2 days ago • 0 notesTake New York City: The city’s Health Department took a multifaceted approach to curbing obesity, focusing on habits instead of looks and implementing programs that boost healthy foods, eliminate unhealthy ones, and increase physical activity in schools. In addition to the aforementioned soda ads (which stigmatize products rather than people), NYC officials introduced healthier school lunches, placed calorie and sugar restrictions on school vending machine items, and even limited bake sales. The city also trained more than 4,000 elementary-school teachers on how to incorporate exercise breaks into the classroom.
The result? A month ago, the city’s Health Department announced an unprecedented 5.5 percent drop in the number of obese children over the past five years. That decrease may be small, but it’s significant—it’s the first time in decades that the city’s child-obesity rates have not increased, never mind an actual decrease.
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The only thing going on up here is … marathon, marathon, marathon. Marathon Brain.
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“ People are intrigued by how we manage to charge 50 percent more for subscriptions,” he says. “Partly, the subscription gives people access to some Monocle extras, the website archive, and so on. But it is really based on the idea that people want to belong to something that says something about them.” This is one of the reasons he remains skeptical about digital content. “People will choose what denim they want to wear, and they will choose what newspaper they want to buy, and they want other people to be aware of that, too. Until an iPad is backlit, no one will have any idea that you read Der Spiegel or the Guardian or whatever.
(via Japan Subculture Research Center)
Some interesting stuff about 宝塚 (Takarazuka) Theatre
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