Junk Food clothing is a label hot out of the states. The celebrities are going mad for this ultra cool, hot label. Paris Hilton, Jordan, Posh A.K.A Victoria Beckham are just a few of the A list celebrities who have been spotted wearing their very own junk food tee shirts.

Jordan was recently seen out shopping in a pink Junk Food Care Bear, shake your bear behind tee shirt, which features a cool print of a Care Bear muttering those words. Any Jordan fans must buy this tee shirt. Simply join the boredofthehighstreet database to get sent an amazing 20% discount code. Lindsay Lohan was also recently seen out shopping in here very own Junk food tee shirt. The tee shirt that she wore was a skinny bitch slogan tee shirt. Again join the boredofthehighstreet database for your 20% voucher.

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JUNK food is perfectly all right even if you wish to lose weight, says fitness trainer Dave Nuku, who shaped up members of the Blue Team in last year's reality TV hit, The Biggest Loser Asia. But the rather bold statement comes with a caveat: You have to make sure that you do not let "sometimes" food become "everyday" food.

The 31-year-old lean-but beefy hunk was in town last Wednesday to promote health club Fitness First's Lose Big Programme, a 13-week regimen tailored for overweight individuals. The New Zealander, who is currently based in Malaysia and married with a five-year-old daughter, tells my paper about his experience on the TV show, and the weighty issue of obesity.

What was most challenging thing about The Biggest Loser Asia? The training programme had to be progressive, because the simplest of tasks would make the participants sweat. We had to make sure not to plan something that was too difficult for them in the beginning.

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Katrina Purcell of the University of Melbourne in Australia, presented a study in which she compared a rapid diet to lose around 1.5 kilos (three pounds) a week over 12 weeks, to a gradual 36-week diet to lose 0.5 kilos per week.

"Surprisingly, and against current beliefs, this study shows rapid weight loss appears to be superior to gradual weight loss in achieving target weight," she said of the study conducted on subjects weighing around 100 kilos.

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As consumer confidence wobbles and retailers sweat out trading conditions described by some as the worst in decades.

This would seem like a good time for governments at all levels to go a bit easier on small business.

Yet the tireless hand of regulation continues to flap, all for the cause of making our lives better, of course.

Now dining establishments are on notice with new regulations making them declare the nutritional content of food on their menus.

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Television advertisers are directing fewer of their commercials for sweets and beverages at children and young adults, but the number of fast food ads directed at those groups has increased, a study by U.S. researchers suggests.

In order to assess advertising trends, researchers at the University of Chicago reviewed television ratings data from 2003, 2005 and 2007.

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The choices you make about the way you live are important to your health. Here are some choices you can make to help yourself stay healthy:What can my doctor do to help me stay healthy?

In addition to treating you when you are sick, your doctor can follow a program designed to help you stay healthy. This program tells the doctor which preventive services are needed for people at different ages.

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The commonest question that people who have diabetes ask is `Can I take fruit as they are very sweet?`. There is a misconception that the people who have diabetes should avoid fruits as they contain, `lots of sugar`.

But this is not true. Fruit is the food that has been enjoyed by mankind from the very earliest of times. In fact, it is nature`s gift to man.

They contain substantial quantities of essential nutrients in correct proportions. Fruits contain substantial quantities of sugar in the process of ripening.

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According to anew research Potato salad can cut the cancer risk which can be developed by eating red meat. Researchers have confirmed that cooked potatoes and salad can beat the cancer risk associated with the consumption of red meat.

Beans, green bananas, rice, pasta all are helpful in reducing cancer risk but potato is more proffered. So next time when you are going to eat red meant make sure you have a bit of potato salad in the list.

More than 40,000 Britons are dying unnecessarily every year because of high levels of salt and fat in their diets, a government health watchdog has warned. In a landmark guidance to the government, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said that junk food have wreaked a "terrible toll of ill health" on Britain and placed a "substantial" strain on the economy.

The organisation calls for sweeping changes to food production and government policy to encourage lifestyle changes, and to reduce the amount of salt and saturated fat the nation consumes. It says "toxic" artificial fats known as trans fats should be banned. The organisation says that the government should consider introducing legislation if food manufacturers fail to make their products healthier.

The health watchdog says there are about 5 million people in the country suffering the effects of cardiovascular disease and that it causes 150,000 deaths annually. It says 40,000 of these deaths could be prevented, and hundreds of millions of pounds saved, if its measures were introduced.

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has labelled the coalition 'crazy' for funding its mental health policy by scrapping Labor health reforms in general practice and record keeping. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott announced the $1.5 billion policy on Wednesday, drawing praise from high-profile government critics including Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry, and John Mendoza, who quit the National Advisory Council on Mental Health in June.

Ms Roxon said the coalition's policy was undermined by the fact it was funded by cutting Labor's health reforms, such as GP super clinics and e-health reforms. It just seems to me to be a crazy way to fund what might otherwise be a worthy proposal,' she told Sky News on Thursday. Ms Roxon said she had no issue with the view that more needed to be done on mental health.

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