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Snook also remembers Cronin's, saying that it was a place that many students learned to drink for the first time...
...when he was 30, even though he continues to exercise at the same pace. Eight glasses of water or other fluids (except alcohol and caffeine) make up the base of the new pyramid. Younger adults need the same amount, but they don't have to be told to drink. Thirst tells them. As people age, though, the thirst signal can fade and fail to warn of dehydration...
...year-old needs 400 IUs (international units) of vitamin D a day, twice as much as a 30-year-old. A 70-year-old needs 600 units a day. Milk and some breakfast cereals and breads are fortified with D. However, you have to drink a quart of milk to get even 400 IUs. Again, a supplement makes sense. And because your body adjusts bone mass to the loads your skeleton is called upon to support, it is important to do weight-bearing exercises...
Such pressures affect those who work daily to fight stigma. Consider Michael Faenza. "If I didn't take medication for depression, I would drink a quart of Jack Daniels every week to slow my thoughts enough to go to sleep," he said recently. At first he asked that the comment not be printed. But then he reconsidered: he is, after all, president of the National Mental Health Association, a 90-year-old advocacy group. "That's one of the pieces in this puzzle, to remove the shame," Faenza says. "It takes some courage to do that...
COIN COLLECTING Congress is contemplating raising the President's salary from $200,000 to $400,000. One day the U.S. head of state may be able to buy his Singaporean counterpart a drink...