What's your Excuse?

If you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right!

This story drives home the fact that Anything is Possible;
the only limitations are those you acknowledge.

Here's to a fuller experience and expression of life...

Dr. V


Strongest Dad in the World

[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans.
Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take
them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick
Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son,
Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's
not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but
also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while
swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on
the handlebars--all in the same day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken
him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled
him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your
son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not
much--except save his life.

This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43
years ago, when Rick was strangled by the
umbilical cord during birth, leaving him
brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.
``He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life,''
Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy,
when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an
institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the
way Rick's eyes followed them around the room.
When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering
department at Tufts University and asked if there
was anything to help the boy communicate. ``No
way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing
going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick
laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his
brain.

Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to
control the cursor by touching a switch with the
side of his head, Rick was finally able to
communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after
a high school classmate was paralyzed in an
accident and the school organized a charity run
for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want to do
that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described
``porker'' who never ran more than a mile at a
time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he
tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,''
Dick says. ``I was sore for two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed,
``when we were running, it felt like I wasn't
disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became
obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as
he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that
he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston
Marathon.

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The
Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they
weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few
years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field
and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into
the race officially: In 1983 they ran another
marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for
Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a
triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't
ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his
110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick
tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four
grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a
buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed
by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy,
don't you think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own?
``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the
awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with a
cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride
together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick
finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd
place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best
time'? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35
minutes off the world record, which, in case you
don't keep track of these things, happens to be
held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a
wheelchair at the time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is
the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too.
Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a
race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was
95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great
shape,'' one doctor told him, ``you probably
would've died 15 years ago.''

So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's
life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home
care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from
the military and living in Holland, Mass., always
find ways to be together. They give speeches
around the country and compete in some
backbreaking race every weekend, including this
Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the
thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can
never buy.

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that
my dad would sit in the chair and I would push him
once.''

Mind Bender or Mind Builder?

Can you be successful without being enthusiastic? Sure. But
it's not easy. Remember Steven Wright? He was a comedian a few
years back, who made a great career out of mumbling and monotone:

'It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it'

'I went into a diner that said 'Breakfast Anytime'. I ordered
French Toast in the Middle Ages.'

'If you're driving at the speed of light, and turn on your
headlights, does anything happen?'

Pondering that riddle may stretch your mind a little. But
if you really want to succeed and reach your goals, you'll need
to spend more time thinking about where you want to go and how
you're going to get there.

Your mind is a natural goal-seeker. You picture what you want,
and then go get it. If you're not getting what you want, it's
because you either aren't picturing it, or don't know what you want
(or maybe both). Your mind needs a goal, a destination.

There are two great 'imagineers' who can help us understand this
process (and could probably answer the fast car riddle, too):
Henry Ford and Albert Einstein.

Ford said: 'Success comes in cans--not 'cannots'. Negative
thinking keeps you stuck, and attracts even more negativity into
your life. 'I can' keeps your mind open to possibility, and
activates your internal success mechanism.

Einstein said: 'You should not pursue goals that are easily
achieved. You must develop an instinct for what you can just
barely achieve though your greatest efforts.' Personal growth
and success take effort and commitment. That's why the 'I can'
attitude is so important. It keeps you moving when you feel like
quitting.

Henry Ford and Albert Einstein changed the world as we know it,
because of their creativity, imagination and 'I can' Mind power.
If you want to change your world, your physical, mental,
spiritual, family, career, financial, or social surroundings,
you've got to activate, strengthen and relaxe your Mind.

An overloaded, stressed-out Mind is stuck in survival mode.
Stress zaps your energy, which doesn't leave much time or desire
for mental work. It squeezes your creative capacity and keeps
you stuck where you are. Or just coasting through life.

To reach your goals and be successful, you must protect and
strengthen your Mind. Feed it plenty of Omega-3 fats (fish oil)
and protect it from external stress (by wearing a Q-Link).

Concentrated Omega-3 Pharmaceutical-grade fish oil feeds your
brain and makes the neurons more responsive. You'll think faster
and clearer.

http://www.drvinceonline.com/fishoil.htm

The Q-Link reduces stress, keeps you relaxed, focused and
calm--the ideal state for creativity, a positive mindset, and
better performance.

http://www.drvinceonline.com/qlink.htm

If Ford and Einstein had've worked together, there's no telling
what great things they could've done.

