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— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 17,1973
Page 18
Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb
High blood pressure
DEAR DR. LAMB - I read
in an article in a magazine
about how high blood pres
sure is killing people. What I
want to know is how high
blood pressure comes about.
DEAR READER - Would
you believe that in most ins
tances we really don't know?
Oh, we understand the me
chanism. The small arteries
clamp down and it works just
like turning off the faucets in
a plumbing system. As long
as the heart pumps the same
amount of blood and the ar
teries are smaller, the pres
sure goes up. But, we don’t
know, in most cases, why the
arteries clamp down to begin
with.
In rare cases it is from
kidney disease. It can be
caused by abnormal hormone
formation in the tiny adrenal
gland that rests above each
kidney, but there are only a
portion of the people who
have these problems.
It follows that in the vast
majority of people, we must
treat their high blood pres
sure as a finding and not cor
rect the real cause. That is
why the treatment is less
than satisfactory. Although 1
must say it is many times bet
ter than when I first started
treating high blood pressure
patients.
We do know that staying
slim, avoiding excessive
amounts of salt and not eat
ing too much fats, particu
larly saturated fat, all helps.
It other instances, we need to
use medicines that help to
open the arteries that have
closed too tightly.
DEAR DR. LAMB -1 re
cently read your comments
related to smoking, and I
cannot help thinking what an
innocent you are.
Smokers are flat out the
most inconsiderate, selfish
people in the world. They are
going to blow their smoke
and everyone else be hanged.
My own problem with
smokers is extreme nausea,
wretching and often vomit-
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ing. We commute to the city
on a transit bus, 40 miles.
Smoking is forbidden on
these buses, and there are
large NO SMOKING signs at
the front of the bus, in plain
view. Yet, there is nearly al
ways someone who will light
up.
In many cases, the drivers
ignore it, and on occasion I
have heard them reply
roughly to complainers. This
will drive me and many
others to give up commuting
because the bus management
does nothing to enforce the no
smoking rule.
DEAR READER - It
seems to me that smokers
should obey the rules the
same as the majority of peo
ple who are nonsmokers.
And, I have become con
vinced that nonsmokers
should become more vocal in
seeing to it that their rights
are not violated.
The first thing I would do
would be to carefully note the
bus identification and write
to the company and complain
about the driver not enforc
ing the rule.
The second thing 1 would
do would be to position
myself properly so that when
nausea and vomiting over
comes you, you will be facing
in the direction of the
smoker. I’m sure it will make
a lasting impression on him
concerning the effect of his
habit on other people.
Send your questions to Dr
Lamb, in care of this newspaper.
P.O Box 1551, Radio City Station,
New York. NY 10019. For a copy
of Dr Lamb's booklet on
cholesterol, send 50 cents to the
same address and ask for
"Cholesterol" booklet
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The nose knows
MANCHESTER, England
(UPI) — Dr.lvor Felstein has
been sniffing at love. He claims
you should be able to find your
ideal partner by smell.
Writing in the medical
newspaper, Pulse, he said there
should be a new kind of
specialist, the Sernmologist, He
could tell couples if the aromas
were not campatible, the doctor
said.
“When one considers the
overall value that a sense of
smell may have for the
physician or social worker.it is
surprising that neither is asked
about this sense at interviews.”
By Another Name
In medieval times, the
word “garbage” applied to
a combination of chicken,
heads, feet, and innards
stewed as a delicacy by crea
tive chefs.
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