Exciting news of the week: April 7 Edition

New York City considers banning happy meal toys- This article talks about how San Francisco's decision to recently ban happy meal toys is having an effect, potentially spreading to New York! They raise an interesting idea: that happy meal toys "serve to reward children for making poor food choices and undermine parents' attempts to steer kids toward healthful options." One example that shocked me is that a "Happy Meal with a cheeseburger, small French fries and low-fat chocolate milk has 700 calories, 27 g of fat (35% of total calories) and 1,060 mg of sodium."

WOW.

How to think yourself into a happy place- This discusses two studies proving how relative happiness is, and that the bets way to boost your own happiness is to "be thankful for what you have and don't measure your gains against those of others." Check it out!

Google adding local product data to place pages- When you do a search on Google now for a product, it will soon show you the local store availability, mainly at large retail locations! That will be an exciting option to take advantage of before leaving the house to purchase items.

Happy teenage years lead to happy adulthood...and divorce?- Researchers in Britain did a longitudinal study where they found that people who were better adjusted in childhood "were also more likely to report better social relationships, more work satisfaction, better mental health and more social activity in adulthood." But because they have such a positive support system and solid esteem, they are in more of a position to leave an unhappy marriage and get divorced.