Meal in a Bottle: Giving meal skippers a healthy alternative - Nov 2013

Meal in a Bottle shakes up the breakfast industry

Australian owned company Slim Nation is shaking up the breakfast aisle with the national launch of its Meal in a Bottle product, giving meal skippers a healthy and convenient alternative to “drinking dessert” options.

Meal in a Bottle is the only liquid breakfast product nutritionally sound enough to be classified as a meal replacement under Australian law, has no added sugar, and contains 18 vitamins and minerals.

The product was created by entrepreneur Aaron Zamykal, who says his fast-paced work life left him with no time for breakfast and many quick meal alternatives were equivalent to eating six teaspoons of sugar per serve.

 “42% of Australians don’t have time for breakfast and many liquid breakfast options are high in sugar,” says Mr Zamykal.

“A recent investigation by Choice into 23 liquid breakfast products found “dodgy” nutritional claims and concerning sugar levels.

“My product development philosophy is simple; make it quick and make it healthy,”

 “I set out on a new career path to fill a niche in the market with a low in sugar and nutritionally sound alternative.”

With huge demand from Aussie meal skippers, Meal in a Bottle has rolled out nationally to over 15,000 outlets including partnership with several Queensland Hospitals – Princess Alexandra, Beaudesert, Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee, Redland and Logan.

“Slim Nation started online from Brisbane, with products created locally and developed by a team of dieticians and nutritionists,” says Mr Zamykal.

“The business started online from Brisbane, but we were overwhelmed with orders and have since grown into an international brand. We must be doing something right.”

 The Australian company is dedicated to providing a holistic approach to a healthy lifestyle, providing free dietician support.

“Because the road to a more balanced and healthier lifestyle means support, we also offer free online chats to our team of dietitians either through our website, Facebook or email,” says Mr Zamykal.

“I’ve found a combination of having both a good quality, healthy product with added support has been very well received by the public.”

Meal in a Bottle comes in a 290mL bottle and is available in coffee, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.

The product is available in the chilled section in IGA and independent supermarkets nationwide.

For full stock listings visit www.slimnation.com.au or email info@slimnation.com.au.

For media enquiries contact: Janice Caza on 0405 101 613 or janice@p4.com.au.

FAST FACTS

• No added sugar
• Low in salt
• High in fibre
• 98% tat free
• 18 vitamins and minerals
• In a resealable recyclable bottle
• Great tasting
• Contains calcium, magnesium and phosphorous for building stronger teeth and bones with the benefit of vitamin D for calcium and phosphorous absorption.
• Contains Vitamin A, C & riboflavin for iron absorption

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

NUTRITION INFORMATION Servings per pack: one. Serving size: 290mL
	Average Quantity per          % RDI* Serving                                  (per serving)		Average quantity per 100mL
Energy Energy Protein Fat, total -saturated	859 205 18 4 2.6	kJ Cal g g g	296 71 6.2 1.4 Less than 1	kJ Cal g g g
Carbohydrate Sugars Dietary fibre Sodium Vitamin A Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E Thiamin Riboflavin	24 13 4 290 241 15 3 3 0.28 0.43	g g g mg                 µg                     32%* mg                    38%* µg                     30%* mg                    30%* mg                    25%* mg                    25%*	8.3 4.6 1.4 100 83 5.2 1 1 0.1 0.15	g g g mg µg mg µg mg mg mg
Niacin	5	mg                    50%*	1.7	mg
Vit B6	0.8	mg                    50%*	0.28	mg
Folic acid	100	µg                     50%*	35	µg
Vit B12	1	µg                     50%*	0.34	µg
Pantothenic acid	1.5	mg                    30%*	0.52	mg
Calcium	326	mg                    41%*	112	mg
Iodine	45	µg                     30%*	15.5	µg
Iron	4.5	mg                    37%*	1.5	mg
Magnesium	90	mg                    28%*	31	mg
Phosphorous	346	mg                    35%*	119	mg
Zinc	3	mg                    25%*	1	mg
*Percentage of recommended dietary intake (RDI)
Reconstituted ingredients: Milk solids, maltodextrin, Slim Nation protein blend (sodium caseinate, whey protein concentrate), fibre (inulin), coffee extracts & flavour, vitamins and minerals (calcium phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin C, niacin, iron, vitamin E, zinc, vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, vitamin A, iodine, vitamin D3, vitamin B12), stabiliser (gellan gum, sodium phosphate-dibasic, cellulose gel, carrageenan, cellulose gum), sucralose, green coffee bean extract.

70 year old man divorces teen in Saudi Arabia

A divorce has been granted in the case of a Saudi teenager who was wed to a 70-year-old man as per Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Commission.


