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...reasons that are not entirely clear, diabetes triggers a wide range of health problems. Uncontrolled glucose levels increase the risk of blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage. On top of that, the 16 million Americans who have Type 2 (once known as adult-onset) diabetes are much more likely than the general population to develop high blood pressure, which increases their risk of heart disease and stroke. Indeed, high blood pressure appears to be even more damaging in diabetics than in nondiabetics. And yet, says Dr. Vincenza Snow of the ACP, "we found that blood pressure was being slightly overlooked...
DIED. MICHAEL JETER, 50, mousy but endearing Tony and Emmy award-winning actor; of undetermined causes; at his home in Los Angeles. Kids knew him as the Other Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street, while adult TV viewers remember him best as the wimpy assistant football coach on Evening Shade. He won the Tony for his portrayal of a dying clerk in the 1990 musical Grand Hotel...
Discussion about how a parent's remarriage affects children is usually confined to, well, children. But adults can also have trouble coping when a parent takes a new partner, whether it's following death or divorce. "The impact of a parent's remarriage on adult children tends to be overlooked," says Susan Newman, author of the forthcoming Nobody's Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship with Your Mother and Father (Walker & Co.). "The parent-child bond is intensely strong. A parent's remarriage causes a shift in that relationship, and most adult children find it unnerving...
...situations may prove thornier than others. A woman whose father marries a much younger person may find herself competing with the new wife for his love and attention. Another who cherishes her role as a parent's caretaker or close confidant can resent being replaced by a spouse. Other adult children may grow concerned that they'll be shut out of decisions for their aging parent. "Some people feel excluded and abandoned," says Susan Wisdom, author of Stepcoupling: Creating and Sustaining a Strong Marriage in Today's Blended Family (Three Rivers Press). "They envisioned themselves caring for their aging parent...
...floods, watched craggy roads flip trucks like so many toys and once waited for three days in a remote desert settlement because a fuel shortage kept helicopters grounded in the capital. Dinosaur digs were his original lure to Mongolia, but now he gives significant time and money to support adult and child education, and to aid orphans, in what is still an impoverished country...