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Written by Rahul on 20 August 2009
Melbourne, Aug 19 (ANI): The Federal Government in Australia has decided to take a look into the massive diet and weight-loss industry, following reports that the obesity rate in the country is still climbing.
Weight-loss programs and products will have to prove that they can help people keep off the kilos long-term as the Federal Government cracks down on the 414-million dollar-a-year industry.
The Kevin Rudd Government’s Preventative Health Taskforce is understood to have called for the weight-loss industry to be regulated in a report handed down last month.
It follows growing evidence that diets may actually be adding to the obesity crisis, as overweight people lose weight rapidly while following programs, but quickly put it back on after they stop.
The taskforce said that young women in particular were spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on such programs to manage their weight.
Despite this, the nation’s obesity rate was climbing with more than 60 per cent of adults now overweight or obese.
While weight-loss programs and pharmacy-based meal replacement programs were popular, the task force said there was limited data to show they were actually effective.
It wants a wide-ranging review of diet products and a common code of practice drawn up covering the cost, the training of counsellors and the promotion of the diets.
The Dietitians Association of Australia is backing the recommendation.
According to the Daily Telegraph, a spokesman said all commercial diet programs should be assessed by a body of experts similar to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which assesses drugs for safety and efficacy before they can go on sale.
The association said regulation should require businesses marketing a diet program to provide evidence to a panel of experts showing what percentage of those who used the diet kept the weight off two years after starting.
Chief executive Claire Hewat said a good diet would result in weight loss of about half a kilogram per week.
“If you can lose 5 per cent of your body weight you are doing really well,” News.com.au quoted her as saying.
“Diets are not the point, it’s lifestyle change that is needed,” she stated. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 08 April 2009
Well, it seems that the impossible has happened. Superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan seem to have patched up and they put in a joint appearance and threw their weight behind the producers’ body in their ongoing tussle with multiplex owners.
According to sources, it was Aamir, who took the lead in messaging all his colleagues, SRK included, asking them to support the cause of the producers. And then it took a Karan Johar to arrange a meeting in his house for the two superstars to meet in private and sort out their differences. One is not sure whether all animosity had been banished, but this much is true, that both SRK and Aamir have decided to put aside their differences for the moment and come forward to support the producers in their fight against multiplexes, over revenue sharing. The two superstars, along with the rest of the film fraternity was present at a suburban fiver star yesterday, when SRK and Aamir met the media and presented the producers case against the multiplexes. Hence, this much is true, the ban, which came into effect on April 4, continues, with neither side willing to concede an inch. It takes a lot to get the entire film fraternity on one platform, but this seems to be one of those rare moments when rivals have let go of their differences to fight for the Hindi film industry as a whole.
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Written by Rahul on 03 April 2009
The BSE Sensex jumped 4.5 percent on Thursday to its best close in five months as investors across Asia and Europe rode on optimism the world economy had got past the worst.
Reliance Industries, the country’s most valuable company, led the surge as the energy giant began pumping gas from its giant field off India’s east coast.
The stock, which has the heaviest weight in the main index, rose 5.3 percent to 1,662.50 rupees, its highest close since Oct. 7, and took gains to 42 percent over the past month.
The 30-share BSE index rose 4.51 percent, or 446.84 points, to 10,348.83, its best close since Nov. 10. The market is closed on Friday for a local holiday.
ICICI Bank and State Bank of India climbed after inflation hovered above zero in mid-March, with analysts expecting it to turn negative in the next few weeks, providing room to the central bank to ease monetary policy.
Anand Shah, head of equities at Canara Robeco Mutual Fund, said, financial stocks were driving the rally because they had overdone a fall earlier due to weak global sentiment.
“Their valuations now are just too attractive,” he said.
The BSE index, which has risen almost 29 percent since hitting a 2009 low in early March, ended the week up nearly 3 percent.
“This momentum is not sustainable in the near term. There needs to be a correction,” Shah said.
Traders said a world market rebound underpinned the rise, but lingering concerns about coming general elections from mid-April and a slowing domestic economy were roadblocks.
“It strikes me as a reasonable possibility that early March was a global low,” Narayan Ramachandran, CEO and country head of Morgan Stanley India, told an investment seminar on Wednesday.
