Health and Wellness

Today Safe Kids Worldwide released a new research report that found kids are getting into medicine at an alarming rate. Every minute of every day, a poison control center receives a call about a potential medicine poisoning for a child age five and under. And 67,000 times each year, or every eight minutes, a young child goes to the emergency room for medicine poisoning.

Results from the latest consumer survey conducted for the Organic Trade Association (OTA) reveal that as US families are becoming increasingly aware of the presence of unlabeled genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foods in the marketplace, they turn to organic as the food labeled by law to not have been made with genetically engineered ingredients.

How would you like to blow out 100 birthday candles? More than 84,000 people living in the US today have reached that mark, and the number of centenarians (100-year-olds) is expected to increase to 580,000 by 2040. Per Capita Iowa ranks third in the nation in the number of centenarians.

America is a nation of immigrants, with each group adding its cultural traditions, including food, to the country's shared multi-ethnic experience. As part of National Nutrition Month, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers ways to "Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day" with foods from all corners of the globe.