SEC Launches Investor.gov, Agency's First-Ever Web Site Devoted Exclusively to Investor Education

The Securities and Exchange Commission today launched its first-ever Web site devoted exclusively to investor education, providing investors with in-depth information and "top tips" on how to invest wisely, plan for the future, and avoid being scammed.

By visiting http://investor.gov/, investors can access information in a user-friendly format that is specifically tailored to their needs. The site includes sections specifically for those just getting started investing, for those saving for a child's education, and for those planning for retirement. It also has a detailed "Seniors Care Package" section for senior citizens and caretakers.

In a welcome video on the new site, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro [pictured] says, "Investing information is available from thousands of online resources -- some good, some not so good. Through Investor.gov, we are adding our own online voice to provide investors with unbiased and factual investing information."

Chairman Schapiro adds, "You'll find resources that can help you analyze your current holdings or even check the background of a registered financial professional."

Investor.gov also offers a section exclusively in Spanish, targeting the millions of Spanish-speaking investors in the United States. The "En Español" portion presents information about what to do if an investor feels that he or she has been a fraud victim, as well as a Spanish-language podcast explaining the history and functions of the SEC.

The site will be further enhanced with additional investor education resources in the coming weeks and months.

"Investor.gov will help you if you are invested in the market, are considering investing, or care for a relative who has retirement savings," said Lori Schock, Director of the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy. "Investor.gov provides an extensive collection of investor education materials, tools, calculators, checklists, as well as valuable investor alerts."

Investor.gov is the latest in a series of social media initiatives undertaken by the SEC. On the home page at http://www.sec.gov/index.htm, visitors can sign up to receive information and instant e-mail alerts on more than 80 topics of interest to investors, as well as other market participants.

The agency also reaches investors online through other social media channels, such as Twitter and YouTube:

* Investor Information: www.twitter.com/SEC_Investor_Ed

* News Releases and Alerts: www.twitter.com/SEC_News

* Enforcement Actions: www.twitter.com/SEC_Actions

* Careers at the SEC: www.twitter.com/SEC_Jobs

* YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/SEC_Views

SOURCE: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta's 'Cheating Death' Special Debuts Oct. 17; CDC Reports Continued Rise in Obesity

This weekend, neurosurgeon and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, M.D., explores the world of physicians whose work promises to stretch survival time -- and, possibly even, to reverse the process of dying. They, and their patients, are cheating death.

The program, titled "Another Day: Cheating Death," follows just days after the release of Dr. Gupta's latest book, "Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives Against All Odds," which is already a bestseller on Amazon. The show debuts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, and again at 11 p.m. On Sunday, Oct. 18, "Cheating Death" airs at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. [NOTE: All times Eastern.]

CDC: Obesity Among U.S. Adults Continues to Rise
One way to "cheat death" is to control obesity, which is related to about 20 major diseases; e.g., heart disease, diabetes, cancer.

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] reported that the prevalence of obesity is 25 percent or higher in 32 U.S. states. In fact, the proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased to 26.1 percent in 2008, compared to 25.6 percent in 2007. The data come from CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System [BRFSS], a state-based phone survey that collects health information from adults aged 18 and over.

In six states -- Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia -- adult obesity prevalence was 30 percent or more. Thirty-two states, including those six, had obesity prevalence of 25 percent or more. Only one state, Colorado, had a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent. But no state showed a significant decrease in obesity prevalence from 2007 to 2008.

More than 400,000 U.S. adults were surveyed in the 2008 BRFSS, which is the world’s largest telephone health survey. To assess obesity prevalence, survey respondents are asked to provide their height and weight, which is used to calculate their body mass index [BMI]. A person is considered obese if they have a BMI of 30 or above.

"Obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes," said Dr. William Dietz, director, CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. "As obesity increases among all age groups, we are seeing chronic diseases in much younger adults, compared to a few decades ago. For example, we now see young adults who suffer from heart disease risk factors and other conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, that were unheard of in the past."

For more information on obesity trends, including an animated map, visit: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html.

