Boycotting Starbucks
20/11/12 10:49 Filed in: boycott starbucks
Starbucks has contributed only £8.6 million of corporation tax over 14 years whilst earning a profit of £14 billion. The wonderful staff at Starbucks manage to pay their tax, why can’t the company they work for do the same?
I will herein replace my 2 daily coffees from Starbucks for either a Costa or Nero.
I don’t believe a tax change will cause any effective change in a companies tax avoidance, if Dispatches review of MP’s tax avoidance is anything to go by that reports MP’s have merely adapted their means of benefiting from their status.
Instead I will not visit Starbucks until they have improved their tax status. This is one instance where the people have more power then the government, a bottom-up boycott of companies that are morally reprehensible is the most effective means of creating real change.
Baby insight
17/10/12 10:46 Filed in: baby massage
Since it has become more popular to put babies on their backs to sleep, this practice has now become an 'all day routine'. This has led to an increase of babies with 'flat head syndrome' or an abnormally shaped head. So, during supervised play time, it will be helpful for your baby's development if they spend time on their tummy.
Finchley Personal Training
19/09/12 15:46
There has been a dearth of suitable personal training in Finchley since the closing down of “Finchey Fitness”.
We can now unveil the opening of North London Fitness Training that will be covering the Finchley area in their new clinic based in Muswell HIll.
Upper Cross Syndrome
21/05/12 12:06
This syndrome is caused by our sedentary lifestyle and leads to tight superficial neck flexors, pectoral muscles, upper traps and levator scapulae whilst the weakened muscles are: deep neck flexors and the middle and lower trapezius.
Remedies to this syndrome is to raise the chest and draw the chin into the body.
We focus on training the weaker muscles at North London Personal Training.
Posture at the work place
15/05/12 13:29
The figure depicted displays the optimum posture for office workers. Notice the legs in regards the floor, the lumbar support, the level of the table in regards the hands and the level of the computer display in regards the head.
Arms - The arms are level putting less strain on the flexors or extensors of the wrist and fingers.
Legs - The legs must be perpendicular to the floor so as to reduce constriction of the hip flexors, the feet are facing forward.
Back - The back is supports by a lumbar support so as to reduce pressure on the disks, caused by a flexed position of the back.
Head - the eyes are looking down at the display, this is a good resting posture of the sub occipitals.
We focus on posture at London Personal Training