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...years old and up, but its language makes it accessible to younger children. McCormick, who has two grown children, is adamant that young readers will benefit from knowing the truth about this pernicious practice. "If you're 12, I think you'll understand what's happening," says the author. "But I don't think it will hit you the same way if you're too young for the book." While the book is blunt, it is never sensational: "Men come. They crush my bones with their weight. They split me open," says Lakshmi. And it is less about sex than...
...centers that specialize in eating disorders report that every year, they're ministering to more middle-aged and older patients, mostly women. The condition strikes people across ethnic and economic lines. Says Margo Maine, a psychotherapist and an eating-disorder specialist based in West Hartford, Conn., and a co-author of The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect (Wiley; 2005): "Anorexia is an equal-opportunity disease...
...long knives come out in Season 2 of this competition from the makers of Project Runway. Last spring's edition proved that food preparation can be as telegenic as dress design--what is haute cuisine but fashion that you can eat? With a new, better host (model and cookbook author Padma Lakshmi) and new challenges (this week a lightning sushi round), Top Chef makes food entertaining without dumbing it down, not unlike a good Vegas restaurant. Don't watch on an empty stomach...
...latest candidate? Television. Author Gregg Easterbrook stirred the blogosphere last week with an article on Slate provocatively titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism." The piece cited an as yet unpublished study from Cornell University, although not from its medical school. Economist Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, got to thinking that TV watching--already vaguely associated with ADHD--just might be the culprit that tips vulnerable toddlers into autism. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. Nor was he deterred by the fact that there are no reliable large...
...year olds now who are using their headphones inappropriately may have pretty whopping hearing losses and will have to spend the rest of their lives dealing with the fact that they cannot hear at proper levels,” said the study’s main author Brian J. Fligor, an audiologist at the Children’s Hospital Boston and an instructor in otology and laryngology...