Childhood Obesity ? What Are We Doing To Our Kids? Part 1

The statistics on obesity in the US, especially in children and adolescents, is truly staggering! The National Institute of Health (NIH) survey results conform this:

?Over two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese, and over one-third are obese, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2006 and 2007-2008.?

The most recent statistics for adolescents aged 9-19 are that 1 in 5 are obese.

What are we doing to our children? If your child is 30 pounds overweight when they are 10, where are they going to be at age 30? Either in very poor health, or dead!

Do most people who are obviously overweight want to lose that extra and get back to a healthier level? Absolutely! But are they realistic about how to do it? Absolutely not!

Having been around people like this and having had some experience in the weight loss industry, I?ve found that these people forget that the condition they are in is one that occurred over time and that reversing it will not be something that happens overnight.

The weight loss market is full of ?wonder pills? that promise to help you lose that extra weight instantly. Some are simply diuretics that cause your body to dump fluids, mainly water, which, of course, weighs something. If you are quite heavy, the amount of loss will be significant. But then what?

Excessive fluid loss is not only not sustainable, it is downright dangerous. We can all live without food for pretty long periods of time; but without water, most people will die within a week from dehydration. The whole body shuts down without this essential component.

Other weight loss products, so-called diet pills, are stimulants that get you working in overdrive to burn fat. Works for a while, but the extra stress on your whole system, especially the heart, can lead to more problems than the excess weight. And most of these are not recommended for children anyway.

The one overlooked critical element by people looking for a quick fix is that the reason that they are overweight has to do with an attitude. Eating has become a necessity, not a pleasure, and in America especially, quantity trumps quality. Our food supply is often practically devoid of nutrients because the great bread basket soils in the US have been over-farmed so that the soil no longer contains the nutrients that are essential to our health.

To compensate, farmers, mostly the huge giant mega-farms, fill the soil with chemical, synthetic fertilizers that keep the plant alive, but don?t do anything about providing the nutrients that we need. So we eat what looks to be good food, but the most essential ingredient of the food, its nutritional value, is not there.

So our bodies keep asking us for more food because it is still ?hungry? for nutrition. We eat more nutrient-poor food, often filled with sugars and the toxins from the herbicides and pesticides sprayed all over the plants, and still can?t satisfy our bodies. The cycle continues and we gain weight.

And our children gain weight, but aren?t really being fed. Increase body mass affects everything ? heart, lungs, digestive track, insulin levels, bones and joints. Worse yet, they are adapting to the situation, at least mentally, which means at some point in time they have fully accepted their condition and lose the desire to change it.

In the next part, we?ll explore the critical aspect of weight loss that the pill pushers never talk about: your mind!

In the mean time, you might want to read about an interesting aid to weight loss that can be a help, but is NOT a magic bullet solution. It is simply a tool that will only work with what we will discuss in part 2 of this article. http://skinnyfiberhealth.blogspot.com/2011/03/skinny-fiber-health-what-is-it.html

Source: http://www.womenfavor.com/health-and-fitness/childhood-obesity-prevention/childhood-obesity-what-are-we-doing-to-our-kids-part-1.html

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Google Offers Open Source Communications for any Web App or Site ...

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Google?(News ? Alert) is moving to allow developers to use communications natively in any browser-based application. The obvious beneficiary for the project is Gmail, whose audio and video communications ability today requires use of a proprietary plug-in.

But Google has higher hopes that WebRTC will be used well beyond Gmail. Rather, it hopes WebRTC will become a Web standard for videoconferencing and peer-to-peer communications. You might say that sounds like Skype?(News ? Alert). You?d be right. In a?blog post, Google said it released the technology as?open source, royalty-free software?see here?and pledged to work with other browser makers Mozilla?(News ? Alert) and Opera on the real-time chat project.?

If Google and allies succeed in establishing the technology and building support into multiple browsers, that would mean anybody building a Web site or Web application could draw upon the communications technology. In other words, anyone could build a rival to services, such as Skype, with just a Web application:?Read more here.

?Our goal is to enable Chrome with real-time communications capabilities using simple Javascript APIs,? Google said in a Chromium Developer blog post. ?When we are done, any web developer shall be able to create RTC applications, like the Google Talk client in Gmail, without using any plug-ins but only WebRTC components that runs in the sandbox. See?this.

The move is just one more example of the trend of making communications a feature of just about any app or experience.?

Want to learn more about the latest in communications and technology? Then be sure to attend ITEXPO West 2011, taking place Sept. 13-15, 2011, in Austin, Texas. ITEXPO?(News ? Alert) offers an educational program to help corporate decision makers select the right IP-based voice, video, fax and unified communications solutions to improve their operations. It?s also where service providers learn how to profitably roll out the services their subscribers are clamoring for ? and where resellers can learn about new growth opportunities. To register, click here.

