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Show DAILY HERALD Saturday, August 25, 2007 A7 Childrens fussiness over Wardle said food prefer-i- k ences appear to be as inheritable physical characteristic Having trouble persuading 'as height. Unlike nearly every other your child to eat broccoli or spinach? You may have only phobia, neophobia is a normal yourself to blame. stage of human development. Scientists theorize that it According to a study of was originally an evolution- twins, neophobia or the fear of new foods is mostly ary mechanism designed to in the genes. . protect children from acdden- ' Chikiren could actually tally eating dangerous things blame their mothers for this, like poisonous berries or said Jane Wardle, director oif mushrooms, the Health Behavior Uiit at Neophobia typically kicks in St age 2 or 3, when children University College London, one of the authors of the study are newly mobile and capable ' in this month's American Jour- - of disappearing from their nal of Clinical Nutrition. parents' sight within seconds. Wardle and colleagues Being unwilling to eat new, asked the parents of 5390 things they stumble upon may pairs of identical and noniden- - turnout tobealifesaver. Deal twins to complete a quea- While most children grow tionnaire on their children's' out of the food fussiness by willingness to try new foods, age 5, not all do. For parents Identical twins, who share of particularly picky eaters, all genes, were much more experts encourage them not to cave in when their children likely to respond the same throw food tantrums. way to new foods than non-- ; identical twins, who like other 1torents should not feel like siblings only share about half they're doing something wrong their genes. Researchers con- - if they keeptrymg but their eluded that genetics played a child is not overjoyed to be greater role in determining eating brusseb sprouts, said eating preferences than envi- - Marlene Schwartz, of the Rudd ronment, since the twins lived Center for Food Policy and in the same household Obesity at Yale Uiiversity. Maria Cheng . Helen Kennedy associated mess , . . . ' . ; . cause I dont have Him. Sixty-siyears worth other, deeply personal letters to supro- - .. periors and confessors served by the Catholic Church despite her dying wish that are pub-they be destroyed lished in a new book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, excerpted in Time magazine. The book is by the Rev; Brian Kolodiejchuk, director of the Mother Teresa Center and the driving force behind efforts to canonize her. She has already been beatified, the step before formally being declared a saint. I've never read a saint's life where the saint has such an intense spiritual darkness. No one knew she was that tormented, Kolodiejchuk said. lt will give a whole new dimension to the way people under- stand her. He argues that the depth of her spiritual suffering increases her saintliness. Most believers suffer from crises of faith, but the duration of Teresas alienation from Christ seems extreme. .. It began, she said, soon after she set up her Missionaries of x MW VOW DAILY NEWS Mother Teresa, a globally beloved symbol of saintly de-votion to the poor, spent her last 50 years secretly struggling with doubts about her faith, her newly published letters show. If there be God please forgive me. When I tiy to raise my thoughts to Heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thouglXs return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul, she wrote. How painful is this un-- ' known pain 1 have no Faith. ... ; , ' . The letters paint an astonishing alternate portrait of the Hun revered for her selfless. . ness and serenity. In reality, she was tortured for decades by her inabilky to feel even the smallest glimmer of the Lords presence. She felt abandoned by Christ, referred to Jesus as the Absent One," and called her own smile a mask. In the 1960s, after receiving, an important prize, she wrote. This means nothing to me, be . . . : . . Charity in Calcutta in the late 1940s to succor Indias poor. And it lasted, with only a joy-- ;, ous fivoweek respite in 1959 when she refound God, until her death at age 87, a decade banian parents in what is now Macedonia, coped with what she termed her spiritual dryness by likening it to Christs doubt on the cross. .. T have come to love the darkness for ( believe now that jt is part of a very, very small pprt pf Jesus darkness & pain on earth, she wrote in 1961. Teresa was a oki convent teacher riding on a train in India on Sept. 10, 1946, when she said Christ spoke to her directly, telling her to become a missionary in the shuns to help the poorest erf the poor. Come be My light, is what she heard. Back then, she felt a deeply personal band with Jesus, recounting conversations and visions. It was that loss that she mourned the rest of her life, although she never abandoned her work. ago. There is such terrible darkness within me, as if every- thing was dead. It has been like this more or less from the time I started the work, she 36-ye- ar wroteinl953. After Pope Pius XII died in October 1958, Teresa prayed to him for proof that God was pleased with her work. Then . and there," she rejoiced, dis- appeared the long darkness ... that strange suffering of 10 years. . But five weeks later she reported being in the tunnd. agaia and her dark night of the soul never lifted. The nun, barn Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to ethnic Ak . . tfSESinrr wimix - ?' ,a,q, C aftis? 3. Cpoq ITWf); . i CiklrJ' 1 ' Wildfiowcr StMsxf priced from located MHes SMrth (801) 491-33- f cleat - Single Family Homes priced from - i J $350-$500,0-00 Single-Lev- el irumx Living at Preve aa Nwy. M la RaaatfM - 00 -- aWLV4lll WMKWLWOIITWPIIOMW MW 300,00011 f CAU. TODAY : FOR CXCUJMVC MCEMTIVE8 $2i9-S450,0- 00 Kim McKinley 801.755.933 Maptetea e GOLDBERG 801.554.4648 . 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