Fabulous new 4 person bicycle!
Today’s Funny Friday sure looks like decent exercise!Have a great weekend!
Should McDonald’s stop marketing to kids?
A group of health advocates from around the country have embarked on a campaign to stop Ronald McDonald from making your kids fat.
The group of 550 people have taken out full-page ads challenging McDonald’s to stop marketing junk food to kids. They’ve also written a letter to the corporation. Check out here who signed on in Maryland.
The letter comes as First Lady Michelle Obama has made childhood obesity a major part of her mission.
Public health groups for years have criticized food companies for marketing sugary snacks and other unhealthy foods to kids using cartoon characters, free toys and other methods.
In recent months, the federal government has stepped up its efforts to address the issue. The Federal Trade Commission recently recommended new guidelines on marketing unhealthy food to kids.
Calories burned worm digging?
Can’t say I ever wondered how many calories I’d burn digging worms, but that didn’t stop me from being amused to find that very activity in the bible of energy expenditure, The Compendium of Physical Activities Tracking GuideSo, digging worms, with shovel?
Antiretroviral drugs control HIV transmission
Those infected with HIV are way less likely to pass on the virus to sexual partners if they take oral antiretroviral drugs before their immune systems are compromised, a series of studies supported by the National Institutes of Health shows.
The studies — including two conducted in Thailand and Malawi by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers — involved 1,700 mostly heterosexual couples where one partner was infected but realtively healthy.
“These data conclusively demonstrate that beginning HIV treatment early is a natural form of HIV prevention,” said David Celentano, principal investigator for the Thailand study site and the Charles Armstrong Chair and Professor of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg school, in a statement.The data showed that the drugs reduced transmission by 96 percent, an unprecedented level of impact.