Issue #23 - 3 Money Making Secrets Every Monday 3/3/2003
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Money Making Secret #1 - Give Up This One Thing ... Shed Pounds AND Save a Lot of Money
It's actually pretty simple: Give up the soda pop. Lose weight.
The healthiest thing you could do for yourself is to trade in that can of soda for a bottle of water. People who drink regular soda consume about 10 teaspoons of sugar and 150 calories per 12-ounce can.
(Joe's comments: I swore that when soda pop reached $1.00 a glass or bottle, that I'd quit. Last week I paid $1.75 for a glass of Pepsi...
I still hadn't quit ...
It took this article to make me QUIT.)
Here's the kicker: When we consume empty and excessive calories in drinks, we don't cut back on food to make up for it, Purdue News reports of research from Purdue University that was published in the International Journal of Obesity. So we get fat--just from drinking soda.
Study leaders D.P. DiMeglio and Richard D. Mattes put 15 healthy male and female volunteers on either a "soda pop diet" or a "jelly bean diet." Each person consumed an extra 450 calories of either soda or jelly beans every day for a month. And then they switched "diets." Those who had been drinking the soda switched to the jelly beans and vice-versa.
The results: When the participants ate the jelly beans, every single one of them decreased the number of calories they consumed in other foods to compensate for the candy's calories. Their total caloric intake for the day ended up being about the same as it was before the "jelly bean diet." So they didn't gain weight. However, when they drank the extra calories as soda, none of them changed what they ate. So they really did consume 450 extra calories every day--and not surprisingly each gained weight.
In the past 30 years, soda consumption in the United States has almost tripled, according to the National Soft Drink Association. We're also drinking more juice, sports drinks, and "designer" coffee and tea--all of which are packed with calories and none of which elicit that same "full" feeling we get when we eat the same number of calories. "Beverages are not solely to blame, but accumulating evidence indicates that caloric drinks are contributing to excess calorie consumption in this country, and thus a national trend toward being overweight," Mattes told Purdue News.
Here's the startling fact you may never have considered: If you drink soda and you don't eat less food to make up for those extra soda calories, you will gain weight. Calories count.
Plain old water is still the best way to quench your thirst fast. It's easy to digest and very accessible. Besides, it can help quell those hunger pangs so you'll eat less.
--Cathryn Conroy
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Money Making Secret #2 - Cell Phone Safety at gas stations:
This TIP might not make you money, but can sure SAVE you a bundle ...
and maybe a LIFE!
Thanks to Larry Forbes who sent this advice to his daughter Lissa.
These came from Shell and Texaco:
While filling your car with gas ... Don't use your cell phone - Leave it inside the vehicle or turn it off.
The Shell Oil Company recently issued a warning after three incidents in which cell phones ignited fumes during fueling operations.
In the first case, the phone was placed on the car's trunk lid during fueling; it rang and the ensuing fire destroyed the car and the gasoline pump.
In the second, an individual suffered severe burns to the face when fumes ignited when answering a call while refueling the car. And in the third, fumes ignited when the phone, which was in their pocket, rang while they were fueling their car.
NEVER get back into your vehicle while filling it with gas. If you absolutely HAVE to get in your vehicle while the gas is pumping, make sure you get out, close the door TOUCHING THE METAL, before you ever pull the nozzle out. This way the static from your body will be dischargedbefore you ever remove the nozzle.
Fires as a result of "static electricity" at gas pumps:
1) Out of 150 cases, almost all of them were women.
2) Almost all cases involved the person getting back in the vehicle while the nozzle was still pumping gas, when finished and they went back to pull the nozzle out the fire started, as a result of static.
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Money Making Secret #3 - Tax Time Tips
Interesting item from Marc Hoffman
Check this out.....New Google Feature http://www.google.com
Type your telephone number into Google's search bar and click the search button ....
MapQuest returns with a physical location of your phone number. People could use this feature to locate your home address, and receive explicit directions on how to get there from anywhere in the country.
You may be amazed how many places your telephone number shows up.
You may also find other uses for this service.
You can remove your name off this database--
To do this: Type in your full phone number ... using dashes, like this:
555-123-4567. If your number appears in the mapping database, an icon resembling a telephone will appear next to the entry on the results page. Click on this icon and it will take you to a page containing a description of the service, and a link to request your number be removed! Just thought you may be interested!
Thanks Marc for your contribution. What a country! What a Google!
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