How to earn money with neobux

NeoBux Strategy

And now to the most important part on your way to success and income with NeoBux! Strategy and how to build towards a decent daily income!

Below are a few strategies. There are so many sites offering strategies and tips (just google "NeoBux Strategy", you'll see!) I am just going to show you a couple of different versions.

Personally, I jumped in and invested about $100 to get started, but as you will see below, you can get started with absolutely NOTHING out of pocket! You can use your earnings from ad clicking to build your referral team, you need never spend a dime out of pocket to make this happen!

Earn with NO COST

What I am about to show you is a way to build your earnings to $50 bucks a day without spending a nickel. No hype, no fluff and at most 15 minutes a day.

$50+ Per Day NeoBux Strategy Guide : No Investments Needed!

This Strategy Guide will teach you how to make REAL money with NeoBux, without paying them a thing. The only catch is you won't be making $50/day right off the bat.  You will be making a few cents when you first start.

The name of the game is called PATIENCE.

Now, with this method, I haven't invested any money to earn money. If you have money to invest, by all means, do it  and you'll see results faster than mine. The key to making money on NeoBux is through referrals.  It's simple, if you don't have referrals, you won't make money.

You can rent referrals directly from NeoBux.

The referrals are real people (NOT BOTS) and cost 25 cents a month each.  Some will be active and some won't.  To recycle a non-active referral for an active one you have to pay 7 cents.
It may seem like a lot, but it's worth it.  If you don't recycle inactive referrals, you will lose money.
 

                        

                                          First thing to do is Sign Up For NeoBux Here!

Step 1:

Start clicking your ads every day. When you reach 75 cents by clicking on your own ads (if you don't invest money) you are able to rent 3 referrals. (BUT DO NOT RENT REFS YET!).  It takes a few days to earn the 75 cents on your own and people are so eager to rent referrals that they just purchase as soon as their account reaches 75 cents. When people do this they do not realize that they do not have enough money to maintain their rented referrals and their referrals eventually are taken away because they can't pay for them.


Step 2:

Ok so before you rent referrals you should earn $3 by clicking on your ads (Or You Can Invest For Quickness) and then transfer it to your rental balance. This way you have $1 per referral and you will easily be able to recycle them if they are not active or pay to keep them for one more month. It will take a while to get $3 on your own, but this way you will be able to keep your referrals and exchange the inactive ones for active ones without the fear that you will not be able to pay for them.


Step 3:

Once you have your $3 in your rental balance rent 3 referrals. Auto pay is another must. As soon as you rent your first 3 referrals turn Auto pay on (you will find this on the page below where your referrals are listed). Referrals cost 25 cents a month to keep. Instead of you paying for the referral, they pay for themselves as long as you have Auto pay turned on. What it does is subtract one of the advertisements your referral views each day and puts it towards the 25 cents that referral needs to stick around for another month. So you get one less penny from each referral, but they will be your referral as long as they are active.


Step 4:

Cashing out too early is a huge problem for people that use NeoBux. When you request a payment it is INSTANTLY transferred into your AlertPay / Paypal account. In order to see if NeoBux is indeed legit (which it is) many people will earn $2 by clicking and then cash it out. Woo-hoo. You now have a TWO WHOLE DOLLARS in your Paypal account. Those dollars should have been put towards renting referrals. With this strategy you will be putting $3 into your rental balance before you rent 3 referrals.

So $1 per referral. I actually did not cash out until I started reaching +1000 refs. Keep renting referrals by increments of 3 (you can rent by higher increments later as your referrals make you more money) and continue until you have 300 referrals. This will take quite some time. This is where most people flake out. When you reach 300 referrals, stop renting referrals and just maintain the ones you already have.

Keep doing this until the money builds up to about $100 and you can use $90 of it to pay for a Golden upgrade.

$100 won't take very long at all to get once you have 300 referrals and once you upgrade to golden your earnings will DOUBLE. This is the great part. Golden costs $90 a year but instead of getting half a cent for every advertisement your referral views, you get 1 cent. Your earnings double. That's all there is to it.

