Life and Health for 1971

SWIM SAFELY

OILY SKIN CARE

AUGUST NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE ❑ FIFTY CENTS MODERN WAYS TO HEALTH BY CLIFFORD R. ANDERSON, M.D., in consultation with more than seventy trained specialists.

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HARRY J. BAERG Art Editor FEATURES SWIM FOR SLEEP J. DeWitt Fox, M.D. 6 RAYMOND C. HILL FUNGUSES Amil J. Johnson, M.D. 8 Layout Artist GET OUT OF YOUR SHELL Jesse C. Burt, Jr. 9 CRAMPS WHILE SWIMMING H. 0. Swartout, M.D. 10 MARILYNN R. SPENCER IMPROMPTU MEALS Alice T. Starr 12 Editorial Secretary OILY SKIN Herman Goodman, M.D. 14 THE GOLDEN YEARS Harold Shryock, M.D. 16 R. A. GIBSON APPALACHIA Ellis L. Thompson, R.P.T. 17 Braille Life & Health Editor ULCERATIVE COLITIS-2 0. S. Parrett, M.D. 18

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them to school. • 1 3 f. Ne 4 LIFE & HEALTH Sore Feet

If your feet hurt, it is probably your own fault, according to Dr. Rene Cail- March of Medicine liet of the University of Southern Cali- fornia Medical School. Most foot problems are the result of abuse or negligence of an otherwise normal foot, and can be prevented, the physician said in "Care Industrial Air —not necessarily those subject to causing of Common Foot Problems," an article acute or chronic poisoning. Evaluation that appears in the November, 1970, is- by an industrial hygienist is required to Within American industry people are sue of American Family Physician/GP. find those situations which are poten- working with almost every chemical Poorly fitted shoes are the chief culprit tially damaging to health. known to man, according to Howard in foot problems, Dr. Cailliet said. Ac- "For hundreds of years industrial dust Ayer, an engineer with the Bureau of ceptable shoes should have a broad, low has been known to cause health damage. Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. heel, a narrow instep and straight inside It is the small dust particles that cause Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio, borders, and should be fitted at the end as reported in the "North Carolina State lung damage. Such particles are invisible of the day when the foot is most sensitive to the naked eye. A tiny particle will set- Board of Health Bulletin." and broadened by exercise. Socks and Ayer contends that many of the chemi- tle in the air only one foot during a min- stockings, according to Dr. Cailliet, cals can contaminate the air in the form ute. The more common most highly toxic should be one-half inch longer than the of gas, vapor, mist, dust, fumes, and dust particles settle only one eighth of longest toe and should contain no irritat- smoke and can cause health damage an inch during a minute. Many indus- ing dyes. Socks should be changed daily, when breathed. trial workplaces have air velocities that and if perspiration is excessive they "Almost any organ of the body can be move along at least 25 feet per minute. should be of wool or cotton. affected by one or another of these con- The health damaging dust particles fol- taminants," Ayer revealed. "Com- low these air currents just as do gases and Because bunions, calluses, and corns monly affected are the lungs (silica and vapors." are the result of abnormal pressure, the asbestos), liver (carbon tetrachloride), Environmentalists are in accord that victim should try to locate the source, he kidneys (benzene), nervous system the behavior of some airborne contami- said. Bunions gradually subside after (mercury vapor), and blood-forming nants, such as cotton dust, will require removal of the pressure, but corns and organs (radioactive materials). Effects further investigation. Only during the calluses must first be softened and then may be acute (lead and carbon-monoxide past few years, after competent health scraped off by a hard instrument such as poisoning), causing immediate or chronic studies, have adverse health effects a pumice stone. The physician cautions that any procedure involving cutting illness (silica, asbestos, or coal dust), re- previously seen in England and other should be left to a physician. sulting in damage after many years of foreign countries appeared in America. Rest, elevation of the feet, and cold- exposure. It is not known what concentrations of "To prevent health damage it is nec- contaminants are safe in U.S. cotton water baths followed by alcohol sponging essary to set limits for air contaminants, mills, but health authorities agree that are effective at-home treatment for ach- below which workers will be safe. The long-term exposure leads to respiratory ing feet. In addition to walking, which Dr. Cailliet calls "by far the best," the largest list of contaminants is that pre- problems. following exercises are helpful: pared by the Threshold Limit Value Committee of the American Conference 1. While seated, stretch the toes as far of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. apart as possible, then fully extend and The committee includes toxicologists, flex them, and rotate the foot in a full chemists, physicians (from the U.S. circle. Public Health Service), and specialists 2. Stand with the feet slightly pigeon- from State Departments and Local toed and rise as high as possible. Roll to Health Departments in the U.S. and the outer borders of the feet and firmly curl the toes. Canada." 3. Stand with the toes on a book from The committee establishes threshold one to one-and-one-half inches thick and limit values (actual or potential hazards) raise and lower the body to stretch fully for any material used in industry. To the calf muscles and heel cords. set limits they believe safe for people, members of the committee rely on judgment, experience, and information. "Air contaminants in the form of gas and vapor freely follow air streams in the workplace," Ayer pointed out. "To Examples keep people from being exposed to dangerous amounts of contaminated air, it The basic principle of the adage is necessary to use industrial exhaust that says "Like parents, like children" ventilation to direct the air away from is being recognized more and more people into hoods and exhaust ducts. TOTAL CARE in relation to the drug problem, said Special training is necessary in order to By NICHOLAS LLOYD INGRAHAM, R.N. Francis A. Soper of Listen magazine. design ventilation systems that will pro- Students who have seen their mothers vide adequate protection. These instruments provide the total care drink at some time or other have a "Gases and vapors that cause most For flesh and nerve and spiritual repair: much greater tendency to use drugs complaints are those which irritate the Physician-science, surgeon-nurse in glove, than those whose mothers are nonusers eyes and nose and emit obnoxious odors The sweet catholicon of Christian love. of alcohol. • AUGUST, 1971 5 Swim for Sleep ONIGHT millions of Ameri- of your being responds to the smooth around at poolside eating while the cans will reach into the medi- movements of a good swim. At night youngsters get all the fun and exer- cine chest for a sleeping pill. you sleep like a baby. No pills neces- cise. They need the relaxation more T Rolling and tossing with sary, no worries, no troubles. You than the children do. If you have nervous tension, many people find awaken with renewed energy ready been driving or sitting all day, there is that worry and trouble take their toll for a great day. nothing so invigorating as a delight- in lost sleep, and they think that the Swimming is somewhat of a neg- ful swim to loosen tight muscles, lim- quickest and easiest way out is the lected sport, so take a dive into a pool ber the back, and let out stiff joints. barbiturate or the tranquilizer. for sweet smooth exercise, and find Many of us do close work, looking Sadly, though, tomorrow these out for yourself what it has to offer down all day at book, desk, floor to same Americans will awaken with a you. clean, or the ground at our feet as we drugged, hangover feeling and re- Swimming has been called the walk. We need to stretch our backs in quest coffee to clear the cobwebs out world's best exercise. Walking is the the opposite direction, bringing the of their brains and put them on their exercise most convenient to us all, but head back and arching the spine. feet. To bed with barbiturates and up swimming is superb. It is capable of Swimming the breast stroke does this with caffeine is a poor program for a exercising all your large muscles, exercise for you automatically. You brain that needs to stay alert and op- making them operate soothingly reverse the pull of gravity, strengthen erating at peak efficiency. smooth, of keeping your back limber, back and shoulder muscles, and tilt What can you do to get a good your joints well lubricated, and stimu- your neck backward. The breast night's sleep? When you reach for the lating deep breathing, drawing lots of stroke is great for tension headache sleeping pill, think how your body is oxygen into your lungs, and giving by loosening tight neck muscles. crying out for exercise instead of a good circulation. If you want to feel like a new per- pill. Even though a swimming pool is Although heated pools are best for son, lie on your back and simply float. not yours to own, there is hardly a city beginners, the more Spartan swim- Look up at the blue sky overhead and where the YMCA or YWCA does not mers find cold water invigorating and see what a wonderful world it is. As offer swimming facilities. If you do later relaxing. If you are a consider- you let your worries float away and not swim, instructors will teach you. ate neighbor, nearby pool owners are forget the troubles of the day, you Swimming is soporific. It can put eager to see their pool used and will set the stage for a sound night's sleep you to sleep better than any barbi- be honored to have you ask to swim as tonight. turate yet invented. Recall how de- their guest. Lacking that advantage, "There are two places where you lightfully you sleep when on vacation you may wish to swim in a public pool cannot have a nervous breakdown," after a swim in pool or ocean and ly- in your town. said Admiral H. Lamont Pugh, one- ing in the sunshine, your body exer- Motel pools are great for the week- time Surgeon-General of the United cised and then relaxed. Every fiber end relaxer. But too often adults sit States Navy. "These are a swimming

6 LIFE & HEALTH pool and a roaring fireplace on a winter night." It is almost impossible to worry in a swimming pool. The motion of your muscles melts away the urgency of the day's stern orders. As you move smoothly through the water you burn calories, stimulate good circulation to body and brain, and release nerves from the tight chains of tension that have been binding them all day. Fat people will be pleased to know that swimming is made for them. Many an overweight person says, "Oh, I'm too fat to get into a swim- suit." But swimming is just for you, because it burns calories faster than by graduating from the four-year high any other exercise you can take, yet school course in two years and the two- year premedical course in one and one- without straining your body. Plump half years. He took a course in nurse's people often complain about walking training before entering the Loyola because it hurts their feet. Swimming School of Medicine (now Stritch School takes them off their feet. of Medicine). He received both his Bach- The buoyancy of body fat makes H. 0. Swartout, M.D., Dr. P.H. elor of Science and his Doctor of Medi- exercising easy and allows them to ex- ("Cramps While Swimming," page 10), cine degrees in 1928. ercise big back, shoulder, and leg is a retired physician living in Thousand Dr. Johnson returned to Nebraska to muscles, which lie dormant too much Oaks, California. intern at St. Francis Hospital in Grand of the time. He was born near Carson City, Michi- Island, Nebraska. There he was chief of You can enjoy the most vigor- gan, attended public elementary school, the pathology department and electro- ous of calorie-burning exercise no high school, and college in Michigan— cardiographer and anesthetist as needed. Adelphian Academy in Holly, Andrews In 1944 he and his family moved to matter how heavy you are, and take University in Berrien Springs, and Michi- Denver, Colorado, where he taught at the strain off your legs and feet at the gan State University in Lansing. He at- the University of Colorado School of same time. Swimming done vigor- tended Loma Linda University in Loma Medicine until 1954. The family later ously burns 800 calories per hour, Linda, California, and Yale University in moved to Eureka, California, where he compared with television watching's New Haven, Connecticut. was medical director of Humboldt 25 calories and driving's 50 calories. Dr. Swartout spent 25 years in health County Hospital, and subsequently The beauty of swimming is that it work and retired from the position of moved to Los Angeles, California, forces you to take time out from your health officer of San Luis Obispo County, where he established himself as a gen- busy program to undress and dress California, in 1960. eral practitioner until his retirement in again. The very process of doing so He has been married for nearly 59 1970. years. He has a son who is a pathologist Dr. Johnson has held membership in gives you a relaxed and luxurious in a hospital near Chicago and a daugh- many medical societies and has been feeling. Interestingly, nearly all na- ter who is married to a physician living in mentioned in numerous Who's Who list- tions consider bathing time among South Pasadena, California. There are ings. their great leisure moments. Al- ten grandchildren and four great-grand- His wife and daughter are both grad- though Americans enjoy many bath- children. uate nurses and his son-in-law is a teacher tubs, they cannot easily move around Dr. Swartout enjoys building construc- at Hollywood High School in California. and exercise in the tub. Swimming tion, landscape gardening, and photog- He has three grandchildren. As a side- and moving about in water should be raphy. He has written books and articles line he has done much writing, having added to their list of recreations. on health subjects for more than 20 years. had four books published and many arti- Swimming brushes the cobwebs cles published in popular lay magazines. He plans to devote himself more fully to from your brain by bringing you a free-lance writing now that he has re- fresh oxygen cocktail to set your tired. brain cells to sparkling. An early- morning swim is great to send you on your way for the day, but I find the Amil J. Johnson, M.D. ("Funguses— the Plants That Grow on You," page 8), evening swim a great soporific. I rec- was born in the San Luis Valley in south- ommend it to anyone afflicted with ern Colorado. Alice T. Starr ("Impromptu Meals," worry or tension. During the first world war Dr. John- page 12) was adopted at age five and For sweet sleep, take a swim. son enlisted in the American Red Cross reared in Ohio by farm people who lived Yours for sound sleep, ambulance service at Omaha, Nebraska. near Watertown. Her education began The company later joined the Army as an at Brush Hill in a rural ungraded school entire unit and served with the American a mile and a half from home. She grad- Expeditionary Force until 1919. uated from elementary school at Vincent, He decided to study medicine and be- Ohio, where the family moved after her gan his long trek toward a medical career foster father's death. (To page 34)

AUGUST, 1971 7 lete's foot—and too many American soldiers who fought wars in the Far East or the South Pacific islands have suffered for years from epidermophytosis (athlete's foot). Funguses The most resistant spores of funguses live endemi- cally (always present) in the soils of many areas. They particularly like moldy or decaying debris in soil. Many have a netlike structure, somewhat suggestive of a coarse the spider web, these branches (called mycelia) being char- acterized by expanded clublike dilatations called spores. The actinomycotic infections discharge yellow gran- ules. From the center of this fungus fine filaments extend Plcnts That radially to the terminal end of the filament, ending in a club-shaped structure. For this reason it has been named the ray fungus. Because soil is the natural habitat for fungus growth, Grow on You it stands to reason that most infected people are associated with agriculture, either in farming, handling such products as hay and grain, or dealing with animals, no- tably horses. This association is not absolutely necessary, At, AMIL J. JOHNSON, M.D. however, for winds may carry the spores. People who have driven through San Joaquin Valley in central California have come down with the fungus coccidioidomycosis, the resultant symptomatology being known as Valley fever. Fungus infections are a worldwide problem. The familiar athlete's foot, also called tinea pedis, epidermophytosis, ringworm of the foot, and other names, has its principal habitat in the hot, decaying debris of the tropics. Histoplasmosis is most common in the Missis- sippi Valley, and has been recovered (as spores) from water and air as well as from soil. Coccidioidomycosis is endemic in the southwest portion of San Joaquin County, California, and blastomycosis is encountered in the Ama- zon Valley of South America. The latter has been seen frequently also around St. Louis, Missouri. Pigs can carry toxoplasmosis, and it is thought that meat reaching the kitchen may still be infectious. This fact illustrates the need for thoroughly cooking such flesh or, better yet, avoiding it. Inasmuch as these infections are so widespread, what are the symptoms we must look for? They are quite variable, and in most cases the doctor must be consulted for arrival at a correct diagnosis. Histoplasmosis mimics so many different conditions it has been estimated that as high as 30 million people may have been infected. Only the smallest percentage of these people ever knew what they had. Because most doctors' offices do not have equipment to diagnose fungus infections, for question- able cases the physician may choose to send his patient EW PEOPLE are aware that infection they carry to a skin doctor (dermatologist) or to a public-health year after year and which has not responded to laboratory for culturing the discharges, scales, or sputum their many efforts at healing can be caused by connected with the infection. plants. The plants are called funguses. A good Most doctors dealing with diagnostic procedures can deal is known about the characteristics of fungus infec- make skin tests in their offices for the most common fun- tions, and it has been found that many of them remain gus infections, namely histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, highly resistant to treatment; in fact, a given infection and coccidioidomycosis. They may even start a culture to may never be cured and eventually may result in the grow the fungus. If serological tests, animal inoculation, death of the infected person. or stain procedures become necessary the doctors prob- To most people the names of even the most common ably will select a laboratory with special equipment to funguses are strange and perhaps forbidding. For ex- carry on these diagnostic procedures. ample, there are actinomycosis, toxoplasmosis, coccidio- The seriousness of fungus infections varies from a idomycosis, cryptococcosis, aspergillosis, blastomycosis, simple skin eruption that is unusually refractory against and histoplasmosis. Most people have heard of at least cure to death by fungus meningitis or destruction of the one disease caused by a fungus infection—namely, ath- lungs. As long as the infection (To page 27) 8 LIFE & HEALTH Get Out of Your Shell

By JESSE C. BURT, JR.

