Food marketers are are eager to latch onto the latest diet and nutrition trends to promote their questionable goods. Some of these descriptors might be useful — such as low-salt — but catchy labels don’t tell us much about the nutritional content of the product. However, many consumers think they do.
Low-fat might be the all-time most ubiquitious front-of-package catch phrase, but in the last decade, the low-carb descriptor took the (flourless) cake. The claims and products skyrocketed, stemming from a regrowth in the popularlity of Atkins-style, protein-heavy diets. Though low-carb products aren’t necessarily better or worse for you, a study published in the September/October issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found that consumers misinterpret these claims to mean a product is better for their health and their waistlines.
Burmese police announced this week that out of the hundreds of human traffickers they have arrested over the past several years, at least 100 of them were once victims. Sadly, trafficking victims becoming traffickers is not unusual. But what makes a person go from victim to trafficker?
Broke? Blame your major. Despite our firm belief that no one who goes to college should 
Given a porcupine, some food coloring and 45 minutes, Valerie Brown Eyes’ impossibly deft fingers can create a masterpiece. She is one of the many professional artists specializing in quillwork on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The bracelet pictured above was crafted using the wrapping method — with just a thin strip of rawhide and a Tupperware container filled with brightly dyed porcupine quills, Valerie wraps and weaves each two-inch quill around and around. No glue, no staples, no shortcuts. She has been perfecting this ancient art for a lifetime, and still says she’s “far from done” with her artistic journey.
