Thailand Professionals March Issue 2014

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March Issue 2014 Vol. 2 No. 12

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FEATURE STORY

Asian Networkers Convention and Expo is a three

Convention Objectives :

day event held every year, ANCE that brings together together world famous leaders, trainers, motivational speakers, researchers, educators,distributors and professionals from around the world who are engaged in Direct Selling and Multi level Marketing Industry.

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To Strengthen the Network Marketing Industry which has been around for over 70 years.

To Educate Distributors and Professionals on the Ethics of the Industry.

To Empower educate on Employment and Financial Freedom.

To bring together the industries best on one platform To recognize and award the companies and leaders who have made a difference in the industry.

Serenity Estate is a family owned and operated wine company producing premium wines from our vineyard located in the picturesque country town Griffith, one of Australia’s premier cool climate wine growing regions.

Available NOW in Thailand!

Looking for Distributors, Wholesalers, and Retailers For more information, call: 0814091501

MAGAZINE STAFF CEO Pilli Shahin Noble Editor-in-Chief Bradley Villanueva Copy Editor Jayhce Boondock, MA Layout and Design Jerubem Era, MIS-IEC Content and Design Consultant The Box World, Inc. Manager Taraphatsorn Saengngam

Table of Contents Page 4 - DM Photography and Cinematography Services Page 5 - Professional High 5: Movers and Shakers Page 6 - Professional People: Daniel Cordonnier Page 7 - Auzypand5’s Photography Services Page 8 - Champ’s Photography Services Page 9 - NoomD’s Photography Services Page 10 - Gilles Jack and Cherdwood Page 11 - Bruno Mars, the Moonshine Jungle Tour Page 12 - Upcoming Events Page 13 - Professional Business: What Mistakes do Thai Companies keep doing online?

Page 14 - How to Live to 100 years old Page 15 - Happenings in the Last Month, Movie Night Out, Front cover design

Marketing & Communications Sean Parker Rao Legal Consultants Interactive Thailand Co., Ltd. Photographer Dev Mohnani Distribution Bangkok - TPMag Pattaya - Pattaya People Media Phuket - Phuket Gazzette Khon Khen - Khon Khen Int. School TPMag is published once every month by: The World of Professional (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Owned and Managed by: Pilli Group Co., Ltd. No. 12, Soi Pattana Wet Pridi Banomyong 26, Sukhumvit 71 Bangkok 10110, Thailand +6681-409-1501 info@thailandprofessionals.com Visit us at: www.thailandprofessionals.com Follow us at: www.twitter.com/thailandProf Like our page at: www.facebook.com/pages/ Thailand-Professionals For advertising rates, download our Media Kit at our website.

Editorial

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fter the excitements of the new year celebrations in Thailand, we are looking ahead for the spring time season. Although we do not feel it here in Bangkok, spring is noticed in countries that have four seasons in a year. According to one of my friends, she said that we only have two seasons in Thailand...hot and hotter. As it was only meant as a joke, we were able to feel some of that pleasant cold weather last December. But back to the topic, the reason why I mentioned spring is also because of the three-month product cycles for new products that are entering the market. Also older things in the gadget sections are getting cheaper after march. It is a good idea if you missed the Christmas discounts to purchase on the next product cycle such as March and April. Many people buy new cars during this month, and lots of new camera gears are starting to go down in prices.

This month we are featuring some of our contacts who are entrepreneurs in photography. As many events happen this month like graduation, concerts, and parties; it is a great time to contact the perfect photographer for your events.

There are many photographers that can do the job and we recommend the photographers in our magazine as we have worked with them and they can assist you in getting the result you need for your photography. We have also included Fine Art photographers who have done some exhibitions and sold their work to collectors. If you are a collector in fine art, it is worth checking out.

Request a hard copy. Visit our office at the address above. We can also send to you. Email us your address and send us 75 Baht/issue by check at our office. We will send it through EMS post. Outside Bangkok: request for quote.

