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You Consist of What You Masticate
By BRYANT ARRINGTON
Shortcuts are tempting. No matter if
only five pounds or “grossly” over
weight, you probably feel your diet
should make you lose weight as fast as
possible. With this attitude, you will
probably keep searching for the latest
“big-promise, little-work” diet plan you
can find.
All crash fad diets eliminate some
imfwrtant nutrients your body needs for
optimal health and performance. Sure,
you can lose weight fast on any star
vation diet. However, recent research
indicates that 97 per cent of those who
lose a desired amount of weight regain it.
The problem is incorrect eating habits.
Fad diets, even if they were not
dangerous to your health, contribute to
bad eating habits.
What you can do is develop life-long,
sound eating habits, coupled with good
exercise. It is impossible to do this on
unbalanced diets.
There are three types of popular fad
diets: low-protein diets, high-protein,
lowfat diets, and high-protein, high-fat
diets. The last two are also called
ketogenic diets because both cause
ketosis (more about that later).
The low-protein fad diets stipulate that
you have all the nonprotein fruits and
vegetables you want, limited car
bohydrates, and fats and no protein for
several months. You must eat no meat,
poultry, fish, eggs, milk, cheese, nuts or
beans and peas that contain protein.
The low-protein diets cause your body
to develop a negative nitrogen balance.
The body starts to break down or digest
its own tissues. If you remain on this diet
long enough, you will die.
"Ae high-protein, low fat diet and the
high-protein high-fat diet are very
similar. These diets are most often
referred to as Dr. Stillman’s and Dr.
Atkins’ diets.
On Dr. Stillman’s high-protein diet, you
drink large quantities of water a day and
consume all the protein, including eggs,
that you want. No carbohydrates and
consequently no fruits or vegetables are
allowed. On this diet you bum up 275
more calories than on a diet of the same
number of calories that includes fruits,
vegetables, and fats. When the body finds
itself without carbohydrates for fuel, it
begins burning its own tissues to supply
energy.
The designers of these eat-all-the-
protein-you-want diets are supposedly
protecting themselves by suggesting use
of vitamin capsules. But of course
vitamins from food are more readily
absorbed by your body than when taken
in capsule form. You need sufficient
carbohydrates in order to utilize the
important B complex vitamins.
Many fruits and vegetables are low in
carbohydrates, besides being excellent
natural sources of vitamins and
minerak.^ey also contain fiber and
other roughage that help you have a good
shit. But in an effort to simply diet, even
these fruits and vegetables are omitted
by many people on high protein diets.
Water is a helpful diuretic and the best
natural way to rid the body of excess
fluid in and around your tissues.
Drinking water is advisable on or off a
diet. However, water and protein form no
magical formula.
Protein diets are popular because of
some scientific evidence which is, of
course, only part of the story. When you
eat protein, your metabolic rate in
creases and therefore you bum more
calories. For every 130 calories of protein
you take in, you lose 30 on body heat, so
that you end up with 100. For every 106
calories of fat, you lose six on heat; for
every 104 calories of carbohydrates, you
lose four as heat.
Providing you don’t eat more calories
than you bum up, you could eat about 25
per cent more protein calories than
carbohydrate or fat calories and not gain
weight. You tend to eat less of the heavy,
more expensive, hard to digest meat,
eggs and other protein than the more
easily digestable carbohydrates.*
The high-risk protein diet, like every
diet, can only cause a weight loss if more
calories are burned than eaten. The risk
to health with increased cholesterol
levels and vitamin deficiency is a poor
price for an expensive and boring diet.
Eliminating'carbohydrates, as both of
the high-protein diets do to different
degrees, throws the body into ketosis-the
state in which ketone bodies, or acid
chemicals, are formed. The acid
chemicals result when fats are not
completely broken down. The acids
cause the uric acid in your blood to in
crease and this, in susceptible people,
can cause painful attacks of gout.
Ketogenic diets may do harm to the fetus
in a pregnant woman. They could also be
harmful to people with unsuspected
kidney disease; they might retain urea.
Such a diet in a person with an advanced
state of kidney disease could promote
kidney failure.
The Select Committee on Nutrition and
Human Needs of the U.S. Senate has
begun holding hearings on obesity and
fad diets.
At these hearings, the American
Medical Association came out loud and
clear against fad diets. The AMA par
ticularly pointed out that ketogenic diets,
because of their limited intake of
saturated fats and cholesterol-rich foods,
could promote blood clots and heart
problems.
For those brave souls who would
continue on a high-protein or low-
carbohydrate, high-fat diet,^t is im
portant to become familiar with all the
early warning signs of a possible heart
attack. Some of these signs and symp
toms may be chest pain, irtegular
electro-cardiogram, palpitations, and
pain radiating down the arms.
If you want to lose weight, eat fewer
calories than you bum. Even the laziest
will lose weight when eating between 1000
and 15000 calories a day. Eat a balanced
meal.no sugar, and drink all the water
you can hold. A balanced diet, by the
way, includes 100 grams of car
bohydrates.
Bryant Arrington is “the bald-faeaded
guy that’s always taking pictures”
London Program Cut
First, we the students of the North
Carolina School of the Art’s London
Course, must thank you for the most
valuable and fruitful experience we’ve
ever had; it’s been remarkable.
