Health - In General
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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Stepdad’s smoke permeates small apartment
Editor’s Web Note: To all teens who smoke: Quit now. Not only is it easier when you’re young, but today’s letter could be written about you in a few short years. Do you think “Stepdad” ever saw this…
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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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Teach your children well… about sex, porn, love
Editor’s Web Note: The sex industry has, well, industrialized sex. Sexual intimacy is reduced to body parts (most of them surgically enhanced). Porn is the great desensitizer. What used to stimulate no longer does. College-age men,…
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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
