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...Once Jacob lands in Denmark After the Wedding - a rich, intricate and very gripping movie from Susanne Bier - takes off. His benefactor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard), is Jacob's opposite in every way. He's a large, bumptious man, open in his emotions - genial and generous in his family life - but devious and manipulative in his business dealings. He invites Jacob to attend the wedding of his adopted daughter, knowing full well that (a) he has married the great love of Jacob's life and (b) that the daughter is actually Jacob's child - a fact that becomes agonizingly clear...
...ticket. And that says nothing about the attendant hysteria of their plots. These were stories for grown-ups, who do not go much to mainstream movies these days. The result is that these dramas wandered off into glamour-trash TV (remember Dallas?) and then into total disuse. Something like Bier's film (or the much darker Danish film, The Inheritance of a few years back) reminds us of what we're missing. It's not just the elegant country houses we revel in. It's the sense these movies convey that money - the giving and withholding...
...jump among young people is clear," says Dennis Bier, director of the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "Concerns about proper growth and bone density should exist whether one's diet is vegetarian or not. But there's no question that if it's well planned, a vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy for kids...
...particularly careful to get enough iron, zinc, calcium and B12. (B12 is not found in vegetables.) Yet most experts agree that the diet is eminently manageable. "It's easier to absorb and maintain the necessary nutrients if you eat a little bit of meat or fish," says Bier. But beans, tofu, peanut butter, broccoli, milk, eggs and whole grains can provide protein, iron, calcium and zinc...
Indeed, carnivorous parents sometimes resist the diet, often for practical reasons. Making separate meals at dinner can be chaotic. And they worry about their kids' getting proper nutrition. "But kids--who don't tend to be great nutritionists--need to watch what they're eating regardless," says Bier. "And, keep in mind, most Americans need to be eating more fruits and vegetables anyway. It's good stuff...