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Hello

You've probably been hearing a LOT about my friend Joel Marion's brand
new Xtreme Fat Loss Diet -- the very plan that outlines EVERYTHING you
need to know to lose up to 25 lbs in just 25 short days.

But in
case you missed my email yesterday, you can still grab the full system
at $30 OFF for a little while longer here:

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In this program, Joel shares some of the most
strategic fat loss methods I've ever seen. Just check out this article
for a taste:

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Synergistic Diet & Exercise for RIDICULOUSLY Fast Fat Loss

By Joel Marion, CISSN, NSCA-CPT

Most people treat their diet and exercise programs as two separate entities -- Totally WRONG if you're looking to lose fat at the fastest possible rate.

You see, if you can learn how to use the most effective exercise strategies to "mirror" the goals of your diet each day (while mixing up dietary approaches to yield specific hormonal and metabolic benefits in the most effective manner possible) you can literally take your results from "okay" to OUT OF THIS WORLD.

That's what I call SYNERGY. Diet and exercise working *together* in a very smart, strategic way to yield the fastest fat loss results possible.

Now, my above explanation may have sounded a bit complicated, so I’ll give you a quick example. Let’s take, for instance, the day after a Cheat Day—you know, those days where you get to eat WHATEVER you want on the Xtreme Fat Loss Diet (which just so happen to occur every 5th day).

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[By the way, if you’re not incorporating Cheat Days into your current diet, you’re *way* behind the fast fat loss curve, and NEED to get on board. Long story short, they save your metabolism and actually allow you to lose fat faster week after week by increasing levels of important fat burning hormones within the body. Not to mention, they’re a heck of a lot of fun].

So, the day after a Cheat Day, the overall goals are as follows:

1. Create a large caloric deficit (to burn as many calories as possible and take advantage of the fact that our bodies are now "primed" to burn fat as a result of the Cheat Day)

2. Deplete maxed-out glycogen stores (carbohydrate energy stores within the body) caused by the high carb and fat content of the Cheat Day

3. Exhaust ALL energy systems to satisfy #1 and #2 while burning additional fat calories to boot

To accomplish these three goals, we’ll use a series of dietary and supplemental strategies to do exactly that while using *exercise* strategies that accomplish the SAME goals, for example:

1. Strategic lactic acid based workouts to burn massive calories and glycogen while stimulating the release of important fat burning hormones that further increase lipolysis (fat burning)

2. Strategic energy systems work that contain both anaerobic "carbohydrate-burning" and aerobic "fat-burning" components.

Combining those types of exercise with dietary strategies that accomplish the same goals leads to a ridiculous fat burning effect.

Essentially, when you set up things this way, you’re tackling your goals via both diet AND exercise. That’s like going after your financial goals via landing a job with a kick-butt income coupled with smart investing. One feeds the other for synergistic results.

And you know what? The above is just ONE example. Within the Xtreme Fat Loss Diet we have FIVE different "types" of diet days (all with slightly different goals) and a very specific exercise strategy to use on each that has led to some of the fastest fat loss results we’ve ever recorded to date with our clients.

Make no mistake, working WITH your diet, hand in hand, through exercise that *mirrors* the goals of each diet strategy can literally DOUBLE your results beyond just “working hard” on each day.

The synergy of strategy never ceases to amaze me, and we reveal it all in the Xtreme Fat Loss Diet. In fact, it's the ONLY reason people have consistently lost up to 25 pounds in just 25 days using the full-on 25 day system.

Bottom line, if you want to lose fat FAST, you've got to be SMART in your approach. Enjoy!

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Pretty cool, huh? When you start combining smart, specific strategies like THAT, 25 pounds in 25 days starts to sound a LOT more realistic! And it IS. In fact, those are the REAL results from real users of the program, not some hyped up marketing claim.

You can check out the testimonials and get $30 OFF at Joel's site, but the promo IS getting ready to end so I'd make my way over to the below link now:

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I hope you're ready to lose some serious fat...very, very fast.

Simple Nutrition For Fat Loss System

If you're sick & tired of confusing carb-restriction diet programs
that leave you starving and stuck with stubborn belly fat, then I
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Get ready for Craig Ballantyne's Simple Nutrition System that
guarantees you'll be able to eat a lot of carbs and still lose fat.

Plus, you'll get over 31 blender drink, smoothie, and
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fire.

 

This program is not...

- "low carb"
- confusing or complex
- restrictive (you'll actually be full & satisfied!)

