Tip: The key is moderation in everything and maintain the state of emotional balance

"Dietary extremes also affect your emotions. As your fixation deepens, you may feel intense anxiety if your eating ritual is somehow altered or delayed, experience guilt after eating "imperfectly," or find yourself skipping out on social or work functions involving food outside of your comfort zone. Over time, these symptoms can lead to depression, sleep difficulties and hindered interpersonal relationships. The three markers that your health-food interest has become an obsession are extreme rigidity in your eating patterns, in your allowed foods and in the amount of food you consume. "Unwillingness to stray from carefully planned meals or mealtimes, as well as obvious stress and irritability when presented with impromptu eating -- i.e., dining out, grabbing food on the go -- are the behavioral manifestations of these issues," Shaw-Draves explained. The amount of time you spend thinking about food is another factor, including time spent planning meals, calculating your caloric intake and reprimanding yourself for eating foods you've banned from your diet. Your dreams and first thoughts upon waking may also involve food."

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Green Business Awards seeks innovative, ambitious & effective initiatives in achieving environmental sustainability & smart business practice

Sindicatum Wins Green Business Awards 2011 - MarketWatch: "Sindicatum Group CFO, Michael Boardman said: "We are very proud of having been selected by the judges as winners of both awards - the award in the Renewable Energy category is particularly poignant, in light of the current events in Thailand: we are contributing to the relief effort in the country not just by continuing to produce clean power despite the adverse weather conditions but also by contributing financially and materially to the relief effort in our local communities. Awards and recognition from organisations such as the Green Business Awards allow us to intensify our efforts and motivate further our staff in this difficult environment." Other awards won by Sindicatum in 2011 include the Carbon Finance Transaction of the Year award by Environmental Finance ( http://www.environmental-finance.com/ ) and the Most Progressive Corporate Leader award by the Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, awarded to Assaad Razzouk, Group CEO ( http://www.asria.org/ and http://conference.asria.org/awards/2011/ )."

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Update: About 2 degrees of warming cause by Climate Change could reduce California's premium wine-growing land by 30 to 50 percent

Climate Change Has California Vintners Rethinking Grapes : NPR: "The specific type of grape, or varietal, is how most of us think about wine. At one recent meeting of the San Francisco Wine Lovers Group, for instance, members listed pinot noirs, sauvignon blancs or cabernets among their favorite kinds of wine. All are well-known varieties grown in the California region.

"That's the big problem," says Andy Walker, a grape breeder at the University of California, Davis. "We've spent the last 100 years emphasizing varieties, and we've really marketed those names very effectively."

The university's test vineyard grows hundreds of different wine grapes from around the world. The vast majority are unknown to consumers because most wineries focus on only a handful of French grapes that prefer cool climates.

Extreme heat can be the enemy of good wine; it destroys acidity, and changes color and aromatics, Walker explains."

'via Blog this'According to a recent study from Stanford University, about 2 degrees of warming could reduce California's premium wine-growing land by 30 to 50 percent. That could happen as soon as 2040. Water supply is also expected to be an issue.