Keep renting new referrals after you upgrade to golden and don't cash out. Remember, you haven't cashed out at all, and you shouldn't until you have 2000 referrals.

But when you do cash out, you will be able to cash out about $50 a day. And that's the end of the strategy.

It will also help you in your NeoBux adventure to get direct referrals, after 30 days with the use of a referral link they will give you.

It may seem to start off slow at first but it is only 5 minutes a day till you start to get your account built up.

Once you start renting referrals things start to get exciting.  Watch your referrals closely. No clicks for three days when you first rent them, recycle them for new ones.

Watch your referral averages and their last sign ins.  Keep all referrals that have an average of over 1.

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Another Version:


1. Choose a time of day that you can click ads and eventually manage your referrals at the same time everyday.

2. Click all available ads everyday (when you get referrals this is necessary to earn from referral clicks).

3. Utilize all free methods of advertising to gain any direct referrals (after 30 days). Talk it up with your friends and relatives. Put a tagline on your e-mail signature. Post in forums. Use free traffic exchanges.

4. Once your account balance reaches $3. Transfer this money to your rental balance and rent 3 referrals. It is only $0.90 to rent the referrals but you will need the remainder to properly manage the referrals.

5. Put the autopay function on.

6. If a referral of yours has not clicked today or yesterday and has click average of less than 1.0 then recycle it ($0.07) and get a new referral. If they have a click average of between .3 and 1.0, I will give them 4-5 days before I recycle them. I will give those with an average of over 1.0 seven days to return and click just because I would hate to recycle a great referral just because they were on vacation for a week.

7. Whenever, one of your referrals goes below 20 days before next payment pay to add another 30 days. Below 20 days, the autopay function does not work and you will not get the savings for that referral.

8. Every time your account balance reaches $1 transfer the money to your rental balance. At first when you are only making a couple of cents per day it is important to keep enough in your rental balance to maintain your recycling activity because you can only transfer in $1 increments. Once you can complete this transfer and have at least $2.40 in your rental balance rent another 3 referrals.

9. Continue this process until you are making a $1 a day in your account balance. At this point you can begin renting in bigger chunks of referrals every 7 days.

10. It will take a while but continue the above listed process until you reach 300 referrals. At this point stop renting and just maintain your referrals. Accumulate the earnings until you can pay for the upgrade to golden.

11. Once golden, maintain your referrals as before. Every week continue to rent referrals until you hit the 2000 refs mark. Any money that you are not sinking into referral maintenance or renting is profit for you.

This is the way I manage my account and I have had really good results. The aggressive recycling is very key.


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And yet another version

1) DON'T BE AFRAID TO SPEND MONEY

When I first started I looked at this as a way to make money without an investment. That's great and all if you're a patient person. I'm one of the many that can't wait. I spent 60 bucks in the first month. This got me 250 rented referrals.

2) MAINTAINING RENTED REFERRALS
Rented referrals is where the money's at on Neobux. The best thing to do is ride on the rented referrals. To do this you must keep them. First turn on 'Auto-Renew' and leave it on. Also maintain an active set of referrals. Constantly recycle dead refs. I set the green zone to 1.1 and the yellow starting at .7 This lets you know on the statistics and the rented page whether you're losing money(red), breaking even(yellow), or profiting (green). If a user stops clicking, give them a day or two. Say one of my referrals skips clicking today. Tomorrow their last click will say yesterday. I like to give them another day. Once the last click turns into a actual date, get rid of them. Keep this up.

3) FILTER OUT USERS WITH LOW AVERAGE
Don't do this until you are happy with the number of refs you have for a while. Recycle the users with a red average first. With them on auto-renew, you're losing money. Just mass recycle these users till you have a team of dedicated users. Finally its time to go for gold!

