What Smoking Does to Your Looks

If the harmful health effects of smoking aren’t enough to get you (or someone you know) to kick the habit, how about what it will do to your looks over time? This link to the WebMD slideshow “Surprising Ways Smoking Affects Your Looks and Life” might make you think...

How the Oil Spill is Affecting Our Health

No matter where you live in the U.S., you can’t turn on the TV or pick up a paper these days without hearing about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig at the end of April, roughly a million gallons of oil have been...

Kids and Food Allergies: A Growing Problem

Do you have kids or know someone who does? Then you might be interested to know that childhood food allergies are on the rise. In fact, a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics revealed an 18% increase in childhood food allergies from 1997 to 2007,...