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- Which Fork Is for the Grubs? | Mark’s Daily Apple
At Mark’s Daily Apple, Mark is writing a new column called Primal Health, addressing issues of diet, exercise and stress in the context of our DNA blueprints. It looks to be an interesting series.
- Kid-friendly Food Not to Blame | Junkfood Science
Sandy over at Junkfood Science writes about childhood obesity and efforts focusing on legislation calling for further restrictions on televsion food advertising.
- Could You Live Without Direct-to-Consumer Ads? | Freakonomics Blog
I read somewhere recently that it takes close to $900 million dollars to bring a new drug to market. I have to wonder how much of that money is spent on advertising. I should ask David over at Health Business Blog …
- Tear Down These Walls! | Universal Health
N=1 over at Universal Health writes about the absence of nurses’ voices in public dialogue and urges nurses to tear down the walls that separate them and speak about diagnosing and treating responses to health problems.
- Fighters Tackle Childhood Diseases | The Health Wisdom Blog
Just as I wrote previously about Neurofibromatosis and The Children’s Tumor Foundation, Pat over at The Health Wisdom Blog writes about FightSMA.org, an organization created to accelerate the search for a treatment and cure for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the number-one inherited cause of infant death. The article includes a number of other websites associated with FightSMA.
Thanks for the link! I think it’s great to see people use the tools of the Web to make things better for families suffering with disease.
My comment is on Sandy Szwarc’s item dealing with children and the influence that commercials have on them in regards to obesity. I have the answers. Throw the TV out the window. Problem solved. (Children spend 900 hours in school and 1,023 hours in front of the TV.) When you’re going down the cereal isle and your child(ren) want a cereal that you don’t feel is good for them, say NO! Who’s in charge? It’s not that food is causing them to be fat, it’s what kind of food they’re eating. You’re the purveyor of the food that they consume so it’s your responsibility that the eat healthy foods. Adding to their obesity is lack of exercise. When was the last time you said, “Go outside and play”?
Hi Walter,
Thank you for spreading the word about Pat’s wonderful post on Fight SMA. I greatly appreciate anything anyone can do to let people know about SMA!
Steve Mullen
Fight SMA