Listen, it's not your fault that you're confused about this whole
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with their special shakes and diet pills and protein bars that they
sell to you.

But Craig Ballantyne doesn't have any supplements to sell you, or
any hidden agenda. Instead, he's dedicated to helping you simplify
your nutrition program so that it is easy (and delicious) to follow
for fat loss.

Heck, he stays at 9-10% fat all year round while eating tons of
carbs and loving every meal he eats - rather than following a diet
plan that is so restrictive it causes binges.

So not only will you get proven fat loss advice (his recommendations
are backed by clinical scientific research) but this program will
also take the stress out of eating.

It's so simple...even his puppy dog uses the plan to get his six
pack abs (and yes, a vet even told Craig that his dog has six pack
abs). Funny, huh?

So get ready to discover...

- The Simple Nutrition Rules for fat loss
- The top 3 food myths that everyone gets wrong in their diet
- The 7-step detox diet plan (that doesn't require zany detox diets)
- Craig's grocery list and meal plan
- 43 blender drink, smoothie, and post-workout recipes

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To your
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Simple Nutrition For Fat Loss

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By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
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If you've been struggling to get flat, sexy abs and burn belly fat
with traditional workouts, then you are going to love these 5 weird
abdominal exercise and diet tips.

Over the last 13 years as a trainer and athlete, I've been studying
every expert and research study I can find about the best way to get
flat abs.

Today, you'll discover 5 weird tips you might not know when it comes
to getting a flat stomach and firm abs.

#1 - The best interval training work-to-rest ratio for losing belly
fat might be 1-to-1.5.

In an Australian study, researchers found that doing intervals for
8 seconds followed by 12 seconds of rest resulted in significantly
more belly fat burning than long slow cardio.

Now I know that 8 seconds on and 12 seconds off sounds a little
annoying (just try doing that on a machine), but the good news is
that these researchers found that going for 24 seconds followed by a
36 second rest works just as well for boosting fat burning hormones.

#2 - Dr. Chris Mohr's #1 weird diet tip is...

I just finished up a fat loss nutrition interview with Dr.
Mohr and he told me that his simple, yet slightly weird #1 diet tip
for fat loss is...

"Get almost all of your carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables."

I really liked that tip because I've been telling people this for
years, and it's part of the Fat Loss Foundation you'll discover in
my Simple Nutrition manual & DVD.

#3 - You need to be able to do a Plank exercise for 2 minutes.

Dr. Stuart McGill, the world's leading expert on low back health,
says in his book that a person with fit abs should be able to do a
plank exercise for 2 minutes straight.

If you can't do the plank for 2 minutes, then you need to lose belly
fat and you need to get an abdominal workout DVD program that works
your abs properly.

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#4 - New research shows that supersets training burns more calories
than traditional straight set resistance training.

And that's exactly what you'll get in every short, burst exercise
workout.

The short, burst superset programs save you time (getting you done
in half the time of a traditional resistance workout) while helping
you burn more fat.

#5 - To see your abs, a man will need to be close to 10% fat and a
woman will need to be at about 16% fat.

Of course, the more muscle you have, the easier it will be too see
your abs, so you'll still be able to see a 4-pack on muscular guys
when they have 12-13% fat.

But the bottom line is that you need to use the Simple Nutrition
plan combined with the short, burst exercise workouts to burn
belly fat to see your sexy abs.

BONUS Tip - A great way to work your abs harder than normal planks
is the Stability Ball Plank.

Research reported in Men's Health magazine reported this exercise to
be 30% harder on your abs than a regular plank.

And last Friday I used an interesting technique with this exercise
that caused my abs to be sore for days. But that's another story for
another weird abdominal exercise article - coming soon!

Remember, for the best flat abdominal exercises and belly fat burning
circuits, you need the TT for Abs Home Exercise DVDs & Simple
Nutrition plan from this website:

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Turbulence Training for Abs Dvd's

Hey There

I just want to thank you for all of your questions about ab training
and for your feedback and emails.

Based on what I've heard from you, what you really want are Workout
DVDs where you and workout with a top fitness expert...

So I have great news for you.

World-famous Men's Health and Women's Health fitness expert Craig
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Here's what you'll get in this amazing 19-DVD set that will be
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1 Simple Nutrition DVD and Manual

1 TT 15-Minute Workout DVD

1 TT Beginner Total Torso Training DVD

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That's a great deal, because I know some fitness companies that
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And yes, it's free shipping no matter where you live in the world.
Our gift to you.

