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Sumner Redstone's anti aging secret

Fri, 16 Aug 2008 21:14:00 GMT

posted by superjunglejuice

Sumner Redstone's anti-aging secret

There may be some debate about future control of Viacom and CBS, but the media mogul doesn't plan to bequeath his empire anytime soon - thanks to a little purple elixir.

By Tim Arango, Fortune writer
September 4 2007: 5:14 PM EDT

(Fortune Magazine) -- As the years tick by, Sumner Redstone just gets more optimistic. Earlier this year the 84-year-old said he planned to live another 50 years; two years ago he was predicting another 20.

His age has been in the spotlight lately because of the recent public spat with his daughter over his succession plans, but the controller of Viacom (Charts) and CBS (Charts, Fortune 500) has lately been getting a bit of help in the form of a little-known superjuice called MonaVie. "It's a miracle drug," he told Fortune. "I feel great."

Redstone attributes his good health to a Brazilian berry.

A dark-purple elixir with a cult-like following, MonaVie is an antioxidant-rich concoction whose main ingredient is the Brazilian açai berry (pronounced ah-sigh-ee), long touted among health nuts for its anti-aging ingredients.

Vitamin-water it's not: MonaVie costs $40 a bottle, and you can't get it in stores; it's marketed only through the company's network of thousands of individuals who sell it out of their homes (think Avon or Tupperware).

Redstone first heard of the juice from Viacom exec Bill Roedy on a trip to Germany in January. After learning that his butler's sister-in-law was a devotee too, Redstone ordered some up and started drinking four ounces a day. "Since I've been on MonaVie I haven't taken a sleeping pill," he says.

Miracle Elixir - MonaVie

Thu, 7 Sep 2007 21:40:38 GMT

posted by easthete

Sumner Redstone is high on “a little-known superjuice called MonaVie,” and he’s now saying he’s going to live another 50 years, reports Tim Arango in Fortune (9/3/07). Sumner is 84. “MonaVie is an oxidant-rich concoction whose main ingredient is the Brazilian acai berry (pronounced ah-sigh-ee), long touted among health nuts for its anti-aging ingredients.” Sumner says “it’s a miracle drug,” adding, “I feel great.”

He can afford to: “MonaVie costs $40 a bottle, and you can’t get it in stores; it’s marketed only through the company’s network of thousands of individuals who sell it out of their homes.” Sumner’s friend, Bill Roedy, turned him onto the “dark-purple elixir” and Sumner has since given bottles to friend including Bill Clinton and Wolfgang Puck. “Just about every friend I have is on it,” says Sumner, who reports that since he started drinking MonaVie, he has stopped taking sleeping pills.

Hm, well. So, is acai some kind of drug? MonaVia CEO Dallin Larsen says it isn’t. He says the juice simply increases one’s energy level, naturally while also alleviating “the everyday aches and pains from inflammation.” Stephen Talcott, a researcher at the University of Florida, found that acai’s “antioxidants destroyed leukemia cells in a laboratory,” but distances “himself from MonaVie and its junkies.” Speaking of whom, Sumner says he couldn’t be happier. “I feel like I’m 40 years old,” he says.

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Redstone funds the Cambodian Children's Fund

Tue, 13 Jun 2007 15:59:14 GMT

posted by The_Zimbio_Team
Sumner M. Redstone announced a grant of $500,000 to the Cambodian Children's Fund (CCF), a non- profit program that provides a wide range of critical health and educational services to impoverished and abused children in Cambodia's capitol city of Phnom Penh.

The CCF says of the grant: "Mr. Redstone's remarkable generosity brings an immediate new future to nearly one hundred of Cambodia's most impoverished and at-risk children. These children will now have what every child deserves: shelter, food, health care and education, all in a caring and secure facility. They will be provided with the chance of a productive, healthy life. Equally important, the children that pass through the Sumner M. Redstone Child Rescue Center will possess the ability to stop the inter-generational cycle of abuse, impoverishment and illness for their family and community, an issue that has plagued Cambodia since the reign of Pol Pot."

Welcome to our wikizine called "Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation"

Tue, 13 Jun 2007 15:52:49 GMT

posted by The_Zimbio_Team
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article!

Mtv Myspace: "Will Sumner Redstone ever get over being …

Thu, 14 Sep 2007 11:04:00 GMT

posted by lowonganbeasiswa

“Will Sumner Redstone ever get over being bested by Rupert Murdoch in the bidding for MySpace two years ago? Maybe. Fortune has learned of two stealth projects that Redstone’s company, Viacom, has in the works for its MTV Networks unit. …

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