My Six Figure Lifestyle was Chuck Marshal’s up-front profits and residual income program through postcards. It has since evolved into The Secret Formula Teleseminar, a newer $1,497 system that calls itself an alternative for the 95% of people who feel lied to, dissatisfied, confused and angry by the “biz opps” industry.

The Approach

The Secret Formula Seminar (formerly My Six Figure Lifestyle) has been developed by Rob Stinson, a one-time machinist who candidly uses his regular-guy persona to share how his “Secret Formula” now has up to 150,000 distributors and results of over $250 million worth of products sold.

The Difference

Stinson states that what differentiates his teleseminar and software from the rest is that they’re designed to attract what he calls Business-Opportunity-Buyer (BOB) prospects. These prospects appear to consist of owners and managers of existing businesses looking to build up sophisticated streams of multiple income channels, instead of friends, relatives or co-workers who tend to drop out of these programs.

The Promise

Per his website, Stinson promises up to a five-figure income within the first few months, no time wasted with scheduling, presentations, selling, pitching or closings, and less than two hours spent daily on the business when owners work the systems properly.

Stinson’s new My Six Figure Lifestyle program appears to include:

– 700 to 1,500 qualified, worthwhile leads

– Lead generation and prospecting software and branded marketing system

– Postcard lead-generating manual for generating leads used with My Six Figure Lifestyle

– Additional software incentives

My Six Figure Lifestyle / The Secret Formula Seminar In Review

Stinson appears to believe that by being upfront about frustrations and potential scams prospective customers have experienced, The Secret Formula Seminar may have the ability to attract those that have since rejected online business opportunities.

The newly revised “My Six Figure Lifestyle” program, now known as The Secret Formula Seminar, is reported to cost $1,497 to join. The program seems to work on a teleseminar type system and is said to include a handful of different items and features. Some of them include pre-qualified leads, proven marketing software and systems and manuals and incentives.

As with any and all online based business endeavors; it is highly recommend that one does their own research before investing actual monies into a program. The Internet is a very large and uncontrolled atmosphere that requires caution and in-depth research; especially when being asked for monies in return for a service, membership or product. That’s not to say that real and lucrative opportunities don’t exist out there; one just needs to exercise caution when looking for that perfect one to ensure it is a legitimate opportunity and delivers on what it says for how much it says.

Hypertension is a chronic (long term) medical condition which is characterized by a persistent increase in the blood pressure in our arteries. This is why it is also called High Blood Pressure (HBP). We may have come across it in many literatures being referred to as a silent killer! Yes. It sure is one. Nobody wants to reach the end of the time of life, at least not at an age when much work is still left undone, words left unsaid, and special people left unloved. This is where it gets a little dicey. More than 50% of those with hypertension do not even know that they have it! More like an insecure king wining and dining with a traitor and a lot of times many more traitors as we shall come to realize in prospect.

Here are some epidemiological facts to serve as an eye opener for us to understand what is really at stake here

Hypertension is generally of two types. A primary type and of course a secondary type. The primary type is caused by non-specific factors involving one’s lifestyle or genetic predisposition. These factors include but are not limited to smoking, obesity, high salt intake, sedentary lifestyle, depression and it accounts for over 95% of the total hypertensive individuals. The remaining 5% or thereabout have the secondary type of hypertension which is due to or secondary to known pre-existing causes such as chronic kidney disease, hormonal abnormalities, use of birth control pills, pregnancy, coarctation of the largest artery in the body, the aorta and stenosis of one or both renal arteries.

Fortunately, hypertension is one of those medical conditions which are readily preventable and then proper treatments, preventive techniques and management strategies are well utilized. This means there is virtually one way to know your Hypertensive status. This is in essence but in fact that it is by getting your blood pressure checked frequently. Hypertension if left unchecked, could cause any of the following:

1. Coronary artery disorder; a diseased of the blood vessels that supplies the heart itself with nutrients and blood

2. Heart failure

3. Stroke

4. Blindness

5. Chronic Kidney Disease

6. Peripheral Vascular Disease

7. Multiorgan Failure

8. Death

Why must I examine my lifestyle?

