Obesity – Epidemic or Opportunity?
I have been wanting to write a post for some time now about looking after ourselves while we work at home. It can be very easy to get the kids off to school in the morning, grab a cup of coffee and sit down to do some work in front of a computer. All of a sudden the day is nearly over, the peace is shattered and the kids are home from school. And what have we done to look after our health? Probably very little – and this leads to becoming overweight, which is no good for our body, and no good for our brain.
According to Wikipedia.org being overweight “ is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy.” But is that all there is to it?
Most medicos agree that a man having over 25% body fat is obese, while a woman is obese if she has more than 30% of fat, but it’s a fine line between being overweight and being obese.
Obesity is a worldwide health problem which is reaching epidemic proportions and is defined as the excess accumulation of body fat. Many people think that it is a state of overweight, but that’s not exactly true. Being overweight indicates an excess amount of 
weight that includes bone, muscle, fat and water. But, obese persons have a surplus of body fat which is generally caused by a sedentary lifestyle, consumption of pre-packaged food, fast foods, and certain medical disorders are the causes of obesity.
Today, obesity has become the number one public health issue in the United States. Research shows that obesity and being overweight are one of the causes of preventable death in America. Around 1/3rd off all Americans are overweight people and another 1/3rd are obese.
So what has all this got to do with running your own home business? Well there is an extremely good window of opportunity open to us at this very point in time. You see we have just had Christmas and New Year! - What do we do in the holiday season? – We eat!
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US Obesity Trends 2007
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Basic HTML
When I was first starting to look at computers and how they worked, I can remember going to a friends house to use his, more powerful machine. It had a monochrome (green) screen, just like mine, but I wanted to use it mainly because he had a thing called a hard drive. At the time we were blown away at the capacity of information he could store – I mean this thing was enormous – It held 20mb! My how things have changed. Now I get emails that big and think nothing of it!
Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
It was about then that my education was broadened when I became aware that a computer talked in a ‘language’ and it wasn’t english. There were things like hexidecimal, FORTRAN (the first compiled language), PASCAL ( I thought he was a scientist), COBOL, good old fashioned BASIC, a couple of others and of course, what we are here for, some gobbledygook thing called HTML – ‘HyperText Markup Language’.
Here is a very brief, and basic tutorial on HTML. It won’t get you passing exams, but it will get you past the beginner stage, and it will give you enough info for wordpress and to customise some features of your blog. If you need a comprehensive tutorial then I suggest you visit HTML Goodies. It’s a great website, and that’s where I got started myself.
Tags:
All HTML starts with, with an opening tag like this < and ends with a closing tag like this </>. Here are some starters:-
Underline: <u>your text here</u>
Bold: <strong>your text here</strong>
Italics: <em>your text here</em>
Start text on a new line <br>your text here</br>
New paragraph <p>your text here</p>
Using two tags at once? Thats fine, just don’t get your tags out of order:-
<strong><em>your text here</em></strong> will give you both bold and italic but <strong><em>your text here</strong></em> will give you a spelling mistake and it won’t work.
Hyperlink – At some point in time you will have to create a link to another site or page. This is called a hyperlink, and it looks like this <a href=”http://www.yourdomain.com“</a>. You can ad some text in to give your readers an instruction, like ‘Click Here’ or what ever text you wish, and that will look like this <a href=”http://www.yourdomain.com“> your text here</a>
Images can get a little complicated if you have to create a ‘pathway’ but the very basic coding looks like this -<img src=”imagenamehere.gif” alt=”your text here” width=”32 height=32″>. If you are competent enough to use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program then you will probably understand how to create a pathway, but if your a beginner and you’re using wordpress for your blog, it might be a lot easier for you to upload your images using the icon in your edit box. However, if you are going to make your image ‘live’ so it links to another site or page on your blog, you will need to click the html tab and insert your hyperlink so it looks like this. <a href=”http://www.yourdomain.com“img src=”imagenamehere.gif” alt=”your text here”</a>
Email links – I’m not really a fan of using email links on any of my sites because eventually your site is going to be crawled by an email spider. It will specifically target the @ symbol, grab everything around it, take it back to its’ host, and kapow – you have junk mail. To avoid this you can take a look at how I show you my email address on my Contact Us page. But if you still decide that you have a need to use it, then this is how to write it – <a href=”mailto:johndoe@yourdomain.com”> Click Here To Write To John</a>
Good luck and I hope this helps.
Yours in blogging
Dan Dinneen
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weight that includes bone, muscle, fat and water. But, obese persons have a surplus of body fat which is generally caused by a sedentary lifestyle, consumption of pre-packaged food, fast foods, and certain medical disorders are the causes of obesity.
