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Tuesday • October I,
Guidelines help to reduce fa
DALLAS (AP) — So you didn’t
eat your vegetables yesterday and
you really overdid it with the dou
ble-chocolate cake. Don’t torture
yourself with guilt. Just try to do
better in the next few days.
More
Americans are
overweight... \
75%
74%
59%
50%
1986
’94 ’95 ’96
...and by more than a
few pounds
24 percent of American adults are over
their recommended weight range by 20
percent or more.
Source: A Jan. 18-22 Louis Harris and Associates
survey of Americans age 25 and over.
That recommendation comes
from the American Heart Associa
tion, which has issued reduced-
guilt guidelines aimed at getting
people to eat right over several
days or a week, instead of obsess
ing over every day or every meal.
The guidelines don’t change
the recommended maximum lev
els of calories, fat and cholesterol
in people’s overall diet.
But for the first time, the
guidelines cut people a little
slack, allowing them to be glutto
nous one day, if they eat less the
rest of the week.
“This fits the theme of con
suming a variety of foods and re
ducing guilt from eating some
thing ‘bad’ now and then,’’ said
Dr. Ronald Krauss, chairman of a
committee that developed the re
vamped guidelines.
“It’s fairly clear now that the
changes we associate with heart
disease risk do represent more of
a long-term trend rather than
changes that occur with any giv
en meal.”
These are the first changes
since 1988 in the heart associa
tion guidelines, which were first
published in 1961.
In the past, the association
recommended daily levels for
such things as calories and fat,
without suggesting that the lev
els could be a daily average over
a week’s time. The change was
made to alleviate frustration
among people who felt meeting
the guidelines every day was
unrealistic.
Bernadette Latson, a dietitian
at the University of Texas South
western Medical Center
at Dallas, said the idea
of meeting nutritional
goals over a week’s time
is already advanced by
many dietitians.
“Getting an overall
balance is what’s really
important,” she said.
Robert Ricci, 28, a
sales engineer in Dal
las, said he figured that
out for himself. Ricci
usually eats a low-fat,
high-fiber diet heavy
tion’s journal Circulation,
The overall goal retnait
ducing the risk of hearidi
with a new focus on
whose growing incidence
hies researchers.
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to have gotten the message
ducingta
“Getting an
overall balance
is what’s really
important.”
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Dietician, University of
Texas Medical Center
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cial, which is very good but very
bad-cheese enchiladas — it’s all
right once in a while,” said Ricci,
who was eating a fat-free brownie
after a chicken sandwich for
lunch Monday.
The guidelines, developed by
the heart association’s nutrition
committee, were published in
Monday’s issue of the associa-
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or older are overweight, up
71 percent a year ago andonh
percent 10 years ago.
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Military logs track Gulf War Syndroirt
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — U.S. com
manders sheltered themselves behind spe
cial filters while instructing troops to disre
gard reports of a toxic cloud during the
Persian Gulf War, according to newly de
classified military logs.
In the logs, obtained by The Birmingham
News, a military officer responded to in
coming reports of toxic clouds: “Pre
dictably, this has become — is going to be
come a problem.”
After U.S. commanders later sealed their
facilities with airlocks and switched to chemi
cal warfare filters for ventilation, they told
troops to ignore Czech reports of low-level
nerve agents: “Told them to disregard any re
ports coming from Czechs,” the logs say.
The release of the documents follows the
Pentagon’s announcement Sept. 18 that it
will notify at least 5,000 Gulf War veterans
that they may have been exposed to nerve
agents in the days after the end of the war
in March 1991.
The logs were compiled for Gen. Norman
Schwarzkopf at his headquarters in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, to assess the threat of chemical
weapons in the 1991 war against Iraq.
Jim Brown, who heads the advocacy group
Gulfwatch, acquired the logs last year under
the Freedom of Information Act and provided
copies to the News. The newspaper published
excerpts Sunday.
The logs turned over to Gulfwatch have
omissions, including eight days in March 1991
when troops destroyed a cache of Iraqi chemi
cal weapons. The Pentagon acknowledged
earlier this month that U.S. troops were in
volved in destruction of that depot.
Gulfwatch has said the log omissions bol
ster its claim of a military cover-up of GulfWar
Syndrome, an unexplained ailment many vet
erans claim they contracted during the war.
More than 20,000 veterans returned home
suffering from ailments such as aching joints,
fatigue and memory loss, according to Brown.
Many believe their illnesses are linked to low-
level exposure to chemical warfare agents re
leased by destruction of Iraq's stockpiles of
chemical weapons.
The logs include entries following the
coalition bombing of Iraqi ammunition
dumps.
The first sign of trouble came Jan. 19,
1991, two days after the air war began. An
afternoon entry noted smoke billowing
from bombed-out targets: a 10:46 p.m. en
try said Czechoslovakian chemical warfare
specialists detected non-lethal levels of
poison mustard gas.
Both times, the log officer responded with
disbelief. “Explained this was impossible,” the
evening entry reads.
The next day, the officer noted that Czech
and French troops detected two types of
nerve gas, the logs say.
After Iraqi troops launched a Scud missile
attack, Central Command switched its venti
lation over to chemical warfare filters and
sealed its facilities with airlocks, the logs state.
Later that day, French troops reported they
again had detected chemical warfare agents.
The next day, Jan. 22, U.S. troops told com
manders the Czech chemical warfare experts
had made another detection, but Central
Command decided U.S. troops should ignore
the Czech detections.
Gulf War symptoms
Q Persian GulfWar log shows
that U.S. commanders took
precautions against a toxic
cloud while telling troops to
disregard reports of low-level
nerve agents. A period in March
1991, when a U.S. battalion
destroyed a bunker which may
have housed chemical
weapons, was omitted from the
logs.
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Contraceptive hormones might increase chance of gettingAI
NEW YORK (AP) — Hormones used in in
jected and implanted contraceptives might
make women more susceptible
to getting infected with the
AIDS virus during sex, a study
of monkeys suggests.
Monkeys were given im
plants of progesterone, which
resembles synthetic hormones
used in the injected contracep
tive Depo-Provera and the im
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plant. Those monkeys became
far more vulnerable to vaginal
infection with the monkey
AIDS virus than untreated
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ommend that
women change
their contracep
tive practices.”
Robert Spirtas
Institute of Child Health
and Human Development
ed at a meeting of researchers. The study is
now being published in the October issue of
the journal Nature Medicine.
Robert Spirtas, chief of the
contraceptive and reproduc
tive evaluation branch of the
National Institute of Child
Health and Human Develop
ment, said last week that it’s
not clear whether the monkey
results apply to women. Scien
tists are investigating that now,
he said.
“We don’t recommend that
women change their contra
ceptive practices,” he said.
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