Kids on Cell Phones: Big Brother is Watching

How To Loose Face Fats

2010-12-19T03:34:00.000-08:00

Here is a fact that you should take note of. What do you look at first when you meet somebody? You look at their face first right? For example you meet up with old friends, colleagues, your neighbor or new friends, most of the time you will focus your attention on their faces first.

The point is that the face is very important and that is also why so many people are looking for ways to lose face fat. Any weight loss will show on the face first and when people look at your face, they will straight away notice changes. Plus, influences from the media and the entertaining world also create an impact on how a pretty face should look like. If you just would flip through the magazines, the faces of the models are all very slim and well defined with high cheekbones, sharp nose and a lean face.

Well, since so many people is looking for the answer to lose fat in their faces, here is a couple of tips on how to lose face fat.

If you want to lose face fat, you have to begin with losing weight. This means losing excess water retention and also losing body fat. Usually, when a person loses weight, it is very noticeable that his face also gets sharper and leaner. Usually the face will slim down first because excess water is gone. Follow these simple steps to lose weight and you will get a lean, healthy and toned face.

1: Drink lots of water.

2: Do not forget your fruits and vegetables!

3: Reduce the alcohol

4: Bump up the calcium

5: Calories out more than calories in.

6: Control Your Salt Intake

7: Go For Weight Training

More People Cheating than Ever Before

2010-11-02T06:32:00.001-07:00

Eternal monogamy: the beloved ideal that about a quarter of Americans find impossible to uphold. Marital infidelity is on the rise, according to the New York Times. Since 1972, the General Social Survey has consistently found that about 10 percent of married people cheat, with men cheating almost twice as often as women (12 percent to 7 percent).
But analyzing infidelity trends over the last two decades has shown some marked changes. In 2006, 28 percent of men over 60 reported cheating at some point in their lives, compared to 20 percent in 1991 (Viagra went on the market ten years ago). And among older women, incidences of cheating have increased triplefold—from 5 percent to 15 percent.

We can’t chock this increased infidelity up to boredom after a silver anniversary because the trend holds true for couples under 35 as well. 20 percent of young men and 15 percent of young women now report treating, compared to 15 percent and 12 percent two decades ago.

Theories about the reasons for increased cheating largely center on the advent of the Internet and cell phones, which have made it easier to coordinate extra-marital encounters. But the marked increase in women’s infidelity is harder to explain: are women cheating more now because they are more likely to go on business trips or stay late at the office? Or are they simply more likely to report their infidelities now that there is less (though still much) social pressure for women to be chaste while men are applauded for their sexual exploits?

Whatever the reason, I must admit that I’m looking on the bright side of this increase in female infidelity. I’m certainly no champion of extra-marital affairs, but it happened at these relatively high rates even in hunting and gathering societies. So, if cheating must happen, why should men be the only ones in whom it is expected and even, to do some degree, accepted?

They Say: Text Messaging Can Fight Childhood Obesity

2010-11-02T06:31:00.001-07:00

So they have a permanent squint from staring at that little screen and they speak in text-message-ese (or is that only in corny wireless commercials?). Texting can be good for your kids. According to a study in this month's issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, obese kids get the same benefits from texting that they would from traditional food diaries.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina broke families into three groups - one with kids reporting back to parents via text message, one with kids filling out paper diaries and a third not monitoring their intake at all. Parents of the texting and paper diary kids were given a series of questions to ask daily: what was the number on your pedometer today?; how many sugar-sweetened beverages did you drink today?; and how many minutes of screen time did you have today? Before letting them loose, researchers led the families in an educational program to help kids learn better eating behaviors. They were encouraged to reduce their sweets and increase their activity levels.
The kids who answered via their cell phone were more than twice as likely as the paper diary keepers to make the effort to answer the questions. Less than half fell back into their poor eating habits. Perhaps playing a role in the results were the positive feedback messages generated when kids sent in their text messages. A little bit of sugar goes a long way - especially for kids on a diet.
There's a certain amount of irony in the researchers' suggestion that kids limit their "screen time," before putting them in front of a tiny screen to monitor their weight. But a little screen they can take anywhere can take them off the couch and out into the fresh air. Turns out kids can walk, talk, chew bubblegum AND text. And maybe, lose weight?

The French Say: Hey Baby, Get Off the Phone

2010-11-02T06:30:00.001-07:00

Oh the French, why oh why do they have such distain for technology. The French not only banned television for kids under the age of three but now they have the audacity to take away their cell phones! I jest, have you heard a three year old on the phone? It’s a mash up of gibberish and pregnant pauses. Now that’s just a waste of your minutes. But really, on a more serious note, the concern on cell phone use and kids is not unfounded.

Researchers in Sweden discovered that children and teens are five times as likely to develop brain cancer due to mobile phone usage. Their findings lead them to believe that there may be an epidemic with young cell phone users later in life. Now regardless of my previous kidding, these findings are indeed serious.

The French, they want to keep their kid’s brains intact. They are banning all advertising of cell phones to children under the age of twelve. They will also ban all sales of cell phones designed for the under six-year-old market (which honestly, I didn’t know existed). And they will have establish new limits for phone radiation and will insist that all cell phones sold must come with earphones.

