Anti-Aging Tip: Know the Truth About Bread
By Al Sears, MD
Every day, I see TV commercials touting the "health benefits" of whole-grain products - especially bread. Our food pyramid is built on a base of grains. And I constantly read advice to eat "low-glycemic whole-grain" foods. Well, if someone has found a low-glycemic whole-grain food, I’d like to see it.
When my research foundation put together our extensive glycemic index, we organized foods that contain carbohydrates by category, from those that raise blood sugar levels the most to those that raise blood sugar levels the least. Notice that the four categories at the top of the index are all grain foods:
. Highest: Cereals
. Second-highest: Breads
. Third-highest: Other grain products
. Fourth-highest: Pastas
. Fifth-highest: Desserts
. Sixth-highest: Fruits
In other words, cereals, breads, pastas, and other grain products generally produce more sugar in your blood than desserts or fruits.
"Wholesome" whole-wheat bread has a glycemic score of 80 - twice that of ice cream, apples, or peaches!
The bottom line: Whole-grain bread spikes your blood sugar the same as white bread does. And high-glycemic foods make you fat and accelerate aging. (Increasing body fat is one of the markers of aging.)
Adding fuel to the fire, all grains contain proteins called lectins. These cause inflammation and lead to problems like arthritis and chronic fatigue - two more problems of aging.
To reduce the effects of aging, do as I have and ditch the grains. Get the fiber you need from fruits and vegetables.
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3 Ways to Cure a Common Speech Problem
By Virginia Avery
You can make your presentations more powerful and give your everyday speech more clarity by making one simple change: Eliminate "verbal tics."
What I’m talking about are those repetitious sounds speakers unconsciously make to fill air time. Sometimes they take the form of "ums" or "ahs" or "you knows." Another common one is "like." And I recently noticed a speaker using "right?" every few words.
I call these non-words "verbal tics" because, like a facial tic, they’re not easily ignored by your audience. They interfere with your message, making it difficult for them to understand what you’re trying to say.
Most people are unaware that they have this common problem - so how do you know if you have it? And if you do, what can you do about it?
Ask a trusted friend if you tend to fill up your sentences with meaningless filler words. Or record your half of a telephone conversation. Verbal tics are a habit - like biting your nails - that you may not notice until you force yourself to look for them.
Learn to pause. Get comfortable with silence, which can add emphasis to your words and give you a moment to plan your next sentence.
Put a period (with your voice) at the end of every sentence. Most people with verbal tics end their sentences with an upward inflection, so the sentence never feels complete.
Having verbal tics is one of the easiest speech problems to overcome. All you have to do is follow these few simple steps.
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It’s Fun to Know: About World Records
The world airspeed record for amphibious aircraft - two hours and four minutes from Orlando to Key West - goes to two occasional ETR contributors: none other than Robert Cox (author of The Billionaire Way) and Toby Unwin.
(Source: Southwest Orlando Bulletin)
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Word to the Wise: Sagacious
"Sagacious" (suh-GAY-shus) - from the Latin - is another way of saying knowing/shrewd/wise.
Example (as used by Richard Ketcham in Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War): "John Adams, another of the doctor’s Congressional colleagues, said of him: ‘[Benjamin] Franklin had a great genius, original, sagacious, and inventive, capable of discoveries in science no less than of improvements in the fine arts and the mechanic arts.’"
Michael Masterson
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These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1986, 03-10-07], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
Every day, I see TV commercials touting the "health benefits" of whole-grain products - especially bread. Our food pyramid is built on a base of grains. And I constantly read advice to eat "low-glycemic whole-grain" foods. Well, if someone has found a low-glycemic whole-grain food, I’d like to see it.
When my research foundation put together our extensive glycemic index, we organized foods that contain carbohydrates by category, from those that raise blood sugar levels the most to those that raise blood sugar levels the least. Notice that the four categories at the top of the index are all grain foods:
. Highest: Cereals
. Second-highest: Breads
. Third-highest: Other grain products
. Fourth-highest: Pastas
. Fifth-highest: Desserts
. Sixth-highest: Fruits
In other words, cereals, breads, pastas, and other grain products generally produce more sugar in your blood than desserts or fruits.
"Wholesome" whole-wheat bread has a glycemic score of 80 - twice that of ice cream, apples, or peaches!
The bottom line: Whole-grain bread spikes your blood sugar the same as white bread does. And high-glycemic foods make you fat and accelerate aging. (Increasing body fat is one of the markers of aging.)
Adding fuel to the fire, all grains contain proteins called lectins. These cause inflammation and lead to problems like arthritis and chronic fatigue - two more problems of aging.
To reduce the effects of aging, do as I have and ditch the grains. Get the fiber you need from fruits and vegetables.
______________________________
3 Ways to Cure a Common Speech Problem
By Virginia Avery
You can make your presentations more powerful and give your everyday speech more clarity by making one simple change: Eliminate "verbal tics."
What I’m talking about are those repetitious sounds speakers unconsciously make to fill air time. Sometimes they take the form of "ums" or "ahs" or "you knows." Another common one is "like." And I recently noticed a speaker using "right?" every few words.
I call these non-words "verbal tics" because, like a facial tic, they’re not easily ignored by your audience. They interfere with your message, making it difficult for them to understand what you’re trying to say.
Most people are unaware that they have this common problem - so how do you know if you have it? And if you do, what can you do about it?
Ask a trusted friend if you tend to fill up your sentences with meaningless filler words. Or record your half of a telephone conversation. Verbal tics are a habit - like biting your nails - that you may not notice until you force yourself to look for them.
Learn to pause. Get comfortable with silence, which can add emphasis to your words and give you a moment to plan your next sentence.
Put a period (with your voice) at the end of every sentence. Most people with verbal tics end their sentences with an upward inflection, so the sentence never feels complete.
Having verbal tics is one of the easiest speech problems to overcome. All you have to do is follow these few simple steps.
______________________________
It’s Fun to Know: About World Records
The world airspeed record for amphibious aircraft - two hours and four minutes from Orlando to Key West - goes to two occasional ETR contributors: none other than Robert Cox (author of The Billionaire Way) and Toby Unwin.
(Source: Southwest Orlando Bulletin)
_____________________________
Word to the Wise: Sagacious
"Sagacious" (suh-GAY-shus) - from the Latin - is another way of saying knowing/shrewd/wise.
Example (as used by Richard Ketcham in Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War): "John Adams, another of the doctor’s Congressional colleagues, said of him: ‘[Benjamin] Franklin had a great genius, original, sagacious, and inventive, capable of discoveries in science no less than of improvements in the fine arts and the mechanic arts.’"
Michael Masterson
__________________________________________________
These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1986, 03-10-07], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
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