It doesn't matter if you live in Dubai, Sydney, Auckland, Paris,
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Again, we just want to say Thank You for your feedback, your support,
your questions, your blog comments, and your emails.

You are amazing - and I can't wait to hear about your success with
the new TT for Abs DVDs.

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You will do every exercise, every set, and every rep together with
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And trust me, this DVD set is worth it for the Simple Nutrition
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But hurry, this special $100 off DVD-release sale is only available
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And of course, you ALWAYS have Craig's Canadian-Strength 60-day
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So don't wait, let's get started, and soon Craig and his workouts
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You'll even get to hang out with Craig and Bally the Dog in his
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PPS - Bally the Dog co-stars in the Simple Nutrition DVD.

You'll get to see him eat all of Craig's food.

Oh, and there's a goofy blender blooper in that DVD too. Enjoy!

By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

I've just spent another weekend explaining what Turbulence Training
is to new potential clients. By the end of the day I had my speech
memorized, and decided to turn it into a new article for you called,
"The 5 Laws of New School Fat Loss".

Here goes...

Turbulence Training is a structured routine that I came up with
that allows you to get the most results in the least amount of
time, no matter what your goals.

This revolutionary new workout system evolved from both scientific
principles as well as personal experience.

And it originally came to me in a dream in University. (Just kidding.)

The truth is that during my graduate years at University, I was
searching for an efficient and effective way to stay lean while I
was stuck in the lab for up to 16 hours a day doing my thesis.

Obviously, I didn't have a lot of time to exercise...

So I based a new program on what I had read in hundreds of fat loss
research studies, as well as my countless past workouts that I had
recorded faithfully over the years.

And from that research and from my own personal workouts and results,
Turbulence Training was invented and have given rise to the 5 Laws
of New School Fat Loss.

Law #1) Use intense resistance training

NOTE: This doesn't just mean lifting heavy weights...it could also
mean doing difficult bodyweight exercises or even explosive exercises
(like I use in the TT circuits).

Here's why...

Intense resistance training stimulates what is called muscle protein
turnover. This is important for two reasons:

a) It causes your body to burn extra calories and belly fat when you
are not training (so while you recover, etc.).

b) It stimulates muscle re-modeling.

That means it will help you maintain your muscle (and sculpt your
body) even while you are eating fewer calories and burning fat.

However, if you rely only on light weight & high reps, you won't
keep that muscle and your metabolism will decrease.

Law #2) Switch from slow cardio to interval training.

Research shows that interval training is more effective for burning
belly fat than regular cardio - even when you don't change your diet!

Interval training is what separates people with 20% fat from those
men and women with the lean, athletic, sexy abs body type.

Interval training also builds better sport conditioning and
"everyday fitness" that is more practical in life.

For example, how often do you ever need to run 5 miles? Pretty much
never, right?

But how often do you need to climb a few flights of stairs or chase
one of your kids? Those are every day demands...and will be best
improved by interval training, not 30 minutes on the elliptical machine.

Law #3) Use non-competing supersets to do more work in less time.

By using the Turbulence Training system of non-competing supersets,
where you do 2 unrelated exercises back to back, you'll avoid
muscle fatigue and get more work done in less time.

Therefore, you'll burn more calories compared to traditional workouts.

This is one of the major reasons Turbulence Training is so efficient
and effective.

Law #4) Use Total Body Workouts

Skip the classic steroid-bodybuilder method of doing one body part
per day. That will only give you overuse injuries and a big body set
up for more injuries & chronic pain in the future.

Not what you want, right?

Of course not. So switch to three total-body workouts per week,
using a variety of exercises, and when possible, using a variety of
training methods - from dumbbells to kettlebells to bodyweight
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Rule #5) Change Your Workout Every 4 Weeks

The Turbulence Training workouts are changed every 4 weeks, and
sometimes every 3 weeks for advanced results.

Why?

To avoid the dreaded fat loss plateau. If you've been doing the same
workout over and over for more than 4 weeks, your results will slow
down and eventually come to a complete stop.

You MUST change your program...and that's why I create not just one,
but TWO new Turbulence Training workouts every month for TT Members,
so that they will always have a new program to keep their fat loss
results moving along.

In fact, the Turbulence Training System is simple to adapt and easy
to modify for the creation of an endless number of workouts - a
great thing to know if you are a personal trainer or simply someone
that loves the body transformation results of a fast workout.

