European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To your health drink Don t wait till you re thirsty by Jane e. Brody new York times s summer yields to inc Cool Crisp Days 61 Tail millions of americans forget about Tho most import land substance Uhny put in their bodies water while Lew Are Likely to die of dehydration Many risk Anness or Are forced to function at toss than full Lite because their bodies a a too dry. You May have had no trouble remembering 1o drink water when the sweat poured Oil you and your Mould loll like col ton on those 90 degree summer Days. Now however gelling in those proverbial eight glasses a Day of Plain Waler is a bit of a Challenge and Likely to become More Jill cull As Winter s a Hajj sets in. Vuu can gel just As dehydrated in cold weather As in hoi but this Imo without realizing How dry you Are. During Many Cool weather activities running Tennis hiking ice skating skiing travelling by air or simply visiting Al High altitudes you can easily Fose a quart or More of water before your thirst signal lets you Kif Oil. A quart or two might nol sound like much when you learn that the average adult body contains 10 to 50 Quarls of water 10 percent of which is found inside  a loss of just 5 percent of body water about 2vi Quail your skin shrinks and Muscles become weak. You May Teel fatigued. Irritable dizzy headache and drained of Energy. In fact the Debili Iarion Many people Al during last Summ i s Hea wave in the United slates May have been due As much to insufficient hydration Aslo the actual heat and humidity. , is not much help. Al s a signal evolution designed 1o prevent severe dehydration ii kicks in when you body is in serious. Trouble Long alter you should have begun drinking water to replenish your losses Tho thirst signal shuts Oil Oit before you be drunk enough. So you cannot afro a to roly on thirst you must use knowledge and Good sense.  the beverages Many peo pfc choose Are olten counterproductive i Sload of hydrating the body they Are diuretics a cause or o body to lose water. Among popular diuretic beverages arc All alcohol containing drinks and Cafici Natch Tea cot fee and soft drinks. Of Iho chosen Box rages May be so loaded with dissolved solids sugared drinks and milk for example that they actually increase the body s water needs Zalner Ihan satisfy them. Plain water Wilh or without carbonation is the Bosl Way to replace Fos Wales. Cold water is absorbed Fasler Ihan hot. Second Best arc Tomato and other vegetable juices pure unsweetened Ruil juices diluted with Waler or Soltzer and decaffeinated Coffee and Lea. On coi d Days you might by hot Waler with Femon or Lime juice infants and Ocie people Are particularly at Rik of. Do hydration babies should be ordered water Otten especially in warm weather and older people should be encouraged Yea round to drink Plain liquids during and Between Weals. It you think of your body As a machine water is he Oil Hal keeps everything working smoothly.1 even if you do nothing special your body loses about throb quarts of Waler a Day through elimination urination perspiration and respiration. This toss is usually replaced by the Waler in goods and drinks. Without you having to think much Aboul it. To be on Iho sate Side Tho Wise consumer will follow Standard nutritional advice of drink at least six to eight 8-Ounco glasses of a had along Berjv Ofago. Each Day however you May be unaware of Tho Many circumstances under which much larger amounts of water Are Likely to be lost requiring a More. Conscientious replacement Effort. Tourists at Iho Piazza Delta Signor a in Florence. Will their next hop be Santa Maria Nova Hospital overdosing on culture by Mary Beth Sheridan associated press Italy. Sometimes one can gel sick of All that culture during a european vacation. That anyway is How it appears to or. Graziello Mugherini head of psychiatry at Santa Maria Nova Hospital in Florence. In the past 10 years she has treated More than 115 tourists Tot what she Calls Stendhal s syndrome an emotional reaction to hundreds of years of history and Art All hitting the traveler Al once. The historical memory in hese cities of Art stirs he emotions she says. They can be emotions of great pleasure by also of Grea i  Wilh  Cathedral the vast Pink and Green a Ojomo its museums filled with Renaissance Art and its cobbled streets Florence is a throwback to another Century except of course Tor Tho hordes of backpackers and signs Reading in English to Maka real italian ice  a Gorini maintains that the overwhelming sense of the past sometimes disorient tourists and leads to panic attacks intense feelings of persecution and abandonment and a loss of a sense of reality and identity.   very often there s the anguish . She says prompted by the vivid sense of historical figures that reminds visitors of their own mortality Mugherini s work has. Aroused considerable interest not to mention debate in the Hometown of. Rich Cianglo. Pollicelli and Donatello it sounds simply ridiculous declares Serena Padova. Assistant director of Iho Palatine gallery Patrizio of Terresi Andrri Initiator of the Duomo says he s seen no unusual effect inspired by Tho Church. People have committed suicide Here he says Knilling his brow. But Idon Uhink it s to  nonetheless the local Florence govern Mienl is interested in the research. The City of 425,000 receives 5 million tourists a year who spend upward of $670 Mil Foo. ,. -. The province of Florence last year Gava Mugherini and several researchers a Grant to expand heir study. They Are now trying to get data from Venice and Jerusalem to see if the phenomenon exists there. Mag Hor i says she first noticed something wrong a decade ago As Moie and More tourists visiting the tuesday november 1, 1988 works of Art Arr Rived Al the Hospital filled with anguish. A thing of Beauty it seemed was not always a Joy to behold. Most people suffered psychological problems bul some also complained of heart palpitations or dizziness. She perceived two categories of sufferers solitary travellers of Lon europeans of a Genii mental Bent and members of organized hours who apparently have difficulty adjusting to new things Many of Iho taller group she says Are americans from Small towns and with a cultural level that is nor very  the team has studied Iho cases of 1 1 5 people who were or Pilai Gedbut Many other Popple were treated and released. Mugherini says. The researchers decided to name the problem after Stendhal the French novelist who lived in Italy in the Early 1 9 h Century and wrote of being overwhelmed emotionally by the Beauty and the past in Florence s Santa Croce Church. Modern Stendhal Hava leached crisis Points before Michelangelo s statue of David and Caravaggio s painting of Bacchus and under the concentric circles in the Duomo cupola Mugherini says. However it s not like tourists Are disturbed by a Dona Ello or terrified by a Titian. It s everything put Wagh Tini admits that the some of the symptoms May Slem from travel weariness and  she says most people have spoken of. How they Felt in this City their rapport with this  -. Or. Paulo Pancheri director of the adult psychology clinic at the University of Rome said people can be moved by historic cities bul it does t seem Likely it would be a syndrome.". Nicola Carr Glia Florence s tourism director suggests that the problem is really the crowds and the Quick Pace of modern travel. ,. It in t the monuments and the Art that make people feel sic if he insists. Mugherini advises her patients to rest and to Wilh  their own culture a some cases she. Prescribes Tranquili  cities of Art Are outside the reality of american me notes Tho Duomo s of Tercsi. Hero a Normal. Building is 300 or 400 cars old people sometimes Teel like they re in o of Jim Visil prs need to Lake More time he. 5aysiadding  the stars and stripes Page 17