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  • A stranger in the nest

    The worst thing about being a parent is the guilt, especially if you're a mother. If your child is antisocial, hyperactive or underachieving, you are tacitly to blame. You're too cold, or overprotective, or inconsistent, or lacking in boundaries - to use the psychological lingo touted by the pop psychology movement. Mothers have been blamed for rearing schizophrenics and psychopaths, when the truth may be that some people are just born that way and there is very little parents can do to change them. "It's all baloney, this blaming little things for big problems, when most children exposed to much worse do much better," says David B. Cohen, a psychologist and author of Stranger in the Nest: Do Parents Really Shape their Child's Personality, Intelligence, or Character? To put it more elegantly, as Shakespeare wrote: "Good wombs have borne bad sons." p
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  • Lifelines

    Broccoli and cabbage are the only vegetables found to reduce the risk of bladder cancer. A US study of 50,000 men found the higher the intake of these vegetables, the lower the risk of cancer, regardless of the consumption of other fruit and vegetables. As the rate of bladder cancer is three times higher in men than women, the researchers comment these findings may not apply to women. p
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