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5 tips to decode food labels

By Annastazia Camarena | April 7, 2013

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires food labels on most packaged food products and encourages food manufactures to make the labeling easier to understand with standard nutrition facts. While it may be easy for some nutritionists to fully understand...

Higher living through chemistry

By Dan Martynowicz | March 25, 2012

The modern pharmaceutical industry has created medication for everything. It really is incredible to behold; anything from high blood pressure to depression to thinning eyelashes can be solved by a medication. Sounds great right? Just pop a pill and you’ll...

If you are going to be extreme, be smart about it

By Logan Short | November 30, 2010

You know the song from Empire of the Sun, "Walking on a Dream?" Or the Wiz Khalifa remix, "Thrill of It?" If not, the chorus sings, "We are always running for the thrill of it, thrill of it / Always pushing up that hill, searching for the thrill of it."...