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“Earnings Look Ahead: In 11 days, Equity Lifestyle ... - Investors Business Daily” plus 3 more

2010-04-10T10:06:00.001-07:00

“Earnings Look Ahead: In 11 days, Equity Lifestyle ... - Investors Business Daily” plus 3 more

Earnings Look Ahead: In 11 days, Equity Lifestyle ... - Investors Business Daily
GOP Love the 'Hollywood!' Lifestyle - DAILY KOS
Lifestyle changes can reduce cancer risk - Vancouver Sun
Traverse Bay Farms Announces Brenda Swanson, Creator of ... - PR Inside

Earnings Look Ahead: In 11 days, Equity Lifestyle ... - Investors Business Daily

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 09:29 AM PDT

Earnings Look Ahead: In 11 days, Equity Lifestyle Properties Releases Its Quarterly Numbers (ELS)

Posted 12:24 PM ET

Apr 10, 2010 (SmarTrend News Watch via COMTEX) -- Analysts, on average, expect Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS) to report earnings of $0.44 on sales of $104 million on April 20, 2010.

For the full year, analysts expect the company to post EPS of $1.27. In the year-ago period, the company reported EPS of $0.54 on sales of $127 million.

In the previous quarter, the company reported EPS of $0.21, topping consensus estimates of $0.05.

SmarTrend is bullish on shares of Equity Lifestyle Properties and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on March 05, 2010 at $50.88. The stock has risen 11.6% since the alert was issued.

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GOP Love the 'Hollywood!' Lifestyle - DAILY KOS

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 05:04 AM PDT

Whoops, and who was this junior party member of the family values and supper patriotic party of no ideology, or one "No!":

She was a 25-year-old junior staffer when the Florida Republican Party gave her an American Express card.

What luck, a state lottery winner, well no but hey might as well been.

Over the next 2½ years, nearly $1.3 million in charges wound up on Melanie Phister's AmEx — $40,000 at a London hotel, and nearly $20,000 in plane tickets for indicted former House Speaker Ray Sansom, his wife and kids, for starters. Statements show thousands spent on jewelry, sporting goods and in one case $15,000 for what's listed as a month-long stay at a posh Miami Beach hotel, but which the party says was a forfeited deposit.

Now here's apparently a bright? young lady, hopefully educated? and responsible? knowing that the card in her possession is given with the responsibility that it be used only for the needs contributors would expect as to political? party? needs and if there's a question as to use anyone above her would be able to answer, oh and check those monthly bills.

"I did not have the sole discretion to initiate credit card spending," Phister said in an e-mail statement. "Over that period of time, there were multiple instances when the card was used to make purchases that I had no knowledge of, and I did not regularly review the monthly credit card statements which I understand were sent directly to the Party's accounting office."

Whoops again, hope she's better with her own credit cards and money, but hey she's young with needs, but not only her own.

She was a Republican Party employee who mainly answered to Sansom, R-Destin, speaker-designate at the time and overseeing House campaign operations. The job involved planning fundraising events and often accompanying Sansom and other legislative leaders on fundraising and other political trips.

Sansom was indicted by a grand jury last year for inserting $6 million into the state budget for an airport building that a friend and GOP contributor, Jay Odom, wanted to use as an airplane hangar. That criminal investigation revealed that Sansom charged more than $170,000 on his party-issued credit card — everything from plane tickets for his family to clothes to electronics.

Turns out Sansom spent heavily on Phister's card as well.

One wonders, at least this one, what else this Sansom might also control as to this young lady? Oh I know, they're a strong family value group, just ask them.

The Florida Democratic Party requires staffers and leaders to use their own credit cards and seek reimbursement for appropriate expenses. That's now the practice at the Florida Republican Party, and fundraiser Hoffman suggested it's about time.

