Ten food tips to help you look better naked

Simple shortcuts that will help slim you down from "Look Better Naked!" by the editor of Women's Health:

1. Eat Dessert: A small amount can signal that the meal is over. A piece of high-quality chocolate is a good choice.

2. Get a Mustache: Consuming 1,800 milligrams of calcium a day could block the absorption of 80 calories. Jump-start your calcium intake by filling your coffee mug with fat-free or 1 percent milk.

3. Spice Things Up: Capsaicin, the substance that puts the hot in hot pepper, temporarily boosts your metabolism. Dairy blocks capsaicin's sweat-inducing signals better than water, though, so pair it with your favorite spicy dishes!

4. Go Organic: That's where you're likely to find bread and cereal with fiber counts that put the conventional choices to shame.

5. Keep the Skin On: Speaking of fiber, a lot of it's in the peel, whether it's potatoes, apples or pears. Even oranges. Don't eat the whole peel, but keep the pith, that white, stringy stuff. It's packed with heart-healthy compounds called flavonoids.

6. Buy Precut Vegetables: Sure, they cost more, but you're more likely to eat them. Low energy snacks should be as easy as possible so you have no excuse not to eat them.

7. Always Snack at 3 p.m.: Having a low-calorie snack mid-afternoon can stave off cravings for high-cal foods that might crop up later. An ounce of nuts or two sticks of string cheese weigh in at about 170 calories.

8. Drink With Your Dominant Hand: If you're circulating at a party, keep your glass in the hand you eat with. If you're drinking with it, you can't eat with it.

9. Plate It: Whatever it is, don't eat it out of the container and don't bring the container to the couch. Your brain actually has to see the food on the plate, and when you reach into a jar or a bag, you don't see it. Eat what's on the plate, then stop.

10. Use Your Fingers: Find a way other than food to work off your nervous energy. Instead of grabbing chips, pick up your knitting or anything else that occupies your hands
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Human rights activist tries to stop death by stoning for Iranian woman

CNN) -- A veteran Iranian human rights activist has warned that Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by Iranian authorities.

Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in Tehran can save her life, according to Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty.

"Legally it's all over," Ahadi said Sunday. "It's a done deal. Sakineh can be stoned at any minute."

"That is why we have decided to start a very broad, international public movement. Only that can help."

She was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interview from Tehran.Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.

Ashtiani, who is from the northern city of Tabriz, was convicted of adultery in 2006.

She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency.

Iran's supreme court upheld the conviction in 2007.

The circumstances of Ashtiani's case make it not an exception but the rule in Iran, according to Amnesty International, which tracks death penalty cases around the world.Mostafaei believes a language barrier prevented his client from fully comprehending court proceedings. Ashtiani is of Azerbaijani descent and speaks Turkish, not Farsi.

"The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women, who suffer disproportionately from such punishment," the human rights group said in a 2008 report.

On Wednesday, Amnesty made a new call to the Iranian government to immediately halt all executions and commute all death sentences. The group has recorded 126 executions in Iran from the start of this year to June 6.

"The organization is also urging the authorities to review and repeal death penalty laws, to disclose full details of all death sentences and executions and to join the growing international trend towards abolition," the statement said.

Ahadi, who fled Iran in the early 1980s, told CNN that pressure from Amnesty and other organizations and individuals is likely the only way to save Ashtiani.

"Experience shows (that) ... when the pressure gets very high, the Islamic government starts to say something different," she said.

In Washington, the State Department has criticized the scheduled stoning, saying it raised serious concerns about human rights violations by the Iranian government.

"We have grave concerns that the punishment does not fit the alleged crime, " Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley said Thursday. "For a modern society such as Iran, we think this raises significant human rights concerns."

Calling Iran's judicial system "disproportionate" in its treatment of women, Crowley said, "From the United States' standpoint, we don't think putting women to death for adultery is an appropriate punishment."

Human rights activists have been pushing the Islamic government to abolish stoning, arguing that women are not treated equally before the law in Iran and are especially vulnerable in the judicial system. A woman's testimony is worth half that of a man, they say.