ILLIONS of Americans every day, every hour, hobby. He collects travel folders. Three times a year he are living in a shell. But life is exciting, full of plans a trip somewhere. He also writes. Not long ago he enjoyment, and these millions are needed in wrote an article called "A Trailer Trip to the Moon." He vt the world. sold it for $35, which is not bad. Many of these Americans are inclined to examine 2. Get interested in outdoor exercise. their own thoughts and feelings closely. They are more Theodore Roosevelt was born sickly and with poor interested in their private world than in what is going on eyesight. He went West, rode broncos, ate beans out of a around them. can, and roped steers. His eyes always were so bad that The word introspect means "to look into or within, in- he carried extra glasses sewn into his coat to make sure specting the thoughts or feelings," as practiced by the he would still be able to see if he lost the pair he was person with an introspective personality. wearing. When people live in a shell of introspection, life be- Teddy Roosevelt took a keen interest in life. He comes difficult, people seem surly and tricky, and they wrote many books, explored Africa, and was elected imagine the future to be dull and drab. To paraphrase President, in spite of his weakness at birth. John Milton, the blind English poet, these people may He said he owed his success to the strenuous life, by say, "I look upon myself, and curse my fate." Every prob- which he meant regular exercise outdoors, filling his lem appears bigger, sharper, and more cruel than any- lungs with air, and clearing his brain of unhappy body else's, because they turn it over and over and over thoughts. in their thoughts. 3. Activate religious faith. One of the many American Millions of Americans feel this way because they do psychologists was William James. He had a problem not get the expansive view of life and keep their hands with introspection in his youth. He would get so low in to the plow. They see only what is immediately ahead of spirit he could not do anything. He would become almost them. If they would lift their heads, look up to the skies, paralyzed with depression. Later he concluded that at the trees, the birds, and all that is around them, they problems often get the best of people because their faith soon would get out of their shell and their worries would is not dynamic. grow small. When they have interesting things to do Physicians know there is a connection between mental they forget themselves. health and dynamic religious faith. Sir William Osler, a Here are some ways to develop a broader outlook: Canadian doctor who helped make Johns Hopkins 1. Become involved in a hobby you enjoy. Medical School famous, said people should burn their In a certain prison there is a man who is serving a life own smoke. This was a way of saying we should live hap- sentence—"all the time there is," he says. His situation pily because of our living faith and not inflict our dis- is perfect for introspection. But he has a safety valve in a comforts on others. (To page 21) AUGUST, 1971 9 Cramps While Swimming

A H. 0. SWARTOUT, M.D., Dr. P.R.

ASTLAKE, a small American town much like artificial respiration to bring his breathing back to nor- yours, had a near tragedy. It came about one day mal. Soon he was able to talk and tell what had happened last week because of a picnic we had on the sandy to him. E beach at the north end of our lake, where we have "I was swimming along and feeling fine," he said, a picnic at least once every summer. "only a little tired, when my right leg began to stiffen and Freddie Brown was celebrating his fourteenth birth- hurt terribly. It drew up until I could hardly move it. day that day, and he was having the time of his life. He Then my left leg did the same thing. I tried to swim back and some other boys had been romping on the sand in to land with my arms alone, but they got stiff and painful their bathing suits for a long time, when all at once he too. I was breathing hard, with only enough breath left shouted, "Follow the leader," ran down into the water, to call for help, when I went under. I took in so much and started to splash and swim his way toward the float water that it strangled me. That is the last I knew until I anchored a hundred yards offshore in twelve-foot-deep found myself lying here with all of you standing around." water. When he was halfway out to the float, he turned "You have Jack Wilson and your other friends to back toward shore, began struggling in the water, thank that you are not out there on the bottom," broke shouted for help, and began to sink. in Aunt Tabitha Mason, who is always in the middle of Jack Wilson and the other boys were not far behind things when people are sick or hurt. "What you had Freddie. Jack quickly swam to the spot where Freddie were cramps, and many a swimmer has lost his life on ac- had disappeared, dived beneath the surface, and caught count of them when nobody happened to be near when hold of his friend's arm. With the help of the other boys they struck." he brought Freddie to the surface and towed him to "Now, Aunt Tabitha, we didn't have to be very brave shore. to pull Freddie out of the water," Jack protested. "He There were many hands to help Jack as he reached wasn't any harder to handle than a piece of waterlogged shallow water and several people who had a fair knowl- plank." edge of first aid. Freddie was quickly stretched out on a "It was lucky for you, Jack, that Freddie was uncon- blanket on the sand, and it took only a few minutes of scious. You risked a fight in trying to save him, because

10 LIFE & HEALTH anyone who has been taken with cramps in the water is tinues to be troubled by them would do well to consult a badly frightened, and if he is conscious he is sure to clutch doctor, preferably one who specializes in women's dis- hold of his rescuer so tightly that he endangers the lives eases," Aunt Tabitha said. of both." "I should tell you more about cramps of the kind "Do you know why people have cramps and what hap- Freddie had out there in the water. People's arms, legs, pens when they do, Aunt Tabitha?" asked Jack's mother. and jaws sometimes cramp as Freddie's arms and legs did "All I know is what I have read and been told by doc- and for a reason similar to what I explained when I was tors," said Aunt Tabitha. "They say that cramps are not talking about the person who started out for a brisk walk necessarily a sign of disease but a sort of safety system to when he was not accustomed to vigorous exercise. protect the body from more damage than already has "Sometimes muscles cramp when they have been happened. You may think that a queer thing to say when held in a position of contraction for too long a time. a person has been nearly drowned because of cramps, but "My brother once had a cramp in the back of his neck it is often quite true. because he had kept his head tipped backward for nearly "I don't believe any of these boys here at the picnic half an hour watching an eclipse of the sun through a have ever had cramps of the kind I am thinking about, piece of smoked glass, which incidentally is dangerous, but some of you older people have. Boys are so active for it may cause blindness. that their muscles seldom get soft. "Then, I am sure you all have heard of writer's cramp. "Suppose a person who is not used to exercise starts The cause of it is the same story all over again. Writer's out for a brisk walk. Before long the calves of his legs be- cramp affects muscles that remain contracted when the gin to hurt, and the pain may become so bad that he has thumb and first two fingers hold a pen or pencil. to stop and rest. When he rests, the pain goes away grad- "When a cramp strikes a muscle it doesn't necessarily ually, but if he tries to push himself into a brisk walk affect the whole muscle. Some part of a muscle—maybe again it comes back. By forcing a person to rest, these only a small part—may draw up into a hard, painful knot. cramps protect his soft muscles from overwork. When by The pain may become almost unbearable if the person gradually increasing exercise he has made his muscles tries to keep on using the affected muscle as he works. strong, he may be able to walk briskly for hours without a sign of a cramp. "Come to think of it, those chest pains Freddie's grandmother had a few nights ago might be called cramps. You remember the pains came just as she reached home after hurrying several blocks. They started in her heart muscle, but she soon felt them in other parts of her chest and in her left arm. Many doctors believe that this spread of pain is a wise act of nature, making it all the more sure that the person stops all activity, thus lightening the work of the heart muscle that has become weak or lacks oxygen because of poor circulation. "Sometimes pain of a kind that can best be called a cramp strikes a person in the pit of the stomach," Aunt Tabitha continued. "I have seen this happen several times when someone had drunk a glass of ice water or eaten a dish of ice cream fast when his body was overheated. This is the way I figure it out: When anybody takes into his stomach anything especially irritating or that calls for a great increase in his blood supply in a hurry, cramping pain may result. I am not sure whether the muscles in the wall of the stomach are affected in the same way as the muscles in a cramping leg or arm. "Cramps low in the abdomen are as common as stomach cramps, but they do not often come from the same cause. A frequent cause of these pains is distention of the intestines from gas pressure. The distress from such pain can be acute. Even a strong boy can be seized with cramps. "As a rule, ordinary muscle cramps are so common that we know what to do to get relief, and we do not need a doctor. The same is true of cramps in the stomach, unless we think we have eaten some spoiled or poisoned food. But cramps in the intestines may need a doctor's "When a person is suffering pain from a cramp, he care if they persist for more than a few hours. must find some way to rest the muscle until it can do its "Women often have cramps low in the abdomen. work again. He must not push himself then. These cramps seldom are dangerous, but even though "As I said before, doctors think that too small an oxy- they come on periodically they are not normal and should gen supply to the muscle—caused by too little blood flow- not be considered just a nuisance. Any woman who con- ing through it—is what makes it act this (To page 21) AUGUST, 1971 11 There is something a homemaker can do when she needs to get a quick dinner.

By ALICE T. STARR

HETHER the day is snapping cold or sultry Linketts and sprinkle again with Smokene. Cover and hot, your taste buds are unpredictable. Do steam until thoroughly hot. Make a sauce by mixing the you promise yourself when starting to pre- soy milk and the flour with a little cold water in a cup to w pare a meal that you will have nothing fancy form a smooth paste. Add enough water to fill the cup. this time, not go to any bother? You get potatoes baking Stir the pimiento and sauce into the sauerkraut mixture. in the oven, a vegetable salad prepared, a plate of rad- Simmer and stir until it is of a thick consistency. ishes and carrot sticks set up, and bread and butter on the Sauerkraut and Linketts table. Then unexpected visitors drop in. You scan your 1 15-ounce can Linketts, diced shelves for something to make a plain meal appealing. 4 tablespoons cooking oil You grasp a can of sauerkraut and wish you had more Smokene groceries on hand. But wait. You can prepare something 1 No. 21/2 can sauerkraut, well drained special from what you have. 2 tablespoons whole-wheat flour Sauerkraut Rosy Glow Saute Linketts in the oil. Sprinkle generously with Smokene, and add sauerkraut. Heat thoroughly, stirring 1 No. 21/2 can sauerkraut, well drained frequently. Add flour (flour relieves the tang and im- 1 15-ounce can Linketts, diced proves palatability). Heat thoroughly, blending well. 1/2 cup water or Linkett broth Serve immediately. Serves 4 to 6 people. Smokene, from Loma Linda Foods 1 tablespoon dry soy milk VegeBurger Chop Suey 1 heaping teaspoon whole-wheat flour 1 can VegeBurger, mashed, or 1 small jar pimientos, minced 1 can Proast, diced Drain the sauerkraut and put the juice aside to be 2/3 cup diced onion used as a beverage or for other purposes. Place the 3 cups sliced celery Linketts in a skillet with the water or Linkett broth and 3 tablespoons cooking oil sprinkle with Smokene. Arrange the sauerkraut over the Smokene

12 LIFE & HEALTH 2 cups water 3 tablespoons soy sauce 1 No. 2 can bean sprouts 1 small can mushrooms Instant mashed potato Combine VegeBurger or Proast with onion, celery, and oil. Sprinkle with Smokene. Saute lightly brown. Add water mixed with soy sauce. Simmer until the vegetables are tender. In a kettle heat the bean sprouts and mushrooms and add the cooked mixture. Simmer a few moments and thicken to desired consistency with instant potato. Salt to taste. Serve alone or pour over cooked HARRY M. TIPPETT, M.A., Litt.D. rice or Chinese noodles. Serves 6 to 8 people.

Yummy Rice Croquettes 1 large-size or 2 medium-size onions, diced 1/2 1-pound, 3-ounce can Yum The Ultimate 2 cups cooked rice Smokene Dash of sage in Peace Dash of celery seed 2 teaspoons parsley flakes HERE are no easy paths to peace in the nation, 2 tablespoons soy sauce T in the home, or in the heart. In international 1 6-ounce can tomato paste affairs the most optimistic diplomat would not 2 cups water think of a cease fire or an armed truce as peace. An Cumin or caraway seed "uneasy peace" is a contradiction of terms. Armi- stice often is maintained only by watchful, in- formed alertness, with readiness to fight again. Dis- armament may relieve the tension, but as long as there is mutual distrust among nations global peace is an unrealistic utopia. Peace in the face of godless, unprincipled aggres- sion is not a simple matter of logistics, of moving troops out of the path of the aggressors. If it were so, the growing crime in our cities could be contained by dismissal of our police force. As long as lust, avarice, and degenerate objectives control the human heart we shall need policemen. As long as the same evil impulses dominate international relations, we shall have no peace. In the personal sense peace is synonymous with that serenity we call happiness. Passive unconcern is a mockery of such serenity. Mere quietude is not peace. Noncommunication between marital partners to avoid bickering, for instance, is not tranquillity. Withdrawing from the world to seek solitude like- wise defeats serenity if one takes his hangups with him. Solitude often only offers opportunity to lick Have a few foods on hand ready one's wounds, which in turn accentuates the mem- to meet a quick-meal emergency. ory of the friction that produced them. In farewell to His disciples Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as In a mixing bowl combine onion, Yum, and rice. the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your Sprinkle with Smokene. Toss in the sage, celery seed, heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John parsley flakes, and soy sauce. Make into balls. Sauté 14:27). All that the world can give is a substitute lightly brown in cooking oil. Place in square or oblong for peace. Commitment to God's ways is life's deep- pan (porcelain is best). In a separate pan put the to- est fulfillment. It casts out fear. It provides sanc- mato paste and water. Add cumin seed and soy sauce. tuary in the midst of conflict. It makes trouble en- Simmer about 5 minutes, then pour over the balls. Bake durable in the assurance of a happy destiny. Christ at 250 degrees for 45 minutes. Good hot or cold. Serves said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but ... 4 to 6 people generously. This would be a good dish to I have overcome the world" (chap. 16:33). • prepare and bake ahead of time to have on hand in an emergency for unexpected guests. (To page 23)

AUGUST, 1971 13

OilyO Ski

A HERMAN GOODMAN, M.D.