"My company, with 4,000 employees, nobody had credit cards,'' said Hoffman, a developer. "If you wanted to expense, you had to submit a form with backup. . . . It wasn't one employee taking another out to eat and charging it all off.""I can't believe it. Someone should be hanged for that," Mark Guzzetta, a Boca Raton developer who has raised millions of dollars for Republicans, said of the party allowing so much spending on a low-level staffer's card. -->-->-->

Hey we watched it all with the previous administration, led? by a top? ceo? mentality?, and the treasury, our treasury, and it's willing congress as well as the outsiders.

I believe we've found out the one ideology this so called political "Party" espouses and that is where there's someone else's money it's "Party Time", hollywood like stardom, name well known country wide, and all the wealth one can squeeze out of others. Just think rush, beck, the hockey puck, etc., etc., the names are well known!

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Lifestyle changes can reduce cancer risk - Vancouver Sun

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 10:16 PM PDT

Amanda McNally's mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when McNally was just 12.

"I'd never heard the words 'breast cancer' before," said McNally, now 36. "That was 1985. I didn't know what it meant. I got that she was sick, that she needed to be treated, but I never thought that she would die. I don't think your mind allows you to think that at that age."

"Everyone knew it was going to be terminal but for me," McNally recalled. "I honestly believed she would get better and when I did realize she wasn't, she was in palliative care."

McNally's mom died when she was 16.

Three years ago when McNally's son, Jacob, was born, all the difficult feelings came back.

"I was quite overcome with grief at not having my mom and having those worries about if what happened to my mom happens to me," the White Rock, B.C. mom said. "I was really, really taken over by it.

"I started really realizing what my mom must have gone through. I don't want my children growing up knowing what it's like to lose your mother to cancer. For me, living most of my life without my mom, every milestone was hard. Having children without my mother is probably the worst thing I've experienced so far."

McNally made a conscious decision to lower her risk of getting breast cancer by taking preventative lifestyle measures. And to back that up -- after all, there are no guarantees -- she's also making sure she's goes for regular screening mammograms.

"When I lost my mom, I know how powerless I felt against this disease," said McNally who trained in early childhood education but now volunteers at the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation as run director for its Run for the Cure fundraiser.

"For me, I refuse to feel powerless. I'm doing something about it. If I do get diagnosed with breast cancer one day, I know that I've done everything I can to catch it early enough that I could change the end of the story."

One-third to one-half of all breast cancers in developed countries could be prevented by lifestyle changes, a cancer prevention expert says.

This conservative range recognizes there is a lack of consensus within the research community, Barbara Kaminsky, CEO of the Canadian Cancer Society (B.C. and Yukon) said in an interview.

The World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research number is 38 to 42 per cent, while several sources suggest 50 per cent of breast cancers could be prevented with vitamin D, said Kaminsky, chair of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (B.C./Yukon) 2020 Prevention Working Group established in 2007 as part of a plan to achieve a future without breast cancer.

Contrary to popular belief, heredity is not a major factor in breast cancer. Only five to 10 per cent of breast cancers are due to heredity, Kaminsky said.

"The emerging research has to do with healthy living messages," Kaminsky said. "Smoking -- don't do it. Be physically active, keep a healthy body weight, eat a healthy diet. Beyond that, supplementing with vitamin D and avoiding the use of hormone replacement therapy shows more and more promise."

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are also looking promising as future agents for cancer prevention.

"A lot of women don't think that breast cancer is preventable," Carolyn Gotay, Canadian Cancer Society cancer primary prevention chair said.

While the healthy living message may seem boring or uninspired, the connection between healthy living and reducing breast cancer risk is "irrefutable," Gotay said.

"There is too much evidence. When you have thousands of articles all saying the same thing, this isn't something people are making up. The thing is we can't tell who are the 30 to 50 per cent who won't get breast cancer."

At the moment, most physicians are still very treatment focused, Kaminsky said.

"If you went to the average practitioner who treats cancer patients, a relatively small percentage would say that prevention is affected by lifestyle. I think that is just part of the evolution in health care generally," Kaminsky said. "The whole area of disease prevention is not something the average physician has had a lot of exposure to."