Whew!

Now a lot of this info was new - and even shocking - to the people I
spoke too yesterday. They were still a little skeptical. And that's
fine, it's totally natural.

So I suggested they try out the program for a few weeks, and you can
do that too with the 21-day trial here:

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For less than 5 bucks (that's less than the price of an apple, a
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of Fat Loss and the Turbulence Training program for 3 weeks.

I promise you'll love the program and the fast fat loss results you
are getting. And if for any reason you don't, just let me know and
you won't pay a penny more.

Say goodbye to the old-school workouts and fat loss plateaus and use
these 5 laws of new school fat loss to finally get results.

Now you know what really works,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

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My friend and fitness author Jon Benson sent me this email. I have his
permission to share it with you, despite the really personal details... turns
out that he had a near-fatal event in the gym and wanted to share the story with
his readers. I was blown away by what he did in the name of "preventative
medicine"... so read this. It may just save your life.

Raze

BodybuildingArticles.com

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My
Medical Emergency; This Happened Today
by Jon Benson  

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Sometimes
you have to nearly lose it all to realize what you truly have.

I can
honestly say that I have come close to death several times in my life. I've had
my share of accidents, medical emergencies, and a near-fatal accident while
driving.

But there was something about just laying on the gym floor
today with two doctors hovering over me that gave me serious pause.

Time
for some major reflection.

Now, before you get too alarmed (for those who
know me, or just think I'm a pretty good guy... ; )... fear not. I did not have
a stroke or anything like that, thank goodness.

What I did have was a
major drop in blood pressure... so much that I came dangerously close to
entering the "coma" zone.

I kid you not.

And trust me... I felt
like I was slipping fast.

My girlfriend was there with me. I had her
kneel down and, just like Spock in an old episode of "Star Trek", I had her slap
me several times in the face. Hard!

"If my eyes roll back, hit me
harder."

The doctor probably thought I was nuts... but I know that's one
way to elevate my blood pressure.

So, what happened? Am I falling apart
at the relatively young age of 46? Is my dietary and exercise advise dangerous
after all?

No... and here's why:

I actually VOLUNTEERED for
this.

Before you think I've totally lost my marbles, hear me out. If you
listen to the rest of the story, you'll see that not only has my advice been of
great value when it comes to exercise and dietary strategy... it actually ended
up saving my butt!

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Really
Bad Genetics Meets
The Cath Lab:  A Wild
Encounter
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First, the
"volunteered for this" bit needs explaining... right? Right.

If you read
my first book, published in 2004, called "Fit Over 40" (read more at
http://www.fitover40.com/) then you may recall that I went into
great detail about my poor genetics and horrible health in my early and mid-30s.

Since then, and knowing exactly how bad my genetics are for such things
as high blood pressure (oh, the irony!), heart disease, and stroke, I adopted
the dietary plan and exercise routine I use to  this very day. The very ones I
cover in "The Every Other Day Dietplan" and "7 Minute Body."

(If you
don't have these books and want them, you can get both here... Every Other Day Diet -- oh, and I have a short video
up on this page if you have not seen on a 1-minute fatloss tip... )

Now,
let's get real folks:  Dietary power and exercise MAY not be enough to overcome
really bad genetics when it comes to certain diseases. And being ever curious, I
wanted to know exactly how my own health was doing on my plan. So a month or so
ago I paid a visit to the hospital to have some tests ran. All my yearly
check-ups were okay, but I wanted a closer look at my heart... and I mean
"literally".

I wanted to be "cathed"... this is where they insert a
camera into your heart, going up the femoral artery in your right leg, and take
a look around. If they find anything dangerous, like a clogged artery, they can
fix it right then and there with a stent. A stent is a metal device that presses
plaque against the artery wall and opens up a clogged artery.

Of course
I hoped I would not find such a thing... and certainly nothing worse. I mean,
can you imagine?  "Mr. Benson, you need a quadruple bypass!"

I could
not, that's for sure... and I was fortunate because, as you probably guessed, I
didn't hear those words from my doc.

It's hard to get a cath done as it's
a risky procedure. I can't even tell you how I managed to pull it off ... that's
how touchy the hospitals are when it comes to this kind of stuff. Afterwards, I
volunteered to do 5-10 workouts at their heart care facility so I could hook
myself up to some nifty gadgets. I get to watch my EKG (how my heart is
functioning during cardio and weights... and it works like a charm!) and really
nice doctor folks come by to check my blood pressure (which is always low)
during the workout.

