Smile Diet expert Mary Marcdante endorses World Smile Day and has taken Smiley's message to a new level with her newest book, Living with Enthusiasm: How the 21-Day Smile Diet Can Change Your Life.  

The revolutionary 21-Day Smile Diet will delight you into daily action and bring more fun, meaning, and passion into everything you do.

Smile to lose weight! Smile to increase your energy! Smile to make someone else feel good. A smile is the most universally recognized and understood gesture every culture understands and most people enjoy giving and receiving (Curmudgeons need smiles more than anyone!). We can identify a smile more easily than any other expression, even from a distance of up to 300 feet.

We smile when we feel good, when we see someone we love or eat something we enjoy, when we reach a long-awaited goal, when we’re embarrassed, and when we need to mask anger we can’t appropriately express at the moment. We even smile on cue when anyone with a camera calls out, "Say cheese."

But what most people don’t know to do (and could do so easily) is smile by choice to relieve stress, increase enthusiasm, cut food cravings, recall pleasurable memories and shift negative moods. Smiles work! When you CHOOSE to smile - not just when someone or something makes you smile - you release natural feel-good chemicals into your body (endorphins) and instantaneously feel less stressed and more enthusiastic. Imagine how different the world could be if we all practiced a conscious 16-second smile even just once a day.

Mary answers these questions:

• What is the 21-Day Smile Diet and why is it important?

• Why should we smile for the health of it?

• What are the five main benefits of smiling?

• How do smiles affect our love life and relationships?

• What are the six characteristics of enthusiastic people?

• How often do people really smile on a daily basis?

• What are three uncommon tips for keeping a smile on our faces?

The 21-Day Smile Diet uses current research, inspiring interviews, personal examples, and practical strategies. Mary demonstrates that by creating a daily habit of smiling attitudes and behaviors, you can change your mood, lower your blood pressure, heal your relationships, enrich your financial situation, and like Mary, maybe even get upgraded to first class when you're flying stand-by! In these days of terrorist warnings, obesity alerts, credit-card overload, health insurance increases, road rage, teen suicide, and elder abuse, a 16-second conscious smile could save your life, as it has many of the people Mary interviewed who have used this unique program.

You’ll discover 21 easy-to-smile strategies, 79 quotes to inspire you, 56 stories to encourage you, 105 immediately doable tips for staying enthusiastic every day, along with 105 fascinating questions to enhance self-discovery and self-appreciation including:

• The 16-Second Conscious Smile

• The Ohhh Effect

• Factor of Five 

• Body Blessing Meditation

• Just for Now

• 30-Second Laughing Meditation

The 21-Day Smile Diet is about going for the gusto. It’s about looking for reasons to smile, and smiling for no reason. It's about giving yourself permission to enjoy your life right now instead of waiting for the vacation that’s still six months away. It's about learning how to create joyful moments every day, even in difficult times – and more importantly – that it is critical to your health that you do so.

MARY MARCDANTE is the creator of MySmileDiet.com, and a communications and stress management expert. She is the author of Living with Enthusiasm, My Mother, My Friend and a contributing author to four best-selling Chicken Soup books. Since starting her personal development business in 1980, she has spoken to over 250,000 people around the world. Her corporate and association clients include Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, Speaking of Women’s Health, Wal-Mart, Spirit of Women, Northwestern Mutual, and the I.R.S.. She has been interviewed on ABC World News Now, NBC, Fox, Oxygen, and in the Wall St. Journal, Glamour, AARP Magazine, and on over 200 radios across the country. She lives in San Diego, California. For more information on The 21-Day Smile Diet and to book Mary for your show, or call (858) 792-6786.