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I am 28 years old in good health and want to know if there are any other factors I need to consider before I embark on my plan — HB Berkeley Calif DEAR HB As a general mie it pays to be wary about taking supplement advice from individuals who have limited training or those unfamiliar withyourhealth history Vitamin-store ckiIu inay have the appropriate knowledgeand perspective and ask all the right questions or they may simply echo what manufacturers’ representatives have told them about particular products There’s T no real way of knowing which is which unless you have had multiple dealings with an establishment and have developed confidence in their approach I am aware of cases in which a make AP photo doctors and also the mayor was recently named Country Doctor of the Year He work day practices with two other doctors and typicaBy puts In a Dr Charles Boyette 68 hqlds a map while dacuasing liis plana far Improving the Belhaven waterfront al his office in Bettiaven NC Boyette one of the town’s few 12-ho- ur " well-mea- ELHAVEN : expect' He’d Weathered six of those storms in as many years asmayor of this small town on the Pamfico Sound seen hundreds of houses wrecked by floods and their owners equally battered as tree limbs and power lines sliced the air Boyette also One of the town!s few doctors knew the local hospital would drop its floodgates and shut ' down: He gathered up some supplies and equipment that dayJast September stocked his house with them and quietly fold rescue workers he would be on call y “Word got out that I was available to people who needed advice” Boyettesaid x Before the hdspital opened die ' ’next day Boyette had seen about a dozen patients including one woman who suffered a heart attack He had navigated the town that stood under as mudi as six feet of water so that he could x open his practiced Jay Wilkins die bookkeeper for Boyette’s practice said he and many must have the confidence of the patient to get good medical results and you must have the confidence of the people to be a good “You ‘ supple-- : ' -- low-lyi- ng i ' “ ' firm based in Irving Texas recently named Boyette its Country Doctor of the Year pointing out the dedica- tion he showed during the storm His reward is a plaque and a week’s wOTth of the services of another physician at his office Staff Care values the service at $10000 : moil should be all you need Be sure to take it easy in your workout at first Consult with a certified trainer foere nfey be one available at the gym: Fluid consumption can be of great assistance' as your body ' depends on water to transport feel metabolic V and nutrients eliminate waite and maintain its operating temtasks that are relied ' perature r-upon during die workout and that followsPlain waterworks for the average workoutfor up to an hour but you : can add some electrolytes (sodium potassium) or a small amount of fuel in die form of an easily digested carbohydrate such as sugar if you desire I make my own (brink usinga pinch of salt (sodium) a small amount of fereh fruit juice (pptassi- um and flavor) and a little sugar (for taste and energy replenishment) A ' typical drink might include a quartered of fresh orange jiuce the juice v : —Charles Boyette physician and mayor ' : -- old-tim- : : fecov-eryperi- - -: 'frrmtwplemonsorathirdofacup of Concord grape juice all are 4- designed to preside about 100 of potassium (Read the Nutrition Facts panel ion any juke you use to calculate what you need) I add a of salt and water tm to a final volume Pf four : no cups Finally I add some sugar more than a quarter-cupwhich ' provides about 20 calories from 5 y: grams of carbohydrate Have a good drink of water before you start dm use the sport drink throughout your workouL Good luck with your rou- - y ntil-ligra- ms v : -- on : ' xj -- f Inqulrias ta KfetonLoom Person- al rapNa cannot bo pravktod v: ! moretiiahtwiceaslikelytodevelpp colon caiker over an 11 year period - quaiter-teaspoi- : : : ' as those with the lowest CRPlevels f' High CRP levqls were strotigly jx linked with colon caiicer even after other risk factors such as age fami-I- y hisfory being overweight and smoking were taken info apcounl ' V The study was led by Dr Thomas: Eriinger of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and mpem in YVbdnes- day’s Journal of me American Med- -' ical Association Peo(de With diseases involving al ! ‘ : v : 1' chronicintestinalinflammation including ulcerative colitis are known to face an increased colon cancier risk and studies have shown that aspirin and other matory drugs can reduce that risk: The new findings suggest that ele: vated CRP levels might be a risk factor even without overt signs of colon inflammation though Eriinger said it would be premature fo testing CRP as a way to a predict prison’s colon' cancer risk - “It will be important for future research to focus on whether and how CRP measurement could be used to improve current screening y and prevention strategies” he said : The researriiers examined med-icrecords of mostly white adults J in Washington County Md taking x part in an unrelated study Colon cancer was diagnosed in 131 people (hiring the study Twenty of the V diagnosed patients had the lowest initial CRP levels By contrast 50 V colon cancerpatients hadCRPlev-els in the hipest range Colon Cancer will be diagnosed in more than lQOjOOQperfole this year anti-infla- cti ' i ur : V “The t cancer od CHICAGO (AP)— High blood levels of a protein linked to heart attacks midit also be aq early warning sign ofi colon