Until there was one, there were none. Why do people blog? Actually we dont know but we have a funny suspicion that it has got to do with something heavy called ego. In the past before the Internet came, if you want to have yourself heard, you just have to finance your own publication or get to know a publisher. If not, your voice is but one squeak in the wilderness.

Then, the whole scenario changed. In 1990s thereabouts, thye world opened up. The Internet came and any asshole who know how to log on quickly did two things their forefathers would be extremely proud of. To sign up with an email service (Hotmail) and add that in their business cards - and to own a website. At that time, everything was free as big players saw the importance of communities and opened up web real estate. And we had Geocities.com, and any bastard who knew what HTML was quickly started a website, albeit free. And Geocities was proven right, having been bought over by Yahoo. And the proliferation of personal sites matched the self-adulation across the cyberspace.

Then couple of years down the line, blog software inventors saw the nasty narcisstic streak in this gregarious habits of netizens and decided to come up with free blog-wares for you to publish your thoughts and all the verbal diarrhoea. And the blogosphere was born.

But whr do people blog? Well, to tell you thr truth, we dont really know. But it looks like blogs are going to become the new media…

Today’s teenagers are the first generation whose health is worse than their parents’, doctors have warned.

The above is the finding of doctors in England. Less you think that this won’t happen in your country just because you are a third world nation, think again.

Many so-called developing nations like Malaysia are living like first world nations, albeit only in the makan area.

Look at the way we are eating: Nasi lemak, char koay teow, roti canai, bah kut teh, kentucky fried chicken, big mac… and downed with coca cola, seven-up and 100 plus.

If that is not a killer cocktail over time, I really don’t know what is!

And there was so much protest when the Health Ministry proposed a ban on fast food adverts. Sure, an ad ban alone won’t change our fat boys and girls into healthy people but it will help. Remember the cigarette experience? See what has happened after the ads were banned on TV, warning were carried on packaging… the rate of cigarette smoking has not gone up so fast. Sure, more can be done but Kuala Lumpur wasn’t built in a single day.

Look at the advertisement for kentucky fried chicken. It shows a mother shopping for food in a supermarket… receives a phone call from her child, sees a crowd at the checkout counter, sees a KFC outlet outside, tells the child that she will be back with a full nutritious dinner soon… Really, which nutritionist will dare say that a KFC meal is a full nutritiious meal. Tastes great, yes. As a treat, yes. But as a meal for a growing child?

And the promotion of 100 Plus as a lifestyle drink? Goodness! Ask any health trainer and they will tell you that such drinks are only for super athletes like marathon runners, swimmers, long distance cycling… If you just play a bit of badminton with no hope of ever winning the All England, don’t even get near a bottle of isotonic drink!