Get people to drink swap tea or coffee for soft drinks with breakfast _ that’s one of the strategies Coca-Cola’s main bottler in Europe is targeting to boost sales in the United Kingdom.

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. issued a report last week that identifies a variety of ways it can increase sales over the next five years in the region. One category entitled “Complete the Meal” notes that breakfast is often referred to as the most important meal of the day, with about a quarter of all drinks being consumed before 10 a.m.

“How do we motivate people to make soft drinks, like smoothies, juices and other on-the-go products, part of their morning ritual in the same way as tea or coffee?” the report asks.

In a statement, the company said it was referring specifically to smoothies and juices in suggesting breakfast as an area for growth.

Coca-Cola Enterprises’ UK growth plan: breakfast

“I was worried about the way he ate,” Pantoliano told “Extra.”

Pantoliano, who played Ralph “Ralphie” Cifaretto on two seasons of the HBO series, recalled a dinner scene where Gandolfini ate steak and eggs for hours.

“I said do you know how much cholesterol is in there? And he said, ‘Eh.’ And he is chewing the whole time. He says, ‘25 percent of my arteries are blocked.’ I said, ‘Are you crazy?’ And he said, ‘Hey, 75 percent still work.’”

The Post learned that the 51-year-old actor, who struggled with booze addiction in his final weeks, scarfed down a decadent final meal that included at least eight alcoholic drinks. He died of a heart attack on June 19 while he was in Rome with his son 13-year-old son Michael for the Taormina Film Festival.

Joey Pantoliano: I was ‘worried’ about James Gandolfini’s eating habits – m.NYPOST.com

Eating two large meals a day yielded more weight loss than consuming six mini-meals with the same number of calories, according to a study that challenges the common wisdom on appetite control.

Over 12 weeks, people with Type 2 diabetes who ate just breakfast and lunch lost an average of 1.23 points in body mass index, or BMI, compared with a loss of 0.82 point for those who ate six smaller meals of the same nutritional and energy content. The data, in a small study involving 54 patients, were presented today at the American Diabetes Association meeting in Chicago.

The study builds on previous results disproving the theory that eating more frequently improves weight loss. That pattern, thought to work because it helps control appetite, was shown to produce no more weight loss than three regular meals in a 2010 study published in the British Journal of Nutrition. The latest report eliminates one additional meal.

“Our results support the ancient proverb: ‘Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper,”’ Hana Kahleova, a researcher at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague, Czech Republic, said today in a presentation.

Two Large Meals a Day Tops Six Mini-Meals for Weight Loss – Bloomberg

The Pacific national airline is creating a wider row on its aircrafts for passengers who weigh more than 286 pounds 130 kilograms. Samoa has one of the worlds highest rates of obesity.

The airline’s head, Chris Langton, said the XL row would be extended by 12 to 14 inches and the changes would be introduced by the end of the week.

“Once youre up around that sort of [weight] … a traditional seat on any airline is going to be uncomfortable,” he told ABC News.

“Quite often the access is difficult, and even the space between the seats is enough that even when youve squeezed into the seats theres no room for your legs. Thats where the XL has come in – we do it with shirts and clothing and other things where we have different standard sizes.”

Passengers on Samoa Air do not pay for a seat but pay a fixed price per kilogram, which varies according to the length of the route. The passengers nominate their weight and are then measured, along with their baggage, on scales at the airport. The rates range from about $1 64p a kilogram on the airlines shortest domestic route to about $4.16 per kilogram for travel from Samoa to the neighbouring nation of American Samoa.

Samoa Air introduces XL class for larger passengers – Telegraph