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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, October 4, Ann Landers: Free booklet could save your life Dear Readers: This month marks the 18th year of my career as Ann Landers vieve gotten to know each other pretty well. You've blessed me, damned me, been delighted with some of my answers and disgusted with others. When youve cried on my shoulder Ive comforted some pf you and told others to turn off the waterworks and stop wasting the nacral resources On occasion youve persuaded me that my advice was wrong and Ive reversed myself. But I've been nght more than Ive been wro..g and with good reason I tap the best brains in the country for my answers. Since a great many physical complaints are closely related to emotional problems. Ive prevailed upon some of the countrys most distinguished physicians to be my consultants. With the help of these specialists Ive been able to alert 54 million (Lily readers to whats new in health care. Some of you have written to 'Say I may have saved your lives When I ran the column urging you to send for the Amencan Cancer Societys free booklet on breast nearly half a commonly known as high blood pressure. Over 23 million Americans have high blood pressure. Half of these sick people don't know it because usually there are no symptoms. The person who DOES have symptoms headaches, dizziness, fague, low sex dnve m the pnme of life is lucky because he just might go to a doctor BEFORE Lie suffers a stroke, gets a heart attack or is stricken with bhndaes or kidney failure High blood pressure strikes the nch and the poor, the tense and the relaxed, the old and the young If you are over 50, the chances are one in three that you have it If you are black, you are twice as likely to have it, and more susceptible to the consequences than if you are Caucasian or Oriental. If you are a woman on the Pill, you run a greater risk of developing high blood pressure than if you used some other method of birth control. inn Lenders million women wrote to the national headquarters in New York or to their local Cancer Society offices. Thousands of women did find lumps most of them were bemgn, but Besome were malignant. cause they were discovered early, hundreds, maybe thousands, of women will live another 40 years and dance at the weddings of their grandchildren Today I am going to ask you again to send for a free booklet that could save your life. It deals with a disease that most of you will be shocked to learn strikes one out of every 10 Americans. I am talking about hypertension can you protect yourself against th's killer disease, or deal with it if you do have it? The first step is to and thats educate yourself why I am urging you to write for the free booklet. It will not only tell you what to do, but it will give you assurance that almost every case of high hlood pressure can be conHow trolled with medication Send a postcard to: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH the person who couldnt understand why a couple would choose not to have children and have pets instead, citing as concern environmental the reaon The writer said, Animals create pollution the same as humans They breathe, eat, eliminate, etc , etc The writer missed the point completely. Doesn't he know that more is mvolveu here Anithan bodily functions mals don't dnve cars, smoke, erect billboards, cut trees, waste overconsume and And things thiy can be fixed so they wont reproduce and add to the problems of animal overpopulation It would be un'hinkable to do so with children I am not championing the cause of pets over children I do feel, nowever, that couples should be free to choose according to their own best in-terest, rather than t spend to social pressures I favor family planning for both humans and animals since I firmly behove that we must all accept responsibility ifforwe the are ecological balan2 going to survive the inevitable crisis Thank you for reading this Cleveland Reader Dear Reader: Thanks for writing it. Dear Ann Landers: This is for the mom whose son has ears that stick out like "lev ing handles. g have three children, one boy and two girls The boys ears were fine, but the girls were born with cars that stuck out something terrible They vure teased unmercifully in school and it mad' them very unhappy Last reek we had the surgery on both girls W e are delighted with the results They were hospitalized foi two days and will wear bandages for three weeks The first time the bandages were changed they saw how they looked They were THRILLED, and we knew we had done the right thmg Our only regret is that we didn't do it sooner Indiana Reader Dear In: One Wv.d from a mom like you is worth a whole column by me Thanks for writing Dear Ann Landers: Heres my question m plain language. I'd appreciate your reply oi the same trank terms that chaiactenze your column Does a wife have the right to ask her husband, when he is out of town on business tnps, not to see hardcore pornographic films' It makes me feel rejected and cheated when he does 1 have told him as much but ne thinks Im loony What about it7 Trying To Get My Head On Straight Dear 'Tying. I see two problems. Ms and Hers His, because the poor stiff cant find anything better to do with his time, and Hers, because you seem to feel that your husbands desire to look at C 1173 .X Lose Ugly Fat With Eat Well' Losing Plan dirty movies is a reflection on remose pounds and inilies at all thighs neik. legs waistline our1 When voti lollow the X II Ruluung Plan, take one of tin premia! tjhlets before eating and sou II notue the difference It lulps counteract hunger hiltis appease appetite and cun tains sitamins You eat less, bi i a use sou want liss so sou lost weight' t your V Reducing PUn today If reducible pounds' and inches of excess fat don I uis appear, just return the empty for an immediate refund. packag- ll s simple lo know hmt one mjv lose pounds ot imsighlk f i! you null! in iiut mn Inmie Just go In I tie drug More and ask tor (lie 1 1 Kodllune pirn ll s tll.lt wonder I 111 kind of plan tint oilers lull a way lo help get ml of S, 10, 25 or more pounds of unsih'ly fit Not bv s mi alum du ling Not bv y'uking lo boring reiuung dull Nol In man who gets his jollies from such garbage probably would resent it if you made him promise not to go. MoreA over, his resentment might crop up m little (or big) acts of hostility (People have of funny ways getting even ) Slay off the subject and ask him not to come home with any more movie reviews extra linng exercises You eal I sensible nmls a and slim down as sou day follow ibis eating ptogratn V ou can salnly your appetite and 25 e frank talk about fad diets A full report in the October issue of Good Food-Ameri- cas New Food Magazine. n ftxdywttwis; Fsdvc Rumor f Vosan Ccoljixs . kx) fuli'ii 1 s' Eului'csSw ftpulvIM V nes oi A 'll is A Tire Abu Pcrss of ' y tinner EjIsascILfsy Howlo3j)tb T. Dax'ft i ' fa 6r W a s s t Xv s, -s ON SALE NOW AT FOOD STORES AND OTHER OUTLETS BETHESDA, MD 20014 If youre too lazy to write a postcard, slip this column into and scribble an envelope across it your NAME and ADDRESS. Theyll know what you want. 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