Article 74 of the Iranian penal code requires at least four witnesses -- four men or three men and two women -- for an adulterer to receive a stoning sentence, said Ahadi, of the International Committee Against Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani's case. Often, said Ahadi, husbands turn wives in to get out of a marriage.

Mostafaei said he could not understand how such a savage method of death could exist in the year 2010 or how an innocent woman could be taken from her son and daughter, who have written to the court pleading for their mother's life.

The public won't be allowed to witness the stoning, Mostafaei said, for fear of condemnation of such a brutal method. He is hoping there won't be an execution.

Mostafaei, who himself did jail time in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections in June 2009, said he realizes the risk of speaking out for Ashtiani, for fighting for human rights. But he doesn't let that deter him.

He last saw Ashtiani five months ago behind bars in Tabriz. Since then, he said, he has been searching for a way to save her from the stones.

How Google can beat Facebook at social

Can Google go face to face with Facebook? Can it somehow create a social network that will make real people, rather than engineers, leave at the click of a key? What might this nirvana network (and surely "nirvana" would be a far better name that the alleged "Google.Me") look like?

It seems that no one at Google is denying that it is working on something to protect its ad dollars. Um, I mean, something that will bring people together in perfect and private harmony.

And theories are already abounding as to what type of product might the putative Google Me might really be. Will it be something that offers more privacy, more simply?

Will it be a product that allows you, unlike Facebook, to carry your data wherever you wish? Will it even be so daring as to, again unlike Facebook, graciously permit you to delete your account with just a straightforward click or two, with your data automatically being deleted from Google's labyrinth of information boxes in the sky?

Will it, for example, as one Google researcher has already hinted, give you a step forward from having to be one thing to all people, something that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg deems an article of human faith?

Will it allow you to somehow separate your groups of friends that you can be Bertrand Russell to, say, your work colleagues and Insane Bert the Incorrigible Flirt with the Dirt to those with whom you prefer to socialize?

There are already those who believe that Google has little chance of overcoming Facebook.

For example, Craig Dos Santos, head of Mobile Gaming at Playdom, told Business Insider: "Google tends to excel at projects that are, at their core, hard technical challenges, not product challenges. Building a social network needs more product expertise at it's core."

Facebook's Peter Deng offered to the same publication that he didn't feel creating a social network sat prettily with Google's mission of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible through search."

Deng suggested that "these big guys" have too much baggage. But he also said something very pure and true: "Social networking is very human."

Perhaps that seems like something so obvious that it is as if Deng revealed that the wind is windy. Yet one thing Facebook has done quite brilliantly is design pages that are visually inviting and immediately feel very human.

Your Facebook home page might have a lot of information on it, but the way it is laid out is extremely relaxed. No colors vie for your attention like the overbearingly brainy child in class. No large type invades your eyes like an interrogator's lamp.

The first thing that strikes you when you go to your Facebook home page is the people with whom you have a connection. Their names, their words, their faces, their shaggy doggies, their pudgy babies, and their nights on the town with their new friend from Volgograd. None of them shouts. All of them are there, quietly chatting, as if there were sitting around a table in your local coffee shop or bar.

For all Zuckerberg's slightly venal insistence that the world would be a shinier, happier place if we all shared more of ourselves, his site's design makes sharing feel extremely inviting.

To see how far Google might have to come, I wandered along to Orkut, something I had never done before. Sadly, it looked like, well, any other service from Google. (I have embedded an Orkut video, for the, I'm guessing, millions

World's smallest mother shows off baby number three

The world's smallest mother has vowed 'I'll have more children' as she shows off her unlikely baby number three.

Stacey Herald, 36, who is just 2ft 4ins, was warned against becoming pregnant, because a baby could grow too big and crush her lungs and heart.

But determined Stacey, from Kentucky in the USA, has successfully defied doctors three times, and now she and husband Wil, 27, a trainee vicar, who is 5ft 9ins, are thinking about having more babies.

Happy family: Stacey and Wil Herald with their children Makya, Malachi and Kateri

Stacey has a rare genetic condition called Osteogenisis Imperfecta, which stunts her growth and causes underdeveloped lungs and brittle bones.

