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Rx For Healthy Heart:
Good Childhood Habits
(First in a Series.)
By PAUL DUDLEY WHITE
BOSTON —(NEA) — Parents
today routinely take advantage
of the protection given their
children by vaccines against
scarlet fever, chicken pox,
diphtheria, measles, polio and
numerous other diseases which
were commonplace when my
medical practice began.
In this series, I would like to
convince parents everywhere
that it is equally Important to
establish in their children cer
tain health habits which in la
ter years may substantially re
duce the risk of heart attacks
and strokes.
My test Is this ancient
maxim:
•• ‘Tis education forms the
common mind:
Just as the twig is bent, the
tree’s Inclined.”
I strangly share the convic
tion of the American Heart As
sociation, which is now observ
ing its 20th anniversary as a
national voluntary health agen
cy, and which is an important
part of my life and work, that
the individual’s risk Is vastly
Improved if good heart and
health habits are begun early
in life and retained.
Many forces will In later
years shape a child’s suscep
tibility to heart attacks and
strokes—among them physical
inactivity, and overrich diet,
cigarette smoking, excessive
body weight, high blood pres
sure, genetic inheritance, the
male sex, and increasing age.
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The last three of these fac
tors cannot be controlled. But
the others are subject to modi
fication by the Individual. The
extent to which a person does
the things that should be done
will be conditioned In large
measure by the habits which
he or she develops In child
hood. Parents play an extreme
ly influential role in the devel
opment of these behavior pat
terns.
Both by precept and exam
ple, parents can establish for
themselves and their children
a routine of regular physical
activity consistent with their
own or their children’s condi-
HOW WU CAN
PROTECT TOUR
CHILD'S HEART.
tions of health.
They should maintain normal
weight, and make certain the
children do the same.
They should abstain from
smoking, thus setting a good
example, and they should in
form their children about the
hazards of cigarette smoking.
Mothers can help their chil
dren form good dietary habits
by serving unsaturated fats
(mostly vegetable oils) in place
of saturated (mostly animal)
fats and fewer foods rich in
cholesterol.
Finally, the family can make
doctor checkups a regular rou
tine. This Is especially urgent
insofar as adults are con
cerned, since the physician will
have an opportunity to treat
any high blood pressure, diabe
tes or other disorders his ex
aminations may disclose.
If the habits suggested above
are lastingly implanted, there
is an excellent possibility that
10, 15 or even 20 additional
years of life could be the boun
ty for each child.
Some parents violate all of
these basic principles and still
don’t realize the harm they are
doing. Actually, they are in
creasing rather than reducing
their children’s probability of
incurring premature cardiovas
cular disease.
For example, come parents
shield their children from
wholesome physical activity.
Instead of encouraging them to
walk, they chauffeur them
back and forth. They may do
nothing to persuade their chil
dren to engage in such whole
some sports as swimming, ten
nis, bicycle riding, running or
hiking—activities which can
become a lasting part of life
long exercise patterns.
Some parents are obese, and
believe (as did their parents)
that "a plump child is a
healthy child.’’ The mother la
dles out high-calorie foods.
The children are admonished
to clean up their plates, re
gardless of whether natural
hunger has been satisfied. They
are encouraged to take second
helpings.
In some homes, both children
and parents get virtually all
their fat needs from marble
ized meats, gravy, butter, milk,
Suspect In
Arsenic Deaths
Back In Jail
CORDELE, Ga. (UPD— Mrs.
Janie Lou Gibbs, the plump
Sunday school teacher accused
of the arsenic poisoning death
of her oldest son, is back in
Crisp County jail following a
series of psychiatric tests.
Mrs. Gibbs underwent six
days of examination at the
Talmadge Memoral Hospital in
Augusta. She was returned Sun
day. Last month, Mrs. Gibbs
underwent a week of similar
tests at an Albany hospital.
It had earlier been thought
Mrs. Gibbs’ trial would pegin
this week, put officials have
postponed Indefinitely her ar
raignment.
She was arrested two days
before Christmas—also her 35th
birthday—and charged with the
poisoning death of her 19-year
old son, Roger.
Following her arrest, Investi
bators exhumed the bodies of
her husband and two other
sons, all of whom died mysteri
ously in less than two years. A
grandson also died in that time
span, but his body was not ex
humed for an autopsy.
Official results of the autop
sies have not been revealed,
but one published account, by
the Macon Telegraph and
News, said unusual amounts of
arsenic were found in all five
bodies.
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Help your children form good health habits early, and reduce the risk of heart attack later.
By setting a good example, you protect your own heart, too.
cheese and other saturated
fats, with a minimum from
such polyunsaturates as mar
garine, skimmed milk, vegeta
ble oils and fish. High choles
terol foods (egg yolks and or
gan meats) are often served in
abundance.
A great many parents smoke
cigarettes, and then wonder
why they can’t stop their chil
dren from taking up the habit.
By failing to see their physi
cian regularly, parents fail to
give their children an appreci-
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Constitutional Convention
Foes Get Breathing Spell
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The immediate threat is over, but for a time there was a
fresh eruption of concern on Capitol Hill that Congress might
have to consider calling a U.S. constitutional convention in
response to state demands.
In December the Wisconsin Senate approved a resolution
asking for a convention, but the state’s legislature adjourned
without necessary corresponding action in the lower house.
Had Wisconsin endorsed the measure fully, it would have
raised to 33 the number of states which have approved the
constitutional convention idea. Thirty-four states—two-thirds
of the 50—must support it before Congress is required to act.
The Wisconsin move made opponents of the plan jittery. But
its legislature does not meet regularly again until 1969, and
there is no present prospect of a special session this year.