The body is made up of biochemical reactions. Whether you're taking drugs or making changes in the way your body works through what you eat and how you move, it's still affecting the biochemical processes.

Physical exertion speeds the course of activity in the colon. "Perhaps your colon is exposed to many bad by-products for shorter periods of time," Gotay said. "Other biochemical things happen when muscles work. There are certain things they release into the blood stream to help your body work more efficiently that may move by-products down the line more quickly. We don't know all the answers, but it is a constant interplay."

The same goes for food. "Different substances in food get translated into good things and bad," Gotay said.

"Some interesting studies are showing that even older women who take up an exercise program can reduce their risk of breast cancer, so it's never too late," said Gotay who is planning a study on the topic. "Even if you're 65, or older, it doesn't mean you're stuck with your lifestyle and your risk factors the way they are. You can make a difference."

"Hopefully in the future we'll have better ways of pinpointing who is going to be getting breast cancer. Some of it is a random mutation. Every day your body is making new cells and every once in a while, something goes wrong. Some of it may be random, some of it isn't random," Gotay said.

Even if you change your lifestyle you can still get breast cancer, Kaminsky said. "This is about reducing the risk, not about a guarantee."

These days, McNally alternates screening mammograms with ultrasounds, every six months.

"Every time I go for a mammogram, in the car, I think: 'Maybe I won't go this time.' I'd be lying if I didn't say that was true," McNally said. "When they tell you everything is fine, there is no feeling like it in the world. Every time I go, I know there's a possibility they are going to tell me things aren't fine.

"There are things you can't control. These are the things we can. We can eat well, we can get some exercise. I think it's important to take control of the things we can. There are just so many things that blindside you. At the end of the day, to eat right, big deal. To walk for 30 minutes. Big deal. In the grand scheme of things, it's just a drop in the bucket."

jennylee@vancouversun.com

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Traverse Bay Farms Announces Brenda Swanson, Creator of ... - PR Inside

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 04:28 AM PDT

2010-04-10 13:36:01 - Traverse Bay Farms, the leading provider of super fruit supplements and fruit-based products announced today Brenda Swanson, the creator of 45andfabulous.com website blog and lifestyle, international fashion model and actress has joined the company as Director of Natural Beauty and Positive Living.

Bellaire, MI. Creator of the 45 and Fabulous Lifestyle, International fashion model and actress brings extensive experience on natural beauty and positive living to Traverse Bay Farms.

Brenda Swanson brings over 30 years of natural beauty experience. She is also the Creator of the 45 and Fabulous lifestyle calendar coming out in 2011, an international fashion model and actress.

In addition, she trains celebrities on living a healthy and natural lifestyle. Ms. Swanson has graced the pages of numerous magazines and has been featured on the cover of Shape Magazine, Fitness, was Georgio Armani's model for the Emproio Armani line and a world class gymnast.

"Brenda represents the true meaning of embracing natural beauty from the inside-out. She has embraced the meaning of living an active and healthy lifestyle no matter what your age. In addition, she is extremely talented on sharing her celebrity insights on natural beauty secrets. Why should only the celebrities get to know all the good stuff?", said Andy LaPointe, Director of Marketing with the company.

According to Ms. Swanson, "Traverse Bay Farms not only offers great tasting fruit products packed full of antioxidants to help slow the aging process, but their line of super fruit supplements offer a complete selection of condition specific natural solutions to support beauty from the inside out. They also offer a lot of great information on how to enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle. I look forward to working closely with everyone at Traverse Bay Farms. "

Brenda's project not only teaches the secrets of aging gracefully, not matter your age, but also provides insightful tips and information how anyone at any age can live a fabulous and healthy lifestyle. Brenda fills you in on all the ways to have anything from a celebrity smile to a Sports Illustrated super model body. You can view her blog at www.45andfabulous.com

Traverse Bay Farms offers a complete line of award winning super fruit based products including award winning fruit salsas. Fruit Advantage, the sister brand to Traverse Bay Farms, offers a complete selection of super fruit based supplements including tart cherry capsules, tart cherry juice, wild blueberry capsules and the world's first supplement to combine tart cherries with glucosamine and chondroitin. The patented formula is called Fruit Advantage Cherry Prime.

