National TV-turnoff week kicks off with a bang on April 23rd. What about the adults who curl up in front of the box with impunity and watch with indemnity? There is a common tendency to perceive the problems associated with the media’s influence, par...

Several years ago the floating trophy on the dieting circuit was held by The Zone Diet conceived by Dr. Barry Sears. The Zone intrigued me, not so much because I was interested in losing weight, but because it adopted a rigorously scientific approach to a...