A Fat Set-Up: A new study looks at societal pressures that may be significant contributors to the increasing childhood obesity epidemic. Three areas of concern: Soft drink company contracts with schools that give kids easy access to sugary drinks; the lack of supermarkets, and overage of fast food restaurants and convenience stores, in poorer neighborhoods; and advertising that steers young people to junk food. “Research is showing us that we have in our schools and communities a perfect storm that will continue to feed the childhood obesity epidemic until we adopt policies that improve the health of our communities and our kids,” said Frank Chaloupka, head of the University of Illinois at Chicago research team.

C-Sections and Birth Days: Two new studies find that more and more babies are being born during the week, and fewer on weekends, as the number of elective, planned C-sections rises. Hospitals tend to schedule C-sections for when their units are fully staffed, and when personnel are working their “normal” hours so as to avoid overtime costs.

This is weird: People magazine has an item on model and dad-to-be Gabriel Aubry - boyfriend of pregnant actress Halle Berry - that includes this speculation: “So, will the world’s sexiest baby since Shiloh Jolie-Pitt be a boy or a girl?” Um…since when are babies “sexy”?