With fish oil and the Q-Link working together for YOU, anything
is possible.

Live like You Mean it...

Dr. Vince

P.S. the 'Q' in Q-Link stands for 'Quantum', so it's right up
Einstein's alley. Get yours today and make your greatest efforts
even greater.

http://www.drvinceonline.com/qlink.htm

Success Comes in Cans

I took my Senior quote from Henry Ford: 'Success comes in
cans-not 'cannots'.

Too often, we limit ourselves. 'I can't' or 'It won't work'
(especially in committee meetings). But you're not living by
committee you're living your own life (or at least you should
be). Start thinking 'I can' or 'How can I.' and you'll start
seeing and attracting new possibilities for change into your
life.

One of the hardest things for us to change is our physical body
(that's why I put it first on the Wheel of Life). Sometimes it's
just the inertia of our old habits. And the hardest part about
changing your physical habits is figuring out a plan that works,
but most importantly, a plan that works for you.

That's why I was encouraged after the 'Caveman Cuisine'
tele-seminar last week. In the Live Chat after the call,
everyone who joined in said,

'I can do this!'

I was surprised that so many people said 'I can do this'. Many
times when people hear something new, they just say, 'That's
nice' and file it away in their 'Some Day' file.

And Some Day never comes.

But something about this program and presentation inspired the
listeners to act and got them enthusiastic about their health
again. I've created a way around the hardest part of changing
your physical body--'Caveman Cuisine' works, and it'll work for
you. Because it's easy, and it works with your Internal Wisdom
to re-create your ideal body-quickly-from the Inside-Out

So, I'm offering you a chance to get inspired, enthusiastic, and
healthy, too. Pretty soon, I'll be turning the Caveman Cuisine
call and guidebook into a product on my website. But I've got to
fix the letter, make the copies and decide on a price (which is
definitely going up) and a few other technical things.

So, until that's done, I'm leaving the old letter up for another
day or two. So if you hurry, you can still get the Caveman
Cuisine audio, the guidebook (which includes a 30-day quick start
plan, fast-food menus and frozen food menus.see, I told you it
was easy) AND the 30-day email support--all for only $17

http://www.drvinceonline.com/caveman.htm

Even though it's got the wrong dates, etc on it, the page still
works. When you click the link and purchase the Caveman Cuisine
pre-publication pack, within just a few minutes you'll get links
to download the call and the guidebook. Print out the book and
burn the CD-and you're on your way.

You CAN eat the foods you were designed to eat. You CAN get
your energy back. You CAN sleep better, feel better and look better.
And you can eat as much as you want, and still eat your favorite foods.

Remember: if you think you can, or you think you can't-you're
right.

You can do this.

http://www.drvinceonline.com/caveman.htm

Dr. Vince

All You Can Eat

Back in the late '70s, the first attempt at political
correctness came when restaurants started calling buffets
"All-You-Care-to-Eat". But I didn't let that stop me. I
knew it still meant All-I-Could-Eat, so I ate all I could.
And then some.

In college, I'd go to the Pizza Inn buffet on my way to the
allergist, and scarf down several plates of pizza and a
half-gallon of Coke. Then he'd look at my eyes, and look up
my nose, write a bunch of plus signs on my chart and say,
"This is the worst case I've ever seen."

What he probably should've said was, "Your body's in
terrible shape, what are you eating?"

But not too many people recognize the intimate connection
between our food and our health. We all know "You are what
you eat"...yeah, but that's talking about
"you", not "me"...right?

That's the trouble with being an 'omnivore'...meaning that
humans can eat all kinds of food. Since we can eat just
about everything, we have a hard time choosing our food.
And just because you CAN eat something, doesn't necessarily
mean that you SHOULD.

The good news is that by following my Caveman Cuisine
program, you literally can eat all you want to eat. And you
don't have to give up your favorite foods, or non-foods,
either.

