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...nurture to blame? Is America's gun culture at fault? Or did the kids kill because they were molested by perverts, beaten by parents, rejected by girlfriends, despised by classmates or revved up by "role-playing games, heavy-metal music, violent cartoons/TV [and] sugared cereal," as Kip himself suggested on the Internet profile he wrote well before the shooting, foreshadowing with eerie prescience the debate to follow...
...refined carbohydrates could indeed pose a problem for some people who are prone to diabetes. But, according to her 1997 study of 65,000 nurses, the greatest danger occurs only if those at risk also fail to consume enough whole grains like whole-wheat bread and rolled oats. Reason: cereal fiber has a counterbalancing effect that keeps insulin levels from rising...
Quietly capturing 20th century American life without resorting to good housekeeping and cereal commercials, Byers' families are conventional and ones that we can relate to. His pediatrician mothers don't save the lives of 30 cholera-stricken infants a day, nor do his scientist fathers discover life-saving cures for cancer. They are normal parents who read to their kids when ill, cancel vacation plans without too much ado, have a verbal fight or two without getting distraught over it. Byers' characters are not larger than life, despite their whimy--they're just about life size...
...Internet service account unearthed by the Portland Oregonian, Kinkel logs on as "Kipper" and, in what seems almost a parody of adolescent rebellion, lists his hobbies as "role-playing games, heavy-metal music, violent cartoons/TV, sugared cereal, throwing rocks at cars." His occupation: "Student, surfing the Web for info on how to build bombs." The result is nothing to laugh at; when police searched the family house, they found five homemade bombs (two with electronic timing devices) in a crawl space under the house, along with at least 15 other explosive devices, including a hand grenade, two 155-mm howitzer...
FOLATE FOR ALL A new recommendation for women of childbearing age: take a daily supplement of 400 micro-grams of folic acid, a B vitamin, to prevent birth defects. A separate study finds that eating cereal fortified with 400 mcg of folic acid can lower a man's blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease...