The Huron Expositor, 1976-07-22, Page 14What's the truth on cholesterol?
Who can you believe these days?
Since the middle-aged spread caught up with me, I've been
getting a complete physical check-up at least once a year.
Just recently a blood cholesterol test was taken.
I love butter. I'smear it on all sandwiches and I eat one
every day for lunch. 1 smear it on toast and watch it melt,
I drink at least a quart of, milk every day, probably more,
especially in the hot weather.
And beef is one of my favorite meats.
If these foods cause a high cholesterol level, then my blood
should be full of it. But it isn't. It is normal for my age.
Which makes me wonder why so many nutritionists keep
pounding at the cholesterol thing and heart attacks. Just
recently, two new names have been added to the list of diet
writers, Dr. Z.I. Sabry, a professor of nutrition at the Uni-
versity of Guelph. and Ruth Fremes, a nationally known
home economist and 'consumer broadcaster. The Eating
Right column is carried in a number of daily newspapers.
In a recent column, they..sugg.ested that eating habits for
children should be established early and the use of satur-
ated fats should be discouraged. Saturated fats 'can be iden:
tified as those that harden at room temperature.
The two writers set out an excellent case .for controlling
your diet by avoiding — or cutting down on — foods with
high cholesterol content, saturated fat and sugar.
At the ,same time, a great deal of argument is available
to discount such theories.
For one thing, Dr. George Mann of the department of
biochemistry at the VanDerBilt School of Medicine in Nash-
ville. Tenn., calls it a shameful chapter in medical science
because the vegetable oil manufacturers and the heart as-
sociations have worked in conjunction to the detriment of
animal producers.
Dr. Mann has called the cholesterol claims absurd with
no scientific approaChes for such statements.
Dr. Raymond 'Reiser of Texas A & M University. is on
record as saying that saturated fats do not, by any criterion, •
elevate cholesterol to high levels, if indeed, they raise it
at all.
Two Canadian heart specialists; Drs. Meyer Friedman
and Roy H. Rosenbam, have said coronary heart disease
almost never occurs before the age of 70, regardless of fatty
foods eaten.
Most of this information came to me in a letter from an
old friend who has been a voice for many farmers for quite '•
a few years: Adrian Vos, a farmer-writer from Blyth in
southwestern Ontario.
Adrian, in his blunt and compelling way, states that it is
time meat producers start fighting back.
"When 1, as a layman, read all this information tabout
cholesterol), it appalls me that *iittr —SV-called scientists are
unaware of tlie studies done in this area and still'hoid:1trart
opinion expressed years and years ago by some now un
known doctor which turns out to be' no..more than an opin-
ion,'" says Adrian.
I'm on his team when he says it is time meat producers
started speaking out for themselves. It has been the opinion
expressed in. this corner for years -that farmers must be-
come their own public relations people. They must become
more outspoken.
By that I do not mean they should be throwing milk and
manure in the faces of other people but they must become
more vocal in all the media because they have been, for too
long, a silent minority, toiling in the back forty,
Huron hosts N.S. 4H kids
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to dairy problems hrunediately.
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,,,house; Herman Plas, egg room;
Eric Prescott, silo anti feed room;,
J.F. Williams, silo and feed room;
John M, Perrie, driving shed;
'.!Gerald Ryan, grain elevator leg
and holding bin; 'Gerald Ryan,
closed verandah; James Hart, pig
barn; Max. Demaray, hog barn;
Herbert Eldridge, house trailer;
Brussels Stockyards, barn.
The quotation of Pollard Bros.
Ltd., Harrow, for supplying liquid
calcium chloride at the price of
$82.50 per flake ton equivalent;
delivered and applied on all roads
was accepted subject to the
approval of the ministry.
Grey Township council will
notify the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority of ' the
request by ratepayers on the
North Branch Of the
River to have the river cleaned .-
out, they decided at their meeting
July 5.
A meeting will be held
Wednesday, July 21 at 8:00 p.m.
to consider' the Engineer's report
on the Beauchamp Municipal
Drain.
The tender 'of Roger F.
MacEachern, Mount Forest, for
repairs to damaged bridge railing
at Lot 10, Concession 11 at the
price of $945. was accepted,
subject to the approval of they
Engineer and Ministry of Trans-
several activities for .the Nova
Scotia delegates. On the 'evening
of July 20 a "Welcome to Huron
County" party will be held at the
Central HUron Secondary School
in Clinton. The evening program
will consul of swimming at the
Clinton Swimming Pool at 8:00
p.m. and conclude with games,
dancing and refreshments at the
Clinton High School. On Sunday,
July 25 the 4-H Youth Council will
take the delegates and their hosts
Grey council agreed to pay
Kenneth Tyerman an additional
.10c per yard for gravel taken out
of his pit for the remainder of his
--contract.
