European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 regulating modern living vitamins Ahard Pilto Swalby Byjah Ziegler United press International life is More hectic than Ever if youre burning the Candle at both working playing hard and you May not be getting All the nutrients you if youre anxious or harried by your nitpicker by your spouse or delayed by your your body May be using up too rapidly the vitamins necessary for you need a special Vitamin supple ment As whether they need and whether they do what they say they have remained areas of some scientists say the government failed dismally when it had the Chance to Institute and now the whole territory is growing out of feeding Consumers misinformation and bilking them of millions of dollars for products they dont this is an incredibly under regulated Industry which is free to do just about anything it wishes said Irwin professor of Medicine and director of the clinical nutrition research Center at the University of Rosenberg headed a panel that looked into vitamins for the food and drug its issued in was we went through All the vitamins and Vitamin combinations and wrote a thoughtful document whose thrust was to identify those things for which Vitamin treatment or prevention was appropriate and and to evaluate those those for which there didst seem to be and to talk about dosage the idea that More was not necessarily we then talked about increasing the Label information so Consumers would be better when the news came out that the report was Rosenberg letters flooded Congress and the the correspondence was from health food stores and their health magazines and those involved with the Vitamin Industry who feared the Fra was about to Issue regulations to take vitamins he there was such a flood of letters to the Fra that the Fra buried the report and left the Field which i think was a travesty of regulatory Rosenberg vitamins now fall into two the Fra regulates them As food products and oversees la which must not make any therapeutic claims or it can bring the pills under food Vitamin Advertis ing is the Federal Trade commissions the according to John head of the nutrition keeps watch Over vitamins from a safety so the pills have not been of concern in that we May be changing our View in that regard be cause of some recent evidence of Vitamin b6 having an Impact on peripheral he were looking at the b6 there have been reports that consumption of b6 Many times higher than the 2 to Milligram daily allowance can cause peripheral nerve some athletes who took 20 to 30 times the Rda had trouble walking two to three years Vanderveen said the 1979 which he called an excellent piece of fell because of politics and pressure in sure congressional constituencies Are those Fra folks Are up there trying to Over regulate and take away Freedom of he the Etc has never taken action on stress a spokesman but by Law cannot reveal whether it is considering intervention or beginning an third world threat by Barry Shlachter associated press brought under control 20 years malaria is on the Rise again in Many coun tries of the third three million a third of them Chil die of the Mosquito borne disease every year 2 billion people 52 percent of the worlds population live in malaria risk areas in 100 according to the United nations world health organi the resurgence of malaria was evident at Mangap Wang one recent morning As Young men lugging ungainly ddts praying canisters fanned out around the Vil they were part of a project to eradicate the disease that has become the biggest health problem on the two spice islands of a Semi autonomous part of Tanzania on the african malaria cases increased 40 percent Between 198182 in Haiti and 29 percent in the dominican which share Hispaniola Island in the while malaria cases dropped significantly in India Between 1977 and cases climbed More than 400 percent in neighbor ing according to the world health Organiza Tion in Erm Bombeck everyone wants to be a there dont seem to be enough space shuttles to accommodate All the teacher and science nauts who want to travel to outer not to mention Mon key nauts and the Way i the people who Are chosen have to bring with them an idea for an Experiment they can conduct while in space that would Benefit Mankind in some i got the five famil nauts wife and three children would be launched on a space shuttle to see if camping in space is As hazardous to your mental health As it is on the Experiment is a after every physical aspect of camping is already built into the shuttle the area is no bigger than a Coffee the big water tank that you bump your leg on every time you the off India Southern sri Lanka saw malaria reduced in 1963 to just 17 cases 11 of them newly arrived foreigners and issued a postage stamp Mark ing the Victory Over the but Mohan Deputy director of sri lankan health said there were cases last in absenteeism due to malaria at schools and workplaces can reach 25 percent following Monsoon said Juma the Overall antimalarial pro Gram director Abu the islands 36year old malaria control himself contracted the Dis official statistics Here reflect the rollercoaster ups and Downs of the past two the percentage of Zanzibar is having bouts of malaria dropped from nearly 70 percent in 1958 to under 5 percent in but last the rate was Back up to 50 to 60 said Robert an american who is the chief Malario Lolist on the project funded by Loans from the Agency for International development if Zanzibar program haunt been suspended in the malaria would now be 98 percent said who has battled the disease in Africa for the world health organization and Aid after giving up a just too monotonous pest control business in Kansas the environment program blames much of the spread of malaria on improper use of the massive use of insecticide achieved but in recent years the mosquitoes have become Resis Tant to the main insecticides used against while the parasites themselves have become resistant to Many antimalarial it urged a return to traditional control such As cutting grass and draining holes where water collects and mosquitoes for has made impressive gains through such Community eradication prac while the use of Dot is severely restricted in 19 counties because of fears it might cause Turner maintains it is the safest and most effective weapon against the malaria spreading Anopheles and Zanzibar mosquitoes have yet to build a resistance to the he Dot is a dirty word in the he said in an there were Many abuses when it was considered an Endall but we dont put it into the Environ we put it into the it Doest cause health problems for it does kill Aid officials in dares the tanzanian said sprayers in the Zanzibar program Are protected from Dot by gloves and Long sleeved sleeping bags hanging from the the Little drawers of packaged foods in bodies floating through the air and a toilet that Doest theres no doubt in my mind that an anxious world would breathlessly await word on whether or not kicking the Back of daddy seat for Miles would eventually cause him to take a walk into space and never what would be the effects on children who had Only one window to fight Over would it cause shortness extreme nausea or would the desire pass if there was a teenager on How Long would it take her to find life on another planet to Call Long Dis Tance How Many orbits would the space shuttle make before they theres nothing to do or would this be the first word from the launch pad would Mother pig out while experiencing weightless Ness and then refuse to leave the shuttle when she hit Gravity again How Strong is the possibility that no matter How far you were from another space shuttle would land next to you on the Moon with a Barking dog and a loud radio How far would you have to travel to reach the first pizza parlor kids would probably love the experience since there Are no showers to no dishes to Wash and no one go to your fathers would probably love the experience since there Are no traffic and whole roomful of that beats i dont know if a woman would leave her All electric her Hairdresser and dynasty and ride Miles to visit maybe just if they had a Plu Bernaut c los Angeles times Syndicate