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Dear
Michael Masterson: "Is it possible to pursue the Seven
Years to Seven Figures goal by just adding more streams of
income to my salary?"
"My
situation is this. I am a biologist working for a small (30
employees) private consulting firm in a small town in Washington.
My daily job consists of biological field work (studying
wetlands), writing scientific reports, writing permit applications
for clients, and project management. I absolutely love
my job, and the people I work with. I have been promoted
to project manager, with an earning potential topping out
at probably 50K.
"Through
my hard work and dedication to my job in the last year, I
have received four increases in my salary, but still
am only earning around 42K per year. I have started working
on increasing my income by starting a side business - a website
(using SiteBuildIt)
that will incorporate a newsletter and various affiliates.
"Is
it possible to pursue the Seven
Years to Seven Figures goal by just
adding more streams of income to my salary ... or do I have
to quit my job and get one with higher earning potential?
I am not sure how my scientific skills would translate
into a job with significant earning potential ... and, like
I said, I really love what I do now.
"I
have read both Automatic
Wealth and Seven
Years to Seven Figures, and am very
inspired by them. But I still cannot figure out how my career
can translate into generating a 6-figure income.
"Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated."
-
Nancy Mendler
Vancouver, WA
Dear
Nancy,
Don't
quit your day job. It's paying your bills and you love it.
Good for you. You are way ahead of the pack already.
The
industry you are in is not likely to reward you with an extraordinary
income, even if you are a superstar. There is not enough profit
in most businesses associated with what you are doing.
There
are plenty of ways to be involved in science and make loads
of dough - but it would be easier for you to stick with the
plan you've already established: creating at least one Internet-based,
info-marketing side business. Just make sure you research the
intended focus of these side businesses to ensure they have
high wealth-building potential. If the kind of information
you intend to market doesn't have enough appeal, you might
have to change to a related but different subject to achieve
your goals.
We
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The first part of that program is being launched very soon.
I didn't write the program, but I'll be keeping my eye on it.
I've asked MaryEllen Tribby (ETR's Publisher) and Patrick Coffey
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Keep
reading ETR for more info on this special program. In the meantime,
there's plenty of good information to help you accelerate the
profitability of the Internet business you've already started.
You might want to start out with the DVD library of ETR's recent Info-Marketing
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"I
am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating.
So I had to take full responsibility for it."
-
Kirstie Alley
How
Not to Become Part of the Obesity Epidemic
By
Loren Cordain, Ph.D.
Unless
you've been camping out in the Gobi Desert for the past decade,
you probably know that Americans are the fattest group of people
on the planet. And we're getting even fatter. The agencies
with the responsibility to carefully track these numbers are
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center
for Health Statistics.
According
to their statistics, 66 percent of all adults in the U.S. over
age 20 are overweight. Of these, 32 percent are obese. Compare
that to 30 years ago when only 47 percent of adults were overweight,
and only 15 percent of those were obese. We are clearly in
the midst of an obesity epidemic.
So,
how did we get ourselves into this mess ... and is there any
way out?
Two
Glaring Omissions
Perhaps
the most blatant bit of failed advice for healthy eating is
that offered by the USDA Food Pyramid, now known as "My
Pyramid." The original Food Pyramid, which was offered
up to a trusting American public in 1992, told us we should
eat less than 30 percent of our total calories as fat. Because
no recommendations were made for protein (then about 15 percent
of total calories), that left carbohydrates to make up 55 percent
or more of what the USDA considered an optimal diet.
Since
the original Food Pyramid guidelines were implemented, the
numbers of overweight and obese Americans have risen from 55.9
percent of the population to the current 66.2 percent. And
all while they dutifully followed the government's high-carbohydrate,
low-protein dietary recommendations. In fact, carbohydrate
intake has actually increased, particularly the consumption
of high-glycemic-index carbohydrates in the form of refined
grains and sugars.
In
both the original Food Pyramid and the current "My Pyramid," absolutely
zero mention is made of the glycemic index of foods. This gives
the message that dietary fat caused us to be fat, and that
replacing fat with carbohydrate could prevent obesity and promote
good health. Unfortunately, this message has now been shown
in hundreds of peer review scientific journal articles to be
simplistic, incomplete, and even erroneous.
The
Glycemic Index
As
you know from reading Dr. Sears' past articles in ETR, the
glycemic index, originally developed in 1981, is a relative
comparison of the blood sugar (glucose) raising potential of
various foods. In 1997, the concept of glycemic load was introduced
to assess a food's blood glucose raising potential based upon
both the quality and quantity of dietary carbohydrate in a
serving.
