Happy Friday!BODY
~ Authors Of Obesity/Gas Consumption Study To Speak At Pittsburgh Meeting Of Operations Researchers.
~ The Invisible Pedestrian Syndrome. It's getting dark earlier, so let's be safe out there.
~ "Shaping America's Youth" Challenges Americans Working To Reduce Childhood Overweight To Participate In Online Registry.
~ A Paleolithic diet confers higher insulin sensitivity, lower C-reactive protein and lower blood pressure than a cereal-based diet in domestic pigs. This is very close tot he diet I recommend to my clients.
PSYCHE
~ Mother/Daughter Body Image Perception Differs. While daughters usually see themselves accurately in terms of weight, their mothers tend to be more likely to visualize them as thinner than they are.
~ Use Of Diet Pills By Teenage Girls Doubles Over Five-year Span, New Study Shows. More importantly: 62.7 percent of teenage females use "unhealthy weight control behaviors" and 21.9 percent of teenage females use "very unhealthy weight control behaviors."
~ Janet Hyde and Marcia Linn on the Psychological Similarity between Men and Women.
~ Adults Who Go To Bed Lonely Get Stress Hormone Boost Next Morning. Stress hormones makes us fatter, weaker, and less healthy.
~ From Lin Jensen at Tricycle, Ordinary Mind.
~ From Aaron at Anxious Living, How I Progress.
~ Tim Boucher at Pop Occulture Blog posts Metro-Spirituality Magazine Interview in which he answers some questions on the topic of metrospirituality.
CULTURE
~ Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! A treat for all fans, including a goth version of "Teen Spirit."
~ Maureen Dowd offers America's Anchors: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert faked it until they made it.
~ U.S. needs "sexual literacy", ex-surgeon generals say. U.S. efforts to promote abstinence as a cornerstone of sexual education have not lowered levels of sexually transmitted diseases, two former U.S. surgeon generals said on Thursday.
~ Study shows why the young may shun condoms. Social and cultural factors, not just unavailability or ignorance, influence why young people do not use condoms, researchers said on Friday.
~ Fathers Influence Child Language Development More Than Mothers. This study reverses what most would consider common knowledge.
~ From ~C4Chaos, SHOUT OUT: Seed Funding for Social Entrepreneurs. Check it out.
HABITATS
~ Residents Of Mostly Black Neighborhoods More Likely To Consider Themselves In Poor Health, Study Finds.
~ Taxing climate change: A penny a mile?
~ Climate change economics. Sir Nicholas Stern, has presented a detailed cost-benefit analysis of climate change mitigation and adaptation to the government of England.
~ From Mother Jones, The Thirteenth Tipping Point. So what will it take to trigger what we might call the 13th tipping point: the shift in human perception from personal denial to personal responsibility?
~ David Quammen chats about evolution, science, religion, and his new book. I like this guy.
~ Bird flu outruns the vaccines. The H5N1 virus has evolved into a new strain, and this time nearly three times as many birds are infected.
And that's a wrap. There might be an update over the weekend, or I might just choose to be lazy and watch an awful lot of football.
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