What I Did on My Summer Vacation

It’s an essay topic every kid has had at some point.  If you could start to plan yours now, regardless of your age, which would you choose:
1.  I went to China for eight weeks.  I walked along the Great Wall, I visited the Forbidden City and stood in Tiananmen Square, I saw the terra cotta army in Xian, I [...]

Weight! Wait!

According to the US Centers for Disease Control, one in six American children is overweight or obese.  Surveys of college students suggest one in 5 are at least overweight. 
The health consequences, an alarming increase in frequency of Type-2 diabetes in teens, are grave.  Left unchecked, the National Institute on Aging says this could become the first American generation [...]