Traverse Bay Farms / Fruit Advantage
www.traversebayfarms.com
www.fruitadvantage.com
7053 M-88 South, PO Box 1229
Bellaire, MI 49615
1-231-533-8788
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“Nicole Richie leads a green lifestyle - AZCentral.com” plus 3 more

2010-04-09T10:11:00.001-07:00

“Nicole Richie leads a green lifestyle - AZCentral.com” plus 3 more

Nicole Richie leads a green lifestyle - AZCentral.com
Lifestyle: Spring cleaning - Philadelphia Daily News
Research and Markets: Digital Lifestyles: 2010 Outlook ... - PR Inside
BIG+BIH: Thailand Ready to Showcase Best Design and ... - PR Inside

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Lifestyle: Spring cleaning - Philadelphia Daily News Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:46 AM PDT These spring-cleaning aids are so bright and happy, you may find yourself cleaning clear into summer. - Caroline Tiger Not just a pretty face The cheery Clementine Beads Storage Bushel ($275) has a steel frame that holds its own with heavy, bulky items. Available at hableconstruction.com. The big sweep Choose a Broom ($26) with a colorful, striped handle to sweep away cobwebs and gloom. Available at alicesupplyco.com. Clean and green Add a functional pop of color to your kitchen with the Dish Doctor dish drainer ($70) by Marc Newson. Available at hivemodern.com. Incog-neat-o Designer Stefano Giavonnoni explores the parallels between a humble cleaning device and a potted plant with the Merdolino Toilet Brush ($50). Available at alessi-shop.com. Kitchen convertible Apron-towel hybrid Zip&Dry ($24.99) is made for multitasking. Available at justperfectinc.com. Just add water Pop-Up Sponges ($15) take up minimal storage space and expand immediately to full size in water. Available at Williams-Sonoma, 200 S. Broad St., and williams-sonoma.com. Whistle while you work Your family won't even know you're putting them to work when you give them these Slipper Genie Microfiber Cleaning Slippers by Evriholder ($9.49). Available at organize.com. Caroline Tiger is a Philadelphia writer. Visit her design blog at www.carolinetiger.com/design-phan. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Research and Markets: Digital Lifestyles: 2010 Outlook ... - PR Inside Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:11 AM PDT 2010-04-09 17:14:03 - Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/300342/digital_lifestyles : ) has announced the addition of the " Digital Lifestyles: 2010 Outlook : " report to their offering. Digital Lifestyles: 2010 Outlook : provides analysis and forecasts for a variety of digital lifestyle product categories, including broadband Internet, television services, digital content services, and products (home networks and consumer electronics). In 2010, consumers will have available to them ever-more capable products and services aimed at improving their productivity, entertainment, and communications experiences, said Kurt Scherf, VP, principal analyst. Convergence in applications in these spaces opens the door for technology, service, and product companies to create new revenue models. Key Topics Covered: 1.0 Digital Lifestyles: An Overview 1.1 Digital Lifestyle Categories 1.2 Key Consumer Drivers 1.2.1 Consumer Electronics Purchases 1.2.2 Entertainment Expenditures 2.0 Access Services 2.1 Broadband Services 2.1.1 Broadband Service Penetration 2.1.2 Key Trends in Broadband Services 2.2 Television Services 2.2.1 Growth of