Parents Magazine

The following appeared in an article on school cafeteria menus in a parenting magazine. 

Here are a few sites we wish anyone buying a baby present for us would surf. Some sell (adorable) clothes and baby blankets others stock toys not made of plastic. Many of the nursery resources listed (page 119) also sell sheets, blankets, and baby clothes. If you don t need any more stuff, ask for a subscription to your parenting magazine of choice or our trusty resource, The Green Guide. 

From the onset, parents and educators scoffed at this new medium. With an eye firmly cast on the potential school market, industry leaders tried to deflect criticism by producing factual or educational comics. In April 1941, Parents Magazine began True Comics, a juvenile version of Life magazine. EC Comics followed with Picture Stories from the Bible (Old Testament) and Picture Stories of the New Testament, profits from which went to various religious organizations. 

This is a group that can get three olives off a skewer resting in a martini glass with the adroitness that their parents showed with a roach clip or rolling papers. They no longer need to buy or read Wallpaper magazine. They were born, as adults, under its sign. 

It has now been well established that expectancies play a central role in the production of placebo effects.21 People s expectations of relief are not only correlated with how much benefit they report, but also with changes in the brain activity associated with the therapeutic benefit. These expectancies are formed and altered in many different ways. Our beliefs are influenced by parents, teachers, friends and colleagues, the advertisements we see on television and in newspapers and magazines, news programmes... 

Rottas, M., M. Kirchoff, and K. Parent. 2004. Pfizer works with future scientists to promote environmentally responsible science. inChemistry Magazine. 13 (4) 17. 

Viveca Novak, New Ritalin Ad Blitz Makes Parents Jumpy, Time 158, no. 10, September 10, 2001, pp. 62-63. Available online. URL http //www.time.com/ time/magazine/article/0,9171,173468,00.html. Downloaded April 12, 2009. 

A provocative, nontechnical article on the ability to choose, with the aid of a flow cytometer, the sex of our children was written by L Belkin ( Getting the Girl in The New York Times Magazine, July 25, 1999, pp 26-55). Results from a clinic that sells this technique to prospective parents have been reported by Fugger EF, Black SH, Keyvanfar K, Schulman JD (1998). Births of normal daughters after MicroSort sperm separation and intrauterine insemination, in-vitro fertilization, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Hum. Reprod. 13 2367 2370. 

Although the study did not examine reasons for the increased use of medications on the children, Zito speculated, in an interview with Society magazine (July 2000), that parents of the children may feel pressured to have their children conform in their behavior. ... 

In a recent magazine advertisement by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (sponsored by the Office of National Drug Control Policy), a teenage girl is pictured with the text, Sure, I want my freedom, but without parental supervision, I m much more likely to smoke pot and stuff. I hope my parents don t try to act like my friends. What I really need is parents. The text along the bottom of the ad reads, Talk. Know. Ask. Parents. The Anti-Drug. ... 

Figure 6.1 Since the 1980s, Ritalin has won a reputation among many parents, doctors, and teachers as a wonder drug that is capable of helping inattentive and poorly behaved children become more manageable, better students. As this cover of Time magazine from November 1998 demonstrates, however, some experts question whether Ritalin should be used so frequently, and whether it is right for every child who shows symptoms similar to those of ADHD.

We know for certain that blood pressure tends to rise as we get older. Family history plays a big role. Elevated blood pressure, in turn, raises our risk of having strokes and heart attacks. While there s not much we can do to turn back the hands of time and we can t choose our parents and grandparents, there are also a lot of things that appear to lower blood pressure and the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Conversely, there are other things, some of which are touted in magazines and health food stores, that have little or no effect or may even raise blood pressure. Perversely, some medications, both over-the-counter and prescription-only, can make blood pressure go up. 

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