Unless we’re one of the (mostly) women and girls who spend 200 million hours a year fetching it from wells or rivers, we have no particular incentives to ration water — and it’s running out. Read more: Water Footprint, Water Security, World Water Day, Health, Water, Farming, Women and Girls, Impact News

Children need to learn to develop a taste for healthy foods both in and out of the home. Schools cannot be complicit in bombarding their students with poor food choices and undoing a parent’s hard work. Read more: Junk Food in Schools, Children's Health, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Eating, School Nutrition, School Lunches, School Junk Food, [...]

The established diet of choice for the past few decades has been one full of animal protein and low on carbs, and if you look around, the population hasn’t been getting any slimmer. Read more: Diet and Nutrition, Lose Weight, Lean Challenge, Weight Loss Diet, Dieting, Health, Weight Loss Tips, Weight Loss, Tips on Weight [...]

As MLK explains it, “Drum Major Instinct” is the desire to be first, to lead the parade. It desires recognition, importance, attention and being first. The consequences of this unharnessed instinct are devastating. Read more: Drum Major Instinct, Health, Race in America, Martin Luther King Jr., Religion and Politics, Christianity, Election 2012, Mlk, Bv-Politics, Religion [...]

I texted the one person I know who would understand the unfamiliar emotions that left me so unsettled. “Being a grown-up sucks. I don’t think I like it,” I wrote to my brother. “No one does, Beany,” he replied. “No one does.” Read more: Growing Up, Aging, Parents-Dads, Dads, Health, Cleveland, Hospitals, Parents, Fathers, Culture [...]