She said: 'Three children is a handful at the moment, but I can see us having more babies in the future.

'We listen to doctors and respect them, but they don't always get it right, so we end up doing what we feel is best.'

Proud mother: Stacey Herald has defied doctors' orders to have her three childen

The latest addition to the Herald brood is baby Malachi, seven months, who has inherited his mother's condition, along with her eldest daughter Kateri, three. Second daughter Makya, two, is average sized.

Malachi, who was born by a rare vertical caesarian in November, was only allowed home last month after suffering breathing difficulties.

'Malachi was born without any broken bones,' said Stacey .'People with our condition are often born with broken arms and legs because our bones are fragile and can be damaged by the birth.'

But Malachi, who was five inches and 2lb 1oz, had to be placed into an incubator in intensive care.

At 17 days old he fell seriously ill with a virus and then at four weeks he suffered a life-threatening hernia and was rushed in for surgery.

'At one point they told us his heart had stopped and we thought he might not survive,' said Stacey. 'But thankfully the doctors managed to save him. It felt like a miracle to us.'

Malachi, who has small arms and legs because of his condition, grew stronger and was finally able to come home with his mum and dad a month ago.

Stacey is now getting to grips with being a mum of three and the couple have made special adaptations to their home-life to help her cope.

'I've explained that they're all special babies, but that the girls will have to be careful with Malachi, until he's a bit older,' Mrs Herald said.

Growing brood: The family now numbers five and eldest daughter Makya has already grown taller than her mother

Baby joy: Stacey and Wil Herald are considering having more children, despite the risks

'When we found out Malachi had my condition it was hard.

'But we knew we would be the best support possible for him, because Kateri and I have both been there already.'

Mr Herald takes care of night feeding and nappy changing because it's too difficult for Stacey, although she does breastfeed the baby during the day.

She also baths the children and changes nappies in the day using a specially-built platform, where she can look after them while staying in her chair.

The family's cupboards are organised so she can reach everything she needs to when her husband isn't home.

'We're pretty busy right now,' she said. 'Sleep is something we really miss.

'Three children would be a challenge for anyone - even normal sized people.'

Stacey, who uses a wheelchair, struggles to cope with daughter Makya, who is already a foot taller than her.

'I can't physically stop Makya if she's upset,' she said. 'She's too big for me now, so Wil has to take care of that.'

Stacey believes the new baby has brought her even closer to her husband than before.
'I didn't think it was possible to love him more,' she said. 'But since we've had our son I think I fall for Wil a bit more each day.'

White iPhone 4 Diamond Edition surfaces, yours for 20K US dollars

The white version of the iPhone 4 isn't available just yet but its first luxury edition has already surfaced. Covered with a handful of shiny diamonds, only fifty of those will be made so you better hurry up if you want to get one.

The black version of the Apple iPhone 4 has been available for a week or two now and already got its exclusive edition thanks to Gresso, but now it's the white one's turn to get the same treatment. The unimaginatively named iPhone 4 Diamond Edition is delivered by luxury designer Stuart Hughes.

The iPhone 4 Diamond Edition frame and its solid platinum Apple logo at the back are encrusted with a total of approximately 6.5 carats of diamonds. Underneath you'll find yet another unlocked iPhone 4 32GB in white.

Along with the phone itself you'll also get a thin ostrich foot leather wallet large enough to accommodate up to 4 credit cards. Only 50 units of the iPhone 4 Diamond Edition will be produced and sold worldwide and each will cost 13 000 GBP (around 20 000 US dollars). Ouch!

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Warid Wins Customers’ Approval Through Quality Network

Just like Western countries, where majority of people, apart from making telephone call, prefer data and voice services, so is the case in Pakistan’s fast changing Telecom scene.

In the backdrop of growing demands of the aforementioned services the reality is that only the network strength could win massive sales, loyal customers and port-in customers. Bad network instantly wean away customers to other operators and resultantly revenues reduce drastically which is a danger sign for any mobile operator

Over the years, Warid has successfully satisfied its customers with quality of services it offer, and probably the only network that sells on its network quality. This fact had also been evident from the PTA Quality of Service report for 2009.

