96% Of Women Overweight

Most of the women are their whole life on a diet. This is the conclusion of a recent research. According to a study with 5488 readers of 'Flair', 96% of the women think themselves overweight.

96% of women consider themselves overweight which is remarkable given that 69% of the subjects had a perfectly normal weight. Especially the belly is a problem for many. As many as 7 in 10 women want less fat around their abdomen. The upper legs of one out of two readers are too thick. A small 36% has frustrations about love handles being too small.

Celebrities are not immediately inspiring us to more self confidence either. 61% says to feel bad when seeing a picture of a celebrity because their bodies are not as good as that of the celebrity.

Cooking Pots on the Table Makes You Eat More

When you eat with cooking pots on the table, you eat on average 20% more than if you eat with only one plate in front. For men this raises to 29% more food.

"With food stick to the simple rule: out of sight out of mind. When we no longer think of the extra food we feel less to eat more. The same goes for snacks. When we see vegetables we will eat rather the vedge than taking an unhealthy snack from the refrigerator, say the researchers.

The test results show that men are more sensitive to the visibility of pots than women. So they eat on average 29% more. With women this figure stays only 20%.

Top 10 Places To Be A Mother

A mother has nowhere better conditions in the world to give birth and educate a child than in Norway.
This is the result of 'The State of the World’s Mothers 2010' report, a comparison made by the NGO 'Save the Children'.

10 best places to be a mother

In the rating with 160 countries, Scandinavian countries dominate the top. Australia and New Zealand with position (2) and (6) are exceptions. Iceland (3), Sweden (4), Denmark (5) and Finland (7) confirm their reputation of welfare states. Netherlands follows (8), Belgium (9) and Germany (10).

10 worst places to be a mother

Among the bottom 10 places: at the bottom of the list the Afghanistan war zone, preceded by Niger, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Sudan, Eritrea and Equatorial Guinea.

U.S.A.

"The United States places 28, down from 27 in 2009, primarily because its rate for maternal mortality – 1 in 4,800 – is one of the highest in the developed world. The U.S. also ranks behind many other wealthy nations in terms of the generosity of maternity leave policies," according to the ONG.

20 years in the classroom

Two important factors for evaluating countries are training and education. In Australia, for example, women spend on average 20 years in the classroom; in a country like Niger barely 4 years.

Watching Television Diminished Children's Development

The more television children watch, the worse their development. This is the conclusion of a Canadian study done with 1314 children between 29 and 53 months.

Two-year old children watch an average of 8.8 hours per week television. For four year old, that number increased to 14.8 hours. Any hour that children watch longer TV, however, decreases their performance in mathematical terms by 6%, they become less socially involved (7%) and start more bullying (10%).

Moreover, these children eat more and more salty snacks in front of the TV and thus take the obesity problem ever further. The researchers also noted that this diminishing development also has effect at old age. "It's not just that these children develop later. They develop more slowly and less," said the researchers.