And to top it all off, you'll still lose fat and build
muscle. You'll help protect yourself from the so-called
'diseases' of aging...like heart disease, arthritis,
osteoporosis, cancer, Alzheimer's. You'll improve your mood
and your overall health. You'll look better and feel better
than you have in a long while.

You can still join our call tonight. It starts at 8pm
Eastern...so don't be late. If you can't make the call, you
can still get the tape and the manual. Click here to find
out more:

http://www.drvinceonline.com/teleseminar.htm


Your Best Body is waiting...

Dr. Vince

If you want to Catch a Big Fish...

My grandpa Les was a Master Fisherman. He tried to teach
me the Art of the Angler, but I was a poor student. (I
think my brother Lance got all of Grandpa's fishing genes.)

When Lance was about 9 years old, we went fishing at the
nearby "apartment" lake, which had an assortment of small
blue gill and maybe a sunfish or two. Nothing exotic, just
some generic native Georgia fishies.

We'd been using little doughballs (about the size of a
green pea) for bait, but ran out of bread.

"OK, let's go." I had no skill or patience for fishing.
But Lance got this funny look on his face, and said, "Watch
this."

He dangled the bare hook in the water. No doughball. No
worm. Just the hook. He jerked it back and forth so fast
that the fish couldn't tell what it was, and CHOMP...he
pulled that wriggling 4-inches of fury out of the water like
it was a 8-pound trophy bass (just like one his 12-year old
daughter caught a few months ago--I told you he got the
fishing genes).

Later that summer, we were fishing with Grandpa in the
Tennessee River. We got our hooks ready, and he handed me a
doughball the size of an Easter Egg.

"Whoa! What's this for?"

"Well, Vincent, if you want to catch a big fish, you've got
to use a big doughball."

Since then, I've learned that big doughballs don't only
catch big fish, but they make big humans, too. And I don't
mean big as in 'tall'--I mean big as in 'round'.

The secret to better health, better energy, losing weight
and keeping it off--expressing your ideal body--is
understanding the difference between the fish and the
doughball.

We're one of the sickest nations in the world, and the
number of diabetics and obese people--especially kids!--is
increasing every year. It's pretty clear that we're a
little confused...even with all our modern technological
advances.

The answer is getting back to basics, to learn the
difference between fish and doughballs, and to reclaim your
health--the healthy body you're genetically programmed to
have.

You may not be happy with your current health (or your
current shape). Or you may want to cut through all the
bull-fish about diets, fad-diets, and get the straight scoop
about healthy eating.

Either way, you'll want to join me Wednesday night for a
tele-seminar called "Caveman Cuisine: How to lose weight
and get healthy by eating the food you were designed to eat"

You can learn more about it at
http://www.drvinceonline.com/teleseminar.htm


Go for the Big Fish...

Dr. Vince

P.S. If you can't be on the call Wednesday, go ahead and
sign up anyway. I'll be taping the call, so you can still
get a copy before the price goes up (I'll throw in the
manual, too) and listen to it at your convenience.
http://www.drvinceonline.com/teleseminar.htm

Could you Eat a Dead Squirrel?

Yesterday we went to the October 'in-law' birthday lunch
(Ruth has five siblings, Grace has 9 cousins, so there's a
birthday nearly every month). We got a late start, though.
Our driveway was being blocked by a buzzard.

About the size of a German Shepherd. Big Buzzard.

Mr. Buzzard was dining on Mr. Squirrel, whose head was
unceremonially squashed late Friday evening. A pretty
common sight here in Georgia. I hadn't shoveled him off the
road yet, so I was glad that nature was taking its course.
When we got home from the party, there was nothing left but
fur.

Mr. Buzzard had done his job. He ate what he was supposed
to eat. The food that makes his body work the way it should,
so he can live a long, healthy buzzard life.

The key to keeping your homo sapien body healthy is to feed
it the kind of food it's genetically programmed, designed
and created to eat. Just like Mr. Buzzard does.

A buzzard wouldn't want to eat your lunch, any more than you
would want to eat his. Or your guinea pig's. Or your cat's
or dog's. Humans are supposed to eat human food.

Choosing the right food for you to live a long, healthy
human life has become difficult. We get bombarded with
mixed messages about what's 'good' for you. There are so
many different foods and kinds of foods, and barely edible
things that aren't actually food at all (like pasteurized
processed cheese food product).

