Is this more than you wanted to know about the sun and your skin? No! It started with a question. It always does. This time, the question was simple: How much sunscreen should I wear? I’m a pale geek who burns. I wanted to know the optimal. A simple question with a simple answer, right? Wrong. [...]
Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
Our Fat Future
Here’s a visually impactful infographic from a website called Healthy Meal Experts. My wife and I have this conversation regularly, why we’re getting so fat — except for her. What caught my eye was all the cornstarch that’s going into our diets. So what do your chil[...]
April 19th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Health
Sugar consumption buckets
Lovely imagery showing sugar consumption for day through lifetime. The average American consumes 45.3 pounds of sugar in a year. It’s a part of a read-later NYT article on the toxicity of sugar. Check out the similar pic for high fructose corn syrup. [via] Source Blog Post: htt[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Health
Snake Oil?
This is an intriguing interactive infographic developed by superstar David McCandless in the area of health. It represents various dietary supplements as balloons that rise or fall based on the evidence that they actually have positive effects on various and selectable ailments and conditions. McCan[...]
April 5th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Health
Radiation Dose Chart
There is a lot of discussion these days about radiation links from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan. Unfortunately, there is little mention of the amount of radiation and it’s danger. This infographic was shared by Randall Monroe through his XKCD blog. From the Source: Ellen, a friend of [...]