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...fortified milk (12.5 per fl. oz. [30 ml]), fortified orange juice (12.5) ? Calcium (1,000 mg to 1,500 mg needed daily): Atlantic sardines (108 mg per oz. [28 g]), canned salmon (68), low-fat plain yogurt (52), tofu (30), canned white beans (21) and regular skim milk...
...Calcium (1,000 mg to 1,500 mg needed daily): Atlantic sardines (108 mg per oz. [28 g]), canned salmon (68), low-fat plain yogurt (52), tofu (30), canned white beans (21) and regular skim milk...
...Widener or in Ticknor, trying hopelessly to study for my four massive finals. I see my peers with eyes fixed on the writings of Hume and Hegel, and feeling the inevitable pressure not to fall behind, I remain in the library in agony. Sadly, I achieve nothing. I read, skim, outline, and peruse, but in the end, the facts never stick. In a matter of minutes, they are regurgitated from my brain into that dark abyss of intellectual nothingness. I never used to have intellectual bulimia. I—like my other 1,600 classmates—was the cream...
...remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed?Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does...
...DEFENSE IN THE DAIRY CASE A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D can stave off the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Women in the study fared best when they got four daily servings of low-fat or skim milk. Is that too much milk? Try fortified orange juice or such low-fat dairy foods as yogurt and cheese...