European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 28, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 17 the hazards of non Dairy Cream in your Coffee by Rob Stein United press International c Offee drinkers using non Dair creamers in the belief the products help fend off heart attacks May be doing themselves More harm than Good. Many creamers Bill themselves As  but doctors say they actually include ingredients that prompt the body to produce excess amounts of cholesterol which can clog arteries and cause heart disease. When these companies advertise their creamers As cholesterol free i m certain Many people use them because they think they re doing themselves a cardiovascular favor said or. Bruce m. Mcmanus of the University of Nebraska medical Center. But that is far from proven and is Likely to be  Mcmanus and an associate surveyed the ingredients of 25 brands of non Dairy creamers and found that most were made from animal proteins and contained Coconut Oil for Flavouring and texture Mcmanus said. While vegetable proteins help the body reduce cholesterol animal proteins cause the body to produce More cholesterol Mcmanus said. Coconut oils moreover contain High Levels of saturated fatty acids which also make the body produce cholesterol he said. Although the body needs cholesterol excess amounts can Deposit in the arteries causing hardening of the arteries and heart attacks. They re advertised As cholesterol free As if they re healthy for you but saturated fat intake above a certain level is As important and probably More important than one s intake of cholesterol in determining your blood Levels of cholesterol said Mcmanus who outlined his warning in a letter to the new England journal of Medicine. Non Dairy creamers represent a kind of advertising that goes on in the food Industry that certainly inadvertently misleads the Public into using a product he said. James Summers of the food and drug administration said that while current regulations bar the use of the phrases no cholesterol or cholesterol free on food products the regulation is often unenforced. I am aware that there Are certain products that May have the cholesterol statement on the Label said Summers. There Are other priorities we have and i would not think this would be among the High  noting that americans drink 33 million Gallons of Coffee daily Mcmanus recommended that heavy Java drinkers consider drinking their brew Black or with skim milk. Men lore s disease a mysterious affliction of the inner ear by Gayle Young United press International for people with veniere s disease the first sign that their inner ear has become infected is not pain or hearing impairment Buta sickening loss of balance. They can t find the floor to put their feet on it said Charlene Ennis spokeswoman for the House ear Institute in los Angeles. For some it s an occasional dizzy spell but for others it s a constant inability to even sit up in  veniere s disease is As dangerous As it is mysterious. Doctors know it causes fluid to build up in the inner ear where both the sense of balance and hearing Are located. The pressure of the fluid damages both causing spells of vertigo and permanent hearing loss. But doctors who have been studying the disease for 40 years still do not know what causes the fluid buildup said Ennis. Menderes which affects an estimated 3.5 million americans is difficult to cure and in most cases the sense of balance can Only be restored through delicate surgery. The inner ear is located in the Temple of the Skull a pocket of air safely tucked behind the Middle ear Erma Bombeck which is connected to both the outer ear and the nasal passages by a Long tube called the eustachian. Within the chamber of the inner ear lies the Cochlea through which sound is transmitted to the brain in signals we know As  the inner ear also is half filled with liquid which travels a labyrinth to the brain where it triggers a nerve that gives us our sense of balance. Most ear infections strike the Middle ear which is susceptible to bacteria travelling through the eustachian tube said or. Robert Jahrsdoerfer spokesman for the american Academy of otolaryngology. These infections Are painful but rarely dangerous he said. Infections of the inner ear however Are rarely painful but almost always dangerous. In veniere s disease the overproduction of fluid in the inner ear puts pressure on the Cochlea and destroys the hair thin nerves that pick up sound Waves. The excess of fluid drains into the brain where it stimulates the nerve that controls balance to a Point of confusion. The disease strikes at any age said Ennis. It May be under diagnosed because elderly sufferers May be convinced they Are having dizzy spells and experiencing hearing loss due to old age. Some people can live with an occasional bout of vertigo said or. Derald e. Brackmann an otolaryngologist at the House Institute which is considered to be a leading research Center into veniere s. Others because of their age or occupation want something done he said. Treatment really depends on the  a handful of veniere s patients can be treated with diuretics which Drain the ear of excess fluids he said. But for most the Only answer is surgery Brackmann said. Approximately two thirds can be helped by an operation in which a permanent shunt is positioned in the inner ear. It carries excess fluid from the chamber and drains it into the spinal column he said. The amount of fluid effecting the inner ear is slight Only an eyedropper full can Send the world spinning. For those who Are not relieved by that operation doctors perform another in which the nerve that receives balance signals from the diseased ear is severed. The patient maintains a sense of balance from the identical nerve stimulated by the Undis eased ear Brackmann said. Hearing loss is very very common although total hearing loss is rare he said. Usually the other ear takes Over and the patient is Only slightly  f or some reason my children have never for a minute believed half of the things i  told them if they made terrible faces their faces would freeze but they did t buy it. I told them if they put their hands outside of a car window their hand would blow off but they just laughed. Even when i offered to document the Story of Achild who swallowed Bubble gum and his insides stuck together and he could never play baseball again because his arms stuck to his sides they remained non believers. Now that they Are grown they Are totally out of control. If i told them wednesday followed tuesday they d say Are you sure that is Why i could t help sharing with them a letter that i received recently from a Young Mother in Missouri. In some Way it s the support system i needed for All those years when i tried to protect my children from pain and disappointment through my Wisdom. The Mother was Riding in the car with her 5-year-old when she noticed he was Licking the Metal Zipper in his coat. She stopped the car and delivered a detailed explanation of what could happen if he continued to put his warm Tongue on anything cold. It would stick there and he would go through the rest of his life with a coat hanging onto the end of his Tongue and people would stare and he would have trouble Licking ice Cream and he would look funny in the class pictures and it went on and on. He looked at her like my children looked at me and every other child looked at their Mother since the beginning of time. With open disbelief. Later that afternoon his older sister came running into the House to inform her Mother that her brother was stuck to a Chain link Fence by. Guess what you got it. His Tongue. Our heroine moved with the Speed of a Gazelle. She grabbed a plastic Glass and filled it with warm water and in her House slippers ran out of the House where she hit a Patch of ice and Slid Down the Hill at an Angle. She hit the grass and turned a Cartwheel spilling the water. When her daughter returned with More water she severed the relations Between the Fence and his Tongue. When she got to the House she had suffered two badly Cut hands two badly bruised Knees a bruised Elbow and a dislocated shoulder. The Tongue took two weeks to heal. I put Down the letter and said to them you see. Your Mother was telling you the truth All of those years. It pays to listen to us. We know what we re talking  one of my kids peeled a banana and said i Don t blame the kid. Why would he believe someone who wears bedroom slippers out in the Snow c 1986, los Angeles times Syndicate