South African Airliners Are Behind In Online Strategy
Whereas fifteen years ago if you wanted to buy an airline ticket you'd phone up a travel agent, these days all it takes is to fill out a simple online form. In fact the sale of airline tickets has grown to such an extent that it dominates the South African e-commerce landscape, and is expected to continue dominating it for the next 5 to 10 years. However, e-commerce talents are not evenly spread across the various players in the airline industry. The bright-shining stars are Kulula.com and Travelstart, both of which have foreign interests - Kulula.com is partially owned by British Airways, and Travelstart is owned by a Swede.Kulula.comKulula.com was the first South African consumer web site to reach R1-billion in online sales in a single year (2005) - it's no coincidence that even their name shows recognition of the importance of e-commerce (the only airline in South Africa which has a url in its name).TravelstartIn late 2004, Stephen Ekbergh, a maverick Swedish entrepeneur, relocated with his family to the warmer climate of Cape Town. Ekbergh was t

Hair Extensions Salon Is The Destination For Good Looks
Hair extensions have come as a boon for those women who lack the perfect hair for some reason or the other. If you are of those women who do not have beautiful hairs for some, you do not have to worry at all. Hair extension is a process through which you can attach new hairs to the existing ones and increase the length of your hair or simple add volume to your exiting hair. Hair extensions are a process and if you are willing to undergo the process make sure that you do so only under the supervision of a professional hair extensions expert. The best place for you to go for this is a hair extensions salon. Here is the place where one can undergo different types of hair extensions procedures depending on your looks and also what you need.In today’s context looking good and presentable is very important for being successful in your personal, social and professional world. The type of hairstyle that you carry is important in making your look beautiful. Seek appointment in a hair extensions salon to talk about the whole process of hair extensions. Well if you have decided th

Convenience Can Be Costly
You’ve just opened your credit card bill and attached to your statement you find a “convenience check” included. It may already be filled out with a dollar amount such as $300, $500, or even $1,000. Your mind fills with ideas of what you could buy with this “instant” money. A new summer wardrobe, a nice dinner and tickets to a concert, a weekend getaway.But before you go off on a shopping spree, you should be aware that your “convenience check” is nothing more than a cash advance on your credit card. Cash advances on credit cards carry many extra fees, often overlooked or misunderstood by consumers.Here’s a quick look at the types of fees most card issuers charge for a cash advance:1) Upfront fee of 2-4% of the amount advanced. On a $1,000 cash advance your fee will range from $20-$40 in addition to the interest charges.2) Higher interest rate than on purchases. Many credit card companies charge 18% or more on cash advances. In addition, most companies apply only a small percentage of your monthly minimum payment toward the cash advance.obesity rate in the US had held steady at around 15 percent from 1960 to 1980. Since 1980 obesity has grown to 31 percent. Type II diabetes is at epidemic proportions and cancer is now the leading cause of death in our country. We are going to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy is shorter than our parents. With all the indisputable information of the benefits of healthy nutrition and exercise how can we let this happen? The sad truth is our society is trading good and healthy for cheap and easy.

Why is it so much cheaper to eat junk than eat healthy? It’s simple, supply and demand, basic economics 101…right? Well …sort of (with a little help from the US government.) The USDA helps the food industry keep the prices of junk food low by subsidizing crops commonly used in processed foods. Namely wheat (refined four), soy (hydrogenated oil), and the granddaddy of them all corn (high fructose corn syrup). High fructose corn syrup which was developed in the seventies is a chemically processed sugar that is extracted from corn starch. Because it mixes easily, it is sweeter than sugar; it extends shelf life, and costs about 20 percent less than sugar it took little time for high fructose corn syrup to become the food industry’s sweetener of choice. Through its use in sodas, snacks, frozen foods, breads, condiments, etc., high fructose corn syrup has become a staple in many American diets. Because of its prevalence and the fact that fructose is converted to fat in the liver more easily than other sugars, high fructose corn syrup has been implicated as a major contributor to our country’s obesity epidemic. Between 1995 and 2004 corn crops received a whooping $41.8 billion in government subsidies. This policy has caused farmers to ignore healthy crops and has flooded the market with junk made from the derivatives of the highly subsidized crops, namely refined flour, hydrogenated fats made from soybeans and of course high fructose corn syrup. Add to this, heavy tariffs placed on sugar and other produce imports and you start to understand why you can buy a 24 serving box of corn flakes or a case of cola for less than 3 grapefruits or a pint of fresh berries. To make matters wors