4) BUILD UP FOR GOLD
At this point you should have about 250 members. Keep autopay turned on and check the price of extending your rented refs for 90 days. Check your profit per day and do the math. Once you can afford it, renew the refs for 90 days and disable the autopay. This saves you 20% over time. Then let your money build up. I've heard it can be tough to get rented refs once you hit golden. To prepare for this don't get gold until you have at least 300 rented refs and half are active. You should be able to perform steps 2 and 3 during this time. Golden costs 90 bucks. Get 300 refs and then upgrade. But don't upgrade till you have at least 120 bucks, 30 bucks to work with your refs.

5) CASH OUT
Finally for the good part. Before you cash out, make sure you have enough to rent ALL of your refs for another 90 days. Once you do, keep that much in your rental balance. Anything else is profit. Once the 90 days are nearing an end, renew them. Be sure to overlap this time. A week is probably fine, but don't go too late, otherwise you'll have to rebuild that clicking army. After you've renewed, save up for another 90 days. That way the account maintains itself and u just click your  ads every day. I

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How To Make Money With Neobux a PTC site

How does Neobux work? It works just like any other PTC; You get paid for each advertisement you click. You need to keep the advertisements open for 30 seconds, and you are not allowed to view multiple advertisements at once. Doesn't sound like a lot, huh? Well don't worry, because clicking ads yourself won't get you far. You need to get something called referrals. You can get referrals through someone directly signing up under you, or you can buy referrals from neobux itself.

Starting From Scratch: This is possible but not recommended. Here's why it's not recommended: Click 4+ ads a day reach 3 dollars: $3/(4 x $0.01) = 75 Days to Reach $3 Rent 10 Referrals for $3 Repeat steps until you are at a comfortable Referral level.

Finally, Go GOLDEN!

Analysis: Doing this can take a while but once you have your first 10 referrals, the process gets faster. And when you repeat the process again by renting more referrals, you speed up the process even more. So in essence you're creating an avalanche effect. MORE MONEY !!!

Pros: - No initial Investment Needed

Cons: - Can take a long time Starting with an initial investment


Investment Strategy: This is a strategy personally used by me, and it seems to be working so far.

So here is how it goes: Invest 30+ dollars for 100 Referrals (Referral price goes up 1 dollar after you have over 250 referrals) Repeat this step once every week, for 3 weeks until you get to 300 Referrals (You can only rent once every 7 days, that's why it takes so long.)

Go GOLDEN! (You can either use the money your referrals gain you, your own money, or a combination of the two). When you get the Golden Membership, you will make back all your invested money within a month if you maintain a Referral clicking average of at least 2 ads a day.

Pros: Does not take as long compared to "starting from scratch" method

Cons: A somewhat big initial investment is needed.

Putting Everything into Perspective: Let's say you get to 300 Referrals, and you upgrade to Golden. If your referrals click at least 2 ads a day you will make $210 a month. (500 * 2 * 0.01) - (500 *0.006) = (10) - (3) = $7 Daily Profit = $49 Weekly Profit = $210 Monthly Profit.

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Big Money Strategy
This strategy is for people who want to earn a lot by investing money in Neobox. Follow the steps carefully and start your earnings!

1. Register and create an account.

2. Click all of your ads everyday and every once in a while there will be extra ads for you to click, check in often.

3. Rent 100 referrals, this will cost you $25.

4. Meet the minimum standards so you can upgrade to Golden (Rent at least twice/50 clicks credited/Be a member at least 15 days).

5. Before you go golden, you should have rented another 100 referrals for $25 and that puts you at 200 referrals and you should be golden soon.

6. Upgrade to Golden for $90.

7. Keep renting 100 pack referrals and clicking.

8. As soon as your 30 days is up, start recruiting Direct referrals.

9. Be sure that you maintain an average of 1 in order to make profit.

10. Once you reach 100 clicks credited, pay $890 to upgrade to Ultimate.

11. Buy 300 packs of rented referrals and keep doing this until you reach 4000 referrals.

12. Be sure to maintain your referrals and keep AutoPay on. If you do not have AutoPay on, extend your referrals for 90 days which will give you a 20% discount.