REVENT skin oiliness by proper care, the first Gentle massage of the face is recommended. Rub part of which is cleanliness. The use of soap and your face with soap lather while washing. There is no water is a help above all else. A clean skin disin- general agreement as to the method of massage, but fects itself more thoroughly than an unclean make it gentle, and direct your fingers to conform to the skin does. mold of your features. Massage from the bridge of your You may ask, Why soap-and-water cleanliness? Any- nose to the corner of your mouth and out from the sides one who washes dishes with soap knows that it gets rid of of your nose across your cheeks. grease. The chemicals of soap rearrange themselves when Massage is intended to bring the contents from the oil there is grease in the water. Soap and water release alkali. glands to the surface so it can be washed away. The spaces The alkali reaches the grease on a dish and changes it about tiny hairs are emptied by massage, reducing the into soap, which water carries away. Water alone does not chance of infection. There is a harmless mite that likes to remove grease, because ordinarily grease and water do live in the semisolid secum of the oil sac. It adds to the not mix. distress of the person with a shiny complexion. So it is with oiliness of the skin. If you use soap, you A young woman with oily skin is always eager to know have the same chemical action on the excess oil from the what form of cosmetic she may use. She should not use a fat sacs, or glands, of the skin as on the grease of the dish. cosmetic that contains fat. Why add fat to the excess fat The water should be soft or softened, that is, free from already there? She may use many nonfatty creams. They insoluble mineral salts. Hard water irritates the skin. usually are made with a soap base. Modern powder cos- Hard-water soap must be used to overcome the hardness metics may be applied without danger of blocking the of the water before there is any cleansing action. Collect gland openings. Mud packs and steam treatments are rainwater if your water is not soft. Rainwater is always merely applications of heat. As mentioned, heat improves soft. the action of soap and water on oiliness. Water for face and scalp should be moderately warm. If you have an oily skin, give extra attention to your The action is better in warm rather than in cold water. scalp. Dry dandruff is one phase of oily skin. Soap and Apply plenty of soap and make plenty of lather. Do not water help the scalp as well as the skin. Each hair has a worry about bad effects—there will not be any. Best re- ring of oil sacs around it, and the oil empties directly into sults are obtained by moderate use of soap, but there is the space around the hair. Wash your hair once a week no need to stint. The action of the temporarily free alkali or once every ten days. If you work in a dusty environ- on the oil of the face brings good results to the comment wash it more often. plexion. In using soap for removing grease and oil from your 14 LIFE & HEALTH If you have an oily skin you will have to work harder to keep it clean than most people do. Cleanse it with soap for best results.

scalp, be sure to remove all the soapy water with a num- complexion and scalp. If the oil dries on the scalp it is ber of rinses. Do not let the water fall on your face, neck, called dry dandruff. or shoulders. Wrap a large dry towel across your fore- There is a relationship between scalp oiliness and face head and down across your neck to keep the water off as pimples. Investigation by experts disclosed the remark- you rinse. able fact that oiliness hinders the skin from performing If you have too much oil in your skin you have a its cleansing. Clean skin disinfects itself. If there is oil on greasy complexion. It is interesting to know what causes the skin the power of disinfection is lowered, and so an this oiliness. There are two important sets of glands in oily skin is more easily infected than a dry skin is. the skin. One set is only partly responsible for the excess The palm has no oil sacs or oil glands. It has been oil. It deals with the perspiration. The second set of found that the palm readily disinfects itself. But infec- glands is directly responsible for the skin oil. tion is found often among workmen who have their Oil glands are found only where there are hairs. Even hands in grease. tiny white baby hairs have oil glands. The palms and soles Several factors cause distressfully oily skin, but neither do not have oil glands, because there are no hairs on an active oil-gland condition alone nor infection is suf- them. On the nose and the blush area of the cheeks the ficient to cause it. A third factor exists in the general oil sacs are large. The wide openings around the tiny in- makeup of the person. Something inside him acts as a visible hairs from which the oil exudes are the cause of spark to initiate or maintain an oily skin. much dismay among women with enlarged pores. The internal parts of the body have a close connec- Under normal conditions of health the oil glands give tion with the skin glands. Stomach trouble leads to exces- off just enough oil to grease the skin and the hair lightly. sive oil secretion. The organs of generation have a close If conditions are not normal, too much oil comes out. It association with the fat glands of the skin. Medical sci- gives a shine to the skin and an unwelcome feeling of ence recognizes that the glands of individuality have a greasiness. There are periods in life when this extra ac- function in skin health. A lazy pituitary gland causes ex- tivity is to be expected. Adolescence is a period of such excessive dryness. An overactive pituitary gland causes extra activity. It is the time when all the secreting glands are cessive oiliness. busy, and the oil sacs share in the activity. What part does diet play in excess oil? Should certain It is normal during adolescence to have oiliness of oily foods be avoided? No matter in what form the food complexion and scalp. It precedes pimples and black- we eat goes into the system, it reaches the skin through heads. Everyone with pimples and blackheads has an oily the blood. Fat is digested before the blood can absorb it. The fat we eat does not circulate. The oil glands do not depend on the fat eaten. The oil on the surface of the Oil left on the skin too long presents skin comes mainly from destruction of fat-gland cells. a problem in cleanliness. It may draw Fatty food is unimportant as a cause of oily skin. Sugar and starch are more important than fat in pro- dust and dirt and grow many microbes. duction of oily skin. Excess sugar in circulating blood is often found in people having an oily complexion. Avoid excess sugar and starch if you have a tendency to oily skin. You also avoid pimples and boils more easily when you eat sparingly of sugar and starch. For the person with an oily skin, diet includes how much to eat as well as what to eat. The diet should be seasonal. There should be a mixture of raw and cooked vegetables. He gets along best eating according to his needs, based on body weight, age, and amount of physical work done. His aim should be to approach the normal or ideal weight for his group. People who are overweight for their age and height should restrict the amount of food they eat. Underweight people should eat more. Be on the safe side by avoiding food fads and always drinking at least eight glasses of water daily. Some people have a naturally oily skin, but it can become excessively so by means of improper or sugary food and other causes. They must do more in the way of planning a wholesome diet and living pattern than people with dry skin do. • AUGUST, 1971 15 A HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. GRAND DAMAN CM

controlled. The attitude influ- successfully to school, marriage, chil- ences the state of health and dren in the home, requirements of vigor. The person who is opti- vocation, and his associates finds it mistic, courageous, and youth- easy to make a good adjustment to HE query as to how old a man ful in his thinking enjoys much better old age. must be before he is consid- health than the person who dwells There is still another means of T ered old is a question that on the somber side of life, other fac- making preparation for old age— has many answers. Some tors being equal. becoming actively interested in pur- people are old at forty-five, and oth- An elderly person is the victim of suits and hobbies that can be carried ers are still young at sixty-five. Aging the personality traits he developed in over into old age. There comes a has both physical and psychological earlier life. In so saying we are giving time when each man must retire components. From the physical a hint of the means by which he can from his usual employment. Each standpoint a person becomes old be assured of a happy old age. The woman becomes less active in her when the organs and tissues of his secret is simply to develop traits in household duties once the children body show signs of deterioration. the prime of life that when exag- leave home. The interests that serve From the psychological standpoint a gerated in old age will make life to vitalize the later years of life are person becomes old only as he loses pleasant and association with other those that were developed apart from the zest for living. people agreeable. An elderly person the usual employment or routine. As to a person's youthfulness and is cast in the mold of his earlier hab- These are activities that come into usefulness, his age cannot be prop- its and attitudes. When they are fa- full bloom when retirement permits erly computed by counting birthdays. vorable, his declining years are a spending time as desired. The rate of progress toward old age pleasure to him and to his family and An elderly person can develop new is an individual matter. Some people friends. interests, and by all means he should pass their prime of life at an earlier The people who have been mean, do so if he should find time drag- age than others do. Some are fortu- selfish, and uncharitable actually suf- ging. As in war so in life, adequate nate in having vital force so abundant fer in later life. Those who have preparedness ensures a successful that it lasts them well into the eighties driven hard bargains, taken advan- climax. It is best for the middle-aged or beyond. Others run low on the tage of other people, and been un- person to choose lines of study and precious spark of life before they yielding in their relations are the ones kinds of unselfish service that will have reached sixty. who find the years of retirement an lend themselves as full-time occupa- A person's attitude toward himself anticlimax. tions when retirement time arrives. and the world around him is as im- Life is full of adjustments and These activities can give so much portant in determining how old he is adaptations. Successful living con- meaning to life that the retired per- as is the amount of vital force he re- sists of making adjustments grace- son hardly notices when old age is tains. This factor of attitude can be fully. The person who has adjusted upon him. (To page 25) 16 LIFE & HEALTH LD WORDS have new meaning in today's society. the pears, and shell the peas. When the tomatoes were When I went to school the word Appalachian ripe, all the family pitched in to prepare them for can- brought to mind a group of mountains that run ning. The men built a fire under the big washpots out in U up the Eastern part of the United States. The the yard for dipping the tomatoes to make them easier to geography teacher made them sound so interesting that peel. The women put the tomatoes in cotton sacks and most of our class wanted to visit them. dipped them into the boiling water. The children helped Today the word Appalachia is associated with poverty, to slip off the skins and get them ready for canning by a condition from which we all suffer at one time or an- the women. other. As to not owning as much as someone else, there A few years ago I heard one of those dear neighbors are few of us who do not say, "Our family can't go have some unfilled needs. out and enjoy dinner with I remember my anyone anymore. People mother saving up dimes, put forth so much effort to nickels, and pennies in fix us a good dinner that order to have enough they have paid a high price money to buy something for it, to our sorrow." the family needed or Appalachia People leave their wanted. We could not get farms today because they new clothes every time we think they cannot make a went to town. We children living on a farm unless usually got good sturdy By ELLIS L. THOMPSON, R.P.T. they have many acres un- blue jeans at the beginning der cultivation and are of the school year, and by able to buy a large amount summer they were worn at of farming equipment. the knees. Mother cut them off for everyday wear, and When people who used to be farmers arrive in the she used the bottoms of the legs to reinforce the seat. cities they usually get a job, but they discover their earn- We never thought of ourselves as being poverty ings go for wilted vegetables instead of (To page 23) stricken. We were healthy, happy, and willing to work. Every day we asked the Lord to provide for us, and He did take care of our needs. He did not take time to bring everything to us, and so we had to go out and gather it. For instance, after our farmer neighbors had harvested their beans, strawberries, peppers, and tomatoes they often let us know that we could come over and gather the leavings before they plowed them under. Mother would gather up us children, haul us to the bean patch, and then she would outpick us two to one. Later we all pitched in and shelled the beans and helped mother can them. As children we did not have every convenience. The place where we got off the school bus for home was a mile from the road leading into town. On cold, rainy days we were not too comfortable going up the dirt road from there to our home. When we arrived, the hot soup bub- bling in a big pot on the back of the stove tasted wonderful to us. Work for all of us was often scarce, and money was not always to be had, but we did not call our situation poverty, and we shared what we had with other people. Mother was always able to find someone who needed our outgrown clothes, and at mealtime our table always had an extra plate for anyone who happened to drop in. We never embarrassed our guest by sending to the store for extra food. We considered that anything good enough for the family to eat was good enough to share with other people. The farmers in our area did not have big farms of many acres. Most of them owned only five or ten acres, and some of that acreage might not be fit for planting. Those farmers were not wasteful, but made use of every resource they had. They planted cash crops and a garden for their own use. There was joyous companionship in The best place for children to grow up in is the open, clean the family as they got together to snap the beans, peel country. Good-sized families can get along best on a farm. AUGUST, 1971 17 A 0. S. PARRETT, M.D.

CANNOT get away from the alone. Strangely enough, in all the which is the natural sugar of milk. conviction that ulcerative co- literature I scanned on this subject I Even when treating adults I include litis must have a severe infec- never ran across the matter of meat milk sugar in the program as an item tion as an important factor being a contributing factor nor any- of continuing benefit, especially 0in the cause. We should not feed the thing about the importance of a well- when combating bowel putrefaction patient the perfect germ-culture ordered diet. For this disease I rec- and infectious processes, because medium, which is meat. It markedly ommend a diet that inhibits the milk sugar nourishes friendly germs. increases the problem. growth of unfriendly germs and The so-called colon germ, or Bac- While I was medical director of a favors the growth of friendly germs. terium coli, causes the foul odor in small hospital in Canada I was The stools of a newborn babe usu- the stool. Although it does no serious called to the telephone one day by a ally are yellowish. They contain harm in the bowel beyond its putre- doctor in Sidney, a small town on many of the acid-forming, or butter- factive tendency, when it strays into Vancouver Island only a mile from milk, type of germs that feed on other organs or parts of the body it our hospital. This doctor regularly lactose, or milk sugar. Because hu- can cause plenty of trouble. Observ- gave anesthetics for me when I op- man breast milk contains almost ant specialists call attention to the erated. He was friendly, but he twice the lactose of cow's milk, it may fact that a diminished B. coli in the thought it strange that we served no be expected that a breast-fed baby stool goes along with diminished ac- meat in the hospital, and he may have is not likely to suffer from bowel in- tivity of ulcerative colitis. The authors thought me odd for not eating flesh fection, and that is what we find to of the articles mentioning this fact of any kind. be true. admitted that drugs seemed not to When he telephoned me that day However, when I find a young alter the nature of the stool a great he was quite disturbed. I learned mother who is a cigarette addict and deal. from him that he had a severe case of who lives on coffee, white bread, This is my regimen for ulcerative bloody flux. I inquired as to his recent sugar, and a lot of other counterfeit colitis: diet, and he admitted he had eaten a foods, I wonder whether a cow, 1. First in any program hopeful steak that had a whitish spot in it be- which does not smoke or drink cof- of results in ulcerative colitis is cut- fore he cooked it, which, as he fee or liquor but subsists on foods ting meat out of the diet. For how thought of it later, he feared might largely as God made them, might not long? I can best answer that question have been the wall of an abscess. be the better source of food for the by telling a short case history. I made a few suggestions as to the baby who was seriously damaged One of my patients, a young mar- best diet for him, and I supposed the by a smoking mother before he was ried man whose home I had visited matter was soon forgotten. Not en- born. on several occasions, came down tirely, I think, for he never again Lactic-acid-forming germs such with a severe case of loose bowels, said anything about its being queer as the bifidus and several others of and I put him on a strict diet pro- to be a vegetarian. the lactic aerogenous and bulgaricus gram. He responded, but his recov- In dealing with bowel infection and types are helpful in maintaining the ery was somewhat longer than I ex- inflammation, the sensible thing is to stool in a noninfectious condition. pected. Finally he seemed to be his cut out meat, although there is more For this reason I favor adding to the normal self. He asked me then how to my treatment regimen than that baby's formula some milk sugar, soon he could safely eat some meat, 18 LIFE & HEALTH There is much that the ulcerative colitis patient can do to overcome his problem.

