Effect of Junk Food on Health

No matter what age you are junk food is not good for your health. Most junk food is high in sodium, sugar, and fat. Over the long term junk food increases your chances of developing health problems. Teenagers are known to eat junk food in excess. They love hamburgers, fries, shakes, soda, potato chips, candy, ice cream and other snack foods. Most junk food contributes no nutritional value to the body. When eaten in moderation junk food can be included in your diet. What are some of the long term side effects of eating too much junk food on health?

* A lack of energy because junk food does not give you the nutrients you need to function properly. You may feel tired or lack the energy needed to finish a task at work or home. You may crave sugar feeling very hungry and weak due to the imbalance the junk food will create in your body.

*Another side effect is poor concentration because you feel tired due to the accumulations of fat in your body. There is lack of vital oxygen that can affect your brain cells due to lack of healthy food in your system.

*Heart disease may develop because of the accumulations of plaque in the arteries. Junk food causes your heart to have to put extra effort into pumping the blood. So it suffers damage receiving oxygen and fatigues from the extra effort to pump blood through clogged veins.

*High cholesterol results at times damaging your liver and hurting your heart. Not only that you often put on weight due to the fat and high carbohydrates in junk food. Many children develop weight problems from eating too much junk food. So too much is not good for your health

*Some people that eat junk food develop diabetes which is not good because most snack food have too much sugar. Some people develop high blood pressure because of the high sodium content in junk food.

*Other problems it causes with kids are mood swings, lack of interest in physical exercise, constipation, weight gain, and other illnesses.

It is found that in rural American junk food diets are very common. That is because many poor consumers cannot afford the high prices of fresh fruit and vegetables. Some areas do not have that many supermarkets to shop at. Many rural consumers live only near convenience stores that do not carry a good selection of healthy foods. Poverty is another barrier to healthy eating and reason junk food diets continue.

Overall eating too much junk food has negative effects on children and adults l health. It is a habit that should be controlled by cutting back on the amounts we eat. It is appealing because it is easy to eat and tastes good. But the food tastes good because of high fat, high salt and high sugar all bad in excess for your health. So too much junk food is not good for your health learn to enjoy junk food in moderation.

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The Exciting Prospect of Virtual Reality Computer Games

You may have come across the phrase either in gaming forums of in science fiction, but exactly what is meant by virtual reality, what is it, and does it present us with any possible benefits or advantages in the future?

This phrase can be answered by either simply looking at the technology currently used, and understanding the basics of how it works, and what it tries to achieve. The more complex way of looking at this concept is by firstly asking what we understand by the word reality, before we try understanding the idea of an alternate, virtual version of reality.

Basically, if we understand the idea of reality to be the sum of all of the sensory inputs our brain receives, virtual reality is the use of technology to replace as many of those sensory inputs as possible with computer generated ones, to fool the brain into believing in a world which is false, and which only exists within the brain of the computer.

The most common form of virtual reality is one where the user wears a visor which wraps entirely round their normal field of vision. The computer then projects or displays a visual three dimensional world onto the inside f this visor, entirely replacing what the user would normally see with a computer generated view. The clever part of this is that the visor has a number of motion sensors built in to it, so that if the user turns their head, tilts their head, or moves their body entirely, the display inside the projector will move to match the user's movement, creating the illusion of the user actually moving around within this three dimensional world of the computer's.

Taking this idea further, the world may contain a number of objects, such as furniture, doors, objects that can be picked up and examined. By wearing special gloves which have a whole range of sensors built in to them, the computer can track the position, movement and actions of the user's hands, and work out whether they would be touching anything, and if so, how the objects would react. Would they be being picked up, turned, knocked over and so forth?

By adding audio as well, the user can be very immersed within this world, and with advancing technologies making greater and more realistic computer generated scenes, the user can very easily start to believe in this virtual world, or reality.

One way in which this technology is an exciting area for development is within computer and video games, and already we are starting to see early developments of this with basic visors, and hand controls which are motion sensitive. Eventually we may well all find ourselves entering an alternative reality in which to play our games, which would make chase scenes, fights and cliff top adventures even more breath taking!

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Blog Marketing For Your Business

First off, let me start by saying that blogging is a real fun way of updating or "web logging" as the term suggests, the every day happenings of someone's personal life, for the rest of the blogosphere to see and read. Now some of you reading this will ask but what can it do for my business and can it increase my ROI or even drive more traffic to my website and convert prospective visitors into buyers and long term clients?

Well the answer is a yes, if done in the correct way, but it can be a train wreck if it is done without any effort, time or careful consideration.

Take the following in mind when setting up your business blog:

Be An Authority in your field

The most important thing that you want to establish, by having a business blog, is to establish yourself as an authority in your field, in other words when posting to your blog, you must have something useful to say.

For example, the traffic statistics of AskDaveTaylor, which is a Q&A blog, focusing on tech support and other related Q&A topics, reported that he had 11.6 million visitors and 17.71 million page views for the year in 2007.See the link for the AskDaveTaylor blog stats in the resource box below.

Now that is a lot of traffic, and all that he does, is providing knowledge and expertise to his fellow blog readers, which establishes him as an expert in his field, and at the same time sends loads of visitors to his blog coming back for more.

Keep your readers in mind

When posting to your business blog, keep in mind that some blog readers are not always going be to up to date with the latest trends and terms in marketing, science, economy, real estate or whatever niche your company is focusing on.

So in this, case the person responsible for posting on the blog will have to communicating at the level of the individuals reading the blog. At the end of the day you want them to grasp what you are trying to bring across. Whether it is installing one of the companies TV's, washing machines or fixing a drill. People don't want to sit through long blog posts anymore, only to find that it did not produce the solution or result they were looking for.

Responding to the blogosphere

You will have to be ready for comments that people will leave on your blog, that are sometimes going to be nasty or just outright ugly. But there can be some comments that are going to range from good to complimentary. The best thing to remember here is, to be cool and calm about it, and not to ruin your company's reputation by responding in a negative way. The best solution is not responding to comments on your blog altogether or to just let it be. Remember not to fuel the fire that is already burning.

In an event where your company's reputation is at stake, you can always get someone to monitor the comments on your blog where ORM, or otherwise known as online reputation management, plays a big role. But that is a topic on its own.

Writing about more than just your product

Because the online community today is of such a nature that they need to have a reason to come back for more, you must try and write about topics on your blog, other than that of your company and its products. Perhaps write about something related to your industry or personal experiences. Try and interact with your readers on a level which they will feel comfortable on.

Have good writing skills

Although you do not need to be a journalist or writer to post on a blog, you must make sure that the person/persons responsible for posting on the blog must at least have a good sense of connecting and communicating with the blog readers through what is being written.

Be sure to check grammar, the structuring of your sentences etc. Your blog readers will immediately see through your word choices and grammar. There is nothing worse than coming across a blog post that is full of spelling mistakes. Immediately it looks unprofessional, especially when your company's' reputation and credibility is at stake.

Remember:

At the end of the day a good business blog's success will depend on how much time and effort is being spent on it. In my opinion, the more the better, because communication today with your customer has gotten all that more important.

AskDaveTaylor blog stats link:

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/2007-traffic-stats-askdavetaylor-blog.html

You can set up a free blog at http://www.blogger.com

David Retief is an Internet Marketing Strategist at Golive e-marketing, an Internet Marketing firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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