SOURCES: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CNN [photo], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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P.P.S.: This is a GOOD fit for you if any of these sounds like you:

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2. Can't seem to find profitable ClickBank products to promote;
3. Have tried "affiliate marketing" -- but maybe only made a few bucks, if anything;
4. Get bored with things and jump from project to project quite often; and/or
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Free Video Dispels Top Myths Surrounding Fat Loss and Fitness

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It covers seven [7] of the top myths of fat loss and fitness. This is really important stuff to know. Unfortunately, these myths are still out there, and holding countless people back from realizing their body, health, and fitness goals.

In the video, Rob personally takes you through the myths, why they exist, and dispels them once and for all. You may be really surprised that some of myths are still widely held as true.

Rob also gives you some tips on how to properly focus your efforts for faster success.

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SOURCES: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [photo], Zero to Hero Fitness LLC
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Editor's note: Periodically, ProsperNOW opens the editorial floor to folks who bring a unique, and proven, perspective to creating lasting prosperity in all its myriad forms.

Today, we're featuring Rob Poulos [pictured], a celebrated fitness author, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to Hero Fitness, LLC. Rob created the world's most efficient method for fast and permanent fat loss with his best-selling "Fat Burning Furnace" system, designed to help those men and women looking to put an end to restrictive fad diets, long and boring cardio workouts, and the need for super-human willpower, for good.

By Rob Poulos
Fat Loss & Fitness Expert
Creator of "Fat Burning Furnace"

In order to reap the benefits from the intense exercise I recommend to my Fat Burning Furnace students, you must get adequate rest. I can’t stress this fact enough. In fact, rest is just as important -- if not more important -- than the actual exercise itself.

During the high-intensity resistance exercise that my students perform, the muscles experience tiny injuries or tears. The body’s response is to adapt and repair, gaining stronger and larger muscles -- which, of course, leads to burning more fat and gaining a leaner body.

But this growth-and-repair process won’t take place if the body is not allowed the time to do its job. Too often, people rush back into the gym, as many have been inundated with the "more is better" axiom when it comes to exercise. But, if we don’t get out of the body’s way and let it do its magic, we will experience poor results. We won't burn fat like we want to, and we will just end up demotivated or, possibly, give up our efforts altogether.

If you don’t get enough rest or sleep, you’ll have a very difficult time building the fat-burning muscle that will transform your body. And you’ll also have a tough time burning fat off, too! That’s why we can’t work out too long, or too often, when using a sufficient intensity level.

When giving the body an intense stimulus, such as proper weight training, you can’t keep hammering it into the ground. If you did this, you’d quickly over-train your muscles and negate your body’s ability to recover from exercise.

[In fact, your immune system could become so worn down, that you might even get sick. This happened to me a few times in the past, when I wasn’t paying attention to getting adequate rest and sleep.]

And this repair-and-recover process doesn’t happen overnight; it usually takes two days or more. So, make sure to keep between one to three days of rest between your properly conducted resistance training workouts -- or you will be short-circuiting your chances of success to burn fat and build lean, strong, muscle.

Now that we know how important rest is to burning fat and building muscle, we also must understand the most important component of rest -- otherwise known as sleep.

Sleep is the ultimate recovery tool -- and not only for recovery from exercise. It’s a recovery tool from any stress you take in throughout the day.

Whether it’s from family pressures, work issues, finances, etc., increased stress can be dissolved by adequate sleep. And don’t think you can burn fat maximally when you’re over-stressed by other things in your life. A high stress level can shut down the effectiveness of your ability to burn fat, among other things.

So, make sure to get adequate sleep. What’s ideal? I would recommend no fewer than seven hours, nor more than nine hours. In fact, seven and-a-half hours per night might be the perfect amount!

Research has shown that we sleep in cycles of 90 minutes or so. It has been suggested that if we wake up too far before or after one of these 90-minute cycles, you will probably feel groggy for a good part of the day. So, try five 90-minute sleep cycles -- or seven and-a-half hours total. You’ll most likely wake up feeling well-rested and energized -- and your fat burning furnace will show its appreciation, allowing you to burn more fat faster.
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The power of RSS is truly amazing when it's used wisely...

RSS took off on the Internet around two to three years ago -- though not many people have learned how to harness the power for using it to generate instant backlinks from very powerful authority websites.

If you're like me, you have registered accounts with several social bookmarking websites... video directories... article websites... free hosts... and free blog hosts, such as Blogger and WordPress.

If you have accounts with any or all of these sites listed above, did you know that the majority of these sites have RSS feeds for your free accounts? Yep. They're called RSS aggregators.