Television Services 2.2.2 Key Trends in Television Services 2.3 Mobile Services and Devices 2.3.1 Growth of Mobile Services 2.3.2 Key Trends in Mobile Services and Devices 3.0 Digital Media and Gaming 3.1 Online Video 3.2 Digital Music 3.3 Gaming 4.0 Trends in Consumer Electronics 4.1 Connected Consumer Electronics 4.1.1 Market Trend 4.1.2 Key Technology Developments 4.1.3 Key Connected Consumer Electronics Products 4.2 3D TVs and Blu-ray Players 4.3 Consumer Videoconferencing 5.0 Digital Home Tech Support 6.0 Home Systems 6.1 The Challenges of a Down Economy 6.2 Energy Management as a Concerted Home Systems Driver For more information visit www.researchandmarkets.com/research/300342/digital_lifestyles : Research and MarketsLaura Wood, Senior Manager press@researchandmarkets.com : mailto:press@researchandmarkets.com U.S. Fax: 646-607-1907Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716 Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
BIG+BIH: Thailand Ready to Showcase Best Design and ... - PR Inside Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:51 AM PDT 2010-04-09 13:50:04 - The South East Asia's largest gift and houseware trade fair, "Bangkok International Gift Fair 2010 and Bangkok International Houseware Fair 2010 (BIG+BIH) is scheduled to open to foreign buyers on 20-23 April 2010 at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Center (BITEC) : . BIG+BIH has been organized by The Lifestyle Products Federation of Thailand : and the Department of Export Promotions : , Ministry of Commerce twice a year since 2001 in the months of April and October. "The concept of BIG+BIH April 2010 is "Soul and Style of the Orient", where over 600 exporting companies : from Thailand and the Mekong River countries of Burma, Laos and Cambodia as well as other ASEAN exhibitors such as Indonesia will showcase their products, which are truly unique to the region. The foreign buyers will be amazed with the outstanding lifestyle products and designs which are not just Thai or national styles but "Oriental Chic, Modern design", and with materials and process according to international standards of safety and quality," said Mr. Supat Sriwannavit, President of The Lifestyle Products Federation of Thailand. The lifestyle products to be highlighted at BIG+BIH April 2010, in 1,600 exhibition stands : within a 32,500 square meter BITEC exhibition hall, include gifts, premiums, home decorative, artificial flowers and plants, handicrafts, household items, spa products, home textiles, toys, stationery, and other design objects. BITEC, the new venue for the event, is a high tech, ultra modern convention facility that is much closer to the city center than the previous venue site. BITEC is both close to Suvarnabhumi International Airport, taking only 15-20 minutes by car, and extremely convenient to downtown Bangkok. In addition to the exceptional products and designs, the foreign buyers will enjoy numerous privileges such as "A One Day Trip" program, special airfares and hotel accommodation rates, VIP access through immigration, luxury buyers lounge with free wireless internet, shower and changing rooms at BITEC, interpreters and escorts from the airport to the venue site. For more information about BIG+BIH April 2010, please visit www7asso.com : . Penner-Madison & CompanyPeter Bachner, +6681-922-3480 peter_b@penner-madison.com : mailto:peter_b@penner-madison.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

