In my time writing as a journalist and blogger, I’ve found that the hardest part of writing a compelling article is finding an interesting topic (at least, when you aren’t fixing to make a profit). After all, there’s only so much fluff that you can add onto a boring topic, plus you’ll just be wasting the reader’s time in the end. So when I saw this Consumer Reports article about lead in Lunchables, one of the most popular “instant lunches” for kids, appear on my feed, I shot my boss a text to let her know that this article was as good as done. Though, as I looked more into this, I found something morbidly interesting; the lead isn’t the worst part.

I’m going to be honest with this one- this article isn’t urgent or pressing in the slightest. Why did I write it, then? Well, because it’s fun to know things! For all the doom and gloom surrounding health and wellness, it’s nice to read about something that’s NOT life-threatening for a change. This article was originally just meant to be about Tylenol, but I ended up finding some other weird tidbits in my research, and I couldn’t just leave them out of my writing. Also, if I don’t meet my word quota, my boss will throw me into the sun and make me write about lead for all eternity. So, consider this a series of “mini-articles” that aren’t deep or urgent enough to suit a full write-up, but still fun to bring up at the dinner table.

I’m half-certain every kid born in the 2000s has this image floating around in the back of their brain. It’s like a sleeper agent lying in wait; something you forget about until you see it for the first time in a decade and all the terrible memories of elementary school P.E. class come flooding back. The musty room, the pacer test, your glasses falling off your face and having another kid step on them while everyone’s doing burpees; I’ve never forgiven you all these years Ryan, you wretch. I don’t CARE if you’re “sorry” or if it “was an accident”; I’ll take my revenge one of these days, just you wait.

I’m sure you’ve been in the supermarket shopping and as you’re deciding what to buy, you see aisles upon aisles of different foods. The huge amount of variety and different selections can make it so difficult to know which foods are nutritious and healthy and which are processed and bad for you. Fortunately, there’s an app that solves this problem effectively and efficiently. 

'GMO' stands for genetically modified organism. Why would we want modified foods in our diets? Well it turns out there mat be a plethora of economic and biological benefits (and cons).