Last week, the CDC reported that the flu death count of children so far this season has reached a high of 30. Winter also brings a slew of common cold viruses which are not nearly as perilous. But the symptoms often overlap with the flu. So how do you know when it's a cold and when it's the flu? How do you know when you should be more concerned?

No matter how frugal you are, no one is immune from making impulse purchases from time to time. But the more you give in, the more harmful it can be to your financial life. Instead of caving to impulses, develop strategies that stand in the way between the compulsion to buy and buying. Use these 14 tips and tricks to resist bad spending habits so you can save more money.

During the thirty-year boom in France following World War II-- les Trente Glorieuses--Paris was not only the world's most stylish tourist destination, it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius. In The Gourmands' Way, Justin Spring tells the story of six American writer-adventurers having the time of their lives in the City of Light during this period and, in doing so, transforming the way Americans talk and think about food-and the way they eat.

Joe writes: "I just came across some steaks in the freezer and parts of them look as if they've already been cooked. They were definitely raw when I put them in there! Is that what they call "freezer burn"? Are these steaks still safe to eat?"

Yup, it sounds like you've got some freezer-burned steaks on your hands, Joe. And yes, they're still perfectly safe to eat, but let's make sure this doesn't happen again.

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a mathematical formula that divides a person's weight by the square of their height to arrive at a number that falls into a bodyweight category. As most of us fitness-focused folks have likely heard, BMI is far from a perfect measurement. Much of the time, and often when it really counts, the BMI measurement may actually overestimate or even underestimate a person's body fat. And when it does, it really does.