Wal-Mart's $8 Cure for Deadly Blood Clots and Poor Cardiovascular Function

By Shane "The People's Chemist" Ellison

One minute you are enjoying a stroll in the park, and the next you feel as if an elephant just stepped on you. It's a premature heart attack or stroke, the result of a blockage from a blood clot and inflammation, usually within the coronary arteries.

Millions of Americans are choking down blood pressure meds (beta-blockers like Lopressor and Toprol-XL) and aspirin (or the deadly Plavix) to avoid this death sentence. At the same time, they are putting themselves at risk for side effects like lethargy, obesity, heart disease, internal bleeding, and even cancer.

But preventing heart attack and stroke doesn't have to be risky. One safe and inexpensive supplement can keep your blood healthy and control your blood pressure. And you don't need a prescription to get it. Heart attack and stroke can be delayed - and even stopped - naturally, for about $8 a month at Wal-Mart.

Hawthorn. Used for thousands of years, it has proven to be a safe and effective method for ensuring healthy blood and arteries. It destroys potentially deadly blood clots on contact. Hawthorn works by preventing excess platelet aggregation while releasing pressure from the cardiovascular system. Studying these benefits of hawthorn, the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy showed that it could successfully be used to treat heart failure, hypertension, angina, and arrhythmias. And, most exciting, users won't suffer from nasty side effects. As a bonus, they'll protect their wallets from Big Pharma. Plavix costs about $100 a month; hawthorn costs $8.

It's important to make sure there are no fillers - like dextrose (sugar) - in your hawthorn supplement. Make sure any hawthorn you purchase has been confirmed for purity with a Certificate of Analysis (COA). You can request a COA directly from the manufacturer of any supplement - for free.

The Language Perfectionist: Will I Convince You... or Persuade You?

By Don Hauptman

This one is tricky. Even I get confused!

For the language stickler, the words convince and persuade are not interchangeable. Here are two misuses:

• "How to convince your boss to let you work from home." (It should be persuade.)

• "We need to persuade [homeless children] that their lives are worth something, if only because we care about them." (It should be convince.)

What's going on here? Why are the above examples incorrect? Here's the explanation:

The word convince refers to belief. You convince someone of something or that something is true.

The word persuade refers to action. You persuade someone to do something. Thus, avoid the phrase "convince to."

[Ed Note: For more than three decades, Don Hauptman was a direct-response copywriter. He is author of the wordplay books Cruel and Unusual Puns and Acronymania, and is now writing a new book that also blends language and humor.]

It's Fun to Know: How to Keep Your Planets Straight

By Charlie Byrne

When I was in school, my science teacher taught me and my classmates a mnemonic device to help us remember the order of the planets: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto).

Now, with the addition of two dwarf planets to the lineup, this memory trick is outdated.

No matter to young Maryn Smith of Great Falls, MT. She recently won a National Geographic contest to develop a new mnemonic for the planets in our solar system, including the dwarves. Her winning entry was inspired by the Disney animated film Aladdin: My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.

Now if we can just remember that "Carpet" stands for Ceres and "Elephants" stands for Eris!

[Ed Note: Charlie Byrne is Associate Publisher at Early to Rise.]

Word to the Wise: Syncretic

Something that's "syncretic" (sin-KRET-ik) unites and blends together different systems (e.g., philosophical, moral, or religious). The word is from the Greek for "to unite against a common enemy" (in the manner of the Cretan cities).

Example (as used by Jason Burke in The Observer): "Indonesia is known for its moderate, syncretic, inclusive brand of Islam. People see no difficulty in worshipping Allah and sea spirits."

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