Re:Why Are So Many Athletes Promoting Junk Food? By Ali Jatoi

Ali Jatoi shines a light on Athletes promoting unhealthy food or rather “junk food”. Ali Jatoi definitely provides some insightful points about athletes and celebrities misusing their popular status to earn extra money. Shouldn’t they use their fame for good instead of evil? And is it entirely they fault?

Firstly, I would like to address the actual impact an athlete have on children. We can all imagine a typical 10 year old going nuts about a famous athlete who performs outstandingly in their area of sports. Lets say this athlete then gets caught using illegal drugs. According to Dr. Alan Kazdin, professor of psychology and child psychiatry at Yale and director of the Yale Parenting Center, he states that most young kids will “forget” the athlete or choose a new “role model”. Sure they will be disappointed but it would not have any scaring cultural impact. This however is the extreme case but it highlights the soft impact celebrities and athletes have on children. Adding on to this, shouldn’t parents monitor what children consume rather than just pointing fingers and blaming others?

Finally, I think we are simply focusing on the negative things celebrities do. There are numerous philanthropy acts that they promote. More can be found at http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/celebrities-take-to-youtube-to-promote-their-charitable-causes.

more can be found at -http://www.psmag.com/culture/your-kids-dont-care-that-their-favorite-athlete-did-steroids-63760/

Breaking bad breaks

Who knew meth could attract to many people. Apparently channel AMC did because Breaking bad tv series finale have just reached a new record for most viewed episode. Reaching 10.3 million views, it have surpassed previous popular episodes.

Set in Albuquerque, Breaking bad tells a story of an over qualified chemistry teacher who is suffering terminal lung cancer. In order support his family after he have passed he decides to live a double life as a drug dealer producing crystal meth.

Just after 12 hours of its release, half a million people downloaded the episode via various torrent sites.It was recorded that most of the downloads were from UK and Australia

After winning an emmy for Outstanding Drama Series 2013 and nominated for several emmys Breaking Bad came in a proud 3rd place in terms of most viewed series finale. The Sopranos and Sex and the City, whose final episode on HBO were seen by 11.9m and 10.6m respectively.

Just for fun facts, the most watched program ever recorded was 2008 Beijing Olympics reaching up to an astounding 4 billion people. To put that into perspective, there were around 6 billion people in 2008, it means 2/3 people were watching the Olympics.

Most expensive car in the world

Lamborghini have recently outdid themselves by announcing the construction of the most expensive car in the world. The extravagant Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 will be on sale for $7.9 million. Why is it so expensive you ask? This beauty will be made out of solid gold with 700 diamond encrusted seats. Unfortunately this car wont be allowed to roam the streets.

The prototype will be at the Dubai Motor Show in November and will also be heading to Abu Dhabi on its world tour.

German engineer Robert Wilhelm Gülpen (designer of the car) is expecting the Lamborghini Aventador to beat 3 Guinness Book of Records-most expensive model, most secure display case (it is made of bulletproof glass), and the most expensive Lamborghini logo.

All of this sounds crazy and excessive but Lamborghini have just grabbed themselves free advertisement from the media and a brand image that says “only the wealthy can own a Lamborghini.” It would be interesting to see what competing companies such a Ferrari and Bugatti will do next to one up Lamborghini