13. Slowly cash out your money every week and you should get your investment back in around 3 months.

14. After that, everything is pure profit for you and an Ultimate with 4000 referrals can make over $500/month profit.

See this success story from NeoBux Forum:

$2500 a month pure profit!

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Earn Money with Neobux's Zero Investment Strategy

Step 1. Register and create and account.

Step 2. Click all of your ads everyday and every once in a while there will be extra ads for you to click, so check in often.

Step 3. Earn $2 - $3 through clicking your ads everyday.

Step 4. Transfer the money from your main balance to your rental balance.

Step 5. Rent 3 referrals.

Step 6. Turn on AutoPay on your Rented Referrals page.

Step 7. Maintain your referrals and recycle the ones that have an average below 2 or haven't clicked in 2-3 days.

Step 8. Buy more referrals when you can (This is every 7 days as a standard member).

Step 9. Do NOT cash out any of the money that you gain in your main balance as this is used for buying more referrals and maintaining them.

Step 10. Once you reach 300 referrals, stop renting anymore referrals and just maintain the ones that you have. That means recycle the bad clickers and keep an average of 1.1 at least.

Step 11. Build up your money to about $100 and then upgrade to Golden.

Step 12. Once you get Golden membership, keep renting more referrals and maintaining them. Once you hit 1250 referrals, you can stop renting referrals and just maintain them and start to cash out your money.

As a Standard member, you have to keep an average of 2 in order to make a profit.

As a Golden member, you have to keep an average of 1 in order to make a profit.

You have invested nothing and finally you will have a lot of money in your account, but it takes some time. Just wait and follow the given steps.

See this forum post about what click average you need from your referrals for a profit.


Strategy, strategy, strategy. Just to illustrate that there is no one way to manage your referrals successfully, check out the different strategies from the top money makers in NB. This site has these strategies organized for easier comparison.


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Prosperity for all,

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7 ways successful people spend their free time.

 7 Ways successful people spend their free time.

When you think about professional success, you think about the strategies and behaviors that people exemplify when at work. You think about what people do during the 9-5 working hours, and whether they extend those hours by coming in early or staying late to tackle projects. What they do when they get home, or on weekends, when they're away from the office and away from their computers, doesn't enter your mind. But here's the thing: it should.

How people spend their free time can actually have a big impact on their success in the professional world. Successful people tend to spend their free time in these seven ways (and more, of course), so read below and find out why:

1. They Exercise. Physical exercise is important for both physical and mental health. Taking a half hour after work or on a weekend can get your blood pumping, get your endorphins flowing, and revitalize your spirit. You'll build muscle, burn calories, and oxygenate your brain--giving you a release after a day of stress. Exercising regularly also helps you remain disciplined, which can be valuable in a demanding work environment, and can reduce the long-term effects of stress as well--meaning regular exercisers tend to be less stressed about their jobs. You'll also look better and feel better, which gives you greater confidence.

2. They Read. Reading is a lifelong skill, and successful people never stop reading new books. Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, books help give you a greater understanding of the world around you. They introduce you to new characters, new environments, new cultures, new philosophies, and new ideas, and might even help you build new skills (if you're reading nonfiction, at least). Similarly, reading regularly helps to build your vocabulary and your semantic comprehension, giving you greater communication skills--and something to make small talk about during those particularly awkward business meetings.

3. They Take Classes. Education shouldn't stop at college, and shouldn't be restricted to institutions. The most successful people in the world are the ones who make a commitment to never stop learning. They're always incorporating new skills for their resumes and learning new aspects of the world around them. Instructional courses aren't particularly difficult to find, either, especially in the modern era. Many local colleges offer courses for free, and you can peruse local forums or gatherings to find impromptu group workshops. And don't underestimate the value of free online courses. If you have a free hour and an Internet connection, you can start learning a new skill.

