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Too much TV-->Too much junk-food-->Lack physical activity= obesity

Childhood obesity is a disease that goes treated with the professional support like: doctors-dietists-psycologists could provide help kids to start this slow and difficult way.

The prevention is basic if assisted through a "program" based on self-control.

The rules of prevention are:

to reduce the sedentariness: to avoid that our children spend most of their time watching TV and playing videogames influenced by marketing, misleading advertising about sofdrinks, hyper caloric snacks and other foods.

Daily physical activity: a long walking is surely healthier and is the equivalent to waste energy almost 3 times higher than that obtained spending the same time watching TV. Especially are suggested: swimming and biking. The benefits of physical activity are many, from reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases to improvement of mental health.

balanced nutrition: the dietetic therapy beyond having the purpose to reduce the weight of child also should educate him and his family to a stable nutrition looking for:

- to reduce the caloric insertion.

- to introduce meals that makes feel gratifyied.

- to control the introduction of fat and proteins of animal origins.

- to increase the contribution of carbohydrates to high absorption like fruit

and vegetables.

- to decrease the quantity of simple sugar.

- to increase the income of fibers with integral food and the daily

insertion of vitamins and minerals.

The overweight's reduction must be gradual and at long term. Planning new nutritional habits either in the child's life or in all family, preventing mistakes in the nutrition from the part of the family members.

The child must feel himself like a protagonist of choosing the food respecting the right nutrition and not consider the hyper caloric diet as an order.

To not become overweight and to live in healthy way it's very important to give a "rhythm" to the daily nutrition.

To the 3 main meals, namely, breakfast, lunch and dinner is necessary to add 2-3 light snacks: yogurth, some fruit or milk avoiding snacks and cracker hypercalorics.

All this to avoid getting the child at the table too starved.

A health feeding education is checking the food's quality but also the quantity of the consumed food. Good quality = right quantity

eating smarter and being more active!!!

Cinzia Cervellini is a private article writer and owner of blog: http://defeat-childhood-obesity.blogspot.com, a public space where she loves sharing with the persons who asking and looking forward the responses about childhood obesity, issue of critical and increasing importance.

Over the past weeks, Ive highlighted how inefficient we all are with long irons. I hope that you have done your own analysis. I would expect that, if you have looked at the whole performance, not only will you find that there is little difference between your #5, #4 and 3-iron yardages, you will also find a diminishing level of accuracy as you get up to the 3-iron.

Hopefully youve picked up a Hybrid and found that it looks and feels solid and gives you the confidence that you can hit the ball much more consistently AND accurately.

Below are two of my recommended Hybrid alternatives:

There are four reasons why I like and recommend the Mizuno CLK Fli-Hi hybrid:

The first is that it has a moderate offset and a heel weighted emphasis that encourages the face to close at impact. That reduces the chances of the ball going right (a fade or slice). Even if a club is easy to hit, the greatest weakness of most golfers is a shot that drifts right (right handers) and this club solves that problem.

If you pick up one of these clubs, look at the way that the heel and toe have been sculpted to make it much easier to play from the sand or the rough. Flexibility, from any lie, is a benefit that you want from any hybrid you play with

Finally, courtesy of Mizunos ability to work with many materials in club head design, the crown of this clubs takes up just 2.6% of the club heads total weight. That means the MOI can be increased, making this a very stable, solid, forgiving golf club.

Callaway have been a leader in the Fairway Wood category and have now brought that expertise and innovation to the Hybrid category with the Callaway X Hybrids.

Callaways Variable Face Thickness (VFT) and S2H2 hosel technology both increase the amount of weight that can be re-positioned to the perimeters of the club head. That increases MOI and makes these hybrids very forgiving.

The VFT face also brings Callaway high-COR rating to the club ensuring that you will get a longer distance to go with the higher ball trajectory.

The X sole design has been developed to make it easier to get the club head to pass through light and thick rough, while allowing the club head to slide over tight fairways.

