European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Worried about Lack veins in shrimp the curious used to like canned shrimp but was lol the Black line in them were actually Fec matter and since then t Haven t been Able treat them. In t it harmful to your health lathere any easy Way to remove them Paulette Ronayne Harvey station n.b., Canada a tease let me Whol Hor i should be Devet Nung fresh or Frozen shrimp. I have read that i should take the Velna out to guard of Santa Heinle against disease from bacteria or some such thing. But it s a real chore especially since i discovered there Are actually two veins Par shrimp one near the surface and another in the Center. Do they both need to come out what if i pull on one end and most of it comes out but i suspect there s still a Little piece in there i m confused. Dennis Shaw Hagerstown my. The Black vein thai fun along the shrimp s Back is ils Isle spinal Trad. In the California seafood Cookbook the authors Cronin Harlow & Johnson slate Many cookbooks insist that shrimp should be de veined others ridicule this practice As unnecessarily fastidious and a lot of Tho Choice is up to Iho individual it is not necessary for health reasons. Since the shrimp 1eed on Plankton that is what is contained in tha vein in various stages of digestion. Ii is completely edible. If you still wan to remove it. Cook and Shell the shrimp pull Elf a narrow strip on ils Back Peel the strip Down to the tall revealing he dark line and Wmk a Small knife remove the tract. If any of it remains Don t give it a second thought. What Are the Benefit of sea Salt Over regular Salt Candace rack sinking Spring. Fla. There Aren t any. Ii you go Inlo a health food store or supermarket and buy sea Sal instead of Ordinary Salt you re going to pay twice As much Lor the same thing. According to the Center Lor science in the Public interest which did research on this subject advocates of sea Salt argue that it contains More minerals is less refined contains no sugar and is not synthetic or Man Mado. Although there Are More minerals in sea a or than in regular water when Salt is removed from it and cleaned up for human consumption which must be done the minerals Are lost. As far As sugar is concerned the amount added is Liny 1/19 of a Teaspoon per 26-ounce Container of Salt this amounts to one calorie per Container. Last no Salt is synthetic or Man Mado i recently bought a number of Duracell batteries on Sale enough to last us Tor several years. A Friend says this is foolish because batteries lose their strength in prolonged storage. Another Friend said to store them in the Freezer or refrigerator. Will this do any Good if batteries remain in their plastic packaging How Long will they last under Normal temperatures Peg Hybben Winter Springs Fla. I have always stored my packaged batteries in the refrigerator but John Bergman vice president of communications at Duracell. Inc. Says we do nol advise storing batteries in Tho Freezer or refrigerator As such storage can cause condensation on the batteries which in turn could damage the device in which they Are used if not properly Bergman claims thai alkaline batteries retain Wii Over 90 Percy no of their initial Energy Lor up to three years. But taking Inlo account that the batteries May have been around Lor quite Somo Lime particularly those on Sale i would subtract a year or so from Hal in a Booklet published by the National electrical manufacturers association it slates heat can reduce Battery life so avoid putting batteries or your Battery powered devices on radiators or in other warm therefore if i lived in a hot climate and wanted to store batteries that were lightly wrapped in plastic i would put them in the refrigerator. Have a consumer oriented question write to son a Heinze in care of stars and stripes Apo 09211, . Forces preparing for illness in families by Sharon Johnson new York times alzheimer s disease All Wilmai s disease is characterized by progressive mental deter Molion. Symptoms Type Naify Tost appear in persons in their 40s. Loss at memory of Venu occurring minutes earlier la usually Trie lust symptom. Patterns May lose the ability to read write calculate or use Tanguag appropriately. Other possible sym Sloms Are . Paranoia and hallucination Corot parts Crl the cortex Are involved in language memory Bra the tenses. Alzheimer s disease reduces the chemical messengers torn tha basal forebrain to the co Flem parietal Cartes capita cortex frontal Cone Btl ton brain contain nerve cell that produce chemical brain messengers important Tor though practise. In alzheimer s disease these cell bodies Patoc Vety degenerate. Trown a mtg. Soti Sbin because the number of americans who suffer from alzheimer s disease degenerative condition of the brain that causes dementia is expected o triple in the next half Century families should begin planning How they might care Lor aged relatives who suffer from the disorder. That was the message at a recent conference enhancing for care sponsored by the new York City department for the aging and alzheimer s disease and related disorders association. By 2045, there will be 9 million victims of this debilitating disease which results in a loss of memory disorientation in Lime and space poor physical condition an inability to communicate and incontinence said or. Robert n. Butler chairman of geriatrics and adult development at the mount Sinai medical Center in Manhattan. Alzheimer s disease causes economic social and psychological stresses for families because they Are the ones who provide most of the care for the physicians said that caring for a loved one who has alzheimer s disease May become a round the clock responsibility because the victim loses his ability to feed and dress himself May wander away or hurl himself coping with the disease which can strike people As Young As the 40s, is too much for some families and they have to Pul their relatives in a nursing Home which costs an average of �22,000 a year. The emotional costs Are also High said Lonnie Wollin president of the new York chapter of the tuesday. February 10. 1987 alzheimer s disease and related disorders association. It is painful for families to watch a once gentle and Loving relative become hostile and or violent he said. Families feel Hurt or angry Whan their Parent or spouse tails to recognize them or to remember anything Aboul their lives Daniel fish of Friedman & fish a Manhattan Law firm that specializes in the problems of the aged advised families to formulate a plan that will protect the victim and his relatives during the course of the disease which May take from three to 15 years rom Onset to total disability. Some families wait too Long to draw up a plan for managing the victim s financial assets and medical care because Hoy Don t want to face their loved one s dependency he said. Opening a joint Bank account or giving the spouse or child the Power of attorney when the patient still has the ability to make such decisions can prevent anguish later. Writing out a living will that stipulates the medical treatment Tho alzheimer Palf enl wants will also spare the family the emotional turmoil of deciding whether to maintain the patient on a Respirator and other ethical he added. The rights and needs of other family members also must be protected said Peter j. Strauss senior partner in Strauss & Wolf another Manhattan Law firm Hal works with the aged. Families should consider whether Tho spouse who also May be elderly and in poor health is in a position to care for the alzheimer s disease victim and How the family might protect that spouse s health and assets he said Shirley vol Slarb a nurse from mount Kisco n.y., said she decided to place Hor 79-year-old Mother who suffered irom alzheimer s disease in a Miami nursing Home in 1980 because caring for her was too Nuch Strain or her 85-year-old father. I wanted him to enjoy said Goldfarb who was one of boo people at the one Day conference at Columbia University. He did t have time to get together with his friends and his friends stopped calling on him because Many people cannot handle being with someone who has Euch a devastating Jack Pollock whose Wile has alzheimer a said trying to maintain a Normal social life makes ii easier for family members to Cope with a relative who has the disease my work is my salvation said Pollock who is principal of the Abraham Lincoln school in Brooklyn. I try to maintain a sense of humor and to avoid feeling guilty about gelling together with my children and friends because i believe that i cannot alleviate my wife s sufferings by suffering the stars and stripes Page 17
