Times-Advocate, 1985-07-24, Page 13Trying to reach many people
Often
Elaine Gottschall, RR 1 Kirkton, is
Homan with a message, a mission,
and <1 motive. The message is simple,
yet its implications are enormous.
'Medical care is not health care.
There is very often an alternative to
heavy medication and surgery. Many
diseases can be prevented, alleviated
or cured by nothing more radical than
diet."
Elaine's mission is to reach as
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July 24, 1985
alternatives to medication, surgery
many people as possible with her
message. She has spoken to church
groups and Womens Institutes,
university students and elementary
school teachers, the Canadian Cancer
Society, the Canadian Mental Health
Association, reflexologists and
acupuncturists.
Two recent engagements took her
to Ottawa to inform government of-
ficials of the benefits of honey for
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RODEO FOR SHDAMH — Members of the Exeter 4-H horse club
presented a rodeo Saturday for residents of group homes, ARC In.
dustries employees and their families. Above, Gary Stebbins of the
Albert Street residence gets a ride with the help of Gary Wilson and
Poul Turnbull of the South Huron and District Association for the Men-
tally Handicapped. T -A photo
Stephen orders plow
At the latest meeting of Stephen
township council. road superinten-
dent Eric Finkbeiner was instructed
to buy a one-way snow plow.
The plow to be purchased with a
limit of $2,500 will be attached to the
present sanding truck.
A petition was received from An-
thony Martene and others in the area
of Lot 23. North Boundary Concession
for a municipal drain.
Drainage commissioner Ken
Pickering was instructed to make
repairs to the Walker Drain in the
vicinity of the Oakwood golf course.
P
ott to remove four acres of bush
from his JpropertY al. Lot- 33. South
Boundary .Concession.
Planners Nick Hill and Wayne
Caldwell were in attendance to deal
with two matters left from the recent
zoning bylaw.
The property of Dr. and Mrs. Don
Gratton at part Lot 6, LRE Conces-
sion will remain as AG4 and a plan
amendment will be necessary for
Baker Motors at Lot 2. LRE
Concession.
As the result of a recent meeting,
the proposed closing of a road
allowance in the police village of
Crediton will not be carried out.
Property owners voted eight to one
to leave it open. The road allowance
is located east of Crediton communi-
ty park and parallel to the county
road.
wi re e d August 20 at
7:30 p.m. to consider zoning changes
and a severance application by
Marion Averill, at the westerly edge
of Crediton.
Donations of $300 to the Barrie tor-
nado fund and $200 to the Essex -flood
disaster were approved.
Health unit tests
The Iluron County health Unit will
only do well testing for private lan-
downers. cutting out the hassle of do-
ing tests for lawyers and real estate
firms.
The director of public health inspec-
tions said his inspectors perform an
average of 20 to 30 tests a month for
the real estate and lawyers alone. The
inspectors do a total of almost 2,00)1
well tests a year, said the director Ed
Harrison.
At the July 17 meeting of the board
of health, a motion was rescinded
which allowed for the testing for those
other than landowners. Ilarrison said •
the health unit did charge $10 per test
but that didn't cover the cost.
However. he stressed that the
health unit will not be charging
private landowners. The well testing
is a service for the public said
Ilarrison.
The health unit tests wells for the
coloforrn and E Coli counts in the
water. Any coloform test with a count
over two is doubtful and over 10 is un-
safe while an E Coli test with a count
of even one is considered unsafe, said
the director. E Coli is a test for the
fecal count in water.
The tests are done al the lab at the
Midwestern Regional Centre near
Palmerston.
Most of the problems come from
dug wells which only go as far down
as 25 to 50 feet. Drilled wells, that are
maintained, are the best said Har-
rison because of their depth which is
around 100 feet or more. More lan-
downers are leaning towards drilled
wells. said the director. -
starving people, and to the spouses'
program at the Ontario Egg Pro-
ducers annual meeting to discuss the
role of cholesterol in all aspects of
human biology.
