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Wednesday • April 16,15!
Health Tips
Healthy diet? Don't forget the fat
By Erin Jahnke, Nutrition Assistant
A.P. Beutel Health Center
Low-fat. No fat. Reduced fat. Light! These words
are everywhere, from grocery-store shelves and
restaurant menus to magazine and television ads.
It is no wonder fats are looked upon as the en
emy, and that people try to avoid them like the
plague. However, an important fact is being over
looked in the fat-free craze.
Fats are one of three vital energy nutrients need
ed by the body to carry out many critical functions.
While students may want to watch the amounts and
types of fats in their diet, trying to completely elim
inate them horn the diet is not wise.
Fats have important roles in the body and
need to be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle.
First of all, fats transport fat-soluble hor
mones and fat soluble vitamins A,D, E and K in
and out of the body’s cells. Fat-soluble vitamins
help fight infection, aid vision, strengthen bones,
regulate metabolic processes, control blood
pressure and aid in blood clotting.
Fats insulate the body during cold weather, cush
ion and guard the organs, help keep skin and hair
healthy and add taste and aroma to foods, often
leaving people with a greater sense of fulfillment.
Fats also supply the body with essential fatty
acids. Essential means the compounds cannot be
made by the body alone, but must be obtained from
food. Fatty acids help with normal reproduction and
development and cholesterol metabolism.
Finally, fats supply the body with fuel — they
are a concentrated source of energy. Active peo
ple need a lot of energy, and part of that energy
should come from fats. In extreme cases, if the
body does not have enough fats, tissues will
break down as a source of fuel, resulting in weak
ness, fatigue and organ failure.
To make fats part of a healthy lifestyle, one
should know about the different types of fats.
Saturated fats are those that are usually hard
at room temperature, like butter and shortening,
and are of animal origin. Unsaturated fats are
mainly of plant origin, like olive oil and conn
and are usually liquid at room temperature!
a variety of foods and balance the amounts
saturated and unsaturated fats.
Should fats be cut out of the diet compli
Absolutely not. A healthy diet incorporates:
bohydrates, proteins and fats. Fat contenti
the only measure of a nutritious meal.Fat!
products are often high in sugar and saltatiii
in other nutrients.
For best heart health, about 30 percentoli
tal kilocalories should come from fats on am
erage day. Fry to eat many grains, fruitsanih
etables witli balanced choices at each it:
Remember, it is not bad to eat onehigh-lat ;
or meal. It is the total amount eaten overasjD
od of time that counts. Everyone desen'esai
now and then. Make moderation the kevs.
learn to make fats part of a healthy diet.
For more information, contact theHea
ucation Center. Come by A.P. Beutel Healthd
ter 016 or call 845-1341.
Company accused of suppressing stud]
► Knoll Pharmaceutical Co. has
been fighting publication of
data that might prove to be
detrimental to sales.
CHICAGO (AP) — For more than six years, a
drug manufacturer suppressed research that
could have helped an estimated 8 million
Americans save $356 million a year by using
cheaper alternatives to the company’s synthet
ic thyroid hormone.
Knoll Pharmaceutical Co. finally threatened
to sue to halt publication of a study that could
topple its near-monopoly on the $600 million re
tail market for the drug, the study’s lead author
told The lournal of the American Medical Asso
ciation. The journal published the research on
Wednesday for the first time.
Knoll said it had scientific objections to the study.
With the drug industry spending millions
each year on medical studies, the episode rais
es troubling questions about the companies’
influence over research findings on which their
profits may depend.
“We don’t know whether things have been
locked up in laboratories that could save lives,”
said Dr. David Blumenthal of Massachusetts
General Hospital. “That is probably overdramat-
ic, but I do think there is probably some delaying
“We don't know whether
things have been locked up
in laboratories that could
save lives.”
Dr. David Blumenthal
Massachusetts General Hospital
^ ^ i iiiiiiiiiiiii ini
... slowing the progress of science.”
Knoll’s product, Synthroid, controls 85 per
cent of the market for synthetic thyroid hor
mone, used by people whose thyroid glands
have been damaged by disease or have been
surgically removed. »siti
Thyroid hormones regulate metabolklf’' 1 ' 1
chemical activity in cells that releases erJ (jl
from nutrients or fuels the manufactureof M 1 ^
substances, such as proteins.
Synthroid dominates the market in par* 1111 '
cause it was the first synthetic thyroidhori^ 11
Natural thyroid extracts had been marketi ^
years before federal rules required a scie:: / ' kS
benchmark for the drugs’ effectiveness.
In 1987, Synthroid’s manufacturer—a:
time, Flint Laboratories — commissionn
study of the drug. Betty J. Dong, a pharmac F ntl
the University of California at San Franciscos
had published findings suggesting Synth
might he superior, was hired to compares
throid to three other, similar drugs.
I ler study showed clearly that thechea:
competitors — one brand-name drugandi ’P] 1
generics — worked just as well as Synthroi
thyroid deficiency.
Over the next four years, the companytrift
discredit the study and prevent its publffi|
the journal said in an editorial.
Diversity
Continued from Page 1
“At first, it was the low numbers
[of minority groups] on campus,”
she said. “Being an engineering
major, I was one of the only
women and one of the only His-
panics in the class.
“There were comments made
that would offend me, but I started
learning how they (other students)
didn’t know why those remarks
would be offensive. So I felt it was
my job to educate them about why
it was wrong.”
The Graduate Student Diversity
Award went to Dhananjaya M.
Arekere, a graduate student of agri
cultural economics, while the Sup
port Staff Award went to Mildred
Mayes with University Apartments.
Rhonda Kogut, with the Office of
the Commandant, received the Pro
fessional Staff Award.
Provost Office Awards went to
the educational administration and
recreational parks and tourism sci
ences departments.
Dr. Nancy Holland, a professor
of construction science, also re
ceived a Provost Office Award for
encouraging women to pursue ca
reers in science.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, vice president
for administration, was recognized
as top administrator in diversity.
Dr. William L. Perry, dean of fac
ulties, associate provost and acade
mic vice president, said Gaston’s ef
forts to develop recruiting and
retention programs for minorities
and to encourage departments to
diversify their staffs define what the
award is all about.
“He wholeheartedly embraces
those around him and his actions
are genuine,” Perry said.
Sandra Medina, student devel
opment specialist with the multi
cultural services center, helped or
ganize the event. She said the
awards give her hope that progress
is being made in diversity.
“I like to help coordinate the cer-
, emony and read all the nomina
tions,” Medina said. “I like to see all
the good things that are being done
to promote diversity.”
Medina said that educating
about diversity is necessary in to
day’s society.
“Not only students, butemp
ees, realize our world isbecois
very global,” she said. “Whenyti
to classes and go to work,tlw
people that are different tham
People are realizing that thiso
way our society is moving."
Carreathers said the awS®
mony is his favorite part offefl
“We have the chance tores-
people publicly for all the harJ®
they do and show that it isokayi
champions of diversity,” he si
Carreathers said progress
being made, but regressions^
versity, such as the Hopwook
cision, are still prevalent
day’s society.
“If we do hear the trumpet®
treat, I hope it falls on deafen
Carreathers said.
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THE CLASS OF <98!!
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Committee Chair Applications
are now available in the
MSC Student Programs Office.
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Applications are due on Apr. 18,
so don’t delay.
If you have any questions,
please call Nolan at 847-3168.
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