“But we are not galloping away to new highs anytime soon,” he said.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp firmed 8.3 percent to 870.40 rupees after a source told Reuters late on Wednesday the state-run explorer sold 700,000 barrels of light sweet Sokol crude for June loading to U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp at a stronger premium than its previous sale.
Government-run State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, jumped 6.7 percent to 1,145.35 rupees. Rival ICICI Bank rose 3.1 percent to 360.25 rupees.
The banking sector rose 4.8 percent, taking its gains for the week to almost 5 percent.
In the broader section, gainers led losers in the ratio of 4:1 on heavy volume of 450.3 million shares.
The 50-share NSE index rose 4.9 percent to 3,211.05.
Japan’s Nikkei added 4.4 percent and MSCI’s measure of other Asian markets gained 5.6 percent after data on Wednesday showed U.S. factory activity in March fell at a slower rate than the month before, while pending home sales rose more than expected in February.
MAIN TOP 3 BY VOLUME
* Reliance Natural Resources on 20.1 million shares
* Suzlon Energy on 19.5 million shares
* Unitech on 14.4 million shares
STOCKS THAT MOVED
* Larsen and Toubro Ltd rose 6.7 percent to 717.25 rupees after the engineering conglomerate said it won two orders worth 11.43 billion rupees from Tata Steel.
* Power equipment firm Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd rose 4.1 percent to 1,531.85 rupees after it reported a 6.3 percent provisional rise in yearly net profit and said it expects sales to grow 20-25 percent in the year to March 2010.
* Cement firms such as Grasim Industries and ACC Ltd were up 1-5 percent after the Economic Times said several companies raised prices by 3-7 rupees per 50 kg bag in anticipation of higher demand.
* Wind-turbine maker Suzlon Energy gained 8.9 percent to 50.75 rupees after it said late on Wednesday its U.S. unit won a repeat order from U.S. firm Duke Energy for 20 wind turbines.
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Written by Rahul on 03 April 2009
Indian shares jumped more than 4 percent on Thursday, led by financials such as ICICI Bank and State Bank of India, after positive U.S. data boosted optimism the global economy had turned a corner.
Reliance Industries, the country’s most valuable company, rallied as much as 4.4 percent after the energy firm began pumping natural gas from its giant field off India’s east
coast.
Traders said the rise was spurred by gains across the region following Wall Street’s rally on Wednesday after data showed U.S. factory activity in March fell at a slower rate than the month before, while pending home sales rose more than expected in February.
“The market is seeing the glass as half-full. Things have become less worse, even though they may not have become better. A lot of people who were left out of the rally are joining the party a little late,” V.K. Sharma, head of research at Anagram
Stock Broking, said.
The BSE index, which has leapt about 28 percent since hitting a 2009 low in early March, could see a five-month high if it breaks above 10,469.72 reached on Jan. 7 before Satyam Computer unveiled the country’s biggest corporate fraud and sparked a market slide.
“We may have seen the worst and only a catastrophic event globally can affect us now,” Madhusudan Kela, head of equity at Reliance Mutual Fund, told an investment seminar at the Bombay Stock Exchange late on Wednesday.
Private-sector lender ICICI Bank rose 7.2 percent to 374.75 rupees, while government-run State Bank of India gained 6.5 percent to 1,144 rupees.
Reliance Industries, which has the biggest weight on the main index, was up 4.1 percent at 1,643.70 rupees.
In the broader section, gainers led losers in the ratio of 4:1 on moderate volume of 180.1 million.
The 50-share NSE index was up 4.5 percent at 3,195.50.
Asian shares were higher with Japan’s Nikkei up 4.4 percent and MSCI’s measure of other Asian markets rising 4.7 percent.
MAIN TOP 3 BY VOLUME
* Suzlon Energy on 8.6 million shares
* Reliance Natural Resources on 7.3 million shares
* Unitech on 5.3 million shares
STOCKS THAT MOVED
* Cement firms such as Grasim Industries and ACC Ltd were up 1-5 percent after the Economic Times said several companies raised prices by 3-7 rupees per 50 kg bag in anticipation of higher demand.
* Larsen and Toubro Ltd rose 6.7 percent to 717.60 rupees after the engineering conglomerate said it won two orders worth 11.43 billion rupees from Tata Steel.
* Wind-turbine maker Suzlon Energy gained 8 percent to 50.25 rupees after it said late on Wednesday its U.S. unit won a repeat order from U.S. firm Duke Energy for 20 wind turbines.
