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...that number doesn't include kids under 18. Diagnosing the condition at very young ages is new and controversial, but experts estimate that an additional 1 million preteens and children in the U.S. may suffer from the early stages of bipolar disorder. Moreover, when adult bipolars are interviewed, nearly half report that their first manic episode occurred before age 21; 1 in 5 says it occurred in childhood. "We don't have the exact numbers yet," says Dr. Robert Hirschfeld, head of the psychiatry department at the University of Texas in Galveston, "except we know it's there...
...years more before it is properly treated. "If you don't catch it early on," says Dr. Demitri Papolos, research director of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation and co-author of The Bipolar Child (Broadway Books, 1999), "it gets worse, like a tumor." Heaping this torment on an adult is bad enough; loading it on a child is tragic...
...look young and live young into their 70s. These range from organic food and fresh juices to alternative medicines and health spas. Baird's firm owns Equinox Fitness Clubs, Elizabeth Arden Salons Holdings and the Grand Expeditions travel company and has interests in weight control, antiaging therapies and adult education. Healthy living, he estimates, is a $400 billion industry growing 15% annually. "The typical 75-year-old will tell you they'd give up 95% of their net worth to feel 45 again," Baird says...
...smartest plays are "adult toys," says Ron Muhlenkamp, manager of the $750 million Muhlenkamp Fund. He owns stock of the recreational vehicle manufacturer Winnebago, which is a play on the second-home trend. For the same reason, he also holds shares of homebuilders Toll Bros., Meritage, Centex, NVR and Beazer Homes. Harley-Davidson is on his radar, though he considers the stock overpriced. Muhlenkamp, 58, who bought his first new Harley when he was 49, notes that many new Harley purchasers are in their late 50s. The average age is 46. A lot of folks want one after they finish...
...live in Japan, where hot-spring hopping is a national obsession and the remarkable benefits of bathing are heralded on a daily basis in the media. While growing up here, I harbored violent objections to displaying my everything to a bunch of naked strangers. Only as an achy, fatigued adult has it begun to sink in: What better way to slow the insane pace of this jam-packed country than with a good, long soak...