quite tightly until you have a cork. milk out of the diet tended to im- Press it tightly against the rectum to prove one fifth of the patients who prevent return flow. tried doing it. With a baby you need a second Milk, wheat, and eggs are con- person to help, for unless the butter- sidered the most allergenic of all com- milk traverses the entire colon, in- mon foods, and none of them are cluding the cecum, your treatment absolutely essential to a complete will do little good. If the enema can diet, so I would not take a chance on be retained for a few moments, so any of the three until they later have much the better. The lactic acid in been tried out one by one, to see the buttermilk is death to putrefac- whether they bear any relation to the tive bacteria, which grow in an alka- trouble. I suspect that allergy may s line media. often play a part in ulcerative-co- An adult may take this enema litis cases. either lying in bed on his back or his Because rice probably is the least right side or on a rug in the knee- allergenic of all the cereals, try using chest position. Elderly people with whole rice, not polished rice, instead lack of sphincter control may re- of wheat. I cannot help thinking that quire plugging of the rectum the whether rice or wheat is refined, and I held him off for a month. Soon same as for babies. such refining deprives the patient afterward he came in with more 2. The next important measure to of certain food values he desperately symptoms, not quite so severe as the take is to select the diet. Cut out all needs. Grind bread flour finely for others but too bad to tolerate. After tea, coffee, condiments, and spices of the patient. a second try with similar results, he every kind. No catsup, mustard, or Avoid fried food. When it becomes suggested that he go on a vegetarian pepper, red or black. No vinegar. Use necessary to use cooking oil I recom- diet for keeps. lemon juice instead. Season food mend olive oil, preferably in emulsi- Was this a case that could have de- with a little salt, cream, or margarine. fied form. On page 298 of the book veloped into full-blown ulcerative Make a large salad of bananas and The Ministry of Healing, by Ellen G. colitis if allowed to continue? I do not peeled apples often for the patient's White, the "oil, as eaten in the olive," have the answer, but I suspect that meals. For an infant or a person un- is highly recommended as being many cases of the serious form of able or unwilling to chew thoroughly, healing to an inflamed or irritated this disease would be prevented if run this salad through the blender. stomach. In natural foods such as the patients were to switch to an in- Babies love this mixture and really avocados, cream, and olives all oils telligent but adequate fleshless pro- lick it up. are emulsified, hence they do not gram. Avoid sugar, for I am sure that it grease over other foods and prevent In acute attacks of ulcerative co- plays a big part in the disease com- easy digestion of them. litis, one of the things I do is use plex of ulcerative colitis. To make a salad dressing with buttermilk both by mouth and as an I am sorry that it is impossible any emulsified olive oil, take a cup of to- enema diluted with equal parts of longer to buy Borden's Beta-lactose, mato puree or thick tomato juice water. If the buttermilk is lumpy, which is a milk sugar, made three and add to it five tablespoonfuls of run it through your blender so that times as sweet as regular lactose by pure fresh olive oil. Run this mixture it will flow freely through the rubber rearrangement of the atoms in the through your blender at high speed tubing. molecule. I once wrote the Borden until it resembles thick cream in con- In treating an infant or a young company about it, and they said they sistency. Use this dressing in salads child, place him on his right side on a had discontinued making it. and eat one to three tablespoonfuls bed or table with plenty of newspa- However, in the diet you may use along with each meal. pers or a rubber sheet under him. either lactodextrin, which was in- I see no reason for the ulcerative- Warm the buttermilk, but do not at vented by Dr. John Harvey Kel- colitis patient to avoid such salads any time scald it. Scalding would kill logg, or plain lactose, which may as grated carrot and coleslaw, such the germs, and you need them alive. be as good but is not so sweet. I hesi- tender cooked vegetables as squash, They do only good and no harm. tate to use cane sugar. Perhaps a string beans, carrots, spinach, green Lift the can of diluted buttermilk very little Karo syrup or honey peas, and Lima beans thoroughly about four feet high, The child will would be better, unless you happen to chewed or blended, and other foods push back with much force as soon be one of the rare people who are in- of like character. I suggest favoring as the fluid enters the bowel, so to tolerant to honey. vegetables of high color, because the prevent its discharge you must roll As regards milk in the ulcerative- patient needs iron badly if he is bleed- a string of cotton or a strip of cloth colitis diet, I noted that some ob- ing. around the base of the enema tip servers had discovered that leaving Never combine acid (To page 31) AUGUST, 1971 19 circulation. For this treatment you will need two containers deep enough for the water to come halfway to the knees. Have hot water in one container and cold water containing ice in the other. Im- family merse the feet in the hot water for three or four minutes, then plunge them into the cold water for a few seconds. Keep up this alternate hot and cold treatment By H. W. Vollmer, M.D. doctor for about twenty minutes, finishing with the cold and drying briskly. It is well to Memory Loss is good for the nervous system in gen- have this temperature-contrast treat- eral. A well-balanced, nourishing diet is ment just before retiring at night. What is the cause of forgetting well-known essential for good health of body, mind, names or facts? Are there any vitamins that and spirit. Such a diet properly prepared help the memory? should provide all the vitamins neces- It is not unusual for a person of mid- sary for the normal person. dle-age or past to have momentary mem- Dairy Products ory loss of a well-known fact, to read a * r * letter and forget what was in it, so that it A friend advised me to omit meat, dairy seems like something new on the second products, and eggs from my diet. Will I get or third reading. Poor memory may be all the food elements, including vitamins, that caused by a certain amount of arterio- Cold Feet I need if I do so? sclerosis (artery hardening) or other body My problem is cold feet. Sometimes my feet When foods high in nutritive value are changes that come in advanced years. It turn purple. I had a blood count and a thyroid could be owing to the habit of not con- removed from the diet, it is of the great- test, and they were normal. What can be the est importance to furnish these nutritive centrating on a subject enough to make cause, and what treatment do you suggest? the impression lasting, as in hasty read- values or elements through other foods. ing—getting the words but not the mean- With a normal blood count you prob- The nutritive elements needed by the ing. It is helpful to associate a name or ably can consider poor circulation the normal person may be obtained, with one an event with something familiar to aid cause of your cold feet. This condition exception, from a diet consisting of a in remembering it. may be the result of habitually wearing good supply of entire cereals and cereal Study your mental habits to see tight garments—tight round garters, products and a variety of fruit, legumes, whether you are failing to concentrate tightly rolled stockings, too tight and too nuts, seeds, and fresh vegetables, includ- on what is being said or read. Form the short shoes. Sometimes poor circulation is ing plenty of yellow and green leafy veg- habit of reading carefully to allow what caused by some abnormal heart condi- etables. The known elements, including you are reading to make an impression tion. It would be well for you to see your vitamins, needed by the body are present, on your mind. Exercise your memory by personal physician about this cold-foot with the exception of vitamin B12. memorizing verses, not thinking of the problem. As yet there is no known practical words alone, but of the full meaning of As to treatment, removing or remedy- source of vitamin B12 obtainable from the words in order to get a lasting impres- ing the cause is first in order. After that the vegetable kingdom. Therefore, a sion of the thought. come proper exercise and deep breath- person on a purely vegetarian diet (a diet A habit of inattention may be a result ing. derived entirely from the vegetable king- of tired nerves. Perhaps you need to take An alternately hot and cold leg bath dom) must supply this essential vitamin more time for relaxation and recreation. once or twice daily would improve the from some other source. This deficiency Light exercise in the open air and deep may be met by including in the diet foods breathing are relaxing. Take time to that have been fortified with vitamin B12. study and enjoy the beauty and wonder There are a number of foods to which of nature—the flowers, birds, trees, this vitamin has been added; for exam- clouds—rather than listening to unim- ple, some prepared cereals, food yeast, portant radio and television programs, fortified soybean milk, and the like. which do not train the memory but can Read the labels of these foods carefully be a factor in deterioration of memory. to determine the amount of B12 fur- Choose the best in all things. nished by them. If a person is not getting Nothing is more likely to strengthen vitamin B12 from the food in his diet he the memory and the character than should take a vitamin-Biz supplement. studying the Scriptures. The Psalms, es- The recommended daily allowance of pecially beautiful and comforting, are vitamin B12 as listed in the 1968 table of the Food and Nutrition Board, National easily memorized. This study should in- A HEALTH PRESCRIPTION clude prayer, asking God to help you Academy of Sciences, National Research concentrate and strengthen your mem- By KATHLEEN WATTS Council, is 5 micrograms for children 10 ory. to 12 years of age and adults up to age There is no specific vitamin especially Bask daily in the sunshine, 55; slightly more for adults beyond age for the memory. The vitamin-B complex Breathe deeply of fresh air, 55, pregnant women, and lactating Drink generously of pure water, women; and less for children under age Eat moderately of good fore. 10. One to three glasses of dairy milk We do not diagnose or treat disease by mail, but Rest with peace of mind, would furnish these amounts. If milk or answer only general health questions. Address: Firm trust in divine power— Family Doctor, LIFE AND HEALTH, 6856 other animal source of this vitamin is not Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. Follow this prescription faithfully, a part of the diet, the vitamin must be Enclose stamped, addressed envelope. Good health will be yours hour by hour. furnished from some other source. 20 LIFE & HEALTH Some people apparently can get along more about what causes muscle cramps, I 1. Have a hobby. without vitamin B12 in the diet, because think you will agree that you seldom need 2. Take outdoor exercise. it is furnished from some source in their to have them. By avoiding cramps you 3. Keep religious faith. body. There is no way of knowing can avoid the serious danger of drowning 4. Do something nice for somebody whether a person has this ability, and so it that faces a person attacked by cramps every day. is unsafe to suppose that he can get along while he is in the water, where it is hard 5. Begin to write letters. without it. It is the better part of wisdom to massage the cramped muscles and im- Defeating the introspection habit may to make sure that it is in the diet in suf- possible to apply hot compresses, which require a real fight, but these five sug- ficient amounts, because the risk of omit- otherwise soon could relax them and re- gestions will help you overcome it. Per- ting it is great. lieve the tension and pain. haps you have been told that you need to Vitamin B12 is essential for keeping "Because nobody can be sure he will develop new interests. Try the five sug- the blood in normal condition. Its ab- not have a cramp while swimming, no- gestions for a month, and see whether sence results in anemia (macrocytic) akin body should ever go swimming alone," some of the things that were worrying to pernicious anemia, which results in Aunt Tabitha said firmly. A you are not mere matters of the routine degeneration of the spinal cord motor of living. Through action you give the nerve pathways with resultant crippling joy of life a chance, not its sorrows and of the arms, hands, legs, and feet. grievances and hardships. If for any reason it is necessary for you Introspection fastens hard on old mis- to discard milk, other dairy products, and takes, disloyalty, ingratitude, annoyances. eggs from your diet, consider this infor- GET OUT OF YOUR SHELL Because it becomes the dominant pat- mation carefully. • tern of a person's thinking, it makes the (From page 9) future seem dreary, harsh, and frenzied. Fanny Crosby, who wrote many hymns Thus the fabulous present, the chief * * of deep religious significance, was blind, reality of mortal life, is caked over with a but her hymns reflect joy and happiness hard shell. over being one of God's children. The Man from Nazareth wasted little CRAMPS WHILE SWIMMING 4. Do something nice for somebody time on introspection. He had work to every day. Nice means "pleasing, agree- do. Psychologists today constantly speak (From page 11) able, satisfactory, kind, thoughtful, of the integrated, polarized, and stable way. At least we know that firm massage proper, and suitable," the dictionary personality of Jesus. He had an expan- and hot compresses often relieve such a says. sive view of life, and He knew that hap- cramp. The effect of such massage or hot Much in-law trouble could be quickly piness comes by helping other people. • compresses is to stimulate circulation of solved and homes made happier if only the blood. Anything that chills the muscle the in-laws would be pleasant to one an- makes it more subject to a cramp. other, says Dr. Walter Alvarez, for many "What about Freddie's cramps, and years professor of medicine at Mayo why do many people have cramps only Clinic. He says it would be helpful if when they go into the water? Why does a mothers-in-law would write to Mr. and person often sink and drown when Mrs., instead of merely to their own cramps hit him while he is in the water? daughter or son. He suggests that the COMING "In swimming, a person uses leg and whole family make the sister-in-law or Next Month arm muscles that are not used as much brother-in-law part of the circle. as the muscles needed for walking, run- There are many people to whom we ning, or other ordinary activities. Al- can be agreeable besides in-laws. We can • RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS though he may have been taking regular help, cheer up, improve, and love our By J. D. HENRIKSEN, M.D. exercise, and most of his muscles are fellow man. Good help for the rheumatoid kind strong, he easily can overwork the sel- 5. Write letters. As you write, you see of arthritis is possible if signs dom-used muscles, and bring on cramps how it works out. Soon, like a chain let- are noticed early and the patient in them. The cramps are all the more ter, you get reaction letters from other puts himself in his doctor's care. likely to come if the water is cold, if he is people. Everyone enjoys getting pleasant • MODERN DENTISTRY letters. tired or overheated from other kinds of By ALBERT C. KOPPEL, D.D.S. exercise before he goes in swimming, or Thomas Jefferson wrote more than ten thousand letters in his busy life. He Many new machines have been put if he is trying to swim fast. As long as his on the market to help dentists arms and legs or even his arms alone can set aside a part of every day for letter serve their patients quickly as keep up their swimming motions he usu- writing. Andrew Jackson wrote a lot. they attempt to rehabilitate teeth. ally can keep his nose above water. Although both of these men were in po- "Only a person with a very fat body or litical life, many of their letters were • STOMACH-ACHE with lungs well filled with air can stay simple expressions of fellowship. Young By H. 0. SWARTOUT, M.D. afloat without using his arms and legs. people, sick people, unhappy people, Never ignore a severe, prolonged "If Freddie had been in swimming of- successful people, heard from them. stomach-ache. The cause of it is ten this summer, if he hadn't played so For a few cents you can send a letter possibly a complication of some hard before he started to swim, and if he from Seattle, Washington, to Key West, problem that your doctor can help. hadn't tried to beat the other boys out to Florida, or from Caribou, Maine, to San the float, he might not have had cramps. Diego, California. • REGULAR FEATURES If he had been able to keep on paddling Answer your letters promptly. Your DIETITIAN SAYS with his arms and hands, and if he hadn't letters ought to tell what you are doing FAMILY DOCTOR had to use up his breath calling for help, without bragging. They ought to show he might not have gone down." real interest in the other person. HOME NURSING Aunt Tabitha stopped for breath, then Here are the five practical suggestions continued, "Now that all of you know again: AUGUST, 1971 21 feeding poorly, become lethargic, and lose normal reflex response. He may have convulsions. His cry may be shrill, high pitched. The condition of hyperbilirubinemia is especially severe in premature babies. The bilirubin level above mother's 15 mg% is considered dangerous. What can be done to treat the yellow By Marian . baby? The older treatment of exchange Strickland, M D.Counselor transfusion, especially in the case of erythroblastosis (anemia) or ABO (blood THE COLOR OF YOUR three-day-old mother and baby. In the first condition type) incompatibility, is well known, but baby's skin has a yellowish cast instead the red cells are destroyed by the there are hazards. of the pink-nude color of a healthy new- mother's antibodies transmitted through A study made by the University of born. You are not the only one to notice the placenta. The antibodies are specific Pittsburgh involving almost 4,000 chil- this color change. The guardian of the for a certain blood-group component dren brought out the fact that infants nursery has already told the head of the fetal cells. This is the case with an who have had erythroblastosis and re- nurse, who has alerted the doctor in Rh negative mother who has an Rh posi- ceived exchange transfusion never quite charge. tive infant. The other condition occurs catch up with their unaffected peers. In- As many as 50 to 70 per cent of new- when the antibodies of the mother's telligence rating, vision, and hearing can born infants become noticeably jaun- blood cross the placental barrier and at- be affected. A pediatric hematologist diced two or three days after birth, and tack the infant's red cells. Destruction from New York City has cut down on usually they are back to normal color in of the red cells results in severe jaundice transfusions he is directly concerned with a week or so. and anemia. by about 70 per cent. In view of the fact that the color Other conditions may predispose the What measures are being carried out? infant in the first four weeks after birth World Medical News, June 13, 1969, to increased bilirubin, such as prolonged noted: "Phototherapy has done a great cyanosis (blue skin), bacteremia (bacteria deal to cut down on the need to transfuse The Yellow in the blood), hepatitis (liver inflamma- neonates [newborn babies]." tion), other infections, and a diabetic It has been shown that bilirubin has mother. Rarely, there are congenital been broken down by light. In this treat- Baby (present at birth) lesions that would ment infants are exposed to light, which cause biliary (bile-duct) obstruction. breaks down the pigment as it passes Occasionally jaundice may occur in through the skin capillaries. breast-fed infants during the second This measure has helped considerably, change did not show up until several week of life. The mother's body manu- but recently it was held in question by days after birth, the new baby probably factures a substance in her milk that in- Thomas R. Sisson, M.D., director of has what is called physiologic jaundice hibits the conjugation (joining with neonatal research, Temple University of the newborn. There are two factors other substances) of bilirubin. If the School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Penn- responsible for this condition. The mass baby is taken off the breast his serum sylvania. In the February 3, 1971, issue of red cells in an infant is about twice bilirubin level returns to normal within of Medical Tribune Dr. Sisson writes as that of an adult in proportion to body several days. There is no damage to the follows: weight. This mass is reduced so rapidly baby. The mother of an erythroblastotic "Phototherapy . . . reduces the risk of that the level of a substance called bili- (anemic) baby can breast-feed him if he brain damage to the infant from toxic lev- rubin is raised. Bilirubin results from the is strong enough to nurse. In his intes- els of bilirubin.... It is a mode of therapy fragmentation of red cells with release of tinal tract the antibodies in the mother's that has been surprisingly successful, but hemoglobin into the plasma of the blood. milk are inactivated. its recent wide application in this country This is a natural process. The bilirubin pigment accumulates [America] should focus attention on the Bilirubin, a pigment, is responsible for in the blood serum, and the concentra- way in which it is managed." the yellow color of the baby's tissues such tion is measured. When the level reaches Dr. Sisson brings out the fact that the ef- as his skin, whites of the eyes, and body 15 to 20 milligrams per 100 cubic centi- fects of light irradiation are not fully fluids. The word jaundice is the tech- meters of blood, the condition is called known. He describes the type of light that nical term for the yellow color. Bilirubin hyperbilirubinemia. As mentioned, high probably should be used among other as- is changed in the liver. In the fetus and serum bilirubin is caused by the inability pects of the problem, and ends with the in the newborn, especially a premature of the baby's liver to handle the large words of caution: infant, there is a deficiency in the ability amount of bilirubin that is liberated with "Since we recognize large areas of ig- to break down the bilirubin, possibly the destruction of red blood cells. norance in this area, thoughtful use of an because of lowered activity of certain nec- In order for bilirubin to be excreted essentially photobiologic treatment pre- essary enzymes with a poorly function- properly, indirect bilirubin must be cludes the indiscriminate light irradiation ing liver. converted to direct bilirubin by liver en- of the newborn, and phototherapy should Jaundice appearing at birth or within zymes. During the first few days of life be reserved for infants who exhibit sig- twenty-four to forty-eight hours may be these enzymes are deficient. If the bili- nificant hyperbilirubinemia, in whom due either to a condition called erythro- rubin cannot be excreted because of im- this is a prelude to disaster. We have a blastosis fetalis (newborn anemia) or to proper conversion, this substance ac- captive in the nursery and cannot, even blood-type incompatibility between the cumulates in the blood, with resulting with good intention, fail to temper enthu- jaundice and in severe cases staining of siasm with prudence in therapy." the brain cells with irreparable damage, Some physicians have been testing the Address questions to Mother's Counselor, LIFE AND HEALTH, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., which is called kernicterus; that is, jaun- use of phenobarbital in prospective moth- Washington, D.C. 20012. Enclose a stamped, dice of the nuclear masses of the brain. ers two weeks or so before birth or in their addressed envelope for reply. A baby with this condition will take his newborn babies. This drug helps in the 22 LIFE & HEALTH bilirubin-clearing mechanism if it is given told me how her mother had carded the desired. This recipe serves 6 people well. in doses that do not induce drowsiness. cotton, spun the thread, and woven the In the Rh problem the answer lies in cloth for the family, working so fast that Garbanzos Delicious the administration of RhoGam, the Rh she could knit a stocking in a day. 4 to 6 onions, diced antibody, to the mother after delivery, We would not want to go far back into Smokene thus preventing any subsequent problem history and give up comforts that give Cooking oil with the next delivery and birth. There is us time for helping one another, but we 1 can garbanzos now no excuse for a physician's not know- do not want to be crowded completely out 1 can cream of mushroom soup ing about this measure in the year 1971. of God's green earth. As a nation we can- 1 tablespoon margarine You, the Rh problem mother, can be not afford to destroy the foundations on Parsley flakes assured that modern science is nearing which our fathers built unless we lay 1 package noodles, cooked the solution of the biggest of your prob- worthy new ones to support the struc- 2 eggs ture. lems. This assurance means peace of Sauté onions with a generous sprin- mind to you for yourself and your future kling of Smokene in oil until lightly children. brown. In a separate kettle combine gar- After all this discussion, if your baby banzos and soup. Season with margarine does develop jaundice be assured that and parsley flakes. Add the eggs slightly something can be done if it needs to be beaten. Simmer until the eggs are cooked. done. • Serve as is or over cooked noodles. Serves 4 people. * * * Tasty Corn Quickie 1 can whole-grain sweet corn APPALACHIA 1 can cream of mushroom soup Instant mashed potato, as needed (From page 17) Smokene 1 teaspoon margarine the fresh, nutritious vegetables they had on the farm. They find themselves Heat together the corn, soup, Smok- breathing polluted air and becoming in- ene, and margarine. Thicken with instant volved in ways they never would have potato as desired. Serves 4 people. considered before. Their children often Peanut Delight do not have the values of life that children have who are more to themselves (Instant cake topping or candy) and have room and fresh air in which to Peanut butter as desired develop. Maple syrup One look at the slum areas today shows Mix the syrup and peanut butter to- what is happening. The children and Yesterday's values were based on the frugal gether to desired consistency. This mix- young people who should have a free out- life and wholesome labor. Such values ture will not become hard, but it is door life are finding violence a way of would help make our society more stable. delicious for instant cake topping or life. Now is the time to re-evaluate ourselves frosting. It is also a favorite candy for all ages. Keep it refrigerated. and our thinking. Is money the most im- The greatest ingredient in that foun- portant thing in life? If hard times come dation of our fathers was God. They had Golden Raisin Delicacy again as they did in the great depression the faith of a grain of mustard seed, that (Dessert or Candy) of the thirties, would America be as well with His help they could move moun- prepared for it after the years of pros- tains. Perhaps today there are modern 1 pound golden raisins perity as the people were before they mountains we need to attack. We have 2 heaping tablespoons peanut came to expect so much? the same God to rely on. We also have butter, smooth The Appalachian Mountains are still the knowledge and wisdom of the past 2 cups maple syrup beautiful. We who are fortunate enough to help us in our craftsmanship of to- Sunflower seed or to work in the area know why our fore- day's materials with which to prepare for Sesame seed or fathers were willing to risk everything to the future. Let us make use of them. • Coconut flakes open up that country. Those rugged men Grind the raisins in the food chopper. left the mark of their broad axes in the If the raisins are hard in the package, structures they hewed out of a virgin for- soak them in water overnight in the re- est. Their dwellings were made with such frigerator. Add the peanut butter, sturdiness that today many of them IMPROMPTU MEALS sesame or coconut, and mix together are standing and still used as homes. with the syrup. Cream the mixture as for Thoughtful people feel fortunate when (From page 13) cake. Mix well. Serve as dessert or candy, they can own and preserve these memo- Mock Chicken and Split Peas or to make a sweet sandwich for the rials of the past, from a time when citi- lunch boxes occasionally. Keep in re- zens valued their abilities more than put- 2 cups egg noodles frigerator or freezer. To prepare for the ting money in their pockets. They know V2 pound split peas freezer, put 5- by 5-inch size aluminum that man is capable of doing more for 1 quart water foil in muffin tins and pile 1 heaping himself than he thinks he can. 1 can mock chicken, diced tablespoon of the raisin mixture into One resourceful woman of this area Simmer the noodles with the split each section. Set in freezer to harden. still has the old spinning wheel her peas, adding water as needed. When the When set, remove from pan. Press the brother made for her when she was peas are tender, add chicken. Season to foil over the balls individually, and store young. She showed me how to use it and taste with Smokene and margarine, if in freezer containers. • AUGUST, 1971 23 come victim to the circumstances that develop within their home. Through no fault of theirs, divorce forces them to ac- cept many disadvantages, deprives them of the dual parental companionship to family which they are entitled, and causes them to become confused in their loyalty. In By Harold Shryock, M.D. many ways children suffer more from Emeritus Professor of Anatomy divorce than their parents do. Loma Linda University School of Medicine fireside Emotions. "I feel so moody," one former wife remarked many months after THIS ARTICLE CONSISTS OF thumb- entails expenses that often are beyond the divorce. "I can't seem to get hold of nail sketches of some circumstances and what he has left over after helping his myself. Sometimes I am afraid I am about problems that follow in the wake of di- first family pay expenses. He must cut to have a nervous breakdown." vorce. The items are drawn from actual corners somewhere to avoid bankruptcy. Marriage is the most significant and in- case records, and together they give quite The temptation is to find ways to reduce timate of human relationships. Rightly an insight into what it is like to be di- expenditures for the support of his orig- consummated, it involves a blending of vorced. inal family. the personalities of two people mentally, I believe that if former husbands and The former wife soon comes to realize emotionally, and physically. When a mar- wives had given serious attention to such the financial plight of her former hus- riage is disrupted, a part of life is torn a preview at the time their marriage was band, and this knowledge adds to her away. It is no wonder that divorced peo- jeopardized, many of them would have feeling of insecurity. What if he does not ple experience emotional turmoil. said, "Our marriage, even with its diffi- send her the monthly check for support Revaluation. "I should have listened culties, is better than divorce, and we will of his children? to my parents. They opposed my