4. They Volunteer. Volunteering, no matter where or how you do it, is beneficial for you and your community. Whether you're helping to clean up a highway, working in a soup kitchen, or providing mentorship to a group of young professionals, your time goes a long way toward improving the community around you. Professionals primed for success realize the importance of giving back to the community, and feel happier because of it. Volunteering is also a valuable networking experience, introducing you to other people who, one way or another, can help you drive your career forward.

5. They Network. Many networking events exist outside the realm of corporate hours. They include weekend breakfasts, cocktail hours, and after-hours gatherings for conversation and usually food and drinks. Successful people are willing to step outside their comfort zones in an effort to meet new people--regardless of any professional circumstances surrounding that effort. They're not necessarily interested in meeting people to land new sales or find a new employee--instead, they simply like talking to people and meeting people, and success naturally follows them from there. The wider your network of contacts is, the more opportunities you'll have down the road.

6. They Have Hobbies. Focusing exclusively on work might seem like a fast track to success. With nothing else distracting you, you can funnel your full effort into your job and do in one week what would take most people two. But this approach has a nasty downside; it stresses you out, sets you up for burnout, and prevents you from developing skills in any other areas. Finding and pursuing a hobby, on the other hand, helps you relieve stress, put your job in perspective, and build skills that complement ones you use at work. It's a breath of fresh air that keeps you grounded, and if it's a social hobby, also offers networking opportunities.

7. They Spend Time With Friends and Family. I implied it in the last point, but I'll reiterate it more strongly here: your job isn't everything. Focusing too much on your career is self-sabotage, no matter how counterintuitive that might sound. If you want to be successful in life, you have to prioritize your personal relationships--your bond with your friends and family members. No matter how much you want to be successful and climb the corporate ladder quickly, you can't neglect your friends and family to do it.

If you don't spend your free time like this, it doesn't mean you have no chance of being successful. However, picking up some of these strategies can improve your abilities, improve your mindset, and expand your network to levels that will increase your chances for success in the workplace. Start incorporating a few of them into your free time routines and you might just be surprised at the results.

 

 

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How to get good skin

 Skin is extremely important for good health, because it protects the rest of your body from germs and infectious agents. While many people want healthy skin because of the radiant appearance it provides, it can also be an indicator of overall health, and having healthy skin starts with having a healthy body. Skincare and anti-aging products are huge industries, but taking care of your skin has just as much to do with how you treat your body and what you put into it as it does what you put on it.
Part 1
Cleansing and Moisturizing

    1
    Wash regularly, but not too often. Your skin is covered in a layer of dead skin, oil, and good bacteria that help prevent harmful things from entering your body. Showering washes this layer away. Clean skin is important for good hygiene, but washing too frequently is unnecessary, and can make it more difficult for your skin to protect your body from contaminants and infections.
        Generally, people don’t need to shower more than every other day or every three days. You may want to consider showering more often if you work with the public or the infirm, take public transit daily, or have a physical job that requires exertion.

    2
    Have short showers or baths in warm water. Bathing in hot water and for too long strips helpful and necessary oils from your skin, and it can aggravate certain skin conditions like rosacea and eczema.
   
    3
    Use mild cleansers. Just like hot water, strong soaps will remove oil from your skin and leave you feeling tight and dry. When you do bathe, choose mild soaps or cleansers that don’t contain artificial fragrances. Look for soaps that:
        Contain soothing and moisturizing ingredients like aloe, witch hazel, and vegetable oils, and herbs or botanicals such as chamomile, lavender, rosemary, and peppermint.
        Don't contain sodium lauryl sulfate or alcohol, which can both dry out your skin.
        Match your skin type. For instance, if you have dry skin, look for moisturizing soaps. For sensitive skin, look for fragrance-free and hypoallergenic soap.
        Clean your skin without stripping away skin and oil.
  
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    Pat your skin dry. Instead of rubbing dry with a towel when you’ve finished bathing, gently pat your skin with a towel and let the remaining moisture air dry.[9] This will ensure you leave a layer of oil on your skin that will help keep in moisture and prevent dryness.

