health

Wii Fit: the first 50 days

As part of the not-particularly New Year's resolutions, and more importantly, because it is expensive plastic tat manufactured by Nintendo, the Poorhouse felt inclined to invest in a Wii Fit system some months ago. And guess what...the regime continues, with fairly-near daily usage. Impressive, no?! It has to be said that there haven't been new crowds of fan marvelling at the new He-Man like physique, but presumably it can't do any harm to try and fitten up a bit.

Does Facebook really beam cancer-nodules into your inner brain?

Well, clearly the above could be answered in a single word, with one syllable and two letters, but hey, let's give it a chance. A strange amount of tarnish has fallen from the pens of certain newspapers on "social networking websites". Often the example they use is Facebook, presumably because it's the biggest, baddest and all, with a population of considerably more than quite some countries using it.

There seem to be a couple of main stories, both of which could be plot-lines for a horror film.

Aids aren't always helpful

Funny product names are always to be included in the purile pit of juven-humour seen to be floating around the Poorhouse, but it's not always the case that they a) are not unfortunately-named foreign imports, b) have TV ads, and c) are related to some of the most sensitive of health subjects.

Check this:

Tasty fruit n veg

We all know we're supposed to eat 5 portions of fruit n veg a day right? But do we know what fruit and vegetables actually are in order to actually give us a decent chance at fulfilling said obligation...? According to a recent survey, no we don't. Check it:

One in five [parents] thought that fruit-flavoured sweets, spaghetti hoops and orange squash counted towards the daily target.And although one in ten believed Jaffa Cakes, chips and cola contributed, one in 20 thought oranges or bananas didn't

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