Also this month hosts a lot of events. One of the events we are looking forward to is the Bruno Mars, the Moonshine Jungle Tour Concert in Bangkok. It will be the first time for the Filipino-American artist to come to Bangkok. A friend attended one of his concerts in the USA and she said that it was the most enjoyable concert she has ever attended in her whole life. We are excited for it to push through since now the political upset in Bangkok has subsided, I’m sure this concert won’t be cancelled.

Views and opinions expressed in the articles herein by individual writers and contributors do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the editorial staff and management of Thailand Professionals.

Lasly, as the AEC is getting closer, we see lots of things happening in preparation for the event. I was just reading the newspaper and I came accross an article for a mobile app for your Android phone that gives information about Asean.

You can search for “Easy Asean” and download the app in Google Play. Some notable features of the app are the basic language greetings of each country and also some basic information about the AEC.

An Invitation to our readers We welcome articles, news, story ideas and/or photographs from our readers. Send them to: thaipromedia@gmail.com or mrd@thailandprofessionals.com.

Your submissions are subject to approval by the editorial team.

Enjoy reading the magazine and will talk to you again soon.

Bradley Villanueva Editor-in-Chief

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MOVERS & SHAKERS AT PLAZA ATHÉNÉE BANGKOK, A ROYAL MÉRIDIEN HOTEL THE GLAZ BAR

Photo Credits: Stuart Maxwell Foulkes, Peter Kraemer & Chaianan Moontreephakdee

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PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE

DANIEL CORDONNIER Acclaimed French photographer Daniel Cordonnier’s latest collection, The Beauty of Peace, tells the tale of Buddhist practice through dance, nature and human structures. The pieces are elaborate, striking, innocent, dark, peaceful and vibrant. And his own story to come to his personal place of artistic freedom is also an intricate one.

With his artistic eye, Cordonnier who is one of the leaders of the ‘Paintographer’ movement in Asia. The French national and Asian enthusiast was lured to these exotic shores many years ago because of the eclectic nature of life in this part of the world.

Formerly a successful businessman founding an air-conditioning company – his commercial success allowed Daniel to start a new life aged 50 as a dedicated artist. Something he dreamt about all his life.

Moving to India, Madagascar and now Bangkok, his travels are what shaped his art. His unfailing passion for photography is what makes him strive for the most tenuous and stunning shots.

In this series, the ‘Dancer’ image alone took two years of following and documenting a performer to get the shot that satisfied his artistic eye.

Daniel has been invited to several exhibitions in France as well as gaining a following in his adoptive home of Bangkok for his contemporary and vivacious shots.

HIS STYLE

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Cordonnier’s style is ‘Multiple Exposure.’ The result is one powerful image that is a combination of two different subjects in their lighting intensity and point of view.

He is influenced by Impressionism and with some elements related to the Pictorialism in the early photography in 19th Century. It is a multiple exposure combining in one image two different subjects, sometimes far in term of distance, time and concept.

No Photoshop has been used in his images and a documentary style is still present, but also it disappears to enter into a world full of memories.

Like abstract painting, Cordonnier’s photography doesn’t want to tell, but only suggest. It doesn’t want to find the truth, but his photography – as art should be – wants to incite us to start the research of the truth, approached in the simplest and primal way possible.

“I have always chosen to deliberately give a documentary style to my photos and have chosen subjects aligned with this underlying objective.

My prose emanates from the various scenes I have photographed,” Daniel says. “Reality and life should be very close to each other, however I often softened the aspects of misery making it seemingly more cheerful, darkness can be beautiful. There are far too many images constricting people's mind with false hopes. I want to create a realistic vision but not taint it with pessimism.”