Elaine's motive is also compelling-
ly simple. She wants to spare others
from having to travel the same pain-
ful road she walked after being told
32 years ago her four-year-old
daughter had severe incurable
ulcerative colitis, with home at-
mosphere suggested as a contributing
factor. That diagnosis of denunciation
and doom launched Elaine on an
odyssey that is not yet ended.
The explanation tumbles out in an
articulate torrent. "I, as a young
mother who was losing a child, knew
I had done everything right. My hus-
band and I had given birth to this
child out of our love for one another...
We knew no one could find fault with
the way we had raised our family and
maintained our home. We weren't
perfect, but we were working our
butts off trying tb do right by our
children, to provide for them, to give
them the finest education so they
could be independent... then to be told
Judy's condition was incurable - and
that the home atmosphere had con-
tributed - that did something to me,"
Elaine recalls.
Elaine spent the next three years in
a waking nighmare, battling to keep
her child alive, coping with the appall-
ing side effects of cortisone, and stav-
ing off an ileostomy (surgical
removal of the colon and replacement
with an external bag ) while searching
for some way out.
A fortuitous conversation with a
friend put Elaine in touch with an
eminent New York City pediatrician,
Dr. Sydney V. Haas, who had cured
with diet hundreds of children born
with. celiac disease, including the
friend's twin daughters.
People afflicted with either
ulcerative colitis or celiac disease
show similar symptoms. Both fail to
thrive or gain weight, both swing
from severe diarrhea to constipation.
Malabsorbtion is a principal factor in
both conditions.
(On page 123 of his book The
Management of Celiac Disease
published by Lippincott in 1951 Dr. .
Hass referred to cystic fibrosis, the
most severe form of malabsorbtion,
and said, "We have come to one very
positive conclusion. That is, if cystic
fibrosis of the pancreas is treated by
the same dietary regimen the diar-
rhea will cease, nutrition become nor-
mal, and if the pulmonary infiltration
has not become too severe it, too, will
clear up. We have under treatment
four such cases, two of which have
Blyth play
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A musical story brought two grand-
mothers together in Tuesday's Blyth
Festival opening of Beaux Gestes and
Beautiful Deeds.
Marie -Lynn played by Marie -Lynn
Hammond, a product of English and
French backgrounds in trying to find
herself.
Grandmother Elsie a rebel from a
wealthy English family -and Corinne
a working class mother of 10 are slow-
ly and reluctantly brought together
when their children intend to marry.
As Marie Lynn sings "My head is
English, my heart is French and
caught between the two I wander
endlessly."
Through dialogue and song the
stories of the lives of the two grand-
mothers emerge.
The play ends with the grand-
daughter singing,"My head is
English, my heart is French. My soul
now at rest thanks to this gift from the
past. I bm at last a proud sailor."
The play is intriguing and amusing
and set to lively, folksy music, but, at
times difficult to understand for those
with a non -working knowledge of
French as some of the songs and a
very small portion of the dialogue is
in French.
DRESSING CLOWN Bev Genttner assists clowns David Morgan, Jeff Balsdon and Christine Morgan
with their clown costumes at Trivitt Anglican Church Vacation Bible School Thursday morning.
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4-H CONFERENCE
Approximately 120 I5 -year-old 41t
Members from Iluron, Bruce and
Grey Counties will be attending the
annual 411 Regional Conference held
on July 24. 25 and 26 at Centralia
College.
These three days are designed to
help develop leadership potential. in-
crease communication skills and
become a more responsible citizen.
"Foundations for the Future" is this
year's theme. These concepts will be
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such as skits. recreation, dancing and
think-tank session. It's a learning
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4 -hers.
seen under observation for six years
and they are normal in all respects."
Dr. Hass rated an obituary in Time
magazine when he died at age 94.)
Dr. Hass put Judy on a diet which
eliminated all cereal grains.
substituted honey for sugar, forbade
milk but allowed homemade yogurt
and natural cheese, and put no limit
on fish and poultry.
