Giving kids sweet drinks makes sickness worse
Whenever a child is sick, some believe that by giving them flat fizzy drinks like coke or lemonade will help them recover faster, however recent research has found that this may not be the case.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has said that it is just a myth that giving anyone suffering [...]
Barbie celebrates 50th birthday
Young and maybe not so young girls have been demanding to visit the toy stores in order for their parents the buy them the latest Barbie doll.
Of course, those girls from fifty years ago would hardly recognise the dolls of today, yet is the doll or the brand that has made this toy so famous [...]
Sci Fi fans would love this clock
Imagine the spotting this in your bedroom in the night as different lights casts its shadow across the room, from some fans that would be great. This is a cool clock that looks as if it has just forced its way through the wall as it has the appearance of sticking out giving a real [...]
March 6, 2009Kid shaped mirrors
These are kind of scary and interesting at the same time, if you can have anything like that at the same time. There are three different versions of these mirrors, the climb, dance and find. They represent the positions that young get themselves into and in actual fact look as if they could have been [...]
February 4, 2009Valentine’s Day screw by M&M’s
As most people suspect, when a confectionary company produce special packs like those for Easter, Christmas and valentine’s day, these special, yet nice looking versions of the product are simply money making machines for the company.
The only true way to find out the value of these products is to take the rare material, which is [...]
Nintendo sued over Wii
There is a class action law suit in the US, which could mean that the Nintendo Wii said to be the biggest seller this Christmas, being blamed for the damage to televisions.
The £3 million case has been started by Molly Elvig, whose son threw the controller into the TV set while playing a game of [...]
The top Wii games
The Wii games console by Nintendo is set become one of the big sellers this Christmas, in fact there are feelings that the Wii could well become one of the all time greatest games machines in history to date.
It has definitely been a rocky road for fans of the company and in some cases, they [...]
Children with drinking problems
Shops and stores that sell alcoholic drinks are coming under increasing pressure due to the amount of children and teenagers who are drinking alcohol to excess.
At such a young age, these young drinkers are at a higher risk of suffering from liver disease and cancer. This would normally be expected in adults who drink heavily [...]
Lego that can be eaten
At last toys that can be eaten, this is not from the makers of lego as such, but if they actually put this into production, it would just have to be a winner for the company. Some of the toys around at the moment could be made into edible toys, which is good especially as [...]
November 3, 2008Will laptops will be £50
For a long time, there has been talk of very low priced laptops coming onto the market initially to provide youngsters from deprived regions with a computer to enable them to study better and make a different life for them.
But this idea seems to have been hijacked slightly by commerce, these cheap computers have become [...]
Christmas could be stolen by pirates
This has to be every child’s nightmare, imagine all of those toys and gadgets that are on their way from the Far East in ships, but somewhere off the coast of Somalia, there are pirates waiting to hijack them.
Sounds like a storyline from a children’s Christmas film, but this is really happening and there are [...]
Great gadgets to buy
It seems that while there may be cutbacks on certain purchases, there is such a love of gadgets and hi-tech equipment that these items are flying off the store shelves and in some cases cannot be made fast enough to keep up with the demand.
With so many new ideas being brought onto the market, just [...]
How to diet with fast food
It sounds crazy but it is possible, of course, no diet is going to work if fast food is your main source of food this is simply because of the calories, salt and sugar involved in the production of these foods.
However, the occasional lapse in self-control does not have to be the end of [...]
Orangina Ad banned
The soft drink known as Orangina has always produced adverts, which reflect the background of the drink, a sort of southern French feel to it. However, occasionally companies want to revamp their image, which may have got a little stale.
However, a French based advertising agency got the contract to make a series of new and [...]
Shopping for suicide
There are many people who would want to commit suicide, for whatever their reasons there will always be this problem. But today there is help for everyone and the even for a subject like this, there is information out there, which is a little worrying to say the least.
But in Japan, there is an [...]
May 23, 2008Be an organised shopper
This is for people who are those shoppers who when they get home after visiting the supermarket find that they have bought all of the wrong things and either end up having to go out again later in the week or if they have bought too much food it normally ends up in the freezer.
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Burger King goes extra super sized
Staying in line with most other fast food suppliers, Burger King has been working hard on developing their products in order to cater for today’s market, and the theme of the market today is going large!
Which is probably why they have come up with this new super sized burger, which initially looks like a [...]
May 19, 2008Kids TV promote veggies
If there was anything that could be done to make the kids of today eat all of their veggies up, it would be regarded as a great thing. Well in fact there is and is quite successful at it. So what is the marvel, it is in fact a TV show that kids in over [...]
April 10, 2008Additives could be banned
There is increased pressure being put on the Food Standards Agency to do something about the amount of chemical additives being put in foods, these are normally classified as e numbers. It is believed that the amount of children who suffer from hyperactivity would be cut by a third if this was done.
Researchers from [...]
March 31, 2008Toys R Us sell tattoos for kids
As if things were not bad enough for parents these days, what with trying to keep their kids on the straight and narrow, away from gangs and bullying, keeping an eye on who they are talking to on the internet and on their mobile phones.
Now it seems that the world’s most famous toy store [...]