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These two new ads, which appear on billboards in Albany, New York, are attempting to teach people that eating cheese is hazardous to your health and will make you fat. Luckily, the campaign, which is sponsored by a nonprofit group called Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), fails pretty miserably. The first and most obvious problem is that these ads look crappy and play on the weak and tired premise that fat people are disgusting. But even if they were the most effectively designed ads in the history of time, it wouldn't matter. There aren't enough persuasive health arguments or scare tactics in the world to turn us against cheese! (Well, there is lactose intolerance, but until they figure out how to spread that via ads, most of us are safe.) More »
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We have rarely been as confused or disturbed by anything in our lives as we are by the new "Disney Eggs," which we discovered via a commercial break during the fourth hour of Today. More »
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A great piece in the new New Yorker explores the history of breastfeeding: the fads and crazes that have controlled centuries of women, and the forces that still have us feeling bad about ourselves. More »
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Today's Times takes on the Nectar of the Gods, aka Butter, and its evil nemesis, Margarine. More »
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More on the melamine-tainted baby formula responsible for sickening thousands of babies China: the situation is much worse than previously thought. This morning, the Chinese government announced that melamine has been found in 69 batches of baby formula from 22 different producers. The government also increased the number of sickened Chinese children to 6,244, including 158 who had acute kidney failure, and the Ministry of Health has reported a third infant death. So far, four dealers have been arrested for adding melamine to their milk to defraud nutrition tests. [WSJ] More »
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Justine Henin, the # 1-ranked tennis player in the world, is retiring at 25. The battling Belgian is going out on top! • In other sports news, Kashmiri girls are beginning to play soccer more and more. An under-19 tournament will be held in Kargil next month. • A new study has shown that obese adults are twice as likely to suffer from depression (among other mental illnesses) as adults of normal weight. • Nutritionists have found that dairy intake does not necessarily promote weight loss, despite what certain marketing messages would like to have us believe. .• Chemicals called pyrethrins, found in pet shampoos and insecticides, may cause autism in unborn and very young children. • Rwandan women are weaving "peace" baskets to be sold at Macy's; one of the weavers, Iphigenia Mukantabana, a Tutsi, works alongside Epiphania Mukanyndwi, a Hutu — whose husband helped kill Iphigenia's entire family. • A new dating site called RocknRollDating.com pairs people off by musical preference. • The makers of "the original fitness skirt," SkirtSports, are sponsoring the SkirtChaser Race Series in which women wearing skirts are chased by men. • Women working in hard sciences find that it still has an "old boys club" atmosphere, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation. Fifty-two percent drop out of these fields between ages 35 and 40. More »
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