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Ginger Baker dead: Cream drummer dies, aged 80

Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer and co-founder of rock band Cream, has died at the age of 80.

Last month, the musician’s family announced he was critically ill in hospital, but no further details of his illness were disclosed.

On Sunday morning, a tweet on his official Twitter account stated: “We are very sad to say that Ginger has passed away peacefully in hospital this morning. Thank you to everyone for your kind words over the past weeks.”

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Baker had suffered from a number of health issues in recent years. He underwent open heart surgery in 2016 and was forced to cancel a tour with his band Air Force after being diagnosed with “serious heart problems”.

The drummer, who is widely considered to be one of the most innovative and influential drummers in rock music, co-founded Cream in 1966 with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. The band released three albums before splitting in 1968, after which he formed the short-lived band Blind Faith with Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. A fourth Cream album was released after the band disbanded.

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Baker was named number three on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time list, and is the subject of the documentary Beware of Mr. Baker.

“Gifted with immense talent, and cursed with a temper to match, Ginger Baker combined jazz training with a powerful polyrhythmic style in the world’s first, and best, power trio,” said the Rolling Stone article. “The London-born drummer introduced showmanship to the rock world with double-kick virtuosity and extended solos.”

Lewisham-born Baker was known for being a mercurial and argumentative figure, whose temper frequently led to on-stage punch-ups.

His father, a bricklayer, was killed in the Second World War in 1943, and Baker was brought up in near poverty by his mother. He joined a local gang in his teens and when he tried to quit, gang members attacked him with a razor.

Baker suffered from heroin addiction, which he acquired as a jazz drummer in the London clubs of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He once told The Guardian he came off heroin “something like 29 times”.

Tributes for the drummer have been pouring in on Twitter.

Paul McCartney called Baker a “wild and lovely guy”, writing: “We worked together on the ‘Band on the Run‘ album in his ARC Studio, Lagos, Nigeria. Sad to hear that he died but the memories never will.”

Baby Driver director Edgar Wright wrote: “RIP the music giant that was Ginger Baker. The beat behind too many favourite songs from Cream, The Graham Bond Organisation and Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated.”

Rock journalist Mark Paytress tweeted: “Like Hendrix, Ginger Baker was a name synonymous w/ early days rock. Once you heard him play, saw pics & footage, he seemed to embody the music’s power, the culture’s adventure. Spending a day w/ him in 2014 magnified it all. Lost a big one this morning.”

Slipknot’s Jay Weinberg simply wrote: “Thank you Ginger Baker.”

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abwatt · 5 years ago

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Astrology: Sun in Sagittarius I

It’s time for another astrology column. Last time, I deviated from my standard pattern quite a lot, by writing a column that tried to explore an animist cosmology — the stars as tribes of chorused singers, hovering on the edges of your own awareness.

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lauraramargosian · 5 years ago

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Celebrities when they were younger, how their past photos inspire.

Yes, this is Calvin Harris!

Isn’t it true that sometimes we look at celebrities as though they have always been “glamorous,” [yes, “Fergalicious” did help me remember how to spell that, I love that song]…

The entertainment industry shows the beauty, the glistening, the star-studded hotties wearing the biggest name brands like Prada, Calvin Klein, Versace or House of Drew.

In fact, that’s the goal, Hollywood talent tend to maintain the image they hope to inspire others with, luckily, it doesn’t take away from being human and that includes making mistakes.

These photos are some of your favorite celebrities when they were younger. Ryan Seacrest, for example, truly had my jaw hit the floor.

It’s nice to be like, “man, we would have been friends in middle school and high school.”

Further, we all had those “awkward phases,” growing up and many can relate.

The truth is, the majority of your favorite celebrities were bullied, they felt hopeless too at times.

Strength, that’s the word that brought them to where they are at this moment.

