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— Griffin Daily News Friday, March 18, 1977
Heart
Reasonable physical activity can be tonic for it
EDITOR’S NOTE — Your heart pumps some 100,000
times a day, nearly 40 million in a year, so it’s no stranger
to exercise. If the rest of you Is, most experts believe,
you’re doing your heart no favor. Reasonable physical
activity can be a tonic for it. Last of three articles.
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK (AP) — Looking at the indolent, power
assisted American way of life, a physician who plays
vigorous tennis at age 73 says: “Most of us don’t wear out.
We rust out.”
Most heart specialists might well agree with that
statement of Dr. Theodore G. Klumpp of New York,
medical consultant to the President’s Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports.
Exercise, they say, is a heart tonic. It helps to prevent
heart attacks. It probably makes attacks less severe if
they do occur. And carefully prescribed, graduated
exercises are one of their antidotes against another at
tack.
The American Heart Association says regular exercise
"is at least prudent” as a hope of avoiding heart attacks
and making heart transplants or artificial hearts un-
Ex-Cobb officer indicted
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - A
former police officer has been
indicted by a county grand jury
on charges of murder and ag
gravated assault in the shooting
death last year of a Smyrna
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ATI ANTA (AP) - Southern
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add to our revenues,’’ Rast said.
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The indictment came Thurs
day after the officer, James
Phillip Bone, 21, appeared be
fore the jury, but waived his
right to testify, according to
Dist. Atty. Tom Charron.
Bone, who has been charged
in the death of Richard Rob
itaille on Feb. 4, 1976, had been
indicted by an earlier grand
jury on a charge of involuntary
manslaughter, a misdemeanor.
Bone was dismissed from the
police force a few hours after
the shooting.
Bone and another officer had
stopped Robitaille’s car for
speeding and Robitaille was
shot as he pulled an oblong
wallet from his pocket, accord
ing to police reports.
A passenger in the Robitaille
car said he and the victim had
been chasing a car involved in a
hit-and-run accident, author
ities said.
necessary for potentially millions of men and women.
No one can actually prove that exercise is protective.
Some doctors, including those who don’t exercise, say
exercise is not necessary, or that it might even be harm
ful.
True enough. Joggers sometimes fall dead. So do some
tennis players. But so also do some golfers, whose exer
cise may be no more than a leisurely walk, if they don’t
hop aboard golf carts.
About half of all heart attacks occur during sleep.
“Hard work never hurt a healthy heart,” said the late
Dr. Paul Dudley White, the eminent heart specialist who
championed bicycling and hiking and life-long exercise.
He died at age 87 from a stroke.
At age 88, Eula Weaver of Santa Monica, Calif., keeps
winning gold medals for running mile and half-mile races
in Senior Olympics events. She has six medals so far.
Seven years ago she was crippled with congestive heart
failure, anginal pains, had galloping high blood pressure
and severe arthritis.
She followed an ultrastrict, almost fatless diet designed
by Nathan Pritikin, a nutritionist, to correct her artery
clogging disease of atherosclerosis. Intially, she could
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Amy ‘escapes’
to treehouse
WASHINGTON (AP) - Un
like her father, the President,
Amy Carter is able to get away
from it all by merely climbing
part way up a 40-foot tree on the
south lawn of the White House.
By pulling herself into a
recently constructed tree house,
the 9-year-old daughter of Pres
ident Carter may while away
the time undaunted by the go
ings-on in the larger, considera
bly more imposing White
House.
It was confirmed Thursday
that Amy took possession of her
tree house last week while no
body was looking but the birds.
Designed by her father, the
structure is more a platform
than a house, rising only five
feet above the ground in the
shade of an atlas cedar.
Resting on four sunken posts,
rather than attached to the tree,
the platform measures 5 feet by
4 feet, is rimmed by a 5-inch
high wooden lip and was built of
“inexpensive lumber” by a
White House carpenter.
Esthetically, it has been
stained to blend in with the en
vironment. The tree house can’t
be seen from the street and, as
hideaways go, remains true to
the tradition of White House
tree houses.
John F. Kennedy had one
built for his daughter, Caroline.
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walk only 100 feet before heart pains hit. Gradually in
creasing walking exercise was prescribed, then later she
turned to jogging and running.
Pritikin says he thinks the vigorous exercise can be
credited with 10 to 20 per cent of her remarkable tran
sformation. The major benefit, he says, came from the
diet of 10 per cent protein, 10 per cent fat, and the rest
carbohydrates, with salt restricted, and no cholesterol.
Director of the Longevity Research Institute founded a
year ago in Santa Barbara, Calif., he tells of other men
and women who he reports have returned to health, some
having avoided anticipated coronary bypass surgery.
Pritikin has some medical supporters as well as critics
who he says will be answered soon when he publishes re
search results.
Cardiologists blame the soft, inactive way of life for
sabotaging Americans’ hearts. We ride rather than walk a
few blocks. We have power steering and power lawn
mowers and electric can openers. Machines perform our
labors at work or at home. We watch rather than par
ticipate in sports.
Less physical activity means spending fewer caloris, so
too many Americans “bank” more calreies as savings
Two for Blue
STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) — The basketball star of
Georgia Southern College’s psychology department Is
only two inches shorter than the basket. But It took 15
hours to train him to slam in a dunk shot.
It’s Blue — the rat.
Glenn Fling of Savannah, Ga., and Terry Cantrell of
Atlanta trained 5-inch long Blue to stuff a marble into a
make-shift basket seven inches off his cage floor.
“We started by putting strips of bright yellow and dark
blue masking tape down on a table top,” Fling explained.
“Blue had to distinguish between the two.”
After mastering that, the two taught Blue how to put a
marble on top of a tuna can. From that, it was easy to
train Blue to dunk the marble in a tiny basketball hoop.
Blue was trained by a class studying “principles of
conditioning and learning.”
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Being overweight is not considered healthy for the heart
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“Physical inactivity should be fought as much as crime
in the streets, and as a disease as serious as cancer and
tuberculosis,” says Dr. Zenonas Danielevicius in a recent
editorial in the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Exercise burns caloris. A really brisk walk can with
draw five to six calories per minute from the “bank.” One
pound of fat represents 3,500 stored calories, usually
banked by the habit of consuming somewhat more
calories per day than are spent.
Specialists say regular, rhythmic and vigorous erorcise
gives the heart reserves to meet emergencies. They mean
real exercise, several times a week.
Exercise often can help reduce elevated blood pressure
and help control diabetes. The physically fit person is less
likely to suffer low back pains and is more likely to sleep
better. Exercise can reduce muscular and emotional
tensions. And, say some, one’s sex life is likely to improve,
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