Yep... the doc and I wanted to put my workout plan
to the test, I guess you could say. I wanted to do it just to make sure I was
100% healthy during my training. You never really "know" I suppose, so I was up
for it. And my doctor wanted me to do it just in case what he found during the
cath was serious. There's a lot to this process, and there's some details I
don't wish to cover for privacy sake... but anyway, back to my
story.

It's long, but it may save your life too. :
)

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The Good News... The Bad
News...
And The Stupid Jon
News!
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Turns to find out I
made a few mistakes... some pretty costly mistakes... but (get this) none of
them had to do with my dietary or exercise plan.

During the cath, here's
what the doc said:

"Jon, your heart's two primary arteries look good...
hardly any obstruction at all. And they are nice and thick from exercise." For a
guy who has had a cholesterol level of over 400 before, and a history of heart
disease in the family, this was really good news.

"However, your genetics
are catching up to you in one of your arteries.... and you need to be more
aggressive with your drug treatment to make sure we don't have to go back in
here one day!"

Er... what??

Yep... turns out that the only thing
that saved me from a BYPASS (that's right) was what the doctor called "an
enormous amount of peripheral arteries formed from years and years of weight
training and exercise."

Wow.

"Look right here Jon..."  (He showed
me my beating heart on camera... freaky...) "See all these arteries? Well the
average person doesn't have them. You do. Congratulations... you earned them."

Wow again. And remember, I only workout with weights 3-4 times per week
and my workouts are rarely over 21 minutes (time under the weight.)

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What I Did Right... And
What
I Did Wrong... And Why This
Could Save Your
Life
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So, listen up folks as
I'm about to tell you everything I did wrong for the past several years... how
it ALMOST cost me dearly (a bypass?... no thanks!)... how I managed to prevent
it... and how I ended up on the gym floor today with doctors all around
me.

It's all related. And again, sorry for the novel-like email, but
(again) this may save your life.

First, here's what my excellent
cardiologist said I did RIGHT:

1. Exercise:  "Jon, your exercise plan, to
put it bluntly, saved you from a great deal of pain... in fact it probably saved
your life as these blockages would have been far worse without it." With it, I
had only one artery with enough blockage to warrant the drug therapy that I
should have been on for years... more on that in a second...

2. Dietary
plan:  "Jon, your diet is perfect for this condition... low in carbs, high in
protein and healthy fats is all anyone can do in order to help fight this
genetic killer."  Yep... again... prevention in the form of dietplan saved my
butt. Or rather my heart. : )  But it wasn't enough... at least for one artery.
However, it WAS enough to prevent them from having to do surgery on
me.

"Jon, the take-away here is simple:  Exercise and dietary plans, even
the very best, may not be enough for super high-risk people... but in your case
your lifestyle saved your life. And it certainly prevented you from having to
have any serious surgery to correct a truly broken heart."

Talk about
EXCITING news... yep... you CAN beat this killer, even when you have MY horrible
family genetics. However, like me, you may need some help... more on that in a
second.

3. Blood pressure:  "Jon, your blood pressure is excellent. Your
lifestyle and very low-dose diuretic has kept your formerly sky-high blood
pressure (it was 200/110 when I was 32!) to an excellent 118/78."  But you know
doctors... even "excellent" isn't enough and they recommended a stronger BP med
for "my intense weight training."

So, I listened... and ended up on the
floor today. You see, many doctors do not realize the POWER of weight training
compared to cardio. My blood pressure never budges during cardio, but less than
3 minutes into a resistance (weight-training) session it goes down like the
stock market after a bad news day.

I mean SHOOTS down. I tried to explain
this by letting the doctor see the veins in my legs... "Doc, my veins are MUCH
larger than the average person's... trust me, my pressure is fine."  "Jon, just
try it for a few weeks."

Bad mistake.... like I said, I ended up on the
gym floor today with a blood pressure of 72/45. If I hit 40, I'm literally in a
coma. 5 points away... very scary. Needless to say the doc took me OFF these
meds and let me do it my way:  With my Every Other Day Dietplan (low-carb most
of the days) and good-old exercise.

If you have high blood pressure, I
URGE you to take up weight training or resistance (body-weight or band)
training. Of course, ask your doc about it first... but I've seen first hand for
three weeks now how powerful my weight training sessions are compared to intense
cardio sessions.

They are night and day folks... weights RULE. Cardio is
good, but weights are best. Both of course would be the best course for ultimate
health, but most people do far too much cardio and far too little resistance
training.

