Health

Weighing in on Body Mass Index

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Diane McManus, Jewish Exponent Feature

Your 17-year-old son is healthy enough. He could stand to exercise more -- video games take up more of his time than you'd like -- and he enjoys the usual teen-age treats -- burgers, fries, ice cream. Yet his weight is normal, and he has a Body Mass Index of 23, within the normal range, which is thought to be...

Health

Love the One You're With -- and Maybe Hate 'em a Little, Too?

Turns out Cupid has an ugly side as well

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Elyse Glickman, Jewish Exponent Feature

Spring is here, love is in the air, and wedding planning is in the final stages. Romance may be in full bloom, but there are signs of a sobering reality everywhere, from the 50 percent divorce rate in the United States to the caveats expressed in prenuptials. Is there such a thing as love/hate relationships? Their existence presumes that the...

Health

This Does Compute: Local Couple's Foundation Logs On to Help Sick Kids Tap Hope

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Susan Perloff, Jewish Exponent Feature

Imagine you have a rotten case of flu, and you haven't had the strength to go to work. You can't stand up, you can't think straight and you're bored, bored, bored. What do you do? Open a laptop and see what's going on outside your bedroom, or play Scrabble with Sam in St. Louis. But suppose that you're housebound or...

Health

Report: Rethinking Alzheimer's

Conference on disease offers startling revelation

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Todd H. Goldberg, M.D.

(This article is an update of Dr. Goldberg's first "Senior Moments" column published here in July 1998.) Alzheimer's disease -- a well-known cause of memory impairment in aging -- remains the most common and feared problem that we are asked and consulted about in geriatric medicine. Although Alzheimer's disease was only "discovered" about 100 years ago, it obviously is not...

Wellness

This Artful Mouse Helps Navigate Potential Web Woes for Kids

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Susan Perloff, Jewish Exponent Feature

Jake is 8, playing Nintendo and Game Boy on computer consoles. As entertainments move online, Jake follows. One day while gaming, he enters a chat room and encounters his cousin Rebecca (not her real name). They chat. Enter Mom, astonished to see her son chatting in the dining room. "Who ya talkin' to?" "Cousin Rebecca," comes the reply. "How do...