Gary Kim?(News ? Alert) is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Gary?s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell

Source: http://whichbrowser.org/uncategorized/google-offers-open-source-communications-for-any-web-app-or-site/

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Film review: "Vincent Wants to Sea" (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) ? The German road movie "Vincent Wants to Sea" is a reassuring excursion into familiar territory. With its clearly defined character quirks -- for starters, the protagonist has Tourette's syndrome -- and obvious setup, the comic drama is a low-key crowd-pleaser, and became a word-of-mouth hit on home turf. A similar fate isn't in store for its stateside art-house run (beginning June 24 in New York, with a Los Angeles bow a week later). But the picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story.

The debut screenplay by actor Florian David Fitz is uneven but pleasingly unfussy, and director Ralf Huettner keeps the five-character narrative moving. Fitz plays the title character, a 27-year-old who loses his emotional anchor -- and, it gradually becomes clear, his albatross -- when his mother dies. Before he can figure out his next step, his politician father (Heino Ferch) delivers him to a health facility -- albeit a nice, clean, cheery one -- to put him and his profanity-laced tics a safe distance from the re-election campaign.

The catalyst Vincent needs arrives in the form of a pretty fellow patient, pot-smoking anorexic Marie (Karoline Herfurth), who recognizes a kindred rebel spirit beneath the tentative surface. Stealing the car of the facility's chief, Dr. Rose (Katharina Muller-Elmau), they head for the Italian coast, where Vincent will scatter his mother's ashes, as she requested. Their unplanned passenger is Alexander (Johannes Allmayer), Vincent's obsessive-compulsive roommate.

The story quickly takes shape as the pairing of two sets of unlikely traveling partners: the central trio of young adults and the middle-aged duo of Dr. Rose and Vincent's father. The latter two, thrown together in pursuit of the escapees, are both determined to keep the potential scandal under wraps and protect their professional reputations. As the chase courses through the picturesque Alps, everyone's protective shell gets cracked, if not peeled away. The transformations are not overstated, although in the case of germophobe Alexander, they're played for gentle laughs through most of the film.

The scenario's plausibility waxes and wanes, and Fitz's screenplay sometimes places chunks of exposition in the mouths of the characters -- especially in the case of Marie's crisis, which is telegraphed and yet never quite convincing. The panicked-politician angle could have been mined for deeper humor; instead it remains a broad-strokes sketch of an A-type personality. It's to Ferch's credit that he makes the character's evolution as affecting as it is.

Vincent's struggle with his affliction has both physical and emotional weight in Fitz's performance, and the decisions Vincent makes at journey's end are among the least predictable moments of this never painful but not quite persuasive trip.

(Editing by Zorianna Kit)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110624/review_nm/us_review_vincent

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The hunting act | Home-Family-Parenting Blog

The hunting ban has been a very hot topic for many years, and although it was granted in 2005 there is a huge chance that it will be overturned. The hunting act 2004 was granted by parliament in the UK, and was designed to outlaw hunting with dogs. This was directed at fox hunting, but also included mink, hares, and deer. This historical decision affected thousands of people who worked within the hunting industry.

Not only did it affect the workers, supports, but also the people who carried out voluntary work for the hunt yards. There are conflicting opinions whether the sport should have been banned, and for as many supporters there were protestors that felt it was barbaric, and unnecessary. There have been many different attempts for the hunting ban to be enforced, however, they were defeated, and the sport continued.

The government carried out an investigation to see if hunting with dogs was in fact necessary, and at the time fox hunting was seen to be important. Many supporters will claim that fox hunting is in fact the most humane way to control the ever growing problem of foxes. The people who wanted it to be banned spent a great deal of their own time, and much voluntary work was carried out to prove this theory wrong.

Supporters for the hunting ban continue to campaign to ensure that it remains banned, and that the current hunting style is continued. Although many hunt supporters felt there would be a huge impact to the countryside, and the traditions behind fox hunting this does not appear to be the case. Hunting has continued, and is still as popular today as it has always been. The hunts now simply follow a fake scent to allow the same atmosphere of the original hunts. When the hunting ban was first introduced the countryside alliance believed that it would devastate the countryside. Although it has changed elements of the sport it has not caused the effect that it was believed it was likely to. Leading up to the initial hunting ban there were many people who felt passionately about it being banned. These people carried out hours of voluntary work to ensure that the message was put across to people all over the country. There were many different polls, and surveys conducted, and it was shown that a huge majority of the general public wanted to see the hunting ban brought in.

The overall discussion whether foxes need to be controlled will always be a hot subject, and it is often how they will be controlled that needs to be decided. There are several different ways that any type of vermin can be controlled, and the supporters for the hunting ban feel these should be used. The biggest issue that seems to be the problem is deciding what level of animal cruelty is acceptable.