One common thing which people acknowledge in the region is that Warid has always offered most reliable and efficient services in whatever country it operated.

This recent uptake has led telecom operators to offer innovative and unique solutions in a bid to offer good services. Warid got distinction in innovative ideas and came forward withunique solar/green site solution in Pakistan, back in 2008.

Another praiseworthy feature of this development is that it largely reduces burden on national grid of energy starved Pakistan. The amount of precious energy thus saved may well be diverted towards industry or domestic consumption.

In a bid to maintaining exceptional cellular network quality, Warid is the first operator to introduce dedicated In-Building Solution with active Distributed Antennae System (DAS) in Pakistan.

Milenge Milenge Exclusive Movie Preview

Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you risk tempting fate with a test of that love or what is seemingly meant to be, or should you just follow your apparent destiny and embrace it? Such are the questions two people must face and answer in theromantic comedy/drama Milenge Milenge

This charming romantic comedy has all the right ingredients and serves up a dollop of sugary romance and slapstick fun. Amit (Shahid Kapoor) and Priya (Kareena Kapoor) meet at a Youth festival in Bangkok.

Priya is a girl with substance, exactly opposite the teens and college going students of today's time. A pure romantic at heart she has this image of her would be life partner, who she expects would be a teetotaler, a guy who doesn't smoke and who doesn't lie.

Amit is the type of guy who is totally opposite of what Priya wants from her life partner. He drinks alcohol like a fish, lies on the slightest pretext and is a chain smoker.

Their world collides when Amit by chance lays his hands on Priya's personal diary and learns of her likes and dislikes. He poses as her dream mate by giving her a totally different picture of himself.

Priya gets instantly attracted to Amit, and they spend days together cavorting around Bangkok City together coming closer to each other by the second.

At the end of the festival when they are preparing to come back to Delhi, Priya discovers the copy of her diary in Amit's room. She realizes that Amit has made a fool of her and goes to confront him. Amit is at a local bar with his friends. He tells his friends that although he has cheated Priya, he is truly in love with her. He tells them that he will become the guy that Priya thinks he is and tells them that he will have a last glass of beer and the last cigarette of his life. As he lights up a cigarette and takes a swig from his glass, Priya appears in front of him and hell breaks loose. With a broken heart she confronts him and breaks the relationship. Amit tries to explain himself but Priya totally ignores him. He tries to regain her trust by telling her that they are destined to be together. Priya decides that if it is fate that they should be together, then they will find each other in Delhi again, although both do not know each other's whereabouts in Delhi.

Years go by and we introduce a new Amit as he comes back to Delhi from USA after getting his business management degree. He has gone through a complete personality change. He has become the man that Priya dreamed about.

On the other hand Priya has also moved on in life. She has now become a successful music video director and is in a relationship with a pop singer.

Both of them are about to be married, but after all these years, they still have this nagging feeling that the other was his/her one true love. Of course fate conspires to bring them back together (after about a dozen very interesting near misses) as they each simultaneously undertake one last attempt to find one another just before they get married to someone else.

So is all of life pre-determined, even who our soul mate is? That's the theme explored in Milenge Milenge, a delightful fairytale of a romantic comedy that makes you fall in love all over again.

ALL SET TO RELEASE ON 9TH JULY 2010

Katrina smashes tomato on Hrithik

Basking in the joy of ?Raajneeti? success, Katrina Kaif is having a lot of fun in Spain during the shooting of Zoya Akhtar?s ?Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara?. In Spain, she was joined by Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay Deol. Though Hrithik had nothing to do with the movie, he did not miss the opportunity to have fun with Kat and others.

?Two days after Raajneeti released, I had to leave for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and it felt nice to leave on a happy note. Of course I can?t expect my co-stars, Hrithik (Roshan), Farhan (Akhtar) and Abhay (Deol) to be in a celebratory mood when they have nothing to do with my film,? she laughs.

They got to experience the fun of tomato festival in Spain. They were out on the streets of Spain and smashed tomatoes on each other at the annual Tomato festival that was held there.

