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Show Lawrence Lamb Dr. I Vitamin E Likely To Reduce Wallet X lilnitmiiiifrfr' DEAR DR. LAMB - A large number friends are taking vitamin E. They claim it slows the physical aging process. I have read that excess vitamin E will raise the blood pressure and that anyone with a tendency toward high blood pressure should not take E. Any comments? DEAR READER I doubt taking vitamin E will do anything but lighten your wallet. There are studies that show some animals lived longer when given vitamin E than matched controls not receiving vitamin E. There is also some work on cell cultures indicating vitamin E fed to cells prolongs cell life. Neither of these experiments can be applied to norma! man. Why? Because our metabolic system is different from rats and other animals. Remember we belong to the small group of animals that cannot make vitamin C from any carbohydrate source. We can't digest cellulose either. We are different. As a result we have no clinical picture of any disability caused by vitamin E deficiency. By contrast if you don't get vitamin C you get scurvy. Deficiency of vitamin D causes ricketts and so on for all other vitamins essential to our own metabolic system. While we need vitamin C and most animals don't it is true we don't need additional vitamin E and many animals do. So a prolongation of lifespan in animals with vitamin E isn't going to tell us much about its use in man. Cell cultures are artificial environments, quite different from our normal body and such studies have limited applications. A good scientist does not make the mistake of applying such observations in special situations to of my - man and life as a whole. He limits his conclusions to the established facts. Vitamin E is widespread in our normal foods. Anyone eating a halfway balanced diet will have plenty of vitamin E for whatever purpose it serves. Additional amounts will not improve health. It will not prevent heart attacks or enable you to live longer. Things are not that simple. On the other hand I don't think a reasonable amount of vitamin E added to your daily routine will cause high blood pressure or hurt your health. Won't do you any good, won't do you any harm. I am sending you The Health Letter to give you more complete number information on how vitamin E works. Others who want this information can send 50 cents for it with a long, stamped, envelope for mailing. Just write to me in care of this newspaper, P.O. Box' 1551, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019. I am worried DEAR DR. LAMB about how contagious emphysema is. Doctors say I have symptoms of emphysema. I am 84 years old and have a tired-ou- t feeling. If it is contagious will it affect friends who stop in to see me? DEAR READER Stop worrying. Emphysema itself is not contagious. If you had tuberculosis with emphysema the tuberculosis might be but that is not the case or your doctor would have told you so and treated you differently. Emphysema is a condition involving the inability of the lungs to empty out the old air. The lack of oxygen - - exchange decreases the available energy. It is not contagious and I hope you continue to have your friends stop in so you can enjoy them. -its The school students' system can improve reading skills when it focuses efforts on the problem, Dr. Walter Talbot said this week, and the difficulty now facing the educational community is finding the proper focus. Talbot, Utah's superintendent of public instruction, said data show where the greatest effort has been made to improve the reading skills of students, the greatest advances have been made. The information, he told a Utah Right to Reading Conference at the Jordan School District, points out that "we can improve reading skills if we focus our efforts and that is exactly what we have to do." Talbot said the State Board of Education recently required every prospec - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter has selected Eleanor Holmes Norton to head the Equal Employment an appointOpportunity Commission ment some of Carter's feminists critics are praising. White House sources disclosed the selection of Mrs. Norton, a black lawyer who currently serves as New York City's commissioner of human rights. "We're so pleased!" said Jane executive director of the National Women's Political Caucus. "It shows that the President does understand our concerns and is listening to our concerns." Last week, the Women's Caucus criticized Carter for placing women in only 17 per cent of the jobs in his administration. top-lev- signaling a shift in the predominant strain of the the illness. The center said tests to the illness. He said the CDC made no investigation of the death on its own. influenza Lackland, Ernest L. Boyer sayd he would "streamline" the department and visit classrooms each month to develop better communication with teachers arid students. Boyer, who is chancellor of the State University of New York, also said schools should be run "by those closest to the people, and any move to federalize this essential function must be vigorously opposed," Boyer told the Senate Human Resources Committee that, if confirmed by the Senate, he will seek to "clarify the goals of education and look more closely at just what the federal Office of Education should and should strain that has been predominant in the United States since Dai es espano es MOLINA IS A SPLENDID DANCER!" N.Y. TimM 'AN EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE!" Baltimore Sun ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY 4 Wed. 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J,Ar.- - DoubU Otiuponcy loko Including Round Trip Air From Soil JU ii5 K& Murdock Travel 377-970- it. in the coming months. 50-7- not do. "Education in America is primarily a state and local obligation," he said, but added, "the federal government does have an obligation to support the schools and to promote those goals which are national in scope." Declaring that he is "convinced the Washington organization can be streamlined," Boyer said, "The focus must be on children, not on paper or procedures, and we must remain fully accountable to those who pay the bill." In an effort to "stay in close touch with educators in the field to find out what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong," Boyer said he will visit classrooms "every month or so to talk with teachers and with students." market more than 5 million tons since last November. Analysts specializing in Chinese economic affairs said it was likely Peking would be buying more grain abroad Colorado. probably not be a major change. intiuenza strains are continuously shifting, he and scientists have outbreaks "relatively said, not found a way to predict mild" and influenza when the next shift will activity at both bases has occur or how significant subsided. it will be. Such shifts can The center said in its be dangerous, because developed. "Further, other instructional weekly report that a tney can leave some Houston woman persons vaccinated strategies will have to become such as the recognition of contracted the against the flu without individual differences among students strain after a visit to San immunity against the and specific effort to accomodate and Antonio but that no new strain. do something about those differences." He called for continuous inventory of student reading skills, flexibility in classroom organization and development of the ability to diagnose reading problems and prescribe remedies for them. tive teacher to demonstrate the ability to teach reading. "But requiring teachers to have the skills and translating those abilities to instruction in programs are different matters. Instructional programs and curriculum giving emphasis to these new teacher abilities will have to be moiina v and Texas, the A s out- Lowry, Colo., differ from spokesman Nominee for Education Post Favors 'Streamlining' Unit - U.S. Educa- from breaks at bases in Utah-P- Provo, should have a pretty new Easter civilians were known to have caught the illness in specimens THE HERALD, Every girl ATLANTA (UPI) -The national Center for Disease Control said today a new strain of influenza broke out on military bases in Texas it WASHINGTON (UPI) tion Commissioner-nomine- e - HONG KONG (UPI) China has been forced to draw on strategic grain reserves and may have to order new shipments from abroad to make up for food shortages created by the worst drought since the Communists took power 28 years ago. A massive campaign involving millions of peasants and Chinese troops is underway over a vast area to fight the drought, which is threatening the winter wheat crop, the nation's second most important grain, according to official reports from China. Drought and unusually cold weather in some areas also are hampering spring planting of other crops, the reports said. The use of strategic reserves has been necessary despite large-scal- e purchases on the international wheat New Type of Flu Found by Center and Colorado last December, possibly 1977, China Using Strategic Grain Reserves in Face of Drought EEO Position Don Opinion on Reading Skills SANDY, Utah (UPI) Carter Names Woman For 1975. State School Chief Gives Sunday, March 27, 0 t. u. :; ( |
