10 Best Dietary New Year's Resolutions
Many people think that New Year's resolutions are a waste of time. People who hold on to this perception, however, base their views on the many failures they have either experienced personally or watched others go through. Yes, too many people spend time coming up with resolutions which are event...
A Christmas Carol--the Vegan Edition
Preamble: There is little doubt that Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol (1843) for meat-eaters (carnivores); notice, for example, how the blokes looking for alms at the beginning of the tale tell Scrooge they want to buy the poor "meat & drink." Note also how Scrooge says that there is more ...
How GMOs May Affect You Personally--10 Practical Concerns
There's a hot debate brewing not just in the US but all over the world about something called genetically modified organisms or GMOs. Unfortunately, some people have decided to either stay away from the issue altogether or take the much safer, less-controversial approach of defending it, in line ...
5 Things Secretly Making You Fat
Without question, one of the biggest battles everyone is fighting today is the "Battle of the Bulge"--no, not the German offensive against the Allies in December of 1944 but, rather, the fight to keep excessive fat from our bodies. This battle isn't just about "looking good" but, more importantly...
How Well Are You Prepared for a Major Disaster?
We have seen several significantly-damaging national disasters in the last 25 years—most recently, there were the downing of the twin towers in New York and the extensive devastation by Hurricane Katrina. Both of these catastrophes had major negative implications, not the least of which were the ...