Organizations opposing the calling of a federal convention
say there have been some proconvention stirrings in Pennsyl
vania. But they seem to doubt that decisive action is likely
either there or anywhere else that has not already produced
real moves in one legislative house or both.
The 32 states which have endorsed summoning a constitu
tional convention:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary
land, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.
It should be noted that the proposition has swept all of the 11
Old South states, all eight Mountain states, all five Plain
states, and five of the nine Midwest states. For this con
servative-sponsored proposal there are few conservative
strongholds left unconquered.
On the other hand, only Illinois, Texas and Florida of the
nation’s 10 most populous states have approved. The ap
proving list includes just one New England state, one in the
crowded Middle Atlantic group (Maryland), and Washington
state alone among five Pacific states. In 1967 Washington
nearly rescinded its approval.
Two states—Washington and Wyoming—have approved a
1963 version of the proposal which would ask a convention to
give the states blanket power over state legislative reap
portionment. The other 30 voted for a 1965 version demanding
a convention to act favorably upon the so-called Dirksen
amendment. It would permit factors other than population to
be considered in apportioning at least one state legislative
house. Under controversial Supreme Court rulings, population
now governs in redistricting both houses.
Opponents of the whole drive fear, of course, that if a
constitutional convention ever were called, the entire U.S.
Constitution might be assaulted by special-interest raiding
parties on many fronts.
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Green, who has done very
well in New York, tells the
Senate Antitrust Subcom
mittee that he has been pre
scribing weight reducing
pills for 30 years even
though he knew they would
not take off weight. “Those
pills don’t take any weight
of(,” the doctor said. “I
never said they did.”
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ation of the need for early de
tection of high blood pressure,
diabetes and other diseases
which can be treated best if
diagnosed early.
To summarize: By taking the
simple precautions I have
mentioned, there is a good
chance that both parents will
live to see their children ma
ture into long-lived people who
are happy and healthy. By fail
ing to control these risk fac
tors, parents take the chance
that their own life spans may
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be shortened.
Furthermore, by setting a
poor example, they encourage
their children to adopt habits
which may lead to premature
heart attacks and strokes at
ages considerably younger than
those of the parents them
selves. In these circumstances,
the outlook is not good for eith
er parents or children, espe
cially for the children.
(NEXT: The limportance of
Physical Activity.)
Road Toll
14 During
By United Press International
A 15-year-old girl became the
third teenager to die Sunday as
the state patrol closed its count
of persons who died on Georgia
roads in traffic accidents. At
least 14 were killed over the
weekend.
Aquilla Howard of Wrens died
on an Irwin County road when
the car she was riding in went
out of control and she was
thrown from it.
Margaret Ward, 16, and her
brother, James Ward, Jr., 17, of
Siloam were killed when their
car struck a utility pole on
Georgia 15 in White Plains Sun
day afternoon.
An Augusta man, Joe Perd
glan, 47, died in a two-car col
lision early Sunday on the Ft.
Gordon Highway.
Another accident Sunday
morning claimed the life of Ira
Garvin Heard, 40, of West
Point, Ga. He was killed when
his car struck an embankment
on Davison Road south of West
Point.
A Thomasville man, Joe
Cooper, 24, was killed in an ac
cident west of Thomasville
which injured four other occu
pants of the car. Cooper was
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Child’s Safety
In Automobile
By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT
Since more children die in
auto accidents than from con
tagious diseases and all other
accidents combined, the Phy
sicians for Automotive Safety
looked into the causative fac
tors. Their surprising conclu
sion was that some of the spe
cial seats now marketed for
use in autos by infants and
children are worse than noth
ing. Less than one infant in
1,000 receives effective crash
protection while riding in an
auto.
The observers found that
most car seats for tots are flim
sy and . are not securely
fastened to the car. Not only
do they allow the child to be
thrown about in the car in a
crash but the seats themselves
may be hurled against other
occupants of the car. In the
false belief that the car seat
will protect the infant, many
parents attach these devices to
the front seat of the auto al
though the child would be safer
(but not safe enough) if it were
attached to the rear seat.
Seats that are anchored se
curely to the car and hold the
infant firmly in the seat are
now available. Following a
crash, the child can be freed
in two seconds. If you want to
Reaches
Weekend
driving when the vehicle over
turned early Sunday.
Saturday accidents claimed
the lives of William H. Harrell,
43, of Baconton; Phillip Rich
ard Hatfield, 14, of Rising
Fawn; Jerry Cochron, 23, of At
lanta; Tammy Webb, 19-
months-old, of Decatur; and
Bobby Gene Padgett, 28 and
Ricky Baughner, 13, both of
Fruithurst, Ala.
SURPRISE PARTY
LONDON (UPI) — Gordon
Mackerall Is one five-year-old
who’s glad he got lost.
Gordon, coming out of London
theater Saturday with a group
Os children from his village, got
on the wrong bus—and found
himself whisked to someone’s
birthday party.
Nobody at the party seemed
to mind. So Gordon enjoyed his
share of cake, Ice cream, pie,
pudding, candy, soft drinks, and
just plain fun before his mother,
far more disturbed than he,
arrived to take him home.
insure the safety of your child,
make sure the device you pur
chase wjll do the job expected
of It.
Q—ls it important for pre
school children to get a daily
dose of vitamins or cod liver
oil?
A—No child who gets a bal
anced diet needs vitamin sup
plements. His diet should sup
ply his daily requirements.
This is especially true If, as is
the case in most cities, the
milk has vitamins A and D
added.
Q —My small son was severe
ly scalded about two months
ago. Where the bums healed,
he has scarring. Can I put any
thing on them to mask these
scars?
A—Effective masking cos
metics are available in any
shade required to match the
surrounding normal skin. La
ter he may want to have the
scars treated by surgical plan
ing with a wire brush.
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