Newsletter Version 34

In Diabetes Care, studies showed that coffee consumption reduces the risk for Type 2 Diabetes by 60% compared with those who do not drink coffee, according to the results of a large prospective study.

"Several recently published cohort studies suggest a significant reduced risk of Type 2 Diabetes in coffee drinkers," writes Besa Smith, MPH, from the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, and colleagues.

"The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between coffee intake and incident diabetes based on an oral glucose tolerance test and examine coffee habits in those with impaired glucose separately from those with normal glucose at baseline."

The investigators followed up 910 adults aged 50 years or older without diabetes at baseline. Average follow-up was 8 years after assessment of coffee intake. Logistic regression models were adjusted for sex, age, physical activity, body mass index, smoking, alcohol, hypertension, and baseline fasting plasma glucose.

Compared with those who never drank coffee, past and current coffee drinkers had a lower risk for incident diabetes (odds ratio [OR], 0.38; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.17-0.87; and OR, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.19-0.68, respectively). The 317 participants who had impaired glucose at baseline and who were past or current coffee drinkers also had reduced risk for incident diabetes (OR, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.11-0.87; and OR, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.16-0.83, respectively).

My observation has been that people with Type 2 Diabetes project either an unusually high degree of happiness or an abnormal degree of bitterness. So could there also be a metaphysical explanation for this condition? I would be glad to receive your input and report the feedback.

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet

If you want to know how to write emotionally-charged copy that make servers crash, products disappear from shelves and gets your cash register going KA-CHING, KA-CHING, KA-CHING; but you think it's too hard, then think again.

To celebrate the launch of his Last Ever Copywriting and Marketing Master Class Home Study Course, Wizard of Words, my friend Pete Godfrey has created the Ultimate Copy Cheat Sheet. Best of all, you can get this report without obligation.

Click here and see the two new bonuses that Pete has created for you.

They make writing copy easy; just follow the templates and you're in business.

Your Access to the Gurus

Have you joined iLearningGlobal yet?

It's a brilliant business and personal development site started by Brian Tracy.

I'm now a member of the teaching Faculty. Other faculty members are Mark Victor Hansen ("Chicken Soup" series of books, John Gray, Brian Tracy, T. Harv Eker ("The Millionaire Mind" and "Zero to Millionaire in 2 1/2 Years"), Chet Holmes, Stephen Covey ("7 Habits"), Bill Bartmann ("The Billionaire Business Coach") and a multitude of others.

It's also a great vehicle for cash follow. Referring only five other people will allow you to have a free subscription to these resources. You invest US$100 per month and you will receive US$20 per month for everyone you refer.

This information would normally cost you thousands of dollars. A couple of years ago, I invested $5,000.00 in Chet Holmes' package alone.

The site is www.ilearningglobal.biz/ronlee

Always a Pleasure

I recently had the pleasure of catching up with an old acquaintance, Mark Victor Hansen (the other guy in the photo), of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, and long-time friend, Janine Shepherd (on the right), who wrote the book and was the subject of the film, Never Tell Me Never.

Dakota Tribal Wisdom

Dakota Tribal Wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

In business, it seems that we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

1.   Buy a stronger whip.
2.   Change riders.
3.   Say things like "This is the way we always have ridden
      this horse
4.   Appoint a committee to study the horse.
5.   Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead
      horses.
6.   Increase the standards to ride dead horses.
7.   Appoint a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
8.   Create a training session to increase our riding ability.
9.   Compare the state of dead horses in today's
      environment.
10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is
      not dead."
11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harness several dead horses together for increased
      speed.
13. Declare that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Provide additional funding to increase the horse's
    peformance.
15. Do a study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
20. Say this horse was procured with a cost as an
      independent variable.
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

How many companies and corporations are using some of these strategies to cope with the current situation?

About Cigarette Butts

I was chatting with a business associate who markets a product called "Butt Out", a portable device that the more considerate smokers use to dispose of their cigarette butts. He imparted some interesting information about cigarette butts in relation to the massive pollution that they cause.

"Steve?", I asked, "why don't they make cigarette butts out of a bio-degradable substance?"

"What is the purpose of the cigarette filter?"

"I don't know."

"It's to trap the harsher poisons before they get into the body of the smoker, so if the filter was biodegradable, all it means is that the poisons will get into the ecological system more quickly."

My answer to the problem would be to ban cigarette filters.

Sure this would have a negative result in the short term, but the long-term solution would be provided by Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Is Something Blocking You?

To add value to clients, I will be offering personal consultations to you. They will be one hour by telephone every week at times convenient to you, and arragned a month in advance. You can cancel at any time.

Because of time considerations, I will only be offering this to five clients at a time. If you feel that I can be of help to you on your path, let's talk to find out if this format would be beneficial to you. Please feel free to send us an email with "Personal Consultation" in the subject line and your contact details in the message.

Email here.

I will then phone you regarding your application.

The Final Word...Eastern/Western Quotes

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
- Horace

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
- Chinese Proverb

"The Corporate Ninja helps you to empower yourself to become what you need to become so you can do what you're meant to do."

Stay focused!

Ron Lee, CSP
The Corporate Ninja Pty Ltd
email: ron@corporate-ninja.com
Phone: 612 (0) 411 47 53 78
web: http://www.corporate-ninja.com