Abortion is just WRONG!!!!! I’m sorry, but it’s true. There have been many recent additions to my family and those families of my friends. After seeing these beautiful children, I began to truly think.
What would cause anyone to deny life to a precious human being? Who would deny them the chance to learn? The chance [...]

Thinking of going on a diet? Want a New Year’s resolution that could save your life?
The first step to any diet is to get rid of soda. The smartest resolution to make is to kick these addicting cans of caffeinated beverages out of your house. What makes this liquid candy a hidden danger? Check it [...]

Five feet from my desk, Calister F. Wells emerges from a nearby broom closet. I narrow my eyes at the staff member that currently holds the position for second highest amount of views.

“So, she’s trying to convince you, huh?”

“Convince me of what?” I ask, looking around to see where the ominous music is coming from. Calister is holding a boom box. I walk over and turn it off, crossing my arms. “Jala just gave me an article.”

“She’s trying to make you believe Frozen Yogurt is better than ice cream.”

My goal is to live forever.
So far so good!
In all seriousness, a long, healthy life is an admirable goal. No, it’s more than admirable- it’s the ultimate goal. The goal of all goals. It’s the one mission that everyone subconsciously strives for.
Is YOUR goal to live forever? Well then stop searching for the fountain of [...]

Cake is awesome. Sure, the processed flour turns to sugar in your bloodstream. Sure, as a result of that your fat metabolism is slowed down. Despite all that, I love cake as much as the next person.
Why? Well, our culture has turned cake into the official birthday food! You never see balloons and smart aleck [...]

It’s not just Stephen Colbert who is wagging his finger at others.
Beijing recently blamed consumers for their pollution.
Really Beijing? Consumers are your friends. If you can’t find environmentally friendly ways to manufacture your products, that’s your problem.

Picture by “jaaron” via Flickr

Meanwhile back at the ranch, the FDA is getting in over it’s head. Despite the [...]

Most people have heard about the Rihanna and Chris Brown story;  supposedly he hit her with an umbrella (ironic, I know)  from inside a limo and caused damage to her face and neck. If you have seen the pictures, it is devastating and I do not believe anyone deserves to be treated like this. Domestic violence [...]

This year The Nearby Future staff has written a collective 48,747 words! Here are your favorite articles from staff members with the most page views (not counting Jala, because she writes pages, not posts).

Rika’s best articles: “Corn“, “Stress: Side Effects Include…”, and “The World is Not Coming to an End“
Calister F. Well’s best articles: “When [...]

But experts say there is no reason for cell phone users to worry.
“There’s no adverse health effect,” said John Walls of the Cell Phone Industry Trade Group.
The American Cancer Society agrees, but adds a cautionary note.
“All the evidence we have so far is that they are safe,” said Dr. [...]

So, it’s Bloggers Unite for World Aids Day, and guess who didn’t have an article prepared!
Alright, alright, it’s nothing new but this is such an important day that I though I’d do some work and copy and paste some stuff about said day.
This is directly from the Bloggers Unite website:
HIV/AIDS has been a global epidemic [...]

The FDA is at it again, angering thousands of bloggers and people alike who believe in good health. Thanks to some pressure from the Corn Refiners Association, the wonderful little company that makes High Fructose Corn Syrup, (HFCS) apparently HFCS is considered natural.
This is probably the worst decision made by them yet.
Reasons why HFCS is [...]

How it was started:
Izze was created when two normal guys, Todd and Greg, were having lunch together in 2003. They thought it would be amazing to create a great tasting product while contributing that money to a worthy cause. This drink was inspired by European drinks they recently tried which they thought tasted high-quality.
The cause [...]

Sodas get a bad rap because they contain high fructose corn syrup.

For some reason, “health drinks” like Vitamin Water don’t, although they contain crystalline fructose, which is pretty much the same thing. In fact, crystalline Fructose includes an even higher percentage of fructose than HFCS.

What? Is our society a sucker for drinks with pretty labels and witty text? Can just anyone put a bright, happy label on something obviously unhealthy and still get us to buy it?

When someone takes distilled water- “soft” water stripped of vitamins not to mention that it is surrounded by controversy regarding if it’s bad for you- and then sits in a lab mixing chemicals until they have something that looks like it’s healthy on the label, (or somewhat), then what you’ve really got is an artificial substitute for water that’s worse than soda.

And what’s the culprit lurking in Coke and Pepsi cans all over the world? High fructose corn syrup. But soda doesn’t win this round for most unhealthful drink, because Vitamin Water evens the score with it’s very own crystalline fructose- which is the same thing. Talk about giving an old danger a new name.

Misleading marketing? I think so.

In the last decade consumers have been buying granite, something that could possibly cause health risks.
Depending on several factors, your granite countertops could pose a health risk. On each side of the argument, people are debating how big of a health risk these countertops have. There’s no rock hard evidence saying that all granite causes [...]

Quick! What are you drinking at this moment? A double big gulp from seven eleven that has 800 calories? Or a Venti Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino with 380 calories? If the answer is one of these, or anything other than water, you health could be in worse condition than you thought. Sure, I understand that when [...]

I am writing this because I believe that alcohol and other types of drugs need to be stopped and controlled now. I recently learned all about types of drugs and alcohol and what it can do to the inside and outside of ourselves. I don’t understand how people can do this to themselves.
My dad [...]

Being stressed out is not good for several reasons. One, being how it effects everyone around you. Did you know that studies have show that your kids are more likely to become ill if they are in a household with a lot of stress from surrounding family members? That should motivate all of the parents to relax and to stop constantly worrying.

Aside from creating household problems, stress also creates health problems. It is known that people who are stressed out often over eat and are less likely to exercise. They more likely to smoke and drink more, and stress might raise the risk of heart attacks.

More dangerous than we’d like to think…
We are in the age where consumer smarts is important; with all the food and pharmaceuticals out there claiming to be the best (and some of those actually being detrimental to your health!), consumers need to stay in the know. One of the most well-known and [...]

We want to know your comments about the Gardasil vaccines. If you have heard of it, you know that some people believe it is good and others are against it.
Gardasil is the only vaccine out there that may help prevent diseases that are caused by type 6, 11, 16, and 18 [...]

Guitar Hero is a game where the object is for you to press different colored buttons on a plastic ‘guitar’. The satisfaction people get out of jamming a bunch of buttons I just can’t comprehend. I played real guitar before guitar hero, and saw Guitar Hero as a complete waste of [...]

An equation we all know is healthy foods + a variety of that good food= a happy you! Now we’re not just talking about happy as in your body is happy to have foods that don’t poison it, I mean happy as in less stress type of happy. But what foods [...]

CA-MRSA: it’s the super bug invading our schools and sending us on a cleaning frenzy. Inside most worried parent’s head is If I clean as much as possible with this antibacterial cleaners the danger will disappear. Well, I have news for you. Antibacterial cleaners may be making the problem worse. According to [...]