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Getting to know event photographer Gilles Jack

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illes Jack studied Agri-food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics to please his mother, but sooner wasn’t really in to it. He is the son of a computer programmer at IBM, a pioneer in the Internet ecommerce 41th French company in 1998. He took a career as an animator commercial demonstrator for Canon, Windows, HP, Epson, Sony, and Apple. Having lived in Paris, Nice, Lyon, he worked around these towns and then moved around Spain, Sicily, and Italy - looking for associations in cinema, audiovisual, photography, artists Rhone-Alpes, and Asian artists. He finally landed in Bangkok as an event organizer for PR events. His other jobs include teaching private french lessons, a photographer and now mostly a PR photographer and a social media community manager freelance.

He is recently the founder of the media concept of art and fashion called Fashion City Guru in contact with the news of art and fashion in the world. To propose to the art and fashion actors to support photography, film, online marketing, PR, SEO, and advertising.

He treats his open-mindedness to be guided by his pleasure and intellectual curiosity. What he delights himself in is he is a collector of squatter and privileges of exclusivity, writing, film, broadcasting, design, fashion, culture, pub, music, and photography. He loves the art world as a whole and also the Internet since 1996 as new technologies arise.

Contact Gilles Jack on Internet and search gillesjack on Line, Whatsapp, Wechat, and Skype

His PR photography work is for networking like Bangkok Entrepreneurs and Webmob Thailand, but he also shoots for some modeling events as a freelance in some High Society events in partnership with Buzz Bed, a marketing company in Bangkok.

Fine Art Photographer Cherdwood Sakolaya

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herwood Sakolaya, 39, has been in love with photography since his second semester in the Faculty of Fine Arts as a Visual Art Major at Srinakharinwirot University.

Since then, he has never gone out of anywhere without his camera. After more than 20 years of experience, he has worked with famous Thai magazines as a Beauty and Fashion Photographer while also working on his own private collection of art photos. In 2007, while working with an international advertising agency, Cherdwood received the Gold Winner of Asia Pacific AdFest 2007. He is the Winner of the 15th Cresta International Advertising Award 2007 and the Silver Winner of London International Award 2008 in Asian and Iinternational advertising competitions. In April 2012, he held, with three other artists, and Art Exhibition entitled ”Intuition” at The Amari Watergarte Hotel in Bangkok. Recently he had an honor to solo show a set of Black & White photos called “Spirit of Sanamluang” at the National Gallery in Bangkok during the 2nd-30th of May 2013. He also displayed “Night Shift” during an exhibition at the Rooftop Gallery on Thonglor during 10th May – 10th June 2013. He followed these well received shows with the 180th Anniversary of the Thai-U.S. relations Photography Exhibition on 19th – 21st July 2013 at Central World in Bangkok, with three selected which will be displayed around Thailand and will travel to Los Angeles during the Month of Photography LA, MOPLA April 2014.

Regarding his work, Cherdwood’s photography captures the current moment of real communication in its most honest, sincere and natural process between model and photographer through the camera lens.

He strives to commune with his models, heart to heart, without barriers, settings of planning – only intuition – and his work is the results during these human encounters.

From a recent exhibit “Angel”. Every photo was taken with Black and White Kodak Film, and copied on fiber-based paper, a very rare paper.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Venue: Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani Date: Thursday March 20, 2014.

Experience this special concert , “Bruno Mars ” .

First time in Thailand!

One of the young artists that are hottest in the world right now Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars) own song Just The Way UR (Just the way you are), The Lazy Song (The Lazy song). , Mary (Marry me) and many others . With which he celebrated in only three years, and became the first male artist . Ranked # 1 in the music charts Mainstream Top 40 Most in history. And has hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, more than five songs have been nominated for Grammy Awards to 13 times with single sales of 45 million copies worldwide. And has great views of more than one billion views on the website YouTube, the latest Bruno Mars decided to tour around the world for the first time in the tour is a ” Moonshine Jungle Tour ” where the tickets are . sold out quickly in many countries around the world. Opportunity as fans of Singha Thailand on 80 years of jewelry . Grab this Concert Videos Presented as a gift to the people of Thailand have seen on March 20, 2556 at Impact Arena Muang Thong Thani.

Tickets Available at Ticket Major Thailand from 18 January onwards .

Bruno Mars is the first album in 2010 titled ” View – House Swaps & hooligans ” (DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS) has been raised to an album. 39X platinum worldwide have won the ” Album of Pop, the launch of the Best of the Year: 10 songs almost perfect ” by Carolina Stone songs listed Just The Way UR not. been raised as singles, 12X Platinum at blockbuster. And rose to # 1 on music charts around the world numerous times . Music Great Ned “(Grenade) was 10x platinum song The Lazy Song was 6x platinum at Bruno Mars won a Grammy for ” Best Male Singer excellence . singing ”

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2012 released their second album . ” The Order Thor Maddox Seljuks box ” (Unorthodox Jukebox) became the new global phenomenon quickly.

With the tap of one of the charts Billboard 200 and became the first album Mars won a Grammy. It also has been cited as a platinum albums , including in Australia, New Zealand, Canada , France, Ireland and the United Kingdom . That’s where this album became the album selling solo artist soon after its launch in 2012, music, Bowen Island Davos Your Man “(When I Was Your Man) of this album as a single 6 Mars at No. 1 . charts mainstream Top 40 of the Billboard surpassed Justin Timberlake and Nelly as an artist, male solo with the song top the charts for most of the past 20 years ( data from. Billboard magazine announced that five songs of Bruno. Spot on the charts faster than all male artists . Ever since Elvis Presley ), the songs Bowen Island Davos Your Man is track 11 of Mars are downloaded through 1 million All this happened within a period of only three years after he opened . the artist Ownership Grammy Awards Masters and Statistics His singles have sold over 100 million albums around the world. Both as a solo artist , songwriter, producer , and works to contribute vocals to other artists.

Bruno Mars on tour historic name ” Moonshine Jungle Tour” concert in June 2013, which in many areas, the Americas and Europe were sold out just minutes after the press conference.

In Thailand, the concert will be held on 20 March 2014 at Impact Arena Muang Thong Thani Tickets : 2,000 / 3,000 / 4,000 and 5,000 baht and will be available at their disposal . Thailand Ticket Major From January 18, 2014 To track the news www.brunomars.com / moonshinejungletour.

Additional Information : www.brunomars.com, www.facebook.com / thatbrunomars, www.youtube.com / brunomars, and twitter.com / BRUNOMARS

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Pattaya Music Festival March 21-23, 2014

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he 2014 Pattaya International Music Festival will take place from March 21-23. Recognized as one of the largest music events of its type in Asia, the three-day free festival will feature both Thai and international artists of every genre with the concerts along Beach Road starting around 6 p.m. and finishing at midnight. Visitors can enjoy beach activities during the day before attending the music festival as the night falls. In addition to the concerts at the 4 main stages, there will also be booths selling music-related accessories and a multitude of food and refreshment stalls. For more information, contact the local TAT office on Tel. 038 427 667 or 038 428 750.

Chaam International Kite Festival March 8-9, 2014

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ourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in cooperation with Phetchaburi province, Naresuan Camp, The Rama VI Camp (or Phra Ram VI Camp) the Thai Sports World under Royal Patronage, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand Kite Fliers Association. With each subsequent year, the Thailand International Kite Festival attracts an ever-growing number of devoted kite fans, participants and spectators, from all over Thailand as well as from countries around the region, and beyond. The colorful kite festival thus presents a golden opportunity for visitors to savor the international flavor of kite culture in a single trip. As well as kite events there will also be a parachute show, a radio controlled airplane show and competition. As with any Thai festival there will be plenty of food and handicraft booths everywhere to keep you occupied as well.

This annual event is really one not to be missed and definitely one of the more colorful events of the year.

2014 FIM Motocross World Championship Grand Prix March 7, 2014 The first ever Motorsport Grand Prix in Thailand!

7th - 9th March , PinThong 3 Industrial Estate, Sriracha - Chonburi

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e are about to enter a new Motocross season, midst great excitement and high expectations. Motocross remains a firm favourite within the motor sport community as the most popular off-road competition for many passionate fans around the world.