11:45 a.m., the 30-share BSE index was up 4.4 percent at 10,
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Written by Rahul on 02 April 2009
Vimal Mehra, a 55-year-old businessman who deals in watches, spends a good part of the day at Chandni Chowk. Mehra detests the congestion, chaos, broken roads and blocked sewers but felt he didn’t have a say in bringing about a change.
This feeling of helplessness has changed along with the contours of the Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency. Mehra is one of the thousands of businessman who work in Chandni Chowk but live elsewhere in the Capital.
“Our voices were never heard because only those who live here were a votebank, not us,” he said. The situation has changed now.
Post delimitation, Chandni Chowk, which was the smallest parliamentary constituency in Delhi, has grown bigger. The number of assembly seats in the constituency has increased to 10 from four.
Thanks to the change, areas like Model Town, Adarsh Nagar and Shalimar Bagh, where many of these traders live, are now part of the constituency. “We have placed our demands many times but they remained unheard.
The small 1.5 km-long stretch of Chandni Chowk has seen no development in the last 50 years,” said a trader who deals in carpets and doesn’t wish to be named. He lives in Roop Nagar which came under Sadar constituency earlier, but has now been merged with Chandni Chowk.
“Now that I am a voter of the area, my voice would at least carry some weight,” he said. Kapil Sibal, sitting MP from Chandni Chowk and the Congress candidate for the forthcoming election, said: “I have been working with the trading community for the last few years and have given plans for re-development of the area.
Work would be completed this year.” The Vaish community now has the largest number of voters (17 per cent) in this constituency, post delimitation here.
The Bharatiya Janata Party believes traders in the constituency would help them as the community is traditionally supporters of the saffron party. “There has been no justice with the community in the area and they have been exploited.
Now, they would get a voice because most of them have become voters of the area,” said Vijender Gupta, the BJP candidate from the constituency
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Written by Rahul on 07 March 2009
London, Mar 7 (ANI): German supermodel Heidi Klum has blasted criticism of her weight by refusing to diet, insisting she has the perfect figure for the catwalk.
The Victoria Secret’s model was condemned by designer Wolfgang Joop last month for being “too heavy” to model.
However, the 35-year-old catwalk queen revealed that she has never been the type to diet- insisting that her kids and pop star hubby Seal are more than enough to keep her in shape.
“I was never a diet sort of person. But when I started to model, I knew already that I would have to watch what I ate and for example, stop eating wiener schnitzel (Austrian dish of fried veal),” the Daily Express quoted Klum as saying.
“My children are my best workout and I am of course also busy with my husband,” she added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 06 March 2009
London, Mar 6 (ANI): It’s never too late to start exercising, concludes a new study, which found that men who start doing physical activity when they are 50 can extend their life span by more than two years.
Swedish researchers from Uppsala University came to the conclusion after monitoring over 2,200 men from the age of 50.
From analyses, the researchers found that those who increased activity levels from 50 to 60 ended up living as long as those who were already exercising regularly by middle age.
In the British Medical Journal study, volunteers were asked about their activity levels at the start of the study in the early 1970s, when they were aged 50, reports The BBC.
The men were put into three groups – high levels of activity, moderate levels and sedentary. High levels was classed as those who did at least three hours of sports or heavy gardening each week. Moderate was said to be the equivalent of several hours of walking or cycling, while people who were classed as sedentary spent most of their free time watching TV.
Their exercise habits were then reassessed at the age of 60.
The team found that those who were doing high levels of activity at the age of 50 lived 2.3 years longer than sedentary men and 1.1 years longer than those who reported medium levels of activity – once a range of factors such as weight, alcohol intake and smoking was taken into account.
But interestingly the researchers found that those who increased their activity level to high – whether they were in the moderate or low group – from the age of 50 to 60 also lived the longest.
Lead researcher Karl Michaelsson said the study showed it was essential to encourage men to become active. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 06 March 2009
Washington, Mar 6 (ANI): Here’s some bad news for people who carry excess weight around the middle: love handles can impair lung function.
According to a report published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine, a high weight circumference is strongly associated with decreased lung function.
o reach the conclusion, researchers analysed health information of more than 120,000 people from the Paris Investigations Preventives et Cliniques Center, and assessed demographic background, smoking history, alcohol consumption, as well as lung function, including FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in one second) and FVC (forced vital capacity, or the total expiratory volume) with respect to BMI, waist circumference and other measures of metabolic health.
