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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1977
Zinc, pickles can extend life
Zinc plays a dominant role in the
ability to control appetite, a couple
of pickles at the end of a meal may
help prevent heart attacks, and
proper diets could eliminate a large
percentage of cancer.
These and other revelations came
out of Friday’s 30th annual Texas
Nutrition Conference held at Texas
A6cM University. The conference
brought together some of the na
tion’s top officials and experts in the
field of human nutrition.
The theme was food and its rela
tionship to cancer, heart disease and
infectious disease.
Dr. Donald VVatkin of the Admin
istration on Aging in Washington,
D. C. told the group that people
may be able to extend their lives up
to 30 years through proper nutri
tion,
“If presently available knowledge
were applied throughout life, it has
been estimated that at least three
decades could be added to the aver
age age at death,” he explained. “In
North America, primary malnutri
tion does not exist, but malnutrition
secondary to disease and disability-
physical, emotional and/or attitudi-
nal — not only compounds the pri
mary problem but also shortens the
effective life of its victims.”
While nutrition is most important
during the first two-fifths of a per
son’s life, Watkins said that even
changing to good dietary habits at
the age of 45 could add 11 years to a
life span.
“There is a new role for doctors
and that is as salesmen of good nu
trition,” he said. “Society’s adoption
of life-long application of the
nutrition-health-aging triad is long
overdue. ”
Dr. R. I. Henkin of the Center for
Molecular Nutrition and Sensory
Disorders at the Georgetown Uni
versity Medical Center in Washing
ton, D. C. said that loss of appetite
and taste in young school children
has been associated with zinc defi
ciency.
According to Dr. Henkin, kidney
disease, severe bouts of
“Montezuma’s revenge or other
varieties of regional enteritis and
the application of some drugs can
result in a zinc loss. This results in
loss of appetite and taste as well as
an inability to sleep and mental con
fusion in adults.
“It has been estimated that 80 per
cent or more of human cancers may
be environmentally related, said
Dr. Anthony Mastromarino of the
National Large Bowel Cancer
Project. “If so, then many human
cancers are potentially preventable,
even if the specific carcinogen has
not been identified.”
Over-nutrition has already been
demonstrated to cause artery de
generation; our challenge is to de
termine our willingness and ability
to modify our current diet so as to
provide an optimal diet for a largely
sedentary population,” Mas
tromarino said. “That is, one that
will provide proper physical and in
tellectual development on the one
hand, and prevent chronic non-
communicable illness such as ar
teriosclerosis and cancer on the
other.”
Increased awareness and identifi
cation of risk factors through educa
tional programs, adoption of the
prudent diet and engaging in regu
lar exercise will hasten the day
when every American not only lives
longer, but will gain useful longev
ity. The ultimate triumph lies not in
cure, but in prevention through
moderate, but adequate nutrition.
A couple of pickles at the end of a
meal might help prevent heart at
tacks. Research by Dr. Joseph
Nagyvary, a Texas A&M professor of
biochemistry and biophysics, shows
that aluminum, in amounts you
could get from a couple of pickles
can prevent the absorption of
cholesterol by the body.
The idea that Nagyvary is testing
is that the aluminum combines with
such products as algin (in seaweed)
and pectin (abundant in fruits and
vegetables) to form a trap for choles
terol ingested in many foods
standard to the American diet.
Texan’s personal income grows
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AUSTIN — Total personal income
has grown more rapidly in Texas than
in the nation as a whole in the past
seven years, a University of Texas
researcher reported Saturday.
For the first six months of 1977,
personal income in Texas was esti
mated to be about 11.9 per cent
higher than for the same period in
1976, reported Victor Niemeyer, re
searcher with the Center for Energy
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Studies. Niemeyer, in the October
issue of Texas Business Review, said
the national increase in personal in
come — total wages, interest, divi
dends and rents — was 10.7 per
cent.
The percentage increase in Texas
personal income this year is the
largest among the top five income-
producing states — California, New
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vania, Niemeyer said. Of the five
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higher than the national rate.
The positive economic picture in
Texas also is reflected in employ
ment date, Niemeyer said.
Employment in Texas increaded
by .4 per cent from May to June and
up 2.7 percent from a year ago. Total
employment increased by 20,900
from May to a total of 5.4 million in
June, the highest ever recorded.
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Texas employment and virtually all
of the growth in the labor force from
June, 1976, to June, 1977, was con
centrated in Houston and the
Dallas-Fort Worth areas. During
this period, Niemeyer said,
statewide employment increased by
142,600 while the increases for
Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth
were 76,800 and 44,500, respec
tively, or 85 per cent of the state
total.
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impact on employment.”
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assistance for environmental im
provements, according to Mr. Jack
Jones, community resource de
velopment program specialist.
“Most frequent requests concern
the financing of sewerage facilities,
water supply systems, recreation
projects, housing for median and
low income families, and develop
ment of community centers,” said
Jones in an interview last week.
The Federal Assistance Program
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signed to aid cities and communities
with less than 50,000 population.
“In small towns the mayor quite
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Veterans at Texas A&M Univer
sity who expect to graduate and
move in December may miss their
final GI Bill check if they don’t leave
a forwarding address with the cam
pus Veterans Administration office.
A spokesman said that since the
VA now issues checks at the end of
the month, graduating veterans will
have one more payment coming at
the time of commencement.
Address changes can be reported
to the VA liaison office in Hart Hall.
The post-graduation check will be
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forwarding change is registered.
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