“Soccer Ideal To Maintain Fitness - OfficialWire” plus 3 more

2010-04-08T10:02:00.000-07:00

“Soccer Ideal To Maintain Fitness - OfficialWire” plus 3 more

Soccer Ideal To Maintain Fitness - OfficialWire
Overweight Children Carry an Enhanced Risk of Lifestyle ... - Med India
60s icon Twiggy and HSN team for lifestyle line - Patriot Ledger
Moby Has Quit Drinking for Healthier Lifestyle - AceShowbiz

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Soccer Ideal To Maintain Fitness - OfficialWire

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:49 AM PDT

Soccer provides health and fitness benefits at least as pronounced as for running and in some cases better, researchers in Denmark said.

Study leader Peter Krustrup and Jens Bangsbo of the University of Copenhagen, conducted a three-year study involving men, women and children -- ages 9-77 -- divided into soccer, running and control groups.

"Soccer is a very popular team sport that contains positive motivational and social factors that may facilitate compliance and contribute to the maintenance of a physically active lifestyle," Krustrup said in a statement.

"The studies presented have demonstrated that soccer training for two-three hours per week causes significant cardiovascular, metabolic and musculoskeletal adaptations, independent on gender, age or lack of experience with soccer."

The researchers said the most important finding was that the soccer team built social connectedness, which may impact how long people stay involved in the activity.

The findings are published in a special edition of the Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

Overweight Children Carry an Enhanced Risk of Lifestyle ... - Med India

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 06:21 AM PDT

The site reports that the markers for cardiovascular disease have been noted in kids as young as three, and kids as young as seven already have the warning signs of Type 2 diabetes.

It is believed that an increase in the number of overweight youngsters and a decrease in their level of exercise may be the reasons behind the chronic diseases showing up in kids.

"I think parents should be not so much worried as motivated," Dr. Eliana Perrin, co-author of a new study in "Pediatrics," said, according to MSNBC.com.

"Catching something early gives us as parents and pediatricians an opportunity to prevent problems down the road. Parents have a huge role in helping children make healthier choices in what they eat and how often they play."

To reach the conclusion, experts focused on 16,000 kids from age 1 to 17.

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60s icon Twiggy and HSN team for lifestyle line - Patriot Ledger

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 07:21 AM PDT

Back in the Mod '60s, when Twiggy conquered London and fashion changed forever, the waif of a teen with huge eyes, a boyish bob and long legs craved the glamour and curves of a different icon.

"Whether you're thin, fat, small, dark, blond, redhead, you wanna be something else," said the world's first boldface supermodel. "I wanted a fairy godmother to make me look like Marilyn Monroe. I had no boobs, no hips, and I wanted it desperately."

What she wanted was all around her: fuller-figure models with names nobody remembers, many of them middle-class or upper-crust older girls biding their time before landing husbands.

Absent any of that, what Twiggy had was extreme youth, a thirst for fashion and triple-layered false eyelashes that fed her right into the decade's social revolution alongside The Beatles and Pop art.

Now 60, she remains a one-name wonder with a joyous laugh, a gift for chat and a home girl cockney accent. She's achieved, slightly, some of those coveted curves, but she hasn't lost her edge. The singer, dancer, actress and author isn't done just yet.

Twiggy will soon hit Home Shopping Network (HSN) with an affordable line of skinny jeans, ruffled blouses, gypsy skirts, jackets and accessories in bold colors and price points of under $100.

That, she said, would have pleased her younger self, who saved up spending-money to splurge at London's popular Biba boutique.

"I've always had the strong belief that fashion should be for everyone, not just for wealthy people," said Twiggy, lounging on a white hotel settee between Union Jack accent pillows. "Lots of people can't afford to spend lots of money on clothes, and they should have nice things, too."

Lots of people who wear lots of different sizes. The "Twiggy London" line will be available up to around size 20, said the creator, who cites genes – not starvation – for the rail-thin look that made her the face of 1966 at age 16.

It's not the first time Twiggy has indulged her interest in design, or remote shopping. Her "Twiggy Collection" of last decade was sold online through the portal Great Universal. There were other home shopping ventures as well. Back in the '60s, she put out a line for teens but left it in the dust of some bad business partners after three years.

"We were very green then. We're a bit wiser now. A little bit older, a little wiser," she laughed.

The youngest of three girls, she was born Lesley Hornby in north London's Neasden neighborhood to a carpenter dad and a factory worker mom who worked a Woolworth's counter to earn extra money. At 5-feet, 6 inches – short for a model – Twiggy weighed only 91 pounds when she exploded onto the Pop culture scene.

Working Saturdays as an assistant in a hair salon, she met Nigel Davies, who became her boyfriend and manager, changing his name to the flashier Justin de Villeneuve. They arranged for a popular hairdresser to engineer her androgynous 'do for photos he put up in his salon. The pictures were spotted by one of his clients who wrote for the Daily Express and splashed Twiggy across two pages to launch her career.