“After adjustment for age, sex, BMI, smoking status, alcohol consumption, leisure time physical activity and cardiovascular history, metabolic syndrome remained independently associated with lung function impairment,” wrote lead author Natalie Leone, M.D., of French National Institute for Health and Medical Research.
“We found a positive independent relationship between lung function impairment and metabolic syndrome due mainly to abdominal obesity,” the expert added.
Abdominal obesity was defined as having a waist circumference of greater than 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men.
“[This] study demonstrated that only mild abdominal adiposity, even with a normal body mass index (BMI), in associated with lower FVC,” said Paul Enright, M.D., of the University of Arizona, in an accompanying editorial.
While more research will undoubtedly shed light on the underlying mechanisms linking abdominal fat to lowered lung function, there is an immediate clinical consideration: “I believe there is now enough evidence to recommend that waist circumference always be measured before spirometry tests.
“Abdominal obesity could then be highlighted on the printed report so that the physician interpreting the report could take the effect of obesity into account,” wrote Dr. Enright. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Washington, Mar 05 (ANI): Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston has revealed that she once tried botox injection, but she developed cold feet.
The ‘Bruce Almighty’ actress revealed that the cosmetic procedure, which smooths out wrinkles by freezing facial muscles, made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
“I tried Botox once and it was really not good for me. I felt like I had a weight on my head,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.
Thus, Aniston said, she vowed never to get the treatment again, as she felt that women who go for the botox treatment tend to have an akin look.
“I think it makes women look older. Harder. The warmth in their faces goes away. You see women and you know they’re not young, but you can’t tell how old they are. That’s what stopped me,” she said.
After her bad encounter with botox Jennifer has decided to age gracefully. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Sydney, Mar 4 (ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting and his South African counterpart Graeme Smith expressed support for the video-referral system after Australia’s 162-run victory in the first Test at Johannesburg.
Ponting revealed Hot Spot technology would be used for the remainder of the series against South Africa to assist the video umpire.
Smith said the system should allow the video umpires to have the latest technology at their disposal, such as Hot Spot, the military-designed, infra-red imaging system used by Channel Nine that shows if the ball has struck a batsman, his bat or his pad.
“I think they’re going to be using Hot Spot in Durban and Cape Town in the next two Test matches. They couldn’t get the cameras here or something,” The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Ponting, as saying.
“That was mentioned in the referees’ meeting before the game and it was something that we, the Australian team, actually objected to, because maybe [they] should use it in all the three games or not at all. But we felt for the betterment of the trial that we should. It wasn’t available here but we’ll definitely give it a run in the next two games.”
Given the shortcomings with technology in Durban, Ponting was reasonably happy with how the system had worked in the first Test, although he admitted it would take time to become familiar with its use as a tactic.
Smith was less forgiving, saying the system had been undermined because all of the technology had not been available.
Meanwhile, Ponting has thrown his weight behind all-rounder Andrew McDonald being retained for Friday’s second Test in Durban despite his struggles with the willow. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
London, Mar 4 (ANI): Traditional apple crumble and custard is Britain’s favourite school canteen pudding, says a new research.
According to the survey, carried out by online independent education guide www.tom-brown.com, the second most popular choice was chocolate sponge with chocolate custard and third most popular was jam roly-poly.
To reach the conclusion, experts asked volunteers about their memories of childhood dining.
As per the survey, two thirds said they would be disappointed to see traditional British puddings like chocolate sponge and jam roly poly disappear from school canteens.
In other findings, one in five adult women said they still eat their favourite school puddings for comfort.
Cary Cooper, professor of psychology at Lancaster University, reckons people carry on eating their favourite school foods because it reminds them of ‘a happier time’.
“We rely on foods that were our favourite in our school years because this was a time when, in general, we were happy and life was less complicated. It’s really for nostalgic reasons – the food is symbolic of a happier time so we eat it for comfort,” The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.
“Whenever I go to the cinema I still buy the same kind of sweets as I did when I was a child even though now I don’t even like them. But they remind me of my childhood,” he added.
Tom-Brown.com editor Gail Dixon said: “In a time when the focus lies so heavily on diet and nutrition, we were surprised to see that some nostalgic old favourites still have a place in our hearts.
