Sometimes, even a healthy food isn’t so healthy. Take, for example, the package of bison hot dogs I received recently for review . Bison, I know, is an incredibly healthy meat, especially when compared to beef: it’s lower in calories, fat, and cholesterol. So surely hot dogs made from bison would...

Our nation’s schools are in trouble – and this time, it’s not the test scores. No, this time it is the toxic chemicals lurking in schools that leave children too sick to learn. Many schools around the country are literally made out of an emerging toxic plastic of concern , polyvinyl chloride (a.k.a...

Fall is my favorite time of year. It brings back some of my best childhood memories: playing in a big pile of crunchy red and yellow leaves, feeling the crisp air on my skin on nature walks as butterflies led the way, the first smell of my carved pumpkin. I am greatly indebted to my parents, who...

If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s supposed to be a duck. But what if that duck contained genes injected from two other species of duck to make it grow faster than normal ducks? Is it still a duck to you, or is this getting more complicated than it should? The FDA...