Washington CEO magazine’s May 2006 Private 150 included the information commerce company Intelius in its rankings. Intelius’ rapid growth and leadership in the previous three years resulted in its recognition by the selection committee.

Customers use Intelius’ products and services to make informed, intelligent decisions about people, businesses, and assets since the company’s inception in 2003. The offerings include background checks and Intelius’ award winning identity theft detection and prevention service, IDWatch. The resources offered by Intelius have approximately 4 million unique, paying users since the launch of the company in 2003. The growth rate of Intelius’ customer base numbers over 200,000 new users month over month and a little less than a third of its daily business comes from returning customers.

Naveen Jain, CEO and co-founder of Intelius, stated: “We founded Intelius with a goal to build an enterprise that provides services that are good for our customers, our community, and our country while doing well for our employees and shareholders.” Jain continued, “we provide our users a wealth of critical information, enabling better decisions about protecting their loved ones, identity, and assets. Inclusion in Washington CEO’s Private 150 underscores that we are well on our way to achieving our goal through customer loyalty, rapid growth, and leadership.”

Intelius provides instant, innovative, and affordable research services and background information for personal safety purposes. Started by a group of visionaries from InfoSpace and Microsoft, Intelius facilitates informed decisions about the people clients interact with through background and criminal checks. Other applications of Intelius’ services include locating long-lost relatives and friends, researching the backgrounds of the people in their world. Business applications include employment and tenancy verification and credit record checks.

There are at least two alternatives to scientific studies. One is to ignore the science and go straight for myth, magic and superstition. The other is to start with a scientific study and then twist it to suit your own purposes. This second appears regularly in the world of science and, unfortunately, is becoming more common.

Take the example of mercury amalgam fillings in teeth. In Britain and America a good proportion of the population has already got these ’silver’ fillings, and it would be reassuring for them to know that there were no problems associated with such a procedure, even though it means having mercury (a known poison) in your mouth, often for many years. A recent study, we are told, says exactly that: we have nothing to worry about.

Let’s look at this Study. It came out in 2006 and involved a group of 1,000 school children, over a period of 3 years. Hmm, pretty impressive. However, there are several things to note. One is that the age range was 7-10 years old. That tells us something about these children, but there is no way to predict their future health. We can’t be sure what will happen to them from the ages of, say, 17-20 or 27-30, and we certainly can’t work out from this study what is happening to 27 year olds right now. In my case, I’m a good deal older, and I want to know what effect the fillings are having on the 47-50 year olds, or even the 57-60 year olds. Trying to extrapolate from this one Study to that age group is silly but, amazingly, that is exactly what some writers have done. One, a columnist in the Guardian newspaper in London, has tried to assert that this study is ‘reassuring’ for all age groups.

Worse, though the Study was limited to a small geographical area, the writer tries to say that the results apply to all school children, everywhere. Would you believe that? Young people in China and Japan have a completely different health profile to those in Europe. Why, there are studies that show children in the South of England have a different experience to those in the North of England. This writer ignores that. The Study shows these children are healthy, he says, therefore all children will be healthy. No, that’s Bad Science.

There’s more. If this Study looked at the children’s health, you might imagine that when they met up with the scientists conducting the work, (every two months, as it happens), the man in (or woman) in the white coat would be writing down facts about the child’s health on their clipboard. If the child said they had headaches, or infections, or sleepless nights, the information would be noted, right? Not a bit of it. The Study was focussed on neurological development, which meant, basically, three tests: one, was the application of IQ tests on a regular basis; the second area involved brain scans, MRI’s and stuff like that; the third topic was reaction times – You’ve tried ‘Whack the Rat’? They do it on computers these days, but the principle is the same: a light comes on and you have to hit a button. If you do it quickly you’re fine, if you’re slow, there might be something wrong. Well, that’s all good and it tells us something, but it’s bad news for parents; some want to know if amalgam ’silver’ fillings are related to such childhood illnesses as asthma. The Study had nothing to say on that, because it didn’t look at it. If somebody said, ‘This report showed no link between amalgam fillings and the increase in asthma amongst young people’, it would be correct – but totally misleading. There is ‘no evidence’, in this case, because none was sought. Is there a link? We don’t know. We’re waiting for that study to be done.

There’s more. Think about kids aged 7 to 10. You’ve had them? Then what happens during those years? You’re right: their teeth fall out. The early ‘milk teeth’ are replaced by adult growth. Which means, unfortunately for the Study, that some of these children started the investigation with teeth that didn’t last. Those teeth might have had fillings in, but the teeth dropped out before the end of the 3 years. Worse, the new teeth that grew may or may not have required fillings during this period. Either way, very few of the children would have had fillings for all of the time scale; if a child defined as ‘with fillings’ only had them in for 3 months, 6 months, or a year of the study, that tells us nothing about the long-term effects of silver fillings. And, in particular, tells us nothing about an adult who’s had the same filling in their mouth for 20 or 30 years!

But there’s yet another problem. The Study set out to look at half the children having no fillings and half having some, (not many, as we see above), but even those with some, (and for a short period of time), weren’t found to be totally ‘healthy’, not completely! Even the journalist in the Guardian couldn’t claim that. He said that the differences between those with fillings and those without was ‘negligible’. Well, sorry, but my Dictionary defines negligible as ’some’, a small amount, admittedly, but some. It might be a very, very small amount, say a couple of percent, which is fine, if you are reassured that when you’re told that, say, ‘90% of people are unaffected’ it automatically means that you’ll be in that group! Okay, it might be more than that: it might be 95% or even 97%, but that still leaves a small number with problems, possibly, and the reason that’s important is that you can’t confuse percentages with absolute numbers. 3% of the population might sound like a small number, but in a country the size of Britain, that’s 2 million people! If even half or a quarter of those were ill at any one time, the whole health system would be stressed to the point of collapse. In Britain we often have 100,000 people going down with flu every winter. If there’s 200,000 it’s officially classified as an ‘epidemic’. Imagine ten times that amount of people reporting to their doctors, or trying to find advice from their local hospital or clinic, or knocking on the doors of their dentists. The system couldn’t cope.