mar- do well to solve our problems while mar- Friends and Relatives. "My friends riage to Jim, but I would not listen to were surprised when they heard that my them." This was the comment of a young husband and I were getting a divorce. former wife who was trying to piece to- 'Whose fault is it?' they kept asking. I had gether the broken fragments of her life not realized that our friends would be and draw conclusions that would help Aftermath of compelled to take sides. Some of them be- her become courageous in facing the fu- came cold toward me, I suppose because ture. they were taking sides with him. Others "What did I do wrong?" another asked. Divorce acted ill-at-ease, almost as if they were "I knew Charlie resented my taking the trying to extend sympathy to someone lead in family affairs, but if I hadn't we who had just been bereaved." would have made no progress. He was ried rather than taking on the greater Another former wife considered her- content with our old furniture, old car, problems that divorce produces." self fortunate because her former in-laws and out-of-style clothes. I couldn't stand Finances. "I suppose I will have to did not blame her for the divorce, insisted to live as he was willing to live, and so I work." This remark is made by many a on the children and her going to their guess I did sort of take things out of his wife who, even though admitting that house for a meal two or three times a hands in my effort to raise our standard there will be serious financial problems week, bought toys for the children, and of living. What else could I do?" after divorce, assumes that they can be took the children out for recreation. These comments are typical of di- quite readily solved by her willingness to A little later this woman felt differently vorced people in their effort toward reas- take a job. toward her former in-laws. She said, surance. In the first instance the young Good jobs require the employee to be "They have become so possessive of us woman really was saying, "I have learned skilled and proficient. Many former wives that we cannot live our own lives. They my lesson, and I know that I won't make do not possess the degree of proficiency not only consider us part of the family the same mistake again." In the second demanded of those who draw high sal- but expect us all to be obedient children, case, the former wife was excusing her- aries. Then there are problems and wor- including me." self from blame and trying to say, "It was ries of having the children properly cared The Children. "At first I wondered his fault more than mine." for while their mother is at work and the whether the children's sympathy was with There is a haunting thought that both- expense of hiring a day mother, which me or with their father," wrote a mother ers all former husbands and wives: Does subtracts a surprising amount from each whose divorce had become final. "There the divorce mean that I failed? Was I month's net earnings. was a time when I was afraid I had lost partly responsible even though I was the What about the man who expected to out. Especially our oldest, a girl, found innocent party? What are my prospects enjoy freedom after he was divorced? it so hard to have her father leave home of success in a second marriage now that He finds that child-care payments, his that she became critical of me. Things I have failed the first one? apartment rent, and the high cost of eat- seem to have settled down a little, and I Sexual Privation. Can lack of sex re- ing out use up as much of his salary as hope I can find time to be companionable lations in a divorced person cause heart the support of his family did before he to the children and help them make the palpitation? It can. Palpitation is one was divorced. adjustment." manifestation of nervous tension. It does This financial strait creates a problem A young mother with a child of 18 not necessarily mean that there is some- when he decides to remarry. Supporting months said, "I don't want my child to be thing abnormal or wrong with the heart, one family costs as much as it did before, without a father very long. I know it is un- nor does it mean that a person must have and the responsibility of a second wife wise to rush the matter of remarriage, but sex, married or not. I hope I can find a good stepfather for The explanation is that the divorced Eloise while she is still young enough to person is under emotional conflict be- Send your questions on family problems to: Family become accustomed to him." cause of the circumstances relating to the Fireside, LIFE AND HEALTH, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. Enclose How pathetic for children to pass divorce. Added to this strain are loneli- stamped, addressed envelope for your reply. through the tragedy of divorce! They be- ness and fear of being thwarted in life. 24 LIFE & HEALTH These are the basic factors that cause a pleasant years. Here are seven rules by person to feel insecure and to have symp- which he may accomplish this worth- while aim: toms such as palpitation. After this close look at the tragedy of 1. Keep active with commendable pur- divorce we should be impressed by the suits. desirability of avoiding it at all reasonable 2. Cultivate enthusiasm. Add life to costs. The Scriptures say: "I detest di- your years, not just years to your life. vorce and cruelty to a wife, the Lord of 3. Do not demand recognition, but hosts, the God of Israel, declares. Take earn satisfaction by doing a job and do- heed then to yourselves, never be faith- ing it well. less" (Malachi 2:16, Moffatt).* 4. Cultivate acquaintance with young Our greatest consolation in the circum- people and keep young with them. stance of unhappy marriage lies in the 5. Allow time for creative activities and comfort that comes from partnership hobbies. with our heavenly Father. "Even for those 6. Radiate optimism. Never stoop to who have found bitterness and disap- complain. pointment where they had hoped for 7. Cultivate trust in God. • companionship and joy, the gospel of Christ offers a solace. The patience and gentleness which His Spirit can impart * * * will sweeten the bitter lot."—ELLEN G. WHITE, Thoughts From the Mount of Bless- ing, p. 65. • As the sundial of life shows the close of day, Heart Information we can make the days sweet and good. Heart attack kills more people in the United States than any other single dis- From: The Bible: A New Translation by James Moffatt. Copyright by James Moffatt 1954. Used by permission of ease does. Its annual toll exceeds 600,- Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated. interests in the things they want to do after retirement, they simply spend more 000 lives. and more time with their personal inter- Smoking increases the severity of ath- ests and less and less time with required erosclerosis, because it gradually clogs the * * activities. Keeping busy keeps them alert, arteries to the heart. It increases the happy, and healthy. By keeping busy they likelihood of blood clot, which is often the have no time to harbor regrets, no time final impediment in blocking the coro- THE GOLDEN YEARS to be sick, no time to complain. The more nary artery. Heart disease and the effect on the (From page 16) they do for other people the happier they become. heart of cigarette smoking is the theme There are contrasting attitudes to- Always avoid extremes. It is good to of the February, 1971, issue of Listen, a ward retirement. Some people look for- keep busy, but not so busy that you neg- journal of better living. For a free sam- ward to it, plan for it, and welcome it as lect rest and recreation. In older life, as ple copy of this magazine send to Listen, an opportunity to do the things they have in other periods, the greatest success 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, always wanted to do. Others dread it, be- attends those who carefully balance all D.C. 20012. cause they believe it symbolizes the end parts of their program. A combination This single-theme issue features a dis- of active life. of work, rest, and recreation is the best cussion of heart disease, including prac- Regardless of why a person retires, it formula for good health and vigor. tical suggestions on how to avoid trouble. is tragic for him to adopt the attitude As a person grows older he must de- Evidence shows that cigarette smoking that he is a has-been. Many people have liberately make allowance for slowing is a serious heart hazard. The risk of made greater contributions to humanity physically. Because he does not see so death from heart disease more than after retiring than during their work pe- clearly as he did when he was younger, he doubles for people who smoke a pack or riods. The reason is that when a person must make sure that his glasses are prop- more a day. To lessen the chance of such retires he uses his time to carry on the erly fitted and that he changes them as an attack, there is clearly no choice but things he enjoys. often as necessary. If his hearing is im- to leave cigarettes out of your life. When anyone enjoys what he is doing, paired, he should provide a hearing aid To further reduce the risk of heart at- he has the greatest chance of success in chosen for his needs. tack, here are some additional specific his enterprise. Employment before re- An older person's reactions are slowed, suggestions as outlined by the magazine: tirement age often is only a means of and he should not trust himself to cross Watch your diet and your weight, control making a living. The activities after re- the street ahead of an oncoming vehicle. your blood pressure, avoid tension and tirement represent the chosen calling. He should be conservative in driving a worry, get regular rest and sleep, obtain Being free from the economic necessity car. He should take great precautions in adequate exercise, and have regular med- of doing a specified job, an older person bad weather, in rain, ice, and snow. In his ical examinations. can do what he wants as he wants to do it. living quarters he should avoid slippery Those suggestions are of a nature to Early retirement is not an indication floors, unprotected open stairways, and improve the health of anyone who fol- of early senility. Efficiency and usefulness dark corners. Such simple, sane precau- lows them, giving zest to life. do not cease at age sixty-five. Many states- tions prolong his health, usefulness, and A special eight-page Listen insert color- men and legislators make their best con- happiness. fully shows the effects of smoking on the tribution after age sixty. The secret of success and happiness in heart. Dramatic inside-the-heart pictures Wise people plan retirement in a way the golden years of life is not mysterious document the corrosion of the inner lin- that does not bring about a drastic change or complicated. It is still the person's own ing of the artery with cholesterol. The in their activities. The transition from responsibility to choose the kind of pro- insert graphically shows the damage to compulsory employment to retirement gram he will follow. By choosing wisely arteries and the formation of a blood should be gradual. Having built up their he can make the latter years life's most clot. • AUGUST, 1971 25 covered sufficiently to be able to work if only he had been able to get his breath. We doctors are not altogether to blame for this state of affairs. Patients generally do not care too much about the cause of golden their trouble. They often prefer magic to get relief and do not want a doctor to point out their sins of a bad life program. By 0. S. Parrett, M.D. age I was told of people who did not come to my office lest they be cut off from their favorite indulgence. When I see people WHEN I GLANCE BACK over fifty his heart somewhat enlarged, and I diag- ignorantly or knowingly hurting them- years of medical practice I see many nosed his dyspnea (difficult or labored selves, I must be fair to them and point changes, but a glance forward promises breathing) as emphysema with a tobacco- out the changes they must make. To be more radical and more drastic changes. injured heart. He asked whether he honest I cannot do otherwise. I saw my last case of typhoid fever should continue taking the many pills he Once a woman came to my office be- about forty-five years ago. Coughing showed me. I suggested that he leave off cause a friend had recommended me to youngsters used to fill my front office, but all medicine, because he still was in trou- her. She was suffering from dyspnea, or I have not diagnosed a case of whooping ble in spite of all the drugs he was taking. shortness of breath, on slight exertion. cough for at least twenty-five years. Not I wanted to see what nature could do She brought with her an armload of chest long ago I saw a nose-and-throat surgeon for this man when he was not loaded X-ray films taken over three years. She unwrapping his instruments for a mas- with drugs, which I displaced with a good did not wish a full examination, because toid operation, and he said that such op- health program, carrying out the old rule she had had that done before. What she erations were so rare that he was getting of removing the cause. I said he was to wanted was something to make her out of practice in mastoid surgery. have no more tobacco, coffee, tea, re- breathe easily. Her diagnosis was pul- fined white flour, fatty acids, and high- monary fibrosis, and the X-ray photo- cholesterol foods, which meant omitting graphs seemed to indicate that disease. meat, eggs, and animal fat. I asked enough questions to learn Before I wrote out his orders he asked what her daily habits were before I out- Treating me what his chance was for getting well lined her program. I suggested a glass of enough to go back to work. He was a tool- juice on rising in the morning. But, no, Symptoms and-die man, and he had had a good job, she liked her cup of tea with lemon, and which he had to quit because he was so could not possibly give it up. short of breath. He said he would do I was certain I could help her, but after anything I asked him to if I thought he sparring with her for an hour trying to When I was a medical student the pro- had a chance to get better. find a soft spot I might break through, I fessor of medicine outlined the proper I told him he had injured his heart and gave up and abruptly told her that what course in attacking disease. His instruc- lungs terribly by a bad program, and it she needed was a magician and that I was tions were to remove the cause, treat the would take a radically changed program not qualified. I said she wanted her existing condition, and relieve the symp- to lift him out of the mire. symptoms relieved on her own terms, toms, which by their severity may become Nature does well; otherwise, the hu- which were gradually getting her into causes. man race long ago would have gone with more trouble. When patients think of a doctor, us- the dinosaur and the auk. Because I could not help her I said we ually it is because they have a pain some- As to the expense for giving this man would be wasting my time and her where or feel miserable. They set out to a new life program, I said I was sure that money. I assured her there would be no find a doctor who will make them com- whatever simple medication he required charge, because I had not been able to fortable as soon as possible. along with a good diet would be paid out help her. It is likely that the doctor who can of the drug funds he might no longer As she left, the nurse overheard her make the patient feel good in a short time need. Anyhow, it costs more than a thou- mutter that she was going home to die. is going to get much credit for his skill. sand dollars for a funeral and has be- Her husband lingered to apologize for Let me illustrate by an experience I had come cheaper to live than to die, which her attitude. in my office. A man of sixty-two years had might lend some encouragement to a Perhaps not many patients are so de- distressing shortness of breath. He had good-living program. termined as this woman to hold to their seen other doctors before coming to me, The man was so short of breath that I harmful programs, but such cases make but every day he still was eating two eggs, had to give him something to relieve him, it easier for doctors to treat symptoms drinking three cups of coffee, eating but I assured him that if he did all I sug- and not bother about the cause of illness. white bread or wheat bread (which is gested he could expect to feel better soon For some strange reason it is difficult only camouflaged white bread) for break- just as certainly as a balloon carrying too to get people to realize that "whatsoever fast, eating a meat or a cheese sandwich much ballast will rise if the rider throws a man soweth, that shall he also reap." • for lunch, and having a big steak dinner enough of the extra load overboard. in late evening. He ate practically no I take a delight—when I find a person cereals or whole grains. He had cut smok- still living with habits that should have ing to a half pack a day. killed him long ago—in seeing the mira- This man had a wonderful array of cle that takes place once he quits poison- pills of many sizes and colors. I found ing himself and gives his body a chance New NASA Film Releases to bring him back to health. Why was this man allowed to become Half-hour color motion pictures pre- This page is dedicated to all our Golden Age read- so injured before the real cause of his pared by the National Aeronautics and ers who are still young at heart. It is designed to improve and encourage active hobbies, good diet, trouble was pointed out to him? He had Space Administration of the various and outdoor exercise. suffered a stroke, from which he had re- Apollo flights and of other NASA ac- 26 LIFE & HEALTH tivities are available free from the near- cillin are used. This worsening is due in est NASA office or spacecraft or research part to the fact that these antibiotics kill center. A catalog of films is available bacteria which fight some fungus infec- upon request. tions. However, penicillin probably is the THE Recent releases include: "Apollo 14: treatment of choice in the fungus infec- Mission to Fra Mauro," "Space in the tion of actinomycosis. It is evident, then, FAMILY 70s—Space Down to Earth," and "Space that it is important that the type of infec- RELIGIOUS TELECAST in the 70s—Man in Space—The Second tion be ascertained. Decade." • Fungus infections have become of special importance in recent years with the return of American military personnel from the tropics. Many of these peo- HEARING AIDS ple are returning with fungus infections. 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Researchers in other medical centers Drink are working on blood-freezing tech- Instant PIONIER niques, and several have applied for li- censing, the article stated. • ROBUST SWISS COFFEE SUBSTITUTE Tastes like real coffee NATURAL EXTRACT FROM CEREAL GRAINS, Happy Stress ROOTS AND FRUITS may have many of the symptoms of a garden variety of bacteria. Fever up to If you want to get the most out of life, 106 degrees has been found during this be sure it is filled with stress, happy stress. EXOTIC stage, followed by enlarged liver, spleen, "There are two kinds of stress," ac- and body glands. cording to Dr. Clifton L. Reeder, a noted AROMA and Most severe cases attack the chest, and Midwest physician, as reported by after the disease has become chronic the "Georgia's Health" news sheet. "One is FLAVOR lung may break down into cavity forma- the 'happy stress' of working hard or tion. Because this condition is most likely playing hard and truly enjoying it—in Write for sample. contrast with 'unhappy stress' when State name of this maga- to come after a long-standing fungus in- zine and mail with fection, most of these patients are over hard work or hard play becomes a chore." stomped, self-addressed envelope. Two Pionier fifty years of age. The cases involving the Unhappy stress can lead to stifled men- samples will be mailed rn free. brain linings (meningitis infections) are tal creativity, adverse body reactions, fast notoriously destructive to life. heartbeat, high blood pressure, acceler- Despite the fact that some fungus in- ated arteriosclerotic process, and other fections can be very resistive to treat- physical illnesses and discomforts. ment, others may be equally responsive On the other hand, "happy stress is PHONIER to treatment. Some cases are worsened performance with satisfaction and a by the use of antibiotics, such as histo- glow," Dr. Reeder pointed out. "Happy 410 West 45th Street plasmosis when streptomycin and peni- stress is a pleasure." • New York, N.Y. 10036 AUGUST, 1971 27 Because window glass cuts out the beneficial rays of the sun, we must go outdoors or sit before an open window to get the benefit of sunshine. No drafts, please. home Smoke, haze, other air pollutants, and clouds reduce the full strength of sun- By rays, but even on a cloudy day it is possi- Mary Catherine Noble, R.N., R.P.T. nursing ble to get a severe burn. Because sunlight is absorbed only by skin exposed to it, some health institu- "HOW I WISH IT WOULD STOP rain- other irritants may be eliminated. When tions provide sun-bathing areas called ing!" Mrs. Finley looked bedraggled as the workers leave the building they are solariums where under medical super- she stood in the doorway of the rehabili- like plants taken from a hothouse, and vision sun baths can be taken with all tation clinic, water streaming in rivulets they hurry back to their man-made en- the skin exposed to the rays. Some peo- off her raincoat and umbrella. Two vironment. ple are fortunate enough to live near a small replicas of herself stood beside her. The scientific approach to the use of beach, where a minimum of clothing is "The children are so tired of being inside sunshine in regulated dosages with pre- required. Wherever you seek the sun, that we came out for a short walk to see dictable results is relatively new. Many bear in mind that reflected rays, es- whether we could find a crocus or some scientists knew that people feel better pecially from sand and water, have in- other harbinger of spring." when they have plenty of sun, but they creased intensity. In reflected rays you "And what did you find?" Miss Jensen did not know why. So they studied sun- must be extremely careful about over- asked the children. rays at sea level and on mountaintops. exposure, much more so than in direct Their eyes danced as they said to- They found that there are rays that sunlight. gether, "We found some little green build up vitamin D in the body, which is Exposure is the key factor in using necessary for strong, straight bones. sunlight as a healing or disease-preven- They discovered that reflected sunlight tive agent. Too much sun results in sun- often gets better results than direct sun- burn, and a severe burn can discourage rays do. They also discovered that after the most stouthearted sunshine devotee. Rx Sunshine three in the afternoon the rays that Although sunlight is a good tonic and burn are subdued, but the rays that tan remedy, it must be taken in small, gradu- are in evidence until sunset. ated doses even by strong, healthy peo- shoots, and we heard a frog down by the Sunlight in proper amounts increases ple. bridge." resistance to disease, improves appetite, If the entire body with minimal cloth- "That sounds encouraging. Remem- promotes a sense of well-being, and con- ing is exposed to the sun, a beginning ex- ber, `If winter comes, can spring be far tributes to restful, natural sleep. A combi- posure of about seven minutes to the behind?' " nation of fresh air and sunlight increases front and seven minutes to the back of "Oh, yes, I know," Mrs. Finley smiled, the number of those germ fighters of the the body is wise. Protect the head and "it just seems a long time coming this blood, the white corpuscles. Not only are back of the neck from the sun by a hat year, because it is so cold." these body defenders increased but the or other suitable covering. Protect the Few things bring as much joy and quality of the hemoglobin is improved. eyes by good-quality dark glasses. happiness to mankind as the sun does. This good result means that extra oxygen Much shorter exposure is given to It gives light to drive away the darkness is available to nourish the body cells and people recovering from illness. It is of night, it gives warmth, and in temper- there is extra energy. Because under common to begin with two or three min- ate climates it is predictably regular. those conditions the blood vessels in the utes on the back and two or three minutes Sunlight has been used as a healing skin are stimulated and dilated, there is a on the front of the body. Take care not agent since time began. Without it fall in blood pressure. There results a to chill the patient during a sun bath. plant and animal life would exist for but a soft, velvety texture and improved color Exposure can be increased a minute each short time. Take it away, and plants and of the skin. day to both front and back as the patient human beings take on a sickly, pale The sun has a germ-killing effect. gains strength. color. Unfortunately, as people congre- After people have recovered from an Healthy people can increase their ex- gated in cities and towns with narrow, infectious disease, it has long been used posure two and one-half minutes each dark streets and houses with few or no as a sterilizing agent for bedding and side daily until they are taking as much windows, there was an increase in dis- furniture that can be sterilized in no as an hour a day. Most people do well if ease, which finally was traced to too little other way. If you want your home to be they can find an hour every day to spend sunlight. healthful and your family happy—as we in the sun. Remember that a little sun Today beaches are crowded with thou- all do—see to it that abundant sunshine goes a long way—it is a powerful tonic. sands of people seeking the benefit of gets into every room. For health's sake it Some people tolerate sunlight poorly. sunshine, but modern architecture is better to have freely circulating fresh Danger signals of too much sun are seems to have forgotten its importance. air and lots of sun than fine furnishings headache, lassitude, loss of appetite, It is possible to work in a building with and dark, damp rooms. sleeplessness, increased body tempera- forced-air ventilation that has so many The first step in making the most of ture and pulse rate, nervousness or ir- cubic feet per second circulating con- sunlight for ourselves and those who ritability, and restlessness. Any of these stantly, keeping humidity, heat, and are sick is simple, but it can be complex. symptoms indicate that exposure to sun cold under control. Even the dust and It consists of finding time to spend in the should be cut down or even stopped. sun. For the person weakened by disease People who work out in blazing hot and bed rest, a little sun goes a long way. sun day after day should know that con- Send questions on home-nursing problems to: tinued overexposure can result in cancer Home Nursing Editor, LIFE & HEALTH, A short time in the sun is beneficial to Washington, D.C. 20012. Enclose a stamped, him. The time can be increased as he of the skin. It is a wise precaution to addressed envelope for your reply. improves. wear a hat or even gloves. 28 LIFE & HEALTH Are suntan lotions or creams of value? Childbirth Pain Control born in big medical centers between We must remember that such lotions 8 A.M. and 2 P.M. or if men had to pass hasten tanning but prevent absorption Decrying the double standard that through the experiences of labor, the of the beneficial rays of the sun. If your exists among many doctors in regard problem of obstetric pain might well objective is to have a lovely golden tan, to pain, a Loma Linda University, have been solved many years ago." • and the remedial effects on your body Loma Linda, California, anesthesiologist are not important to you, suntan lotion contrasted the "widespread indiffer- is the answer. However, remember that ence" he had observed in many hospitals the sun has a drying effect on the skin, to the pain of childbirth with the extra- and so you may wish to use some good ordinary efforts in the same hospitals body lotion or cream after a sun bath. to make surgical operations as comfortable and painless as possible. "Countless generations of women have endured what at best are the discomforts of childbirth, and at worst pain that is truly agonizing," says Dr. Bernard Brandstater, co-chairman of anesthesiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine. "Yet the attitude persists, even Beautifully Located in a Suburb in sophisticated Western societies, that of Our Nation's Capital this pain is a natural physiological thing, different from other pain, something THIS modern general that does not last long and is quickly hospital maintains therapeutic forgotten." standards aimed at bringing He addressed doctors and medical new strength and vigor to students attending a panel discussion body, mind, and spirit of each One of the most beneficial effects of on obstetrical anesthesia as part of the medical and surgical case ad- sunlight and the outdoor environment Alumni Postgraduate Convention in Los mitted. is the boost in morale that results. Our Angeles of Loma Linda University Med- Creator, understanding the needs of ical School. mankind, placed us in a lovely garden. Research into the source of obstetric EMU mono MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Sunlight and beautiful surroundings re- pain, the nerve pathways along which it Riverdale, Maryland 20840 store hope, promote cheerfulness, and travels, and the development and build courage. If you feel pressed down growing availability of local anesthesia by the cares of life, get out in the sun. techniques, Dr. Brandstater said, have Depression will disappear, and life will given anesthesiologists several answers to take on zest and new meaning. The the special problem of childbirth— problems will still be there, but you can anesthetics that are safe for both the MOIST HEAT attack them with courage and vigor. mother and the baby. He referred in par- Plan to use sun in your life. Make the ticular to epidural- and caudal-nerve effort to get out into the sunlight often blocks, which when used correctly have KILLS PAIN Soothing relief from and stay as long as possible and appro- a high percentage of success in eliminat- Arthritis, Rheumatism, Flu, priate. Keep a little checklist, a personal ing labor and childbirth pain without un- Colds and Muscle Soreness inventory, of your attitudes and re- due disturbance of the mother's or baby's "The snap of a switch" and you can enjoy sponses to life, and I think you will be welfare. wonderful, pain-soothing moist heat pleasantly surprised to find that sun adds The obstacle to the use of these lamentations with the Battle Creek Thermophore. Instant action, no messy wet a big bonus to your joie de vivre. • techniques for most women in labor, towels; convenient, relaxing, safe. according to Dr. Brandstater, is the Entire back, chest, or legs covered with one shortage of skilled medical personnel. large 27" x 13" Thermophore Moist Heat Pack. Includes two washable covers, safety Only in very large obstetrical centers is it thermostat, switch and 10 ft. cord. Uses feasible to have anesthesiologists on 115 volt AC/DC household current. duty round the clock. Surgery can be Try it for 15 days—in your home! If not The Awakening delighted, return for full refund. Your scheduled, but not childbirth. satisfaction guaranteed I By MALCOLM FORD "We have to teach more young ob- Mail now for free folder! stetricians to seek additional training in I thought I could feel anesthesiology," Dr. Brandstater said. The warmth of the sun, "Every obstetrician who may be working THERMOPHORE Thought I could vibrate by himself without the help of an anesthe- Moist Heat —Automatically I

