Personalised Gifts – Gifts For All Occasions

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We all know that it is the thought that counts when it comes to giving gifts. Making someone smile through the gifts you give will give you a real buzz. Personalised Gifts are guaranteed to make anyone happy. They are more special because of it’s personal touch, and shows that you cared enough to select a gift and personalise it just for them.Engraving someone’s name, the date or even adding a short message on the gift itself creates a keepsake that your loved one will truly cherish. Personalised gifts are standout gifts for all occasions and here are some of the many gifts that can surely make someone smile.

Personalised Christening Gifts

A christening ceremony marks the baby’s first initiation to Christian faith. Personalised gifts like keepsake boxes will allow you to store the child’s memorabilia. Expanding bracelets are also a very popular choice because they can be used for a long period.

Personalised Jewellery

Make the woman in your life smile by giving her a personalised charm bracelet or a cross necklace with engraved box. It’s an added personal touch will surely delight her.

Personalised Birthday Gifts for Kids

A message doggy, breakfast set, chocolate bars, and money boxes are some of the more popular choice when it comes to personalised gifts for kids. Seeing their names and birthdate will surely make it a keepsake and a memorable gift for them.

Personalised Wedding Gifts

If someone you know is about to get married, a pair of cut crystal brandy glasses and a wedding couple trinket box  would make a really good gift. Personalised cuff links are also perfect for the groom while a heart locket can be given to the bride. Such gifts can be used long after the wedding.

Personalise gifts for Occasions

You’ll never run out of gift ideas for special occasions when you personalise it. Say “I love you” on valentine’s day with a hearts message card. Honor your father on father’s day by giving him a personalised mug. Celebrate mother’s day by giving your mum a personalised jewellery box.

We celebrate different special occasions in a year. And personalising gifts makes it easy for us to find a gift that can truly make someone happy. Whatever occasion it is, these gifts can create a lasting impact on the recipient. Personalised gifts from the heart are always treasured and saved and sometimes even passed on to loved ones. Not only does the gift become a treasure, but the memories to which it is connected, go on.

Can Food Be Addictive?

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When we hear the word addiction, what comes to mind, is a picture of someone hooked on heroin or cocaine. We rarely think of food as addictive. Well am here to tell you categorically that food is just as addictive as heroin. If you are serious about finding out the root cause of overweight and obesity, this is where to start.

According to a study published in “Nature Neuroscience”, the effects of high-fat, high-calorie fast food on animals, were very similar to those of cocaine or heroin.

From the research, the effects of fast food on the rat’s brain, were very similar to what happens to a cocaine addict. After a while, the rats exhibits typical behaviors of an addict, to the point that they had to be fed more and more food for them to feel okay.

The lab rats were divided into three groups. One group was fed healthy food. The other group received a restricted amount of junk food while the last group was allowed to eat high-fat, high-calorie foods, as much as they want, with the result that they became obese.

The most remarkable discovery was that the brain of the obese rats altered physically. The obese rats totally lost the capacity to control their appetites.

They continued eating even when they were filled. Even introducing an obstacle in the form of an electric shock did not deter them from eating. To worsen the matter, when their diets were changed to healthy wholesome foods, they stopped eating and starved for an entire two weeks!

In a different study conducted at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York City. It was discovered that rats fed with food high in saturated fats and packed with sugar and calories ( a re-creation of most common fast-food menu ) lowered the rats ability to respond to leptin. Leptin is a hormone that controls appetite. As the rats gained more weight, the amount of leptin in their bodies also kept rising, essentially signaling their brain that they were starving. Therefore the rats continued to overeat and gain more weight.

Highly palatable foods made with high fat, high calorie, sugar… typical make-up for a fast food menu… are absolutely addicting. On the other hand, healthy wholesome food is not addictive. Can you imagine being addicted to vegetable? Vegetable is not addictive, but cookies, chips, or soda can be just as addictive as cocaine. The rats that were addicted in the experiment, continued to eat, despite being given electric shock!

This is exactly why overweight has become an epidemic. We are fighting an addiction without really knowing it. Eating refined carbohydrates like cookies, cakes, candy, pasta, white bread, raises serotonin and endorphins in the brain, creating a happy feel-good, peaceful state. Thus we crave these carbs when we are anxious or stressed.

Eating foods high in sugar and salt, makes us want to eat more foods of the same nature. Fast foods and food manufacturers have mastered the art of making foods that are palatable and thus addictive.

Alcohol, cigarette, heroine are biologically addictive substances, and that is why addicts continue using them despite being fully aware of the terrible consequences on their health and social status. They can’t help themselves; their physiology has being wired to crave these substances. That’s exactly what happens to a food addict. And unknowingly, that is exactly what is happening to most of us.

This is why obese patients continue to overeat despite full knowledge of the adverse health consequences. They often face physical discomfort and social stigma, including discrimination in their office, yet they keep overeating. It is simply because certain kinds of food are highly addictive, even more addictive than drugs. Many obese patients simply can’t help themselves. They are food addicts.

