Continuing with our fast food trend, today’s MOTD is a colorful description of the calorie intake of popular foods vs the time it takes to burn the extra energy using four different types of exercise. While there is much debate about this infographic being ‘bad’ due to the with arc length vs. value, the design is nice and you can still retrieve some relevant data from it. If you want to read about why this infographic doesn’t work, please go here to Peltier Tech Blog. Jon does a very good job describing the problem and then goes on to correct the problem by creating new charts. The original infographic was created by 5W infographics designer, Petra Axlund.

Today’s MOTD by Jenn Cash provides an excellent view on the facts behind the rise of childhood obesity compared to the growing amount of food we eat and TV we watch. Cash won GOOD’s Best Overall Infographic contest in July 2010.

Today’s MOTDs are special not only because it is our 200th post but because it covers a topic that requires more awareness and action.

Submitted to me by a former colleague that now works with USAID, the 2010 UNAIDS Report (downloadable here) is full of powerful infographics reporting on the topic of AIDS and the subjects that contribute to the epidemic. The infographic above shows the breakup of men, women and children living with aids in sub-Saharan Africa and other marital demographics. The first infographic below is a matrix on government policies and actions pertaining to the AIDS epidemic. The last infographic shows the fiscal gaps between what is needed to combat the AIDS epidemic versus the size of the economy and government revenue.

There are many more infographics like these inside the report linked to above, so please download it and take a look at the other infographics, read an article or two and pass it along to a friend. If you are in a position to donate and would like to help this worthwhile cause, UNAIDS accepts donations @ http://www.unaids.org/en/Partnerships/Donors/donate_now.asp.

Today’s MOTD provides a glimpse on how happy people around the world have been on average over the past 30 years. Turns out Great Britain has been and currently is the happiest place on earth, according to the World Database of Happiness.

You can find more GOOD infographics here

Today’s MOTD is very good knowledge for everyone that is reading this post right now. People are spending a lot more time in front of computers, without understanding the consequences of posture. Improper posture can lead to painful lasting injuries including carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder and back pain, eyestrain and lumbar and lower back problems.

Designer Devon Morgan has made this exceptional infographic to help you improve you posture.

Another in our series of Forbes vintage infographics, today’s MOTD shows the way that our political predecessors classified health care and is a good comparison/contrast of the preventive concerns they were facing back then, as opposed to those we face today.

Today’s MOTD comes to us from Infonauts Map Blog, written by Sevaan Franks.

The graphic was created by www.gapminder.org, a ‘non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using Internet.’

I created todays map of the day from the 5 most recent maps provided at the World Health Organization’s web site. The descriptions of the scale of measurments are shown in the bottom right corner of each map, denoted by an *.

You can follow their latest disease and outbreak news including the H1N1 feed, here.

Todays MOTD comes to us from, www.actual-original.com and utilizes a gumball machine metaphor to depict the celebrities who have died and their cause of death from January 1st, 2009 to June 2009.

Today’s MOTD comes to us from the metrics section of the NY Times and writer Bill Marsh.

There a some very fun statistics on change in consumption at the bottom of the graphic. The top paragraph is very informative and i will let it speak for itself.