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by Sara Ost on August 7th, 2007

When It Touches Your Lips

Beer is the binge-drinker’s beverage of choice by a very wide margin. Beer benders cause the most accidents and health problems. Beer drinkers are also the most likely to drink and drive. (Binge-drinking is defined as having five or more drinks in row.)

Stop Complaining: Millions Go Hungry in South Asia

The most severe flooding in decades has caused an alarming food shortage - upwards of 20 million souls face the double threat of disease and starvation. In some areas, hundreds of thousands of people are still marooned and await rescue.

Lactivism

The debate over breast-feeding continues. Unicef and other charitable organizations want baby formula advertising to be banned. The formula companies say inducing guilt in mothers who do not breast-feed their infants is hardly commendable.

Newsflash: Kids Like Name Brands!

Captain Obvious reports that children favor McDonald’s food because of the packaging. When tots were given identical food in both McDonald’s packaging and plain packaging, they said that the former food tasted better. Should we be surprised by this? We have an entire segment of food marketing explicitly geared to teaching children that kids’ food and adults’ food are separate categories. Branding is more American than obesity.

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