Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple aren’t just the colors you learned in preschool. They are the colors of a healthy, vitamin-rich diet. “Eating a rainbow” happens when you incorporate...

The artistic importance of “The Wizard of Oz”, the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, is obvious. As the first widely successful full length color movie,  the “Wizard of Oz” set a new standard...

It’s a sad truth: 9,000 children die in this country each year. Suffocation, drowning, motor vehicle accidents–all of these contribute to the annual toll. Disease, too, takes a number of young lives. About...

Ever since childhood, kids are told that getting enough sleep at night is one of the most important things they can do to perform well in school. But by high school, most students have disregarded...

It’s the newest trend. All your friends are doing it. Some say it’s hazardous to your health, but you don’t care. It feels good. No matter how hard you try, you just can’t stop hitting that “Play...

Going gluten free seems to be an increasingly popular term, but most people aren’t clear what it means exactly. Going gluten free means committing to a diet without the protein gluten; grains like rye,...

It’s something teens hear all the time as we pull out of the driveway: “Be safe. Don’t go above 65, and don’t touch your phone.” Parents should follow their own advice. Although it might seem...

We had been in Baltimore for five days, my sister had been moved into her dorm at Johns Hopkins University three days before, we had said our goodbyes, my mom had emptied her pack of tissues, and we were...

“Sexting” – the act of sending sexually explicit messages or pictures through text messages or Internet messaging – has been all over the news and media. From former New York Congressman Anthony...

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Across the nation, students enter the stress and paranoia of SAT testing rooms with facts and formulas racing through their heads. The last thing they need to worry about is their handwriting. Some students...