DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have recently found out that our 14-year-old granddaughter, a freshman in high school, is being encouraged to drink, or more accurately, “chug,” beer out of cans with he
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Ezgi Özcan, left, a nutritional microbiome researcher with the LSU AgCenter, reviews images of a cross section of a mouse intestine, with students Shubhi Mishra, center, and Isabella Morrow.
Our brains govern our bodies, shaping our thoughts, movements and speech. But deep in our guts are powerful signals that can influence the brain.
DEAR ABBY: My brothers and I loved our father. He was an alcoholic until he was 37. After he stopped drinking, we became the best of friends.
LSU AgCenter/Olivia McClure
Stokesia, or Stoke’s aster, is a tough flowering perennial that’s native to Louisiana.
Divinity is a stokesia cultivar with pure white blooms.
When it comes to plants that demand minimal effort on the part of the gardener, you’d be hard pressed to find one that offers greater reward than stokesia.
DEAR ABBY: I’m a man younger than my age married to a woman who is older than hers. Ten years ago, we couldn’t get along, so we separated.
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