SAN DIEGO -- The topic of sexuality makes many uncomfortable because of the pressures, rules and “norms” embedded into society and our diverse cultures. Sexual enlightenment, however, is not so much about achieving an orgasm as it is about healing and living consciously by connecting to something bigger than yourself.

Super Bowl Sunday isn’t a national holiday, but that doesn’t stop over 130 million Americans from treating it like one. The Super Bowl is the second largest food consumption event in the U.S., just behind Thanksgiving.

Most Americans actually relish Super Bowl Sunday because of its laissez-faire cuisine - and in the days leading up to the event, Americans dish out over $55 million for it.

Drug prices, like everything but your salary, are going up. According to a 2009 article in the Wall Street Journal, the prices for about a dozen of the most popular brand name drugs increased by double digits in the first quarter of 2009 from just one year before - this, in the midst of the worst economic crisis we’ve seen since the Great Depression!

Another New Year has passed, and thousands are making the resolution, for the first or fiftieth time, to quit smoking. There is a multi-billion dollar industry for smoking cessation products, which, sadly, are a waste of money for most buyers. Pharmaceutical companies claim that nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) is twice as effective as placebo, but the reality is that 91.2 percent of successful, long-term quitters stop smoking on their own, while 93 percent of nicotine patch/gum and prescription drug users relapse within six months.