o eat junk than eat healthy? It’s simple, supply and demand, basic economics 101…right? Well …sort of (with a little help from the US government.) The USDA helps the food industry keep the prices of junk food low by subsidizing crops commonly used in processed foods. Namely wheat (refined four), soy (hydrogenated oil), and the granddaddy of them all corn (high fructose corn syrup). High fructose corn syrup which was developed in the seventies is a chemically processed sugar that is extracted from corn starch. Because it mixes easily, it is sweeter than sugar; it extends shelf life, and costs about 20 percent less than sugar it took little time for high fructose corn syrup to become the food industry’s sweetener of choice. Through its use in sodas, snacks, frozen foods, breads, condiments, etc., high fructose corn syrup has become a staple in many American diets. Because of its prevalence and the fact that fructose is converted to fat in the liver more easily than other sugars, high fructose corn syrup has been implicated as a major contributor to our country’s obesity epidemic. Between 1995 and 2004 corn crops received a whooping $41.8 billion in government subsidies. This policy has caused farmers to ignore healthy crops and has flooded the market with junk made from the derivatives of the highly subsidized crops, namely refined flour, hydrogenated fats made from soybeans and of course high fructose corn syrup. Add to this, heavy tariffs placed on sugar and other produce imports and you start to understand why you can buy a 24 serving box of corn flakes or a case of cola for less than 3 grapefruits or a pint of fresh berries. To make matters worsan sugar; it extends shelf life, and costs about 20 percent less than sugar it took little time for high fructose corn syrup to become the food industry’s sweetener of choice. Through its use in sodas, snacks, frozen foods, breads, condiments, etc., high fructose corn syrup has become a staple in many American diets. Because of its prevalence and the fact that fructose is converted to fat in the liver more easily than other sugars, high fructose corn syrup has been implicated as a major contributor to our country’s obesity epidemic. Between 1995 and 2004 corn crops received a whooping $41.8 billion in government subsidies. This policy has caused farmers to ignore healthy crops and has flooded the market with junk made from the derivatives of the highly subsidized crops, namely refined flour, hydrogenated fats made from soybeans and of course high fructose corn syrup. Add to this, heavy tariffs placed on sugar and other produce imports and you start to understand why you can buy a 24 serving box of corn flakes or a case of cola for less than 3 grapefruits or a pint of fresh berries. To make matters wors corn crops received a whooping $41.8 billion in government subsidies. This policy has caused farmers to ignore healthy crops and has flooded the market with junk made from the derivatives of the highly subsidized crops, namely refined flour, hydrogenated fats made from soybeans and of course high fructose corn syrup. Add to this, heavy tariffs placed on sugar and other produce imports and you start to understand why you can buy a 24 serving box of corn flakes or a case of cola for less than 3 grapefruits or a pint of fresh berries. To make matters worse the food industry spends billions of advertising dollars each year in order to showcase their manufactured, nutrient bare, disease promoting options.

But don’t worry help is on the way. In 2003 the American Council for Fitness & Nutrition (ACFN) was created. As their website states the ACFN is a “non-profit association comprised of food and beverage companies, trade associations, nonprofit groups and nutrition advocates working toward comprehensive and achievable solutions to the nation’s obesity epidemic”. Sleep tight America, ACFN members who include PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Burger King, McDonalds, Jack in The Box, and the Archer Daniels Midland Company (the world’s largest producer of high fructose corn syrup) are working tirelessly to find ways to make you healthier. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. If you want to learn about the dangers of dehydration during physical activity and how you can now prevent it just go to Pepsi’s website. They’re there to help because they care about you and your health. They recommend “A healthy balance of "fun" drinks like soda and carbonated beverages, lots of water (eight glasses a day), orange juice and other fruit juices for potassium and Vitamin C, and milk or other calcium fortified beverages like orange juice …” The helpful health and fitness experts at Pepsi.com also warn kids about the dangers of creatine which they describe as a “growth hormone, which some kids take in the mistaken belief that they are healthy.” First of all Pepsi, creatine is an amino acid not a growth hormone. Secondly, although I do not support creatine use in kids because studies of its long term safety have not yet been established, it has been studied extensively and has not yet been shown to be harmful. Unlike aspartame, an artificial sweetener that has been proven in at least 90 independent studies to be harmful to our health. Aspartame is used by Pepsi and other members of the American Council for Fitness & Nutrition to sweeten their “fun” diet drinks and other sugar free products. This dangerous toxin has been shown to cause headaches, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer as well as exacerbate or mimic symptoms of fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diab