Learning how to study is learning how to learn. And that is, to me, the greatest gift you can ever give yourself…or your children. Having stated that so boldly, I suspect I...

During the past few decades, we’ve made amazing strides in understanding the impact of food on our lives. Now, more than ever, we have come to realize that foods can both harm...

The North American landscape is heavily dotted with fast-food and take-out restaurants—even in hospitals and schools. Some critics blame our affection for supersized portions of fast food, which is typically high in...

Are They Worth the Cost? Only a few decades ago, organic foods were found solely in health food stores or at farmers’ markets. Today, the organic industry’s annual growth is consistently outpacing the...

The remarkable productivity of modern agriculture depends to a large degree on a wide array of complex chemicals. These include fertilizers and pesticides applied to crops, antibiotics and hormones given to livestock,...

THE REAL DEAL ON NUTRITION It makes intuitive sense to most of us that foods can harm you or heal you. But how? The connection is nutrition, a subject we all know something...

DIVISIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM The respiratory system may be divided into the upper respiratory tract and the lower respiratory tract. The upper respiratory tract consists of the parts outside the chest cavity:...

LYMPH Lymph is the name for tissue fluid that enters lymph capillaries. Filtration in capillaries creates tissue fluid from blood plasma, most of which returns almost immediately to the blood in the capillaries...