Glass of orange juice on wood surface, cut oranges in background. - Sunlight_s/Shutterstock On a hot summer day, some nice cold popsicles are the perfect treat to cool down and refresh yourself. But ...

Open the refrigerator, get in the pantry, and throw away the canned and bottled sodas that are trapping you with their bubbly, high-fructose corn syrup-laced spell. You don’t need this voodoo anymore.

“Life at best is bittersweet,” once wrote the author and artist Jack Kirby. Who could disagree? The fact that Kirby wrote comic books and put this line in the mouth of a Ninja Turtle is immaterial.