Youth is a process of growing and learning. Music videos, songs, lyrics, acting, it all comes with a past that influenced it, that’s why they say “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

It’s safe to say that many people want to leave the world better than you found it, Mac Miller, [and my heart still hurts] for example, was constantly worried about the legacy he would leave behind…

But that worry, was all for nothing because he left behind art, a story, a struggle and one that constantly inspires people to make better choices.

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Trials can make our emotions rise but they also help you in a positive way.

“When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.”

-Malcolm James McCormick

Honestly, it’s one of the best quotes Positive Celebrity has remembered from watching Mac Miller’s past interviews.

It’s a quote that really hit emotions due to the fact that we have all said: “everything sucks right now.”

When you look through photos of celebrities when they were younger, it’s almost as though you connect on another level.

To be specific, maybe you looked completely different when you were younger.

Unfortunately, sometimes kids can be mean and maybe you were bullied.

Taking a look at celebrities when they were younger gives you a little perspective into who they were before Hollywood shined its lights on them and allowed them to follow their dreams.

Not only their dreams in music or acting… But being able to further help charity, or bullied LGBTQ youth.

Pride 2019: Daya was not afraid to open up about her sexuality!

The list goes on and on, so when you look at a picture, think of it the way Susan Sontag explains in her quote.

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

― Susan Sontag

“A picture is worth a thousand words,” refers to any complex idea and how it conveys meaning, purpose, and essence more effectively than a description does.

With this in mind, maybe looking at where our favorite celebrities started is what we need for that extra kick in the butt to never doubt or settle for less than you deserve.

To end, we want to invite you to take a look at your favorite celebrities when they were younger. Most importantly, remember who they are now as well, you’ll see more than growth, it’s like looking into their soul.

Except, it’s yearbook photos and stuff, haha!

Blessed be and enjoy!

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Laurara Monique is known by various celebrities as the youngest and kindest celebrity blogger. PCG has been described as a "celebrity safe zone."

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Hot, dry winds buffeted the Vina Robles Amphitheater during a sold-out Steve Miller concert. The crisp August night came just a week after unusually cold temperatures enveloped a sold-out Avett Brothers concert at the same venue. The weather may be unpredictable at the beautiful mountainside amphitheater, but a good time is almost always guaranteed for concert goers at the most pristine concert venue in Central California. The concert billed as “Classic rock meets classic country,” actually included a good helping of Blues music. That was most evident during a stunning short acoustic opening set by Canadian singer guitarist Matt Andersen. The masterful songwriter may be relatively unknown in this country, but he has been recording powerful music for nearly two decades north of the border. The full-throated singer astounded the audience with authentic original Blues songs leaving the crowd screaming for more at the end of his short set.

Concert goers celebrated the warm summer evening with glasses and bottles of wine from the onsite winery, local microbrew beers and sumptuous treats like wood-fired pizza and gourmet chocolate cake. Marty Smith and his Fabulous Superlatives took the stage next as a setting sun painted the venue in pastel hues. Stuart is a multi-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter with Mississippi classic country roots. Fittingly, he mixes rockabilly, honky-tonk, and traditional country music to create his sound. In the early 1990s, he had a steady string of country hits. Stuart played an hour-long set of his country classics backed by hihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly band, the aptly named Fabulous Superlatives. The group of veteran musicians took turns showcasing their immense musical talent. The set was filled with 16 songs, including a lead vocal turn for each of the band members. Drummer “Handsome” Harry Stinson sang a classic cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd.” Lead guitarist Kenny Vaughan sang “Hot Like That” while playing wailing guitar riffs. Bassist Chris Scruggs sang Bob Wills’ “The Brain-Cloudy Blues.” While Stuart allowed the other band members to shine, he managed to shine brightest with his witty banter, humorous lyrics, and exquisite picking skills. The veteran performer got his start playing in Lester Flatts’ and Johnny Cash’s bands. His solo mandolin version of “Orange Blossom Special,” showcased his picking skills.