“We are always talking to parents and teachers about how children can get the greatest benefit from their time at school.
“We think that health and happiness play an important part in this.
“Despite the ongoing food debate, it’s clear parents feel that there is still a place for the likes of jam roly poly on school menus. They want to see more children enjoying this element of school life without worrying too much about putting on weight.”
Favourite puddings:
1 Crumble with custard
2 Chocolate sponge with chocolate custard
3 Jam roly poly
4 Treacle Tart
5 Bread and Butter Pudding
6 Spotted Dick
7 Sticky Toffee pudding. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Washington, Mar 4 (ANI): People living in neighbourhoods with high density of fast food outlets, and who frequently eat at those restaurants, are more likely to report an increase of 3 pounds in weight and .8 inches in waist circumference, according to a new study.
On the other hand, the research led by Oregon Research Institute (ORI) scientist Fuzhong Li, Ph.D., also found that high-walkability neighbourhoods were linked with a decrease of 2.7 pounds in weight and 0.6 inches in waist size among residents who increased their levels of vigorous physical activity during a year.
“This is one of the few longitudinal studies that focus on change in individuals’ body weight over time in relation to their lifestyle behaviors and immediate living environments,” said Li.
He added: “The uniqueness of this study lies in its environment-person approach which we use to show that health-impeding environments, such as a high density of fast-food outlets, together with residents’ behavior, such as eating fast food regularly, can have an unhealthy impact on body weight. On the other hand, health-promoting environments, such as walkable neighborhood streets, in conjunction with physically active residents, can have a positive impact on body weight over time.”
The study is part of the Portland Oregon Neighborhood Environment and Health Study where researchers are following a sample of over 1200 local residents ages 50-75 years old over a three-year period.
And they are using anthropometric and survey measures, such as body weight, height, eating habits, food intake, physical activity, and perceptions of their immediate neighbourhood environment.
Also, the scientists have taken objective measures of built environment characteristics, such as land-use mix, density of fast-food outlets, street connectivity, and public transit stations, and the presence of green and open spaces in 120 randomly selected neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon.
The project was aimed to examine change in body weight and physical activity in relation to built environment.
“To combat the obesity/overweight problem, it appears clear that, from the perspectives of public health and urban design, efforts are needed to improve features of modifiable built environments by making them more conducive to healthy eating and increasing physical activity,” said Li.
The American Journal of Epidemiology recently published the study. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Washington, Mar 4 (ANI): Wondering what your favourite stars do to stay in perfect shape despite their busy schedules? Well, here’s your chance to know about the fitness secrets of some of the biggest Hollywood hotties, and what better way to do that than by knowing it from the horse’s mouth itself.
Stars who thronged Leeza Gibbons’ “Night to Make A Difference” Oscar Viewing and After Party, have divulged the details of their workouts, and what they do to stay trim, and here’s what they had to say:
“I do a mixture of cardio and light weights using household items,” Fox News quoted Spice Girl Mel Brown as saying.
Scary Spice further said that she and Victoria Beckham were still BFFs and “talk all the time.”
On the other hand, music legend Olivia Newton-John’s fitness regime was quite exotic.
“I walked the Great Wall of China, it kept me in shape, I did it to raise money for my hospital last year,” she said.
Surprise performer Michael Buble revealed that he just played hockey, and the gym “isn’t his style.”
When it came to Teri Hatcher, she claimed that dieting was something she did not prefer.
And rocker Slash said that all he did to stay in shape was “wake up in the morning.”
However, Muhammad Ali’s ultra-athletic daughter Laila Ali was one girl who reported going to the toughest extreme to stay in shape.
“Sometimes I have to lose 10 lbs the week of a fight and it can be done, it’s a lot of water weight, but it’s taking water pills, getting in the sauna, not eating much, sweating it out, it’s not healthy,” she admitted.
Laila also claimed that she stayed away from alcohol and television.(ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Jamshedpur, Mar 3 (ANI): The employees and senior management of the world’s sixth largest steel company Tata Steel gathered today to celebrate the 170th birth anniversary of its founder – Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata with fervour and gaiety.
The celebrations commenced on March 2 and lasted till March 3 in Jamshedpur.
On this special occasion, the local Jubilee park was illuminated with lights on Monday night, the theme being ‘electricity’.
