European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. December 14. 199d the stars and strikes a a k Pnno 7new study links eating red meat cancer by Daniel q. Alfaney a science write Boston a meat lovers eating beef pork or Lamb every Day Are 2vz times As Likely to get Colon cancer As those who limit red meat intake. Substituting fish or Chicken reduces the risk according to a major new study. Experts have Long suspected fat in red meat was a contributor to heart disease and cancer. Proving that link has been difficult in part because there have been few Large carefully controlled studies of the question. The latest research conducted on 88,751 women provides some of the  yet. A moderate red meat intake is certainly better than Large amounts but its quite possible that no red meat intake is even better Quot said or. Walter a Willett the study s director at Bostons Brigham and women a Hospital. A for. Peter Greer Navaid of the National cancer Institute said the study Quot adds to the evidence of a risk of dietary fat Quot but he cautioned against interpreting it to mean people should Stop eating red meat entirely. A meat has important nutrient value a he said. A i would be careful about a recommendation that takes out from our diet a lot of important nutrients. The message should be to Cut Down not to  Colon cancer is the second leading cancer killer after1 lung cancer. An estimated 110,0011 new . Eases w ill be diagnosed this year the research was based on a follow up Between 11>n0 and 1086 of the health and eating habits of nurses throughout the country. During that time 150 of the women in the study got Colon  All participants were women researchers said their conclusions probably apply to men. Too. Or. David Hurt a nutritionist with the National l livestock and meat Board in Chicago noted that beef is 27 percent leaner and pork is 31 percent leaner than in 1086, when the statistics were gathered. The researchers found that women who ale beef pork or Lamb As a main dish every Day were 2 times More Likely to get Colon cancer Triin were i Hose who ate it less than once a month. The less frequent the consumption of meat the lower the risk for instance w Omen w to ate meat Between once a month and once a week had about. 40 percent higher risk than the abstainers. It was 50 percent higher for those who ale meat two to Lour times a week and so percent More for those who had it file or six times. Processed meats and liver also were significantly associated with increased risk. However women a who ate skinless Chicken every Day had Only about half As much risk As those who almost Nevei ate Chicken. Diets High in vegetable fats Wery not linked with cancer. Neither were whole milk cheese and Leo Cream which Are other sources of animal fat. Many specialists believe that eating Loo Little fiber also contributes to Colon cancer but the study found no Strong link Between Low fiber and cancer. Another major dietary study under Way in China suggests that humans ate a vegetarian species whose risk of disease is increased by eating meat and animal Gnu hits a Cornell University researcher said earlier this year a Plant based diet is More Likely to promote Good health and reduce the risks of. Heart problems cancer diabetes osteoporosis and other diseases said t. Colin Campbell a nutritional biochemist w to directed the study. Woman Pontiac Mich up a note written by a woman before using a retired pathologist s a a suicide machine to Lake her life in a Remote Park was read publicly for the first time wednesday at the doctors preliminary hearing on a murder . A a. / a it a 1 a 1. Kje. _. A a a 1 a a first degree murder charge Wais lodged against or. Jack Kevorkian by Oakland county prosecutor. Richard Thompson in the death of Janet Adkins 54. Of Portland ore., on june 4. Hie note was read before District judge Gerald Mcnally As a defense exhibit. A 5 a a�?�1 have decided for the following reasons to take my life a the note said. A this is a decision taken in a Normal state of mind. I have alzheimer a disease and do not want to let this Progress any further. I done to choose to put my family or myself quake study of Bay area shows pattern new York a r major earthquakes in the san Francisco Bay area appear to follow years of unusually frequent moderate quakes a pattern that May help make predictions More precise a study says a a. If the pattern proves predictive scientists May be Able to give a percentage risk of a major earthquake occurring within a Span of a few years to a decade said study co author Lynn Sykes. Sykes is a professor of geological sciences at Columbia University in new York and a researcher at columbian a la Monr Doherty geological Observatory. He and colleague Steven Jaume presented their observations in thursdays Issue of the British journal nature. The Columbia scientists