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Thursday, May 16, 2013 – Daily News 3B FEATURES Vicious dog ruins dog park experience Calcium supplements park shut down, which is Dear Annie: I have an why I didn't call the police. 8-month-old puppy, and I What do I do? — Phoebe's take her to a local dog park Human Mom so she can run off leash and Dear Mom: If the park play with the other dogs, has a ''leader,'' then he is the which she loves. In the person to notify. This owner three months I have been seems ignorant of dog taking her, ''Phoebe'' has behavior and may have been never been attacked or fought with another dog. Annie's trying to ''socialize'' his dog by bringing the animal to a That was until last night, pet-friendly park. But it when Phoebe approached another dog that was on a by Kathy Mitchell sounds as if that dog needs leash and that dog attacked and Marcy Sugar training. It would be a kindness for someone to point her. My puppy whimpered and howled while being bitten on that out to him and make a referral her neck and back. I tried to get her before an animal is seriously hurt. Dear Annie: As an alcoholic in away, but the other dog was so recovery, it was interesting to me to vicious. The owner of the other dog just observe the self-righteousness in stood there making no effort to pull my family about my addiction as his dog away, nor did he apologize. they went through their heart surgI finally extracted Phoebe from the eries stemming from their addicother dog's mouth. As I was walk- tions to chocolate cake, bacon and ing away, the owner said he doesn't cherry pies. They are just as addictknow why his dog doesn't like other ed to food as I am to alcohol. They say it's ''different,'' but dogs. I was too shaken to reply. Besides, I felt sorry for the vicious how is it more legitimate to grab a dog, wondering what could have doughnut when under stress than to pour myself a cocktail? In spite of happened to make him like that. Luckily, Phoebe was not severely their heart surgeries and the struggle injured. I did my best to soothe her, of carrying 300 pounds on a body but it took several minutes to calm designed for 150, they somehow see her down. Before I left the park, I slamming down a cherry cobbler as warned other owners about the dog acceptable, but my having a beer is a sin. that attacked mine. Moderation in all aspects of our Why would someone bring a dog that hates other dogs to a dog park? lives might not be a bad idea. — No There is a gentleman who arranged Hypocrite in Paducah, Ky. Dear Paducah: Addictions, for the park to exist and is the ''leader.'' Should I tell him what regardless of type, involve the happened? I don't want to get the inability to control one's appetite, Mailbox whether it be for food, drugs, liquor, gambling, whatever. Unlike most other addictions, however, one cannot give up food altogether. So while we agree that there is hypocrisy, and of course moderation is best, there is in fact a difference between food, which is necessary for life, and alcohol, which is not. Imagine how much harder it would be to control your addiction if you were told that you absolutely must have three shots a day, but not a fourth. Or a beer. Or a replacement from the well-stocked pantry. Not an excuse, mind you. Just an observation. Dear Annie: I agree with ''Retired Teacher'' about high school guidance counselors. She is right on the money. Guidance counselors are not in schools to assist students with personal problems. That isn't even in their job description. Their primary function is to advise students about the courses they need to graduate. After that, a multitude of assessment responsibilities fill their time. While many may wish they could counsel to the emotional well-being of their students, they simply don't have the time. — K. Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. RB grad to study Arabic in Morocco Red Bluff High School graduate Sultan Beardsley, a student at U.C. Davis, has been chosen to study Arabic in Morocco this summer. Beardsley is one of approximately 610 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State's CLS Program in 2013. CLS participants will spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in one of 13 countries to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indone- sian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu. The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. It provides fullyfunded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. Selected finalists for the 2013 CLS Program hail from all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia and represent more than 200 institutions of higher education from across the United States, including public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, minority-serving institutions and community colleges. Consistent with the U.S. Department of State's goals to increase diversity among international educational exchange program partici- pants, the CLS Program actively recruits in states and regions of the United States that have been historically under-represented in international exchange and encourages students from diverse backgrounds and academic majors to apply. For further information about the CLS Program or other exchange programs offered by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, please visit our websites at http://www.clscholarship.org and http://exchanges.state.gov. Quilters group plans '50s Sock Hop The Sun Country Quilters Guild will be celebrating its 19th anniversary, and the ribbon winners from the 2013 quilt show, with a Sock Hop. Come dressed in your best '50s attire, and don't forget your cameras. May's meeting will be held one week early, due to Memorial Day, at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 20, at the Red Bluff Community and Senior Center, 1500 S. Jackson St., Red Bluff. Refreshments will be served. Interested quilters or non-quilters may attend up to three meetings in a year for a small fee of $5 per meeting, or you may join the guild for an annual membership fee of $30. More information is available by contacting Sun Country Quilters, P.O. Box 8266, Red Bluff, or visit www.suncountryquilters.com. 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Sever- clearly showed that men al recent studies have and women who took relraised a question about atively high doses of calwhether regular use of cal- cium supplements had cium supplements might higher risks. But that be bad for the heart. The doesn't prove that the calbottom line: It's too early cium supplements were to know if this risk is real. the cause of higher rates There's no doubt that of heart problems and we need calcium. It helps death. Surely, these studies muscles to contract, blood to clot and nerves to com- don't mean that you municate. And it plays an should forsake all calciimportant role in building um. Everyone needs calstrong teeth and bones. As cium to keep bones a result, many people take strong, taken in conjunccalcium supplements for tion with the bone-building vitamin, vitamin D. bone health. One new study fol- Losing calcium weakens lowed the health of nearly bones and leaves them 400,000 men and women. more prone to breaking. The study was published (I've put a table listing in the medical journal the daily recommended JAMA Internal Medicine. intakes of calcium and At the study's start, the vitamin D on my website, participants reported how AskDoctorK.com.)With much supplemental calci- the safety of calcium supum they took. From diet plements in question, try surveys, the researchers to get as much calcium as estimated how much calci- possible from food. Good um the study participants calcium sources include: — Low-fat milk and were getting from food. During 12 years of fol- cheese; — Calcium-fortified low-up, men who took more than 1,000 mil- orange juice or soy milk; — Breakfast cereals ligrams (mg) of supplemental calcium per day (which are also fortified); — Leafy greens, parwere 20 percent more likely to succumb to heart dis- ticularly, kale, turnip ease than those who didn't greens and Swiss chard. take calcium supple- (Go easy on spinach. It is ments. But there was no high in iron, which tends connection between calci- to block calcium absorpum supplements and heart tion.) — Sardines and other disease in women, and there was no connection canned fish with bones included. with calcium from food. I'm sure there will be Another recent study that followed more than more research studies on 61,000 women in Sweden this important question. was published in the I'll keep you posted. medical journal BMJ. Dr. Komaroff is a Among women who took physician and professor at more than 1,400 milligrams per day of calci- Harvard Medical School. um supplements, the risk To send questions, go to of premature death was AskDoctorK.com, or write: more than doubled — Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck particularly death from St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115. heart disease. 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