BBC Panorama – The hunt for healthy food for children

BBC Panorama – The hunt for healthy food for children
BBC News – Panorama – The hunt for healthy food for children

Tremendous expose of children’s food and tricks currently being used to dupe parents.

Cow & Gates excuse for the high sugar in their follow on milk was a study that showed high protein children’s diets lead to obesity.

However what the study actually reveals is that too much meat and dairy can lead to obesity and certainly NOT that sugar is better than fat and protein!

The study from the Research Institute of Child Nutrition revealed

The ages of 12 months and 5-6 y were identified as critical ages at which higher total and animal, but not vegetable, protein intakes were positively related to later body fatness.

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There’s another photo on our Twitter page (actually a Twitpic image) as well as more stuff on:

• Curler slays demons and turns his life around, now off to Olympic Games
• Regina to host 2011 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship
• Glenn Howard returns to Brantford today and thru the weekend
• Olympic curlers set to invade Kelowna, BC
• Wheelchair and vision-impaired curling workshops to PEI

… and more!

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There’s another photo on our Twitter page (actually a Twitpic image) as well as more stuff on:

• Curler slays demons and turns his life around, now off to Olympic Games
• Regina to host 2011 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship
• Glenn Howard returns to Brantford today and thru the weekend
• Olympic curlers set to invade Kelowna, BC
• Wheelchair and vision-impaired curling workshops to PEI

… and more!

Free Weight Loss and Health Advice

The Diet & Fitness Show

Free weight loss and optimal health advice at Olympia, London on Sunday 24th January.

Leading UK weight loss expertYvonne Bishop-Weston will be explaining her no diet, no calorie counting approach to weight loss and optimal health at Olympia in London this Sunday afternoon at 2pm

Discover her secrets to sustainable weight loss and optimal health

Poetry Moment

Poetry Moment

If you looking for a fun mixed media moment in Second Life®. Gitte Broeng as her Second Life® avatar, Beatrice Coleslaw has a little minute long gem at Boom Pearls in SL. It’s a sweet poem called “Hypothetical imperatives (desserts)”.

This isn’t an amazing, blow your mind, Second Life Experience. But it is a quick, fun read along moment.

SLURL: http:/slurl.com/secondlife/Phyllira/169/139/90

The Official Press Release:

Gitte Broeng: Dessert Room – at Boom Pearls in Second Life
Opening online, 21. February. 16-18 gmt+1. 7am-9am sltime.

Dessert Room is a hybrid work that mixes words/sound/image in an ironic vision which challenges traditional ideas about one of life’s sweetest phenomena: desserts.

The work examines what happens when all context is removed and a space without orientation arises. It is inspired by Second Life’s wasteland with no physical reality, where you are able to build a “second life” from scratch – but without scents, tastes and feelings, senses without which a dessert does not seem to be any pleasure at all – or any kind of food for that matter.


The starting point for the work is Broeng’s conceptual poem Hypothetical Imperatives (Desserts) based on dessert recipes that she has “emptied” of all ingredients. Instead of descriptions of delicious desserts we are faced with imperatives such as whip, grate, decorate.
Recipes like to make use of imperatives in the instructions and if the ingredients are removed the odd thing happens, that the recipes will appear as insensible commands. Completely inverse of the product they describe the making of.


Dessert is a total sensory boom, we do not need to eat, but eat anyway – of sheer pleasure. However Gitte Broeng’s dessert room at Boom Pearls’s territory in Second Life is completely devoid of sensuality. Here visitors will meet a monumental cookbook, which stands as a sort of open brown building in the desert-like surroundings. On the pages of the book the vertical commanding poem is seen and by pressing “Play” Broeng’s reading of the words, or rather orders is activated in the dessert room. To view the installation inside Second Life please visit this link: http:/slurl.com/secondlife/Phyllira/169/139/90, which will teleport your avatar to Boom Pearls in Second Life. Avatars can be made at www.secondlife.com.

Gitte Broeng b. 1973. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Being both a poet and visual arts facilitator Broeng is interested in hybrids between the two artistic fields. She published the book “Interiør” (Interior), Hurricane Publishing in 2006, a book that she designed herself. Broeng has done several public readings and published texts including visual poems in literary journals in Denmark and abroad.

