Tag Archives: Health

Academic Survival Guide: #1, Know Your Substances

Let’s face it: universities are tough on everyone. While undergraduates work up a sweat trying to pass their requisite gauntlet of courses, their professors are busy grading papers, preparing lectures, and submitting meaty articles to journals. As the year rolls on, the stress builds, the face-wrinkles show, and the count-down to summer slows to an [...]

Organic, Free-Range, All-Natural, Human Beings

Walking down the isle at the local grocery store I took note of the newer marketing ploys meant to entice potential customers. The once popular “no-msg” is accompanied by “low calorie” or “no high fructose corn syrup,” enriched foods are being replaced by whole grain foods (of which we are told to accept no imitations), [...]