Somebody is after Procter and Gamble and it is hard to know why. Years ago there was the allegation that the company鈥檚 corporate logo hid a picture of the devil, then sodium lauryl sulfate, a...
The term 鈥淪uperfood鈥� has become part of our vocabulary. Such foods are the supposed antitheses of 鈥渏unk foods鈥� with the implication that if we gorge on them we can delay our earthly departure. The...
Just about every day seems to bring a new food scare.聽 Arsenic in rice.聽 E. coli in meat.聽 But worries about our food supply are nothing new.聽 Gentlemen who ventured into Sweeney Todd鈥檚 barbershop...
The British press dubbed the future Prime Minister 鈥淭hatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher鈥� for sponsoring legislation to eliminate the free milk program for students over the age of seven.聽 The program...
"You should have your head examined!" We've all heard that expression at some time after expressing some thought that was perceived as being ridiculous. Of course this is not meant to be taken...
The city of Belem in northern Brazil has a population of about 2,000,000.聽 It would be very interesting to find out if its inhabitants have an unusually low incidence of illnesses such as cancer,...
