Health, travel and food journalists sought for Palladium magazine

THIS opportunity comes courtesy of Projects and People.

Palladium magazine is looking for health, travel and food journalists. There's a really tight deadline on the food and health journalists as they want to hear from you by Wednesday, January 21.

The call for travel writers is on-going.

Anyone interested should email tl@palladium-magazine.com

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[Laura Barnhouse]

Thanks Linda.

Laura

[Linda]

No worries, hopefully someone will get some work out of it, I know opportunities posted here have borne fruit in the past. Good luck.

[Ann Mason]

Here is a sample of my writing
Childhood Obesity Blog: by Ann Mason
The childhood obesity campaign is supposed to help parents to be aware of the health problems that can affect their child. The distraction to this message to some mom is that her overweight child shows her love when she gives him or her that favorite treat. Mom and the child becomes an athletic team making passes of lollipops and slam duck of cookies into both their months. It has to be a struggle for mom to be reminded that her cute cubby one is on the path to poor health.

Dads are not off the hook. Care-taking from the dad is not so different from that of mom because most fathers want to gain brownie points from their child. A father’s little girl or little boy who excitedly runs to him when he comes home from work excites the dad because he makes them happier with a candy bar; this kind of behavior can be insatiable for both.

What does it mean when all medical doctors, nutritionist, Health and wellness Professionals keep shoving childhood obesity down the throats of parents in America? Suddenly life style changes soufflés. Fattening foods are reduced in the house. Television is no longer an intoxicating activity because it is replaced with sobering family walks. In the home that chubby kid becomes the center of attention in a positive way.

In the life of overweight children with their peers; their friends may not always be supportive. Let’s say the child is eating an ice cream cone; something unnecessary. That child’s peers are not fire up with a desire to remind him or her that this food is better for you than that one. Instead their peers make unsavory comments that come out of their mouths like they spat out poorly cooked food. This kind of treatment can be as sour as spoiled milk.

Childhood depression has been associated with Childhood Obesity. A child who rather has food as afriend is not a loner or Zen. That child is sinking in a bowl of emotions that you cannot image how it tastes; unless the ingredients are revealed. A quite child can be a comfort in the home; no noise. However a quite chubby child may need to be shaken up to find out what’s cooking. That child may be at the boiling point of his emotions. What is so sad for the overweight child is that a menu of ideas is given. In the house he or she is well made but in society they are not.

[Ann Mason]

The Apple and the Pear: By Ann Mason
I don’t have a weight problem but there are some women who do. I do not have a weight problem because I am high strung and when I am stressed I do not eat. There are some women who are the opposite. The medical community is recommending that the body does not resemble the shape of an apple. The healthy body shape should look like a pear. I will go into the apple and pear thing later in the blog. However, the thought never came to the minds of some people that there are other people who do not want to lose weight. Losing weight requires some work. I am not trying say some women do not want to do the work; it will be something extra to do in a day. Also it is expensive to lose weight because you may have to buy a whole new wardrobe. Where am I going with this?

My intention is to announce, “Leave overweight women alone”. I can never be overweight. I am not built like that. A size 5 is not for everybody. What I want to say concerning women’s health is to eat healthier and be more active. I am not recommending eating salads and Sushi all the time. I am not recommending running a marathon. What I am suggesting a small life style change is better than none. I want to tell you my ethnic background and how it relates to my concept of body image.

I am African American. I socialize in the Caucasian and African American Communities. These two communities have different concept of body imagine. What is considered beautiful in the white community is not necessarily so in the black communities. I do hope that the African American Community will not embrace to long that more junk in the truck is more attractive. Because some of our trunks look likes those cars with so much stuff in its trunk it has to tide down with rope. Forgive me my sisters. I have seen some white women with too much junk in their trunk. This is a good place to talk about the apple and the pear.

The apple is round. There is no shape. It is round every where. A body with a belly that is just as big as the back that is an apple shape. Accumulated fat in the abdomen area has been associated with heart disease. The pear is round at the bottom and thin at the top. You can say that the pear has junk in its trunk. The accumulated fat is not surrounding the heart area. So that is the story of the apple and the pear.
I want to end by saying. Socio-economics plays a big role in body image. A more educated woman with some money has a lifestyle that does not support overweight and that goes for blacks and whites.