I would start with those who love salt so much that we even salt our soft drinks, drinking water and bathing water. I would have to bring our minds back to the Ebola virus outbreak in Nigeria some years ago where different sacrilegious ideas came up from nowhere advising people to chew kolanut with salt water and to have their bath with salt water. I hope we know that many people supposedly died of this act than from the disease outbreak itself.

The normal and most striking attribute of salt in the body system is to pull along with it as much water as it can. Hence, engorging the blood vessels and making them overloaded with fluid. The heart in response to this starts to overwork itself so as to compensate for the unnecessary increase in volume it has to pump per cycle. Before you know what is happening, the heart begins to fail until it eventually gives way to stress.

Next is smoking. This one is very bad and its medical significance goes beyond hypertension. It is the single most important factor for developing coronary artery disease. Smoking grossly increases the chance of getting down with hypertension in the long run. Its close relative, Alcohol is also a major stakeholder in the world of lifestyle diseases. Hypertension gotten via one of these is not good let alone combining both alcohol and smoking. I can imagine the great wall of Jericho falling flat once more.

Worthy of mention also is a very common one of which virtually everyone is a culprit. This is exercise. The standard approach about this is that one should have at least 30 minutes of exercise each day for at least 3 days in a week. This is the minimum you are permitted to go. Exercise simply helps your heart to improve in its function and enable it to cope with increased workload barring any case, you might have gotten engaged with much salt or other substance that overloads your blood volume. Also, your heartbeat is increased and blood flows faster. These and many more are the wonderful effects of exercise on your body.

There is a serious relationship between hypertension and obesity. Obese individuals usually have impaired carbohydrate, protein and lipid metabolisms. As such, they usually have a strong tendency to have Diabetes Mellitus and under-utilized high level of glucose in the blood is just as harmful as salt in the blood. Bad lipids are often times deposited on the walls of their arteries thereby reducing their diameters and restricting the flow of blood in it. This is one of the causes of hypertension in the obese; increased peripheral resistance of the blood vessels.

Lastly, on this episode of your Health column, it would suffice to say that what we see is what you eat. Much need not be said about this. Eat well, eat smart and eat right!

Lifestyle Choices: Learn to Overcome Emotional Overeating

Overcoming emotional overeating can seem overwhelming, and setbacks can be expected. But the good news is, there are lifestyle choices that you can make to help overcome this problem.

The key word is choice – you can choose to follow a healthy lifestyle. Sometimes it helps to break things down into small, specific steps you can take (just trying to lead a “healthier lifestyle” is a bit vague!). Following are some of these specifics. And remember, setbacks and relapses are not unusual. Don’t beat yourself up; just start fresh tomorrow.

It is never too late to start afresh and start feeding your body with the nutrients it needs to sustain itself and function better as a whole.

Under-nourished people usually do not have the time or knowledge to ingest proper food and are thus losing out on a healthy lifestyle and risk putting their lives in jeopardy.

Exercise

Experts are in general agreement that regular exercise three to five days a week is most beneficial. This exercise should consist of at least 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise (such as vigorous walking, jogging, biking, etc.) followed by some light toning or weight training. Committing to this regimen full-force is not necessarily the best way to go; if you can only exercise once or twice a week, that’s still better than nothing and will hopefully pave the way for more in the future.

Exercise is said to relieve emotional overeating in several ways. For one, exercise produces endorphins which are the body’s natural “feel good” hormones. For another, exercise prevents boredom and mindless eating, which is what you might be doing if you weren’t exercising! And finally, exercise will likely boost your self-image, helping to break the cycle of low self-esteem and poor self-image that “feeds” emotional overeating disorder.

Nature

Never underestimate the healing power of nature! For those with emotional overeating disorder, choosing to spend more time out in nature can be particularly beneficial. After all, in the natural realm there are no media messages to mess with your self-image, and being in nature connects you to your origins and the origins of food.

Some experts theorize that detachment from food and its natural source plays a role in emotional overeating disorder. Getting involved in nature and exploring and appreciating it can go a long way toward reconnecting with our biologically normal view of food. Maybe you can kill two birds with one stone and do your regular exercise outdoors!