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Show >aelaag evita: fo) Kitchen Essentials . r CPtcurtous taste test The NEW e-aeail newsletter that reveals the or your kitchen a supportingcastof great products, cookware, appliances,spices, food items, and more. Now, you be sure they are saysDr. Jan nstrom, here ing Mariah all of the highest quality with Epicurious Taste Test, the new weekly e-mail newsletter from the Dr. Jan Brunstrom, whohas cerebral palsy, world’s most acclaimed helps her young patients with CP not only to stand and walk but also tos-o-a-r. food Web site. to balsamic vinegar to indoorgrills to pesto each week, you'll get = ratings & reviews ® buying information = useful tips ® links to the best related recipes from BON APPETIT and GOURMET magazines ® original content not available elsewhere and much more! WhoSays Can't? 2 T FIRST GLANCE, the eager-eyed chil him, “and it shouldn't be in yours.” Thisis no mere peptalk. Thepetite, dren looklike any oth- 40-year-old physicianhas cerebral palyou'll receive the low introductory rate of $14.95 FOR 52 ISSUES AND you'll receive a FREE GIFT: Epicurious’s Top 25 Recipes of 2002 Try eto oa rrr re)i OeLLC Plus, FREE GIFT when you subscribe! Sign up for your free issues today at «Aicurtous.com er kids practicing their moves. Yet some wear leg braces, Musclecontractions contort the arms and hands of others. In this class, it doesn't matter thatthe students have cerebral palsy (CP), a movement disorderthat garbles communi. cation betweenthe brain and muscles. They're learning what noneof them imaginedthey ever could: martialarts. 1 can’t doit!” wails one boy. Dr. Jan Brunstrom,a greenbelt whostart ed a special martial-arts program for children with CP, looks him in the eye. “Can't isn’tin my vocabulary,” shetells sy herself. “All my life, peopletold me whatI couldn't do,” she explains. “They said I'd never walk, but I did, They said I didn’t belong in school, but I graduated high school as valedictorianat 16 and went on to becomea pediatric neurologist. They thought I'd . never marry or have a child,but I did. § Noonehastheright to tell people with < CP whatthey can or can’t do.” ? This never-say-never philosophy ise whatsets apartthe Pediatric Neurol- 3 ogy Cerebral Palsy Center at St. Lou- = is Children’s Hospital, founded by Dr Brunstrom in 1998. With1500 patients € PAGE 16 + JULY 27, 2003 * PARADE MAGAZINE |