A pesticide is a substance or mixture of substances used for preventing, controlling, or lessening the damage caused by a pest. A pesticide may be a chemical substance, biological agent (such as a virus or bacteria), antimicrobial, disinfectant or device used against any pest. Pests include insects, plant pathogens, weeds, mollusks, birds, mammals, fish, nematodes (roundworms) and microbes that compete with humans for food, destroy property, spread or are a vector for disease or cause a nuisance. Many pesticides are poisonous to humans.

Americans have a love-hate affair with calories. At any given moment, more than 4 out of 10 of us say we’re on a diet, yet we are gobbling 300 calories more each day, on average, than we did 20 years ago. And calorie counts sometimes dominate our lives: We choose

Every success in any product line is successful because there are consumers that are hungry for that product, service or information. It's your duty as a capable product creator and marketer to help those consumers obtain that information. It would be a sorry state of affairs if there was only one pizza chain, one brand of cereal, one diet soft d

Life for the Washington family has changed. Instead of fast food for dinner, they have grilled chicken and vegetables. Sugary drinks have been replaced with diet soda. Frisbee games in their yard have encroached on television time.

A personal take on the news of today, that diet soda is actually bad for you.

A personal story on how and why the author disagrees with the news of today regarding diet sodas and obesity.