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The FIM Motocross World Championship is, without any doubt, the best and most exciting Motocross series in the world.

Top riders, top action, top circuits and top organisation - we cannot ask for more!

MXGP It’s a world championship: 18 rounds, 3 continents, the fastest riders, factory bikes, 100% action or, in other words, Motocross at it´s very, very best.

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PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS

What Mistakes Do Thai Companies Keep Doing Online?

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here's no disputing the fact that business is Thailand is booming. With the advent of social media, businesses in Thailand can connect with other countries and create a working relationship. However, when it comes to online marketing, website design and overall online communication, there are some things that Thai business owners need to figure out. No, it's not the design of their websites geared to generate traffic and sales. In fact many Thai companies have websites with great potential. The problem is quite simply, the spelling, grammar and sentence structure of the content on the pages. These mistakes can be devastating for any online company and while the creators of these websites may overlook the mistakes, it could be ruining their bottom line.

So, let's take a look at what Thai businesses can do to improve their overall appearance online and build up a positive relationship with their potential client. There's a saying that first impressions are everlasting and when it comes to online business websites, this is you first impression to the world. You can have the best product in the market, however of your website is full of grammatical errors and lacking in proper sentence structure, nine times out of ten your potential sales are going to move on. The fix for this is obviously simple, yet can be painfully sobering to the business owner who spent hours and hours creating a website they think is going to be a winner. A simple fix is to simply outsource your website content script. When outsourcing, we don't mean hire someone who's native tongue is not the English language. Unfortunately, when some folks try as best they can to mimic the language in their website design, there always seems to be something just not adding up. As hard it is it may be to take, outsourcing content writing and website script seems to be the only way to create a site which will be successful. While outsourcing to English tongued writers may be a bit more expensive, the long term results will far outweigh the cons associated with initial costs. Take a look here at an article written in it's original form and with revisions. http://englishcontentwriting.com/examples.html OK, so there's the initial basics on what Thai businesses may be doing that's hurting their online presence. Can you think of any other issues you might of seen on a website that can be detrimental to success?

How about all the annoying Flash stuff you see when you click on a site?

While website builders may think this is a great way to display ads or run demo's for their products, the result can be a jumbled up mess that nobody want's to look at. Keeping these to a minimum is obviously the

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best route to take. A Thai website designed to showcase their products or services should do just that. It should be written in proper English and be clean, meaning no unnecessary forms or widgets cluttering up the site.

Now on to some other issues. While this article is based on trying to identify some common mistakes Thai website owners may make, it should be noted that any website, regardless of national origin should focus on producing a clean website. Remember, this is your online reputation and first impressions are everlasting. A final pet peeve potential customers have is filling out the online contact form and receiving either late replies or no reply at all. A contact form should specify exactly how to contact and how long it will take for a response.

Customers hate waiting around for a call back! Chances are, if you don't respond to the request within 48 hours, that client is going elsewhere.

Additionally, a website that has unfinished pages, sloppy design and confusing navigation can also become a major issue for potential clients.

It's imperative that Thai business owners who are using online avenues to promote their products and services to pay attention to how their website is not only designed but how it reads. Grammar online is key to anything, in fact it's more important than the flashy pictures of products.

Clients know what they want but if your website looks like garbage, they will assume you treat everything else in business the same way.

So, there you have it, a few suggestions on how you can upgrade you Thai business site from a loser to a winner! Some Thai website owners however have figured it out. There are some great websites out there that are not only coded correctly but have perfect script and the design is impeccable. Take a look at www.CSSdesignawards.com or www.

Awwwards.com for some real inspiration. If you need any help with improving your website then you can find me and the team at www.WebCoursesAgency.com. by: Carl Heaton Carl is the Managing Director of Web Courses International, UN consultant and regular lecturer at Thailand’s top Universities. He loves helping businesses make the best of their online profiles and get a real return on investment form their websites and online marketing.

