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December 3,19
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by Scott McCullar
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DAYS WITHOUT KELIEF...
CHAMPIONSHIP RALLYE. The
Rallye moves out of Central Park at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Find a car. A navigator. Entry fee of $ 5 00 . If you can follow
directions
■ they YoWeJ off tb« piu-Kins lots
THE DAY HE WAS STAKED TO THE
LAWN
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THE AOniNISTKKTOKS OF THECOffiS
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you can be sure of partying with the
SPORTS CAR CLUB
Saturday night.
Study: Starch blockers fail
United Press International
BOSTON — Starch blockers
that blitzed the market promis
ing weight loss without dieting
or exercise, do nothing to keep
the flab off and may be harmf ul,
according to a study that was
published Thursday.
“We conclude starch-blocker
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tablets do not inhibit the diges
tion and absorption of starch
calories in human beings,” doc
tors said in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
An accompanying editorial,
however, said the long-term
effectiveness of the starch block
ers, “although highly unlikely,”
has not been disproved by the
study, which focused on the im
mediate ef fects of the product.
“What is clear, however, is
there are no clinical studies that
establish the effectiveness or in
deed the safety,” of the pro
ducts, said Dr. Irwin H. Rosen
berg of Chicago.
The researchers said the
blockers failed because the pan
creas probably secretes much
more of the enz.yme that digests
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United Press International
Staying warm in cold weather
isn’t easy. Up to 1,800 calories
daily — 90 percent of many peo
ple’s energy intake — may have
to be burned to maintain a body
temperature of 98.6 degrees.
starch than is needed for the di
gestive process.
The results were based on a
study of five people who were
fed precise amounts of spaghet
ti, bread and butter. One day the
subjects took three starch block
ers with their meal and another
day they took a placebo.
More than 200 million starch
blockers hit the shelves of health
food stores and drug stores in a
two-year period and were taken
at an estimated rate of 1 million
tablets daily before the Food and
Drug Administration ordered
them off the market in July,
Rosenberg said.
The FDA classified the diet
aids as drugs whose safety and
effectiveness must be proved
and ordered them removed af
ter an increasing number of re
ports linked them to nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea, stomach
pains and excess gas.
The blockers, made from
plant foods such as kidney beans
and wheat, have been recog
nized since 1943 to contain a
substance that prevents enzymes
from digesting starch.
Previous laboratory experi
ments had found rats taking
starch blockers excreted more
starch and gained less weight.
digeai
the a
Human experiments had
gested they blocked the d
tion of starch.
But the most recentroi
tests conflicted with the
findings.
The doctors worked
assumption that to beefft
starch blockers must
absorption of calories
starch, therefore, extra
would be eliminated.
Using a complicated
in which the subjects’
tracts were cleared and
creted starch was measuredi
doctors found no differem
the amount of starch exci
by subjects taking starch
ers or a placebo.
Producers brought a
stop the FDA action, claii
the pills were food, but in
her a f ederal court in Cl
issued a permanent injuncli
against the manufacture
distribution of the prodi
That ruling is under appeal
the makers of starch block
and similar court action isun(
way in New York
Officials in five states Sej
30, seized more than 1 millic
the diet pills. Since then an
mated $1.6 million of the
have been destroyed.
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Today is Friday, Dec. 3,
337th day of 1982 with 28j
follow.
The moon is moving towaij
its last quarter.
The morning stars are Satwj
and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Mi
cury, Venus and Mars.
Those born on this date ;«l
under the sign of Sagittaimj
On this date in history:
In 1818, Illinois wasadmitl|
to the Union as the 21ststate|
In 1833, Oberlin Collegef
Ohio opened with an enrofB
ment of 29 men and 15 woW®
— the nation’s first truly c®.
educational school. I, Un kin
In 1929, the Ford Motorr; torwarc
raised the pay of its employtftwo poi
from $6 to $7 a day despite tljj here TJ
collapse of the American st«
market.
A thought for the day: Briti|
that a single man in posses*!
of a good f ortune must be I