Walnuts - The Great Brain Food

Your brain accounts for 2% of your body weight but burns over 20% of your energy reserves. That means your brain is a big deal...it's working pretty hard. To get the most from your brain you need to feed it often with slow-release, high quality nutrition.

It doesn't get much better for your brain than raw, unsalted walnuts!

The Romans and the Ancient Chinese thought that since walnuts look like the brain, they must be good for the brain. Recent science proves them right!


Here's what you get:

Walnuts develop 3 dozen neuro-transmitters for your brain.
Walnuts are packed with vitamin E
They contain the, all important for your brain, fatty acid omega-3.
Walnuts can improve brain function and memory.
They can even lift your mood.
They improve artery function after a high fat meal.
Walnuts promote heart health....and what's good for your heart is good for your brain!
They can help prevent cognitive decline as you age.
Walnuts can help your brain get a good, natural night's sleep.
Some studies seem to indicate that walnuts even play a role in reducing cancer.

This may be the "clincher":
Eating walnuts lowers the risk of weight gain. This seems counter-intuitive. But a 28 month study in Spain found that people who ate nuts at least twice a week were 31% less likely to gain weight than people who did not. Study authors concluded, "Frequent nut consumption was associated with a reduced risk of weight gain (5 kg or more). These results support the recommendation of nut consumption as an important component of a cardioprotective diet and also allay fears of possible weight gain."

Eating just 4 walnuts a day can help.

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YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

Don't tell me your age; you'd probably lie anyway-but the Hershey Man will know!

YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

This is pretty neat.
DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute ...
Work this out as you read ...
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.


1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1760 ..
If you haven't, add 1759..

6... Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.



You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).


The next two numbers are



YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)


THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2010) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.
Chocolate Calculator.

Teaching kids to be entrepreneurs

I like this video. It reminds us that kids who do not fit into the school system are not misfits - they are simply beyond the scope of public education. The next time you have a parent asking you what to do with their child who just does not have any interest or ability when it comes to school, you will have a lot to tell them - watch this video:click here.

ESL Goldmine

I find this site to be a real treasure chest of resources tips and information. If you scroll to the bottom you will find their list of best ESL sites (EFL in the U.S.):click HERE

What Adults Can Learn From Kids

A very good TED presentation - worth a watch

Being a Genius

William James said, "Genius is the art of non-habitual thinking." He went on to state, "Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are dampened, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources....Stating the thing broadly, the human individual lives far within his limits."

Genius is not about being perfect. We have all been trained to avoid mistakes. The goal in school is to get 100%, no mistakes, get an "A". In business we hire for perfect, manage for perfect, and reward for perfect. It is any wonder most of our work is standardized, doesn't tell a story, and is not worth talking about.

Genius is actually quite a messy business. We have all been told to thing outside the box. But that's not what genius is. Genius is thinking along the edge of the box. That's where the audience is and that's where things get done. That's where you will make an impact and create your story!

I read this great Bob Dylan quote in Seth Godin's new book Linchpin:

"Daltrey, Townsend, McCartney, the Beach Boys, Elton, Billy Joel. They made perfect records, so they have to play them perfectly.....exactly the way people remember them. My records were never perfect. So there is no point in trying to duplicate them. Anyway, I'm no main stream artist.

.....I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through. The side show performers - bluegrass singers, the black cowboy with chaps and a lariat doing rope tricks. Miss Europe, Quasimodo, the Bearded Lady, the half-man half-woman, the deformed and the bent, Atlas the Dwarf, the fire-eaters, the teachers and preachers, the blues singers. I remember like it was yesterday. I got close to some of these people. I learned about dignity from them. Freedom too. Civil rights, human rights. How to stay within yourself. Most others were into the rides like the tilt-a-whirl and the roller-coaster. To me that was the nightmare. All the giddiness. The artificiality of it....."

The interviewer then reminded Dylan, "But you've sold over 300 million records." Dylan's answer gets to the heart of what it means to be a genius: "Yeah I know. It's a mystery to me too."

There is mystery all around you.....look for it...... that will lead you to your genius......

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This site has excellent resources. You get 12 free downloads then have to pay a small yearly fee. Well worth a visit!