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Kitchen design ideas: Your crockery, fridge and paint could be making you fat

Do you consider your kitchen to be the heart of your home, where the family socialises? Does it have a TV and sound system alongside the toaster and kettle?

Perhaps you've invested in a gleaming double American-style fridge or installed a clutter-clearing pantry?

Interior designers would applaud your stylish choices. But nutritionists would warn that the modern kitchen is actually making us fatter.

The statistics are telling. Every ten years since 1920, women have added on average half an inch to their busts, an inch to their waists and three-quarters of an inch to their hips.

British women are now the third fattest in the Western world.

Is it pure coincidence that over the same number of decades, the average kitchen has almost doubled in size to 121 sq ft — and become the biggest room in the house?

Back in the Twenties, most kitchens were separate, rather Spartan work zones where food was prepared. After the washing up was done, the lights would be turned off and the kitchen closed down until breakfast time. If you were caught with your head in the larder after that, it was rather embarrassing.

Nowadays, according to a recent survey for kitchen company Magnet, we spend more waking hours in the kitchen than anywhere else.

It's no longer just a place to make meals; it's somewhere we like to eat, relax, study, make phone calls and watch TV.

As a result, we hang around there in close proximity to food, munching distractedly while surfing the net, reading the papers or helping children with their homework — and taking in hundreds of extra calories without even noticing.

Meanwhile, the countertops get cluttered up with newspapers, CDs, letters and bills and it becomes ever harder to unearth enough space to get out the chopping board — and even more tempting to grab a bag of crisps or a handful of biscuits instead.

But according to research published in America's Annual Reviews Of Nutrition, spending more time in them isn't the only reason modern kitchens are making us fat.

China, glassware, even lighting might all be contributing to our ever-expanding waistlines.

Today's large, restaurant-style plates and bowls are undeniably more glamorous than the more modestly proportioned plates our parents used. Unfortunately, when we cook at home, we're likely to fill them to the brim. 'Research shows that we tend to eat everything that's on our plate,' says British dietitian Gaynor Bussell.

Wall Design Ideas With Paint

Wall Design Ideas With Paint

Designing for a toddler’s bedroom isn’t as simple as it sounds and your efforts can be quite frustrating astatine times. Suppose you have freshly painted the walls in your toddler’s bedroom according to an expensive theme and splurged quite a lot of money on the decor. But next week, much to your letdown you will find that your toddler bedroom decorating ideas have fallen flat on their face because the fastidiously painted and adorned walls have been scribbled all over with crayon art and collage.

If you think patterned wall paper in nursery rhymes designs will be a safer choice, you will be in for a greater shock because toddlers love to rip off wall papers or leave a stamp of their esthetic efforts on that wall paper. That is why toddler bedroom decorating ideas should hinge on two fulcrums, creativeness and simplicity and it is possible for both of them to coexist harmoniously.

Basically toddler bedroom decorating ideas will incorporate the paint, color, theme and decor of the bedroom. If the toddler is a girl, the color of the theme can be pink or lavender or white and if the toddler is a boy, it can be blue or orange or yellow or mint green. Your toddler should always feel bright and happy and cheerful and orange, yellow, red and mint green ar upbeat and bright colours that let the sunshine into the room effortlessly and will keep your toddler joyful and spirited.

A toddler’s bedroom should consist of a bed, a side table, a cupboard, seating arrangements or lounging area where helium or she can play with toys, a carpet or carpet on the floor, a stepping tool at the foot of the bed, a table, play zone if you have enough space to spare, pictures of cartoon characters and picture or drawing boards on the wall, colorful but matching curtains on the windows and doors, comfortable and cozy bedding, funky and fun pillows, Disney blankets etc.

If the paint on the wall is an acrylic emulsion and a washable distemper astatine that, you will be protected for you can wash off your toddler’s creative outputs on the walls. There are endless themes for toddler bedroom decorating ideas such as Disney characters, Scooby Doo bedrooms, Tom and Jerry or Victorian toddler bedroom etc.

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