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Meatandhealth.com

Ever wanted advice about which meats have the lowest fat content? Or to know why red meat is naturally low in salt? If so, a dedicated advisory service from meatandhealth.com called Ask the Nutritionist could be the answer.

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On the site you will find one of the country’s top nutritionists, Juliette Kellow, on hand to answer online questions about red meat and its role in a balanced diet.

Juliette says: “People feel bombarded with health information these days. So often they are not sure what information is correct and what is not – especially when it comes to a universally popular food like red meat.”

“There are so many choices to be made during the weekly shop, I hope that my advice will put people’s minds at rest and reassure consumers and health care professionals that they can make the right nutritional choices for both their families and their patients.”

Meatandhealth.com has been at the forefront of information for healthcare professionals and consumers for more than ten years. It produces a range of popular resources to improve health information including Getting the Balance Right, the Good Fat Guide and Nutrition for Nurses.

Juliette also recently edited Meatandhealth.com’s Red Meateorite: blasting away the myths about red meat – which contains a series of quirky and serious facts about red meat, its history and current role in the diet.

The first website dedicated to women in their prime!

allaboutyou.com is a brand new lifestyle website offering women aged 35 - 60 a wealth of inspiration, expert advice and a multitude of practical answers to their everyday queries. As the partner website for Good Housekeeping, Prima, SHE, Country Living, Coast and House Beautiful magazines, allaboutyou.com will have a strong homes, food and UK focus and provide an indispensable directory of information.

allaboutyou.com - lifestyle website

The new site will be home to a vibrant and honest community of smart, like-minded women. They will be given the opportunity to join the debate on hot topics, such as the rising cost of food prices, as well as exchanging top tips on everything from turning existing recipes into signature dishes to sharing each other’s skincare secrets.

Highlights on allaboutyou.com include:

Food
Site visitors will be able to search thousands of diverse and exciting recipes, which will be added to each month. Interviews with top chefs and food experts will enlighten and delight those with a passion for cooking.

Art and Craft
An archive of knitting patterns from Prima magazine and other suppliers will have knitters jumping for joy. From doggy jumpers to stripy sweaters, there will be something for everyone.

Homes
allaboutyou.com users will be able to browse real life interiors taken from the pages of House Beautiful and Country Living magazines. Plus they can also access expert advice for the garden. Making a house a home has never been easier!

Countryside
allaboutyou.com will be the place to visit for the best of UK travel and country lifestyle. Top city breaks and travel specials on worldwide destinations will inspire readers looking to get away.

Looking after its’ audience from head to toe, allaboutyou.com will also have a dedicated area for Diet & Wellbeing and Hair & Beauty. Here, women will be able to access the latest industry news, top product recommendations and tailored advice to meet their specific needs.

Bernadette Fallon, Editor of allaboutyou.com says; “Although older women are savvy users of the internet, there are few sites tailored to their age group and lifestyle needs. These women have busy lives and we know that allaboutyou.com will offer them everything they are looking for in one place, becoming a trusted friend and an essential resource.”

Record numbers search historical website

The University of Sheffield has logged record numbers of people visiting the newly expanded Old Bailey Proceedings Online website. The site has proved so popular that computing experts at the University have had to increase server capacity to manage the increase in traffic.

Old Bailey Proceedings Online website

Researchers from the Universities of Sheffield, Hertfordshire and The Open University recently launched the expanded website, which now includes details of criminal trials from 1674 to 1913, from just after the Great Fire to just before the Great War.

Demand for the website, which details the largest single source of searchable information about “ordinary” British lives and behaviour ever published, was so high that the site temporarily crashed under the pressure.

On the first day of its launch, the website, which now contains records from approximately 200,000 trials, logged 1,762,000 hits. In the first week alone, the site recorded over eight and a half million hits and 1,544,491 page impressions –about thirteen times the normal traffic on the site. And in the following week one especially busy day saw an astonishing three million plus hits, and half a million page views.

People from as far as Australia and the United States visited the site to gain a valuable insight into their ancestors and a diverse range of crimes from pick-pocketing and robbery, to abduction and murder.

Currently, the site is receiving about 300,000 hits per day, delivering around 100,000 page impressions.

Using the web to tackle young people’s drinking

Health researchers at the University of Leeds are helping young people take the first steps towards reducing dangerous alcohol intake through an online personal analysis of their drinking behaviour.