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How To Live To 100 Years Old

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arge H. Jetton is 104 and doing amazingly well. A retired nurse in Loma Linda, Calif., she still walks a mile every day through the halls of her retirement home and preaches healthy habits to anyone who will listen. She rides the exercise bicycle at a gym and lifts small weights six days a week.

A vegetarian for 50 years, she eats oatmeal and flaxseed for breakfast, green salad for lunch and soup and a vegetable sandwich for dinner. She has no diseases other than high blood pressure and “bad eyes,” never snacks and proudly announces that she has never lost a tooth. “I have tried to take care of my body as well as I know how,” she says. “I am sure it has helped.”

Medical researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of longevity, trying to untangle the blend of genetics, good habits and just plain luck that enable some of us to live decades longer than average. They are studying Seventh-Day Adventists like Jetton, who have a life expectancy four to seven years longer than that of average Americans, probably because their faith preaches a vegetarian diet and exercise. They are examining the eating habits of oldsters in longevity hot spots like Okinawa, which has five times the U.S.’ proportion of centenarians, and they’re probing towns in Sardinia that have unusually many male Methuselahs.

There are about 50,000 centenarians in the U.S., or one per 6,000 people, and their numbers are increasing rapidly. Extrapolating from current death rates, 3% of today’s girls will reach 100, and about 1.5% of boys, says Jay Olshansky, a biodemographer at the University of Illinois.

THIS ISSUE’S Some optimists think the numbers could go far higher. If improvements in health continues apace, “a majority of children born since the year 2000 will celebrate their hundredth birthdays,” contends James Vaupel, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in Rostock, Germany. He predicts that life-span increases can continue indefinitely. (Olshansky says Vaupel has “no empirical evidence” to back such a view.) How can you live to 100?.

2. Then live right.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England followed 20,000 middle-aged men and women in England for 11 years and found that nonsmokers with the healthiest eating and exercise habits at the outset had a 14-yearlife-expectancy edge over the people with the worst habits. This followed a 2001 Loma Linda University finding that Seventh-Day Adventists who kept good habits lived to an average age of 88, versus 78 for those who behaved less well.

Researchers at the Pacific Health Research Institute in Hawaii who followed 5,820 Japanese American men for 40 years found those who avoided risk factors such as obesity,

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heavy drinking, smoking and high blood pressure in middle age had a 69% chance of living to be 85, versus just 22% for men with six or more risk factors.

Results like these “tell me that on average most of us are doing things wrong,” says Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University Medical Center who is studying 1,200 present and past centenarians in New England. He has found that people who make it to 100 tend to have staved off serious disability until well into their 90s, either by avoiding disease or by limiting its consequences.

3. Exercise–into old age.

Regular exercise is one of the strongest predictors of a long life. A 1998 Finnish study looked at 16,000 twins, both fraternal and identical, and found that those who exercised regularly had 44% the risk of death of their sedentary siblings over a 17-year follow-up period. “Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don’t have to do it, but when you do it makes the car run a lot better,” says Olshansky. “It’s the closest thing we have to a miracle cure.” Regular exercisers generally live five to seven years longer than inactive people, according to a 2006 study of 5,000 Danes.

Researchers have been finding lately that the benefits of exercise continue well into old age.

In one clever experiment scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato, Calif., put 25 healthy older adults on a six-month weighttraining regimen that increased their muscle strength by 50%. The researchers measured the activity of genes in the muscles before and after the training.

Before the training, hundreds of genes involved in energy metabolism had diminished from those of young adults. After training, many had been restored to their youthful levels. The researchers concluded last year in Plos One, a scientific journal, that the training partly reversed the aging process.

4. Avoid obesity.

Being obese in middle age roughly doubles mortality rates, depending on the study. (A note on mortality rates: This does not mean that overweight people’s remaining life expectancy is only half; it just means they’re twice as likely to die within a given period.)