Approved accounts paid
included: General,. $148,308,03
and Roads and Bridges,
$32,284.57 for a total . of
$180,592.60. ,
The general account includes
the first instalment payments to
the School Boards and the
County.
on a Progressive Dinner Party.
This dinner party will start in the
north part of Huron and conclude
in the south part -later -du -the
evening and will _give the dele-
gates an opportunity to see some
of the countryside in the county.
On Saturday, July 31 the 4-H
Council has planned a 4-I-I
Campout for the delegates at
Ball's Grove near Auburn. Start-
ing at 2:00 p.m. the delegates and
their hosts will participate in
swimming, games, a Pot Luck
Supper, dancing and a camp,fires
sing song.
On August 2. the Nova Scotia
delegates will be returning home
and the Huron 4-H exchange
delegates will be going with
them. Those 4-H club members
who are' going to NoVa. Scotia
include Barb Miller, #3, Exeter;
Elaine Stewart, #1, Kirkton; 'Alan
Powe, #2, Centralia; and Ken de
Boer, #1, Lucknow. This
exchange is a new venture for the
Huron County 4-H Program and it
is hoped that inter-provincial
exchanges of this nature will
continue in. 1977.
"We insist that the Ontario
Government assume its respons-
ibility for the present plight of
Ontario dairymen and alleviate
the situation by sharing the
financial losses, The Ontario
government has real respons-
ibility because it encouraged
increased dairy production
through its Industrial Milk
Production Incentive Program."
said Leo Brisson, Chairman of the
Eastern Ontario Milk Action
COmmittee and President of
Russell County Federation of
Agriculture.
Mr. Brisson was echoing the
sentiments of twelve hundred
Ontario farmers, from counties
across Ontario„ from Huron to
Glengarry, who attended a
masses meeting held last night in
the Nepean Sportsplex, near
Ottawa.
• The meeting presented a brief
to Agriculture Minister Eugene
Whelan and Bill Doyle, Executive
Director of Marketing Services,
Ontario Department of Agricul-
ture, who was -representing
Ontario Agriculture Minister
Newman.
The brief asked for immediate
implementation of an 8-point
program to solve the present
problems of Onthrio dairy
farmers.
Neither Mr. Whelan nor Mr.
Doyle would give any assurances
that this program would be
carried out.
The meeting, therefore,
appointed a Milk Action Commit-
tee to seek immediate •im ple-
m_ of this program:
I. Nineteen seventy-six gross
income, which will be derived
from 85, per cent of- 1975
production.,must be no lower
than 1975 gross income.
2...There should either • be a
,change back to yearly quotas or
an immediate refund of the May
over-quota penalty.
3. The Ontario Government
should pay the 51.35/cwt. within
quota levy Until the suyplus of
.milk Powder decreases to accept:.
'able levels.
4. The Ontario Government
should subsidize the selling of
dairy cows at $100. per Cow, u-p to
.20 per cent of her
5. Cheese imports should be
reduced and any surplus milk
'6. There should be no transfer
directed to cheese factories.
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Huron County 4-H club mem-
bers will be hosting four 4-H club
members from the larovince of
Nova Scotia on a 4-H Exchange
, ,,,,,, ,„arpgratti fromyluly 19 to August
• 2. The Nova Scotia delegates flew
into Toronto on July 19. During
their first week in Huron the' N`bi,a
Scotia delegates will* hosted by
the following_people:
Cindy Northrop, Windor, N.S.
with Diana Brand, #3, Clinton;
Willie Vander Linden, Heather-
rey asks
ton, N.S. with Ken de Boer, #1,
Lucknow; Margarete Zillig,
Scotch Village, N.S. with Dianne
Oldfield, #4, Seaforth; and David
Bent, Lawrenceton, N.S. with
Don Carter, #3, Blyth.
.'trotp July 26, to August 2, they
will be hosted.by Elaine Stewart,
Kirkton; Murton Brock, #1,
iranton; Barb Miller, #3, 'Exeter;
and Alan Powe; #2, Centralia.
During their stay in Huron the
4-1 Youth Codicil has set up
MVCA to clear river
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