European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday May 30, 1977 modern Medicine diet is the main Caus of intestinal Gas attacks Onn Landers by Michael j. Halberstam m.d.". The stomach Cramm d with every dish a Fombo Brol d and roast and flesh and ish where bile and wind and phlegm and acid Jarand All the Man is one intestine War the poet who wrote these lines probably fought some intestinal wars of his own. Laymen and physicians have been fascinated and occasionally embarrassed by their stomachs throughout recorded of the troublesome byproducts of the Normal digestive process is Eruc tation belching. Another is flatulence or intestinal Gas. The two conditions arc often though not necessarily related belching is usually caused by swallowing air. A common Trail especially among Ner Vous people. Swallowed air can also Pas through the stomach and into the intestines. In other cases belching occurs when the stomach empties slowly because of a Block age in the pyloric valve through which Foo must pass to reach the Small intestine. The food is trapped in the stomach Long enough to ferment and form gases. The most common cause of intestinal Gasis the diet. Certain foods like Beans cab Bage cauliflower Brussels sprouts onions and for some people milk and milk products Are Gas producing. They contain Peculiar carbohydrates that cannot be digested by the Normal intestinal tract. Bacteria in the lower intestine then interact with these carbohydrates to form Carbon dioxide and Hydrogen Normal person passes from 400 to 1,. 000 cubic centimetres of Gas each Day. When this bodily function is suppressed problems can arise. For example the combined pres sure of food and Gas May cause diverticula disease an inflammation of the tiny sacs diverticula which protrude through soft spots in the intestinal of a belch can cause prob lems a Well. A famous Case in medical annals describes a Man who leaned across the table As his Bridge partner lit his cigarette. He needed to belch but let the air pass discreetly through his nose. A medical Jour Nal reported that he electrified his associates by producing two fan shaped flame from his one of the other players later remarked that he looked just like dragon doctor.". ._., in another instance a Man belched while lighting a cigarette and was amazed to Sec it shoot out of his Mouth followed by a Flam and a loud bang. The combustible properties of stomach and intestinal Gas which contains varying proportions of nitrogen oxygen Carbon dioxide Hydrogen and methane have also been known to cause explosions when the have come into Contact with anaesthesia during surgical excellent Way to relieve Gas pressures is daily exercise. For general health reason Sas Well a person should walk whenever pos sible use stairs instead of elevators and avoid sitting for hours at a time. When pressures build and Gas pain result they can be relieved by rocking Back and Forth with the Knees held close to the Chest by lying prone Over some pillows or for the More athletic by standing none s head. This works because Gas tends to Rise the less athletic can try a modified beads land and Bend Over the Edge of a bed or padded table with their tags on the Flat sur face and their hands on the floor so that the body face downward forms a right Angle. These measures May be More effective than Many widely advertised Over the coun Ter medications for stomach and Gas abundance and popularity of these products however attest to the fact that Man people arc combatants in Man s great intestine Art Buchwald dear Detroit i Don t mean the City but the automobile Industry. When i was a boy you were a legend in my House. My rather said you could do anything. If people wanted convertibles you could make convertibles. If they wanted Long fins on their cars you could give them Long fins. One magic wave of your Wand and you could make the Best engine Money could kids used to sit on the Side of the Parkway pointing out Packard and Nastiest and Studebaker and Hudson and Fords and bricks and Fontics and Chrysler and de solos and Aoee every once in a while a Cord which Many of us agreed was the finest looking car of them All. There was no doubt Hal Detroit was the greatest when world War ii came do Droit Rose to the Challenge producing tanks and guns and personnel carriers. No one Lold you How to do it. You knew1k w to do it there was no question in any i s mind. Whether in came to jeeps or bulldozers. Detroit was turning out the stuff that would make Hiller and Mussolini and Tojo sorry they Ever messed with the Good old . , you were something. After the War you rolled up your sleeves and your engineers gave us air conditioning and stereos an windows thai opened and closed by pressing a Button. You put an engine in the Back an engine in the front you gave us tinted Glass and defroster front and rear and you figured out a Way of building the radio Aerial right inside the Windshield so no one could see were the Pride of the american Industrial revolution and any thing that was asked of you you would say without hesitation can lately All this has changed. When you were asked to Cut Down on the poisonous emissions spilling out of your exhaust pipes the spirit went out of you. Instead of rising to the Challenge As you did for so Many years you sent us your presidents and chairmen of the boar crying Crocodile tears into the Potomac claiming you could t do it. What kind of Panl waists Are you what happened to the fighting geniuses who used to thrive on challenges where Are the men of steel who would never admit defeat Don t Send us your High priced lawyers and lobbyists to flood the Halls of Congress pleading it s impossible to make a clean Low fuel consuming car. Don t threaten us with closing Down your factories be cause the standards set for you can t be met. ,._.go Back to the drawing boards retool your factories hire the Best brains that Money can buy. And get on with the Job let s Haven More shameful whining Detroit. If your executives Don t have the stomach for it find some who do. All 01 us Are rooting for you. Anyone who gave us automatic transmission and torque converters and put a Chevrolet engine in an Oldsmobile car can figure out a Way to give us am enclosing a copy of the utile engine that could which think is must Reading for everyone in your Industry. I believe it will in spire you to give the clean emissions problem another ofr5 your Keester Detroit. And lets have no More belly aching. 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If my child Ever comes into my life i will sue everyone advise adopters that unexpected exposure of the pastcan cause a great Deal of damage heartache and eve break up an otherwise Good marriage. Sealed forever8 i Hope dear sealed i always have taken the position that adoption records should remain sealed forever to everyone and i shall continue to hold that line inspire of mounting pressure from the opposition.1 Tell All adopters your real parents Are the people who raised you. Don t go poking around. You May regret dear Ann Landers i am Telephone solicitor. My Job in t the Best Way to get to know the Public. We phone people mom ing noon and night and i realize we could get on a person s nerves but Why Don t they re Alize that they can get on our nerves too when i was a kid i remember my Mother teaching us m Only 20 years old and it. Seems like manners Are rapidly going out of style. We talk to at least a Hundred people a Day. Would you believe that so per cent of the time Weed up getting a rec lever slammed in out ear not so Muchas a no thank you or a Good we just end up talking to ourselves. Please print this letter to let people know there s a human being on the other end of the line dear . Here s your Tetter and i Hope it help. No thank Yon takes just second today. How about it folks dear Ann Landers my Hus band died of lung cancer last year. He was a heavy smoke Rand the doctor said his cancer was caused by Don t newspapers Don t say cancer in the obituary isee heart attack often but cancer is rarely husband never missed Reading the death notices. I sure if he had seen lung cancer in the obituaries five or 10 time she would have Given up Cigar ets Long before he did. He stopped smoking in 1970, but the doctor said it was too late please answer in the paper. It might give some of those editor san idea. Thank you. Stockton. Calif. 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