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HEALTH
Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
Good health’s real enemy
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
DEAR DR. LAMB - Why
don’t doctors do more about
preventing illnesses? It seems
to me doctors spend most of
their time just trying to
prolong someone’s life who is
going to die anyway. Wouldn't
it be a lot better to prevent
this person from getting sick
in the first place? Is this
because doctors make more
money doing heart surgery
and treating cancer than they
do preventing it?
DEAR READER — Doctors
have discovered the real
enemy to health a long time
ago and there isn't much we
can do about it. The enemy is
YOU! Doctors would love to
prevent illnesses but they can
only be successful in this area
to the extent that people
follow the good advice they
have been given.
Let’s look at automobile ac
cidents. In 1974 when lower
automobile speed limits were
being obeyed the death rate
from automobile accidents
dropped 17.4 per cent. But
people do not want to slow
down to save energy let alone
their own or someone else’s
life.
Did you know that your
chances of surviving an acci
dent at 71 miles per hour are
only about 50-50 at best? The
chances of survival improve
the slower the speed. At
speeds between 51 and 60, the
chances are 31 to 1 in your
favor. When you are inclined
to drive fast just remember
the figures. Accidents are the
most common cause of death
in males and females between
the ages of 15 and 34 and most
of these are automobile ac
cidents. There is little doctors
can do to prevent you from
risking your life or others.
You are the problem.
Doctors ask people to quit
smoking. Do they? Who can
make a person quit smoking?
Yet cancer is the second most
POLLY'S POIHTERS
Polly Cramer
Scrub sticky vinyl
POLLY’S PROBLEM
By Polly Cramer
DEAR POLLY — I would like to know if anyone has a
remedy that will clean vinyl furniture that has become
sticky. — MRS. C.L.
DEAR MRS. C.L. — I am sure we will be hearing
from some of our generous readers who have had this
same problem. Such furniture should be wiped off with
an untreated cloth and if you have been using one with
oil or polish doubtless that caused the stickiness. I would
wash with mild suds and then dry carefully. If there is
ground-in dirt, you might try a laundry detergent and a
brush that is neither too stiff nor too soft. Rinse well and
dry thoroughly with a soft cloth. There is a commercial
cleaner for vinyl fabrics. — POLLY.
DEAR POLLY — When I buy ground meat I remove it from
the wrapper, put in a freezer bag and flatten it into a thick
slab, put the store label that gives the weight on the freezer
bag and then freeze. This saves space in the freezer compart
ment and thaws faster than a big mound of meat.
Also, I sew an inside pocket with that new sticky type clos
ing inside all my coats so when I must carry a larger amount
of money than usual it is tucked away and would not be lost or
stolen if pomething happened to my purse. — MRS. A.C.H.
DEAR POLLY - In an answer to Peggy you suggested that
she use peanut or vegetable oil on her cutting board and I was
told by an expert in the cooking field that one should only use
mineral oil on a bread board as it does not become as rancid as
vegetable oil, etc. It works. — Jackie.
DEAR MRS. D.H.S. and Peggy - The advice I gave Peggy
was given me by an installer of such boards when he was put;
ting in a new one for me. The use of the bleach suggested for
cleaning would serve as a disinfectant. Mineral oil is good to
use for oiling I know, and there are often two or three or more
good answers to the same question. Even experts sometimes
disagree as to what is best to use in certain cases. Just scrub
bing and no oiling would certainly cause one to have a dry
board. Do remember that no matter what type oil one uses the
excess is wiped completely away. — POLLY.
Polly will send you one of her signed thank-you newspaper
coupon clippers if she uses your favorite Pointer, Peeve or
Problem in her column. Write POLLY’S POINTERS in care of
this newspaper.
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common cause of death and
lung cancer is the most com
mon cause of cancer deaths.
Did you know that 90 per cent
of all lung cancer could be
stopped tomorrow if everyone
would quit smoking? Can the
doctors outlaw smoking?
Fatal heart attacks are
three times as common in
smokers as in nonsmokers.
Yet smoking is permitted in
public places and during com
mercial travel. Intelligent
people who know they are in
creasing their risk continue to
smoke cigarettes. What can
the doctor do?
There is abundant evidence
that limiting your calorie in
take and keeping your
physical activity up to
eliminate or prevent obesity
will benefit your health in
preventing high blood
pressure, elevated fatty
cholesterol deposits in the
arteries that lead to heart at
tacks and strokes and
premature senility. Only you
can limit your calories and ex
ercise.
Cirrhosis of the liver is the
fourth most commori cause of
death in men between the
ages of 35 and 54 and 60 per
cent of these are caused by
alcohol. Doctors have no
authority to make people quit
abusing their bodies with
alcohol.
If people follow sensible liv
ing habits they can live in
good health longer. To give
you some more information
on what we know about aging
and how to prevent or slow its
occurrence I am sending you
The Health Letter number 1-7,
Perpetual Youth, Aging.
Others who want this issue
can send 50 cents with a long,
stamped, self-addressed
envelope for it. Just write to
me in care of this newspaper,
P.O. Box 1551, Radio City Sta
tion, New York, NY 10019.
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