A 2005 study of 37,000 people by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention caused a furor when it suggested that those who were overweight might be better off than those of normal weight. But a year later, two bigger studies in the New England Journal of Medicine, including one of 527,000 American patients, factored out the effects of smoking, which tends to keep the pounds off, and they found that even being moderately overweight

a Forbes Research (a BMI above 25) increases the death rate by 20% or so. The lowest death rates were toward the upper end of normal weight. Very thin people have a higher risk of succumbing to respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, one of the studies found.

5. Don’t smoke, drink (a little vino) A lifetime of smoking subtracts an average of 10 years from your life, according to a British study that followed doctors for 50 years. If you quit by age 50, you gain six of those years back.

Moderate drinking, by contrast, appears to be beneficial (particularly red wine, according to some research). Downing a daily cocktail or glass of wine may protect the heart by raising levels of good cholesterol slightly or by some other means.

A million-person analysis published in the Archives of Internal Medicine combined the results of 34 previous studies and found that light drinkers had up to an 18% lower death rate over the periods of the studies, typically 10 years, while heavy drinkers had a substantially higher risk of death. (Several kinds of cancer are linked to alcohol consumption.) The lowest mortality risk was found at four drinks a week.

6. Eat your veggies, hold the steak.

Researchers furiously debate the merits of low-fat versus low-carbohydrate diets. But there’s no disagreement that diets high in fruits and vegetables are a good thing. They are consistently associated with longer life, in numerous epidemiological studies.

In California, Seventh-Day Adventists who are vegetarians live about a year and a half longer than those who eat meat, according to a 2001 study of 34,000 Adventists published in the Archives of Internal Medicine; those who also eat nuts frequently gain an additional two years of life expectancy, perhaps through cardiovascular benefits. The Adventist vegetarian diet “has many similarities to a Mediterranean diet; we are probably getting at the same dynamic,” says the study’s leader, Gary Fraser of Loma Linda University, which is an Adventist institution.

A 2009 study in Archives of Internal Medicine that followed 547,000 older Americans found those who ate the most red meat had a 31% to 36% higher risk of dying over 10 years.

Fruits and vegetables have another benefit beyond nutrients, points out Bradley Willcox, of the Pacific Health Research Institute: They are full of filling fiber and water, making overeating more difficult. In that longevity hotbed Okinawa, a popular saying is “Hara hachi bu”–eat only until you are four-fifths full. Older people there tend to eat up to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, Willcox says. Sweet potatoes are their main starch, with half the caloric density of bread.

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HAPPENINGS IN THE LAST MONTH

Artist Bernie Bugaay in a solo art exhibition, Landscapes and Sentiments On February 9, 2014, an art exhibition of mixed mediums was held at the Cassia Gallery in Sukhumvit 31. The artist, Bernie Bugaay showcased his collection ranging from landscapes, birds, and abstract art. The event also featured his student Harrient Levin. Entertainment was rendered by the Sunrise String Quartet.

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NIGHT OUT

March 2014

Divergent Released 21/03/2014

Mr Peabody & Sherman Released 06/03/2014

The room Released 27/03/2014

Khumba Released 06/03/2014

Lunchbox Released 27/03/2014

300 Rise Empire Released 06/03/2014

Enemy Released 27/03/2014

The Railway Man Released 06/03/2014

Tarzan Released 28/03/2014

Our Front Cover Design

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow Released 06/03/2014 Non-Stop Released 13/03/2014 The Lego Movie Released 13/03/2014 Vampire Academy Released 13/03/2014 Delivery Man Released 13/03/2014 Brick Mansions Released 20/03/2014

Our cover photo inside the lens features the art of Jerubem Era (Bem Era). Our in-house graphic designer and photographer.

Bem was featured in the Professional People page of Thailand Professionals Magazine January 2014 Issue. This month features photographers in Thailand and is represented by the camera picture and the fine art photography inside the lens.