It can be quite a responsibility to ensure your children eat a healthy diet. Having two young children myself, I know how difficult it can be.

Pregnant or breastfeeding mothers who live on a diet of junk food could be condemning their children to lifelong obesity and ill-health, experts warned today.fair enough.A study suggests that a mother's poor diet can do long-lasting and irreversible damage to her child. The effects include obesity, raised levels of cholesterol, and the risk of diabetes.I think we can call see that, although my mot...

Young people who can talk openly about sex with their parents tend to delay having sex and are more likely to use contraception when they do. Talking to children about sex Talking about sex to your child doesn’t mean you are encouraging them to have sex. The best way to start talking about sex is to: start when your child is young, as waiting before your child reaches puberty can make it awk...

The governments’s record on policies for children is a very mixed one. Current government policies and initiatives under the umbrella of Every Child Matters and the Children’s Plan do include some very good measures such as the Sure Start Children’s Centres Programme, Parents Early Years and Learning initiative and the commitment to the improvement of

Now here's an untypically Government-critical article at the BBC, declaring that no fewer than five-and-a-half million children are in "struggling" family circumstances, and are classed as existing below the poverty line. Getting on for 30% of all parliamentary constituencies (174 out of 646 total) have at least half of their children in that category. Some reports in recent months have shown

I'm a supporter of an English Parliament and a federal United Kingdom. However to move along in that direction English Votes on English Laws would be a start. ( There are various reasons why things won't end there, for example a UK executive that can't pass English Laws but has responsibility only for English devolved matters is unstable. ) Anyway there are only a few hours left to ...

This letter appeared in the Sunderland Echo on 29th December: English need rights AS every English person is now fully aware, the English are being treated as second-class British citizens. Here are the facts and evidence to prove this. More taxpayers’ money is spent educating a child in Scotland than a child in England. Students in Scotland do

A PROMISE to cut child poverty by half in Scotland will be missed next year, the new children's commissioner has warned.

Just realised its been three weeks since my last Diet Report. I fell off the diet for a while after the first four weeks, then there were trips to London and various other events, with buffets, that tempted me astray (Clive!!) and of course the urge to have a curry was just too great...lol... However, as I am off to Majorca for Christmas I've decide to give it another four weeks on the diet (...

Here's a chart showing inflation-adjusted house prices and land values (per residential plot) from 1983 to 2007: To sum up; your investment is not in "bricks and mortar" at all; even at the low point in the early/mid 1990s, half of your investment was in the underlying land value. And as the chart shows, the land value can fall by more than half in five years ... Sources: House prices are tak...