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One of my girlfriends has a very singular type of financial

problem – her teenage boys are practically eating through

her paycheck. As fall athletics ramp up, her kids’ appetites

are escalating and their buddies – often around the home

after sports practice – routinely raid her kitchen. As her

grocery bills spiral out of control, she’s struggling to

determine how to manage her budget so that her savings goals

aren’t (quite literally) eaten away.

I absolutely understand her plight. There were many things

that I was unprepared for when I became the stepmother of two

teenage boys, but the grocery bill was unexpectedly among the

most staggering day-to-day expense I encountered. I value

healthy eating, but I quickly learned that feeding a bunch of

teenagers requires a different type of menu planning, snack

strategies and sneaky techniques for hiding expensive treats

from the teeming hoards of friends who stopped by and plowed

through the cupboards.

(MORE: The Other Awkward Talk You Need to Have with Your

Kids)

Raising kids is expensive in many ways, and food expenditures

– a substantial portion of that overall cost – are not

getting any cheaper. According to a recently released USDA

report, a middle income family with a baby born in 2011 will

spend $234,900 on average to raise that child to age 18

(excluding the cost of college) – and food costs account for

16 percent of that total, or about $37,440.

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See your GP. Doctors can prescribe medication for you, such

as anti-spasmodics, laxatives and anti-diarrhoeals. "There's

no problem taking laxatives and anti-diarrhoeals in the long

term if you have IBS," adds Professor Whorwell.

Flatulence

Could be the cause if: You are passing a lot of wind, but

don't notice any other symptoms. We all experience flatulence

from time to time — it's perfectly normal to do so up to 15

times a day — and sometimes you may not even notice that you

are doing it. While there's no medical definition of

excessive flatulence, if it's bothering you and makes life

awkward or feels uncomfortable, there are steps you can take

to reduce it.

Try cutting down on foods that are high in non-absorbable

carbs. Common culprits include beans and pulses, broccoli,

cabbage, prunes and apples, and foods containing the sugar

substitute sorbitol. These tend to be digested very slowly

and can release small amounts of sulphur gas while they pass

through the gut.

Nutrition consultant Ian Marber says, "Eat food slowly and

remember to chew. Without chewing, food is more likely to

pass into the gut partially broken down and there's a higher

chance it will ferment and produce gas." Be aware that,

occasionally, an underlying health condition — including

those that are listed here — could also be causing

flatulence.

By the end of the war

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What makes the Civil War--the War of the Rebellion, as it was known at the time, at least in the North--interesting is its political character and the political transformations it brought into being. And these Neely appears to ignore in his effort to confound the conventional wisdom. Neely might regard the massacre of black troops at Fort Pillow as a racist sidebar to the main, and relatively restrained, action. But in truth Fort Pillow captures far more of the central dynamic of the conflict. The war, let us remember, was provoked by a rebellion of Southern slaveholders against the authority of the federal government. The Lincoln administration regarded the rebellion as a treasonous act that it aimed to suppress militarily, and never officially recognized the Confederacy's existence (nor did any other nation). The slaveholders' rebellion and the Union invasion of the South in turn provoked a rebellion of growing numbers of slaves, who fled from their plantations and farms, headed to Union lines in the expectation of finding freedom, and signed up to fight their owners as soon as the Lincoln administration allowed them to do so.
The Confederates did not take the slaves' actions lightly. They considered black soldiers to be slaves in rebellion and ordered that, if captured, they be treated as such: re-enslaved or executed by the authorities of the states to which they belonged. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate commander at Fort Pillow (and later one of the organizers of the Ku Klux Klan), simply short-circuited the process. "It was understood among us," one Confederate soldier wrote in 1864 from North Carolina, "that we take no negro prisoners." By the end of the war, black soldiers composed about 10 percent of the Union Army, and in some departments close to half of it. In this, as in so many other areas of meaning, African Americans seemed to have understood better than their white counterparts the social transformations that the wartime struggles portended, and the need to debilitate if not to destroy the enemy. The intensity of their military engagements captured a political essence of the war, and foreshadowed the bloody encounters of the postwar period.