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Frank, the 12-year-old in The Squid and the Whale, gets a double dose of bad luck. The breakup of his parents' marriage comes just as Frank has hit puberty?hit it like a crash-test dummy slamming into a granite wall. In no time he has become a heavy drinker and a chronic masturbator while somehow remaining a sweet, devoted kid. The great trick is in the "somehow." Somehow Owen Kline embodied that bundle of complexities, found the pathos and comedy in poor Frank's turmoil...
...Antarctic krill oil, made from the tiny crustaceans that abound in southern seas and are consumed in great quantities by whales and other marine mammals. Krill oil is red from carotenoid pigments, which have high antioxidant activity, and it doesn't cause those fishy burps. A good starting dose of fish oil of any kind is 1g a day. Higher doses, up to 10g a day, have been used, with varying results, to treat such diverse conditions as depression, attention deficit disorder, bipolar disorder and even autism...
...good diet is certainly not the only way to protect and enhance brain health. Regularly exercising the mind and not smoking are also important. But food choices do count. So eat your vegetables, think about your daily dose of omega-3s, and consider flavoring more of your food with turmeric...
...denied in interviews any problem with alcohol) is likely to pounce hard in revenge. But denial is built in to alcoholism: there ought to be someone, somewhere in a British newsroom who can verify that. And as lies go, Kennedy's were fairly victimless. No, there's definitely a dose of false sanctimony in the rush to trash Kennedy's mea culpa. It recalls the frenzy last autumn with which the British press jumped on model Kate Moss, after pictures seemed to show her snorting cocaine in a London studio. (Last week, a Metropolitan Police official invited Moss to return...
...live a healthy life," says Clayton. "They want to know how to live their unhealthy lives better." So the good doc instructs the reader on how to minimize the risks: Quitting smoking by the time you're 30 mitigates almost all of the damage from smoking; taking a dose of 1600 IUs of extract of prickly pear cactus before drinking will reduce your hangover; it's healthy to drop 10 lbs. in a few weeks for a wedding or beach vacation without changing your lifestyle, if you don't mind regaining most of the weight. MOTTO...