Thursday, July 26, 2012

Getting the Right Wooden Kitchen Table

My Kitchen
Kitchen (Photo credit: QuintanaRoo)
With the hustle and bustle of life today, families just do not gather around a formal dining room table to share their time. If it is not a Thanksgiving holiday, or an Easter dinner, people do not take the time to eat their meals together, share stories, laugh and discuss important issues. The kitchen, however, lends a special feeling of informality and coziness to the home and to the family. That is why you should add a round kitchen table to your kitchen today. Your family needs this vital piece of furniture to communicate and spend quality time together.

The kitchen table is not an austere and informal piece of furniture like, for example, a large and imposing dining room table that seats twelve people. People feel cozy warming up to a hot cup of coffee in the morning and reading the paper together, discussing the day’s events. There are plenty of kitchen tables to choose from when shopping around for a dining room table. The round kitchen table, however, creates a feeling of equality. There is no “head” of the table and everybody can sit around and share time with the whole family. These tables are essential for communicating with your loved ones on any occasion.

The round kitchen table can be the place where you eat your breakfast, share casual family diners, and do your homework in. They can come in a variety of makes and sizes. Wooden kitchen tables made from log siding materials can radiate a warm and cozy glow in your kitchen. Glass round kitchen tables can add an elegant touch to the place where you cook all your meals in. You can dress your table up with a pretty vase of flowers or down with a simple salt and pepper shaker in its center. Either way, this table will bring about a whole new feeling of community to your kitchen and home.

All in all, the kitchen can benefit from the addition of any kind of round kitchen table. Whether you choose to have a traditional wooden table and chairs or a glass table, your family can now spend quality time together without feeling intimidated. You no longer have to wait for Thanksgiving to arrive. Pour a bowl of cereal, serve yourself some spaghetti and have a seat around your brand new round table and enjoy spending time with those you love.

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Monday, July 16, 2012

Taking On Childhood Obesity

Obesity Campaign Poster
Obesity Campaign Poster (Photo credit: Pressbound)
Bottom line is quite sad: there are a great deal of factors that are fueling, driving, and helping to spread the obesity epidemic that is sweeping our nation and the entire world. The epidemic is so widespread and so big, no pun intended, that even our children, who for a long time were so much more invincible to it, are now falling prey to obesity in huge numbers.

One factor that can not be disputed, is the lack of access to exercise facilities, opportunities and education all over the country; this lack is much worse in lower-income areas. The latest issue of Pediatrics, a magazine aimed directly at the health of children, is showing that this childhood obesity epidemic is hitting hardest in low-income, minority, and more removed areas.

Furthermore, this lack of a place to exercise also effects general activity levels as well as prevalence of obesity. So, bottom line, people need more places to work out, easier access to those places, and more education on why it’s so vital. This can start in the schools, in the homes, and in the communities. Heck, you could even make money off it, open up a fitness center in your area and start showing people in your community how valuable exercise really is. Lets put a dent in this massive problem. Start now.