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Show wae The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Saturday, April 22, 2000 Elian Saga High Fiber No MagicBullet Turning Into Test of Faith | An Apple a Day? Conventional medical wisdom continues to change with new evidence proving the contrary. Here is a look at the revisionist history of some food items. For Cancer ttem @ Continued from A-1 @ Continued from A-1 Eggs and the downfall of Cuban President Fidel Castro. “God has made a gift to us in this community of a miracle, of though the exact benefits of some of these aren't entirely clear. Sant Willett says one reason for the today-it's-good-for-you, tomorrow: it'smot phenomenon is the wellintended “missionary zeal”of scientists who believe their own work saving this kid who was two days in the sea and was nothurt,” said the Rev. José Luis Menendez, pas- tor of Corpus Christi Catholic Church here and one of several priests ministering to the boy and his relatives. “Now the problem is, if God gives us this gift, they want us to return it back to Herod? “Herod Castro — is waiting in Cuba,” Menendezsaid. “Pontius Pilate is washing his hands in Washington, andthat is President Clinton. And the suffering of this child is the suffering of the Cuban people.” Theexiles’ Holy Week victoryin the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has strengthened their conviction that the boyis somekind of miracle and God is on their side. “The human beings have lost control of this,” said Maria Elena Quesada, a Roman Catholic of suburban Kendall who keeps vigil outside the home where Elian is ensconced. “Castro has lost control ofit. Clintonhaslost controlofit. Reno, even the family, has lost control of it. Whatever happens nowis in the hands of God. “Elian is a sign from God saying to the exile community, ‘I haven't forgotten you.’” The Rev. Francisco Santana, a Beth A. Keiser/The Associated Press Delfin Gonzalez, great-uncle of Elian Gonzalez, stands outside the Miami home of his brother Lazaro Gonzalez on Friday. Reno KeepsTight-Lipped OnPlans to Unite Boy, Dad KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE MIAMI — AsU.S.officials continued to talk tough about taking Elian Gonzalez from his relatives’ Little Havana home, succeed. A Justice Department official said the agency has received one proposal for a vol- untary hand-overof Elian from “outside parties” working with Miamileft work early on Good Friday saying they had no therelatives in Miami. Theofficial said the proposal had been “sketched out” to the knowledge ofa federal strike in store to snatchthe boy. Craig. top law enforcement officers in father’s attorney, Gregory U.S. Attorney Thomas Scott went home at noon on Good But attorneys for the Miami family said Elian’s great-uncle Friday, as did his entire office. top aide went to the movies. Attorney General Janet Reno agree to turn over the boy as a met with Elian’s father Juan Miguel Gonzalez Washington, D.C., to in bring abouttheir reunion as soon as possible. Miami Mayor Joe Carollo Anotheressential player in this process,scientists like to point out, is the news media. Thomas Pearson of the University of Rochester says some scientists seem bent on encouraging the boldest headlines for their research, and get plenty of help from the reporters whointerview them. “The probingquestionis, ‘What does this mean?’ Reporters don't want the usual blah-blah answer, which is, We really need more Pearson says. “Betweenscience andthe Dress, we have confused lot of people.” The fact is, science is a messy process. Nosingle studyis likely to settle an important question. to An egg or two a day is probably sale for most people Everyone should Only the 10 percent of people keep salt use to a with high blood pressure thatis minienam. aggravated by salt need to worry about salt intake. Fiber 2 and happily repeat the seemingly solid bottom line without going into the complexity and uncertainty of the whole business. - A high-fiber diet Maystill have health benefits. reduces the risk of colon cancer. but eliminating colon cancer Probably isn t one of them. es ec Sorting out the influence of genes,food, pollutants, living habits and all the rest requires drawing together information from many different scientific ap proaches. These include experi- ments in lab dishes,tests on inbred rats, observations of large groups of people and human experiments. Data from all of these kinds of science went into the rise and fall oftheidea thatfiber prevents colon cancer. Many lines of evidence seemed to support the theory. Experiments showed that animalsfed AP dilute cancer-causing substances. But two large studies put the theory to the test by putting people on low-fat, high-fiber diets. The meticulously run experiments foundnoevidencethis lowers the risk of polyps, which are the first stage of colon cancer. Willett’s team came to the same conclusion byan entirely different method. The researchers followed the eating habits of 88, nurses for 16 years and found nohint of an effect offiber on coloncancer. “Whenwepublishedit last year, cancer-causing toxins seem to be it was heresy to say the data don't protected by high-fiberdiets. Furthermore, the idea made sense: Fiber makes the stools bulkier and perhaps more likely to support a major benefit of fiber in reducing colon cancer,” Willett says.“Now we knowthatif thereis a benefit, it’s not verylarge.” We'll Beat Any Price OR Your Mattress Is FREE plus Receive $500!"* precondition for a meeting with the child’s father. Earlier in the day, Reno said she told Juan Miguel Gonzalez “that I could not commit to a particular course or timetable” for reuniting him with his 6 year-old son, but that she was said Renocalled his office Fri- said a notion has come to him day morningto askforthe city’s through his prayers: If the boy's ami relatives can makepeace, then emergency numbers. Several efforts to broker a compromise between Elian’sfather and the Miamirelatives Castro will fall. were under way, though it was Reno,poised to order federal agents to remove the boy, declined to disclose strategy.“If I weregoing to do something like that, I certainly wouldn't tell unclear whether any would you,” she told reporters. “Tam absolutely certain that | imit three or four per week. Lazaro Gonzalez would not popular Cuban-American priest, battling relatives, his communist father and his anti-communist Mi- | the _ _in with the new working toward that goal. communism*began in Cuba bydividing the family and communism is going to end in Cuba whenthis familyis reunited,” Santanasaid. “T haven't heard voices or had a vision. I am a manof hope. Maybe it’s wishful thinking.” Among Cubanexiles in Miami, diasporic religion has long mixed mysticism with hatred of Castro.. When Cuban-American Catholics gather to venerate their patroness, a mantilla-draped image of the Virgin, Our Lady of Charity, they often pray the rosary, sing the Cu- ban national anthem and ask her intercession to destroy Castro. “In the Cuban community Ladyofthe Exile. At the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, the hierarchy has re- mained conspicuously noncommittal about the legal battle for Elian, the attending religious fervor and popular accounts of Elian miracles from dolphins protecting the boyas hefloated for two days at sea in an innertube to an image of the Virgin Mary appearing in a Little Havana bank windowin the wakeofhis arrival here. “Hookinga spiritual message to a political agenda can prove to be joined, political figures, and that’s very shortsighted,” the Most Rev. Thomas Wenski, auxiliary bishop, whatElian finally is, can become saints,” said University of North said in an interview Thursday. “The political is always a where politics and religion are Carolina religious studies profes- sor Thomas Tweed, author of Our temptation.” But demonstrators are undeterred. “Whether our leaders agree with us ornot,it’s not pertinent,” said Ana Maria Lamar,a Catholic whocelebrated the federal appeals court victory this week by wrapping herself in a large American flag and shouting: “It's a miracle. Thisis the powerof prayer.” Ata shrine down theblock from Elian’s relatives’ home, Christian symbols — palm fronds tied in the shape of. a cross and drawings of the Virgin Mary — mingle freely ae ritual offerings, such as ciassociated with the AfroCuban religion of Santeria. Some followers of Santeria say Elian is the embodimentofa spiritual emissary named Ellegua andthat if Castro doesn’t get him back, he won't havea political future. 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