As part of the commemoration, a replica of the Taj Hotel, as it looked during the last November attack by Pakistan terrorists, was also made to remind everyone that in spite of a major attack, the Taj Mahal hotel continues to remain a symbol of national integrity.
The 75 x 45 feet replica was built with 1,50,000 electric lights and won everyone’s appreciation present on the occasion.
“After seeing the replica of Taj Hotel, I feel that if the model is so beautiful then how beautiful the actual building would be. Those attackers should not have attacked this beautiful building,” said Deepalika Bannerji, one spectator.
Several dignitaries and guests of the company arrived to pay homage on this occasion to Jamsetji, regarded as a key figure in industrial revolution.
Besides, there was an array of colourful display of floats by various departments and divisions of Tata Steel.
In addition to this, a Weight lifting Centre was inaugurated at JRD Complex a Boxing Centre was inaugurated at Keenan Stadium, a Football Training Centre at Gopal Maidan by Philippe Varin, Chief Executive Officer of Corus.
Jamshedji Tata, in 1907, founded Tata Iron and Steel Company, the first Asian integrated steel plant.
Commonly referred to as ‘Tatanagar’ or ‘Steel City’ in recognition of the company’s significant presence in the eastern region of the country.
Today, the Tata group has expanded its services to automotives, commodities, energy,hotels, retail, financial services, broadcast and software and telecoms.
Tata Steel has also won “Award for Corporate Social Responsibility in Public health” by US- Indian Business Council (USIBC), Population Services International (PSI) and the center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in 2007.
Moreover, Tata Steel is also the first integrated steel company in the world, outside Japan, to have been awarded the Deming Application Prize 2008 for excellence in Total Quality Management.
Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata was born on March 3, 1839 in Navsari, Gujarat and died on May 19, 1904. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Sydney, Mar 3 (ANI): Fewer than half of Australia’s elite cricketers believe representing their country will be the ultimate professional accolade in 10 years.
The Australian Cricketers’ Association has revealed the uncertainty in an annual survey of state and national representatives, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The survey also found players believe that the “club versus country” debate, the importance of international cricket compared to club-based competitions such as the Indian Premier League, was the most urgent issue facing world cricket.
While more than 90 per cent of all players consider Test cricket is the most important form of the game, the rising influence of Twenty20 cricket is evident in their expectations for the future.
When asked whether playing for Australia would be the “ultimate achievement” in 10 years’ time, 47 per cent of Cricket Australia-contracted players said yes.
While that was the most popular answer – only 20 per cent said no – the remaining 33 per cent were unsure, a response former national coach John Buchanan said was “disturbing”.
State players were more optimistic about the merits of national selection, with 71 per cent believing it would still be the pinnacle in a decade, although Buchanan believed that was due to state players not being on a “world stage”, and therefore less exposed to the opportunities to play elsewhere.
In response, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland conceded that “the whole cricketing landscape has changed a bit over the past 12 months or so,” with players’ ability to snare lucrative Twenty20 contracts.
ACA chief executive Paul Marsh believed Test cricket would remain the place where players primarily earn the respect of their peers, but said Twenty20 cricket was where the opportunities are now coming for the players.
Sutherland said the interest in club-based Twenty20 cricket was partly on weight of numbers. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): Getting candid with her fans at a recent performance, Jessica Simpson said that she was hoping that they ‘follow whatever career she has’, with reference to her films.
Dressed in Daisy Dukes and white platform pumps, the singer was performing at a show in Denver on March 1.
The 28-year-old crooner opened the show at the Pepsi Center with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra classic ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.
And as the show continued, she got into confessional mode.
“I don’t know how many of you have followed my career. I hope you don’t just follow what people say about me,” Us magazine quoted her as saying, with regards to her recent weight gain.
Then, Simpson, whose last two films went straight to DVD, added: “Hopefully, you actually follow whatever career I have.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): Young children who spend more than two hours glued to the TV every day double their risk of developing asthma, a UK study has found.
The study, published in the journal Thorax, was based on more than 3,000 children whose respiratory health was tracked from birth to 11.5 years of age.
The children were all participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), which has been following the long-term health of 14,000 children and their parents.
The parents were quizzed annually on symptoms of wheezing among their offspring and whether a doctor had diagnosed asthma in their child by the time s/he was 7.5 years old, but not before the age of 3.5 years.
Parents were also asked to assess their children’s TV viewing habits from the age of 3.5 years, and these were subsequently compared with those of their symptomless peers.
