What Does the FDA Have Against Fish Oil?
By Al Sears, MD
If you're a regular ETR reader, you know that fish oil is one of the most effective ways of preventing a host of chronic diseases, especially heart disease.
In Italy, doctors prescribe fish oil to every patient who survives a heart attack. It's standard practice. They feel so strongly about it that most would consider it malpractice to omit fish oil from the diet of a recovering heart attack patient. And volumes of population studies, laboratory analyses, and clinical tests have shown its remarkable healing qualities.
Yet here in the U.S., doctors don't recommend the heart-healthy omega-3s found in fish oil. In fact, the FDA hasn't approved Omacor - the only prescription fish oil on the market - for use in heart patients. Of course, American cardiologists are only too happy to recommend more profitable technologies - everything from implantable defibrillators to statin drugs for lowering cholesterol.
Is the FDA suppressing the use of fish oil to protect Big Pharma's monopoly in the drug market ... or is it possible that they really still question its efficacy?
Don't let the FDA lead you astray. If you're not currently taking fish oil, you should consider it. It does more than improve heart health. It wipes out joint pain, eases depression, and protects your eyes.
______________________________
"If what you are doing is not moving you toward your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
- Brian Tracy
So Many Goals ... So Little Time
I recently received the following e-mail from TH ...
Dear Michael Masterson,
I'm writing you because I have a concern. I own or have paid for access to the following ETR and AWAI information:
1. American Consultants League
2. Michael Masterson's Six Figure Copywriting Program
3. Direct Marketing Quick Start Kit
4. Quick & Easy Microbusiness System
5. Instant Internet Income
6. Profit Center Dispatch
7. Monthly Copywriting Genius
8. The Writer's Tax Guide for Freelancers
9. Secrets of Writing for the Fundraising Market
10. Secrets of Writing for the Internet
Plus all of your latest books and an assortment of copywriting CDs containing interviews.
I've studied or listened to all the material at least once. The problem is, I am still not the six-figure copywriter I set out to be when I began buying it. It is all good, but I just haven't figured out the best way get my business/efforts off the ground.
I was thinking about buying one last program, AWAI's "Self Publishing: Your Complete Business Plan for Creating a Life Without Borders." Still ... if I do, I need to set off on a course of action to dramatically skyrocket my income ... quickly.
Can you please recommend a course of action?
TH has a problem that's very common with ambitious, goal-oriented people - one that you may have too. It's a problem I had during the first part of my career when, like TH, I worked very hard, studied very hard, tried many things, yet was never successful at any of them.
I've told the story before in ETR of how I solved my problem when I enrolled in a Dale Carnegie program based on his book How to Win Friends and Influence People. For me, the pivotal session of the program was when we were required to write down all our goals ... and then narrow the list down to a single one.
I started out with several dozen - things like "be a prize winning journalist," "open up my own art gallery," "make a million dollars," and "become a black-belt martial artist." And I can't tell you how hard it was to make that final selection. In choosing any one, I was essentially giving up - at least for the time being - any hope of achieving the others. That seemed like a demand I simply couldn't bear.
But I did it. I finally decided that getting rich would be my ultimate and exclusive goal - that I would devote no time or energy to any of my other goals until I'd achieved that first one. The strategy obviously worked. And in looking back, I realized that narrowing down my many goals to just one was the key to achieving it.
So, based on my own experience, here's the advice I have for TH ...
You are clearly a motivated person who is not afraid to invest in your dreams - but I would not advise you to buy any more information products. You already own more than you can possibly put into action.
The problem you have (at least so far) is that you aren't managing your goals properly. First, you have too many of them. You say you want to be a copywriter, yet you have purchased all sorts of other products that have nothing to do with copywriting.
So what you have to do now is make your goal of becoming a six-figure copywriter your first and only goal. You must put away everything else that's running through your mind and heart. That includes any social goals (get married/divorced) ... health-related goals (lose/gain five pounds) ... or personal goals (learn to play the guitar). You must even put your current work-related goals on hold.
Your first and only obligation for the next 12 to 24 months has to be to become a six-figure copywriter.
Can you take this first step, TH? Can you make this sacred, personal promise to yourself? If so, this is what you do next ...
Get out your calendar and start marking off 20-hour (at a minimum) blocks of time during which you will do nothing besides (a) improving your copywriting skills, (b) promoting yourself as a copywriter, and (c) executing whatever copywriting assignments you get.
You must never, ever work less than 20 hours a week in this way. If you follow this simple formula faithfully and honestly for the next 50 weeks, you'll almost certainly be working at the rate of $100,000 (or more) per year.
You won't necessarily be earning a hundred grand by then, but you will be getting the $40 an hour you need to earn to make $100,000 by working 50 hours a week.
You must devote all your spare time and energy (physical, mental, and emotional) to this single objective. If you're willing to do this - and if you do it - I am 100 percent confident you will succeed.
Keep in mind that your "problem" of being overly ambitious and having too many goals is really a virtue in disguise. It means that you are a natural hard worker and a motivated person. These characteristics will help you enormously ... so long as you follow a plan that forces you to focus.
- Michael Masterson
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Fructuous
"Fructuous" (FRUK-choo-us) - from the Latin for "fruit" - is another way of saying "productive."
Example (as used by Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J. Gergen in Relational Responsibility): "Theory does not provide us worthy marching orders for a fructuous future, for theory in itself tells us nothing about how and when it is applicable."
