No doubt you've heard quite a bit about the controversy over the past month or two. Succumbing to a public outcry since 2010, when Food Revolution-ist, Jamie Oliver, pointedly blew the cover on the use in school lunches of what  the beef industry refers to as "lean, finely textured beef," but more commonly known as "pink slime," by the public, fast food chains like Burger King, Taco Bell and McDonald's have announced that they will no longer use the less-than-appetizing meat filler in their beef products.

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As a whole, our nation remained relatively unscathed, winter-weather-wise, in 2011. That's the good news. The bad news about the warmer winter weather is that is has led to a record boost in deer tick larvae this spring. And an increase in baby deer ticks means an increase in reported cases of Lyme disease.

If you live in an area prone to disease-carrying ticks, you don't have to wrap your kids in a plastic bubble every time they go outside. Only about 2 percent of tick bites will ...

Swimming season is almost here, but if you have a Banzai in-ground pool water slide, it could be a slippery slope to DEATH! A 29 year-old mother recently died after fracturing her neck on her way down the partially deflated slide in Massachusetts. Unable to swim to safety after the neck fracture, she hit her head on the bottom of the pool and drowned. The Consumer Safety Commission has reported two similar incidents--one involving a fractured neck, and another incident which left a young man a quadriplegic. The slides are ...