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Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University and former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard...
...many researchers, that's strong evidence that fish-oil supplements work. "I don't know how they can avoid a health claim," says Dr. William Cooper, a professor of endocrinology at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. "There will be court action, I'm sure, if they...
...benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. But here again, the evidence is incomplete. "We have a long way to go before we understand the minimal amount of omega-3 needed by the body and whether the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 is critical," says Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University School of Medicine...
...retrospect, pediatricians and psychologists say, there have been hints for the past decade or so that something strange was going on. But it wasn't until 1997 that anyone put her finger on it. That's when Marcia Herman-Giddens, now an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, published her famous paper in the journal Pediatrics. Herman-Giddens noticed in her clinical work that more and more young girls were coming in with breasts and pubic hair. Intrigued, she launched a major study of 17,000 girls to get a statistical handle...
...they don't look it, which can lead to all sorts of problems. For one thing, it makes these girls very obviously different from their peers--a position that can be deeply embarrassing for early and late developers alike. More ominously, says Susan Millstein, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, "people think they're older, and the kinds of pressures put on them are more than they can handle." Marissa Carter, Sharon's mother, puts it more bluntly. "Girls who look more mature for their age are like honey," she says. "They attract older boys...