Michael Masterson
__________________________________________________
These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1871, 10-27-06], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
If you're a regular ETR reader, you know that fish oil is one of the most effective ways of preventing a host of chronic diseases, especially heart disease.
In Italy, doctors prescribe fish oil to every patient who survives a heart attack. It's standard practice. They feel so strongly about it that most would consider it malpractice to omit fish oil from the diet of a recovering heart attack patient. And volumes of population studies, laboratory analyses, and clinical tests have shown its remarkable healing qualities.
Yet here in the U.S., doctors don't recommend the heart-healthy omega-3s found in fish oil. In fact, the FDA hasn't approved Omacor - the only prescription fish oil on the market - for use in heart patients. Of course, American cardiologists are only too happy to recommend more profitable technologies - everything from implantable defibrillators to statin drugs for lowering cholesterol.
Is the FDA suppressing the use of fish oil to protect Big Pharma's monopoly in the drug market ... or is it possible that they really still question its efficacy?
Don't let the FDA lead you astray. If you're not currently taking fish oil, you should consider it. It does more than improve heart health. It wipes out joint pain, eases depression, and protects your eyes.
______________________________
"If what you are doing is not moving you toward your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
- Brian Tracy
So Many Goals ... So Little Time
I recently received the following e-mail from TH ...
Dear Michael Masterson,
I'm writing you because I have a concern. I own or have paid for access to the following ETR and AWAI information:
1. American Consultants League
2. Michael Masterson's Six Figure Copywriting Program
3. Direct Marketing Quick Start Kit
4. Quick & Easy Microbusiness System
5. Instant Internet Income
6. Profit Center Dispatch
7. Monthly Copywriting Genius
8. The Writer's Tax Guide for Freelancers
9. Secrets of Writing for the Fundraising Market
10. Secrets of Writing for the Internet
Plus all of your latest books and an assortment of copywriting CDs containing interviews.
I've studied or listened to all the material at least once. The problem is, I am still not the six-figure copywriter I set out to be when I began buying it. It is all good, but I just haven't figured out the best way get my business/efforts off the ground.
I was thinking about buying one last program, AWAI's "Self Publishing: Your Complete Business Plan for Creating a Life Without Borders." Still ... if I do, I need to set off on a course of action to dramatically skyrocket my income ... quickly.
Can you please recommend a course of action?
TH has a problem that's very common with ambitious, goal-oriented people - one that you may have too. It's a problem I had during the first part of my career when, like TH, I worked very hard, studied very hard, tried many things, yet was never successful at any of them.
I've told the story before in ETR of how I solved my problem when I enrolled in a Dale Carnegie program based on his book How to Win Friends and Influence People. For me, the pivotal session of the program was when we were required to write down all our goals ... and then narrow the list down to a single one.
I started out with several dozen - things like "be a prize winning journalist," "open up my own art gallery," "make a million dollars," and "become a black-belt martial artist." And I can't tell you how hard it was to make that final selection. In choosing any one, I was essentially giving up - at least for the time being - any hope of achieving the others. That seemed like a demand I simply couldn't bear.
But I did it. I finally decided that getting rich would be my ultimate and exclusive goal - that I would devote no time or energy to any of my other goals until I'd achieved that first one. The strategy obviously worked. And in looking back, I realized that narrowing down my many goals to just one was the key to achieving it.
So, based on my own experience, here's the advice I have for TH ...
You are clearly a motivated person who is not afraid to invest in your dreams - but I would not advise you to buy any more information products. You already own more than you can possibly put into action.
The problem you have (at least so far) is that you aren't managing your goals properly. First, you have too many of them. You say you want to be a copywriter, yet you have purchased all sorts of other products that have nothing to do with copywriting.
So what you have to do now is make your goal of becoming a six-figure copywriter your first and only goal. You must put away everything else that's running through your mind and heart. That includes any social goals (get married/divorced) ... health-related goals (lose/gain five pounds) ... or personal goals (learn to play the guitar). You must even put your current work-related goals on hold.
Your first and only obligation for the next 12 to 24 months has to be to become a six-figure copywriter.
Can you take this first step, TH? Can you make this sacred, personal promise to yourself? If so, this is what you do next ...
Get out your calendar and start marking off 20-hour (at a minimum) blocks of time during which you will do nothing besides (a) improving your copywriting skills, (b) promoting yourself as a copywriter, and (c) executing whatever copywriting assignments you get.
You must never, ever work less than 20 hours a week in this way. If you follow this simple formula faithfully and honestly for the next 50 weeks, you'll almost certainly be working at the rate of $100,000 (or more) per year.
You won't necessarily be earning a hundred grand by then, but you will be getting the $40 an hour you need to earn to make $100,000 by working 50 hours a week.
You must devote all your spare time and energy (physical, mental, and emotional) to this single objective. If you're willing to do this - and if you do it - I am 100 percent confident you will succeed.
Keep in mind that your "problem" of being overly ambitious and having too many goals is really a virtue in disguise. It means that you are a natural hard worker and a motivated person. These characteristics will help you enormously ... so long as you follow a plan that forces you to focus.
- Michael Masterson
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Fructuous
"Fructuous" (FRUK-choo-us) - from the Latin for "fruit" - is another way of saying "productive."
Example (as used by Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J. Gergen in Relational Responsibility): "Theory does not provide us worthy marching orders for a fructuous future, for theory in itself tells us nothing about how and when it is applicable."
Michael Masterson
__________________________________________________
These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1871, 10-27-06], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
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