Will Facebook and Apple encourage Americans to look at their health?Jacqueline Sahagian More Articles 3/3.512 According to anonymous sources that spoke to Apple Insider Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is planning to stop the iPad 2 in the near future because customers are turning to their new iPad mini and iPad Air tablet. Apple first started selling the iPad 2 in March 2011 and has continued to offer the product at a price point of $399 since the launch of the iPad 3 with Retina display. Now the more portable and higher-resolution iPad mini with Retina still costs $399 so it doesn’t make sense for Apple to keep on selling the iPad 2 or for consumers to keep buying it unless the company plans to cut the price further. Apple released fiscal first-quarter results late last month, it announced that it sold 26 million iPads during the holiday quarter to make “an all-time quarterly record” Noted that the iPad 2 maintained good sales for far longer than one would expect for an older device. A report released by Localytics and seen by the October website showed that the iPad 2 already accounted for 38 percent of Apple’s overall iPad sales in the month before the new iPad range was announced. For the latest iPad models, those findings bode well, said Josh Lowitz CIRP partner and co-founder. While they were only available for two months, the latest iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display together account for well over half of all iPad sales in the quarter. Given that Apple has three other iPad models for sale, iPad Air sold particularly well. Recent data from several research firms shows that Apple continues to dominate the tablet market. Canalys that includes tablets in their PC market analysis found that Apple had the largest share of the PC market in the final quarter of last year claiming 19.5 per cent of the market for its tablets and computers. Canalys estimated that Apple’s iPad accounted for 26 million tablet sales that accounted for over one-third of all tablet sales. That number stood at 27.3 per cent of all tablets sold representing Apple’s expanded control on the market in the fourth quarter of 2012. Strategy Analytics analysis has also shown that in the final quarter of 2013, Apple was first in tablet terms. The firm reports that in the fourth quarter Apple took 34% of the tablet market a 7% increase from the previous quarter which reversed a two-quarter trend of share loss. While Apple was threatened by cheaper tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system, launching two new models prior to the holiday shopping season helped the company see tablet sales boosting.
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Susmita Baral More Papers 27 August 2014 3/3.513 Lately and for good reason, sugar has received a lot of negative advertising: most scientists agree that overindulgence of sugar is a bad thing and most surveys show that the average person eats too much of it. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced an updated sugar policy that calls for daily intake to be reduced to 5 percent of your total daily calories. “Growing concern is that the consumption of free sugars, especially in the form of sugar-sweetened beverages, the result in … an increase in total caloric intake leading to an unhealthy increase in dietary weight and an increased risk of non-communicable diseases,” WHO said in a statement CNN. Many parents are rightly asking with school about to start what toll sugar takes on their child’s body. Sugar in many ways changes a child’s body; it can weaken their systemic immune reflux and make them more vulnerable to cold coughs and allergies. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine earlier this year showed that eating too much sugar whatever the age gender physical activity rates weights and dietary habits can kill you by rising the risk of heart disease. The study found that individuals who ate more than 21% of the daily calories from added sugar (e.g. high-fructose brown sugar maple syrup maple syrup molasses and other caloric sweeteners) had double the risk of death from heart disease relative to those who consumed less than 10%. People who ate from added sugar 17 to 21 per cent of their daily calories had a 38 per cent higher risk of heart disease death. But most importantly exposing your child to sugar just gives them more long-term cravings for it. In 2012, Dr. Sanjay Gupta explored how doctors interpret sugar in a 60-minute CBS episode and spoke to a California-based endocrinologist, Dr. Robert Lustig, about why we’re eating sugar. We love them. Dr. Lustig tells Dr. Gupta we are going out of our way to find it. I think one of the reasons evolutionarily is that there are no food stuffs on the planet with fructose that is poisonous to you. Everything is good. So when you eat something that’s sweet it’s a Darwinian evolutionary signal that this is a safe food. “Based on numerous similarities in neural processing linked to substance dependence and obesity researchers have hypothesized that addictive mechanisms may be involved in obesity etiology,” the authors of the study write. “Food and drug use both result in the release of dopamine in mesolimbic regions [ of the brain ] and the degree of release correlates with the subjective reward of both food and drug use.” While you will find experts on both sides of the sugar debate one thing is certain: choosing a low-sugar diet can be a good change! The easiest way to make a difference is to see how much adventitious sugar you eat. For example, read labels of any healthy snacks or beverages. You’d be surprised to find that many of those products have a surprisingly high sugar content. Also you can substitute sugary treats with naturally sweet snacks. Swap ice creams for a frozen banana ice cream, for example. How much is a good amount of sugar for kids? The American Heart Association is suggesting that children restrict their intake of sugar to 3 to 8 tablespoons per day. Based on their age and daily caloric intake this value can vary.