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Battalion/Page 12
February 16,1983
People dehydrate
by starving a fever
Warped
Scott McCullar __
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The old
saying about “Feed a cold, starve
a fever” is only half right.
Fever increases the need for
calories and protein. If fever is
accompanied by sweating,
Vomiting and diarrhea, all these
increase water loss and deplete a
patient’s store of nutrients, says
an article in Environmental Nut
rition Newsletter.
A University of California
public health and pediatrics pro
fessor agreed that infections
should be fed with plenty of
fluids, plus protein and calorific
foods.
“For most people, who are
otherwise healthy and well
nourished, a simple cold or flu is
of little nutritional consequ
ence,” said Dr. Charlotte
Neumann. She added that chro
nic infection and even short
term illness in children and the
elderly call for a nutrient-rich,
balanced diet to fight infection
and repair body tissues.
Such a diet is important both
during and after illness, said
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She recommended fluids
such as juices and milk as easy,
nutritious ways to replenish
calories and protein in the ill.
Liquids, in general, are easier
to digest than solids and can be
served often during the day, she
said.
Fluids may be hard to keep
down when the stomach is upset.
If vomiting occurs, Neumann
suggested eating dry toast or
crackers before taking fluids.
“It is especially important to
keep fluid levels up in young
children, because they dehy
drate more readily than adults,”
Neumann said. “Add a teaspoon
of skim milk powder to a glass of
fruit juice for an extra protein
lift.”
She also suggested keeping
patients’ meals small and attrac
tive. A frozen yogurt dessert or
ice cream usually will tempt a
sick youngster’s appetite.
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United Press International
ITHACA, N.Y. — Barring
major crop disasters, consumers
can expect no more than an av
erage increase in food costs this
year, says consumer educator
Josephine Swanson.
“Food prices in 1982 showed
the smallest annual gain since
1976,” Swanson told a recent
economic training school for
agents of Cornell Cooperative
Extension. Prices may increase
even less in 1983, she said.
She said the USDA has pre
dicted retail food price gains of 3
percent to 6 percent, with an av
erage of 4 percent, but above
average increases for pork, pre
pared foods, nonalcoholic be
verages, sugar and sweets.
Swanson said the main
reasons for price stability are de-
f messed farm prices, abundant
larvests and supplies, a low in
flation rate and a slow increase
in labor costs.
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Groups help self-esteem
Cultists suffer before join
United Press International
A significant number of
young people who join religious
cults appear to suffer mild to se
vere emotional or mental dis
orders before they enter the
groups, reports a new survey.
At the same time, the survey
found that after joining many
derive psychological benefits
that enhance their self-esteem
and encourage them to stay with
the groups.
According to the findings of
Dr. Marc Galanter of the De
partment of Psychiatry at the
Albert Einstein College of Medi
cine, as many as one-third of re
ligious cult members studied
suffer mental or emotional
problems before joining the
sect.
Galanter’s article, published
in a recent issue of the American
Psyciatric Association’s Amer
ican Journal of Psychiatry, was
based on his own research and
reports from other workers in
the field.
He did not offer any judg
ment on the groups.
“Psychological distress is a
frequent antecedent to joining a
sect,” Galanter reported.
Galanter cited one study that
assessed 60 percent of cult mem
bers as “substantially and chro
nically disturbed” and 40 per
cent as “essentially normal,
maturing persons.”
In his own surveys of the Di
vine Light Mission and the Uni
fication Church, Galanter found
lower but still significant num
bers of members with a history
of psychiatric difficulties.
“Emotional problems among
Divine Light respondents had
led 38 percent to seek profes
sional help before joining and 9
percent to be hospitalized,”
Galanter said. “For members of
the Unification Church, the
Moonies, corresponding figures
were 30 percent and 6 percent,
respectively.”
A number of studies also
indicate that at least
seem to
some of those emotional pni
lems are reduced or overcoi
after joining the sect.
Galanter also noted thatal
spite the improvement,
term members’ scores on I
psychological test known an)
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were still slightly below asimte
sample f rom the generalp
lation.
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correlated with the intensitvii
their social affiliation withotll
members,” he said, “indie
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CHICAGO — Breast self
examinations are a key to early
detection of breast cancer, and
researchers find that the women
most likely to check themselves
are those who have been taught
the practice by health profes
sionals.
“It’s going to alter the way I
practice medicine,” said Dr.
Susan E. Bennett of Boston’s
Beth Israel Hospital, who re
ported the study results in the
Journal of the American Medic
al Association.
“I feel that on the basis of the
study, I personally have to take
the time to demonstrate BSE
(breast self examination) when I
do breast examinations,” she
said.
Dr. Bennett said she feels she
can no longer use as an excuse
for not showing women how to
practice BSE the claim that
women are not well-educated
and are terribly terrified of can
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interview. “1 have to takei
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“This study supporti
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Breast cancer is the leadi
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women in the United States
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11 women.
Dr. Bennett said
although nearly two-thirdr
American women reefl
annual breast examinations,
to 90 percent of all breast c
cers are detected by the won
themselves.
Early detection is believed
substantially increase the!
hood of cure.
Of 616 women interne*:
for the study, one-fourth«
nurses, doctors or paraprot
sional women on the Bethlsr*
staff. Three-fourths weref
dents at the hospital’s Ambii
tory Care center.
Of those responding to i
questions, 78 percent report
some breast self-examinais
practice. But only 36 pertt
said they performed the efii
monthly, the suggested
quency for detecting brti
abnormalities.
“Our study suggests I
woman most likely to pratH
f requent BSE lives with her*
partner, has been shown ho*
do BSE, is confident in heral
ity to detect a breast lesion* 1
lacks fear that breast loss
compromise her attractiven®
the report said.
Fear did not prevent wo®
from practicing BSE
although most womenarealc
of breast surgery, the sm
showed.
“A lot of people feel that 11
main deterrent to womenf
dcing BSE is fear that they’ll*
a lump,” Dr. Bennett said,
of a sense of hopelessnesstlt* 1
one finds a lump, one los**
breast or something worst
loses a life, loses someone*
love.”
“I think the most import*
f actor in whether a womanp*
tices BSE or not is whethers 1 *
had someone actually de#*
trate the examination to ^
she said.
Women who learned byrt*
ing, seeing it on televisioti
hearing it from friends were*
as confident in being ableW 1
tect a lump, she said.
The study also found 1 *
women whose mothers
breast disease were morel®
to practice BSE on a rej 5
monthly basis.
Differences in age, into?
religion and race did not*
the frequency of BSE.
Contrary to previous re^
the study showed thatedurt*
women and those who too*
active part in maintaining
health were no more ™
practice BSE.
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