the micronutrients necessary for optimal health, while offering the convenience that busy people are looking for.
So, how important is vitamin supplementation? On an individual basis, the answer depends on one’s level of health and well-being. However, the perfect diet is an elusive goal, and there are several nutrients that are hard to obtain by diet alone. In order for the body to function properly, for example, it needs at least 40 essential micronutrients, including vitamins, minerals and other bio-nutrients. When the body lacks these nutrients at the necessary levels, serious health consequences can occur.
Disease Prevention
Some of these consequences can be seen in the epidemics of disease that have plagued humankind for centuries. While scurvy and rickets (caused by vitamin C & D deficiency, respectively) are no longer a threat in developed areas of the world, other, even more devastating diseases have been linked to poor diet. Modern society in particular has fallen victim to these conditions, as processed foods have replaced whole foods on an almost wholesale basis.
Heart disease, cancer and certain birth defects have all been attributed to the simple lack of proper nutrients. For example, studies since the mid-1990s have indicated that the lack of folic acid in women’s diets contributes to the incidence of Spina Bifida and other neural tube defects in their babies.
Three new studies from the Archives of Internal Medicine, published by Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), reinforce the evidence that multivitamins play an important role in maintaining health and preventing disease. One suggests that women with higher intakes of calcium have fewer incidences of cancer overall, and both men and women with higher calcium intakes have lower incidences of colon and digestive cancer.
The role of quality multivitamin and mineral supplements in preventing infection in diabetics has also been established by a variety of studies. A 2003 trial, conducted by researchers at the
University of
North Carolina and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found that for participants with type 2 diabetes “daily use of a multivitamin and mineral supplement can decrease infection frequency.”
What Do Quality Multivitamins Do for the Body?
In addition to their role in preventing disease, vitamins and minerals each have their own specific roles in the human body. Vitamins can be defined as a group of organic substances essential to normal metabolism.They are needed only in small amounts, but they each need to be present in adequate quantities in order for the body to function properly. A quality multivitamin can provide these essential nutrients.
· Vitamin A - essential to vision and growth.
· Vitamin C -protects the immune system, forms tissue and heals wounds.
· Vitamin D- essential for bone development and immunity, and has been recently linked to the prevention of breast cancer and respiratory infections.
· Vitamin E - a powerful antioxidant that protects cell membranes from free radical damage, and is also essential for healthy skin.
Other vitamins also fulfill crucial roles for the body. Vitamin K assists with blood clotting, and thus the prevention of hemorrhage after an injury. The B vitamins are responsible for a host of functions. They help form new red blood cells, protect the immune system and maintain energy levels.
The Role of Minerals
Minerals are present in the human body in varying amounts. They all play an important role in keeping the body in balance. Minerals are classified as either microminerals or macrominerals. Microminerals are present in trace amounts. These include: copper, selenium, iodine, chromium, iron, fluorine, tin, zinc, nickel, vanadium, manganese, silicon and molybdenum. Macrominerals are present in larger amounts. These include magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, sulfur, potassium and chlorine.
Some of the more common minerals and their functions are:
· Copper- used by enzymes for proper metabolism, helps red blood cell formation
· Zinc- helps metabolize carbohydrates and proteins, essential to enzyme function
· Iodine- essential to thyroid function
· Calcium – builds bone and may prevent some forms of cancer
· Phosphorus- when in proper balance with calcium, builds bone and strengthens cell walls
· Iron- produces hemoglobin which delivers oxygen to the cells. Helps white blood cells produce compounds necessary in fighting bacteria
· Potassium- assists the body’s electrical transmissions, keeps kidneys and heart working properly.
Multivitamins - A Long Term Investment
By combining the power of essential vitamins and minerals, both working together to optimize overall health, a quality multivitamin packs a powerful nutritional punch. The investment that
U.S. consumers make in supplements reflects the confidence that consumers have in the ability of quality multivitamins to maintain health and prevent disease.
In 2007, Americans spent $7.7 billion on vitamins and $1.8 billion in minerals, according to statistics compiled by the Nutrition Business Journal.
The same study reports that, of these sales, multivitamins were the leading item purchased. Access to information about nutrition, growing awareness of the importance of supplementation and concern about the lack of affordable, nutritious foods have fueled a steady market for quality multivitamin and mineral supplements. They are an investment in one’s health that pays big dividends.
Someone wrote this for between $12 and $37.50. What a joke. You can see the construction is clumsy and the facts are unsourced and shakey. I sent back an edited version to the originator and told them to fuck off. If they’re not interested in quality, I won’t fucking work for 1.2-cents a word. Keerist on a bicyle people like this piss me off. They’ve devalued my industry and me in the process.
Here’s what they said in the offer:
We have a client who needs SEO articles written on the topic of health and nutrition. These articles must be 1000 words each. This client has offered us the opportunity to write hundreds of these articles for her. If she’s happy with the content, this will mean a lot of potential work for our writers. So it is important for the quality of this work to be very high. I’m asking you to please write one article based on the topic/keyword and title listed below. The client has provided us with some reference URLs that contain information you can use to help write your content. I have also attached a sample article that the client has already approved.
We need you to submit this article no later than Thursday. If the client approves it, we will assign you more articles, which you will access by logging into the system. Please contact me with any questions. Thank you!
Here’s what they said when I questioned the rate:
As outlined in the vendor FAQ, we pay $1.20 per 100 words for all writers starting out with us. You can make up to $3.75 per 100 words after 3 good quality reviews. So this 1000-word article would pay $12.00.
Here is the link to our FAQ, which should answer your questions for you.http://admin.interactmedia.com/service-provider-faq.aspx Please let me know if you are still interested. Thank you. Beth Hrusch
Project Manager
Senior Editor
Interact Media
beth@interactmedia.com
Topic/Keyword - cold and fever
Title - Exercise a Cold, Rest a Fever? Reference URLs – http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/AN01097http://www.quantumhealth.com/news/exercise_with_cold_or_flu.htmlhttp://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/01/10/don-t-starve-a-cold-of-exercise.aspxhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/health/nutrition/25best.html?em
A trained monkey could do better. And that my friends is why writers can’t make money on the Internet. Some idiio
J Students? Are you listening. Get out now. Become stockbrokers or Bankers. Even if you go to jail for fraud you will have lived a richer life.
Trust me on this. The rest of you writers go spam her and her evil company. They deserve all the abuse we can throw at them.
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