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— Griffin Daily News Monday, June 25, 1973
Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb
A good question
What is scientific evidence
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
Dear Dr. Lamb — Attached
is an article from a spokes
man of the egg industry that
states there's no solid, scien
tific evidence that eating eggs
leads to heart disease. Yet.
many doctors of the national
and state heart association
say to limit the intake of egg
yolks to three per week for
people with heart conditions.
You state in your column
that there is no scientific evi
dence that vitamin E helps
with heart disease, yet two
doctors in another country
have written books citing cas
es and giving names about
how vitamin E has helped
people with heart disease.
What does constitute "scien
tific evidence?”
Dear Reader — The Ameri
can Heart Assn, has recom
mended that men, particular
ly, should not eat more than
three egg yolks per week.
More recently the Inter-So
ciety Commission on Heart
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Disease has recommended
that the total intake of choles
terol from all sources, eggs,
meat, milk, fish, chicken, and
all animals, should be limited
to 300 milligrams a day (one
egg yolk contains from 225 to
275 milligrams of cholesterol).
What constitutes scientific
evidence? That is a good ques
tion. If individuals responsible
for marketing coconut oil
stated that, on the basis of
their investigation, coconut
oil contained no calories there
might be some reason to have
their observations confirmed
by scientists not involved in
marketing coconut oil.
Valid research or scientific
evidence must be reproducible
by other independent scien
tists. If one investigator
comes up with a conclusion on
the basis of his research ob
servations, another competent
investigator ought to be able
to do the same experiment
and come up with the same
results. Sometimes this is not
possible and it develops that
there was some flaw in the
original research project or
the observations made. This is
what's wrong with the vitamin
E idea. Enthusiastic reports
are no substitute for properly
designed studies that permit
valid conclusions.
The claims that vitamin E
cures heart disease would
have to be confirmed by other
investigators using valid re
search methods designed to
permit such a conclusion be
fore they were accepted. The
facts are just the opposite.
Dr. Robert Olson, for one, has
studied vitamin E with well
designed research projects
and has been unable to con
firm that vitamin E is jseful
in preventing or treating heart
conditions.
The problems that can arise
from misinterpretations of
observations or improperly
designed research studies is
one of the reasons medical
scientists have encouraged
investigators to have their
studies confirmed bv other
Acting director disputes
low FBI morale reports
By MARGARET A. KILGORE
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Re
ports of morale problems in the
FBI have been “overblown and
overstated,’’ Acting Director
William D. Ruckelshaus said
Sunday.
Ruckelshaus, in an interview
with UPI, disputed Clarence M.
Kelley, the Kansas City, Mo.,
police chief who is expected to
be confirmed by the Senate
next month as the permanent
reputable scientists before
they are publicized or recom
mended to the public. In this
way the public is protected
from misinformation that can
be detrimental to their health.
A case in point here would be
the individual who has chest
pain and decides to treat him
self with vitamin E for heart
disease rather than seeing a
doctor. I've actually received
letters from individuals who
have done just this. If the di
agnosis were correct, the indi
vidual needs proper medical
attention as quickly as possi
ble. This can have a major
bearing on survival or a good
recovery.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Send your questions to Dr. Lamb,
in care of this newspaper, P.O. Box
1551, Radio City Station, New York,
N.Y. 10019. For a copy of Dr. Lamb's
booklet on balanced diet, send 50
cents to the some address and ask
for "Balanced Diet" booklet.
FBI director.
Kelley told the Senate Judici
ary Committee last week he
believed the FBI was suffering
from lack of leadership and
that agents were “feeling that
confidence in them has been
hurt’’ by the Watergate scan
dal.
Ruckelshaus, however, said
reports that morale in the FBI
had hit a low ebb were not
correct.
Pre-med beauty
new Miss Georgia
COLUMBUS,Ga. (UPI)-Pat
ricia Bullock, a 19 - year -old
premedical student from West
Georgia College, says she
doesn’t expect her new Miss
Georgia title will interfere with
her scholastic plans.
“I’m a year ahead in col
lege,” she said. “I feel it will
Rome store
closes its
adult section
ROME, Ga. (UPI) - A Rome
bookstore closed its “adult sec
tion” this weekend with a sign
saying “The U. S. Supreme
Court has set the U. S. back
ward 50 years.”
George Hall, owner of the
store, is presently awaiting trial
on obscenity charges. He said
the U. S. Supreme Court ruling
on obscenity last week was
“ridiculous. Who’s going to set
community standards?”
Hall said his trade was very
light Saturday morning, just be
fore he closed the adult
materials section.
“Actually, they’ve never been
without leadership since Mr. (J.
Edgar) Hoover died a"d the
organization is so organized
that I don’t think they have
suffered particularly without a
permanent head,” Ruckelshaus
said.
“I think the situation has
been overblown and over
stated.”
Ruckelshaus moved to the
FBI from his job as head of the
Environmental Protection
Agency April 30 when L.
Patrick Gray resigned as
acting director. Gray, a former
naval officer, failed to gain
Senate approval as permanent
director after he disclosed that
he willingly gave FBI Water
gate files to John W. Dean 111,
the White House counsel.
Ruckelshaus was reluctant to
criticize Gray. He noted that
Gray had liberalized the FBI
by hiring women, visiting
regional offices and changing
many long-standing policies.
The acting director endorsed
a proposal to have a special
congressional committee over
see FBI operations and limit
the director’s term to between
seven and 10 years.
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The blonde Thomasville beau
ty, who represented West Geor
gia College in the pageant, won
her crown Saturday night. She
said Sunday she was still “Try
ing to get used to the idea.”
Sheri Holliday, Miss Albany,
the first runnerup, and Iris
of Habersham, the fourth
runnerup, were the first blacks
to finish in the top five in the
history of the Miss Georgia
contest.
Bonnie Bush, of Tifton, was
second runnerup and Charlene
McGinnis, Miss Lake Lanier,
was fifth runnerup.
Thes-foot-6,115-pound, green
eyed Miss Bullock, known as
Gail to her friends, is majoring
in chemistry at West Georgia.
She has completed her junior
year and will take a year off
to perform her duties as Miss
Georgia. She (dans to special
ize in pediatrics, and indicated
she might go to Tulane Univer
sity for her medical degree.
She won the talent segment
of the contest with a ballet per
formance. She said she has
been studying ballet for 15
years.
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Pretty blonde, blue-eyed Gail Bulloch (r) representing West
Georgia College won the title of Miss Georgia in Columbus
Saturday night. Miss Lisa Lawalin (1) congratulates her
successor. (UPI)