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The Kaiser Family Foundation recently conducted a survey and found that the average American child sees up to 50 hours of food commercials each year. That’s about 6,000 commercials a year. And, of those, 90 percent are for junk food. Zero of them were marketing fruits or vegetables. At the same time, one in five American children are obese today. See the connection here? The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to ban all junk food ads during any children’s programs. They want the same thing that happened to cigarette commercials to happen to junk food commercials. We’ll tell you what happens.

The sale of small, fuel efficient cars has grown in the past few years and will continue to do so. People who have been hit by the gas increases of recent years are making people reconsider what cars they buy. As a result, GM is jumping on the bandwagon. GM is about to introduce car that is smaller than Honda’s Fit and Toyota’s Yaris. It has a 1-liter engine and will get about 40 miles per gallon. These cars start at about $10,000, which is very affordable. The average car sold in the States is about $25,000. The trade-off is that they are not as safe in an accident. So, you must be careful driving them.