With its panchromatic light siologist should learn these techniques. MINI NEM 1=I= ,n11 NM= On every blossomed sight; We also need to encourage more anesthe- r ti6, Until I saw a man BATTLE CREEK Equipment Co. siologists to devote themselves to this Dept. 70-H, 307 W. Jackson Street Lean sightless on the sun challenging area of pain relief." Battle Creek, Michigan 49106 And glory He saluted the "regrettably few men In the splashing spectrum in both specialties who are doing a superb Name Of that shivering light. job in this field. I am deploring here Street And I quietly envied him the fact that such concern is not available From behind my throughout the United States. Too many City Dark polaroids. babies are born in small hospitals, out in the country. In other words, I agree with State ZIP the observation that if babies could all be %v. .ol AUGUST, 1971 29 The color ranges from a solid deep green to gray, with or without stripes, depending on the variety. A full-flavored watermelon should have a symmetrical shape, good color, and a shiny surface. dietitian The flesh may range from deep red to pale pink and even yellow. I believe that the watermelons with deep-red flesh have By Dorothea Jones says the greatest eye appeal. To get the most from a watermelon when you pick it from a patch, cool it until it is cold inside. AUGUST MEANS MANY THINGS. late in the season, and if kept in a cool Melons improve in flavor and texture It is the last month of vacation, and it of- place it lasts well into the fall months. after picking if they are held at 60° F. or fers outdoor activity. Its hot weather Crenshaw melon also is globe shaped, so for a few days. If they are not ripe and demands cool and easily prepared food. and it has a pointed and slightly wrinkled ready to serve when brought into your Are you looking for a dessert that is stem end. It also has a stem attached be- kitchen, hold them at room tempera- refreshing, beautiful to look at, delicious cause it must be cut from the vine. The ture until they ripen, and then store in flavor, easy to prepare, low in refined rind of the immature Crenshaw melon is them in the refrigerator. sugar and calories, and high in nutri- green, and as it ripens the skin becomes When refrigerating a melon, wrap it tional value? Well, melons fill the bill. mottled with yellow, and it turns to a tightly in plastic or foil and keep it sepa- Their varieties include cantaloupe, ca- rich gold color at the peak of flavor and rated from lettuce, carrots, celery, broc- saba, Crenshaw, honeydew, Persian, and maturity. The flesh is thick and orange coli, butter, and other dairy products, watermelon. yellow and has a most pleasing aroma. because its aroma can affect the flavors We suggest that this month you do To my way of thinking, the Crenshaw of other foods. The flavor of the melon some adventuring with the various melon is the gem of the melon industry. is best when it is chilled slightly. kinds of melons. Its origin is unknown, but it was identi- Melons have the advantage of being fied for the first time in California in low in calories, as you will see by the ac- 1939. companying chart. However, they con- Honeydew melon is oval in shape, and tribute an important share of vitamins it has a smooth whitish-green skin, and minerals to the daily diet. One slice Melons, the which always is cream white as it ripens. of cantaloupe of 100 grams, or three The flesh is a light, delicate green; sweet ounces, contributes almost the entire Perfect and juicy. Its fine flesh almost melts in recommended daily allowance of vitamin your mouth, and its aroma is tantalizing. A and three fourths of the recommended The secret of a good honeydew is ripe- amount of vitamin C. Dessert ness to the proper degree. Select each Melons do themselves proud when one with care for maximum sweetness served in plain wedges or halves (for and flavor. small cantaloupes) as dessert. To make Persian melon resembles the canta- them attractive you may serve them on Here are some tips on how to select loupe somewhat, although the netting is a lace paper doily. They combine well and use these delightful gifts of nature. finer. It has a grayish-green background, with other fruits. Western melons reach their peak of which turns brownish when the melon Blueberries, raspberries, and strawber- abundance in August. They are shipped is ready for eating. The Persian melon ries are especially delicious served in to all parts of America. is larger than most cantaloupes, and the melon wedges. Melons make an interest- Cantaloupes, among the best-known flesh is thick. It varies in color from pale ing contribution to any fruit salad. They melons, may be identified by their well- orange to deep salmon pink. The texture may be served as balls or cubes. raised, coarse, corky netting on the sur- is fine and firm, and the flavor is distinct I hope you will enjoy these suggestions face of a beige-gray background. Inside but bland. for combining cantaloupe with other is a deep-orange color. There should be Watermelon is truly hot-weather fare. foods. a slightly sunken scar at the stem end, showing that the cantaloupe was vine ripened and ready to slip, or loosen naturally, from the vine at harvesttime. This melon usually is quite round and Melon Nutrients and Calories (100 Grams) varied in size. It has a delectably distinc- (The Calories Are in International Units, and the Vitamins and Minerals Are in Milligrams) tive aroma and flavor. Cabo- Vita- Vita- Cal- Iron Magne-Potas- Phos- So- Casaba melon is a globe-shaped fruit ries min A min C cium sium sium phate dium with a pointed stem end. Part of the stem is attached, because it has to be cut Cantaloupe 31 4200 45 10 4 17 330 39 20 from the vine. When the casaba is ready 1/8 of 6-inch melon to eat, the skin is a buttery yellow with Casaba 26 Trace 19 5 4 8 210 7 12 wrinkles and lengthwise furrows. 1 wedge of 8-inch melon The flesh is creamy white and juicy, Crenshaw Comparable to cantaloupe but in comparison to other melons it has Honeydew 41 500 32 6 2 10 330 14 20 only a slight aroma. It matures rather 1/2- by 10-inch slice Persian Comparable to cantaloupe Watermelon 36 300 6 5 2 10 330 14 20 Send questions on food to The Dietitian, LIFE Six 1-inch cubes AND HEALTH, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. Enclose stamped, ad- The source of the melon chart is Nutrient Composition of Fresh California-Grown Vege- dressed envelope for your reply. tables, California Agricultural Station Bulletin 788.

