School lunches have been the brunt of many a joke; pizza that tastes like cardboard, rubbery pasta…but with the introduction of processed foods, school meals went from comically disgusting to downright unhealthy. The Institute of Medicine investigated the nutritional value of the foods the government provides for our children to eat each day; the news isn’t pretty. Across the board, our children are receiving less than 20% of the recommended amounts of ...

Remember all those little “Mr. Yuk” stickers that were plastered on household cleaning products when you were a child? We were trained to not touch anything with a bright green “Mr. Yuk” sticker on it. I think it’s even safer, and perhaps easier as well, to just not have those dangerous poisons in our homes to begin with; but obviously, we need to clean our homes, right? Luckily, there are natural ...

In an interesting, ironic twist, the FDA and FTC are now going after a company who claims pomegranates are…*insert trumpet fanfare here*…healthy for you! Pom Wonderful, a Los Angeles, California based pomegranate growing company, is being targeted for marketing their pomegranate juice as a healthy, disease preventing fruit juice. Haven’t we always known that fruit is healthy for us? I’m pretty sure that it’s common knowledge (and has been for centuries) ...