THE MCDOUGALL NEWSLETTER SEP/OCT 1993 VOL 7/NO.5 INFORMATION audience mostly through visual demonstrations that cannot be adequately communicated by voice on the radio Blood cholesterol screening is usually available for nominal cost This seminar is the entertainment and educational value MCDOUGALL UPDATE greatest youll ever find Peoples health improves their medical needs are and the eat for the rest of their SYNDICATED RADIO SHOW reduced way they changes lives As an added benefit all this transforms into money saved by the individual and the health-care system The first of September 1993 Dr McDougalls radio show became syndicated across the state of California Every Sunday Los Angeles San Diego Sacramentoand .Santa Rosa seminars evening from to PM his live call-in controversial are planned for January and February of 1994 You can obtain talk-show with can be heard The stations interesting guests are for more information and sign up seminars in your area by with in powerhouses signal 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seeking information and challenging second opinions They you in mind of neighborhood potluck Vegetarian Times have learned to to their doctors The style of cooking say NO Wherever you go October 1993 says McDougalls own has matured creative and with the you will find restaurants with McDougall selections on the Theyre more more generous The result is low-fat cookbook thats menus Advertisements proclaim our restaurant serves the spices truly vegan number of entrees If the is chock-full of for and dishes greatest McDougall response only recipes hearty nourishing fraction as great throughout the state of California the health Personalized signed copies can be purchased through Dr and medical care for the people of this state will be changed for McDougalls office P.O Box 14039 Santa Rosa CA 95404 the better needs all the it California help can get right now Send $24 plus $4 for postage for each book Additional books EXPANDING SEMINARS sent to the same address add $2 postage each $5 1st book/$3 each additional book outside the USA--US funds only Include With statewide the coverage provided by radio one-day name of person to be personally autographed to and address to seminars will be held all over the state have been We holding be mailed to The other McDougall books continue to be these in the on for the Bay Area usually Saturday past national bestsellers The books as well as the McDougall audio lunch is the hotel and years McDougall provided by Mary tape album and the video tapes are available through the office John share their 17 of with the McDougall years experience address see back panel for price list diet low in ST HELENA IS PACKED animal protein than drinking more alcohol eating starch-based diet The McDougall Program at St Helena Hospital has been running programs with the maximum number of people we can handle 20 each month Two extra have been added programs VITAMINS AND BIRTH DEFECTS far this so year to reduce the waiting list down to couple of months You can call 800 358-9195 for information on and Prevention of congenital abnormalities by periconception of availability upcoming programs multivitamin supplementation by Andrew Czeizel in the June 1993 issue of the British Medical Journal 3061645 found MEDICAL RESEARCH vitamin supplements cut the risk of serious birth defects in half The study was performed on Hungarian women The couples were divided into ALCOHOL GOOD FOR BONES two groups They were asked to stop taking other vitamins and then given pill that was either prospective study of alcohol consumption and bone multivitamin or placebo with no vitamins The vitamin pill mineral density by Troy Holbrook in the June 1993 issue of contained 12 vitamins and three trace elements After months the British Medical Journal 3061506 found people who drink on the supplements they were asked to try to conceive and to had stronger bones The study of 182 men and 267 women was return after they were pregnant They continued to take the pills for other factors that influence the of this time The of the adjusted development throughout outcome pregnancy was then such as and use evaluated for months after birth In the of osteoporosis age body size smoking exercise eight group women of estrogens The more alcohol person drank the greater the who took the vitamins there were 14.7/1000 babies born with bone mineral in the the wrist defects the of density hip femoral neck radial compared to control group 28.3/1000 total of shaft and the spine The conclusion of the article was Social 4704 pregnancies were studied drinking is associated with higher bone mineral densities in men studies have found neural tube defects and women Many previous are prevented by vitamin supplementation Neural tube defects divided the drinkers into three intake of include bifida where of They groups Low spina the base the spinal cord fails to alcohol less than half close was an ounce day medium intake was properly and the child can be paraplegic and anencephaly about an ounce day and high intake was ounces day of where the child is born with an incompletely formed brain Folic pure alcohol To consume one ounce of pure alcohol you would acid is the vitamin most commonly supplemented to prevent drink little more than two ounces of hard liquor or two beers these defects In this study other birth defects were reduced by or ounces of wine supplementation with multivitamin which includes folic acid These defects included hydrocephalus cleft palate serious heart The reason for alcohols benefit on bones is unclear The defects limb abnormalities and failure of kidney development authors suggest it may be due to the effect of alcohol on the bodys hormone production Alcohol may increase estrogen COMMENT Numerous studies recently published leave little levels in women Alcohol also increases the production of male doubt that most of the common birth defects can be reduced in hormones androstenedione which are then converted into frequency by vitamin supplementation prior to woman bone and estrogens Estrogen helps prevent loss becoming pregnant during the early days of pregnancy These findings seem to call for all women capable of becoming The authors also said Although alcohol consumption cannot pregnant to take vitamin supplements during their entire be recommended as preventative for osteoporosis it is reproductive life And this may be the most that can be expected reassuring that social drinking to have no negative appears for many women to do Is the correct conclusion from these effect on bone density studies birth defects are due to vitamin pill deficiency No COMMENT Not surprisingly this became popular story over The correct conclusion is The rich American diet inadequate in night simply because people like to hear good news about their plant-derived foods fails to provide the right vitamins in the bad habits Osteoporosis can now be added to heart disease as right amounts Eleven of the 13 known vitamins are made by common health problem benefited by moderate drinking plants Vitamin is from action of sunlight B12 is from Caution must be used with this kind of information Nine out of bacteria Most people cat too few vegetables and too much ten people will hear this message correctly but one out of ten meat dairy and processed foods persons the alcoholic may find this reason to start or resume and lives drinking are destroyed Processing cooking and extended storage further destroys vitamins Folic acid is found in many foods but 50 to 95% is There is another explanation for stronger bones with increasing destroyed by prolonged cooking and