A new paper just published in Nutrition Journal cites overwhelming evidence that focusing on weight loss as the only route to achieve a healthy life style is ineffective and harmful. Co-authors Linda Bacon, an associate nutritionist at the University of California, Davis Department of Nutrition, and Lucy Aphramor, an NHS specialist dietician and honorary research fellow at the Applied Research Centre in Health and Lifestyle Interventions at Coventry University, England cite evidence from almost two hundred studies and come to surprising conclusions; a weight loss centered ...

Award-winning caterer Herban Feast (www.herbanfeast.com) announced today the opening of its new Herban Design Studio, presenting a full spectrum of event design services with guided DIY workshops, full-service event styling, floral design, party favors, and a large selection of unique pieces that are available to rent. The distinctive, working studio is managed by resident design expert and studio coordinator Chad Burnworth, a designer and floral artist known for his striking and memorable use of botanicals and natural and found objects. The Herban Design Studio, located ...

"No" is a difficult word to say for a lot of people. Irina Avtsin, a founder of "Personal Confidantency" and "Let's do a reality check!" want to help. The electronic workbook offering great techniques and exercises for those looking to protect their boundaries is now on sale on Amazon and Smashwords for $2.99. "Great book, a must buy for the pushover in your life!" says K. Stead, a reviewer from Amazon. "This is a great book and a good first start in controlling your own destiny! You can't go wrong for $2.99! I started using the advice right away with my inlaws and it ...

The first-ever Puma Party, for single women under 40 who prefer younger men, takes place on Friday, February 18, 2011, 8pm-Midnight, at Neptune's Restaurant at Pier 39, San Francisco CA 94133. Adult men and women of all ages are welcome. One Puma in attendance will be crowned Miss Bay Area Puma. She will win a free room at Hedonism II Resort & Spa at Negril Beach, Jamaica during International Cougar Week, March 27 - April 2, 2011. To be eligible she must be legally single, under age 40, available to the news media for interviews, and prefer younger men. "The worldwide ...

Manselle Media completes acquisition of competitor CORE Brand Management New venture will serve to strengthen company focus on offering innovative corporate branding. Manselle Media (www.ManselleMedia.com), the Virginia-based marketing and branding firm most noted for its work with entertainment, fashion and sports clients, announced today that it has completed an acquisition of start-up CORE Brand Management. CORE provides branding and marketing services with an emphasis on sales and profitability to corporate clients throughout the east coast. Prior to the acquisition, ...

Amadeus Consulting, a custom application development and mobile application development company located in Boulder announced today that Jay Millard, the company's Chief Marketing Officer, was named in the Boulder County Business Report's prestigious Forty under 40 class of 2011. Nominees of the Forty Under 40 award must meet a number of qualifications: Be under 40 years old as of Feb. 16, 2011, have had an impact on his or her organization, live or work in Boulder or Broomfield counties, made significant contributions of time and talent to the Boulder Valley Community ...

WHO: Totally (In)Appropriate Radio Host Natasha Rennie and Co-Host Dee Dee Underwood along with our featured guest - Lifetime Entertainer Tray Chaney WHAT: Tray Chaney's Career is On A New Path, A New Direction and He May be looking for Someone To Share This New Life With DATE: Friday, January 28, 2011 TIME: 9:00pm (EST) - 10:30 pm (EST) CALL-IN #: 714.510.3742 LINK: blogtalkradio.com/inappropriate Show Description: The celebrity edition of Totally (In)Appropriate will have an exclusive with Tray Chaney, the famous actor on the Peabody Award-Winning ...

As technology changes, businesses have to create new ways to engage with their customers. First there was the newspaper, then the radio and the television. The internet and email came along and revolutionised the way businesses communicate, and now there is the social network. Social networking has opened the doors for businesses to communicate on a more personal and informal level but in a very public domain. One of Australia's largest floral networks, Petals Network, is moving with the times and launching itself into the social networking arena. Petals Network has ...

Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, makers of the Hosted CanIt anti-spam service, announced the release of a major upgrade. Hosted CanIt introduces several major new features that greatly improve its suitability for small and medium enterprises: Log Indexing and Searching: Hosted CanIt now indexes all e-mail logs into a full-text search engine. This allows system administrators and domain administrators to quickly search logs for relevant messages. The logs are grouped into correlated sets on a per-message basis; this allows Hosted CanIt to ...

IOS Health Systems, Medios EHR selected by Baptist Health South Florida for EHR Donation Program. IOS Health Systems (IOS), a leading innovator of web-based ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) and practice management software, announces that Baptist Health South Florida has selected IOS for their Physician EHR Donation Program. Through this program Baptist Health will pay for 85% of the cost of Medios EHR for qualified physicians within their network. Medios also provides a direct connection to the Baptist Health System through an integration achieved with Baptist's ...

To further the company's endeavours that help individuals take control of finances, Kustom Design CEO Michael Lepitre will be discussing money management, wealth accumulation and financial freedom at the Total Woman Ministry event "Purses & Handbags" at the end of this month. The event, exclusively held for women (16 years and older), is themed "Purses & Handbags" and will feature a fashion show presented by Designo Fashion Calgary, as well as an auction. The auction will take place for Sonshine Community Services. Along with Lepitre, a chiropractor will be one of the ...

The CDM Media team announced today that Rich Roseman, VP and CIO, News Corporation, will moderate a roundtable discussion at the upcoming CIO Think Tank for Media & Entertainment technology executives in New York. To be held March 31, 2011, the CIO Think Tank, which is supported by HCL, the leader in business transformation, is an opportunity for Media & Entertainment CIOs and senior technology executives to discuss business transformation issues currently affecting the industry. The one-day event will include a keynote speech, roundtable discussion, Q&A session and ...

Crafty Kids Playhouses, a leading manufacturer of eco-friendly cardboard box playhouses, helps children expand their creativity and imagination by making their big dreams come true, in a box. For parents looking for birthday party ideas for three year olds or four years olds, as well as children's' activities, including arts and crafts for Sunday school, Crafty Kids Playhouses offers a safe and fun learning experience for young children. All parents know that children love toys, but sometimes the box those toys came in can be more entertaining than the toys themselves. ...

Utah-based Trivani Foundation announced today that it has expanded its humanitarian outreach to focus more of its efforts to raise further funding and global awareness where starvation and poverty have become epidemic. "Our goal is not just to donate money and food," said Trivani Director Bob Steed, "but to also teach people critical, relevant skills to enable them to improve their economic chances." Steed said that while Trivani's long-term success has always been based on the foundation's ability to link with global humanitarian organizations to aid the world's poorest ...

Calgary based Alberta Safety & Environmental Services (ASE Services) has a third office open in Lethbridge. In addition to the Calgary and Edmonton offices, companies in southern Alberta now have an efficient and cost effective alternative for asbestos, mould, and hazardous materials consulting services. "Until we were asked by a local company to provide them with assistance we didn't realize how in need the Lethbridge and area market was for our services. Since we've been down there we have steadily gained a loyal client base that has been impressed with the quality ...

Sunnking Inc. (www.sunnking.com), an electronics recycling company based in Brockport, NY was the second electronics facility to register for New York State's new Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act. The new law, which was signed on May 28, 2010 by Governor Patterson, requires manufacturers of electronic equipment to accept electronic waste for collection, handling, recycling or reuse beginning April 1, 2011. Covered electronic equipment includes computers (as well as accessories such as monitors, keyboard and printers), televisions, and "small electronic equipment," ...

4M Wireless, the leading provider of LTE protocol stack software today announced that its protocol stack is powering LTE terminal baseband chipsets in use in Telefonica O2's user trials in Germany. The LTE chipsets with the 4M Wireless stack are capable of LTE throughputs of 100Mbps/50Mbps DL/UL respectively and support FDD/TDD LTE. O2 commenced the user program on December 2010 offering consumers LTE devices, SIMs and connections as part of its initiative to provide LTE technology to the wider market and shall start commercial LTE in the first half of 2011. O2 has completed ...

