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With children and food allergy diagnoses, thoroughness is key
More and more kids these days seem to have food allergies, and peanut-free classrooms are becoming the norm in many elementary schools.
In trying to characterize the apparent increase, scientists have identified two distinct trends. The first is that...Tags: Asthma, Education, Skin Rash, David Geffen School of Medicine, Pediatrics
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Summer camps aren't just kids' stuff
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn my youth, nothing spelled summer more than my box of stationery, stashed in a trunk next to my insect repellent, shorts, towels and bathing suit. Summer camp was the pinnacle of the illusion of freedom, albeit in a controlled environment. There I...Tags: Hamburgers, Death, Foods and Beverages, Adults, Lifestyle and Leisure
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The food-mood connection
You've heard the claims: Chocolate evokes that loving feeling. Eating fish makes you smarter. Pure carbs calm you down. If you are what you eat, as they say, then it certainly stands to reason that food can influence mood and brain power.
The theory...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Omega-3 Fatty Acid, National Institutes of Health, Science and Technology
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Beauty abounds at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, England
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Everybody knows Kent," Charles Dickens wrote in "The Pickwick Papers," "apples, cherries, hops and women." Almost 175 years after publication of "Papers," Kent, just 50 miles south of London, is still known as the garden of England and the larder of...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, London (England), Michelin Group, History
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Six Flags amusement parks prepare for thematic makeovers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWham! Bam! Ka-Pow! A bruising brawl involving comic-book superheroes, Saturday morning cartoon characters and extreme sports icons will change the ride and roller coaster landscape of Six Flags' 11 U.S. amusement parks in 2011. An intellectual...Tags: Six Flags Inc., Daffy Duck (fictional animal), Theme Park Vacations, Six Flags New England, Tourism and Leisure
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In North Pole, Alaska, Christmas is a year-round labor of love for Santa's helpers
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAlong the Richardson Highway in the Alaskan interior, "towns" — and that's being generous — often spring up for a single purpose: to provide food, water and, of course, fuel to passing motorists. Mosquito Junction was once such a wayside. But...Tags: Holidays, Transportation, Santa Claus (fictional character), Paul Brown, Fairbanks
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In France, castle Guédelon being built to medieval standards
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWhen my niece, Sarah, was little, she returned from a long trip to Europe with her parents and announced she never wanted to set foot in another museum. Children who travel abroad are lucky, but on another level you have to pity the poor kids dragged...Tags: France, Paris (France), Foods and Beverages, Career and Workplace, History
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Hiking the Sierra with three llamas and a baby
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI wouldn't call it a vacation, exactly. Any time you have three pet llamas and a 3-year-old and you're covering 30 miles in less than a week, it's like, well, let's call it an adventure. My wife, Amber, and I and our high-energy daughter Ediza spent a...Tags: Ansel Adams, Animals, Forestry and Timber, Trips and Vacations, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61; wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards, a forceful political wife who became a bestselling author writing about her battle with cancer but whose marriage to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards unraveled because of his infidelity, died Tuesday. She was 61....Tags: Hillary Clinton, Defense, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), University of Virginia, Health Treatments
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When choosing a diaper is clothed in anxiety
On a recent Friday night, a very pregnant Sheila Dos Santos and her husband were two-thirds of the way through an hour and a half cloth diapering workshop, trying to wrap their heads around the myriad diapering options available to the modern parent....Tags: Education, Infants, University of Southern California
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A working mother's guide to writing a novel
Los Angeles Times Television CriticA dozen years ago, my editor at the Los Angeles Times asked if I wanted to interview novelist Mary Gordon, who was in Los Angeles on a book tour. Enormously pregnant, I said yes, partly because I love Mary Gordon and partly because her hotel was two...Tags: Physical Conditions, Oprah Winfrey, Mary Gordon, Health, Starbucks Corp.
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When is it OK to let kids be quitters?
When I signed up my 8-year-old son to play flag football recently, I encountered a startling statistic: 70% of kids quit youth sports by the time they are 14. When the Citizenship Through Sports Alliance came to this conclusion in 2005, it cited...Tags: Death, Sports
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