After another break in the music, the summer sun faded, leaving a crystal clear night as a backdrop for Steve Miller’s headline 90-minute set. Miller tours relentlessly, having played the same venue with Peter Frampton last summer. Nederlander Concerts will be bringing Frampton to perform his Finale tour to Vina Robles on October 3rd. Miller’s 17 songs setlist was filled with the classic hits that his fans expect to hear at one of his shows. But the 75-year-old guitar wizard has a way of reinventing each live performance offering up a fresh improvisation on every tour. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer led a quartet of veteran rockers opening with a Blues drenched version of “The Stake” from his 1977 album Book of Dreams. Miller used his classic toy ray gun to spice up the hit “Jungle Love,” followed by yet another hit “Abracadabra.” A harmonica drenched version of “Living In The USA” gave the nod to his 1960’s rock roots. The 1969 hit “Space Cowboy followed that.” Miller mixed it up with a deep cut of “Serenade” from the 1977 Fly Like an Eagle Album. The music switched to Texas Blues on the next song a cover of “But Only You” by Jimmy Reed.

The show then took a turn towards country music as Miller invited Stuart and his band back to the stage to join his group for a mini-set that included Millers “Lovin’ Cup,” “Going to the Country” and “Dance Dance Dance.” Miller seemed to revel in the moment, bantering with the crowd about the intersections of rock ’n’ roll, country music and the blues. He expressed his admiration for Stuart and the Superlatives before announcing that they had agreed to tour together again next year. Stuart picked away on his mandolin trading riffs with Miller and Superlatives guitar ace Kenny Vaughan.

After Stuart and his band left the stage, Miller launched into a moody “Wild Mountain Honey” followed by a 10-minute jam of the classic “Fly Like an Eagle,” featuring keyboardist Joseph Wooten. The set included several other songs before ending with a bang highlighting three of Miller’s biggest rock hits, “Take the Money and Run,” “The Joker” and “Jet Airliner.” It was a fascinating night of American music history with a bit of Canadian Blues music thrown in to spice things up.

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Every now and then something different does actually come along, and not always in the way you would expect it. In these troubled times when people seem to be more divided than ever, an artist who is pulling the opposite way has emerged. Sam Driz, and with him, he brings a whole new movement or genre ‘Fatih Music’.

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The W3C At Twenty-Five

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Last week, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) celebrated its 25th anniversary and invited folks to share why the open web platform matters to them via the hashtag #WebStories. As I’m both a member of the CSS Working Group at W3C and the representative for Fronteers, I think it’s a good time to explain a bit more about the role of the W3C in the work that we all do.

What Exactly Is The W3C?

On the W3C website, the About page describes the W3C as:

"... an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor and Director Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C’s mission is to lead the Web to its full potential."

There are links on that page to details of the mission and vision of the W3C, however, the key motivation of the organization is to ensure that the web is for everybody — and on everything.

Access to the web should not be limited by who you are, where you are, or the device you are using.

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Who Are The Member Organizations?

A W3C Member is an organization who pays a membership fee to be part of the W3C. At the time of writing, there are 449 members, and you can see the full list here. If you read through this list, you will find that the majority of members are very large companies. Some are names that we as web developers readily recognize: browser vendors such as Google and Mozilla, large internet companies such as Airbnb and Facebook. However, there are members from many different industries. The web touches pretty much every area of life and business, and there are companies doing interesting things in the space that we might not think of as web companies. For example, people working in traditional publishing (a lot of books are formatted using web technologies) and the automotive industry.

What all the members have in common is that the web impacts the work that they do, and they are keen to have a say in the direction things move, and even to play a part in creating and specifying web technologies.

I represent Fronteers (the Dutch organization of web developers) in the W3C. This year, Fronteers took the unusual* step of becoming a W3C Member Organization.

* “Unusual” because they are a voluntary organization representing web developers, rather than a big company representing the interests of a big company.