cancbr a study : found ve pro-ta-h The substance is oir CUP which is produced in the iiver in response to infection or " inflammation anywhere in the body: In recent years doctors have come to believe that high levels of CRP in the bloodstream raise the risk of a heart attack by damaging blood yes-V sel walls" X In astudyof22887 adults those wife the highest levds of CRJPwere ' heading in for their appointments Boyette has the help of a few nurses a nurse practitioner and two doctors these days They see about 100 patients in a typical day and Boyette heads home in about 8:30 X work day pm after a l The growth of his practice comes as the growth of his town has stalled About 2000 people live in Belhaven a fishing village that lost about 300 residents between 1990 and 2000 Like many rural Americans those win remain have growing health needs as they age and their income ' flattens Boyette estimates that 85 percent of his patients receive Medicare or Medicaid Add to that a diet that favors pork barbecue fried vegetables ami sweets and hypertension strokes aiid diabetes berome com- mon Boyette said In addition to treating those ailments he usually sets aside one day a week to handle minor medical procedures such as removing lumps repairing tendons and putting in feeding tubes He estimates he delivered 3000 babies by the time he stopped in 1995 country doctor must be broadly trained” sad Boyette who See DOCTOR bn CIO - - all en ' mayor" ' V The award given out by the com- pany since 1995 honors primary care physicians who practice in communities of fewer than 25000 ' people Boyette 68 has worked in for 38 years coming to the town as a young family man after serving as a flight surgeon at Marine Corps Air Station New River For 30 of those years he was the town’s only doctor For all but six years since 1970 he has also been mayor of the town that’s about 140 mik east of Raleigh He sees them as complementary roles “You must have the confidence of the patient to get good medical results and you must have the confidence of the people to be a good mayor’’ he said Boyette has steadily built the practice over the years His office is a renovated house in view of the Pungo River He started in a smaHer house and expanded into the two-Stpry building next door by building a connecting breezeway ? His office still has the feel of a ' e comfortable practice: Blue and white tiles checker the floor and paintings by local artists ’decorate the walls An old church pew sits out front where patients take their-lasdrags from cigarettes before Bel-hav- 66 : - tine-''-’'- others didn’t know about his boss’ efforts until weeks later “The ambulance just stopped at his house when they had an emer- - ' gency call” Wilkins said “That’s just the way he is” Others have taken notice Staff Care a temporary physician ornery hurricane began beating at the shoreline near Bel- haven Charles Boyette had an idea of what to As I hasten to jump off my soap- box I want to point out that what you were told might be somewhat excessive for your particular case although it doles not appear to be dangerous or harmful Regarding protein if you are like most people you are already eating more than your body requires which is suffi- dent to fuel any workout routine v Whey an easily digested protein found in milk is not harmful but it is questionable whether it can build muscles at a more rapid rate in the 7 average individual Good food selection and if you prefer an al NC (AP)— When an n- sumer-' multivitaminmuiti-miner- general practitioner is also hjs town’s mayor 68-year-o- ld that would have interfered with a medication an individual was taking It’s tough to Mamethe clerk for not Imowing but if would he great if the system had a few safeguards built in The bottom line is that responsibility idways comes back to us the con- ' JxniG finDD : fire squad selling cjtizen first aid kits NL according to the American Cancer Society!! is one of die most com: mon types of cancer in industrial: ized nations i y Screening tests include colono- scopies which allow doctors to The North Logan Fire Department examine the entire colon through a is selling first-ai- d kits as a fundraiser narrow tube Eating lots of fruits The kits contain a variety of large and vegetables avoiding smoking and small bandages an instruction ! andfatty foods and getting plenty book sterilesolution alcoholpreps of exercise can lower the risk of latex gloves scissors antiseptic ' ' colon cancer cream elastic bandages and other In an accrmmanying editorial items The kits which would retail experts noted that the study does not for about $95 are isvailable through rule out the possibility that high tiie fire department for $3719 To CRPlevels are a consequence of x purchase one call the fire depart- early colon cancer rather than a risk v mteit at f factor for the later development of : f The deptetment hopes to raise ' V-' cancer" $15000 to purchase a thermal imag- -' with to high ing camera explained Capt Kim Giving aspirin people CRP and watching tne outcome - Arnell The camera would be used to could clarify the issue said cancer locate victims and hidden hot spots specialistD Boris Pascheat Chicax V during nigfo fires go’s Northwestern University and “This camera can work in k researcher Charles Sertuui at Har-conditions and could help us varxl’s Brighten and Women’s Hos- save livra” Arnell said j 4 : The first aid kits arc assembled pital by Safe Community USA a nationwide v'-' On the fiat group dedicated to making commu- " JAMA nities safer places to live : ‘ : 755-57- 39 pitch-blac- :: : ! : |