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Obese people risi T€
toxin vulnerablity
United Press International
BOSTON — In addition to the
health problems fat people already
face, nutrition experts say the obese
may now have to worry about extra
high levels of toxic chemicals being
stored in their bodies.
Chemicals such as DDT, the po
tent insecticide banned by the U.S.
government, and PCB, a cancer-
causing chemical once used to make
electrical eouipment, are stored in
the fat cells of the body. These
chemicals do not dissolve in water,
only in fat.
Obese people can store larger
amounts of toxic chemicals in their
bodies. The problem is compounded
by fat people eating larger amounts
of food, which means they eat more
toxic waste.
“The greater the amount of fat
tissue in the body, the greater the
potential for these toxins to collect
and persist in the system for long pe
riods of time,”Dr. George Black
burn, a nutrition expert at Harvard
Medical School, said.
When thinner people eat more
toxic chemicals, their bodies tend to
reach a saturation point after which
they begin excreting fat-soluble toxic
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chemicals as quickly as they are
eaten.
DDT has been shown to lead to in
fertility. When large amounts of
DDT become concentrated in the
liver, which stimulates the operation
of enzymes, an individual’s suscepti
bility to other toxins increases.
PCBs can also decrease resistance
to disease and interfere with repro
duction.
Blackburn warns in an article in
Rx Weight Control magazine against
starting a crash diet. Losing lar^e
amounts of weight quickly may in
crease the percentage of toxic chem
icals in a person’s body and circulat
ing freely in their blood,
said.
In one case a person becamed
riously ill when large amountsJ
DDT were released into his blood
tream after he quickly lost weight.
In addition, oy eating lowolord
foods such as some types of fishiJ
people may be increasing id
amounts of toxic waste they areal
posed to.
Blackburn suggests that
who weight 30 or more poundsoiitJ
weight should begin slowdietsM
are approved by their doctors®!
seek to bring a person slowlybachl
their ideal weight.
When using fish as partofid
diet, Blackburn suggeststhatpe;;J
stay away from fish high in fat,Mi|
as tuna, swordfish an<
also suggested that
low fat fish such as flounder,
dock and cod. Fish that hasbeend
spected by the FDA is saferthantkj
bought directly from fishermanhj
cause it has been checked
levels of toxic waste.
When eating fish it isalsoadiij
able to strip of f their skin.
“Since most of the fatinusni
found in a layer just below thesln|
removing the skin removes
the fat soluable toxins." accordinpj
the article, co-written by Margai
Clay, a community health expen
It is also more healthy tobroi
roast fish and meat rather than(n|
ing, because not only do broilingnJ
roasting help remove excesscaloml
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daily hazardous chemicab. Fnisl
and vegetables should also hj
washed to help remove chenucal 151
idues.
“Rather than bemoaning the fij
that our environment isn'tissaftij
it used to be, we can take positive*!
don to safeguard ourselves
unnecessary risk,” the tworeseaid|
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United Press International
The National Geographic Socie
ty’s Explorers Hall in Washington
has been invaded by ants — deliber
ately.
Colonies of sugar ants and bulldog
ants are on display in see-through
cases at the society’s cissors, dagger
and hypodermic needle, according
to a University of Florida zoologist.
“When the cell that contains the
stinging mechanism is triggered,
something like a pair of scissors ex
plodes out,” Frank Maturo said.
“But it’s sort of like the scissors are
closed and then they open, making a
gash. That gets an opening and this
is followed by a hollow tubethai[
through that opening and injeciii
toxin.”
The poison causes extreme painisl
can result in fainting, shock and!]
rare cases, death.
Dr. Elizabeth Sheretz, a professou
dermatology at the university,
anything containing alcohol-rd
bing alcohol, liquor or perfume
can deactivate the toxin.
“If there are signs of hives oral
treme swelling or if the persons™
has trouble breathing, he on!i
should be rushed to an e
facility because people, especial'l
children, can die from massiveex|q
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Trucks clean oil spill
in San Jacinto River
United Press International
HOUSTON — Exxon employees
used 10 vacuum trucks Wednesday
to clean up 84,000 gallons of oil that
leaked into the San Jacinto River
when a 20-inch pipeline was hit by a
vessel, a spokesman said.
Perry Smith said divers inspecting
the pipeline Wednesday discovered
5il had been flattened.
“It is obvious the line was struck
by something — a barge or a tug,”
Smith said.
The firm’s oil traffic control sys
tem detected a drop in pressure:!
the [pipeline about 9 p in. Tuesdi|
and shut the flow in the line,S
said. The line runs fromnorthutf
of Houston to Baytown.
Booms were placed around thefl
to contain it Tuesday night andii
vacuum trucks were working!
dawn Wednesday, he said.
Smith said cleaning up theoils
should take five to seven days.1
pipeline leak is located near whf:!|
Interstate 10 crosses the river,;
20 miles east of Houston.
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Farm union calls for chili
pickers strike in West Texas
United Press International
EL PASO — Farm officials in
West Texas and southern New Mex
ico said earlier this week that a strike
by the El Paso-Juarez Farmworkers
Union has not yet had an adverse ef
fect on the harvesting of chili crops,
but union officials say the strike will
continue.
workers on his bus, but a
grower, David Holguin, said
turnout in the fields was notun
ally low.
Farmworkers begin togathei
work in the streets of El PasoaW
a.m., when buses sent by
worker contractors arrive to
day’s employment.
About 40 members of the union,
following two days of meetings in
Juarez, across the Rio Grande from
El Paso, tried shortly after midnight
Tuesday to discourage farmworkers
from boarding buses headed for the
chili fields of neighboring farms.
Included among the workers
Mexican-Americans, Mexican ^
tionals residing legally in the In
states and illegal aliens.
Police said the demonstrators car
ried hand-made signs demanding
higher wages, better working condi
tions, travel and employment insur
ance.
At the end of the day the fat® 01
pay the workers in cash on thete-
of amount of chili or other pr^
picked. The workers have fe*
any, fringe benefits.
One farmworker, 47-year-oW
sus Lopez of El Paso, said he c®;
not afford to strike because he#
the money and the farnworh-
The workers are paid between 36
cents and 50 cents per 10-gallon can
of chiles, 90 cents for jalapenos with
stems, $1.30 per can for stemless ja
lapenos and between 40 and 50 cents
per can of red chiles.
A Hatch a New Mexico area con
tractor hardest hit of the farm labor
contractors, said there were fewer
money
union offers no strike relief.
Esteban Posada, president c#
Union of Border Farmworkers ^
the strike will continue until » cr *
ers’ demands are met.
A farm leader said recently'
rains have all but ruined then:
crop in El Paso and the Mesilla' 1
ley of Las Cruces.
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