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_2H - MANCHKSTKU U K U AU ), Thursdiiy. June 16. I9»3 B U S IN E S S / Country by country: Smell the roses Dining guide Central America guide at Elizabeth Park tor summer page 2 Consuming vitamins unneeded can cost you ... page 9 supplement inside Are you wasting your dollars and actually insurance policy for some people — very young endangering your health by consuming vitamins and pomadora, chicken couscous, snappy snapper, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those on minerals you don’t really need? garden curry, and a low-calorie, low-cholesterol weight-reducing and other special diets,” says Dr. blintz. You well may be. Nearly half (44 percent) of adult Your Hebert. "But there’s no reason, except for the advice WHETHER YOU ARE or are not throwing away Americans are taking a vitamin or mineral pills every of your doctor, to consume more than 100 percent of your hard-earned dollars on vitamins and minerals day — contributing to what is now a $6 billion-a-year Money's the RDA specified for each vitamin and mineral.” industry — a 1980 Food and Drug Administration you don't need only you will be able to find out by study disclosed. ‘S' Worth studying this report and then monitoring yourself. But READ THE LAB EL on the container! If it’s more the fact is that 44 percent of us were taking a vitamin Foggy tonight; "Y et, most people eating a balanced diet covering than 100 percent of the RDA for anything, throw it Manchester, Conn. the four basic food groups — milk and dairy products; Sylvia Porter or mineral pill in 1980 and at least that percentage stlU away and buy one that's not more than 100 percent. sunny Saturday meat, poultry and fish; fruits and vegetables; and does. Friday, June 17, 1983 Nobody healthy needs more than 100 percent of the — See page 2 ' bread, grains and cerals — don't really need any food RDA of any vitamirt or mineral. And the extent to which we .may be seriously Singie copy: 250 supplements at all," says nutrition expert Dr. Victor undermining our health — when we think we are Guarantee good nutrition for yourself and cut the preserving it — is startling. It’s certainly worth Herbert of the Bronx Veterans Administration large quantities of the fat-soluble vitamins, particu­ load on your food budget by getting your essential Medical Center. following up as best you can. larly A and D, can build up to toxic levels because they vitamin and mineral requirements through the foods In our research, we didn't find much nutrient For a free copy of a booklet containing all the are stored in the body. you eat. In consultation with the National Institutes of deficiency in the American public, except for iron recipes, write to "Eat Well, Be Well,” Metropolitan For instance, massive doses of vitamin A, warns Health, the Metropolitan Life Foundation is develop­ deficiency, which we find in infants and kids up to the Life Foundation, One Madison Ave., New York, N.Y-. Dr. Herbert, can cause diarrhea, hair loss, liver ing a nutrition education program. Called “ Eat Well, age of 5, kids at the onset of puberty, and women in 10010. Enclose a 9 'A-inch by 4-inch stamped damage and injury to the brain and central nervous Be Well,” the program consists of 14 videotaped H u m id it y pregnancy and in the childbearing years,” adds self-addressed envelope. system. segments now starting to be shown on the nation’s 200 Herbert, who is a former president of the American Because they can also be stored in the body, public TV stations. (“Sylvia Porter's New Money Book for the 80s,” Society of Clinical Nutrition. 1,328 pages of down-to-earth advice on personal Pope urges quantities of minerals, such as iron and magnesium, Each segement presents step-by-step instructions iin g e r s a s money management, is now available through her greatly in excess of the government's Recommended for making dishes based on the seven dietary MOST OF THE EXCESSES of water-soluble column. Send $9.95 plus $1 for mailing and handling to' Daietary Allowances (RDAs) can also be toxic. guidelines established by the U.S. Department of vitamins, such as the eight B vitamins and C, are “ Sylvia Porter’s New Money Book for the 80s,” in cat^ Megadoses of iron, for instance, can damage the Health and Human Services and the Department of storms ioom excreted in the urine; only large excesses produce heart, liver and pancreas. Agriculture. of this newspaper, 4400 Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kad. any ill effects — to you as well as your pocketbook. But 66205. Make checks payable to Universal Press "Vitamins and minerals provide a nutritional The dishes include ginger pork, London broil Poland end Syndicate.) 