When choosing a Hybrid Id like to talk to you about your swing speed, what woods do you carry, and how you might make use of the Hybrid off the tee. If you feel that you might want a little EXTRA distance, beyond where you hit your #4 and 3-iron today, then there are designs that have that priority. If you feel you achieve enough distance, but want additional accuracy and a higher ball flight, then there are solutions that will work best. And, if you want to deal with a nagging right to left shot shape, then there are Hybrids designed just for you.

Let me help you improve your golf, enjoy your golf more and make the most out of your investment in Hybrids.

Visit your local Foremost PGA Golf Professional for expert advice on choosing golf equipment.

James Langmead PGA Qualified Golf Professional and former Callaway Club fitter of the year http://www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk

one of my husband's favourite places is florida, since he is an avid golfer and likes to get away from the cold canadian winter for his birthday in early December.

For a while now we had planned to visit Orlando, but neither one of us are into theme parks. So there was the challenge for me: would we be able to visit Orlando without setting foot into Disney or Universal Studios? For someone as curious as me this was a suitable challenge and I had been doing weeks of searches on the Internet and communicating with the Orlando Convention and Visitors Bureau to find out about interesting destinations off the beaten path.

Well, I am happy to say, we arrived back safely yesterday from our trip, and the trip itself was quite an adventure since we decided to drive from Toronto to Orlando, about 2100 km each way! Actually, the drive was not as painful as I expected. The drive through Pennsylvania and West Virginia was nice and hilly, and I particularly enjoyed coming over the ridge of the Appalachians, right where Virginia and North Carolina meet, where you get a beautiful view of the piedmont area around Winston-Salem that spreads out towards the Atlantic in front of the mountain chain.

And I am even happier to say that in the 14 or so days that we spent in Orlando, not only did we get to play a lot of golf (to make my husband really happy...;) - including Mystic Dunes, Champions Gate, Royal St. Cloud links, Hawk's Landing and Timacuan golf and Country Club, not to mention the Walking Hall of Fame experience of the PGA Father Son Challenge at Champions Gate, but I also got to explore some really interesting places, destinations I would not have expected in Orlando and its surrounding region. I also had a chance to do an interview with GolfOrlando to get a much better idea of why Orlando is called "The Ultimate Golf theme Park".

We started off our first week with a visit to the Orange Country Regional history Center, which gave us a suitable historic background of Orlando and Central florida. Then, for some sociological and cultural insights, we visited the Well's Built Museum for African American history and Culture in Orlando. To top off our first day of exploration we enjoyed a walk around picturesque Lake Eola in downtown Orlando.

The next item on my off-the-beaten path agenda was a discovery of the City of Winter park, a beautiful suburb of Orlando, reminiscent of old European towns. I also went on the Winter park Scenic Boat Tour, which was an entertaining, informative and visually appealing excursion.

The adrenaline revved up significantly on our next outing: a very high-speed airboat ride at Boggy Creek, that was followed up by a much lower speed swamp buggy ride in a custom-built monster truck that took us through authentic florida landscape.

after our golf outing at the Royal St. Cloud golf links we enjoyed a wonderful picnic by the waterfront in sunny downtown Kissimmee. Then, on a beautiful Sunday morning we drove about an hour outside of Orlando to reach the quaint town of Mt. Dora, where I hopped on the "Herbie Express", part of the Mt. Dora - Lake Eustis Scenic Railway.

>From midweek in the second week onwards the weather took a turn for the worse. While planes were sliding off runways in Chicago and record temperatures were registered in the mid-western states, we were freezing in florida where the mercury hovered around 68 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit (around +20 degrees Celsius). So I bought a rain jacket, and determined not to let the freezing cold interfere with our plans, we headed out to continue our explorations.

On a day that was forecast to be rainy, but just ended up being a bit grey and clammy, we went out to discover Loch Haven park, Orlando's center of science, art and culture. We then continued our explorations further south to discover some of Orlando's historic neighbourhoods and parks such as Lake Cherokee and Lake Lucerne.