    5
    Exfoliate once or twice a week. This will remove the top layer of dead skin, and reveal the fresh, new, radiant skin below, giving your skin a healthy, glowing appearance. Avoid using acids, such as lemon or tomato juice, on your skin and especially your face. They can strip away your skin’s natural oils, and make you more sensitive to the sun.
        Regular cleansing, exfoliation, and moisturizing can help prevent breakouts and blemishes, and keep your skin looking young and healthy.
        For dry skin, look for an exfoliating product that has no additional cleansing agents (or very mild ones) and a moisturizer. For oily skin, choose a balancing exfoliating product that also offers deep scrubbing.

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    Moisturize regularly. Along with keeping moisture against the skin, which keeps it from drying out, moisturizers also protect the skin and improve its tone and texture. Consider using a moisturizer that has an SPF rating for some additional sun-protection.
        As an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, olive oil can also be applied topically to the skin as a natural moisturizer. Sweet almond, coconut, and jojoba also work as moisturizers, as do Shea and cocoa butter. You can use these products on their own, or look for moisturizers that contain them.
        Look for lotions or gels instead of creams if you have oily skin, but opt for creams if you have dry skin.
        For acne-prone skin, look for moisturizers that contain salicylic acid. But if you have sensitive skin, look for calming ingredients like green tea, vitamin C, and aloe.

Part 2

Eating a Healthy Diet

    1
    Eat your fruits and vegetables. Eating foods that come in all the colors of the rainbow ensures that you’ll get the nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that are vital for good health. Fruits and vegetables will help promote healthy skin because they promote a healthy body. Eating a diet that’s rich in these foods can lead to a lower risk of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure, can regulate blood sugar and weight, and aid with digestion.
        Eat dark, leafy green vegetables.
        Eat brightly colored foods that are orange, blue, yellow, red, and purple.
        Tomatoes, for instance, are great for the skin because eating them can help protect it from sun damage, make your skin smoother, and boost collagen.
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    Eat skin-friendly foods. Foods rich in antioxidants, selenium, coenzyme Q10, and flavonoids all promote healthy bodies and radiant skin. Antioxidants and selenium prevent damage done by free radicals, which are thought to contribute to wrinkles, tissue damage, and dry skin. Coenzyme Q10 is an antioxidant produced by your body. Flavonoids are the by-product of plant growth, and have both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
        Foods that are high in antioxidants include whole grains, berries, apricots, beets, squash and sweet potatoes, tangerines, beans,[16] and olive oil.
        Foods that contain selenium include whole-wheat pasta, Brazil nuts, button mushrooms, beef and turkey, oysters, shrimp and crab, snapper and cod, and some other fish.
        Coenzyme Q10 can be found in whole grains, fish, organ meats, and soybean, canola, and sesame oils.
        Flavonoids can be found in things like dark chocolate and green tea.

    3
    Consume foods high in vitamins A, C, and E. These vitamins provide different benefits, but they all contribute to healthy skin. Vitamin C can boost the collagen and elastin in your skin, and these proteins prevent wrinkles, lines, and sagging. Vitamin A helps keep your skin fresh and glowing by preventing dryness, reducing dark spots, and smoothing wrinkles. Vitamin E is an antioxidant that fights the damage done by free radicals.
        Foods rich in vitamin C include peppers, citrus fruits, dark green vegetables, papaya, and kiwi. You can also try strawberries, pumpkin, and pomegranate for high doses of this wrinkle-fighting vitamin.
        Foods packed with vitamin A include dark leafy greens, oranges, carrots, cantaloupe, and eggs.
        Vitamin E can be found in nuts and seeds, olives, dark leafy greens, and vegetable oils.    