In a different study conducted at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York City. It was discovered that rats fed with food high in saturated fats and packed with sugar and calories ( a recreation of most common fast-food menu ) lowered the rats ability to respond to leptin. Leptin is a hormone that controls appetite. As the rats gained more weight, the amount of leptin in their bodies also kept rising, essentially signaling their brain that they were starving. Therefore the rats continued to overeat and gain more weight.

The Cultures Behind Fashion Trends

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From gladiator sandals to skinny jeans to animal prints – one has to wonder, what influences fashion trends? Where do all of these ideas, some of them great and some downright bizarre, come from and how do they gain so much popularity, spreading like wildfire until practically everyone on the planet who can afford it is wearing a particular item? Even if you’re not particularly fond of following fashion trends, you have to admit that there’s something to be said for a particular style of clothing that can move millions of people around the world to dress in it.

So what influences fashion trends? In a nutshell, fashion trends are made by people for people and are a reflection of human nature and human activities. You wear something as an expression of who you are, what you believe in and where you come from, meaning you are representing a certain kind of fashion culture that you are either a part of or that you want to be a part of.

High Culture

The idea of high culture is synonymous with luxury and a sense of exclusivity. These involve things like painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, literature and the like. What influences fashion trends can be seen in certain famous fashion houses, not only in their clothing lines but in their advertising campaigns too. For example, Gianni Versace’s logo is that of Medusa from Greek mythology, a stylized drawing on a golden, medallion-like background, which lends an air of bold artistry to his clothing line, along with a sense of high-end sophistication and glamorous seduction.

Pop Culture

Think the sixties and it’s tie-dye and peace medallions, while the seventies was all about the bell bottoms and platform shoes. This is one of the key answers to what influences fashion trends. Pop culture is basically what the media and the press hype up every day you turn on the TV or go online. This is the culture of celebrities and famous personalities whom everyone else wants to look like, and of clothing produced for the masses. For example, if a popular celebrity is photographed wearing a specific coat, sales on that coat are sure to skyrocket as certain popular celebrities are considered global fashion icons and role models. This is why many fashion labels turn to celebrities to endorse their clothing, accessories and footwear. Pop culture sells a certain lifestyle that people want to have and qualities that people want to possess.

Subculture

This is the culture of the “streets,” of those considered out of the mainstream, such as the hip-hop, graffiti, rock and punk scenes or the surf and skateboard cultures. If classified simply, this is the more bohemian aspect of fashion, of individualistic and unique styles, like the low-slung, baggy jeans that were primarily connected with the hip-hop scene or graffiti art on sneakers associated with skateboarding. The thing about subculture however is that it tends to turn into pop culture given enough time and attention. What influences fashion trends are the same things that keep these same trends constantly changing and that is something about fashion that will never go out of style.

The Functions of Clothing

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As we all know, there are many styles of clothing. Without clothing, we can not do anything. From this point, we learn that clothing is so important that we can not leave them. However, do you know what the functions of clothing are?

Now let me tell you more about that.

Firstly, clothing has functions of decoration, health care and industrial care. Human beings pursue beauty that we care about matching clothes. We can find the function of decoration in the aesthetics of clothing. That can satisfy our spirit which obtains beautiful enjoying. Many factors can affect the beauty, such as styles, patterns, colors and so on. What is more, we all know that clothes keep us warm. They balance our thermal equilibrium that we can adapt to the change of climate.

With the development of technology, anti-static clothing is invented. They adapt to the places which are sensitive to static or which have the danger of explosion.

Secondly, people will dress clothes for the functions or socialization. Clothing will protect us from hot sun, extreme heat or cold, mosquito, deleterious chemical and so on. In a word, they can resist all the things which will do harm to our bodies.

Thirdly, clothing will convey social messages. They can tell us the social status, professions, marital status and so on. We have to grasp these so that we can recognize the messages. For example, if different groups have different comprehensions of the same cloth, then he or she who dresses this cloth will have unexpected response. What is more, only Roman Emperor can dress those purple clothing while his nationals can not. And in many western countries, only the rich can afford superfine clothes.

In addition to these, solders, policemen and firemen dress uniforms. And in many enterprises, workers will also dress uniforms as well. School students will dress school uniforms while college students will dress college clothing.

Once Indian women married, they will paint a red spot. But when they become widows, they have to throw out the red spot and dress native whiteness clothing.

All these examples show us that clothing can convey social messages.

Last but not the least, clothing can show ours individual characters. Nowadays is a period of seeking personality, we pay more attention to our appearance. There are many style clothing which will provide many choices for us. Different styles of clothing adapt to different kinds of people. What is more, different styles of clothing show different temperaments of us.

After my introduction, do you have a deeper comprehension of clothing?