Girl With a Purpose (GWAP)

A Special Treat for Chocolate Lovers!

 

For our friends who are chocolate lovers, we have a special treat for you!

 

We're introducing you to Mikado Chocolate Biscuits...

 

...These biscuits are long, ultra-thin and dipped in scrumptious chocolate, with just the right amount of crunch!

 

...and guess what? One end of the biscuit is left bare, so that you don’t get sticky fingers. :)

 

Yummy!

 

You can see what Mikado Chocolate Biscuits look like by viewing the video above...

 

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Want to get your hands on these Mikados? Well, they have an Auction Game going on, on Facebook!

 

Just visit their Facebook page for the chance to win in prize draws! http://www.facebook.com/Mikado

 

Yippee!

 

Just goes to show you that some things in life are simply irresistible. :)

 

Gillian

What do You Think About Denmark's "Fat" Tax?

As of October 1, 2011,Denmark started charging a surcharge (a tax) on food items containing greater than 2.3% saturated fat.

 

Saturated fat is seen as major contributor to obesity - and hence pizza, milk, butter, cheese - food items with high fat content, will attract this surcharge.

 

Obesity leads to chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and cancer, treatment of which can be financially burdensome on countries' health systems.

 

Today, France has followed in Denmark's footsteps and too will be taxing foods with greater than 2.3% saturated fat.

 

So what do you think about Denmark and France's move?

 

Is this something you'd welcome  in your country?

 

Please let me know by commenting beneath this post.

 

(I would like to thank roberthuffstutter for the use of his Flickr inset photo, entitled, "ENJOY THEM NOW BEFORE SUGAR TAXES MAKE THEM LUXURY ITEMS FOR THE MASSES").

 

Gillian

 

Sources Include

1) BBC World News, October 1,2011

2) Article,"Fat Tax Spreading: France Follows in Denmark’s Footsteps", The Inquisitr, October 6,2011

GWAP Blog's Contribution to "World No Tobacco Day"

Today, May 31, is being celebrated worldwide, as "World No Tobacco Day"...where people across the globe  are encouraged  to abstain from all tobacco products for at least 24 hours. (Wikipedia.org).

 

...Yes baseball players this  includes you! :) (Baseballers are famous for chewing tobacco when batting).

 

We, at Girl With a Purpose (GWAP) Blog,  decided to do something a bit differently to celebrate the day.

 

Instead of writing a full post about World No Tobacco Day, we tweeted about it on @GWAPBlog.

 

We just wanted you to get a glimpse into some smoking tidbits that we thought you might find, very interesting!

 

Please visit @GWAPBlog for our tweets re this, today.

 

Oh and please feel free to leave your comments  on Twitter (by pressing reply), or comment below this post (via the Comment link), re the above tweets...

 

Please also feel free to share it on Facebook, Twitter and on your other social networks...

 

...thanks! :)

 

Gillian

 

Sources Include

1) World No Tobacco Day Page on Wikipedia.org, accessed May 31,2011