The Advisory Committee (AC)

Member organizations take part in the business of the W3C by having a vote on various matters. This is organized by the organization’s AC representative whose job it is to ferry information from the W3C to the organization, and also bring the point of view of the organization to relevant topics being discussed at the W3C.

I’m the rep for Fronteers and so I attend two AC meetings a year — and get a lot of emails! On voting matters, I have to find out from Fronteers how they want to vote and then cast the Fronteers vote. In the last year, one important voting matter was the election of Advisory Board (AB) members; Fronteers held an internal vote, and I took the results back to make the official vote at the W3C.

W3C Groups

Most web developers are probably more aware of the W3C working groups than the rest of the organization, as it is through these groups that most of the work we care about goes on. Any member organization can opt people from their organization onto a working group. In addition, the groups may invite certain people (known as Invited Experts) to participate in that group. I was an Invited Expert on the CSS Working Group, and now am part of the group as the representative for Fronteers. In practical terms, my interaction with the CSS Working Group remains the same, however, I now have a role to play in the W3C as a whole as the W3C rep for Fronteers.

There are a large number of working groups, covering a whole range of technologies. These groups typically work on some kind of deliverable, such as the specifications produced by the CSS Working Group. There are also a number of Interest Groups, which allow for the exchange of ideas around particular topics which may also fall partly into the remit of some of the working groups.

The above groups require a significant time commitment and either a W3C membership or Invited Expert status, however, there are a number of Community and Business Groups that are open to any interested person and do not impose a particular time commitment. The Web Platform Incubator Community Group is one such group and has a Discourse forum for the discussion of new web features, and also various proposals on GitHub. Many of these features ultimately become CSS or other language specifications and therefore part of the platform.

Getting Involved And Following Along

In addition to joining a community group, it is worth noting that anyone can become involved in the work of the W3C, i.e. you don’t need to be an Invited Expert, part of a member organization, or have any special qualifications. For example, if you want to know what is happening at the CSS Working Group, you can take a look at our Issues on GitHub. Anyone can comment on these issues to offer new use cases for a feature and can even raise an issue for a feature they feel should be part of a CSS specification.

As with most W3C groups, the CSS WG uses IRC to minute meetings; any discussion on an issue will be posted back to the issue afterward so anyone who is interested can follow along.

An example of a message that was auto-generated regarding an issue that had been discussed in a meeting.

If you are keen to know what the wider W3C is doing, then the strategic highlights document is a good place to look. The latest document was produced in September, and exposes some of the key work recently achieved by W3C groups. Scrolling through that document demonstrates the wide range of activities that the W3C is involved with. It is so important for the web community to engage with standards, as we’ve already seen examples in the past of what happens when vendors control the direction of the web.

This history is explained beautifully by Amy Dickens in her post, “Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The How”:

"Without the Web Standards community, browser makers would be the ones making decisions on what should and shouldn’t be features of the world wide web. This could lead to the web becoming a monopolized commodity, where only the largest players would have a say in what the future holds."

My #WebStory

Why does all of this matter to me? One of the reasons I care so much about the web platform remaining open and accessible to new people who want to publish on and build things for the web is because of the route I took to get here.

As mentioned earlier, the W3C is celebrating their anniversary by inviting people to share stories of how they became involved in the web.* In that spirit (and perhaps to encourage Smashing readers to share their stories), here is mine.

* So many folks have already shared their journey on the W3C Blog of how they were first amazed by the web and continue to be in awe of its potential. Join in and share your story!

I had never intended to work with computers. I intended to become a dancer and singer, and I left school at 16 to go to dance college. My father is a programmer, however, so we were fairly unusual at the time as we had a computer in the house by 1985 when I was 10.

As a child, I liked typing in the code of “choose your own adventure” games, which appeared in books and magazines. I liked spotting the strings of text which would then show up in the game I would later play (usually, once my dad had fixed it up) on our Amstrad CPC464. I liked to visit the computer lab at Newcastle University, see the huge computers, and talk to the women who worked on them. Perhaps most importantly (and despite my arty interests), I never grew up thinking I couldn’t use computers. I just wasn’t especially interested.

