European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 11 letters a cause of children s disorder discuss Darm Landers dear Ann Landers i am appalled at the apathy in our country when it comes to voting. Did you see the recent statistics on California voters very few turned out to vote in the primaries. They said it Wasny to important these Are the same people who wonder Why they have such jerks running their City and state government. It is imperative that americans vote in primary elections. A few years ago my own City had a mayoral primary. Not a single person i worked with or knew socially bothered to vote. Because of the Light turnout we ended up with two disgracefully mediocre candidates for mayor. Consequently a great Many voters sat out the general election. All i heard was a Why vote there a nobody decent  please Ann urge your readers to Call the Campaign Headquarters and find out exactly where the candidates stand on the issues that Are important. Follow their voting record and see if they keep their Campaign promises. If they done to let them know you wont vote for them again. Thank you for giving me space in your column. It. . Dealt your message is a Good one. Pm Happy to provide the forum. I believe it was Winston Churchill who said a people get the kind of government they  dear Ann Landers Well Annie old girl you really blew it. Usually you Check with an attorney for Legal advice. What happened i refer to your response to the married woman with two children who said they were fathered by her Lover. You told her that if she divorced her husband she  Force her Lover to pay child support. The strongest presumption known in the Law is that children conceived during a marriage Are the product of that marriage. However this does not always hold at least in new York. A Man who is Able to prove with a blood test that a child is not his is not liable for child support. On the other hand even though Modem genetic testing is now at least 95 percent accurate such evidence is admissible Only to exclude paternity not to establish it. Your advice from a personal standpoint might arguably be Good but from a Legal standpoint it stunk. With Best regards i am James t. Mccollum Rochester . Dear or. Mccollum thank you for the comeuppance. If you Promise not to write an advice column i Promise not to practice Law. . Genetic paternity testing is now 99.6 percent accurate dear Ann Landers recently we were Given a film that covered 30 years of our family a history. We converted it to video and its terrific. Unfortunately several people when they noticed the camera ducked covered their faces and ran off outside the cameras Range. How sad that they did no to realize generations yet unborn would be thrilled to see a great great grandmother or a great Uncle. Tell your readers not to be vain. So what if their hair Isnit combed or they Arentt wearing their sunday Best who cares Poplar Grove ill. Dear pop thanks for making an excellent Point the next time the family historians haul out the video equipment folks put on a Happy face no matter How Tacky you look. Do it for posterity creators Syndicate. I found your article on add a or attention deficit disorder a very interesting. In a a pharmaceutical technical assistant in a German pharmacy and i have been interested in add because we have a 10-year-old customer who is also being treated with ritalin. I was surprised though to not see any of the new research that has been done on add. Physicians have found a connection Between this disorder and food. Add is caused by a Lack of a Dopa a transmitter chemical in the brain. If there Isnit enough a Dopa being produced the brain lacks circulation which in turn brings Forward the symptoms you described. Research done on add children showed that certain kinds of food or food additives can trigger those symptoms. German add children were tested for an extended period of time while being put on a diet unique for each child. After Only one week on this diet about 85 percent showed an incredible change in behaviour and later could be taken off drugs and therapy. Ten percent of the children had improved to a Point where the dose of ritalin could be reduced. And in Only 5 percent of the children tested no change was noticeable. It is also interesting that when the child slipped off the diet Only slightly like a piece of Candy or a soda the child would fall Back into its a a old behaviour within Only one hour. Maybe this information will bring a new aspect to the parents of children with add. They should ask their physicians about the research which was important an official letter i was trying to Send through our local distribution Center bounced like a rubber Check. The reason the military Post office no longer accepts official mail with the required phrase a Udod official intr theater mail on the old style envelope unless these words Are typewritten stamped or on a pre printed Label. Handwritten does not Cut it. Admittedly my handwriting has never won a prize but what a the Point Here a to get an official letter from Point a to Point a or to enforce regulations that cause people needless hassle my questions is there a regulation that forbids a Udod official intr theater mail to be Handwritten if so what purpose does this regulation serve can this awkward group of words be abbreviated a do Doit a As maps is an acceptable abbreviation for military postal system and where or when Pray Tell can we get new official mail envelopes with All the proper gratuitous gobbledygook printed on them please do not confirm my fear that we have 10 billion of the old envelopes printed in the 1950s, stored in a warehouse somewhere. A name and location withheld editors note col. Harry b. Loper chief of staff 5th signal come replies the writer makes a very Good Point. The existing requirements for marking Dod official intr theater mail place an unnecessary Burden on Many workers in this theater. The current Dod official mail manual 4525.8-m requires typewritten rubber stamped or mechanically printed markings. However we expect Relief a and very soon. The 5th signal come has asked for permission for people in this theater to use Handwritten markings and the abbreviation  representatives of the military postal service Agency have told us the changes will appear in a revision to the official mail manual enough to be shown on a German scientific to show. A Martina Mayerhauser Augsburg Germany editors note a or. Col William r. Cline Neur psychiatric consultant he 7th medical come replies the Reader is interested in two areas which really can be reduced to one the Impact of brain chemistry on add. First it is incorrect to say that add is a a caused by a Lack of dopamine a Dopa is a drug which increases dopamine dopamine is the brain chemical but it is Correct that dopamine is a substance of great interest to scientists since it is a neurotransmitter which is closely involved with both thought and movement. There is probably no one cause of add but As causes Are better defined the neurotransmitter dopamine will undoubtedly be a major part of the Story. Second it is the consensus among american experts in add that foods Are triggers in add in Only a smaller number of cases although identification of those cases is certainly important. Without More information we can to comment on the German study referred to but if nothing else its conclusions highlight that in die Field of add scientists to Date do not All agree on causes. Perhaps most important in this letter Are the principles that parents of add children should educate themselves about the condition and they should not hesitate to ask their physician questions based on what they learn. Which is expected before the end of the year. We have requested immediate authority to implement the changes but we done to have an answer yet. Since the decision has been made we want to take action As soon As possible. Similarly offices that Send a lot of official mail within the theater done to need to wait for envelopes with a Udod official intr theater mail printed on them. Existing stocks of Blank envelopes can be overprinted with the required marking. A return address can be overprinted at the same time. A requisition for printing and binding do form 843submitted through Normal printing channels should do the trick. Its Tough to get the bureaucracy out of our system but we agree with the writer and will continue to push this  pals i am a 19-year-old part time Model. I am roman Catholic. My hobbles include travelling exploring nature keeping pets beachcombing and painting. A Maria do ice Corazon Torralba co mrs. Amelia Torralba Denr-r8sto. Nino ext. 6500tadoban City Philippines i am 19 years old and i would like pen pals from All Over the world. A Tracy 434 Oak Grove fall River mass. 02723 i am 27 years old and i d like to have pen pals. A Janet wonder 14colgroveave. Moston Manchester 10, m10 9qy, England i enjoy Reading listening to music and going to movies. I am 33 year old and a member of the Church of Christ. A Vivian Mendoza Buh Angin Barangay High school Buh Angin Davao City 8000, Philippines i like to read and watch ballgames and to. I am 29 years old and a Catholic. A Eppie c. Cortez �,9 Block i. 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