Well, you might say, that’s a bureaucratic problem, not a scientific one. Maybe that’s why some of us might suspect that the so-call ’scientific’ evidence is being tampered with, or why public discussion is being stifled. Anyone who questions issues like mercury amalgam fillings is instantly labelled a ‘quack’ or some kind of Alternative Therapist. Such defensiveness is revealing, but unhelpful; it would be better if we could concentrate on the evidence and see what that has to tell us, without being misled by politicians, or journalists with an agenda. People who are, even know, using scientific studies for their own purposes.

When it comes to removing dark under eye circles naturally — 4 natural ingredients immediately come to mind because they have all been proven to be very successful at reducing sagging bags, wrinkles and removing dark eye circles.

Naturally, if you suffer from these annoying and frustrating problems you will be looking for a simple and easy to use solution. Nothing can get much easier than applying these ingredients daily and you’ll see excellent results in a very short period of time.

There are several reasons why you get dark circles, fluid buildup, puffiness and wrinkles under and around your eyes but we won’t cover them here, instead we will look at which natural ingredients can help solve these issues.

Let’s look at these 4 natural ingredients in more detail:

1. — Haloxyl™ is arguably the best ingredient at targeting the accumulation of hemoglobin, which causes dark shadows and bags under your eyes. It has been shown to reduce under eye dark circles by more than 60% in clinical studies. Dark circles typically disappear between four to eight weeks.

2. — Eyeliss™ targets puffiness and under eye bags caused by a buildup of fluid beneath your eyes by using advanced peptide technology. It decreases capillary permeability and improves lymphatic circulation under the eyes. It positively affects collagen production, which helps improve firmness and elasticity.

3. — Homeo Age™ extract is a type of algae which has been shown to be beneficial for the delicate skin around your eyes, and has been shown to also reduce wrinkles and stimulate cellular growth which helps rejuvenate tissue cells at a molecular level.

4. — Cynergy TK™ is unique and possibly the best ingredient available in any natural skin cream. It is a wonderful moisturizer that creates an invisible barrier to retain moisture. In addition it also contains the ingredient functional keratin™ that can rejuvenate tissues around your eyes and boost the level of collagen and elastin in your facial tissues.
 
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Removing dark under eye circles can seem like a daunting task and to achieve the best results it’s important to understand why dark circles appear under eyes in the first place.

There can be a number of causes for dark circles under the eyes;

As we age the skin under our eyes loses thickness and much of the natural fat pad. Sun damage weakens the skin under the eyes. A victim of the sun, our environment, and the years. Our skin thins out and loses elasticity, moisture and our natural collagen production decreases.

This is most pronounced in the skin just under the eyes. This thinner skin allows blood vessels to become much more noticeable causing a look of darkness. Bodily fluids can become trapped in this thinner skin. This trapped blood darkens the area and/or creates puffiness. This can worsen the look of dark circles and/or puffiness because the skin has lost its ability to drain these fluids away.

Allergies can be a cause dark circles. Fluid retention caused by excess salt in the diet is another cause. Dehydration is a very common cause of dark circles under the eyes. People will often mistake dehydration for hunger and eat when they should in fact be drinking plenty of fresh clean water — everyday.

Lack of sleep is an other cause of dark circles. Sleep deprived skin becomes more pale increasing the look of dark areas under the eyes.

Sometimes it’s genetics. Certain people are predisposed to having dark circles under their eyes.

More often than not it is a combination of these factors. Lucky there are options available.

Common simple remedies are things like:

Cold moist tea bags over the eyes — Not herbal though — it must be real tea. Some people recommend slices of cucumber set in place over closed eyes for about 15 minutes.

These methods do help as a quick fix because they can temporarily reduce inflammation in the area. Many suspect it is simply the coolness of the tea bag or cucumber that reduces puffiness and dark areas. The same as cold compresses on swollen tissue.

For a more permanent solution you need something that will attack the inflammation on an ongoing basis. The best method of removing dark under eye circles — long term — is to replenishing missing natural ingredients that were once plentiful in your skin.

Elements like collagen, elastin, Coenzyme Q10, and moisture. Older thinned skin has reduced levels of all these elements.

Certain skin care products that contain elastin or collagen or CoQ10 are useless. Added collagen cannot penetrate skin. Collagen must be produced by your body to be useful.

Look for skin care products that promote elastin and collagen re-growth. Antioxidants reach deeply into cells eliminating free radicals and stimulating new cell growth. This will firm, thicken and allow proper drainage of the skin.

So what type of eye cream product do you pick for removing dark under eye circles?

One the contains breakthrough ingredients like “eyeliss TM” and “Haloxyl TM” — clinical studies have proven the effectiveness of these ingredients.

What else will you want?

Cynergy TK — a patented bio active keratin which promotes new growth of elastin and collagen with in the skin cells.

CoQ10 — Some less than reputable skin care manufacturers will advertise their product contains Coenzyme Q10. What they don’t mention is that CoQ10 in this form cannot be absorbed by the skin. Only a special version of it called Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10 is designed to deeply penetrate skin to its lowest layers, ridding skin of free radicals as it goes.

Active Manuka Honey – found only in New Zealand is proven to aid healing of damaged tissue. Mixed with Vitamin E it works quickly to repair and revitalize skin.

Find an eye cream with these ingredients and you have one that will make removing dark under eye circles straightforward and simple.