It’s good that former president Clinton has been leading a campaign against soft drink machines in schools. Here’s another approach to tackling our nation’s youth obesity problem, one that I suspect will be considerably less successful.

I recently picked up at the health food store a copy of a 50-page periodical called “Green Teacher: Education for Planet Earth,” and I’ve decided that since it’s summer and we’re all capable of dreaming about how the next school year might be, I’ll donate a GT subscription to our Montessori school in hopes of…

“All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. Confucius, Zoroaster, Socrates, Mahomet, not to mention authorities really sacred, have agreed in this.” —John Adams, “Thoughts on Government,” 1776. Jesus is probably among the “really sacred” he doesn’t…

Everyone should have a pal like my nutritionally-hip friend Myra. She’s the one who introduced me to the whole grain farrow. Yesterday, she gave me a bag of nutritional yeast flakes (“the full complement of B vitamins,” Myra says, great in smoothies and on popcorn). Myra told me about krill oil, and says it is…

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