We're pretty sure that a healthy diet isn't found in the
processed, packaged pollution we've been raised on (it's
called 'junk' for a reason). It's getting harder and harder
to find a clear answer among all the competing,
contradictory voices.

But it doesn't have to be.

If you want to get fit and trim again, lose the spare
tire, love handles and other 'blubber bundles', you've got
to do something different.

If you want to be healthy, sleep better, have less stress
and take less medicine, you've got to change your body
chemistry. If you want your body chemistry to change,
you've got to change the chemicals you're putting into your
body.

And it's pretty easy to do, if you get back to your roots,
go back to the beginning, when things were simpler, and eat
the way you were programmed to eat.

The good news is your body wants to do it, it's easy to
learn, easy to do and easy to maintain. (I'll even show you
a way to still eat your favorite junk food and stay healthy
anyway.)

I've boiled it all down for you in my "Caveman Cuisine"
package, which kicks off with a half-price teleseminar
Wednesday at 8pm. No-bull, easy to understand and easy to
implement. I'm even including an mp3 of the call, plus the
quick-start manual and 30-days of e-support for free.

Your new and improved body and mind are waiting to be
released. And I'll make it easier for you. Find out more
and sign-up here:

http://www.drvinceonline.com/teleseminar.htm

Live like you Mean it...

Dr. Vince

P.S. The buzzard will live a long and happy life. I want
the same thing for you and your kids. Join me Wednesday
night for an eye-opening and liberating experience.

http://www.drvinceonline.com/teleseminar.htm

What's Italian for "Outside-In"?

My dad sent me a great article from today's New York Times,
by Elisabeth Rosenthal. It's called "In Europe It's Fish
Oil After Heart Attacks, but Not in U.S."

First the Brits, ahead of us with using fish oil for
behaviour and learning problems. Now the Italians are taking
the lead with heart health.

The article says that the Italians are prescribing fish oil
to their patients who survive a heart attack, because it's
been shown to improve survival after heart attacks and to
reduce fatal heart rhythms. The largest study on fish oil
showed that the number of deaths was reduced by 20
percent and that the number of sudden deaths by 40 percent.

(side note: what about those who don't survive the heart
attack? it would probably be better to start taking it
ahead of time, rather than wait...but that's just me)

Great news, although it's not really news. Fish oil
restores health because it contains Essential (as in
'essential' to life, as in we must get them from what we
eat) Fatty Acids.

Even though everyone 'knows' they're essential, our thinking
has been skewed by the medical model, which is keeping many
people from enjoying the health they deserve. Here are some
comments from the article that show how prevalent this
"Outside-In" thinking really is:

- "in the United States, heart attack victims are routinely
offered more expensive and invasive treatments, like pills
to lower cholesterol or implantable defibrillators."

(fish oil was recently shown to perform better than
defibrillators, and helps lower cholesterol as well, without
nuking your liver and depleting your CoQ10 like statin
drugs...but there's more profit in those failing threapies,
I guess)

- "Most cardiologists here are not giving omega-3's even
though the data supports it - there's a real disconnect,"
said Dr. Terry Jacobson, a preventive cardiologist at Emory
University in Atlanta. "They have been very slow to
incorporate the therapy."

-"If people paid more attention to guidelines, more people
would be on the drug," Dr. Jacobson said.

-"The fact that fish oil is also sold as a nutritional
supplement has made it harder for some doctors to regard it
as a powerful drug, experts said."

(I think the real disconnect is thinking about proper
nutrition as a "drug" or "therapy"...Omega-3s are food,
they're Essential, remember?)

- Dr. Harrison said he believed that people should
generally increase their intake of omega-3 acids, best done
by eating more fish. Still, he acknowledged that it was
difficult to eat foods containing a gram of omega-3 acids
each day. "If you ask me do I take omega-3 supplements every
day, then, embarrassingly, the answer is yes," said Dr.
Harrison, a professor at Bolton Primary Care Trust of the
University of Manchester in England.

(he recognizes the dangers of eating fish--mercury, toxins,
etc--and takes fish oil himself, just doesn't want any of
his patients to know about it...?)

