European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday january 1, 1986 the stars and stripes Pago 9 health & science Nevis telethon is Chile s hottest to program Santiago Chile a _ � prime in e on a Fri. Day evening and most of Chile ii absorbed by a powerful drama on television. God forgive me sobs an impoverished woman who has Jast abandoned her infant daughter born without e secil18 Ner in the Nel scene the Girt a 2 years old a couple in their 60s, who have raised her from infancy bring the child to a clinic. A therapist puts her through daily or Lisej to prepare her for artificial limbs. Then comes violin music and bad news. The adoring couple is too old and too poor to adopt the child legally. They must give her up. Worse the rehabilitation clinic is running out 01 Money and might have to close. The show n not a soap opera. It is latin America s Premier telethon for disabled children. Inspired by actor Jerry Lewis fund miser for muscular dystrophy research in the United slates la telethon is Chile s splash est variety Bow the most popular Charity and highest rated to special. Rating Luvey showed no fewer than 64 percent of All to sets Luned in at any hour. It has inspired telethon for the handicapped in colom Bia Costa Rica Al Salvador Panama Paraguay and Peru. Ii s the touch of melodrama that makes the show a Success. Suddenly the armless child and her modest guardians arc on stage live with the master of ceremonies known As Don Francisco. With fanfare from an in piece orchestra he produces adoption papers. Rules have been Bent and the couple is rewarded for caring. As they weep lot Joy Don Francisco gets to the Point. Chile has thousands of disabled kids who need rehab ii he shouts. Co to the Bank now. Your donation can keep our clinics open and turn children s pain into for the next 27 hours 45-year-old showman Mai id Kreutzberger the real life Don Francisco tirelessly pleads and cajole pesos from a country stuck in an eco nomic slump. The program which has been held six times since 1978, always raise More than the previous year s show. Thanks to the telethon Chile has four free clinics helping children Cope with birth do Frau amputations and other crippling disabilities. The show also is credited with breaking Down negative stereotypes about the handicapped and with helping them venture out of seclusion. More than half the clinics patients now Are in Public schools. Krutz Butger a German immigrant s son is Chile s Best known figure after auguslus Pinochet the general who has ruled Chile since the 1973 coup Thil killed elected marxist president Salvador Allendc. To same the telethon is seen As a Way the authoritarian government channels emotions away from politics and idealized private Charity As a solution to social problems. dismisses criticism that die show amounts to emotional pandering that sponsors have Over commercialized it and donations have been wasted. Tho grave defect we have in our country is being negative always pulling things Dawn he said. The invest ment of donations is government audited and big Compa Nies would advertise anyway he said. This year s telethon featured a High school Beauty Queen struggling to walk again after being paralysed by a hit and run Driver a farm boy who lost u leg in Chile s Catas trophic earthquake last March a teen Ager working with artificial hands in his father s bakery a polio victim who married and gave birth to a child. Every hour one such invalid appeared on film then live on the show. In a tearful stage appearance with his Mother the 10-year-old quake victim look his first Steps with an artificial leg. Our country has a lot of problems Kreutzberger told the nationwide audience. We cannot solve them All with telethon but we must be United. Today we have Given an example of what Solidarity can Calcium May prevent Colon cancer study says Boston a eating More Calcium might help prevent Colon cancer one of the nation s leading cancer killers by neutralizing the hazards of a High fat diet a new study suggests. The researchers said their work is the first to Shew that Calcium can reverse Omi Nous changes in the lining of the Colon that often foreshadow cancer. They cautioned that the findings Are preliminary and they cannot recommend Broad changes in the Way people cat. But even though the work does t prove that Calcium stops Colon cancer it is a first step in the direction of trying to answer that question said or Martin Lipkin who directed the is a hopeful finding said or. David Kritchevsky of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. It is confirmatory of a lot of Early Dala both epidemiology is and experimental provides biological support for a Large population Survey Analysed recently by or. Cedric Garland of the University of Cali fornia san Diego. He found thai people wha drink lots of Mik a food Rich in Calcium and Vitamin a appear to have less Colon s extremely difficult in cancer to come up with any preventive said car land "1 think this shows that weve right on the Frontier of a very major find. About 138,000 new cases of Colon and recall cancer will strike americans this year according to current estimates. Approximately 6 percent of All americans will eventually get this form of Ouier and e million people alive today in the United Colon cancer q types adenocarcinomas Are the most common Type of cot rectal cancer less common Are Ryart pro Nas and d incidence second most com Mon cancer for both men and women 90% of Alt cases occur in tense Over the age of 50 q causes unknown current re search areas Ana diet environmental toxins and genetics n prevention Low fat High fiber diet recommended persons with personal or family history of polyps cot rectal cancer or ulcerative colitis should be Montero by a doctor d methods of detection digital rectal examination each year after age 40, Stool blood test each year alter 50 and every 3-to-5 years after 50 q warning signals change in Bowel habits blood in Stool and bleeding from rectum q treatment surgery at times combined with radiation is the most effective method Uver appendix i Cole a Large intestine rectum d survival rate of detected and treated in Early stages and confined to Bowel Wall 5-year survival rate is 60-90% Cru Cage Tribune graphic sauce american Crow society inc ago Tribune Newt Stales will die from ii. The latest study conducted with Harold Newmark at memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center in new York was published in the new England journal of Medicine. Many experts by Sieve that a High fat diet increases the risk of Colon cancer. The Dis ease is relatively rare in countries where people cat Las fat than americans typically consume. Even in the United Stales Colon cancer u relatively rare among members of the seventh Day adv Lisl religion. Church members Are largely vegetarians. According to one theory fat in the did increases the body s production of digestive chemicals such As bile acids. These in turn cause the lining of the Colon 10 produce new cell Marc quickly a condition associated with a High risk of Colon cancer. In the latest study researchers gave Calcium tablets la 10 people who had family histories of Colon cancer. The