The books I copied games out of as a child.

At school, I learned to type on an electronic typewriter, and the only computer in evidence was in the art room that was used for basic drawing applications. As we did have computers at home, I had used them for schoolwork, despite some teachers not being happy about printed essays.

I ultimately left dance and went backstage, working in the West-End of London. Moving lights, automated sets, and show control systems were about to make huge changes to an industry that had seen little change in years. We were seeing the beginnings of that change when I was in the West End; I remember laughing with the crew as we heard news about some show with a “fancy computer system” which had lots of problems that our traditional production didn’t have. None of us could have imagined the changes that were coming.

Then I became pregnant with my daughter and had to leave the theatre. I was good at crewing and loved the theatre, but it was heavy and sometimes dangerous work with unsociable hours — not really a job for someone with a baby. I didn’t know what I would do, but I could type so I thought that perhaps I could type up essays for people. I was upsold to a computer — having gone into PC World looking for a wordprocessor. It was a Packard Bell 486 with a built-in 640×480 screen — a terrible machine that would allow me to either get the sound card working or the modem, but not both at once. I chose the modem and this is where my web story really begins. Even getting this modem working and getting the computer onto the Internet was something of a challenge and, once I did, I went looking for information about… babies.

I didn’t know anything about babies. All my friends were men who worked backstage in theatre. I had no support network, no family around me to help, and so I logged onto ParentsPlace and found people who didn’t mind my questions and were happy to help. At the time, there obviously was no Facebook. This meant that if you wanted to share photos and stories, you built a website. So among the forums about childbirth and toddler tantrums, there were people teaching each other HTML and sharing sets of graphics along with the code to place them. It was like typing out those “choose your own adventure” books again. I was amazed that I didn’t need anyone to fix my code — it just worked!

Pulled out from the Internet Archive, this was a website named ‘ParentsPlace’ that existed around the time I was pregnant with my daughter. archive.org link

Before long, people would pay me to build them a website, and I felt that I should repay at least in some way for all of the questions I had asked. So, I started to answer questions in the forums. That was how it seemed to work. People would learn and move one step up the ladder, the new people would come in with the same questions and the people a step ahead would answer — all the while asking their own questions of those further along. I loved this. I could never have afforded lessons, but I had time. I could help others, and in return, people helped me. I discovered through this that I was quite good at explaining technical things in a straightforward way — an ability I have always accredited to the fact that I struggled to learn these new things myself. It was never easy. I was willing to spend the time, however, and found it interesting.

With my daughter on my knee, I started to teach myself Perl because I didn’t like any of the off-the-shelf guestbooks and wanted to write my own. I installed Linux on a second-hand Compaq, and learned the basics of systems administration, how to compile Apache, wrapped my head round file permissions, and so by the time my daughter was three years old, I got a job heading up a technical team in a property “dot com” company.

I became interested in web standards essentially because it made no sense to me that we would have to build the same website twice — in order that it would work in both browsers. At the time, Dreamweaver was the tool of choice for many web developers, as it made dealing with the mess of nested tables we had to battle with much easier. So, influenced by the work of The Web Standards Project, I (along with my then-boyfriend, now-husband Drew McLellan) began sharing tips and Dreamweaver extensions with the Dreamweaver Usenet group, while all along explaining why web standards were important and showing how to make Dreamweaver support standards.

My bio on the WaSP site in 2002 — there wasn’t much to say! (archive.org link)

Ultimately, we both ended up on the Macromedia Beta, helping to make Dreamweaver itself more standards-compliant. We were also invited to join the Web Standards Project — specifically to be part of the Dreamweaver Task Force. I couldn’t believe that Jeffrey Zeldman emailed me, asking me to join WaSP! These were the people I looked up to and had learned so much from. The fact that they wanted me to be part of the organization was amazing and gave me so much confidence to continue with the work I was already doing.