  4
    Get your omegas. Fats are necessary for healthy skin, especially omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. These fatty acids keep skin bright and moisturized, and prevent dryness and blemishes. Good sources of these essential fatty acids include:
        Walnuts
        Olive and canola oil
        Flaxseeds
        Sardines, mackerel, and salmon
  
    5
    Drink water. The skin, like every part of the body, needs proper hydration to function optimally. Sufficient hydration can prevent dryness and flakiness, which will prevent wrinkling[27] and make lines less noticeable.
        The traditional guideline for water consumption is eight cups (one cup is equal to eight ounces, or 235 ml) per day. However, fruits and vegetables contain water, so eating them counts toward your daily hydration. The best rule of thumb is to listen to your body about water consumption, so if you’re thirsty, drink up!
  
    6
    Avoid added sugars. Sugar in your diet can lead to wrinkles and sagging skin. Sugar molecules attach themselves to protein molecules, and when this happens it can damage collagen and elastin. While there are many foods that are good for you—such as fruit—that contain sugar, watch for added sugar in processed and pre-made foods.

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The Sun

The Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, accounting for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. About three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen; the rest is mostly helium, with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron.

The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) based on spectral class and is informally referred to as a yellow dwarf. It formed approximately 4.6 billionyears ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. Most of this matter gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System. The central mass became so hot and dense, that it eventually initiated nuclear fusion in its core. It is thought that almost all stars form by this process.

The Sun is roughly middle-aged and has not changed dramatically for over four billion years, and will remain fairly stable for more than another five billion years. However, after hydrogen fusion in its core has stopped, the Sun will undergo severe changes and become a red giant. It is calculated that the Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the current orbits of Mercury, Venus, and possibly Earth.

The enormous effect of the Sun on Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. The synodic rotation of Earth and its orbit around the Sun are the basis of the solar calendar, which is the predominant calendar in use today.

Name and etymology

The English proper noun Sun developed from Old English sunne and may be related to south. Cognates to English sun appear in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunne, sonne, Old Saxon sunna, Middle Dutch sonne, modern Dutch zon, Old High German sunna, modern German Sonne, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. All Germanic terms for the Sun stem from Proto-Germanic *sunnōn.[19][20]

The English weekday name Sunday stems from Old English (Sunnandæg; "Sun's day", from before 700) and is ultimately a result of a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis, itself a translation of the Greek ἡμέρα ἡλίου (hēméra hēlíou). The Latin name for the Sun, Sol, is not common in general English language use; the adjectival form is the related word solar. The term sol is also used by planetary astronomers to refer to the duration of a solar day on another planet, such as Mars. A mean Earth solar day is approximately 24 hours, whereas a mean Martian 'sol' is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds.

Religious aspects

Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms, including the Egyptian Ra, the Hindu Surya, the Japanese Amaterasu, the Germanic Sól, and the Aztec Tonatiuh, among others.

From at least the 4th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the Sun was worshipped as the god Ra, portrayed as a falcon-headed divinity surmounted by the solar disk, and surrounded by a serpent. In the New Empire period, the Sun became identified with the dung beetle, whose spherical ball of dung was identified with the Sun. In the form of the Sun disc Aten, the Sun had a brief resurgence during the Amarna Period when it again became the preeminent, if not only, divinity for the Pharaoh Akhenaton.
The Sun is viewed as a goddess in Germanic paganism, Sól/Sunna. Scholars theorize that the Sun, as a Germanic goddess, may represent an extension of an earlier Proto-Indo-European Sun deity because of Indo-European linguistic connections between Old Norse Sól, Sanskrit Surya, Gaulish Sulis, Lithuanian Saulė, and Slavic Solntse.



In ancient Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the Sun god. It was adopted as the Sabbath day by Christians who did not have a Jewish background. The symbol of light was a pagan device adopted by Christians, and perhaps the most important one that did not come from Jewish traditions. In paganism, the Sun was a source of life, giving warmth and illumination to mankind. It was the center of a popular cult among Romans, who would stand at dawn to catch the first rays of sunshine as they prayed. The celebration of the winter solstice (which influenced Christmas) was part of the Roman cult of the unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus). Christian churches were built with an orientation so that the congregation faced toward the sunrise in the East.

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