The man had claimed that he was 70 years old, said CNN, but officials believe that he is actually 86. He also stated that he believed his bride to be 25-years-old. The man paid a $20,000 dowry for his bride, who he said later ran away and returned back to her home in Al-Hurath village in Jizan province.

In Saudi Arabia, no law stipulates a minimum age for marriage. There's been a push for that in recent years, but extremely conservative religious scholars have pushed back.



The man told CNN that he is 70, but the commission said they believe he is 86. The man also told CNN that he thought his bride to be was 25.
After learning of the marriage, the commission sent an investigator to the girl's home in Al-Hurath village in Jizan province, in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen.

Dr. Hadi Al-Yami, who runs the commission's branch that covers that area, told CNN that the group sent an investigator to a courthouse where the man had complained to a local official.
The commission then reached out to the girl's family, offering legal help, Al-Yami said.
On Wednesday, Dr. Bandar Alaiban, the commission's president, said a meeting had taken place with the parents, man and the girl.

"A divorce has taken place," Alaiban told CNN, "and the dispute has now been resolved amicably."
The marriage angered human rights groups and activists.

Dr. Suhaila Zein al-Abedin of the Saudi National Association for Human Rights -- also a government-backed group -- voiced concern not only about the age difference, but the circumstances of the marriage.

"When you consider the very large difference in age, it looks more like this was not a marriage, but like the girl was sold," al-Abedin said. "The girl's parents need to be held responsible for this."

Awesome facts about Mcdonalds

Associated Press/Dennis Cook, file - FILE - In this file photo taken April 6, 1988, Ronald McDonald watches as about 20,000 balloons head skyward at the opening of the 10,000th McDonalds restaurant worldwide, in Dale City

Before, during, and after the recession, McDonald's has been an unstoppable global force. The fast food giant can now be found in 119 countries, where it serves over 75 burgers every second.

And if you don't like burgers, the chain is great at localization with countless unique items served at around the world, and now it's taking over coffee — oh yeah, the McRib is coming back soon.

1. McDonald's sells more than 75 hamburgers every second
(Source: McDonald's Operations and Training Manual via Side Dish)

(McDonald's)2. McDonald's feeds 68 million people per day, that's about 1 percent of the world's population
(Source: Societe General via Dominic Chu)

3. McDonald's' $27 billion in revenue makes it the 90th-largest economy in the world
(Source: SEC)

4. The $8.7 billion in revenue from franchise stores alone, makes McDonald's richer than Mongolia
(Source: SEC)

5. McDonald's hires around 1 million workers in the US every year
This estimate from Fast Food Nation assumes a 700,000 domestic workforce with 150% turnover rate.

6. McDonald's has 761,000 employees worldwide, that's more than the population of Luxembourg
(Source: McDonald's / Statistics Iceland)

7. According to company estimates, one in every eight American workers has been employed by McDonald's
(Source: McDonald's own estimate in 1996 via Fast Food Nation)

8. Sharon Stone worked at McDonald's before she was famous. So did Shania Twain, Jay Leno, Rachel McAdams and Pink
(Source: NNDB)

9. McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys, with one included in 20% of all sales
(Source: QSR via Motley Fool)

(McDonald's)10. Back in 1968 McDonald airlifted hamburgers to homesick U.S. Olympic Athletes in France
(Source: McDonald's)

11. McDonald's' iconic golden arches are recognized by more people than the cross
A survey by Sponsorship Research International found that 88 percent could identify the arches and only 54 percent could name the Christian cross, according to Fast Food Nation.

12. The Queen of England owns a retail park in Slough, which has a drive-thru McDonald's
(Source: The Telegraph)

13. The Egg McMuffin was modeled on eggs Benedict
Herb Peterson invented the Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's restaurants. From MSNBC:

"Peterson came up with idea for the signature McDonald's breakfast item in 1972. He "was very partial to eggs Benedict," Fraker said, and worked on creating something similar.

The egg sandwich consisted of an egg that had been formed in a Teflon circle with the yolk broken, topped with a slice of cheese and grilled Canadian bacon. It was served open-faced on a toasted and buttered English muffin."

(Source: MSNBC)

14. From 2011 to 2013, McDonald's plans to open one restaurant every day in China
(Source: Reuters via Paul Kedrosky)

15. McDonald's delivers – in 18 countries!
(Source: Japan Times)
 
16. The only place in the lower 48 that is more than 100 miles from a McDonald's is a barren plain in South Dakota
(Source: AggData via Side Dish)

17. Americans alone consume one billion pounds of beef at McDonald's in a year – five and a half million head of cattle
(Source: John Hayes, McDonald's senior director of U.S. food and packaging, via Side Dish)

Source: yahoo.com

Stop selling your info on Facebook

If you want to keep a secret, don’t put any trace of it online. That’s something ex-CIA director David Petraeus just learned the hard way. But our lives are increasingly digital, and the government recognizes it.