Dessert Room is the third show at Boom Pearls in Second Life. 8 artists have been invited as newcomers to this online world which consists of mainly user created content, and the exhibition projects show art at the transition from Real Life to Second Life before the artists have decided if they want to be integrated users of Second Life or not. Screenshots and other documentation can be viewed at BoomPearls.com. Boom Pearls is curated by Jon Paludan.

The installation can be seen until 22. March 2009
Thanks to the Danish Arts Council

Latvia makes curling history

Vancouver 2010 medals unveiled

Vancouver 2010 medals unveiled

The heavy medals have been unveiled.

Sandhya2 Patel at The Crescent Moon Museum
Today marks the opening of Sandhya2 Patel’s exhibit at the Crescent Moon museum. Her artwork is a compilation of whimsical sculptures and figurines, some taken from stories or literary pieces such as Alice in Wonderland.

From the artist: “I was fascinated immediately by the possibility of building things in SL.
I started the fist day and have been building ever since.

I have created avatars, built houses, done landscaping , but the most fun
I have had is making statues and sculptures.”

Head over to the Crescent Museum now!

Mo’vember 2009

Mo’vember 2009

The Royal Society of Medicine – Events

The Royal Society of Medicine- RSM events – Academic

Nutrition pre-pregnancy birth and beyond – Windows of opportunity
Organiser: Food & Health Forum
Date: Thursday 1 October 2009| Venue: Royal Society of Medicine
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Chaired by Dr Marilyn Glenville, President of the Food & Health Forum, Royal Society of Medicine

Best of Us Curling Challenge?

Best of Us Curling Challenge?

Sue Bradford to resign from Parliament

Not long ago, Sue Bradford wrote this message on her Twitter account, breaking her own embargo.

Media conference 10am to announce I’m standing down from Parliament at end October – but am not resigning from Greens or political activism

Dave Clendon is the next on the list. He stood against John Key in Helensville but lives in Mt Albert- formerly held by Helen Clark.

Looks like the loss of the leadership to Metiria Turei really hurt. But, despite Bradford being one of the most effective backbenchers, in terms of getting legislation passed, this is the best thing that has happened to the Greens this year. Watch for a rise in the polls for the Greens.

Tweet This! A How To Guide On Installing A TweetMeMe Button

I’ve received a lot of questions in the last week about how to install a Retweet button on web pages, blogs, and article pages so I thought I’d take a few minutes to explain how easy this is to do. In this post, I’ll show you where to find the proper code for placing the button on your website or blog.

Begin by visiting TweetMeMe.com. There you will find a listing of top retweeted articles and content. What you need to do is page down to the bottom where you will see an option that says, “Retweet Button” under the ‘Have some fun’ section. This will bring you to the code page.

Once you land there, you can choose from four different options. The first option, “web button” is the most common. By accessing this page, you’ll find the code you need to add a button to your web pages (HTML, asp, etc.). The second section is for individuals looking to embed a button in an email. This is a great options if you have an email newsletter or like to send your content out via email.

The third option is to place the button within your RSS feed. This is a good idea if you have a lot of subscribers to your feed. The last option is to embed the retweet button in your blog template (WordPress users). So you can see that there a number of options with the retweet button.To begin, select the option that is appropriate for your application of a retweet button. As mentioned earlier, most people look to add the button to their web pages or blogs. A good place to start then is with the first option. Click on the web button option.

This will take you to a page that shows different blocks of code. At the most basic level, you want to place java script on your pages or in your post that will simply show the button. If the title of your page is short enough, when others retweet, it will include the title of your post.

On the other hand, if you have a very long title to your web page or post, the retweet only shows an abbreviated title or website name. When focusing on retweets keep titles short and to the point. The code for retweeting is (replace “[ and ]” with ):

[script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"][/script]

Simply copy and paste this code into your HTML page or the code associated with your post. When you publish your pages, they will now contain the retweet button. If you want to style your button – placing it in a specific location, use div tags. For example, if you want your button to flow with the text and be right aligned, you may wrap the java script above with the following (Note: you must replace the [ and ] symbols with symbols for the code to actually work.)