The amount of time spent in front of the box was used as a proxy measure of sedentary behaviour, because personal computers and games consoles were not in widespread use at the time (mid 1990s).
The prevalence of asthma among children at the age of 11.5 years, who had no asthmatic symptoms when they were 3.5 years old was 6 percent.
However, children who watched TV for more than two hours a day were almost twice as likely to have been diagnosed with asthma as those who watched the box less.
By the time the children were 11.5 years old, there was little difference in levels of sedentary behaviour between those with asthma and those without. The results were not confined to one gender, nor were they related to current weight. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
New Delhi, Mar 2 (ANI): In a ‘hair-raising’ feat, a Chinese man in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, is all set to attempt a world record by pulling an 8-ton vehicle with his hair.
He Jianma, 44, has accepted an invitation to make it into the Guinness World Records in a television program to be broadcast live.
Right now, he is busy preparing for the special challenge next month, reports the China Daily.
Already, Jianma once used his hair to pull an 8.43-ton coach 30 m on a level ground.
And the current world Guinness record for someone using hair to pull weight is 7.78 tons. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Beijing, Mar 2 (ANI): Hostile men are more likely to become obese than their less-hostile peers, according to a new study.
In the study, Dr. Hermann Nabi of Hopital Paul Brousse in Villejuif, France and his colleagues found that the more hostile a man’s personality, the more his body mass index (BMI) increased over the following two decades, reports www.chinaview.cn.
BMI is the ratio of height to weight, used to determine if someone is within a normal weight range or is underweight, overweight or obese.
For the study, the researchers looked at data on 6,484 men and women participating in a UK study of socio-economic status and health.
Study participants ranged in age from 35 to 55 at the study’s outset. They completed a standard scale measuring hostility at the beginning of the study, while their BMI was determined at four points over 19 years.
Initially results showed that both men and women with higher hostility levels also had higher BMIs. BMIs rose over time.
The researchers found that while the relationship between BMI and hostility remained constant for women, hostility seemed to accelerate weight gain over time in the men. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 03 March 2009
London, Mar.1 (ANI): Cricket is not quintessentially English after all, a new Australian research has claimed.
According to the research, north European immigrants imported the game to England in the 14th century, and that it was first resisted by the local population.
The claim challenges the traditional theory that the sport evolved from children’s games played in England since Anglo-Saxon times.
The Telegraph quotes Paul Campbell, of the department of English and theatre at the Australian National University, in Canberra, as saying that he has uncovered a reference to the sport in a 1533 poem, attributed to John Skelton, a popular poet and playwright of the day, in which he links it to immigrants from Flanders, in modern day Belgium, France and Holland.
In the work, “The Image of Ipocrisie” – much of which is a diatribe against parts of the Church – Skelton also appears to rail against the Flemish weavers who settled in southern and eastern England from the 14th century, labelling them dismissively as “kings of crekettes”.
In what appears to be a call for the weavers to be driven out of England, Skelton writes:
“O lorde of Ipocrites/Nowe shut vpp your wickettes/And clape to your clickettes!/A! Farewell, kings of crekettes!”
The poem is the earliest known reference to the sport and adds weight to claims that the weavers brought the game over with them and played it on fields close to where they tended their sheep, using shepherd’s crooks – or curved sticks – as bats to strike a ball.
It was uncovered by Campbell following a search of historical archives, in which he looked for variations of the early ways in which the word cricket was spelt.
A German academic, who first established that the word has its linguistic origins in Flemish, guided Campbell.
Dr Heiner Gillmeister, of the department of English at the University of Bonn, suggests the term cricket has its roots in the Flemish phrase “met de krik ketsen”, or “to chase with a curved stick”.
He goes on to suggest that the origins of hockey goals and the wickets in cricket were in imitation of chivalric games, in which a knight on horseback guarded a narrow passage or opening.
It had previously been thought that the first written reference to cricket was in 1589, when it was mentioned during a court case in Guildford, Surrey, in which a certain John Derick – possible from the Flemish name Hendrik – recalled that as a young man at the Royal Grammar School “he and diverse of his fellowes did runne and play there at creckett and other plaies”.
But the new finding is the most conclusive proof that the sport – as well as the word itself – was foreign in origin.
Skelton’s poem is contained in a collection published by The Ballad Society in 1868. (ANI)
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