In July, Congress asked nine data brokerage firms – including credit reporting agencies – what consumer information they collect, how they do it, and whether they sell it to third parties. On Nov. 8, it released those companies’ responses.

You can read the lengthy original letters and the responses here, but investigative journalism site ProPublica sums things up nicely in their article Yes, Companies Are Harvesting – and Selling – Your Facebook Profile:

Data companies of course, do not stop with the information on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Intelius, which offers everything from a reverse phone number look up to an employee screening service, said it also collects information from Blogspot, WordPress, MySpace, and YouTube.

This information includes individual email addresses and screen names, web site addresses, interests, and professional history, Intelius said. It offers a “Social Network Search” on its website that allows you to enter someone’s name and see a record of social media URLs for that person.

And that’s just the start. Companies like Acxiom collect likes, shares, and recommendations to build out a profile of consumers on behalf of their clients – something they say benefits consumers. (In return for our data, they say, we get cheap or free access to services like Facebook and more relevant advertising.) In its response to Congress, Acxiom [PDF] said its clients in 2009 included the following…

• 47 Fortune 100 clients
• 8 of the top 10 credit card issuers
• 4 of the top 5 retail banks
• 7 of the top 10 telecom/media companies
• 5 of the top 10 retailers
• 7 of the top 10 automotive manufacturers
• 3 of the top 10 brokerage firms
• 6 of the top 10 technology companies
• 3 of the top 5 pharmaceutical manufacturers
• 4 of the top 10 life/health insurance providers
• 7 of the top 10 property and casualty insurers
• 7 of the top 10 lodging companies
• 3 of the top 5 domestic airlines
• 6 of the top 10 U.S. hotels
• 4 of the top 5 gaming companies
• 5 of the 13 largest U.S. federal government agencies
• Both major national political parties

Just how much are we worth to these companies? And is there anything we can do about how they get and use our info?

Fixing your privacy settings

The answer to both questions might come from a relatively new tool (released last month) called privacyfix. It’s a browser plug-in for Firefox and Chrome that analyzes your privacy settings across data-rich social networking sites like Google and Facebook, and any other websites you’ve visited.

When you first install it, you’ll be greeted with a page that tells you what percentage of sites you’ve visited Facebook tracks (for me, 86 percent) and an estimate of how much you’re worth to Facebook per year (just $3.32 here – sorry, Zuckerberg).

Along the right side, you’ll see a number of settings you can “fix,” and each will be explained as you move your cursor over it. These include excluding your Facebook profile from search engine results, blocking your friends from inadvertently sharing your personal information, making your postings private (visible only to friends) by default, and so on. Clicking on any of these will take you step-by-step through the process, explaining why you would want to change the setting and what the potential downside is. You don’t have to “fix” anything you don’t want to, and you can always undo the changes.

When you’re ready to go to the next section, you’ll see a blue “next” button below the right-side column of Facebook issues you can fix. Or, in a bar along the top, you can skip to whatever section you want.

You’ll go through similar Google settings next. (Google tracks data on 37 percent of websites I visit and makes around $1,174 per year from ads at my activity level.) Then, you’ll move on to a list of other websites you’ve visited, categorized by icon into “Websites sharing data” and “Websites with other issues.”

The fix button here lets you automatically generate an email letter requesting the removal of your personal information on every site you specify. Meanwhile, moving your cursor over any icon shows you the particular problems with that site – for instance, whether it shares information with third parties, whether it notifies you about it, and whether it is known to honor deletion requests.

Just because a website’s icon is on the list doesn’t mean it’s bad: Many of mine say “personal data is not generally shared” and “deletion requests are honored” with green checkmarks, and usually the only red caution mark is next to “no assurance of notice if data is requested.” But if that data is not shared, I’m not too concerned about hypothetical notices.

Next you’ll go to a page on cookies, tiny files stored on your computer that can keep you logged into sites, save your preferences, store passwords, or do what Privacyfix is worried about: track you. The tool can help you delete these cookies in a snap.

It can also help you block them from tracking you in the future. However, this fix involves using a signal called Do Not Track, which may cause some websites to not load correctly, or sometimes at all. It took me a while to realize this was the culprit, so I wouldn’t recommend turning the feature on unless you’re sure to remember it can cause problems. (Some argue that enabling Do Not Track will cut into advertising revenue sites depend on to operate, and ultimately make them charge users or put them out of business.)

