The Perils Of Eating Junk Food Video

Junk Food Advertising and Our Children

Taken from an online article written by Jennifer Doggett for crikey.com.

"The rise of social media and digital marketing is exposing young children and teenagers to junk food advertising from all directions, according to key figures in obesity prevention.

The “absolute saturation of advertising” coming from junk food companies such as Coca Cola, Red Bull and Pringles was discussed at length at Digitisation and Fragmentation: the next frontier for junk food marketers, public health organisations, parents and regulators on March 21, sponsored by the Obesity Prevention Coalition (OPC) and Deakin University’s Centre for Sustainable and Responsible Organisations. The panel discussion, facilitated by Dr Paul Harrison, took a close look at the food industry’s use of digital media to collect information about young consumers and shape behaviours.

With 90% of children in Australia having regular access to the internet via school or their homes, and 96% of 9-11 year-olds accessing the internet every day, many parents feel powerless to compete with the constant bombardment of advertising, says Corrina Langelaan, Campaign Manager at The Parents’ Jury.

Seven of the top 10 most popular Facebook pages in Australia belonged to companies promoting junk foods such as Coca Cola, Skittles, Domino Pizza, Bubble O Bill, Pringles, Red Bull and Oreos, and the biggest group these were reaching were 13-17-year-olds, she said."

To read more of this article, visit the link to the page below;

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2013/04/11/digital-media-and-junk-food-advertising/

The Cost of Junk Food

Here's something to peruse over your fry up,.. written by Lindsay Thacker Maxfield for KTAR fm.
http://ktar.com/168/1626743/Your-junk-food-habit-is-costing-you-thousands

You know junk food is bad for your body, but have you ever stopped to calculate just how bad it is for your budget?

Sure, spending a few bucks a week on a fast-food lunch, a bakery doughnut or even a daily can of soda from the office machine isn't going to break the bank. But these purchases add up, not just over weeks and months but years — by one estimate, costing you in the tens of thousands over two decades.

That's according to financial adviser Barbara Friedberg, who writes in her book "How to Get Rich: Wealth Building Guide for the Financially Illiterate" that buying convenience store snacks could cost you more than $35,000 over 20 years.

By buying snacks on the go instead of bringing them from home, "the money lost is substantial," Friedberg writes. "Slap together a few bad money habits — smoking, buying lunch out, playing the lottery — and you've needlessly spent thousands of dollars over the years."

Say you buy a daily coffee for $2.00. Then once or twice a week you go out to lunch for $7, and another once or twice you grab a snack from the convenience store for about $3. That quickly adds up to $34 a week, or $136 a month. Over the course of a year that's $1,632 spent, and over a five-year period, that equals $8,160.

Even if your habits are less frequent, your purchases are still adding up. Buying a 65-cent soda twice a week equals more than $67 a year. Make that a daily habit and it will cost you $237 a year or $1,185 over five years. Buy it from a gas station at $1.25 a pop and you'll be paying $456 a year or $2,281 for five years.

Here's the approximate annual cost of other junk food habits:

• Bottled soda twice a week: $186

• Candy bar three times a week: $234

• Daily coffee from a coffee shop: $803

• Fast food five days a week: $1,690

Let's say you're OK with throwing a little pocket change toward your daily Diet Coke habit, or that you're fine with spending a few hundred a year for your weekly lunch out. After all, it's still a relatively cheap indulgence, and life is for the living, right?

But before you completely make up your mind, consider this: If you were to save that money spent and then invest it, your potential returns are sure to make you think twice.

Say your yearly junk food budget ends up costing you $1,715. Invest that amount each year in a stock mutual fund averaging 7 percent return per year, according to Friedberg, and at the end of 20 years, the $1,715 annual investment is worth $70,307.

How's that food for thought?

Power Of Youtube

Want a quick way of working off that McDonalds, KFC or Doughnut you just ate? But can't be bothered to go to the gym, or search through your mum's old fitness videos as you no longer have a VCR player? Well my friends, there's this thing called YouTube?...

Here's a few links to channels on YouTube that have dozens of workout videos that you can choose from, from quick five minute workouts, to fifty minutes of intense fitness coaching.

PowerGirlFitness
http://www.youtube.com/user/PowerGirlFitness?feature=watch

FitnessBlender.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/FitnessBlender?feature=

WomensWorkoutChannel
http://www.youtube.com/user/womensworkoutchannel?feature=

BeFiT
http://www.youtube.com/user/BeFit?feature=

INSPIRATIONAL FITNESS MODELS (For Men)
http://www.youtube.com/user/STORYOFSHIRTLESS?feature=

Happy Watching!

Activities and Exercise Websites

Below are several website links for you to check out to improve your body and fitness.
Put the burger down, step away from the fries and put your hands in the air....

Better Abs
http://m.skinnyms.com/7-day-ab-challenge/

Tips On Better Running
http://www.fitsugar.com/Tips-Becoming-Better-Runner-24425967 

Building Muscle
http://m.mensfitness.com/training/build-muscle/8-weeks-to-more-muscle?page=2

Yoga Exercises
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/yoga/yoga-workout-for-your-abs?page=2