- "But over-the-counter preparations of fish oil have much
less rigorous quality control and are often blends of the
two fish oils know to be beneficial in heart disease with
other less useful fatty acids. For that reason, Dr.
Jacobson of Emory gives the prescription drug, "off label,"
to cardiac patients, even though the F.D.A. has not approved
it for that use. "Then I know exactly what they're getting,
and there is no mercury," he said.

(one of ours is getting it right! and that's why I only take
and offer pharmaceutical-grade fish oil; pure and
potent...there's no telling what you get with Brand X)

- "It is clearly recommended in international guidelines,"
said Dr. Massimo Santini, the hospital's chief of
cardiology, who added that it would be considered tantamount
to malpractice in Italy to omit the drug."

(If it's tantamount to malpractice to not give fish oil in
Italy, then what is it here?)

Don't wait on the FDA or anyone else to catch you up on the
learning curve. And don't wait for your first heart attack,
either. Get the Essential Fatty Acids you need for great
heart, brain, and bone health...not to mention help with
diabetes, allergies and other inflammatory conditions. Go
right now to http://www.drvinceonline.com/fishoil.htm to
learn more for yourself and get yours today.

And if you or a loved one is on a statin drug for
cholesterol (Zocor, etc.), then it's using up every bit of
their CoQ10, which actually makes the heart weaker (see what
I mean about "Outside-In"?) Find out more at
http://www.drvinceonline.com/coq10.htm


Arrivederci!

Dr. Vince

P.S. the Omega-3/Omega-6 relationship is a big part of
re-creating your ideal body. I'll be covering it as part of
my "Caveman Cuisine" tele-seminar next Wednesday. Along
with the best and worst foods to eat, and how to eat well
even at a convenience store! So save the date now--Oct 11
at 8pm. I'll have more details soon...don't miss it, Beeeee
there!

Can you Escape your Destiny?

I never read much in high school, and since then, I would usually
only read non-fiction. Books about nutrition, natural healing or
business, success and self-improvement.

About five years ago, a patient told me that reading fiction
helps stimulate your brain in ways that 'technical' or
non-fiction reading can't. It develops your imagination.

My right-brain can use all the help it can get. It's the
creative side, the healing side, the integrating side. And since
my motto is "Imagination is more important than Knowledge"
(thanks, Einstein), I took up a new type of reading.

Last week, I finished reading the sixth Harry Potter book (talk
about imagination!).

Harry and his friends were learning how to "apparate". To travel
from one place to another instantaneously, using only their
minds. (If we could've done that, we would've saved five hours
on our way to Charleston this weekend.)

Apparating is a metaphor for setting and reaching a goal. Where
am I now? Where do I want to be? Traveling from one place to
another. And your mind plays a big part in getting there.

Their teacher gave them some valuable instructions, that I think
we can apply to our goal-setting as well. He told them to
remember the three D's:

Destination, Determination, and Deliberation.

Destination--It shares the root with "destiny"...as in
pre-determined. You have to decide (the 4th
D?) where you want to go beforehand.

Determination--Rooted in "bound", as in a boundary (nowhere else)
or bound together (no escape). You're resolute, unwavering.
Committed to getting there no matter what.

Deliberation--Plan and execute the necessary actions to reach
your goal. Carefully thought out, done on purpose, unhurried and
methodical.


Since Sunday's October 1st, it's a good time to review/renew your
goals, for the final 30-60-90 day time-frame 'til the new year.

(Remember the Wheel of Life? Physical, Mental, Family, Spiritual, Career, Social, Financial)

Hope you can use these ideas as you plan your Life for the next
few months.

Live like you Mean it...

Dr. Vince


P.S. A big spoke on the wheel of life is "physical", and
the biggest goal is usually "eat better" and/or "lose some poundage".
Especially as we're closing in on the holiday season.

So, I'm teaching a tele-seminar next week called "Roast Duck and Mango
Salsa: How to Express your Ideal Body by Eating like a Caveman."

On Wednesday, October 11th at 8pm, I'll give you strategies for
choosing your food, and help you make sense of all the
conflicting (mis-) information about diet that keeps most people
stuck, and keeps them from making the changes they need to.

Look for more details soon...