That involvement became the bedrock of my career; I realized that my ability to explain technical things could help other web developers learn these new technologies and understand the need for standards. I also discovered that being able to explain things clearly was useful in raising bug reports, and writing up use cases for new software features (in browsers or tools such as Dreamweaver). Two decades after discovering web standards, I am still doing this work. It continues to interest me, and I think it is more important than ever.

The open nature of the web, the relative simplicity of the technologies, and the helpful, sharing attitude of the community is why I am here at all. One of the biggest reasons why I have stayed after all these years is because of Web standards and the continued fight for the open web. That’s why I think that the W3C and the standards process is vitally important, and why I think it so important that web developers get involved in the process, too.

I want to help ensure that the voice of the web developer working on small projects is heard, and that the direction of the web isn’t dictated by a few giant companies. The web is where we have made our careers, and often even our social lives; it is the way that we communicate with each other. I want it to stay a place where I want to be. I want it to remain open enough that the next person without a technical background can pitch up and start publishing and creating, and find it a place they want to establish a career, too.

What’s Your Web Story?

Whether you have been working on the web for over 20 years or only one, please share your stories on the W3C blog, on your own site, or perhaps write up something in the comments section here below. I’d love to hear your journey!

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Best known in the art world for his wearable sculptures Soundsuits, the singer, artist and writer Nick Cave unveiled at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA) an immersive installation entitled Until, a strong visual manifesto on racism, violence and humanity.

“I had been thinking about gun violence and racism colliding. And then I wondered: Is there racism in heaven? That’s how this piece came about,” said Cave.

Until is, as the artist emphasized, a visual expression of the popular phrase “innocent until proven guilty” or in this case “guilty until proven innocent”, an extensive installation on discrimination based on gender or race.

Nick Cave’s installation is a kaleidoscopic universe that begins with an oasis of scattered lawn ornaments that leads to a dream-like crystal cloud topped by a garden populated by flowers, birds and chandeliers that give way to a complex net made out of hand-woven shoelaces and pony beads. After passing through this fairy-tale like areas, the viewer is immersed in a space made out of violent images of targets, guns and bullets in which one feels in danger of an imminent attack.

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High-register soul singer JONAH MUTONO will release his 2020 album “Gerg” via EQT Recordings on 15th May.

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The softly lyrical composition “1949” by the music creator from London, England / Kampala, Uganda (now L.A.) has already dazzled audiences around the world with its cosmic inflection and mollifying birdsong voice among the decrescendo.

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Catholic Action share a brand-new track, ‘Yr Old Dad’, from their soon to be released album “Celebrated by Strangers.”

Previous single, ‘People Don’t Protest Enough’, was a justified poke at questioning the absurdity of political activity at that moment.

‘Yr Old Dad’ in the words of lead singer and guitarist Chris McCrory is; “the sound of the wheels coming off, a sing-along catastrophe. The…

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Vegetarian and vegan children need three portions of protein a day for balanced diet

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On Thursday, the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) issued new guidance on what toddlers should eat to stay healthy, including advice on portion sizes and the importance of limiting sugary cereals, salty crisps and fruit juice.

The organisation’s experts say that while vegan and vegetarian diets can be healthy for young children, parents are advised to visit a GP to ask for advice about supplementation of key nutrients.

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“It can be difficult for young children to get enough vitamin A and B12, riboflavin, iron, zinc, calcium and iodine,” the organisation states.

Its experts advise serving children on such diets three portions a day from the “protein foods” group, which includes houmous, cooked kidney beans, and peanut butter on bread or toast.

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The pop singer is a passionate animal rights advocate, telling Vanity Fair in 2019 that her diet also reflects her fashion choices: “I’m challenging the system more than ever. Choosing to live as a sustainable vegan activist means wearing more vintage (less waste; loving pieces for longer), playing with the newest eco-materials and technology, and making custom vegan pieces with some of my favorite designers.”