1 By United Press International The National Weather Service warned that sudden thunderstorms Company signs lease could strike throughout the state again martial law today as hot, humid weather and stagnant air continue to blanket Connecticut. WARSAW, Poland (U PI) — Pope John Paul II told to build at Bradley Lightning shattered a church steeple Poland’s Communist leaders today they must end in Wallingford Thursday — one of 16 martial law and appealed to them to restore full ties buildings struck when a severe thun­ with the United States and not to lock the nation into derstorm hit the town and left about the Soviet bloc. HARTFORD (UPI) - A Kansas pates its program for the airport will 2,000 customers without power. About company signed a long-term lease with create lOO or more jobs at the airport, n n C ^ E V R n s p r o d u c t s comPRnv The pope told Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski to his the state to provide general aviation 100 people in Clinton also lost service face that he should live up to the agreements that gave said state Transportation Commis­ when lightning struck utility poles and services at Bradley International Air­ sioner J. William Burns. birth to Solidarity and end martial law to “ spare the port and build a $4 million service equipment in the shoreline community. sufferings” of the Polish people. center-terminal at the Windsor Locks The company also plans to expand “ It sounded like a bomb going off," In Gdansk, Lech Walesa’s wile said the former airport. corporate aircraft management servi­ said the Rev. Stephen Baker, pastor of Solidarity union leader would leave today for Combs-Gates, a subsidiary of Gates ces, maintenance, avionics and other the 104-year-old Heritage Baptist Czestochowa in hopes of meeting the pope over the Learjet of Wichita, Kansas, will build general aviation and airport services Church in the Yalesville section of weekend. The pope later today was to celebrate an the service center and executive at Bradley, Burns said Wednesday. Wallingford. outdoor Mass at Warsaw’s 10th Anniversary Stadium, He said the lighnting bolt left the terminal on the east side of the airport, He said the signing of the long-term where up to 1 million Poles were expected to attend. church steeple in splinters, but the 'V' which serves the Hartford and Spring- lease with Combs-Gates “ coincides In a historic meeting, the Polish-born pope told congregation should be able to use the field, Mass., areas. perfectly” with the start of a $100 1-^ Prem ier Wojciech Jaruzelski he should restore church despite the damage. Most of the The company, which acquired fixed- million modernization program being normal life “ according to the principles so painstak­ other Wallingford buildings struck by based operations at Bradley from undertaken at the state’s largest ingly worked out in the critical days of August 1980 and Kaman Corp. of Bloomfield, antici­ airport. lightning were homes and they re­ contained in the agreements ” that legalized ceived only minor damage, fire offi­ Solidarity. cials said. As he has since his arrival Thursday on his second The National Weather Service at papal tour of his homeland, John Paul spoke bluntly in Anniversary Sale Bradley International Airport in Wind­ V the face-to-face encounter with Jaruzelski, President sor Locks forecast intervals of hazy Henryk Jablonski and other Polish officials in the Resident executive Is sunshine today, with scattered after­ Baroque splendor of the Belvedere Palace. noon and evening thunderstorms. The Herald photo by Pinto John L. Stoppleworth of Bolton takes a He asked Jaruzelski and his regime to “ spare the high humidity was expected to ease tool student, was one of 105 graduating sufferings” caused by martial law and mourned the somewhat Saturday afternoon, with a moment to sign a friend's yearbook during the seniors. Two thirds aiready have jobs iined up. 'severe rigors” it imposed. student and teacher 50 percent chance of thunderstorms, graduation ceremonies Thursday evening at In response, Jaruzelski promised that the Commu­ the Weather Service said. For more pictures and a iist of graduates, see nist regime would lift martial law if the Solidarity The June heat wave and accompany­ Howell Cheney Regional Vocational Techni­ page 3. cal High School. Stoppleworth, a machine- underground avoided open clashes with the authori­ By Ken Fronckllng tions and helping line up have to sell them on the ing thunderstorm^ have left thousands ties. He also condemned the West’s campaign of trade United Press consultants from URI for value of a job. without power this week, but showers sanctions and embargos imposed against Poland International helped to reduce air pollution and a industries with a need for “ There is a question of since martial law was imposed 18 months ago.

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