European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Eat those veggies by Daniel 0. Haney associated press claims for the health benefits of different vitamins elements oils and other arcane nutrients pop up regularly. But often the advice boils Down to the same idea eat your vegetables. It is one of i to few reasonably uncontroversial nuggets to emerge from a growing mishmash of sludge opinions and assumptions on the interplay Jot diet Antt Well being. Fib i has its boosters. So do Vitamin e and Beta carotene a Irandy micronutrient of the moment is potassium which May lower Trie risk of stroke. The dish Cully is translating All of this into guidance for a healthy diet on one thing food experts Are virtually unanimous saturated lat is bad. There is Strong evidence it causes Hearl disease and it May have something to do with cancer As Well saying which foods Are Good for you however is much Chancie experts note that behind All the food lads Thuro is surprisingly Little hard evidence that a particular item will increase your Odds of living longer there Aren t any magic said or. Johanna Dwyer of new England medical Center at Best eating some May reduce the risk of illness bul ailments have Many causes and there s no Iron Clad guarantee that you re going to prevent a what makes sense., she said is emphasizing Plant goods in the diet. They arc High in potassium and other nutrients that May be beneficial and they Don t have much Salt or fat or Waller c. Willet of Harvard agrees Hal urging people to eat vegetables is probably the stale of the Art " bul he concedes it s pretty vague because you re a Cathy like to soy. What vegetables almost or sure they Are not All equally beneficial. Some might be actually harmful it s Willell arc other researchers arc trying to find the links Between diet and disease by gathering information about the dials of Large numbers of people then seeing years later what diseases they get. In two map studies he and colleagues Are following 120.000 Irma la nurses and 50,000 male dentists and veterinarians Here Are some of the theories that have popped up Erma Bombeck in recent years with varying amounts of scientific support vitamins a and e and Beta carotene prevent cancer. They Are commonly found in such Green vegetables As Broccoli and cabbage and such yellow ones As carrots one belief is that they work by trapping chemical compounds Hal can harm the body s cells. Fiber wards off Colon cancer. Fiber is found in fruits and vegetables ii theoretically helps by hastening the movement of Tecal matter through the intestines and by combining with harmful substances potassium deters strokes and High blood pressure for stroke prevention at least an extra serving or two of fruits 01 vegetables is said to be inked with a 50 percent reduction in risk. a i. Mon saturated fal and Omega-3 tatty acids prevent heart disease. Many vegetable oils Are i Igol in polyunsaturated Tat Olive Oil is a Good source of Monsal Urato lat fish Oil derived from Salmon and other oily Ocean fish contains Omega 3 ally acids. Calcium protects Gamst Brittle Bones and High blood pressure. Milk and other Dairy products Ara tha primary source of Calcium none of these theories has been proved beyond reasonable doubt and the evidence for some is downright skimpy. Yel All have their advocates. It really is a bandwagon phenomenon said Willett. Someone said there s something Here and everyone jumps on the scientific Community As several of the theories Are supported by studies of people living in different parts of the world. Evidence for fish Oil for instance comes from comparisons of eskimos in Greenland who Sal lots of fish and europeans who eat much less. The eskimos suffer far less heart disease. 8ul is fish Oil the reason experts Point out thai there Are Many other differences Between the Way eskimos and europeans live. Fish is certainly a healthy alternative to fat Laden meal. But the notion that it or any other food keeps away heart disease is far from certain. So until scientists learn More about the preventive Power of food experts say the Best advice is to avoid saturated fat and by All Means eat those vegetables. Helmets for Young bikers by Brenda c. Coleman associated Presse encouraging Young bicycle riders 1o Wear helmets is he most import land Stop 1o reduce their Rale of serious injury researchers say about half a million people Are injured in bicycle accidents annually in the United slates previous studies have shown and Aboul 1 zoo including 600 children Are killed new research on 520 youngsters ire aled Lor bicycle injuries in the emergency room of children s Hospital in Philadelphia Between april 1 and oct. 1. 1983. Found that almost Ono third had head and neck injuries protective equipment helmet gloves whistle knee pads and reflective clothing was in use by Only three children at the Lime they wore injured even though 8 percent said they owned such the researchers said most of the injured said they had received no instructions about cycling or bicycle safely the researchers noted in their report in the february Issue of the american journal of diseases of children the general Lack of protective equipment and safely training among the youngsters who ranged in age from 1 to in. Suggests that Many bicycle related injuries Are preventable said the researchers ted by or. Steven m. Selbst encouraging children to Wear helmets is probably the single most important intervention that could be made to reduce the likelihood of serious injury to child bicyclists said the editorial by or. Barry 0, Weiss of Tucson Ariz. Although most people believe automobiles Are the major safely threat to cyclists. S3 percent of injury causing accidents in the study involved no motor vehicle Weiss said. More often to blame was loss of control of the Bike usually because of unsafe Riding practices inattention inexperience or inability to respond to poor Road conditions Weiss said. Another significant finding of the study was Hal 24 percent of injured cyclists were Riding bicycles known to be in need of repair Weiss said defects ranged irom poorly inflated tires to Loose screws worn brakes and improperly adjusted shift cables he said. In a second editorial accompanying the study two High school juniors and avid cyclists in Tucson said Motorist education More Bika paths and strictly enforced cycling Laws also could help keep injury to a minimum. It All started with football. We d sit there and watch three hours of it play by play Stop action freeze Frame instant replay lenses zooming in and out from Dve camera angles. Belore the players icel the Field three commentators came on rehashing the game we had just spent three hours watching i called it football regurgitated somehow it was t enough to know who played in and How they won and lost it. We had to know How a player Tell when a was knocked out of Bounds on the 2-Yard line and what in looked like from the air the any hmm Worth hearing once bars repeating mentality began to spread. Every time the president of the United slates gave a speech there were Lour or five newscasters who followed to Disteel what i had just witnessed live and to Tell to what 1 had Fust heard him say i Tail like a pregnant woman who had just been Page 16 the stars and stripes Given a colouring Book on the reproduction of the Butterfly. Did they think 1 phoned it in reviewers Are the worst. Instead of telling me How they feel about a performance they retell tha Story or list the music that was played. I know All of that. They re supposed to Tell me Why i have no taste and Why i have to Stop enjoying things that have no focus or no plot. I should be used to living in an Echo chamber. I married a schoolteacher who spoke in Triplicate from the Day i met him. Ii came with the territory. With children something said once is not enough twice is necessary and three limes is being heard Lor the first Lime. When he let Lor work he d say i Haven t read the paper yet no save it t nodded so if you will kindly put the paper somewhere so it won t get thrown away monday february 23,19b7 i la read it tonight As i Don t have time now. Got in just put the entire paper by my chair and i la get to it right after dinner As i m afraid if in stays in tie Kitchen you la wrap the garbage in it and i Haven t i shoved him out the door. He made me feel like my mittens were attached to my coat by a string. I would t say All this has had a big effect on me personally but the other Day i was cleaning me Kitchen while everyone watched to and drank Coffee. I lifted their feet and mopped underneath them moved chair wiped olt the baseboards polished the windows and waxed the table. When i finished i said. Look. I have just broken my Back cleaning this Kitchen. I have waxed made the windows Glisten and "don1 labor said my husband we be got a went Back to watching a football classic that was played in 1972. 4cit