The Independent stated that the French ban is ‘unique’ :

The clampdown represents the most comprehensive action yet taken by any government worldwide. It contrasts sharply with the stance of British ministers, who have largely ignored the recommendations of an official report nine years ago that people aged under 16 should be discouraged from using mobiles, and that the industry should be stopped from promoting them to children. Since then their use by the young has almost doubled, so that nine out of 10 of the country’s 16-year-olds own a handset.

But really, what is a young kid doing with a cell phone in the first place. It’s hard to argue with that unless you lend them yours for an ‘in case of emergency’ scenario.

What do you think the youngest age a kid should get their own phone?

Kids Talk on Cell Phones, Walk Into Traffic

2010-11-02T06:29:00.000-07:00

Kids on cell phones are more likely to step into traffic, according to a new study. The results of the study, by the University of Alabama, were published in the journal Pediatrics.

According to the study, one third of Americans between the ages of 8 and 12 have a cell phone. By the end of next year, it's expected that one half of "tweens" will carry one.

When I was 8 I could barely use a rotary telephone, never mind a cell phone.

The study tracked 77 kids as they navigated a virtual street crossing. The kids walked through the simulation 12 times, six with the phone and six without. Kids talking on the phone were 43 percent more likely to step into oncoming traffic.

According to David Schwebel, co-author of the study, the results in the simulator are validated by real-world tests.

So should you take away your tween's phone? Not according to Schwebel. Instead, just teach them to hang up the phone before crossing the street.

Perhaps the parents can take a lesson from that as well…

UPDATE - Video Interview Of Woman Caught Driving And Breastfeeding

2010-11-02T06:28:00.000-07:00

"If my child's hungry, I'm going to feed it."

Genine Compton, the Dayton, OH mother who was charged with child endangerment for breastfeeding her child while she was driving. Oh, she was also on the phone, but that's been pushed to the side for now.

See, Compton's kid is breastfed at this exact time each morning. The police don't really care what the reason is, it's dangerous, and also illegal. First, there's that whole carseat thing, but also "the danger [of] an accident [and] possible deployment of the airbag," according to police. Compton says it's the same thing if she gets hit with an airbag. She also says she'll do it again if she feels the need to do so.

The potential penalty of 180 days in jail would put a pretty big damper on the baby's eating schedule, although I suppose Compton could pump and then pass her milk through the bars for someone else to give to her child. Still, one would think that simply not breastfeeding while driving from now on would be a simpler solution.

Visit whiotv.com for the video.
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A woman in Ohio was driving while breastfeeding. Oh, and she was also talking on her cellphone.

To paraphrase my fellow Strollerderbian Jeanne Sager -- Now this is what I call multi-tasking.

I have a confession to make -- I've never breastfed, obviously, but I have given my infant son a bottle while talking on the phone. I wasn't driving, however. My way seems a little safer.

Driving While Breastfeeding would be DWB. I guess this could be DWBTC? Driving While Breastfeeding and Talking on a Cellphone?

The woman in question was allegedly caught in the act by a fellow motorist, who called the cops. The police then used the license plate number to track down the chatty momma. Her response? "39-year-old Genine Compton...told them she was breast-feeding and wouldn’t let her child go hungry."

Oh. OH. I see. Could you, perhaps, pull over to the side of the road? Just asking.

The charge is a misdemeanor, and the potential consequences are $1,800 fine and 180 days in jail. That seems like a lot of jail time for a misdemeanor, but what do I know.

Dayton police office Michael Burke pointed out that "the legal concern is that Compton had a child in her lap, not that she was breast-feeding in public." Well. Glad we cleared that up.

Kids on Cell Phones: Big Brother is Watching

2010-11-02T06:26:00.001-07:00

Do you spy on your kids?
For those of us still in the diapers and preschool stage, that question isn't up for much debate--who doesn't quietly peek into their kids' rooms to watch them play or sleep or fight with their siblings? But for those of us deep in the throes of teenage parenting, it can literally be a question of life and death.
Or can it?
Companies such as My Mobile Watchdog and Mobile Spy are marketing to parents of teens with visions of sexual predators dancing in their heads. Are your kids texting known sex offenders? Are they planning on meeting up with a stranger they met on MySpace? Are they "sexting" their friends? By installing the companies' software on your teen's cell phone, you'll be able to see who's texting your child. You can set up a list of approved texters, and any time your child receives an "unathorized" text, you'll get a real-time text message alert. The service costs about $10 per month.
Parents aren't the only ones using the services; Mike Harris, a member of the Child Sex Internet Investigations Unit in Jefferson County, Colorado, installed it on his own cell phone, then posed as an underage child on social networking sites. Since then, Harris arrested 83 alleged sexual predators, more than half with the help of the monitoring service.
But does that mean we should be infringing on our childrens' privacy? Some child privacy advocates don't think so. But most parents disagree.
"I wasn't going to get my 15-year-old a cell phone and not know how she was using it," says James Green of Sulphur, Louisiana. "I think it's a caring father that wants to know what's going on in her life."
What do you think? Is this sneaky wiretapping or responsible parenting?