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Aggie creamery has
ore than ice cream
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The creamery is also a production
tries new approaches and products.
French Silk ice cream, a blend of
rich sweet and bittersweet chocolate
flakes is one experiment. Moore says
she and other creamery personnel
obtained the French Silk recipe from
a Chicago dairy food exposition in
October.
“We tasted all the available ice
cream at the expo and thought
French Silk was the best,” Moore
says. “We wanted to get a really
high-quality product we could iden
tify with Texas A&M.”
The quality of chocolate and the
amount used, Moore says, is what
makes French Silk a high-quality
product. She says the chocolate
flakes used in the ice cream are de
vised especially for the ice cream.
The bittersweet flakes have a low
melting point of 90 degrees, Moore
and retail facility. As such it often says, so they melt in the mouth, leav-
By LESLIE HEFFNER
Reporter
Unlike the “little creamery in
renham,” Texas A&M’s little
eamery makes more than ice
earn. It processes butter, meat,
eese, eggs and milk for busy bod-
/ n ii Creamery technician Pat Moore
/ QUEQK ^ys the creamery is a teaching and
'Qgtojj pearch facility. Each semester two
tap... dairy product technology classes
glg-J", tarn now ice cream, cheese and
VrttPQ I'M are manufactured. The classes
^ iet hands-on experience by man
ufacturing products such as sour
ream, yogurt, cheese and ice cream.
Jut don’t worry about getting a con-
liner of ice cream or yogurt that
lidn’t make a passing grade. Moore
lys everything manufactured by the
lasses isn’t sold. The bad stuff is
dumped.
ing a rich chocolate flavor not found
in ordinary chocolate chip ice cream.
Other ice cream flavors the
creamery sells include cherfy, straw
berry, chocolate, vanilla and butter
pecan. Moore says the creamery
nopes to add some new flavors this
fall.
The creamery is known not only
for selling ice cream, but also for its
five-pound blocks of American and
Swiss cheese. This fall, Moore says,
the creamery plans to sell the cheese
with the Texas A&M emblem im
printed on the wax covering.
One other change the creamery
will make this fall is that it will be
open Saturdays of home football
games this fall, Moore says.
“We are always trying to uj
equipment and facilith
s. ^‘We
rrade
says, "we like everybody to enjoy
our products.”
Humans aren’t the only ones trying to beat
the heat. Orin Clark and his dogs, Barney
Photo by Carol Smith
Brutus Davis, King Arthur and Sir Wood-
row, enjoy ice cream at the Creamery.
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| It’s really happening
| a Nightmare!
I the shocking agony of watching
helplessly
As your beautiful child withdraws
more and more
I As she loses perspective and touch
with reality
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where you can’t enter
and don’t understand.
As she slowly wastes away
And you become faced witn the pos
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1 and the agonizing terror that she
may choose death over life...
YOU REALIZE
All you can really do is
| love her
I let her know you’re there for her
and that you’ll support her efforts
to get well
if SHE chooses to.
—June Mosele (1982)
The victim in the poem is suffer-
from an eating disorder,
hether it be anorexia nervosa or
bulimia, the victim is in a life-threat
ening situation of self abuse.
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder in
which people starve themselves
through compulsive dieting. Ano
rexia sufferers usually devote most
of their energy to exercise and
schoolwork. Sufferers usually lose
judgment, refusing to recognize
they have a problem.
Bulimia is known as the gorge-
purge syndrome. It is a disorder in
which people eat enormous amounts
of food and then rid their body of it
by inducing vomiting, using laxa
tives, using enemas or using diet
pills. Research has shown that buli
mia victims consume up to 50,000
calories in one sitting.
Half a million Americans a year
suffer from the disorders. Most of
them are females in the age group of
10 to 25 years old, although one out
of 10 victims is male. The victims are
often overachievers and perfection
ist. They have common sense, but as
the disorder progresses the victims’
thoughts become distorted and they
lose all sense of reality.
There is no one main cause for
eating disorders.
Dr. Judy Me Connell, of the Texas
A&M student counseling service says
“J know I want to gain weight/’ Jenny says. ‘Tm eating
more, but when the scale goes up, / get this airy feeling
like fm losing control. I dream maybe aneroexia goes
as it comes. Maybe one day I’ll wake up and it’ll be go
ne.
the disorders are caused by a variety
of things such as family dynamics,
the need to be in control, wanting to
be assertive or having a problem ex
pressing wants and needs. She says
the counseling service offers a semi-
structured bulimia support group,
but there usually about only five to
eight people attend the group meet
ings.
She knows there is a much bigger
anorexia and bulimia problem at
A&M, Dr. McConnell says, but many
victims do not seek help.
A 19 year-old anorexia victim,
known as Jenny, told the St. Louis
Globe Democrat she often asks her
self how she became a victim. She
says when she was 7 her sister took
her to a meeting about losing weight.
Her sister said she didn’t want Jenny
to grow up to be overweight as she
had done.
Over the years, Jenny says, she’s
been to four psychiatrists, a chiro
practor/hypnotist and had electro
shock therapy.
“I know I want to gain weight,”
Jenny says. “I’m eating more, but
when the scale goes up, I get this airy
feeling like I’m losing control. I
dream maybe aneroexia goes as it
comes. Maybe one day I’ll wake up
and it’ll be gone.”
Jenny is fortunate because she re
alized she had a problem before it
was too late.
An unfortunate bulimia victim’s
story was printed by the Granite
City, an Illinois newspaper. The vic
tim was known as Laura. The Gran
ite City said she went out one night
and gorged herself with hamburger
after hamburger after hamburger
and french fries, a milkshake, more
fries another shake and more food
until her stomach distended from
her frame. Laura went to the bath
room, stuck her fingers down her
throat and tried to rid her body of all
the food.
The Granite City said she had
1 eaten so much so fast that she had
cut off the blood supply to her stom
ach and she was unable to throw-up.
Laura was rushed to the Yale-New
Haven Hospital’s emergency room,
where surgeons cut into the outer
layer of her stomach to remove the
food. It was too late.
Laura died.
The 1983 March 7 issue of News
week said that the gorge-purge syn
drome affects as many as 10 percent
of every college campus.
Anorexia and bulimia sufferers
need help, but as others with social
diseases they do not often seek help.
Like alcoholics they have to admit
they have a problem before anything
can be done to help them.
In July St. Francis Hospital in
Tulsa, Okla., established ABtec a
special eating disorders treatment
center. ABtec — officially called
Anorexia Bulimia Treatment and
Education Center — is modeled af
ter Dr. Felix Larocca’s program at
St. John’s Mercy Hospital in St.
Louis.
A psychiatrist, a clinical nurse, so
cial worker and dietician make up
the ABtec staff. The center’s daily
program is highly structured. It in
cludes supervised meals, self aware
ness, group therapy, tutoring (if nec
essary), and nutrition classes.
A non-profit organization,
B.A.S.H., Inc., is a self help program
that works closely with ABtec.
B.A.S.H. meets once a month and
provides education and insight into
eating disorders. The self help pro
gram is free and is open to anyone
wanting to participate.
Among symptoms of anorexia are
a distorted sense of self-image, con
stant frantic exercise, loss of 25 per
cent or more of body wight, drastic
physical changes, a new layer of thin
hair on the body.
For those who are interested in
seeking help for eating disorders,
the campus bulimia counseling and
support group can be contacted by
calling 845-1651, the ABtec unit can
be contacted at (918) 494-5328 and
B.A.S.H. can be contacted at (918)
494-5336.
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