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The Clueless star went vegan shortly after wrapping the hit 1990s film and has been a passionate campaigner for animal rights since. Speaking in a video for Compassionate Meals in 2017, she said: “Knowing the truth about where our food comes from is just so disturbing to me. Once you see it, there’s no way to go back from that for me.”

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3/13 Simon Cowell

The music mogul revealed in a recent interview with The Sun that he decided to give up animal products earlier this year “on a whim”, adding that he feels much better as a result.

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4/13 Venus Williams

“I started for health reasons,” Williams told Health in 2019. “I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and I wanted to maintain my performance on the court. Once I started I fell in love with the concept of fueling your body in the best way possible. Not only does it help me on the court, but I feel like I’m doing the right thing for me.”

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5/13 Natalie Portman

The American-Israeli actor decided to go vegan eight years ago after learning more about the environmental consequences of eating animal products. Speaking at an Environmental Media Awards benefit, 2017, she said: “Factory farming is responsible for most of the air, water, and land pollution – that disproportionately affects our poor communities as well. So we get to make decisions three times a day, what we do with our planet, and you can make a difference by even once a day or once a week choosing not to eat animals or animal products.”

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6/13 Beyoncé

While she chooses to refer to herself as plant-based as opposed to vegan, the ‘Halo’ singer underwent a 22-day vegan challenge with husband Jay-Z in 2013 and is believed to have maintained the diet ever since. Writing in the foreword of The Greenprint: Plant-Based Diet, Best Body, Better World by Marco Borges, the couple say: “We used to think of health as a diet – some worked for us, some didn’t. Once we looked at health as the truth, instead of a diet, it became a mission for us to share that truth and lifestyle with as many people as possible.”

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7/13 David Haye

The British boxer extolled the virtues of veganism in an interview with The Daily Telegraph in 2016: “A lot of the meat that people eat has been genetically modified, or if it hasn’t then the food the animal’s been fed has been. That’s tough for a human being to process, so cutting it out made me feel immediately better and stronger than ever.”

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8/13 Ariana Grande

The ‘Dangerous Woman’ singer announced she was going vegan in November 2018. Speaking to The Daily Mirror in a recent interview, she explained: “A lot of the meat that people eat has been genetically modified, or if it hasn’t then the food the animal’s been fed has been. That’s tough for a human being to process, so cutting it out made me feel immediately better and stronger than ever.”

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9/13 Ellie Goulding

The British singer has been toying with veganism for a while, having been a vegetarian for seven years. Speaking to The Cut in 2018, she revealed that she will “never eat fish or meat again” and eats a predominantly vegan diet.

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10/13 Mike Tyson

The former heavyweight boxing champion revealed he had become vegan in 2010. “I wish I was born this way,” he told Fox News in 2011. “When you find out about the processed stuff you have been eating. I wonder why I was crazy all those years.”

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11/13 Jessica Chastain

The Zero Dark Thirty star decided to go vegan roughly 13 years ago because of low energy. Speaking to W Magazine in 2017, she clarified: “being vegan was not anything I ever wanted to be. I just really was listening to what my body was telling me.”

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12/13 Rooney Mara

Mara has been vegan for eight years, telling Harper’s Bazaar in 2018 “it’s better for your health and the environment.”

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Reality star Kim Kardashian West revealed that she has started eating a plant-based diet on Instagram in April 2019. Sharing two photographs of vegan dishes on her Instagram story, the 38-year-old wrote: “I am eating all plant-based when I am at home.”

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1/13 Miley Cyrus

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2/13 Alicia Silverstone

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3/13 Simon Cowell

The music mogul revealed in a recent interview with The Sun that he decided to give up animal products earlier this year “on a whim”, adding that he feels much better as a result.