An RSS aggregator is a website that displays the content of, and including, the links in RSS feeds from your blogs AND the free sites listed above.

Used wisely, depositing of your RSS feeds across these aggregators can provide you with some impressive rankings in the search engines PLUS get new sites indexed FAST. Not to mention, you can piggyback YOUR posts within these RSS aggregators, including the links within your posts.

This means that you can create a post on one of your blogs, free sites, or video sites, and this new post can rank very well in the search engines -- while it's hosted on an RSS aggregator. The upshot: surfers find your content via the RSS aggregator that's ranking high in the search engines! This MASSIVELY increases your content's exposure in the search engines.

Check out Peter Drew's videos [that's him pictured above], in which he uses LIVE examples of how to achieve this.

Peter has just launched a new software product that automates this process completely. Plus, he's provided a detailed report on the Magic of RSS. He has even allowed a trial period of his software, so people can test this process for nearly nothing.

You'll be amazed at the live results in Peter's videos. Check them out here:

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P.S.: See what Karen Newton, one of Pete's customers, has to say about his latest new thing...

"When Pete told me about his new BadAss RSS software, I was a little skeptical. He was basically telling me that he could take a feed from a brand-new blog, insert it into his software with some relevant tags, and get it indexed in Google in mere hours.

"For me, I needed some proof because, as much as I value Pete's opinion and honesty, what he was claiming was just a bit hard to swallow. So, I made a new blog. Nothing fancy, really. In a current niche of mine, I threw up a Blogger blog with one article. Took me less than five minutes.

"I then gave Pete the RSS feed link, so he could run it through his BadAss RSS software, and supplied him with some keyword phrases to use as tags. According to NicheBOT-predicted daily counts, they all averaged above 1,000 searches per day..

"Pete messages me in about 20 minutes' time to tell me that one of the feed sites already picked up my blog; I verified this on Google and couldn't believe it.

"OK, but that's not the best thing. In less than ONE hour, I did a search on Google for one of the keyword phrases I gave him, and my blog was already indexed! With quotes, I was on page ONE. But, it gets better. Without quotes, I was already ranked #11 and #12! This is for a keyword phrase that, according to Wordtracker, gets over 1,000 searches PER DAY.

"Needless to say, I'm very excited to get my hands on this nifty piece of software -- because there's something else about it that is very valuable...

"With my niche example above, I got indexed in less than an hour. But, that's not going to be the case for any niche.

"The point is, if your niche is way too competitive, no piece of amazing software is going to jump the ranks of millions of competitors. But that means that, in hardly any time at all, I could use BadAss RSS software to test any number of niches!

"For example, if a niche I test doesn't get indexed at all [or is found on page 10 million!], I know that's way too competitive. But, if a niche gets indexed in five hours or so and it's showing on page 3/4 of Google, that might be very doable... Definitely viable if indexed in less than an hour and ranked in the top 20!

"The power of being able to quickly test any niche is only one of the fringe benefits of this software. Pete tells me that BadAss RSS does some other 'special stuff,' but he wouldn't reveal that to me yet. I can't wait to get my hands on it!

"Pete, thanks for this opportunity. I'm excited to get moving on my current 'niche' project. With this and your BadAss Affiliate Dominator reports, you make it all too easy!" -- Karen Newton
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Not only can you use it to test your markets in Google, this amazing little software package gets your new sites in Google in MINUTES. Not hours or days, but in minutes.

I don't need to go into it too much right now. Peter has supplied three [3] videos on his website. These videos, in themselves, reveal some very nice strategies.

He's even been kind enough to offer a trial period, so you can test it for yourself. He has listed it at a reduced price and limited it to only 200 members. Once this is filled, the price increases.

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P.S.S.: Here's an enthusiastic testimonial from Kevin, one of Pete's beta-testers:

"Pete I just wanted to let you know I am amazed right now. My site was indexed in 24 minutes!!!! I can't believe my eyes right now! I am so impressed with myself that I can get my site indexed in 24 - 48 hrs! lol

"I don't know how you keep coming out with these software products, but whatever you do, don't stop! Not only can I get my site indexed in record time now, I can see how easy a market is going to be for me to dominate before I even worry about creating a website.

"Pete, I have told you before, and I'll tell you again: You're a genius. Keep up the good work!" -- Kevin Brown
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