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Nutrition Myths

Parents have recently been serving up lots of questions regarding their child’s nutrition based on more fiction than facts. This week I thought I would do some myth-busting of some common nutritional myths. - Popular myths - Is taking a daily multivitamin giving your child all ...

Nov. 22, 1963

While there’s no shortage of Homo Sapiens (in fact, I can easily be convinced we’re a global blight) I think I qualify for the Endangered Species List. Or maybe more exactly, the Endangered SUB-Species List. And what, pray tell, is my sub-species? It is Homo Sapien Lector Obsessus. Or in ...

Kiss my cruda

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou At 6:30 p.m., it was 88 degrees, with a two-hour wait — just another Thursday night at Casa del Sol. Dermott Morgan was spinning tales and pushing margaritas while I ran food, and Jay Fogarty, with ...

Healing from a difficult journey

Keene resident Robyn Shumer’s memoir chronicles her struggle with the eating disorder that surfaced in her childhood. By the time she was 8 years old in 1982, she was terrified that the scale in her doctor’s office would show her to be over 40 pounds. The New Jersey school she attended ...