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“My surroundings were jumbled and I smelled something strange,” recalls my brother, a high school freshmen, just before he collapsed. He awoke to a blur of administrators and paramedics. The whole event was surreal. It started on August 4, 2011. The day went from a normal high school orientation to the senior principal asking me,...

How many times have you heard someone say breakfast is the most important meal? Haley stated that she eats frosted flakes cereal every morning and drinks a bottle of water. Lauren said she eats yogurt with granola. However, Giulianna doesn’t eat or drink anything, and she’s not that unusual. “Approximately 8 to 12% of all...

One of the most memorable home runs in the St. Louis Cardinals’ baseball history is David Freese’s out of the park hit in the 2011 World Series Game 6. This homerun tied the game in the bottom of the ninth inning and inspired the team to go onto to win the World Series. Most people...

Do you drink Gatorade or Powerade? How about Vitamin Water or Propel? These drinks may be great for boosting your energy, but they may not be so great when it comes to benefiting your teeth’s health, especially  when it comes to the enamel on your teeth.       According to the International Dental...

Corn is a food that is essential to almost everybody, because it is found in important products such as medicine, cleaning supplies, and, of course, food. But lately corn prices have been skyrocketing, and not because the farmers had a bad season, but because the oil companies are taking over the corn industry for another use: to make...

Sammy could feel her chest tightening. Suddenly, she realized that she could no longer breathe. What had started out as a normal school day for 11-year-old Sammy Zuehlke, dramatically changed when she experienced an asthma attack. “At first I didn’t know what was going on,” said Sammy. “But when I realized I couldn’t breathe I...

My Dad was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when he was only 39 years old. “At first I was in disbelief and that I didn’t think that this would happen to me,” he recalls.        The 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet states that there are 25.8 million children and adults in the United...

Larry Cazer, maintenance worker at St. Joseph’s Academy, came home one day in November of 2011 to find his house charred, smothered in black smoke and fire trucks all around. Firefighters believe the cause of the fire to be from an electrical outlet that sparked and caught the couch on fire. The fire had spread rapidly, creating a thick...

Have you ever wondered whether it is a healthy idea to hold your cell phone, a device that emits electromagnetic radiation, so close to your brain, face and neck? The International Agency for Research on Cancer  of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on May 31, 2011 that the radiation emitted from cell phones might place a person...

Dinosaurs were once thought to be drab, grey and scaly. But a find announced in August, 2011, shows that this isn’t true. A team of paleontologists from the University of Alberta, Canada, lead by Ryan McKellar, found feathers trapped in amber in Alberta, that dated back to the Late Cretaceous period (144–65 million years ago).  ...