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I have a daughter who was recently diagnosed with Celiac Disease.  She is 22 and it was a long road to this diagnosis which has been confirmed with an endoscopic biopsy.  She is finding it common that  other people don't take her new way of eating seriously-  She like others with her genetic disorder has been surviving but starving for many years because eating gluten makes the villi in her intestines shut down so she can't get the full amount of nutrition from the food she eats.  Every child in Ireland is tested for Celiac disease before starting school.  I know it would ease the way for her and others like her if there was greater awareness of this disease.  

posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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Research shows that shopping triggers endorphins. http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/shopping-spree-addiction  Could this be the age old programmed reward of hunting and gathering for food?  I think it is actually the hunt for the object that is rewarding more than the object itself for some of us.

My most recent purchase was food and socks at Costco.

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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To think that Reed College's policy statement has anything to do with the drug use on that campus is naive. I went to a small private college with a strong anti drug policy in the late 70's and two boys died of drug overdoses then. I have a child at a local large public university and my daughter has told me that her sorority sister is addicted to cocaine and is stealing from her sorority sisters. I have heard of a a sorority girl cocaine dealer in another state. Sororities have clear anti drug policies and this still happens. Drug problems are much larger than we want to think. Encouraging young people to get help should be the school's number one goal. My son went to an out of state large private school and told me that fellow students dealt in any kind of prescription drug you could name from vicadin to ritalin- the latter is used for a "study aid." Restricting access to campus from outsiders would make no difference.

The larger question is why are kids using? I think we adults need to take a good hard look in the mirror to answer that question.

posted 5 years ago
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