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Show UTAH WOMANS REVIEW Page 5 For Healths 1 DR. EUGENE Sake IL. HAWKINSI A Reliable Test For Cancer Air Pollution And Cancer Each minute we inhale and exhale about 20 pints of air. If the air is polluted with microscopic particles of metals, ash, LAW OF GRAVITY YOU DEFY IT EVERY DAY If you were to ignore custom and go through life walking on "all fours, you would more than likely be socially ostracized. However, mans decision to assume an upright position has created certain health problems. : Erect posture, as adopted by the human race, challenges gravity and requires constant muscular coordination in order to maintain body balance. Any deficiency ' in body control, such as slumping or slouching, undue strain on the spine. When the latter is damaged, function of the entire human organism is retarded, because the spinal column is the center of the nervous syscauses . tem. Mental and physical pressures, alike, place a burden on the body, contribute to loss of health and deterioration of body tissues. Therefore, man must learn to gauge his mental processes just as he paces his muscular activities. A wise rule to follow is to indulge in all things in moderation. This includes eating. When surplus fat collects, it, too, plays into the hands of gravity. And an additional strain is imposed upon the spine. is A feeling of well-bein- g not conclusive assurance- that your state of health is not in jeopardy. Therefore, your doctor of chiropractic suggests that you have the condition of your nerve functions checked at regular intervals... and oils, we inhale these contaminants too. It appears likely that prolonged exposure to impurities that produce cancer in animals can readily lead to cancer in man. Scientists tell us that the bodys airways have ways of eliminating foreign particles. The larger airways of the lungs are lined with mucus-secreticells and tiny hair-lik- e projections called cilia. When larger particles get caught in the mucus of the airways, the cilia sweep them out of the lungs with a whip-lik- e motion. Polluted air can alter the bodys defense mechanisms designed to eliminate foreign particles. Synthetic smog, for instance, slows down the ciliary action and changes the rate at which mucus is produced. Then impurities can get further into the lungs where the pasage-way- s arent so well protected. There, they irritate the passage walls and can promote cancer. Cancer epidemiologists scientists who study the distribution and causes of cancer have determined that lung cancer occurs three times as often in urban areas as in rural areas. Cancer of the bladder, esophagus, prostate, and large intestine are also more frequently detected in urban than rural populations. Personal habits, such as more cigarette smoking among urbanites, may account for some of the higher cancer incidence, but research scientists suspect that air pollution may also contribute to the higher urban rate. The air in U.S. cities is six limes more polluted than that n in areas, and the chemistry of some air pollutants is similar to that of cigarette smoke. ng non-urba- Chech ups -- can mean so much One of the most successful products of cancer research is a simple procedure for early detection leading to successful treatment of cancer of the uterus, or womb. Although the third leading cause of death from cancer of a specific organ in women taking 13,000 lives a year the disease is curable in nearly every case if discovered early. The method of detecting uterine cancer several years before ordinary symptoms would appear was developed from original studies begun in 1923 by n a scientist, the late Dr. George N. Papanicolaou of Cornell University Medical School. Dr. Papanicolaou found that cancer cells could be observed among cells shed by the uterus, and that their presence indicated the possibility of cancer existing in the Greek-America- organ. The reliability of the cell examination procedure as an aid to diagnosis and a case-findi- ng technique in large populations was thoroughly tested over a period of years by the National Cancer Institute. This was done principally in Memphis, Tennessee, in cooperation with the University of Tennessee Medical School. The results proved beyond a doubt that the method was successful. As 165,000 women in the Memphis area discovered, the procedure is an easy one. On a visit to her family doctor, or to a clinic, a woman can have a small specimen of fluid taken from her vaginal tract This requires only a few minutes of her time and is painless. The specimen is sent to a laboratory for examination. Usually the report is negative. But if the microscope reveals cancer cells the physician is alerted to the advisability of making a thorough examination for the presence of cancer. If a diagnosis of cancer is established, the method of treat- -' ment is a matter for the attending physician to decide. He will take several factors into consideration, including the stage of the disease at the time it is diagnosed, and the age and general condition