Straight Talk for Teens

Food & Nutrition

Caffeine overdose blues

Editor’s Web Note: Lest you wonder why every small town breeds Starbucks like rabbits, consider a Wall Street Journal study that found a cup of joe at Starbucks has 56% more caffeine than coffee sold in gas marts and pastry shops.…

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Poor health and lots of it

Editor’s Web Note: Who needs global warming or nuclear bombs? We can go extinct with Cheetos and Big Gulps. We’re definitely at a precipice. Some experts predict infertility to double in the next seven years — to one in…

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Millennial Generation creating a kinder, smarter world—Part I

Editor’s Web Note: This is one of my favorite columns of the year and this year the panel had so much to say that the column will continue next week. I’m honored to work with this generation. Once dubbed Generation Y, this generation…

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Girl piles on pounds, parents at a loss

Editor’s Note: We get a lot of mail from both parents of overweight teens and overweight teens themselves. Aside from girls writing in about relationship problems, it is our most common form of mail. — Lauren

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Poor health the biggest issue facing teens

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Warm a vegetarian by cooking organic food

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Food for thought for 2006

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Food ads a lot to compete with

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Vegetarian gets respect by giving it

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