CHOW AH J HERALD. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY
Heart Fund Officials Warning
Against Food’ Peddlers
t Chapel HilL Beware of the
’ advice given by “health food”
promoters, door-to-door vitamin
salesmen and special diet huck
sters, a state health agency sug
gests.
In olden days, masked high
way bandits approached lonely
travelers with the spine-tingling
demand: “Your money or your
life.” Today, there are many
merchants of quackery in the
health fied who use hook and
crook to go after your money
and yottr life, as a recent Food
and Drug Administration publi
cation warns. y
The North Carolina Heart As
sociation urges Tar Heels to
“get wise to these health ped
dlers” and joins various gov
ernmental, pharmaceutical and
medical groups in offering some
tips on how to spot health gyps:
If it -Is a “secret remedy,” you
can almost bet your bottom dol
. lar that you are dealing with a
/■ fake. If the ad claims a non
prescription drug is good for
heart trouble, it probably is bet
-1 ter for the manufalturer’s bank
roll than for the patient’s heart.
If the sponsor claims he is bat
tling the medical profession
which is trying to suppress his
wonderful discovery, you might
also have reason to suspect you
are being hoodwinked. If the
treatment was ballyhooed in a
sensational magazine, you might
be wise to be skeptical. And
if your doctor disapproves of
the particular “remedy” or
“cure,” you would be smart to
stick with medical knowledge
and- to shun pseudo - medical
junk—for your heart’s sake.
High on the heart agency’s
list of health frauds are the ven
dors of “instant health” and “do
it-yourself medicine.” Many so
called health books currently
popular are examples of sheer
/ poppycock—for example, a recent
bestseller which labeled honey
and vinegar a cure-all charm
against almost every kind of
ailment.
There are quite a few diet
books which advocate practices
which could be most harmful to
persons taking them seriously;
dietary cure-alls promoted by
food faddists are often confused
by wishful thinkers with spe
cial dietary prescriptions; such
as low-salt and low-fat diets
prescribed by physician’s ■ ffer
heart; patients. --Heart As
sociation points out that the
word “health” in “health foods”
does not make such products
healthful or more healthful than
other food.
North Carolinians are urged
to use their common sense, and
the Heart Association stresses
that it makes little sense to let
“doctor books” substitute for a
doctor. Some parents raise their
*r children by the book (or maga
zine articles) and forget all too
often that a parent-with-a-book
still doesn’t qualify for a medical
degree. Strop throats, if treated
by parents as regular sore
throats, can lead to rheumatic
fever and possibly to serious
heart damage, for example.
High blood pressure, “kidney
trouble” and “bladder trouble”
may indicate disease which can-
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not be treated by self-medica
tion, despite the claims of some
hustlers of patent medicine and
folk remedies.
Calories do count, despite
false claims made in a book for
weight reduction and heart dis
ease. As for “royal jelly,” ocean
water, safflower oil capsules and
“tired feeling” remedies, most
of these are either totally use
less or actually harmful because
they mask symptoms of disease
or keep patients from their doc
tors until it’s too late.
The average Tar Heel wouldn’t
hire a rainmaker to pull a tooth
or repair a television set. The
North Carolina Heart Associa
tion thinks that door to door
“health” salesmen ought to have
front doors slammed rudely in
their faces. What one writer has
termed a “mail-order supermar
ket” of nutritional gimmicks is
an especially serious problem.
This mail-order smorgasboard of
pills elixirs and superfoods is a
multi-billion dollar racket na
tionally, custom-made for “peo
ple who have everything”—ex
cept a mature concern for their
own health.
As for nasurc doctors and
health practitioners who propose
tc diagnose and treat diseases
simply by turning dials on Rube
Goldberg machines, they may be
professionals, but they certainly
don’t belong to the medical pro
fession, according to the state
heart group.
Millions of dollars are spenl
each year by North- Carolinians
on falsely promoted, worthless
or dangerous products and mil
lions more are wasted on so
called health foods. Worse than
the financial lass, however, is
the risk that reliance on some
ineffective product may cause
delay in getting proper medical
treatment.
It is against the law to pro
mote and distribute these worth
less or dangerous medical de
vices and cures but it takes
continuing public cooperation to
stem this criminal assault on the
public and its health.
LIONS MEET MONDAY
Edenton Lions will hold their
weekly meeting Monday night,
February 8 at 7 o’clock at the
Edenton Restaurant. President
Joe Thorud urges every Lion to
be present.
ROTARIANS MEET TODAY
Edenton Rotarians will hold
their weekly meeting this
(Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock
in the Parish House. President
West Byrum urges a 100 per
cent attendance.
Use Force
The nurse in Scotland was
trying to persuade old Mary to
take some liquid food.
“Will you take some beef tea.
Mary?"
“Na,” replied Mary. “I could’t
tak’ it.”
“Perhaps you would care for
a cup of cocoa?”
“Na. I couldna ta’ that
either.”
“Well, what about a glass of
toddy?” *
“Aye,” responded the invalid.
“Mak’ it strong and mak’ me
ta’ it.”
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