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4/13 Venus Williams

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5/13 Natalie Portman

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6/13 Beyoncé

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7/13 David Haye

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8/13 Ariana Grande

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9/13 Ellie Goulding

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10/13 Mike Tyson

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11/13 Jessica Chastain

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12/13 Rooney Mara

Mara has been vegan for eight years, telling Harper’s Bazaar in 2018 “it’s better for your health and the environment.”

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Sara Stanner, science director at the BNF, says families making the decision to adopt vegetarian or vegan diets “need to be aware of how to balance their diet, and use supplements if needed in order to ensure children get all the nutrients they need to be healthy”.

The new 5532 guide has been developed by nutrition scientists and an advisory group of experts in early years’ nutrition.

While milk is described as a “good choice for drinks”, as it provides calcium and other important nutrients, the guidance also recommends parents seek medical advice on supplementation if they are not offering dairy foods to their children.

As for children aged six months to five years – including those who are breast fed or consuming less than 500ml of formula milk per day – the BNF suggests parents give them supplements of vitamins A, C, and D.

Children under the age of two are advised to drink whole milk but experts say they can move to semi-skimmed milk after this age if they are eating well.

However, skimmed or one per cent milk is said not to be suitable as a main drink for children under five and children should not be given tea or coffee due to its caffeine content.

It is also suggested that children aged one to four consume five portions a day of starchy foods such as bread, cereal, potatoes, pasta and bread sticks.

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Children are also advised to eat five or more portions of fruit and vegetables, three portions of dairy foods and two portions of protein such as eggs, chickpeas or dahl (non-vegan and vegetarian diets).

Details are also included on what constitutes a single portion in the guide.

For example, one portion of pasta is stated as being the equivalent to two to five tablespoons, according to the experts, while a slice of bread is one portion, and a portion of dairy is one cheese ball or two to four tablespoons of grated cheddar.

As for giving children sugar, parents are urged to limit high-sugar cereals, fizzy and sugary drinks, and to choose unsweetened dairy foods, such as plain yoghurt, where possible.

While fruit juices are said to provide “some important vitamins”, the BNF says that they are also high in sugar and acidic for teeth. As a result, they should only be consumed at mealtimes and should be diluted.

The organisation also say that cakes, biscuits, sweets and chocolate should not form a regular part of children’s diet.

Stanner explains: “Even when parents know which foods are part of a healthy diet, it can sometimes be difficult to know what sized portion is suitable for a young child, and how often they should be eating from the different food groups each day.

“We know that many parents are very concerned about sugar, and our guide highlights that sugary drinks and sugary treats like biscuits, chocolate and sweets shouldn’t be a regular part of children’s diets.

The expert advises parents to check food labels and to look for lower sugar options when choosing foods like breakfast cereals or yoghurts.

When it comes to choose providing children with snacks, the BNF recommends two to three healthy options per day such as vegetable sticks, fruit, cheese and crackers or toast fingers with cream cheese.

As most young children aren’t able to regulate their own appetite, the organisation advises parents to “encourage them to eat but don’t force them or expect them to eat if they are not hungry”.

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The guidance states: “Some children eat slowly, but generally will have eaten all they are likely to eat within 20-30 minutes so meals don’t need to be longer than this.”

The BNF also notes that children should be physically active for at least three hours over the course of a day – this can include rolling and playing on the floor, playing in the park or dancing.

The guidance comes months after Leeds was announced as the first city in the UK to report a reduction in childhood obesity following the introduction of mass parenting lessons on how to be stricter.

The city-wide initiative, which saw parents follow an eight-week programme on how to “take charge” and set boundaries for their children, has been linked to a significant drop in obesity levels.

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In light of the initiative, a new study by Oxford University revealed that while obesity rates among five-year-olds in England remained unchanged between 2013-4 and 2016-7, at around 9.4 per cent, rates in Leeds dropped to 8.8 per cent over the same period.

The data comes from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), which requires all children to be weighed at the start and end of primary school.

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