Reload This Lost Fat Buster

By Al Sears, MD

The mineral magnesium is gaining a reputation as a simple and easy way to lower your insulin - exactly what you need to lose fat fast.

If you’re a regular ETR reader, you know that insulin signals your body to make and store fat. Magnesium plays a prime role in keeping both blood sugar and insulin in check.

It’s been estimated that our lean, muscular hunter ancestors got over 1,000 mg of magnesium from their native diet every day. On the average American diet, you’re getting less than 20 percent of that… if you’re lucky.

Restoring your magnesium levels to those of your caveman ancestors will take you a step closer to your real native diet - the kind you were designed to eat. It will also take you a step toward dropping fat and staying lean.

You can add magnesium to your diet by eating nuts, seeds, dairy products, and dark green, leafy vegetables.

- - - - - - - - - - - Your Best Sources of Magnesium - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -Food Choice - - - - - - - - - Milligrams (mg) - - %DV*
Halibut, cooked, 3 ounces - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 90 - - - - - - - - - 20
Almonds, dry roasted, 1 ounce - - - - - - - - - - - - -80 - - - - - - - - - 20
Cashews, dry roasted, 1 ounce - - - - - - - - - - - - - 75 - - - - - - - - - 20
Spinach, frozen, cooked, 1/2 cup - - - - - - - - - - - 75 - - - - - - - - - 20
Nuts, mixed, dry roasted, 1 ounce - - - - - - - - - - 65 - - - - - - - - - -15
Yogurt, plain, skim milk, 8 fluid ounces - - - - - -45 - - - - - - - - - -10

*The recommended daily value for magnesium is 400 milligrams (mg)
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5 Reasons to Use the Power of the Pause in Public Speaking

By Peter "The Humorator" Fogel

As a stand-up comic, my goal has always been to get the biggest laughs in the shortest time possible. So I developed jokes and "bits" that have a very short set-up and go directly to the punch line. But when I became a speaker, I had a different goal. I realized that I needed to find a way to make my content have a more powerful effect on my audience. To accomplish that goal, I added pauses to my presentations. The results and feedback I got from my audiences were outstanding.

Here are five reasons why you should add "the Power of the Pause" to your public speaking:

1. When you pause, you create the illusion that right after you start speaking again your audience will be receiving new information.
2. When you pause, you are giving the impression that you are "in the moment." This makes your listeners feel that you are giving them fresh - not "canned" - content.
3. Using the pause keeps you from dumping a lot of heavy content on your captive audience, machine-gun style, all at once.
4. Pausing allows you to lead the audience where you want them to go. When you pause at a specific point in your speech, you are signaling them: "I’ve just thought about something important - perhaps you should too!"

Listen to the great orators and storytellers of our time - people like Garrison Keillor and Bill Clinton. They prove that sometimes it’s not what you say that carries the most weight… it’s what you DON’T say.

Try this in your own speeches and presentations and you’ll see how well it can work.

[Ed. Note: Peter Fogel is a copywriter/speaker/humorist and the creator of Peter "The Humorator" Fogel’s Guide to Effective Public Speaking, an e-book/DVD/audio program.]
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It’s Fun to Know: About Rock ‘n’ Roll Legends

When the Monkees went on their first concert tour, their opening act was Jimi Hendrix.
(Source: Who Knew? By David Hoffman)
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Word to the Wise: Halcyon

To the ancient Greeks, the "halcyon" (HAL-see-un) was a mythical bird. Legend had it that the bird would nest at sea during the winter solstice - and, while incubating its eggs, it would calm the waves. As an adjective, the word has come to mean tranquil/peaceful/carefree.

Example (as used by Elizabeth M. Norman in We Band of Angels): "It was a halcyon life, cocktails and bridge at sunset, white jackets and long gowns at dinner, good gin and Gershwin under the stars."

Michael Masterson
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These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #2014, 04-12-07], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.