By 1967, she was on the cover of Vogue, jetting around the world working six days a week and spreading the London look to America, where knee-length hems and pillbox hats inspired by Jackie Kennedy were still the norm when she made her first visit to the U.S. that year.

Before she was discovered, she was already painting on tiny lower lashes – "my twigs" – to help make her eyes look as large as tea saucers. Her look was perfect for emerging unisex trends and ever-rising hemlines, but it opened the debate still raging over whether skinny models promote an unhealthy body ideal, especially for young girls.

"It was debated when I hit the headlines and I always came out and said that I was very healthy, which I was, and always ate, which I do. I love my food. I just come from a lineage. My dad was very slim, so it's kind of in the genes really," she said.

In today's crowded model marketplace, where competition is far more fierce than when Twiggy came up, girls have died as a result of starvation. She thinks the publishers of fashion magazines, booking agents, modeling agencies and designers all share responsibility.

"They ask for these girls. It's gotta stop. I don't know how you go about it, so the debate goes on," she said. "The agencies have to protect these girls."

Twiggy's interest in fashion design was stronger than modeling ever was.

"I didn't plan to be a model. I thought the world had gone stark raving mad," she said. "I was used to being teased at school for being so skinny and I thought I was really funny looking, but I was obsessed with clothes."

She retired from modeling in 1970 after four years, joking at the time: "You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life." She moved on to stage, films, TV and singing, earning two Golden Globes and a Tony nomination. The ultra-skinny look remains dominant in fashion.

"Twiggy will be an icon until her dying day and beyond," film director and writer Ken Russell, who cast her as Polly Browne in a musical adaptation of "The Boy Friend," told The Biography Channel in 2007.

Twiggy spent four seasons as a judge on "America's Next Top Model." There was also a memoir, a book on looking good at 40 and a return to modeling in 2005 for the British department store chain Marks & Spencer.

And there was her daughter, now 31-year-old Carly, a textile designer for Stella McCartney who made a scarf in a repeated hummingbird motif for her mother's HSN line that launches April 3.

Twiggy cites teen innocence and solid supervision for not succumbing to the more destructive aspects of the era that made her famous.

"My dad was always a very strong presence in my life. He instilled a kind of being down to earth, being sensible, especially when this whole thing happened to me," she said.

How does she see it now, looking back over the last 44 years?

"It was just so weird," she said. "I was this funny little kid from working-class London. It could have gone horribly wrong."

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Moby Has Quit Drinking for Healthier Lifestyle - AceShowbiz

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:35 AM PDT

The 'Porcelain' hitmaker claims that he has cut out drugs and alcohol, stating 'I haven't been drinking in about a year. I used to stay up till 8 A.M. drinking and doing drugs.'

Dance music star Moby is celebrating his sobriety after abstaining from drugs and alcohol for the last year. The "Porcelain" hitmaker was once a fixture in Manhattan's Lower East Side club scene but the 44-year-old has now traded late nights of drinking for a healthier lifestyle.

He tells the New York Daily News, "I haven't been drinking in about a year. I used to stay up till 8 A.M. drinking and doing drugs. Then I'd drink green tea and eat spirulina. You might say I was the healthiest of inebriates. The problem is living downtown. Between my house and my recording studio, there'd be 37 bars."

On another news, Moby has offered independent, non-profit filmmaker and film students his free music in Moby.com, Reelshow International reported. The electronic musician gives a chance to them to "listen to available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short." He adds, "If you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license, with any money that's generated being given to the humane society. i hope that you find what you're looking for."

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“Family lifestyle equals genes in obesity risk - Vancouver Sun” plus 3 more

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“Family lifestyle equals genes in obesity risk - Vancouver Sun” plus 3 more

Family lifestyle equals genes in obesity risk - Vancouver Sun
Official U.S Launch Party of MODE Lifestyle Magazine ... - Newswiretoday.com
Lifestyle changes can reduce cancer risk - Vancouver Sun
MSN Glo, a New Lifestyle Destination for Women - Softpedia

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Family lifestyle equals genes in obesity risk - Vancouver Sun

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 08:35 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity can run in families, but family lifestyle has just as much to do with teenagers' weight as their genes do, new research shows.

