Public health reader (March 14, 2010 edition)

• One in five South Korean youth have reportedly engaged in "sexting."

• Researchers discover that children of immigrant single mothers who marry Korean fathers have trouble adjusting. 

• How intestinal bacteria may be making you obese.

• The Chinese are getting too fat to fight the Japanese in a war. [HT to Ampontan]

• Healthy women with moderate drinking habits are less likely to become overweight than those who do not drink at all, says Harvard's School of Public Health.

• California state regulators, responding to pressure from AIDS activists, are poised to require the use of condoms on the porn industry. I wonder if this will force the industry out of the Valley and up to Vancouver like the rest of the moviemakers. 

• Juvenile sex offenders in South Korea are found to be frequently violating probation.

• The Korea Times has an article on Jeon Jaehee [전재희, chŏn chaehi] the Minister of Health and Welfare who is tasked with improving the nation's basement-level fertility rate. 

• CJ is launching what is billed as the first antibiotic replacement that is safe for both people and poultry.