According to the CDC to date, there have been 7,927 cases of H1N1 flu in the US, with 11 deaths. There is still no easy predictability of how virulent this flu strain will be, nor its potential to mutate or become dormant. What is being postulated is that one of the impacts of this new strain may be that more people will take the yearly flu shot once it becomes available in the fall.
Apparently we spend alot of time in the bathroom - close to a cumulative amount of 8 days a year. What are we doing in there?? Well, no suprise, sitting and reading on the toilet (not me...I'm a swifty evacuator myself), beautification, bathing/showering and contemplation. For me, that means looking in the mirror for long periods of time and bemoaning my new wrinkles and lines (Clairol is taking care of the gray hairs!!) I also spend alot of time cleaning the mirrors which get "clouded" by the air freshener that my husband judiciously sprays before, during and after.....
Finally, new research suggests that kids typically abandon any significant exercise they may have been engaged in, around 7th grade. In my book, Fat Families Thin Families, I point out that girls around that age no longer find sweating "cool," and boys start to engage in long hours of video gaming, computer time and TV time. Maybe if girl tennis figures like the William sisters, Sharapova, and others were to show how their sweating achieves fabulous physiques and some basketball stars like LeBron and Kobe inspired teen boys to "move and be cool," we'd shift this unfortunate inertia phenomenon.
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