Now, on the eve of the culmination of
this incredible year - a production of
“The Beggar’s Opera” at the Art’s
Theatre in London’s renowned West End
- the news of the legislature’s decision to
discontinue funds for the London Course
comes as profound and disappointing,
both for the students and faculty here.
Not only has this program been an
exciting and valuable educational ex
perience; it has also provided the
students with the opportunity to witness
the world’s greatest theatre first hand,
an incomparable experience for any
student. The efforts of Mr. James
Dodding and his hand-picked staff have
provided classes and performance op
portunities of unequalled quality and
merit; to discontinue this mo^ important
addition to the student’s education would
be, we feel, both unwise and against the
principles of higher education. In this,
“education” means a total, concrete
learning experience. Here in London, the
students are able to see theatre first
hand, an opportunity unavailable to
many NCSA drama students. And how
can any actor be expected to establish a
professional standard when he or she has
never seen a professional production?
Surely this would be like trying to build a
house without ever having seen one.
Finally, we feel that in addition to the
excellent cultural, artistic, and academic
experience we have shared here, that to
discontinue the course would also be an
unfortuante detriment to the future of the
NCSA Drama Program, not only to
students and faculty directly involved
with the London Program, but also to the
future audiences of our native North
Carolina.
In this vein, we appeal to your sense of
artistic quality and judgement.
' Once more, thank you for this past
invaluable year in London. Here’s hoping
the future will be as provident to future
North Carolina students.
Very sincerely yours,
Sonny Linder
on behalf of the students of the NCSA
London Program ’74-*75
Note: The attached sheet of signatures
represents a unaminous endorsement by
the current London students.
Letter to the Elditor
I heard yesterday that the London
course is not to continue next year; I
cannot, of course, know all the reasons
for this decision, but I would like to use
some space in your newspaper to urge
everyone connected with N.C.S.A. to use
their powers, individual and collective, to
get this decision reversed.
I have been working in professional
theatre and drama schools in this
country and abroad for almost fifteen
years, and would venture the opinion that
the course offered to the students this
year compares more than favourably
with anything that our established drama
schools provide. My own contribution has
been ven^ small, but I think it would be a
great pity if future students were not
allowed to avail themselves of the
abilities of the excellent teachers who
Jimmy Dodding has got together for this
year. It goes almost without saying that
his own commitment, integrity and
ability are irreplaceable.
Lastly, but most importantly, I think
the development and extended abilities
of the present students should be suf
ficient evidence of the value of this
course; even at the end of a very full and
tiring year, their energies and en
thusiasm are virtually undiminished,
and I believe that that in itself says as
much for the excitement, interest and
value of the course as it does for their
own vitality and determination. Please
do everything you can to ensure that
something so good, so honest and so
worthwhile does not come to nothing.
Yours most sincerely,
Richard Mangan
Poetry By Students
A Karate Match
Body tense,
breathing hard then soft.
A shiver slides down my body; I wait.
Ups withering into a snarl, he screams to
confuse.
Ropes of muscle jump to the surface of
his arm and chest,
I wait.
He snaps forward with an attack to my
side,
no head,
no - a feint!
His body dips and leans, weight over to
the left.
At the side of my vision,
a foot catapults towards me;
an image of reaction.
I tear my body into position,
smashing down with two forearm clubs
in a scream of attack,
to hit inside the flash of foot,
into the exposed thigh muscle.
When that leg touches floor, there will be
no strength.
It’s a panicky race -
my nearest shoulder up, arm and elbow
in a pendulum
swing must meet his slicing flat of hand
A sound - the echo of my breath rides
over the thud
of flesh and he now looks into the ghost of
a fist.
Arm soft like a whip tenses for impact
Smack, a point!
The memory of speed unreal in the slow
motion of
falling into a defense. ^ ... *
Bryant Arrmgton
3 o’clock in the morning
The whole land pauses for a moment
Eyes, stark wide, try to part
the deafening blanket of black
and the breath tries to suck
it away.
A soul can be terrorized by
the thought that this is what it
is to be shut up, in the ground
for an etemity.
Then, to its relief, the stars begin to tum
over and lull me,
with pinpoint music, to sleep.
Cher Kroupa
One easy decision
Three subdivisions in Forty-three
classifications
Eight portions of Twenty-six assorted
parts
Ninety reasons for choosing the Four
best portions
From the Twenty-six assorted parts
Six of which are located Eighty
millimeters from
my memory banks
Three of which are stored on Thirty-eight
miles of tape
on One Hundred and Thirty cassettes
All of which may be recalled by per
forming
one simple operation in six easy steps
in Thirty short days.
Joe Brown
A Song for You, Jean
come to me with roses in your cheeks,
sunlight in your eyes
smiles within your touch
bring me love, return my faith
lady, bring me healing
for I have loved you often, never well
come to me with gentleness in words
music in your hands
comfort in your voice
bring the moming, show the light
lady, bring me healing
though I have loved you often, never well
haven’t you the answers to my fears
salve for my bums
kisses for my tears
bring me light and show me hope
lady, bring me healing
I want to love you often, very well.
Kay Crutcher
The hammer raps on
As the radiator hisses at
The car screaming by
the student coughing
As another drags a book
while the teacher turns pages
And the class next door is yelling
While 1 have to write a poem about
silence.
Craig Weindling