Refined
grain and sugar products nearly always maintain much higher
glycemic loads than unprocessed fruits and vegetables.
For
people interested in losing weight, the importance of the glycemic
index and load is that the blood sugar response is closely
related to the insulin response. An exception to this general
rule is pasteurized, homogenized dairy products, which exhibit
low glycemic indices and loads, but paradoxically elicit high
insulin responses similar to white bread. So when you eat a
bowl of cereal for breakfast, not only does the cereal perilously
raise your blood sugar and insulin levels, but the milk you
put on the cereal raises your blood insulin level even further.
Hundreds
of scientific studies completed over the past decade show that
high-glycemic-index carbohydrates cause hormonal and blood
chemistry changes that increase the appetite and promote weight
gain. That's why you need to stick to low-glycemic foods if
you want to lose weight.
You
might think the nutritionists who designed the revamped "My
Pyramid" would be all over these exciting new developments.
Not a chance. Highly glycemic foods are ubiquitous in the Western
diet, and now comprise 47.7 percent of the per capita energy
intake in the U.S. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of us are
now overweight or obese?
Protein
- Another Missing Link for Weight Loss
Governmental
regulatory and advisory institutions are known to move slowly.
But when it comes to dietary recommendations to prevent weight
gain and obesity, they have not moved at all since 1992. Except
for a superficial stab at including exercise as part of the
new "My Pyramid," major dietary recommendations
remained virtually unchanged between 1992 and 2005.
The
current "My Pyramid" recommendations for the three
macronutrients are as follows:
- fat:
20-35 percent of total energy intake
- protein:
18 percent of energy intake
- carbohydrate:
55 percent of energy intake
The
actual intake of these macronutrients is:
- fat:
32.8 percent of total energy intake
- protein:
15.4 percent of energy intake
- carbohydrate:
51.8 percent of energy intake
As
was the case with the glycemic index, there is absolutely no
mention of the benefit of higher-protein diets in promoting
weight loss in the current "My Pyramid," despite
hundreds of well-controlled scientific experiments verifying
this phenomenon. The decades-old perception is that to reduce
body fat, you must reduce dietary fat, replacing the fat calories
with carbohydrate calories. The problem with this approach
is that people using it experience constant hunger, and any
weight loss is typically modest and hardly ever stays off for
the long haul.
But
contrary to this old belief system, you can reduce your body
fat by limiting carbohydrate and increasing your consumption
of protein.
Believe
it or not, the first well-controlled scientific study that
traded out dietary fat, not with carbohydrate but with protein,
did not take place until 1999. Scientists at the University
of Copenhagen put 65 overweight and obese men and women on
one of two diets:
1. a
reduced-calorie, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, or
2. a
reduced-calorie, high-carbohydrate, low-protein diet
After
six months on the low-carb, high-protein diet, subjects lost
almost 20 pounds, whereas subjects on the high-carb, low-protein
diet lost only 11 pounds. And these results weren't a fluke.
This type of experiment has been repeated and confirmed dozens
of times in the past seven years.
A
growing consensus in the scientific community is that high-protein
diets (where protein makes up 25 to 35 percent of total energy)
are more effective at promoting weight loss than calorie-reduced
low-carbohydrate diets because of their superiority in reducing
hunger. Protein has a two to three times greater satiety value
than either fat or carbohydrate, so people spontaneously eat
less when they consume more protein. Of carbohydrates, fat,
and protein, protein causes the greatest release of a gut hormone
(PYY) that reduces hunger while simultaneously improving central
nervous system sensitivity to leptin, another hormone that
controls appetite and body weight regulation.
The
scientific jury is in. High-protein diets are the way to go.
So if you want to effectively lose weight, keep it off, and
hold your hunger at bay, IGNORE the USDA's "My Pyramid" and
stick to high-protein and low-glycemic foods. Your body will
thank you for it.
[Ed.
Note: During the past two decades, Dr. Loren Cordain has researched
the effects of diet on human health, specifically examining
links between modern diets and disease. He is the author of The
Dietary Cure for Acne, and publisher
of the The
Paleo Diet Newsletter.]
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I
love Christmas. I always have and I suspect I always will.
It's funny how the feelings have stayed the same but the reasons
have changed over the years. As a child, I loved waking up
early on Christmas morning and peeking down the stairs to see
if old St. Nick had arrived yet. As a teenager, it was the
anticipation of fresh snow and winter break. And as a young
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few years. Since we live in South Florida and locals tend to
go overboard with decorations, we like to take long walks around
the neighborhood and vote on which houses have the best ones.
We also leave milk and homemade cookies out for Santa on Christmas
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We
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