PUB | Are you sick of trying to look pretty without poisoning yourself?

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Did you know that many of the cosmetics and personal care products you use every day may contain hundreds of cancer-causing, hormone-disrupting, and allergy-inducing substances? And cosmetics companies aren't even required to list all the weird ingredients they use on product labels. Now, where's the fun in that?

But the game doesn't have to play out like that. You can choose to be better informed and kept safe from toxic substances in our cosmetics. Sign the petition asking Health Canada to give our cosmetic laws a makeover, learn more about the risks and discover safer alternatives at justbeautiful.ca

TENDANCE : le social networking et l'obésité

When, a few years back, scientists and public health officials began using the expression "obesity epidemic," it was controversial.

The term epidemic was traditionally used to describe the rapid spread of infectious diseases such as influenza or polio. But the argument was made that the term could be used in a non-biological sense to refer to widespread and growing social problems.

Now comes word that obesity actually is contagious. Fat is not caused by a virus, bacterium or other pathogen. Rather, it spreads to the waists, thighs and other jiggly regions of the body through social networks.

In a fascinating article in today's New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, show that if a close friend becomes obese, your likelihood of becoming obese soars by 171 per cent. If it's a casual friend or acquaintance, the risk is still a notable 57 per cent, and your friend's friends have a similarly increased risk of obesity.

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