Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your weekend was good and I hope youll be able to join me tonight and every night on BBC1 at 6.30pm for Look North. Paul will have the forecast and of course well have all the stories of the news of the day.
Tonight, my special guest will be Gillian McKeith. Ive talked about her enough times in the Levy Letter over the past week. Well, well be talking to her on the show tonight. If youre into losing weight and healthy eating at the moment, especially if youre into pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds, then tonights the night as Gillian will be with us. Well have all the days news as well, so I hope youll be able to join me on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Well, as you know Im trying to follow Gillians healthy eating diet and finding it quite hard and I expect lots of you are struggling with your New Years resolutions to eat healthily and lose weight. Well, tomorrow well have Rosemary Conley, the diet expert, on the programme. And I want to hear from you! Like me, are you struggling to keep to a healthy diet? Are you struggling to exercise regularly and would you appreciate some tips to help you along and keep you on the straight and narrow? Well, Rosemary will be here to help. I want to hear from you if you want some help from Rosemary and wouldnt mind if we came along to film you. I do need to hear from you as soon as you can, so that I can set this up. So as soon as possible, just email me with your name and your problem and of course dont forget to include a contact number with your email. As always the email to use to get me direct is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope to hear from you soon. Whats In A Name On Friday night, on the programme, we did a Leave it to Levy. One gentleman is absolutely insisting that we revert to Hulls proper name of Kingston-upon-Hull rather than just Hull. We had a couple of interviews on that and then we held a text vote. And we had, in the space of just ten minutes, nearly eight hundred texts! And 85% of those were saying it should be Kingston-upon-Hull. Well, well have an update on that tonight, and if you have any views on that, then you can always write to the Levy Letter as well. Dont forget, this week well have the answer and announce the winner of the Jo Brand competition. Well do that on Wednesday in the Levy Letter and also on the programme as well. So, theres still time to get your answers in for that one. Jo Brand what was her former job before she became a comedienne? Shopping I was saying at the end of last week that in a years time the traditional TV, as we know it, wont be available to buy in the shops. Therell just be the modern flat screen TVs available. These plasma screens will be hung up on the wall, so that therell be more room in the lounge. Our whole lives seem to be changing portable CD players also wont be available by the end of the week and our shopping is changing as well. Its believed that by next Christmas, more people will shop online than in the shops. Now then, I dont actually believe that, but thats what theyre saying. Online shopping boomed in the run up to this Christmas with one in four gifts bought via the internet. Consumers spent 4.9 billion pounds online during the ten weeks before the 25th of December. Now thats quite incredible isnt it? 4.9 billion pounds spent online in just ten weeks! So if anyone out there thinks its just the minority, who are going online to shop, then youre certainly mistaken. Aro! und 24 million UK consumers shopped online at some point in 2005. Around 24 million of us I must be just about the only person, who has not bought anything online yet! But watch out, I will change that this year, Im sure! But as I say, they reckon that more of us will be shopping online, by next Christmas, than in the shops. Pregnancy Well, we briefly touched on pregnancy last week in the Levy Letter, but I see that eating fish during a pregnancy can boost your childs brain power and social skills, scientists revealed today. Mothers-to-be, who consume fish, such as mackerel and sardines, can also help their child develop better coordination. The benefits of eating fish, which is an important source of Omega 3 fatty acids, have been known for some time, but analysis of more than fourteen thousand mothers and their children show that they are even more important than previously thought. The research of maternal nutrition and the effects of these fatty acids was carried out at the National Institute for Health in America. So there you are, if youre a mum-to-be, then make sure you eat plenty of fish, containing these fatty acids, like mackerel and sardines! Love Life One in five couples have severe money worries, which affects their love life, according to new research. A study found that as a nation, were becoming so stressed out at rising levels of personal debt that its starting to affect our health. Well, I dont think theres anything new about this either. Money Sickness Syndrome, theyre calling it! And this troubles more than half of the population according to the stress expert Roger Henderson. His findings, published today, come after personal debt broke through the eleven trillion barrier, the equivalent of twenty-four thousand pounds for every man, woman and child in this country! Thats quite incredible isnt it? The average person is twenty-four thousand pounds in debt! And Money Sickness Syndrome is the new thing it is affecting our relationships. Well, I can quite understand that anyone, whos severely in debt, that it would affect their relationships. I think that one of the things thats still quite a surprise to me! are the young people in their mid-twenties and the amount of debt they can be in after theyve been to University. Of course in my time or our time if youre my age, then that didnt happen. But the average person in this country is in debt to the tune of twenty-four thousand pounds. Your views on that, of course, are gratefully received. And of course we want to hear from you if youve got a comment on anything else. Just drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well thats it from me for today. Have a very good day, have a good Monday. Enjoy your afternoon and join me tonight for the programme on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Dont forget, if you want to drop me a line, then I look forward to hearing from you. Take care Peter And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box. 1.94.4