Supporters for the hunting ban will continue to campaign tirelessly, and do a huge amount of voluntary work to ensure the 2005 hunting act is not over turned. It took many years for the government, and people to understand how important this decision was. The supporters will feel it is taking a step backwards if the act was overturned.

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Glastonbury awaits U2 debut

The majority of the 170,000 ticket-holders are now on the Worthy Farm site

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U2 will make their first UK festival appearance since the early 1980s later when they headline Glastonbury.

The Irish stars had been due to play last year but were forced to cancel after singer Bono injured his back.

Coldplay will headline the Pyramid Stage on Saturday. Beyonce follows in husband Jay-Z's footsteps on Sunday.

Emma Coupland, from Boston, Lincs, at a muddy Glastonbury with friend Holly Wilson, said: "As we're under 30, we don't really like U2."

Ms Wilson added: "They may play some of the old classic songs but we're not really excited about U2, and I haven't heard from anyone that is to be honest."

Rock veterans U2, who have interrupted a tour of the US to fly in for their performance, face protests during their set by a group who have accused the band of a "tax dodge" in Ireland.

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But the band's manager Paul McGuinness has said the band is "fully compliant" with Irish tax rules and that U2 "is a global business and it pays taxes globally".

Beyonce, also making her festival debut, will be the first woman to headline the main Pyramid Stage - three years after Jay-Z became the first hip-hop artist to top the bill.

With the majority of the 170,000 ticket-holders now on site, performances on the main stages at the festival got under way.

Wet conditions have left the site in Somerset muddy, with predictions of more rain to come.

Chipmunk was one of the first acts to perform

Trucks carrying large bales of hay have been laying down straw over some of the worst-affected areas.

Tom Dods, from London, said: "We arrived on Wednesday, it was pretty torrential.

"We did get a window to put up our tent but it was a bit of a grumpy start."

More rain is expected later and on Saturday but sunshine is forecast for Sunday.

Last year's event saw some of the hottest and driest conditions in Glastonbury's history.

Police made more than 30 arrests in the days leading up to the start of the festival, the majority drug related.

This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-13902858

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Lisicki sends Li crashing out of Wimbledon (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) ? China's French Open champion Li Na crashed out of Wimbledon on Thursday, losing 3-6, 6-4, 8-6 to German wildcard Sabine Lisicki in the second round.

Third seeded Li, who made the quarter-finals in 2006, was made to regret squandering two match points when she led 5-3 in the decider as the big-hitting German hit back to claim a famous victory.

Lisicki collapsed to her knees in tears on the covered Centre Court when she clinched the gripping tie with victory secured on her third match point in the 14th game of the deciding set.

It was the German's booming serve which proved crucial as she fired 17 aces and powered down 21 winners in the 2hr 11min encounter.

"From the first point until the end of the match, every serve was like 117mph. It's impossible for women," said Li, whose two match points were swept away by two blistering serves which smashed the 120mph barrier.

"I wasn't tired. We both played a great match. Nothing went wrong, I was just a little unlucky. I had two match points but I couldn't do anything about them.

"But I had a great time in Europe. I'll go back to my family in China, spend some time with my family and get ready for the next tournament."

The 21-year-old Lisicki, whose career suffered a huge setback in 2010 when a serious left ankle injury sidelined her for four months, will tackle Japanese qualifier Misaki Doi for a place in the last 16.

"The crowd really helped me when I was facing two match points. They cheered so loudly, I have never heard such a noise," said the winner, a quarter-finalist in 2009.

"I have always had a powerful serve. I think it's one of the best on women's tennis," added Lisicki of her most powerful weapon.

"But you have to use it smartly. My game suits grass and a good serve is important."

Li, who had defeated the German in their only previous meeting in straight sets on the Stuttgart clay this year, had eased through the first set with a break in the eighth game.

But Lisicki, who won the Wimbledon warm-up tournament in Birmingham, hit back in the second with a break to lead 3-1 before handing back the advantage in the ninth.

She wasn't to be denied, however, and levelled the match in the 10th game.

Li was again in charge with a break to lead 3-2 in the final set before a thrilling finale.

At 3-5 down, Lisicki unleashed two serves at 122mph and 123mph to save match points followed by her 14th and 15th aces to take the game and cut the deficit to 4-5.

Lisicki then broke for 5-5, handed back the break for Li to lead 6-5 before the gallant blonde German refused to buckle and retrieved the break for 6-6.

She confidently held for 7-6 and then carved out three match points in the 14th game.

Li saved two but cracked on the third when she sent a crosscourt drive wide.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110623/wl_asia_afp/tennisgbrwimbledonli

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Professional Interior Design | Home Improvement and Renovation ...

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