For years you’ve probably heard that the secret to a healthy body was to count calories. Calorie counts are on everything now including most restaurant menus. But is all of this number crunching really worth the effort? The answer:...
"You don't get to choose whether you age or not but you can choose how well you age"
Longevity is big business in America today – the dream that anything is possible, even reversing our internal clocks, drives millions of...
A new study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics has found that taxing sugary beverages in the United States could reduce the calorie intake from these beverages. However, additional outcomes showed that this strategy was not working.
Researchers...
Johnson & Johnson have recalled 200,000 bottles of Motrin Infant formula because they may contain small particles of plastic that the McNeil Unit are saying came from a third party manufacturing process.
The company warns parents that the Motrin may...
“A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food...
Living in America avails us certain luxuries. Among these are clean water, food, knowledge, education and access to infection-fighting medicines. How can it be that we have such luxuries yet we are a nation with so many crippling health...
Schools across the country have only been in session a few weeks and already the controversy over lunch programs has begun. You may recall last year’s “pink slime” scandal in which the controversial lean finely textured beef (LFTB) was...
There’s a reason certain foods are called “comfort food.” Certain dishes remind us of certain periods in our lives or times of the year. Who doesn’t have a soft spot for apple-inspired treats in the fall, fresh-picked berries in...
A new study published in this month's issue of The FASEB Journal, adds further evidence to what many people skeptical of the chemicals and pollutants swarming our modern world have long suspected: there really are no 'safe' levels of...
According to the Los Angeles times, the Hawaii Department of Health said thousands of fish have already suffocated and died due to the massive molasses spill that occurred early last week. Officials have said the 233,000-gallon spill was the...