- DIRECTUS (a Tatmar Technologies Company), an industry leader and innovator in 12 Volt Automotive & Mobile Electronics markets, will be displaying their all new product line up at this year's NADA show. DIRECTUS Blindsided the competition at the 2010 SEMA show with the release of the Prodigy One; winning the Best New Product award for Mobile Electronics. The innovative system by DIRECTUS, allows the Prodigy One to work in both aftermarket head units such as Pioneer and Kenwood; as well as several OEM automotive radio display systems such as Nissan, Volvo, SCION and ...

On Sunday Feb 6th the Green Bay Packers will play for its 4th Super Bowl title and the 13th National Football League championship. FEECO rooted in Green Bay, WI is rewarding their employees with a paid day off after Super Bowl XLV after cheering on their hometown Green and Gold. FEECO, started by Jim Madigan in 1951, the international manufacturing company remains family owned and operated under Jim and his son Dan Madigan located in Green Bay, WI. "Tradition, hard work, teamwork, and commitment to excellence are a part of our daily life at FEECO and we will utilize ...

Arlington Heights Ford is collaboratively working with BuzzCheck, a grassroots company focused on preventing drunk driving, to prevent drunk driving during Superbowl Sunday. Superbowl Sunday is one of the most dangerous times of the year for drinking and driving, second only to New Year's Eve in relation to drunk driving arrests and fatalities. The campaign focuses on increasing awareness and providing solutions to a problem that is 100% preventable. The priority is to prevent deaths and DUI's during one the most dangerous days for drinking and driving in the United ...

A recent report from the American Academy of Pediatrics revealed that hospitalizations for children with eating disorders are on the rise, that approximately 0.5 percent of adolescent girls in the United States have anorexia, and that 1 to 2 percent meet diagnostic criteria for bulimia. To address this growing trend, Eating Recovery Center (EatingRecoveryCenter.com), a national center for eating disorders recovery, has opened Eating Recovery Center, a Behavioral Hospital for Children and Adolescents, a hospital specifically dedicated to providing comprehensive eating disorders ...

Irving Texas announces open hotel rooms to all Green Bay and Pittsburgh fans, for Super Bowl XLV in North Texas. The Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau is excited to welcome fans from around the country to Irving, Texas for convenient and affordable Super Bowl hotel rooms from a variety of hotel properties during Super Bowl week and beyond. Room rates run from Jan. 30 - Feb. 7 and start at $79. Offers vary depending on hotel property, availability and dates booked. Visit the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau site Super Bowl Hot Deals page to view specific packages ...

Sims Recycling Solutions, the world's largest electronics recycler nearly tripled their December volumes during the January 2011 first Friday of the month electronics recycling event at their facility in Roseville, CA. At the first drop off event of 2011 Sims Recycling Solutions welcomed over 80 cars and collected close to 10,000 lbs of electronics for recycling. "It is typical for e-waste volumes to increase after the holiday season when consumers are replacing their electronics either through gifts they've received or purchases they have made themselves", states Steve ...

The Ubuntu Project today announced the opening of a new exhibition at London's Design Museum dedicated to the Ubuntu Font, in collaboration with international typeface designers Dalton Maag. Entitled "Shape My Language," the exhibition will run from January 28 to February 28, 2011. The exhibition marks a significant milestone for the Ubuntu Project's advance in design and aims to enhance the consumer experience of using open computing platforms, such as Ubuntu. Leading international typeface designer Dalton Maagheaded up development of the Ubuntu Font Family, which ...

Cary Magazine's Elegant Weddings Gala is not only an event that can help with the wedding-planning process, but also a celebration of engagement. Western Wake's leading lifestyle publication invites brides- and grooms-to-be, as well as their mothers, friends and wedding planners to the fifth annual Elegant Weddings Gala at The Matthews House in Cary on March 10 from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. After four years of overwhelming success and high marks from attendees and vendors, Cary Magazine is teaming up with The Matthews House and presenting sponsor Traditions by anna to ...