measured prior seismic activity near the. Major quakes by recording seismic moment. The researchers added up the Cumuli live seismic moment from quakes measuring at least 5 on the Richter scale Over 35 years preceding each of three major quakes. Analysis showed that the total Rose sharply in the 11 years before the major quake of 1989, in the nine years before a Large quake in 1906, and in the four years preceding a major quake in 1868, through the agony of this terrible  the note Xmas signed Janet a Atkins dated 6-4-90, the Day she died in Grove Lancio Park in Northern Oakland county a a v a. A a. An attachment said Quot to whom it May concern Janet Adkins the undersigned wishes upon her death that her eyes Are donated for Cornea  the note was read by Michael podes wik an investigator for the county medical examiner w to said Kevorkian handed it to him upon his arrival at the death scene. He said Kevorkian met him outside the Van where Adkins was still hooked up to the machine with Needles and solution in place. Or. Jacob Oliason. A euro pathologist with the Mayo clinic and a Genii retired physician with Henry Ford Hospital and the Wayne state University. Medical school testified Adkins had advanced alzheimer a disease. Tic said he was invited in August to the medical examiners office to examine brain particles from Adkins. By looking at them under a Microscope lie said he could determine the extent of the disease by plaques within the tissue found that for a woman of 54 her disease was seve re. Thompson said tuesday the charge again Kevorkian is based on the a same precedent and statute used by the Wayne county prosecutor in a similar Case. Prosecutor John of a Lair filed a murder charge against a Man who helped his elderly cancer stricken wife commit suicide in a Motel near Detroit metropolitan Airport in late summer. A assisting in suicide is against the Law. There is absolutely no doubt there is Legal precedent a Thompson said a or. Jack Kevorkian Washington up1 the Pentagon official in charge til military procurement has quit 111 who at appeared to be the latest fallout from disclosures of delays and Cost overruns in development of the Navy s $50 billion a-12 Avenger bomber. John Betti undersecretary of defense for acquisition submitted his letter of resignation wednesday to defense Secretary Dick Cheney saying Only that he intends to a return to the private sector a Cheney accepted the letter with the a deepest regret and thanked Betti for his a dedicated and successful  a Pentagon report released last month linked Betti to the a-12 mess which not Only embarrassed Cheney and the Navy but prompted the Justice department to launch a criminal investigation of whether Money went to contractors general dynamics corp. And Mcdonnell Douglas corp. For incomplete work. According to the nov. 28 internal re porn the Avenger project was 18 months behind schedule and As much As $1 billion Over budget. The disclosures resulted in the forced retirement or censure of three senior officers who Navy Secretary Lawrence Garrett said had trouble Tell ing Pentagon officials bad news about their aircraft projects. Betti was Cheney a chief aide on questions relating to major weapons programs a. In testimony before the 1 Louse armed services committee on monday Garrett said that until last june the contractors and Navy officials provided a no indications Ofahl estimated Cost overruns. $ in the Wake of the Avenger report vice adm. Richard Gentz head of the naval air systems command was ordered to retire. Rear adm. John Calvert and capt. Lawrence Elberfeld were censured and will be reassigned. Fort Lauderdale Fla. Up record store owners Charles Freeman convicted of Selling an obscene album by the rap group 2 live Crew was ordered wednesday to pay $1,000 to an elementary school for the performing arts. Broward county judge Paul Bachman said he wanted to make the punishment fit the crime. He could have sentenced the owner to a year in jail. Instead Bachman imposed the Maxi mum Fine allowed on the Misdemeanour obscenity  $.1,000. But he ordered that the Money go to fort Lauderdale a Walker elementary school which recently lost much of its musical equipment in a theft the Public elementary school specializes in teaching the performing arts. Freeman the owner of . Records was convicted in an october trial of Selling obscene material a copy of the 2 live Crew album a was Nasty As they Wanna be a Freeman admitted Selling the recording to an undercover detective after a Federal judge declared it was obscene. His attorney had contended that the album was no worse than those by other artists such As Andrew Dice Clay whose work has not been banned. Walker elementary principal  Thomas said the judges decision was a Surprise. Quot in a thrilled. I m cd mainly glad. That s the Best Christmas present Ever a he said