Food from this category should be eaten daily. Cereals without a lot of sugar, bread, pita bread, bagels, Kaiser buns, tortillas, English muffins, rice, pasta and crackers (whole grain products), fruits and vegetables, 100-percent fruit drinks; milk, yogurt, cottage cheese. Lean cuts of meat, poultry, fish, egg, legumes (baked beans, lentils, chick peas, tofu), peanut butter, nuts and seeds.
AMBER LABEL MEANS: "Caution". Food in this category are nutritious but they also contain amount of sugar, fat and/or salt. They may be eaten a few times a week depending on the food.
Examples in the category: muffins, banana bread, cereal bars and granola bars without chocolate toppings, pretzels, crackers with cheese or peanut butter, social tea cookies, fruit crisps, popcorn, rice cakes; canned fruit, dried fruit snacks, fruit popsicles, pickles, vegetables with dip; chocolate milk, rice puddings made with milk, ice cream, frozen yogurt, milkshakes, cream-based soups; certain cold cuts (salami, bologna, pepperoni and luncheon meat loaf).
RED LABEL MEANS: "Baware". Red identified food that contain a lot of sugar, fat and/or salt. They also often contain food additives. Food from this category should be eaten rarely and preferably at home.
Examples include chocolate bars, pastry, snack cakes, candy, fruit roll ups, chips, dried noodles, soft drinks, sweetened beverages such as punch.
Imelda Marcos’ concept about inner beauty and being beautiful may have some validity after all, if we’re to believe a study by Canadian university researchers. They believe that attractiveness is a sign of good internal health and longevity. And that beautiful people not only lead more successful lives, they get to enjoy them longer too. And that attractive people have some traits that they are being chosen for as mates, and so people that display these traits have more children.
Can News Service explored the study further and reported that positive characteristics include good facial symmetry, no visible scars or disfigurations of the face, a stand-out chin and nose and high cheekbones on a woman. For men, Tom Cruise was mentioned as a classic example of a good-looking male who’s blessed with even features and a strong jaw line. The fact that he is short in real life but looks huge on screen and is relatively hairless speaks to how the media has changed practical notions of beauty in recent years.
Unfortunately, for women, they have suffered from unnatural perceptions of what is beautiful, including a face without the age lines and the popular ideal look of "extreme thinness" like a super-model.
On the subject of being thin and losing weight, Canadian researchers discovered that dieting can sabotage a person’s desire to slim down. They discovered that, following weight loss, the pre-fat cells were more resistant to cell death and produced higher amounts of protein that normally sends flat, pre-fat cells down the road to becoming round and full of fat. This could help explain why success rates for long-term weight loss are so difficult. It’s a known fact that only five to 10 percent of people who lose weight manage to keep the pounds off five years later.
Planet Philippines, the bi-monthly publication of Buzzword Media Corp., with a Vancouver edition is actively looking for more Canadian publishing partners to service other provinces in the country. At present, Planet Philippines is being represented by businessman Leo Dy who revived TV Patrol in British Columbia.