The results were dramatic. Im-
provement was noticeable in three
weeks. By four months, Judy was
growing too rapidly to keep up with
the marker on the closet door. In two
years her condition was normal.
Judy stayed on the diet for the next
seven years. So did the rest of the
family, as it was appetizing and
nourjshing. (Elaine still regularly -
turns out delicious home-made bread
and delectable muffins using flour
made from ground nuts.)
The experience with their
daughter's illness and miraculous
cure left the Gottschalls with many
unanswered questions. Herb, a
chemist who graduated from Yale in
1942, asked his wife to "get into
university and find out what's going
on".
Elaine did as she was told. Three
years of genetics. Another three of en-
docrinology. Regular courses. Sum-
mer courses. She graduated magna
cum laude with a B.A. in biology from
Montclair State College, N.J. in 1973,
spent the following year studying
nutrition at Rutgers University, then
enrolled at Western in•1975 after she
and her husband moved to Canada.
Elaine obtained her M.Sc. in cell
biology in 1979, and immediately em-
barked on a Ph. D. program in
research relating to bowel disease.
While working on her doctorate,
Elaine is also teaching courses in
Human Biology and Food at Fan-
shawe, acting as nutritional`consul-
ta'nt to individuals and organizations,
2.nd is presently awaiting word from
a publisher on a book she has written
on diet and bowel disease. (The book
is illustrated by former SHDHS
teacher Pat Wilson. who also con-
tributed the chapter of gourmet
recipes.)
As word of Elaine's reputation and
qualifications has spread, invitations
to speak have come from an ever-
broadening variety of sources. A talk
on "What honey means to me" to the
Ontario Beekeepers Association in
Toronto led to an introduction to Er-
nie McEwen, a member of the On-
tario Honey Marketing Co-operative.
McEwan was most interested in what
Elaine had to say, as he is in the pro-
cess of setting up a research project
on honey in the department of
medicine University of Calgary.
Elaine was asked to send to Calgary
! integrated work on sttga>� 11ac1 -
gathered together from experiments
being carried out indifferent parts of
the world.
McEwan invited Elaine to come to
Ottawa and present a cogent argu-
ment for including honey in the food
aid shipped to Africa.
Elaine welcomed the opportunity to
explain to officials from CIDA.
Agriculture Canada's Food Aid In-
stitute and the chairman of the
African Emergency Aid Office that
glucose is recommended as the sugar
of choice for malnourished and star-
ving people by the World Health
Organization. Prolonged starvation
injures the digestive tract, and causes
a breakdown of the body's immune
system. Honey, with its glucose and
fructose sugars, is unique in its
digestibility qualities. It is quickly ab-
sorbed into the bloodstream, pro-
viding fast nourishment, and revers-
ing the effects of cholera diarrhea
Elaine's talk to the egg producers
warned of recent articles appearing
in the news media laying the blame
for high cholesterol levels leading to
heart disease on animal products and
eggs. She also addressed this issue in
a letter published recently in the Lon-
don Free Press.
"How can anyone with any com-
mon sense, with or without academic
training, believe that these foods
eaten by man for millenia are bad,
and not question the fact these resear-
chers so interested in protecting us
from heart attack and stroke are say-
ing nary a word,about the junk on
which many in our society are sub-
sisting?" she asks.
When asked why she continues to
battle for what she knows to be true,
Elaine responds with a scene recall-
ed from the movie Oh, God. The hero
has lost almost everything he holds
dear in a losing crusade to get others
to believe he has seen God. He con -
'fronts the Almighty to ask what he is
supposed to do now. He is told to just
keep on planting seeds.
"That's what I'm doing. Just plan-
ting seeds",isElaine's succint
rationale.
And the seeds are growing. More
and more people are listening. More
and more doctors are referring pa-
tients to Elaine for consultation_on
nutrition. Elaine has had positive in-
dications that though she wrote her
book for the layman, it will be ac-
cepted and used by the medical
profession.
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