"What we do as a family -- our family lifestyles -- matters for weight. Lifestyles aren't just about individual behaviors," study author Dr. Molly A. Martin, Pennsylvania State University in University Park told Reuters Health. The study is the first to demonstrate that the connection between parents and children's weight is social as well as genetic.

"We had a gut sense that this was known or true, but in the research literature it actually had not been proven," added Martin, a sociologist who studies families, social inequalities, and adolescent health. Instead, she said, scientists studying behavior and genetics have focused solely on the roles of genes and environment, without trying to separate out the effects of a family's behavior.

Martin developed an equation that allowed her to account for the degree of genetic relatedness in a group 1,704 pairs of twins that ranged from identical twins to half-siblings, to tease out how much a family's lifestyle contributed to the children's risk of being obese.

The investigator used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a survey of seventh- to twelfth-graders launched in 1994 that included 2 years of follow-up. In 1996, 12 percent of the adolescents were overweight, while 6 percent had two obese parents, 14 percent had obese mothers only, and 5 percent had obese fathers.

A parent's weight did contribute to the likelihood of a child's being obese. But Martin found that lifestyle factors also played a role, in particular how many days in the past week that adolescents reported eating three square meals, and inactivity, as measured by how much time the teens spent watching TV or videos or playing computer games in an average week.

In fact, the influence of inactivity and meal frequency on the likelihood that a child would be overweight was as powerful as the effect of having a parent who was obese.

"Families' adoption, organization and maintenance of sustainable, healthy lifestyles is quite important, especially given the challenges involved in doing so in our postindustrial, time-squeezed economy," Martin writes in her report in the American Journal of Sociology.

In an interview, she acknowledged that eating regular meals as a family and engaging in regular physical activities can take money and time -- both of which are in increasingly short supply among many American families.

"Within that challenge," Martin added, "I think that if we find little things on a daily basis, like going for walks, playing with the dog, maybe going sledding this winter, those little things actually do matter."

SOURCE: American Journal of Sociology, December 10, 2008.

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Official U.S Launch Party of MODE Lifestyle Magazine ... - Newswiretoday.com

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 07:09 AM PDT

MODE Lifestyle Magazine is a London based fashion and lifestyle magazine that has recently expanded its demographics to the U.S. This launch party will be the official introduction of this affluent fashion and lifestyle publication to the U.S. market. The well known President and Editor-In-Chief of MODE, Alexander Michaels, will be pulling out all the stops for this once in a lifetime celebration. After several months of searching for the perfect venue MODE has hand picked the luxurious ultra chic MI-VI club located in the brand new Gulf Stream Park Community.

MI-VI, operated by nightlife legend Gerry Kelly, fuses the opulence of the British House of Windsor with the theatrical and eccentric Studio 54. MI-VI revolutionizes the art of clubbing with boutique dinning, four luxurious VIP rooms, and six gorgeous bars with an amazing orchestral stage. Specifically in celebration of MODE Lifestyle Magazine's Official U.S. Launch Party hosted by MI-VI there will be an extraordinary combination of celebrity guests, high end fashion shows, the Crème de la Crème of Florida's business and fashion industry and superstar DJs, and live music performances.

This exciting VIP event will include general admission with exclusive VIP sections, a complimentary cocktail hour as well as complimentary hors d'oeuvres. Guests will receive gift bags containing a variety of unrevealed lavish items as well as the opportunity to bid on luxury packages in a silent auction of with a portion of the proceeds going to a local charity.

With the combination of the talents of well known entrepreneur/author Alexander Michaels and Gerry Kelly, President of MI-VI; the hottest new spot in the brand new Gulf Stream Park Community, behind the wheel this event is sure to be one to remember.

Lifestyle changes can reduce cancer risk - Vancouver Sun

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 08:07 AM PDT