Sunday morning on your front porch wouldn’t be nearly as peaceful if your grass resembled the same color as your morning cup of Joe. Although we go to great lengths to keep our grass a luscious green and free...
Fiber is packed with nutritious benefits that often go unnoticed. Although the easiest fiber sources to name are obvious to any nutrition nut out there, there are a variety of foods that offer the same benefits as whole wheat...
Cut back on animal foods--such as meats and cheese--and shift to more organic, locally grown plant foods, including beans, vegetables and grains, to slash your carbon footprint.
All the attention on climate change brings into focus the role you can...
Making the decision to move a loved one who has dementia into an assisted-living facility or nursing home is never easy. Not only can it be emotionally difficult, but it can also be hard to figure out how and...
Nothing screams summer more than family BBQ’s beneath the hot July moon and the feeling of lush green grass on your bare feet. As you nibble your way through a slice of watermelon, that unavoidable pest is awaiting its...
Edible flowers are back in vogue, gracing the covers of glossy food magazines and adding panache to restaurant entrees. Today's flower cookery revival is defined less by "glam" than the move toward local and sustainable food options, consumers growing...
As many as 450,000 lives could be saved each year by taking a cue from marsupials. If parents of premature babies in poor countries were to continuously carry infants against the skin in "kangaroo pouches" and increase breastfeeding and...
Cancer is a scary illness. It is one of the illnesses that people most fear, even though heart disease and diabetes are far more prevalent and likely killers than cancer. However, fearing a health issue can also do unnecessary...
Synthetic marijuana continues to be a problem with adolescents. In March, 2011, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrationtook emergency action to control five chemicals used to make so-called "fake pot." This action made possessing and/or selling these products illegal in the United...
Fainting, the temporary loss of consciousness that doctors call syncope (SINK-uh-pee), can be embarrassing, scary, and dangerous. It's also quite common -- an estimated one in three people faints at least once in their lifetime. People pass out when the...