30 LIFE & HEALTH Cantaloupe-Cherry Dessert ULCERATIVE COLITIS or Testarr—added to a glass of water containing the juice of half a lemon and Peel one ripe cantaloupe, cut into (From page 19) round slices about an inch wide, and re- two rounded tablespoonfuls of lactose or move the seeds. Put each melon ring on a fruits and coarse vegetables at any one lactodextrin. I find it easiest to place the plate and fill the center with pitted meal. The more intensely acid the fruit dry demulcent such as the Metamucil dark sweet cherries (you may get them and the coarser the vegetable the more in my mouth and wash it down with wa- frozen if they are not in season). Garnish likely they are to cause trouble when ter-lemon-lactose mixture. If you prefer with mint. Serves 6 to 8. eaten together, because each has its own to mix them all together, add the dry time and place for digesting. demulcent last, stir quickly, and drink Melon Supreme As to raw food, I remember once visit- the entire glassful fast before it thickens too much. 1/2 cup small cantaloupe balls ing the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium, Vs cup watermelon balls which was then known around the world What does this drink do when taken at least once daily in the morning? It 1/2 cup fresh peaches, diced for treating disease by natural methods. helps introduce into the lower bowel 1/2 cup fresh or canned pineapple, I wanted to meet Dr. Kellogg, who was diced its director and who had written many tract and colon the acid of the lemon and the lactose, which reach the highly infec- 1/2 cup mayonnaise books on health, including one the size tious or infected part of the tract. There 1/2 cup pineapple juice of an unabridged dictionary on the subject of diet. the acid of the lemon, acting similarly to Vs teaspoon grated lemon rind 1 cup whipped cream or your Always interested in diet, I paid a visit the acid of buttermilk, catches the harm- favorite low-calorie topping to the head dietitian. She said that Dr. ful bacteria from above downward and Kellogg often resorted to unusual pro- Mix the fruit and chill. Mix mayon- cedures, but he seemed to get results. naise, pineapple juice, lemon rind, and Once in a case of persistent diarrhea she whipped cream. Add to fruit, and pour called in Dr. Kellogg in consultation, and MONEY FOR YOUR TREASURY into a one-quart mold. Chill until firm. he advised a raw-food program. With Over 2 Million Unmold and serve. Garnish with mint. some misgivings she carried out the sug- Serves 6. • gestion, and was happily surprised that SUNFLOWER it worked. Perhaps a strictly raw-food ® DISHCLOTHS diet would not be advisable in all such Were sold last year by members of societies. clubs, groups. etc. cases, but I am sure that some raw food They enable you to earn money for your treasury and make friends may be beneficial. for your organization. Thorough chewing of everything Sample FREE to Official. SANGAMON MILLS, INC., Cohoes, N.Y. 12047 eaten and slow eating—with all the time Established 1915 needed taken for the purpose—are nec- l'0/14/1 essary in all ulcerative-colitis cases. Al- lergy, many doctors believe, may result from protein when it is only partially digested, or broken down into its amino PAPAYA acids. Thorough chewing is essential to the digestion of all food components, including protein. Avoid any large amount of raw sugar, and do not give the patient any com- mercially made ice cream. Ice cream should be made specially for the patient, and I would suggest using bananas, apples, fresh and well-ripened pineapple, and dates for making him a frozen dainty well blended and then chilled. It could be tasty and beneficial to the patient when eaten slowly. When acid fruit is cooked with raw or cane sugar, the sugar tends to be changed into grape sugar, sometimes called fruit sugar. EMENEL PAPAYA TABLETS are PEAR-CHEESE BELL SALAD For people who like the flavor of choco- made from the whole green papaya late, which I cannot recommend, carob fruit, processed to a 16-to-1 concen- powder as put up by El Molino Mills of trate supplying about v, grain of Use fresh or well-drained canned pear papain plus all of the naturally occur- halves. Color them rosy red or green with San Gabriel, California, and sold at most ring enzymes. A natural aid to diges- red or green sugar. Soften a small cake health-food stores may be used as a tion. Helps prevent incomplete utiliza- of cream cheese with a little milk. Add drink. A warm drink by the name of tion of foods which result in intestinal candied fruit or chopped nuts and finely Pero made in Germany and sold in putrefaction and toxicity. Bottles of 100 - $1.65; 250 - $3.50; 500 - $6. chopped raisins or currants. Fill the hol- health-food stores is enjoyed by many 15. lows of half of the pear pieces with the people. It should do no harm. But as a cheese mixture and put the halves to- rule allow the patient very little drinking If not available at your Health Food with meals. Store, or if substitution is offered, order gether to make whole pears. Set the pear direct from — upright in a bed of lettuce. Surround One additional measure of great with a few cubes of varicolored gelatin. help in stubborn cases of ulcerative co- EMENEL COMPANY litis is to give the patient a tablespoonful Serve with whipped-cream-and-mayon- Loma Linda. California 92354 naise dressing. • of a demulcent—Metamucil, Mucilose, AUGUST, 1971 31 helps free the colon of disease-causing given birth to a baby. When she had germs. Does it work? It seldom fails. several children I deemed it advisable A woman once came into my office that she avoid pregnancy for the safety who had started on a trip East with her of her health. husband in their trailer but had come Keeping your health at top level by down with diarrhea. I mixed her one every measure possible is a good rule in dose of the Metamucil, lemon, and Beta- planning to remain well. This plan goes lactose mixture and made up several for all of us, for it is no fun to be sick. doses for her to take every two hours as Hospitals are wonderful, but who wants she traveled. I assured her that before to board in one? the day was over she would be well on Here is the suggestive ulcerative-colitis the way to recovery. diet: To make more clear the effect of such In the acute stage of the disease the friendly acids as the lactic of buttermilk By ELAINE V. EMANS following foods are offered as safe for and the acid of lemon—both of which, the patient to eat and hopefully to be of fortunately, are foods—here is a story Jo moves within a magic world benefit to the condition: Dr. Kellogg told me: Whose gates are curiously shut 1. Fruit salad of peeled apples and He tied a string around a pound of Upon the large. He must adore sliced bananas blended or thoroughly beefsteak, suspended it in a jar of but- The inhabitants of LiIli put— chewed. termilk, and arranged that every few The darting hummingbirds that wear 2. Natural or cultured buttermilk or days the buttermilk be replaced with a Ruby medallions on their throats, yogurt. fresh supply. The experiment went on The smallest beetles, and in autumn 3. Natural brown rice, rice flakes, or for seventeen years. In all that time the Golden leaf-of-willow boats. puffed rice. meat did not spoil nor develop any bad He thinks a Shetland pony all 4. Cottage cheese. odor. The doctor said he had intended That he could ever need in a horse. 5. Grapefruit or grapefruit juice to keep up the experiment as long as he "And what of cats?" I thought to ask. sweetened with lactose or lactodextrin. lived, but one day a new janitor threw it "My favorite cats are kittens, of course." 6. Flaxseed tea. out, probably thinking he was getting rid In the chronic stage of ulcerative co- of some refuse. But seventeen years litis, the following foods are suggested: should be long enough to prove that food acids can be utilized to prevent rot- Breakfast ting of food, whether in the bowel tract 1. Brown (entire) rice, rice flakes, or or in a container. There is another factor that may play puffed rice. In severe cases of ulcerative colitis, in some part as the patient tries to cooperate 2. All kinds of fruit, but preferably which every possible means and measure with his doctor. For a long time Ameri- peeled apples, bananas, peaches, apri- must be utilized, I recommend taking a cans have been led to believe that meat cots, plums, prunes, berries whole or glass or part of a glass of flaxseed tea is so essential in the diet that to many blended, a half grapefruit sweetened several times a day. people the idea of cutting it all out ap- with lactose or lactodextrin, and the like. To make flaxseed tea, use one teaspoon pears unwise. Not only have laymen 3. Corn-meal mush made from whole seed to a cup of water. Bring to a boil, been under this influence, but doctors yellow corn freshly ground fine. then turn down the heat, and let the tea at large may look on a nonflesh diet simmer for several minutes. Watch it, with some misgivings, unless they have Dinner and when it begins to thicken take it off made a special study of the matter. 1. Mixed vegetable soup of peas, car- the stove, strain it, and drink it before it Such men as the late L. H. Newburgh, rots, celery, potatoes, rice, and green thickens too much. Drink it quite warm of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who helped Lima beans, with a base of tomato juice but not hot. feed America during the second world or tomato purée seasoned with a little I mentioned this treatment before in war, with an office in Washington, D.C., salt, Savorex, Vegex, or George Wash- regard to an irritable bladder, which is have told me that this misconception of ington broth. If desired, cream the soup, called cystitis. I see no reason why this the need for meat—due mainly to the but you may leave it plain if you enjoy same wonderfully soothing effect may not influence of the head of the German the tartness of the tomato. be utilized in an irritable bowel tract. Army in setting a high-protein require- 2. Single-vegetable soup, such as as- In a formidable disease such as ulcer- ment—had been supplemented by the paragus, celery, tomato, corn blended ative colitis can be, where every little fac- meat-packers of America, who stood to and strained, and the like. tor can count in influencing the outcome profit by emphasis on meat in the diet. 3. Cooked vegetables such as yellow of the disease, I suggest that some choice Dr. Newburgh protested the U.S. sol- or green squash, beets, spinach, blended of food should be allowed the patient to diers' high-in-meat diet, because it green corn, green Lima beans, green give him variety. In my list that follows, caused nearly all the American soldiers peas, asparagus, and broccoli. add or substitute other foods of similar to show hardened arteries at an early age. 4. Foods high in protein: Cottage nature as you wish, but I advise the pa- We have to be patient about any sug- cheese and meat substitutes such as tient to test his ability to tolerate the food gestion that cuts across people's estab- Worthington Foods Chicken Style, Loma before he becomes too liberal with items lished habits, because they learn slowly Linda Foods Dinner Cuts, or Battle he believes to be similar to the ones I sug- and most of them are governed by ap- Creek Steaks as among the best. gest. petite and emotion rather than scien- Soy cheese. No other kind of cheese The patient must not measure his tific and proved fact. under any circumstances except cottage progress by too short a yardstick. On the As a further note of warning I might cheese. other hand, if any of the recommended add that any and all stress in the life of a Soy milk such as Worthington Foods measures do not work out too well after person inclined toward ulcerative colitis Soyamel fortified or Loma Linda Foods a fair trial, he may drop or change them should be avoided. Soyagen, buttermilk, or yogurt. Soy if he is careful not to alter the over-all Once I treated a young married woman acidophilus milk is excellent if obtain- regimen I recommend. whose attacks appeared after she had able.

