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Fast Food Healthy Alternative

We all know that burgers and chips and other fatty fast foods aren’t good for us and I’m sure a lot of us were quite happy to see the fast food chains introduce their healthy alternatives. Not only could we still grab a fast meal but it was good for us wasn’t it?

Well maybe it wasn’t good for us after all. Researchers in Germany have found that the so-called healthy alternatives offered by fast food chains can have similar effects to other meals they serve.

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These days buying a small car makes a lot of sense. Not only are they cheap to run but they’re environmentally friendly too. Small cars are also a wise choice if you’re limited in what you can afford to pay.

Competition in the lower end of small car market is really hot at the moment and you should be able score a good deal. But what if size is important but price point isn’t? What if you would like to add some European flare to your driving … And still grab a bargain?

Well if that’s what you want then meet the Citroen C3.

It’s a small car that really stands out in a crowd. This fine Frenchman certainly isn’t cheap but at the moment Citroen Australia is offering some great drive-away deals that make it very tempting.

I am sure many of us cannot fathom the difficulties some women endure when they live on the streets. And I am sure it happens in every state but this morning the news headline “Sydney homeless women ‘overlooked’ for services” brought home the realisation that many women, from young girls to mature aged women live on the streets.

Of course as the article explained women are overlooked because most people would associate homeless people as men of varying ages. But no one seems to think that a woman or a young girl could possibly live on the streets.

Knowing of young girls that do, I believe it is very true and it highlights the need for more accommodation to be organised through the governments to accommodate the needy.

Sure a lot of us will say that it is the fault of their own that that happens, but let me point out that some do not have an option. Some people are lucky to have a home to go home to, they have a roof over their heads and they don’t have to rely on others to live.

Everyone has noticed the growing need for housing for everyone, but it’s not the rich that go without, they can afford to live their lives the way they want to, while others are not so lucky. Some home life that was reasonable is no more through possibly some fault of their own but in the majority of cases, the breakdown of a family life, the lack of job, the inability to take on employment for one reason or an other or the inability to find affordable accommodation are some of the reasons why people … including women live on the streets.

I know of some girls who have left home because they couldn’t conform to their parent’s way of life and feeling like they don’t belong so they leave that home and live on the streets because they have no where else to go.

It appears that homelessness is becoming a crisis that all governments should be aware of and more funding should be available to help those that cannot help themselves. Mission Australia has provided over the last year beds for about 600 homeless women, but when more than 1000 women have been turned away from one crisis accommodation centre in the inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross… it makes you wonder how many women have no where to go each year across Australia.

When girls have to live on the streets because they feel they have nowhere to go, no family to turn to or prefer to live their life in the streets there is a major problem that needs help from all governments throughout Australia. The lack of facilities to help combat this issue is truly amazing and until you know someone who has had to endure life on the streets for one reason or another, you will never truly understand why or how it happens.

I know I will never understand why….

Toni Livesey