Unitcheck, a website developed and trialled at the University of Leeds, aims to change the habits of at-risk young drinkers, giving them a quick check on the number of units they are drinking, and information on whether this affects their health and how their drinking compares to their peers.

During the pilot scheme funded by the European Research Advisory Board, lead researcher Bridgette Bewick of Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, found that 5 per cent of those surveyed are regularly drinking at weekly levels associated with health risk.

Initial results show a reduction in drinking per occasion of approximately one unit during the trial and a three-month follow up shows this lowered intake had persisted.

A progress report on the government’s National Alcohol Strategy, published in June 2007 advises that women who regularly drink over six units a day and men who regularly drink over eight units a day are in the highest risk ‘binge drinking’ category.

Bridgette Bewick said: “Our approach indicates many of the young people surveyed did not realise how many units they were consuming on an average occasion. The heaviest drinkers surveyed were surprised to find the majority of their peers stay within sensible weekly limits. High levels of alcohol taken on a single occasion can be particularly damaging to health, so a small change in this pattern is a step in the right direction.”

The current trial, due to finish this summer, is funded by the Alcohol Education and Research Council.

KRCS, Celebrates the relaunch of their Leicester Store

KRCS Group Plc has announced that it is celebrating the relaunch of its Leicester Haymarket store with a celebrity visit by much-loved actor Ricky Tomlinson on Bank Holiday Monday, August 27th.

KRCS Store

The revamped store offers shoppers in Leicester the opportunity to learn and experience Apple’s innovative products and solutions in a modern and welcoming environment. The new store offers the complete range of Macs,including desktops, notebooks, displays and software together with the complete line of iPod digital music players and iPod accessories.

iPodsOn Monday 27th of August, not only will Ricky Tomlinson officially launch the revamped store at 11.30am, but the first fifty customers to have their photo taken with Ricky will also receive a free photo and a free KRCS goodie bag, each containing a discount voucher to spend in store, a variety of useful gifts and the chance to win a prize worth up to £100 – including iPods, notebook cases, Mac games and special Apple merchandise not available elsewhere. Ricky will be in-store for photos and signings until 2.00pm.

“We’re very excited about our new-look Apple Premium Reseller store,” said
Ken Woods, Managing Director of KRCS. “Customers can now visit one store to trial and purchase the full range of Apple products and accessories. We offer a superb personal service for home and business users that includes installation, training
and after-sales support.”

iMacAt KRCS, knowledgeable experts are available to help visitors learn about all the latest products from Apple. The hands-on experience provides visitors with an opportunity to test-drive Apple’s entire product line from the latest MacBook and MacBook Pro, through to Apple’s full line of desktop computers including the Mac Pro, iMac and Mac mini, and the newest additions to the iPod family.

Offering service and advice from experts for both consumer and professional customers, Apple Premium Resellers also offer regular instore demonstrations and training to help customers get the most out of their purchases.

website: http://www.krcs.co.uk

30% More click for cosmetics

www.clickforcosmetics.com Freephone 0800 234 6037

More than ever, men and women are now buying their health and beauty products on-line, with an increase in online sales for 2006 of 30%, according to research by Cosmetics design-europe.com.

Helping drive the e-commerce beauty revolution is www.clickforcosmetics.com, a new (Staffordshire based) website offering more than 400 health and beauty product lines, all discounted from high street prices, gorgeously packaged in pink tissue paper and usually delivered to your door the next day.
Click for cosmetics

From powder puffs to perfume and lip plumpers to lifting creams, click for cosmetics offers 40 plus different beauty brands for men and women including YSL, Agent Provocateur, Urban Decay, Elizabeth Arden, Clarins and Lancome at up to 85% off recommended retail price. All purchases are beautifully presented in pink tissue paper (black for the men!) secured with pretty sealed with a kiss stickers and accompanied by a hand-written gift tag, all at no extra cost.

And with a simple postage pricing policy of £2.95 per order no matter what the size or weight, click for cosmetics offers an attractive alternative to trawling the beauty counters for the perfect gift or simply stocking up your own make-up bag. Other website features include a Beauty Tips section offering advice, for example, on getting the best out of your make-up brushes and prolonging the life of your favourite fragrance. Customers are invited to share their own top beauty tips with a prize offered each month for the best one. Special promotions and offers are changed on a weekly basis.