32 LIFE & HEALTH 5. Salads: Coleslaw and grated carrot, margarine 1 ripe avocado served with lemon juice but never vine- 1/2 cup sugar With a sharp knife peel and section gar. Tossed salad with a dressing of olive Grate 2 teaspoons peel from the one grapefruit. Slice the turkeylike loaf oil and lemon or olive oil emulsified with grapefruit and set aside. Peel and section and cut it into strips 1/2-inch wide and 3 tomato juice to which a pinch of salt and the grapefruit, working over a bowl to inches long. Peel and seed the avocado. a teaspoonful of lemon juice are added if conserve all juice. Drain the sections, Cut it into 8 lengthwise slices and then the patient is not on a salt-free diet. This sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of the sugar, into thirds. To prepare each appetizer, dressing is made from 1 cup tomato and let stand 10 minutes. Drain off any roll a piece of grapefruit and of avocado purée or thick tomato juice, 5 table- additional juice. In a saucepan in a strip of the turkeylike pieces. Secure spoons pure olive oil, and 1 teaspoon thoroughly mix together the remaining with a wooden pick. Place on a tray with lemon juice, blended at high speed. sugar and the flour. Add all reserved sour-cream dip. Garnish with celery Supper grapefruit juice and lemon juice and hearts, parsley, or mint leaves. Sour 1. Cooked cereals such as millet or blend until smooth. Add frozen or fresh cream may be served in a half grapefruit freshly ground whole yellow corn meal berries and cook over medium heat, stir- shell. Prepare the shell by cutting the finely milled. ring frequently. Cook just until the mix- grapefruit in half and scooping out the meat and the membrane. 2. Vegetables and vegetable soup or ture thickens and becomes partially fruit, but not fruit and vegetables at the clear, then stir in the grated peel. Spread same meal. As a working rule, cereals over the bottom of an 8-inch square Grapefruit-Macaroni Salad and fruits or cereals and vegetables go cake pan or baking dish and top with a 1 8-ounce package macaroni together safely. layer of grapefruit sections. Separate the 11/2 tablespoons salad oil 3. Rice is a good evening dish. If the refrigerator biscuits and press them be- 2 medium or large grapefruit patient tolerates wheat, zwieback made tween your hands to flatten them. Dip 1 large ripe avocado, peeled slowly in a low oven digests easily. the flattened biscuits on both sides in Y4 cup dairy sour cream Avoid being too liberal with this diet melted butter, then into 1/4 cup sugar to 1/4 cup mayonnaise until you have tested your tolerance. • coat well. Arrange over top of fruit and 1 teaspoon salt bake at 350 degrees about 40 minutes or 1 1-pound section of Worthing- until bubbly and well browned. Serve ton chickenlike roll, flaked This is the last article in a two-part series. warm. This recipe serves 6 people. Parsley Grapefruit Appetizers Cook the macaroni in boiling salted * * * 1 grapefruit water according to package directions, 1/2 pint dairy sour cream rinse, and drain. While it is warm add the salad oil and toss to coat well. Chill. Grapefruit Recipes 6 ounces Worthington Foods turkeylike loaf Grate 2 teaspoons peel from grapefruit and reserve. Working over a bowl to con- Minted Grapefruit and Pears serve all juice, peel and section the 2 large or 3 medium-sized Cali- grapefruit. Cut it into bite-sized pieces, fornia grapefruit drain, and chill. Place all reserved grape- 1 1-pound, 13-ounce can pear fruit juice in the electric blender or mix- halves ing bowl. Add the grated peel, avocado 1/4 teaspoon mint flavoring cut into pieces, sour cream, mayonnaise, and salt. Blend or mix until Grate 2 teaspoons peel from grapefruit smooth. Combine avocado dressing with before peeling, and set aside. Work over chilled macaroni and add grapefruit a bowl to section peeled grapefruit, re- pieces and chickenlike flakes. Toss serving all juice. Drain the sections. Drain lightly until thoroughly mixed. Serve the pears, reserving 1 cup syrup. Place chilled with a garnish of parsley. This pears cut side up in a shallow dish, top recipe serves 8 to 10 people. with a layer of grapefruit sections. In a saucepan combine reserved grapefruit Grapefruit Topping juice and pear syrup and bring to a full boil. Add grated grapefruit peel and 3 large or 4 medium grapefruit mint flavoring, and immediately pour Y2 cup orange marmalade over the fruit. Refrigerate several hours FAREWELL TO A CITY FRIEND For quick and easy preparation, score or overnight until very cold. Serve as a By JOHN D. ENGLE, JR. the grapefruit peeling into quarters with dessert or accompaniment to a protein a sharp knife and remove the peel with dish. This recipe serves 8 people. Give me the land, and I shall be content. your fingers. Thinly pare the fruit with a You may keep your island of cement, knife, removing the white membrane, Second-Helping Grapefruit Cobbler Where smokestack altars to brick gods arise and cut in half lengthwise. Cut a V shape 2 large grapefruit With offerings of soot to smoggy skies. on each side of the center core, lift out % cup sugar Give me the land that piously sends up easily with a knife, and cut cored halves 1/2 cup flour The offering of a rose or a buttercup. into bite-sized pieces by placing cut side Juice of 1 lemon It is only near the soil that I may keep down on a board and slicing 3 or 4 times 1 12-ounce package frozen blue- My finger on the pulse of life, for deep each way. Drain the pieces thoroughly. berries or Must be the furrows where I sow my seeds Combine any reserved juice with the 3 cups fresh blueberries In fruitful acres that supply my needs marmalade in a small saucepan. Bring 1 8-ounce package flaky re- And yours also. But deeper runs the plow to a boil, stirring frequently. Cook about frigerator biscuits with vegeta- Of memory that turns my thought fields now. 3 minutes, until syrupy. Add the grape- ble shortening Therefore, I must return to country ways fruit pieces, heat 1 minute, and serve 2 tablespoons melted butter or And leave you to your barren city days. warm or chilled. • AUGUST, 1971 33 PROFILES metabolism. The condition also may be acquired from overindulgence in carbo- (From page 7) hydrates, alcohol, stimulants, and drugs. Mrs. Starr married and became the Hypoglycemia can be triggered by worry, mother of four children—Kathleen, Wil- stress, grief, anxiety, and fear. lard, Vaughn, and Melba. Shortly after Although hypoglycemia was diagnosed her oldest daughter's marriage Mr. Starr more than forty years ago, relatively lit- died, leaving her sole supporter of her tle has been done to eliminate the con- three teen-agers, two of whom were at- dition in comparison with the strides tending high school. After one son mar- made in diabetes control. ried and another entered the Navy she Many doctors claim control of hypo- and a daughter moved to Dayton, Ten- glycemia can combat diabetes, alcoholism, nessee, where she became a literature drug addiction, juvenile delinquency, evangelist and also served as a practical mental retardation, chronic fatigue, nurse in the Graysville Sanitarium for asthma, allergy, and many other serious the aged. problems. In 1948 Mrs. Starr remarried, and she "Hypoglycemia has been hiding be- and her husband settled in Holland, hind other illnesses far too long," says Michigan. In her church she has served Dr. Musselman. "If more doctors would in many ways. She plays the accordion, recognize its importance, America would and won a silver trophy for having mem- be a happier place." orized a hundred songs for the accor- The Adrenal Metabolic Research So- dion. She experiments with cooking ciety of the Hypoglycemia Foundation, herbs and recipes. At age 64 this grand- DOCTORS OF DENTAL SCIENCE Inc., published this statement given re- mother of five enjoys hiking, good mu- By NICHOLAS LLOYD INGRAHAM, R.N. cently to the American Medical Associa- sic, and making comforters for the wel- tion: fare center of her local church. • Both bard and jokester prattle in the ruts "There is probably no illness today Of having dentists prick our funny bones, which causes such widespread suffering, Perversely making them the laughing butts so much inefficiency and loss of time, Of mere amusement while the patient moans. so many accidents, so many family break- But these hard-working servants of relief ups, and so many suicides as that of hy- Deserve the kindest word a tongue can say. poglycemia." • Low Blood Sugar Assuaging Mammoth Caves of pain and grief, Their touch is magic, miseries melt away. Could you have hypoglycemia—low Well-being buzzes in their singing drills, blood sugar? You surely could. Hun- And caries seem to dread their expertise. dreds of citizens in Broward County, They pour the prophylactic that distills Florida, are harboring undiagnosed cases Catholicons that set our mouths at ease. Medical Technology of hypoglycemia, according to a Fort Loss of teeth spells dissipated wealth. Study Course Lauderdale osteopathic physician, Dr. Your dentist is a banker for their health. David A. Musselman, who has made ex- A new revised program in medical tensive studies of the condition. technology at Loma Linda University, Hypoglycemia, literally meaning "be- Loma Linda, California, will be available low normal blood sugar," is known im- in September, 1971, to students complet- properly in some circles as hyperinsulin- ing their sophomore year of college, as ism. Many physicians believe that this worry, forgetfulness, suicidal thoughts, announced by Dr. Ivor C. Woodward, condition is due to defective functioning loss of libido, incoordination, blurred dean of the School of Allied Health Pro- of the adrenal gland—hypoadrenocorti- vision, and arthritic pain. fessions (formerly the School of Health cism. Symptoms are many and varied. "If you have more than two or three of Related Professions). Sometimes a patient has groups of these symptoms," says Dr. Musselman, Under the new medical-technology symptoms reflecting the condition, some- "you would be wise to ask your doctor program, students who have completed times only a few. Frequently playing for a glucose tolerance test, in which the prerequisites in general biology, hide-and-seek, hypoglycemia may ac- seven samples of blood should be taken chemistry, and physics on any accredited company diagnosed diseases and copy over a period of five hours." college campus are eligible to apply for their symptoms—such as the fatigue and This test, which indicates the rise and acceptance in the program. The pro- pain of arthritis. The degree and severity fall of blood sugar levels over a fasting posed curriculum will enable students to of complaints vary with the level of period, should prove whether or not you complete the requirements for California blood sugar and the rate at which it de- are hypoglycemic. State licensure and registry certification, creases. The condition can be controlled easily as well as their baccalaureate degree at Emotional disturbance (particularly with a high protein diet and medication, the end of their senior year. near mealtime), excessive perspiration, sometimes by diet alone. Students wishing to take this course of mental cloudiness, depression, fatigue, Hypoglycemia is often called the step- study should be planning their freshman and a voracious appetite only a few hours child of medicine because of its general and sophomore curriculum so that they after eating are signs of hypoglycemia. lack of acceptance in the medical field. will be eligible to begin the medical tech- If you have nightmares, suffer nervous It is more common than its opposite, dia- nology course in their junior year. tension, or have an anxiety complex, it betes. Diabetes affects 10 million Amer- Additional information about the new could be hypoglycemia. icans—far fewer than hypoglycemia program is available from Loma Linda Dr. Musselman lists various other does. University School of Allied Health Pro- symptoms, including headache, leg Dr. Musselman said that the hypogly- fessions, Department of Medical Tech- cramp, exhaustion, drowsiness, constant cemic patient may have inborn errors of nology, Loma Linda, California 92354. • 34 LIFE & HEALTH STORIES AND PICTURES THAT MAKE THE BIBLE LIVE 161.3thk by Arthur S. Maxwell

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