of the patient The Pap test," nicknamed after Dr. Papanicolaou, is largely credited with a reduction of almost 50 percent in the death rate from uterine cancer among white women in 25 years. Among Negro women, in whom the incidence of uterine cancer is twice as high, the death rate has been cut 40 per- cent To Your Wall-Doi- ng DR. EUGENE L. HAWKINS 705 E. 9th SOUTH 363-888-1 Lecturers Available ori'Whiplash Injuries And Structural Problems About 42,000 new cases of uterine cancer will be diagnosed this year. For those discovered early, the prospect of cure is almost certain. A Pap uterine cancer test once a year is, a good health practice for women of all ages and can virtually wipe out uterine cancer in the Childrens Diet Danger Ahead KtSXC&SCtSML There is today a greater menace to our youth and civilization than that of War! It is known as Malnutrition and Chemicalization. Children as well as adults eat too much, and most of what we eat is poison to our system. Half of what we eat keeps us alive, the other half keeps the physician alive." As well as eating too much, the food is not thoroughly chewed, and is often washed down with fluids while eating. As most diseases can be traced to improper food, the medicine for all ailments is correct a well balanced diet. Most of our children and teenagers live largely on sugar and starch (boxed break- Craig . between a cancer increase and an increase in the number of synthetics to which we are all subject? Just consider for a moment the ever growing list of therapeutic and industrial chemicals that we must face every hour of the day. Can the fact that more children are contracting cancer be one of the still unknown effects of the myriad of potent chemicals we are forced to combine in our bodies with no knowledge of what they combine into, or what they do to us. It was Ezra T. Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture, who said: Lack of knowledge about proper eating is a factor in the weakening of American fast cereals, sandwiches, des- family life and the rise of juserts, candy and soft drinks) venile delinquency." it is not surprising that they ' There is a solution to this show marked changes in be- problem one that must be havior when given better food. started in the home and is Deprivation of proper food relatively simple to follow. is a very big element in caus- -. For best results, follow ingmany emotional and physithese simple rules. cal problems, including delin1. Eliminate most of the quency. cereal products. This includStarvation in the land of es breakfast foods, break -plenty is creating instability, fast foods, breads, cakes, and anger, lack of self esteem, pies. Use only a limited and eventually delinquency whole grain of 100 and violence. products, if well tolerated. jitter-bug- " The diet of 2. Eliminate all concentrated food-lesfood empty calories, sugars, including brown or sugar and starch, has created raw sugar. For sweetening a terrific problem for the teen- use only a limited amount of ager of emotional, mental and honey. physical illness. This after 3. Increase the protein inato snacks-potschool diet of take by providing a good sersoft drinks and candy-is chips, ving of high quality protein at one of the great enemies of each meal, especially at breakyouth today. If children almost fast. (Emphasize eggs and the habitually eat school lunches organ meats.) made up of macaroni, donuts, 4. Provide ample amounts of sweet rolls, ora sandwich, the yellow and green leafy their metabolic balance would vegetables. be upset, to say the least. 5. Use fruits, fresh or dried Often times children are and nuts, not adulterated, for between-mesnacks. (Sugar diagnosed and treated as bewhen disturbed ing emotionally interferes with protein digesas a matter of fact, they are tion). 6. Supplement the diet with actually physically ill; often bad through a good natural vitamin-minereating habits. The refined, degerminated, supplement. demineralized and devitalized This is the age of Ecology, food children eat, are a curse the worm has turned, the clito them and to humanity. Many mate has changed. Hopefully diseases are natures effort in the near future, we shall to free the system from poisons see in all our supermarkets, and congestions resulting from produce that is labeled, orwrong eating and drinking. ganically grown," and all no other products labeled An article in the Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan preservatives no additives." May good health be yours. Life Insurance Company (Re cent Trends in Childhood CanSend today for the Health Cancer, March 1946) says, and Beauty Chart: shows what cer has for some time been each and every part of the the leading fatal disease, in the 1 to 14 age group. At these body needs in vitamins and minerals. Cost: $1.00 plus 25 ages, malignancies currently for cents account for more than a fifth handling and postage. Send to ASK BEA, P.O. Box of all deaths from disease. 6136, SLC, Utah 84106. Where can the blame be placed? Could there be any link - s, al al NEXT ISSUE: INSOMNIA |