The growing trend in New Zealand to remove fluoride from local water supplies is causing alarm among health officials. Most recently, Hamilton, the country's fourth-largest city, voted 7-1 to remove it from their drinking water. The second-largest, Christchurch, has already done so. Other areas to have voted to reduce or eliminate fluoridation...

They say that everything goes better with bacon. Well, the bacon trend shows no sign of abetting. In fact, it's going even more upscale with the Oscar Mayer Bacon Gift Box Collection. These elegant boxed sets come with your choice of bacon-themed cufflinks, a multitool, or a money clip, plus a package of hardwood-smoked bacon.

As long as humans have existed they have been looking for that magic elixir that will keep them young and healthy. And every once in a while a new product is marketed that captures the imaginations of countless customers. It was that way for pomegranate juice, which promises a raft of good vitamins and "powerful antioxidants." Now marketers would...

Starbucks is experimenting in some branches with the Clover machine, a one-cup brewer that borrows principles from the French Press and vacuum pot, among other preparation methods, and which allows for far greater variation of beans, roasts, and strengths. In a French Press, ground coffee is fully immersed in near-boiling water and left to brew,...