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Show 6B Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, December 30, 1981 consumer corner preliminary hearings of the suit, Drackett dennis hinkamp consumer information writr. Utah State University It may seem insignificant to you, but in the $200 million - a year toilet bowl cleaning market a slight slander can cost a lot of money. For the past several months there has been sort of a David and Goliath war going on In Drackett, nations -- cleaner manufac- turers, issued a set of press releases. The makers of "Vanish bowl cleaner said they had been com-templati- calcium toilet bowl products. At last report the little guys were winning, with the progression of fight products the could damage plumbing and void warranties. One of the companies named in Dracketts press release was a small - established Twinoak Products Inc. stop distributing the news releases. Another victory for named presented company using but well research users Twinoak that indicating was the Twinoak countered of this type of bowl decision of the three that the Drackett news cleaner since 1978 had television networks to releases were false actually experienced cancel commercials and deliberately fewer plumbing prepared by Drackett claimed which misleading. As one of problems than non the innovators of the users. Twinoak Twinoak products hypochlorite bowl decided to file suit were damaging to plumbing fixtures. cleaners, Twinoaks against Drackett. -- that NBC concluded "bowl game are both degrading the Drackett tests positive and negative. The bad part is that "failed to demonstrate that there was a large company with sub- adequate stantiation for the commercials claim that the use of calcium hypochlorite in - tank cleaning products caused functional damage to toilet parts. The implications to the individual consumer relating to this bowl found that it would damage fixtures. plumbing They then went on to name specific brand names of bowl cleaners that did use going something like this: Listen to doctor on cholesterol level ticular concern. The ratio of total to HDL-cholesterol Education Physical & Recreation (good cholesterol) is also Utah State important. It be under 4.5 should University When your doctor which is derived from tells you that your dividing the total by For cholesterol level is the HDL-C- . within safe limits, example, if your total dont be too confident cholesterol is 200 mg he is correct. If your percent and your is 45 mg perblood test measured HDL-total cholesterol only, cent you would have a as most tests do, 4.4 ratio. chances are its It is best to have a level predictive power is total HDL-poor. As a matter of above 45 mg percent. fact, beyond the age of Actually, we want conditions 50 the total cholesterol lifestyle test loses all of its that raise the HDL-and lower the LDL-C- . power to predict. Most doctors have If we get too much then it been using 245 mg LDL-C- , percent as an average becomes a Herculean figure and saying that task for your HDL-- to somewhere between handle it. Thats why 200 and 300 mg percent you need a lot of HDL-is wthin safe limits. and, hopefully, not The higher you go, the too much LDL-less safe you are. coming in to create an In the 30 years that environment for a Framingham, Mass., heart attack. (population 5,000) has The bottom been studied Line of all persons The vast amount of who have died of heart attacks have had research data now cholesterol levels available has sharbetween 150 and 300 pened our judgment mg percent. So you see concerning solutions that what we have to reducing our been saying about leading cause of death safe levels really (heart attacks). The bottom line is isnt very safe at all. What should definitely in the direction of favoring be measured Blood tests should the thin, (aerobically measure the High active), and predominantly Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (HDL-Cvegetarian. This type This is the part that of lifestyle obviously our minimizes the risk of provides protection because it dying from carserves as a chemical diovascular disease, carrier for the Low and I might add, many other leading killers. Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL-C- ) Finally, you can to be moved from the accomplish this by periphery to the liver engaging regularly in for processing. The such aerobic activities LDL-is the real as walking, running, and the averge swimming, culprit hiking, American has four to crosscountry skiing five times as much as and cycling. Also, a he or she needs. 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Economist reports housewife valuable If families paid for all their services, most couldnt afford to hire a housewife. One study reports that the average housewife performs $17,352 worth of services per year, says Joan Sellers, Carbon Countys Utah State University extension home economist. She says the study was based on the average homemaker having two children and working about 100 hours per week with no days off. The weekly itemized cost list looks like this: Nursemaid duties: 45.1 hours at $2.70 $121.77 4.80 Dietician: 1.2 hours at $4 8.91 Food Buy er : 3.3 hours at $2.70 48.85 Cook: 13.1 hours at $3.50 17.36 Dishwasher: 6.2 hours at $2.80 17.5 78.75 hours at $4.50 Housekeeper: 17.70 laundress 5.9 hours at $3 4.55 Seamstress: 1.3 hours at $3.50 5.95 Maintenance: 1.7 hours at $3.50 8.05 2.3 $3.50 at hours Gardener: 20.00 Chauffeur: 2 hours at $10 This list, compiled when the minimum wage was $2.70 per hour, comes to a total of $333.69 per week not allowing for overtime. lb.t Tray Pock Stalk! V 4' Sunny Delight Citrus Punch Fresh Carrots (Mkbgd Cello Packed Yellow orPin 64-o- Btl. SATURDAY PRICES IN THIS AD GOOD THRU NEARBY JANUARY 2nd, 1982, AT YOUR TEAR! SAFEWAY STORE. HAPPY NEW OPEN RIG. HOURS NEW TEAR S EVE OPEN 10 to 1 NEW , TEAR'S DAT TT, L com- petitors. On the positive side, it is encouraging that a like large amounts of small company succan Twinoak dollars advertising can use this influence cessfully fight the to try to sway the giant through the is also public towards its court system. It to know shows also comforting It products. that the TV networks a trend in advertising show enough concern Bather negativism. than selling a product for the truth in adon its own merits, vertising claims that to Drackett attempted they will reject its image by misleading ads. improve hypochlorite between major in their new manufacturers of cleaner, but had the that warned to agreed and January, the chemical one of the leading bowl the During |