What is the ideal American male physique?

What does the perfect male look like and how has that changed over time?

Is it this:

 Or this:

Here's an article comparing "the perfect male" over time, with a cross cultural twist:

MLB reminds players: NO dipping in AT&T Park, Fenway or Dodger Stadium

Baseball and smokeless tobacco seem to go together like white and rice.  Recently, however, MLB has considered a ban on smokeless tobacco products in large part to protect children from emulating dangerous behaviors they see from their favorite players.

While no such action has been taken yet, three major league ballparks have banned all tobacco products and, starting in December, all ballparks in California will be free of all tobacco products.

Here's a recent article: 

And another talking about the untimely death of all-star Tony Gwynn, who died from mouth cancer at the age of 54.

Children's digital play and opportunities.  Sonia Livingstone has been researching children and media for over 25 years. See what she has to say about children and digital media based on highlights from a recent research project.

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The science of highly addictive junk food. Mmmm....Dorito's...

New report on diversity in mass media...

A recent study from USC paints a fairly bleak picture of diversity in Hollywood.  Here's a preview of their findings:

Here's another thought provoking article on Sesame Street's move to HBO. I particularly like this quote from Michael Rich at CMCH: Rich expressed potential concern, not about Sesame Street itself, but the Sesame spin-off to come. “Will the HBO interest in tapping the children’s television market drive a different philosophy, in terms of program development for Sesame Workshop?” he said. “Are we going to start gettingSesame Street lite? Copying the things that are attractive about Sesame Street and putting it into more entertainment and commercially-motivated programming, as opposed to programming that is really aimed at teaching children?”

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Do you know what your teens are doing online??

It's challenging to keep up with all the different ways that young people interact with each over social media.  Many parents may not even know what all the apps on their children's phones do.  Big mistake.

Recently, a 13 year old Connecticut girl met up with a 29 year old man she met while chatting on Kit. After sexually assaulting her, he planned to bring her back to Colorado with him.  Luckily she had been reported missing and was discovered before the rest of the plan could play out.

Here's the rest of the story: