Childhood obesity is an epidemic worldwide with junk food, sugary drinks, and fast food among the biggest reasons why kids are obese, having an impact on a child's physical and mental health.

Kids and parents are losing the battle for overweight children. It should be an easy fight to win because healthy and nutritious food are tasty and actually fight off obesity instead of accumulating the fat from unhealthy food.

Ages 2-18 are crucial ages for children because dietary patterns begin to form which last into adulthood including poor nutrition habits leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease so parents are crucial in developing good nutritional habits at an early age.

Kids need a nutrient-dense diet based on age and activity level with limitations on sugar and saturated fats. Why this is not the norm worldwide is beyond me since a parent's top priority should be their child's health.

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I wonder if this has an effect on mutation given the difference between having a preset supply made at once, versus this variation which may result in some mutation being they are generated at different times throughout life.

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Older women are more established, have more resources, and have more freedom to make good decisions on who they'll choose as their child's father. Skewing the birth age up is good for everyone.

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These clinical trials are happening all over the country so keep looking even if you can’t get in touch with these authors.

Ever tried cannabis by prescription? Your dad can take it before going to bed and doesn't need to be stoned while awake.

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. Did you put time into studying their behavior at all and notice any key things that stuck out to you with all the time spent?

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Yeah cause that is what the planet and humanity needsright now: more geriatric mothers...

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Findings in title derived from the linked summary,^1 with reference to the hyperlinked peer-reviewed article.^2

From the linked summary^1 by Zoe Kean:

>Mammal life is diverse, and so are the poos mammals produce.

>"We understood how [the process] produced the corners that give them the square shape in cross-section," Dr Scott Carver told ABC Hobart's Helen Shield.

>"But not why they fragmented at such regular intervals along the length and came out as perfectly consistent little poos that are about the same length."

>Turning to volcano science and physics to uncover the answer, the researchers have not only discovered why wombats have "perfectly consistent little poos", but also what determines the shape of mammal poo in general.

>It was the cooling process of lava beds that inspired Dr Carver and his collaborators.

>After an eruption, lava beds cool and can solidify into specific and regular shapes.

>Dr Carver believes this research may one day help medical scientists.

>"Colorectal cancer, stress and various other things can influence the kind of faeces that people produce," he said.

From the hyperlinked article:^2

>Inspirational to our work is the formation of hexagonal columnar jointings in cooling lava beds, in which the width L of the hexagon scales as L ∼ J^−1 where J is the heat flux from the bed.

>Across 22 species of mammals, we report a transition from cylindrical to pellet feces if fecal water content drops below 0.65.

>Using a mathematical model that accounts for water intake rate and intestinal dimensions, we show pellet feces length L scales as L ∼ J^−2.08 where J is the flux of water absorbed by the intestines.

>We build a mimic of the mammalian intestine using a corn starch cake drying in an open trough, finding that corn starch pellet length scales with water flux.^−0.46

^1 Cubed wombat poo puzzle completed by researchers with the help of physics, volcanic science, Zoe Kean for ABC Radio Hobart, 21 Feb. 2023, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-21/wombats-square-poo-research-how-consistent-cubes-made/102000530

^2 Magondu, B. et al. (2023) Drying dynamics of pellet feces. Soft Matter 19 723-732. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00359G

“Fascinating feacal facts”

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So in other words, poop brownies?

Cube wombat beds in lava cooling cracks dynamics, got it.

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At the zoo, reading the signage about naked mole rats in front of their display (transparent tunnel system), I gradually came to the conclusion that they are not from Earth.