The last section of Privacyfix is Healthbar. Enabling it will add an icon to the top of your browser which you can click to access a dashboard which can quickly check a website’s privacy flaws, delete cookies, provide a history of privacy concerns (on Facebook, it points to data exposures and a government settlement over privacy promises), or fiddle with any of the settings you previously adjusted. The color of the icon will change depending on the relative privacy of the website – sites Privacyfix thinks handle your info smartly will be marked green, while riskier sites will turn the icon partially or completely orange.

Privacyfix isn’t doing much savvy computer users can’t do themselves, but it is making complicated privacy issues a lot simpler to navigate for the rest of us. Even if you’ve tried to figure out Facebook’s crazy privacy options on your own, you might find this exercise eye-opening – I sure did.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stop-companies-collecting-selling-facebook-105019611.html

General's wife speaks out on cheating husband

Credit to: AP Photo/CBS "This Morning")

NEW YORK (AP) — As an Army general faces a string of sexual misconduct charges involving female officers, his wife is seeking to stir a broader look at often taboo subjects in military marriages:adultery, the strain of separation and the stress of war.

Rebecca Sinclair stayed away from the days-long military hearing earlier this month at Fort Bragg, N.C., where the allegations against her husband, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, were revealed in detailed testimony. Women officers described an affair, forced sexual encounters and a series of explicit email exchanges with the former deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan.

But his wife has since made herself a public face of his defense, and of what she sees as the toll of a decade of war on military couples, many of whom have found themselves in a repeated pattern of deployments, homecomings and moves.

"I am not condoning anything, and I'm not excusing my husband's infidelity. I'm not saying that just because we're on this deployment cycle and because of the war, that causes infidelity," she said by phone Monday from New York, where she had traveled for interviews after airing her feelings in an opinion piece Thursday in The Washington Post. "I'm just trying to understand it, and I'm trying to get conversations started so that people can look behind and see the bigger issue."

Her piece came as adultery in the military has flared up as an issue, following retired Gen. David Petraeus' resignation as CIA director over an affair with his biographer and the disclosure of what officials have described as suggestive emails between a Florida woman and Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan; he says he's done nothing wrong.

It also comes as Jeffrey Sinclair waits to hear whether he'll be court-martialed on charges including forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual conduct, misusing a government travel charge card, and possessing pornography and alcohol while deployed. The 27-year Army veteran was relieved in May of his duties overseeing logistics for the 82nd Airborne.

At the recent evidentiary hearing, a female captain who was his direct subordinate in Afghanistan testified she had a three-year affair with her married boss. But she also said that on two occasions, the general forced her to perform oral sex and that he also threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone about their relationship. Two other officers testified that they provided nude photos to him, part of allegations involving his conduct with five women.

The Associated Press does not name victims of alleged sexual assaults unless they agree to be identified or come forward publicly.

Defense lawyers portrayed Sinclair's primary accuser, the captain, as a lying, jealous lover trying to ruin his family and career. Defense lawyer Maj. Elizabeth Ramsey suggested in her closing argument that the general was guilty only of adultery and fraternization, punishable by a written reprimand. The defense team said Sinclair had passed a polygraph test during which he denied sexually assaulting the captain.

Rebecca Sinclair, who said her husband called last spring to tell her of the affair and allegations, said she hoped "the Army will see the evidence for what it is and will clear him of any wrongdoing."

In the meantime, the Sinclairs are trying to mend their relationship, she said. And she is pointing to her personal story as a testament to the pressures on military marriages and families.

Her husband has been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere five times since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, spending a total of six of the past 11 years away from his wife and two children — the eldest, a sixth-grader, has attended six schools so far, Rebecca Sinclair said.

Many military wives know their husbands are unfaithful but stay silent to preserve their families or their financial security, especially because their spouses' own careers can be hampered by frequent moves, said Rebecca Sinclair, who has taught business at various community colleges during her 27-year marriage.

Her husband's affair and the fallout "is very painful for me, very hurtful, but I just really feel that this is something I need to talk about," she said. "Because it's not an isolated case.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/generals-wife-speaks-misconduct-probe-072714362.html

Chinese man sues wife for giving birth to an ugly baby, woman pays

A Chinese man divorced and then filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife for giving birth to what he called an extremely ugly baby girl, the Irish Times reported.

Courtesy of abc15.com

nitially, Jian Feng accused his wife of infidelity, so sure that he could never father an unattractive child.

When a DNA test proved that the baby was his, Feng's wife came clean on a little secret -- before they met, she had undergone about $100,000 worth of cosmetic surgery in South Korea.

Feng sued his ex-wife on the grounds of false pretenses, for not telling him about the plastic surgery and duping him into thinking she was beautiful, The Huffington Post reported.

The kicker? He won. A judge agreed with Feng's argument and ordered his ex-wife to fork over $120,000.

"I married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began having marital issues," he told the Irish Times. "Our daughter was incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me."

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