European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse To your health Fra approves cervical Cap new York times panel of the food and drug administration gave Linal approval to commercial Sale of the cervical Cap. A Coral Racell to re Vic similar 1o the diaphragm Hal could be made available As Early a april Tho Agency s 10-Mcmbcr panel on obstetric and gynaecological Dow pcs unanimously recommended thai the Fra end the Lessing period Lor the Cap. The final Slep in a seven year trial process prior to approval Lor general use. The Cap May be available for use by women in the United slates through doctors and licensed health As Early As april an Agency spokesman said. The Cap is made by a British concern Lambert inc. A Massachusetts company Hazel Mcrae inc., is expected la be the american distributor. To Are convinced that the safety Comtois and of this simple contraceptive device have been convincingly Well documented said Cyntina Pearson program director of the National women s health new ofic. A Washington based group. The device is slightly loss effective than the diaphragm in barring pregnancy studies have shown that when used correctly the Cap is 94.6 percent elective in preventing pregnancy As against 96.4 percent for he diaphragm. The cervical Cap. Which looks like a targe rubber thimble. Is made of telex and has a firm pliant rim used with a Small amount of spermicide for added effectiveness it fits snugly Over the cervix where it is kept in Placo by suction. Because in is smaller More compact and fils More securely than the diaphragm Many women find ii a More comfortable form of birth control Tho Cap can be kept in Placo lot up to three Days with no additional App a cations of spermicide. The panel said that when used properly the device was not found to cause ionic Shock syndrome a disease associated with bacterium in the Vagina uterus fallopian tube cervical Cap one of he oldest methods of birth control to cervical Cap will become available to women in Iho untied slates. The cervical Cap looks Tike a Large thimble made of Latex rubber and its snugly Over the cervix As Shewn Al led. Ii is smaller More compact and More secure fitting than the diaphragm toll inset. Source the Complete cervical Cap guide up born to be fat study on obesity begin Okolata naw York times or or Jules Hirsch. A processor Al Rockefeller University in new Yolk and a senior physician Al the University s Hospital the new studies showing that lat people Are. Biochemically different from thin people Are a vindication of a View he has promoted Lor More irian two decades. So Icse arc exciting Days Loi Hiibsch. Over the years he has been the leading proponent of the View that obesity is innate or thai some people Aro born to be Lal and while he himself never pinned Down evidence that proved the hypothesis his position was acknowledged when he was asked to mite Tho editorial Hal accompanied the studies in the current Issue of the the new England journal of Medicine. His voice is one thai scientists in the Field respect. In addition to directing research on animals and people who gain weight he has served As chairman of a. National ins dilutes of health panel on obesity. He was also president of the american society of clinical nutrition and is now president of the medical Section of the american association for the advancement of science. A believes that people who Are obese Are signalled by their bodies in some Way that drives them to eat which is Why these people become Lal and Why they usually find ii to difficult to become thin. But Hursch does nil suggest Hal obese people abandon themselves to their Fate obesity it clearly a social detriment and a serious health problem he said. It is associated with such problems As diabetes High Wood pressure and Tower Back pain. For health and social reasons obese people should make every Elford o lose weight Hir Sefi believes gut he also stresses thai in will be a lifelong struggle Tor Odiose people to lose weight and keep it Oil and Hal there Are no magic formulas they will feel he said Bui it hey can do for years. Hirsch said the prevailing philosophy among obo Sily researchers was hat people became lat because they used food to Sausley unmet psychological needs. They ale because they were under stress or they wore unhappy. Another common Soliel was that fal people ate More because they liked food. Hirsch said the theory was that the obese were hedonist Mically driven or that they were Lazy and Burn fewer calories. Bui said Hirsch Ever since i be been in the Field i be been looking Lor some biochemical or cellular abnormality trial makes people lat Hirsch began studying obesity nearly 25 years ago when he joined Rockefeller University to had been offered the Job alter completing two years in the Public health service. He received his Medico degree at the University of Texas southwestern medical Center in Dallas and was an intern Al Duko University school of Medicine and a resident at the state University of new York in Syracuse. When Hirsch came to Rockefeller University he hoped to study fat metabolism including cholesterol in the blood. He gradually became interested in Why people become lat. Colleagues characterize Hirsch As easygoing. And although neither Hiresh nor anyone in his family is overweight he is very sympathetic to obese people said a colleague Rudolph Leibel. Hirsch who now lives in Englewood n a. Said he does not try to restrict he amount of food he eats but he does iry to exercise three times a week. In his years at Rockefeller University he has studied lat cells and Lal animals. He has Kepi volunteers on the Ward at Rockefeller Hospital Lor six months to a year at a Lime studying what happens to them biochemically As they gain and lose weight. The More he looked at the problem of obesity the More it seemed to him that obesity was a medical problem rather than a psychological one. For example among the volunteers he has studied Are women who formerly weighed More than 200 pounds but who through supreme Eliot and vigilance reduced to Normal weights and stayed there. But although Tho women look Normal they ate not. They frequently have All the body signs of anorexia Nerosa a condition in which people deliberately starve themselves until they Are tar below Normal weights. Trie formerly obese women Are obsessed with task and Many Lind that the Only Way they con keep trom gaining weight again is by being passionately involved tuesday March a 1988 Wilh Wirg Moss organisations they May become lecturers Tor these groups for a ample. These women olten Slop menstruating feet constantly cold and lived and have a variety of other medical symptoms associated with starvation Hirsch said. One woman who had reduced to 120 pounds irom More than 200 pounds wanted to become pregnant but was infertile because she had slopped menstruating Hirsch advised her to gain some weight Back Al about Iso pounds she started menstruating again became pregnant arid gave birth to twins Hirsch Haiti both men and women who were obese and who dieted Lound ii extremely difficult to slay at Normal weigh. Even obese people who were committed enough to live at Rockefeller University for a year while their Lood was restricted usually gained their weight Back. Most regain which is what makes this such a desperate problem Hirsch said. About 10 percent keep the weigh off Lor at least a Lew Hirsch and his colleagues also Lound that when Lal people lost weight their metabolisms were deranged they burned 20 percent to 30 percent fewer calories than a person would to expected to Burn at their body weight. Than when they regained weight their metabolisms were appropriate Lor their new body sizes that led Hirsch to propose Hal obesity might be caused by a biochemical signal to Correct an abnormal body chemistry. If he or others could find the signal icy might to Able to Block it. Perhaps with drugs so that formerly obese people would no Krigor be driven to Legain weight. One possible Fly is that the signal is in Iho lat Colls themselves Hirsch and his colleagues have Learned Hal obese people have More and larger Lal cells than people of Normal weight. In very obese people. The number of fat cells can go up enormously to three to Lour limes Iho Normal amount Hirsch said and the cells can be Wilce As big As when these people lose weight their Lal cells shrink in size but slay the same in number. For now the biochemical Baas of the urge to overeat is Lili a mystery Hirsch said. But he is hopeful that As More researchers begin looking at the problem the body s signals that make people obese will be revealed. The stars and stripes Page 17
