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PAGE TWO MARS HILL COLLEGE HILLTOP FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1976 FRIDAY, AI /\ im m “Stone’s Soliloquy” ARE WE EATING CARD BOARD? Contrary to the po pular belief propaga ted by the song "Junk Food 'Junkie", there are those who eat na tural or whole foods and avoid "junk" at all costs. Some of the no-no's for natural food eat ers are white sugar, white flour,and white rice. All of these are so refined and processed that they have very little nu tritional value. It seems rather absurd to think that while natural foods are being processed, all the natural vitamins and minerals are ta ken out and synthetic ones are added.' A horrifying ex perience is going shopping at any gro cery store and read ing the labels on the packaged foods. It is surprising how few of these do not have ad ditives, preserva tives, chemicals,etc. Even common iodized table salt is full of non-natural substan ces.' We do not know too much about"fresh" produce. Some oran ges are injected with a dye to make them more appealing to the consumer. Some vege tables are covered with parafin and che mical sprays. A new controversy over the arsenic in eggs is underway. Even yo gurt, a must on the list of natural food eaters, can often be adulterated and pro cessed. U.S. DOLLAR SENTENCED TO DEATH by Anthony J. Hilder LOS ANGELES: Incre dible as it may seem, a California Chiro practor who lias waged a six year fight for the preservation . of the U. S. Dollar, was found guilty of obey ing the law. Ah... that is. Constitu tional Law which,like the Doctor,is at odds with Internal Re venue Service edict. The chiropractor. Dr. Marcel Methot, a mild-mannered man of 41, has been quoting the U. S. Constitu tion, Article 1, Sec tion 10, which quite clearly states "No State shall make any Thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." This means that "fun ny money" (printing press money) is un constitutional accor.- dlng to the letter of the law. And since the U. S. government has surrendered its constitutionally li mited authority to a privately owned money monarchy using the name of "The Federal Reserve System" - it has in actuality vio lated the rights of the citizens under While people watch ing their weight buy imitation foods that have poor nutritional content, whole food eaters use substi tutes that have a higher nutrutional value like using whole wheat, soy, or rye flour instead of en riched or unbleached white flour. As for sugar, it is best to avoid anything sweet. A person can use raw honey, unsulphered or Barbados molasses,raw fruits,or unsweetened fruit juices (making sure that the label does not list su crose and dextrose as ingredients)) to sa tisfy that "sweet tooth" we, all seem to have. It is not that dif ficult to find na tural foods in gro cery stores. Most of them usually have brown rice, real pea nut butter (old fa shioned and unhydro genated) , white chee ses (yellow or orange is not the natural color of cheese), and many others. It is extremely important to read the labels. By shopping and eating more careful ly, exercising, and taking . natural vita mins, we can all im prove our nutritional habits and our health. We really know very little about the food we buy or the food we eat. Those of us who eat well can learn to eat better and those who eat poorly, through ignorance or poverty. can learn what good choices to make and how to pre pare them. We all need to develop a new food consciousness and personal aware ness to help us eval uate foods and avoid junk I Dear Editor, I feel compelled to tell the students at Mars Hill College that the sweets,espe cially ice cream, are not good for dogs. I speak on the authori ty of seven years ex perience raising dog?. Outside the cafeteria everyday some "good citizen" sees all the "hungry dogs" begging for ice cream. In their kindheartedness they give their ice cream away to the ap plause of their fel low students. This scene takes place ma ny times each day with the dogs eating to their hearts con tent never knowing what all that sweet junk food is doing to their guts. Kind students, dogs are made to eat meat and bones, not cake and ice cream; do them a favor—eat your ice cream yourself. Sincerely, Kenneth D. Hall Dear Editor, Harrell Pool, with its diving boards, seating facilities, and five twenty-five yard lanes lies dor mant. True, it is an exceedingly useful recreational and Red Cross facility, but Harrell Pool needs to be awakened—and only competitive swimming can do it. With all the stress on sports and physi cal education at Mars Hill, a swim team would make a more ba lanced curriculum, especially for P.E. majors who graduate able to coach almost anything but swimming The main reason for this is that there is no qualified competi tive swimming coach here, and this is ba sic for any swim pro gram. Last year there managed to be a swim team with the gene rous help of the ath letic department, but how much can a team improve without a coach or a minimum of school support? This year the president actually took time out from watching a Mars Hill football game to reject any kind of budget for a swim team. I realize that a college of this size cannot afford a team m every sport, but the facilities and Continued on p. 4 continued on p. 4 The HILLTOP is published approximately every two weeks by the students at Mars Hill College. Mailing ad dress is Box 1148-C, Mars Hill, N. C., 28754. Phone is 689-1250. Advertising rates are $2.50 per. co lumn inch. Subscriptions are $2.00 per year By Ben Well, not onl; Bicenteni election talking friends, that nc knew whc dates si are accus ing for. if I lea\ date out, sorry and he won't joyed.) To star begin wi peanut fa Governor of Georgi thinks tj policy ii Jesus is important his life. From Ca: Lc A creatJ competitic all resic Western No na count1 sponsored palachian. it has bee by Dr.J. G of Cullowh tium boar and F. Bo executive The "Lai Creative W; test"wlll prize of prize of from two ditional $100 each cates of will be aw£ Entries test must marked no May 15, selected n the winnin will be pu the Consor blication. Leaves." Dr. Elle said indlv invited to to three of poetry
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