European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse I nutrients j from food better for your health i new York times he Public has taken great interest in recent studies suggesting that diet May help to prevent certain devastating diseases. Among the nutrients that have most captured i consumer attention Are Calcium la prevent osteoporosis fish oils to prevent heart disease and " Vitamin a to prevent cancer. Bui rather than eat the foods naturally Rich in these. Potentially protective nutrients Many Consumers have turned to supplements. In just a few years for example the Calcium supplement Market has become the Industry Leader growing from $17 million in 1980 to a projected $200 million by next year. Can fish Oil i capsules be Lar behind every month it seems another new product is introduced. By comparison Vitamin a appears to be a Sleeper. I yet judging from suspected cases of Vitamin a poisoning and fetal damage us use too has been i growing among the health conscious. Although nutrition specialists in Genera Are delighted by the new dietary concern among both the Public and the medical profession Here Are two major problems once nutrients have been isolated from their natural food sources their effectiveness in still unproved and As the Vitamin a situation painfully suggests serious risks May be associated with supplement use and abuse. The following facts and concerns should be considered before going the ? Calcium supplement Roula not Only has the Calcium supplement Market burgeoned dozens of food products have now been i fortified with Calcium from milk and cheese to bread Cereal and soft drinks. A person who for example breakfasts on a half cup i. Of Pel s Dairy Crisp Cereal with eight ounces of Bordon s i Calcium milk lunches on a Sandwich of special formula Hollywood bread and two Fisher s ? Calcium Rich Sandwich slices cheese washed Down j with a 12-ounce can of fortified Tab and snacks on Kemp s 100 percent Calcium Yogurt could end up consuming a whopping 4,475 milligrams of Calcium in a r Day even without taking a supplement. The recommended intake is a Mere 1,000 milligrams for most Adulis and 1,500 for women past menopause Al intakes three to Tow limes the recommended amount Calcium could become a health problem for some triggering the formation of kidney stones and possibly interfering with Iron absorption. Excess Calcium is also sometimes deposited in soft tissues throughout lha body which on an a Ray can be confused with cancer. As for Calcium supplements themselves they sometimes cause constipation and they May stimulate the release of excessive stomach acid possibly increasing the risk of ulcers. The supplements May also interfere with the absorption of manganese which in turn could actually impair Bone development. Such risks might be Worth taking if the evidence of Benefit was Clear Cut. Unfortunately ii is not. While a few studies have suggested that Calcium supplements May retard Bone loss in older woman others have questioned the value of supplements alone in preventing osteoporosis and resulting fractures. People who an Amot Lolly Intonte tend to fut am mat m More complicated. Emotional intensity As barometer of personality by Daniel Golem an new York times emotional intensity a major lifelong aspect to temperament is emerging As a fruitful area of research that to yielding Rich insights into How people experience themselves and others. Although the idea that people differ in emotional intensity is not new systematic new research is revealing important differences in the Way that those with High and Low intensity perceive think about and react to events. Soma people psychologists Are observing find themselves in emotional tumult even in reaction to mundane events while others remain unperturbed under the most trying of circumstances. Those who live lives of deep emotional intensity researchers have found seem to have a More Complex sense of themselves and Lead lives that Are More complicated than do those whose emotions Are less Strong. One of lha More emotionally intense people we studied was a woman who for instance was once depressed and distraught Tor Days after she lost her pen said Edward Diener a psychologist at the University of Illinois. On the other hand he said she became so thrilled on seeing an advertisement for a big Sale on expensive women s shoes thai she hopped in her car on he spot and drove three hours to the store in chicago.," one of the least intense Diener added was a Man who one evening spotted a ire that had broken out in a College dorm and got an extinguisher and put it out. But instead of running he walked to get the extinguisher and he walked Back to the the new data shows that what Are considered psychological disorders May in fact be simply the extremes of a continuum of normality. The most highly reactive people seem to have what psychotherapists Call a Cycle thymic personality Given la grand mood swings. At the extreme he said the tendency slides into a mild form of manic depressive disorder. At the other end of the continuum Are people who Are so imperturbable that they hardly seem to have emotions. Some of these May have ale Thymia a term applied to those who say hey have no tee Ings at All or who at least cannot find the words to describe the feelings or ache Donna the inability to Leel pleasure. The emotionally intense people seek variety Novelty complexity said Robert Emmons a psychologist at Michigan state University. They have More varied goals in life know More people in More different situations and because they Are doing to Many different things feel More conflict in their lives. They May want to work harder to achieve Success at work while at the same time trying to spend More time with a Range of friends. These conflicts can be a source of stress for ins emotionally intense and May explain Why they report gelling More minor illnesses like colds and flus than do less emotional my chef the conflict Lei by the highly emotional according to Emmons is Over whether to express or act on their feelings although they May feel intensely they do not always express themselves openly Emmons said. Intense people who Are Bol led up Are in the worst in an article to be published in the journal of personality and social psychology Diener and Randy Larsen a psychologist at Purdue University report that the difference in emotional styles is closely lied to a difference in How people think about events. In one study volunteers kept a record of their Day to Day lives and their emotional reactions in another they were shown disturbing slides and their responses were Analysed. From studies such As these a portrait is emerging of the distinctive mental lives of those who have tumultuous or Placid emotions. For example highly emotional people when shown disturbing slides a woman holding an injured bleeding baby for example had an immediate though that personalized the event. The unemotional people though More often focused on a factual detail of the pictures one commented about a elide of a dying Man it looks like his pants Are Brand in addition to relating the disturbing slides to themselves the highly emotional people tended to focus their attention on the worst part of the slide and to make a generalization about it such As thinking about How much evil there is in the world. Such people Law sen and Diener conclude tend to see themselves As at the Center of an emotional vortex they overestimate the extent to which events relate to hem end become excessively absorbed in whal those events mean to them. This tendency to exaggerate the emotional Impact of events extends too to How highly emotional people assume others respond to those same events. La sen has found that the emotionally intense tend to assume thai everyone else experiences things with similar emotional urgency. Even the most volatile people seem gradually to Mellow Wilh age according to a study of emotional intensity in 242 people aged is to 70. As reported last year in the journal . The average level Al intensity the study found drops with each decade of Lila Wilh the most pronounced drop Between Early adulthood roughly the 20s and Early Middle age in he 40s. Tuesday april 7. 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 17