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Oops...
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Now,
here's what I did WRONG:

1. Cigars:  "Jon, you cannot afford to smoke
cigars... ever. They have lowered your protective HDL to a dangerous level. Stop
NOW!" That's all it took folks. Yes, I smoked cigars for many years, but
fortunately I was never an addict. I quit that very day.

Guess what? 10
days later my HDL DOUBLED (no kidding)... and without drugs. Of course that's
not all I did...

2. Fat too LOW:  "Jon, you've lowered your dietary fat
too low... this affects your HDL."  Yep, I normally eat about 35% dietary fat...
and I cut it down to 20% to help me get ready for a photoshoot. Now that I put
it back to where it belongs, I still have my abs (yep!) and my HDL is raising as
I type.

3. Stress:  "Jon, you are simply working too hard not to do some
form of meditation or de-stressing."  So I dove back into my meditation CDs.
(I'll tell you more about Holosync and my hypnosis CDs in my next email... very
cool stuff.)

4. Advil:  "Jon, you take 4 Advil before you train? You're
nuts! That stuff can cause sticky plaque formations!!"  You know, I may never
even had an issue if I had known this (and not smoked cigars) a few years ago.
Live and learn!

5. And finally... oh, this hurt to hear... no drugs! 
"Jon, if you want to make sure you beat this thing, you simply must take some
meds to help."  Okay, I resisted any form of statin drug for the past 15 years
(drugs to lower cholesterol.) I opted to try natural stuff... but unfortunately
for me I was never too consistent. And I paid the price.

So the doc and
I came to a compromise:  I would take the LOWEST dose of statin along with 400
mg of CoQ10 (scary, but this was my idea, not his, and statins deplete this
heart-friendly enzyme!) But I wanted a natural solution to the real issue: 
small particle LDL. You see, I've known for years that I carry the gene that
makes LDL "small". LDL is not dangerous unless it is small... that's why "total
cholesterol" means nothing to me. I've seen folks have heart attacks with a
cholesterol level of 130. No joke. But their LDL was super-small... like
mine.

And guess what?  Dietplans cannot really help this. Well, they can
HURT it (too many carbs, too many toxic fats, etc.) but they cannot shift the
LDL from small to large.

For that, you need plain old niacin. Just a
simple B vitamin... but in not-so-simple doses. In fact it's considered a drug
at the dose you have to take, and you should NEVER take niacin over 50 mg
without a doctor's supervision as it can be very toxic to the
liver.

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The Conclusion:  The
Power
Is In Your Hands
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In
conclusion, I'm A-Okay... my heart pumps and functions "like that of a strong
20-year-old" (my doctor's quote) thanks to the extra arteries I developed from
my exercise program (how cool!) ... but in order to keep that one artery in
check, I'm taking his advice and taking much better care of myself than I have
been.

Today I learned that this does NOT mean taking blood pressure
meds...thankfully... : ) But I had to make some changes. Some of them were
"stupid" changes... sure, I know cigars are not good for you. I know you need
good fats in your dietplan. I could have used common sense and figured out that
4-8 Advil on workout days was... well, stupid.

But the good news, which
is what I choose to focus on, is this:  In the areas that 95% of people NEVER
change, I didn't have to change much at all.

Dietary plan and
exercise.

Turns to find out that what I was doing works great... and it
did, in fact, save my heart and quite possibly my life.

For more on my
dietplan and exercise routine, go
here:

>>> Every Other Day Diet <<<

Thanks for
reading, and I wish all of you good health!

Yours In Fitness,

J O
N   B E N S O N

P.S.   I got lucky in many ways, but especially so when
it came to my doctors. Both of my doctors are young and savvy enough to be up on
the latest research on nutrition. They know NOT to buy into this "low-fat"
nonsense for heart health. (I'd use a harsher word, but kiddos may be reading...
: ) That only works for about 10-15% of the population. The rest of us need to
lower our CARBS, not our fats... but the way I do it I get to keep my favorite
carbs in my dietplan every week.

The little that I do eat keeps me happy
as a clam, and keeps my heart nice and healthy too. A little bit of bad food
will not hurt most people... but eating it every day can flat-out kill you.

Please... take this seriously. I promise, my dietplan and exercise
routine is a PLEASURE to follow... but if you don't follow it then find one that
IS enjoyable for you to follow... and do it.

Life is too short, you
know?

== END ==