?I had only heard about it, but now I got to experience it. The ritual brings in good luck. People from all over the world come to witness it. I had a lot of fun,? she said from Spain. Unfortunately, Mrs Roshan. Sussanne missed out the fun. She did not participate as the smell of rotten tomato pulp drives her crazy. Expect her, everyone enjoyed.

Complaint Against Akshay Kumar

By now we are sure that everyone knows what a prankster Akshay Kumar is. With columns after columns being devoted to his numerous pranks on his unsuspecting co-stars, it comes as a surprise that his Khatta Meetha female lead Trisha has still to witness Akki?s mischievous side.

During an interview, Trisha revealed that Akshay has yet to make a fool of her. ?A lot of people have asked me if Akshay has played a prank on me during the shoot. It?s quite shocking as a huge number of people have asked me the same question. But no he has never played a prank on me and it?s quite surprising.? Akshay had not even spared Rajpal Yadav on the sets when he had made calls to Rajpal in a female voice proposing to him!

However that?s not to say that he didn?t trouble her. Akki, who doesn?t memorize his dialogues, had placed the script in the set room for reading during the shoot. Director Priyadarshan removed the document but Akshay suspecting otherwise flicked Trisha?s phone instead. After hours of searching, she finally went to Priyan Sir, as he is fondly called, who revealed the culprit behind the theft!

Bipasha wants to learn 'Waka Waka' moves

Actress Bipasha Basu has featured in sizzling dance numbers like "Beedi" and "Billo Rani", but now she wants to learn Shakira's moves in "Waka Waka", FIFA World Cup 2010 official song.

"Monday music...'Waka Waka' all the way...takes away the Monday blues. Want to learn Shakira's 'Waka Waka' moves!" Bipasha posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.

The actress joined the Bollywood bandwagon on Twitter Sunday.

All?s not well in Karisma-Sanjay?s paradise

Karisma Kapoor
became mother of the two children but her marital problem with husband Sanjay Kapoor still persists. Recently, Karisma Kapoor gave birth to a baby boy and Babita went to stay with Karisma to look after her two children post delivery so that she could get some rest. During her stay, she could smell the major problem between them. Babita could measure the problem of her daughter. Karisma and Sanjay are staying in two different cities and hardly visit each other. Sanjay spend most of the time in Delhi and Karsima moved to Mumbai. Babita urged Karisma to talk to Sanjay over phone and solve the issue.

The couple is said to have long conversation over phone and finally they settled their difference. They have decided to give another chance to their marriage and start in a fresh way. To mend the differences, Sanjay is now spending more time with Karisma and his two children. He has even decided to take his family for a vacation.

That Karisma is facing some major problem in her marriage is not a new issue, if we recall she moved out of Sanjay?s house soon after the birth of her first daughter Samaira.

KHATTA MEETHA trailer with IHLS creates quite a buzz!

Although the promos of Priyadarshan's upcoming KHATTA MEETHA have been doing the rounds across numerous television channels and web portals for quite sometimes but none (in fact not even the makers!) could have fathomed the extremely positive response that the theatrical trailer that was unveiled with Karan Johar's I HATE LUV STORYS would see.



Those who went to watch the Punit Malhotra directed Imran Khan-Sonam Kapoor starrer were pleasantly surprised to see the extended trailer of the Akshay Kumar-Trisha starrer, KHATTA MEETHA. The hilarious promo saw the audience break down into peels of laughter and some were heard commenting that they would love to see the film on the first day and first show.

Well, one must commend the publicists who have done a good job of bringing out the best of the film in a short time through the trailer. The presence of comic stars like Rajpal Yadav and Johnny Lever too raises laughs and makes one look forward to the movie, apart from of course, the reigning king of comedy Akshay Kumar who is at his hilarious best!

The whacky and zany taglines too are making the audience laugh. Sample this, 'Come July 23rd, Sachin Tichkule promises you a road full of potholes' and 'From the insane mind of Priyadrashan'.

The superb response to the trailer just goes to show that the film will see a good opening when it releases all over on July 23rd.