The primary aim of a course developed by the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is to educate kids about the complex workings of the food system and how they can help to change it. The course also aims to teach students a little something about cooking, nutrition, and food budgeting—once the purview of the home economics classes offered across the U.S.

The New York State Assembly has put forth a bill than bans BPA substitution chemicals in children's products. The bill, which has been referred to the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, would expand existing legislation that prohibits the sale of child care products that contain bisphenol-A.

Tinnitus: a chronic ringing in your ears. The sounds are caused when cells are damaged inside the cochlea, your inner ear, and the malfunctioning cells end up sending signals to your brain even in the absence of audible sound. Your brain translates these signals into what has been described as ringing, buzzing, hissing, clicking, chirping, screeching, static, whooshing and/or whistling sounds.

A growing volume of scientific research indicates many food additives and chemicals used in packaging do seem to be linked to potentially serious, life-long health problems, said Leonardo Trasande, lead author of the statement and an associate professor at the New York University School of Medicine.