As the drizzly weather continued, we went on to visit Florida's Natural Visitor Center in Lake Wales, about an hours drive south of Orlando, where I got a really good understanding of Central Florida's citrus industry. I spent the afternoon in another famous attraction in Lake Wales which holds two National Historic Landmarks: the Historic Bok Sanctuary, where I got to see the beauty of the Bok estate and its historic carillon tower, combined with a tour through the historic Pinewood Estate, which was decked out in full christmas decorations.

During these 2 weeks in florida, we got exposed to a lot of its plants, flowers and wildlife, much of which you run into casually even while playing golf or picknicking by the waterfront. florida has a surprising amount of natural diversity and I enjoyed watching the various types of birds, lizards, and squirrels. The only thing we didn't get to see was a live alligator (with the exception of the well-hidden rear end of a small alligator during our swamp buggy tour - unfortunately I couldn't even get a good picture of that one..). Apparently winter time is too cold for these creatures to come out of the water...

On our drive home, on a bright sunny day (of course...), we stopped off in St. Augustine, a historic town founded by the Spaniards in the 1500s, and the oldest continuously inhabited town in the United States - a mighty photogenic place, I should add.

So, you ask, is it possible to spend 2 weeks in Orlando without even setting foot inside a theme park and still have a good time? Well, based on the above itinerary I'd say that my plans to explore Orlando off the beaten path came to full fruition.

Mission accomplished.

This entire article including photos is located at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/stories_photos/orlando_off_the_beaten_path.htm

Susanne Pacher is the publisher of http://www.travelandtransitions.com, a web portal for unconventional travel & cross-cultural connections. Check out our brand new http://www.travelandtransitions.com/ebooks.html FREE ebooks about travel.

The Animal Kingdom at disney world is the latest addition to Disneys theme parks at it's Florida resort. Opened to the public in 1989, the Animal Kingdom at disney world is a treat with it's picturesque beauty inspired by the African Savannah and wildlife reserve.

Guests to the Animal Kingdom at disney world will be immersed in the beauty of the environment, which took its inspiration from natures spectacular settings, as well as Africas cultural splendor.

They are also treated to a variety of experiences, from an introduction to the ancient animals and reptiles that dominated the Earth 65,000,000 years ago, to close encounters with recent wildlife. The Animal Kingdom boasts a collection of more than 200 mammals, including the tiger, hippopotamus, giraffe, gazelles, sacred ibis, ostrich, and exotic birds. It also houses creepy crawly insects. All of the above roaming on a 33-acre recreation of their habitats.

The Animal Kingdom Lodge at disney world is a magnificent six-story resort with 1,293 rooms that has a horseshoe design, much like an African village kraal. Guests can walk along a rock outcropping, with 24-hour viewing to streams and roaming animals.

The lobby is reflective of a national park-like setting complete with a huge stone fireplace that stands 82 feet tall. Chandeliers with teepee designed tops, totem poles and hand carved decoration are just a few of it's other subtle nuances. In the lobby is a hot spring that flows outside of the building, dropping as a waterfall to a swimming area with hot and cold spas. At the edge of Bay Lake is a rocky outcrop where a geothermal geyser erupts every hour.

recreation and Amenities rentals for boat and bike, a playground, a game room, laundry and child care.

dining Guests have the choice of dining in the full-service restaurants, the lounge or a snack bar.

Facilities 750 square feet of space for meetings including a boardroom/meeting room in this walt disney world resort.

Access to the theme parks is via motor coach or a watercraft.

parks, Shows and Activities-

Blizzard Beach amidst the strong Florida sun is a park that has the tallest and fastest waterslide anywhere. Blizzard beach is the most slippery, slushy Water park in the nation.

Features:

Typhoon Lagoon

Animal Kingdom

Suzanne Elizabeth is an expert reagrding disney world as a vacation spot. Having visited numerous times, and studying all aspects, she can answer virtually any question you may have. To learn more about disney world vacations, tickets and general information, visit her site at Disney World