[div style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 5px; float: right; display: block; width: 50px; height: 61px;"]

You can also find more advanced tutorials and information at the TweetMeMe website. There are a variety of retweet tools out there if you want others to post your information to Twitter (styles, layouts, etc) but Tweetmeme is the easiest to use. I have found Tweetmeme to have the best information, resources and support.

Best of luck with your retweet button.. and be sure to retweet this post!

Source: http://marketing-expert.blogspot.com/2009/10/tweet-this-how-to-guide-on-installing.html

How To Use eZineArticles To Promote Your Articles And Build Backlinks

After last week’s video on article marketing, I received a lot of comments and questions about article marketing. One of the most popular questions is where you should be submitting your articles and how to write them. If you are looking for a really good article creator, I suggest you go to an article software review website like Culzee.com and read their reviews. Once you’ve created an article and are ready to begin submitting to directories, you can use a piece of software or start with the most popular directories like eZineArticles.com. Ezines, GoArticles.com, and other top directories work like a mall.

Webmasters in search of content visit these article directories in order to find fresh content for their websites and blogs. When they publish the content, it appears on site with your author information. Your author box should always include links back to your website or blog – this is article marketing at its best.

In this video, I spend a few minutes showing you how to sign up at one of the leading article directories on the Internet. Once you’ve opened an account, you can quickly and easily go through the article submission process. Follow me as I show you how to submit an article on EzineArticles.com step-by-step. As you submit articles you’ll be developing valuable backlinks from the article directory itself and every time your article is used by a webmaster on a different website or blog.

If you’re not article marketing, get started now. Watch this video and start the article marketing process!

Source: http://marketing-expert.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-use-ezinearticles-to-promote.html

Dangers of Weight Loss Diet Pills

Dangers of Weight Loss Diet Pills

Diet Pills Can Cause Liver Damage!

News broke today of a new report on diet pills such as ALLI (the fat busting pill in the windows of almost every chemist and pharmacy in the UK) that suggests these miracle cure super magic bullet diet pills can increase the risk of liver damage.

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is investigating reports of liver damage in patients taking diet pills containing the chemical orlistat, an ingredient in the popular over-the-counter drug Alli and its prescription version Xenical says www.newsday.com

While the FDA has not sent out a public warning about the drug, it is looking at reports that 32 cases of serious liver damage have been identified from 1999 to 2008, including six cases of liver failure. All but two of the injuries occurred outside the United States.

“We estimate that since 1999, more than 11 million prescriptions have been dispensed, and we see 32 adverse events around the world. It’s a fairly unusual occurrence [for a] very popular drug,” an FDA spokeswoman said.

Orlistat blocks the intestines from absorbing fat when taken up to three times a day with meals. The FDA approved Xenical in 1999 for weight management in conjunction with a reduced-calorie diet. Alli, which contains half the dose of orlistat, was cleared for nonprescription use in 2007.

Both drugs are marketed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, though Xenical is manufactured by Swiss firm Roche.

The makers Glaxo Smithkline (GSK) have dismissed claims that the research proves diet pills such as Alli can cause liver damage, suggesting it’s the fact that people are fat that makes them more prone to liver problems, not their miracle diet pills that they say can help fatties lose an extra 1lb a week – 3lb of weight loss per week instead of 2lb weight loss.

London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston says “We were invited to help publicise these diet pills when they were first launched but we refused. We are opposed to them – they encourage the notion that people can eat the same unhealthy food and just take a diet pill to stop fat being absorbed into the body. These diet pills also perpetuate the myth that all fat is bad. Some fats are essential. It’s too much saturated animal fat and processed vegetable fat in our diets that is the problem. Meanwhile many people actually have a shortage of the essential omega 3 fats and EPA which is needed for the healthy integrity of every cell membrane in the body and especially the body’s vital organs such as the brain.”

“Don’t take these pills – eat more healthily, eat essential nutrient dense food rather than just belly enhancing calorie dense food” is the Nutritionist’s message.

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