Alcohol, Coffee, Saccharin
Scientists Studying Links
Between Diet And Cancer
By Lee liinnant
Special To The Post
CHAPEL HILL - As
more links are found be
tween diet and cancer,
researchers at the Uni
versity of North Carol
ina at Chapel Hill and
elsewhere are trying to
identify those links and
determine the specific
health risks.
“It's pretty clear that
diet is related to can
3 cer," said Dr Robert
- Sandler, an instructor in
7 the UNC-CH schools of
' Medicine and Public
Health Sandler has
been studying patterns
of digestive cancers
among groups of people,
trying to identify those
who have high risk and
the reason for that risk.
He and other re
I searchers, including a
number of nationally
• known experts in cancer
research, will discuss
the ties between diet
and cancer as a sym
posium here October
22-23, sponsored by the
UNC-CH Clinical Can
cer Education Program
■ and Cancer Research
! Center.
• Among the sympo
• sium topics will be al
! -cohol, coffee and sac
charin, all substances
that have come under
increasing scrutiny
; from cancer research
• ers.
Studies have indicat
! ed an association be
tween alcohol and can
- cer of the mouth, eso
phagus, larynx and
[ liver. Sandler said there
• is the suggestion of a
! cause-effect relation
; ship, since similar re
• suits have come from
l different studies in a
• number of countries,
• even when the research
I accounted for other
• risks, such as smoking.
> Finally, those who drink
! more tend to have more
‘ of these cancers. This is
known as a dose
response relationship.
"Alcohol is a difficult
* substance to study,"
’ Sandler said. “One rea
«• son is it's hard to de
J termine just how much
people really drink.”
* Also, people who
drink often do other
J> things that can harm
*■'. them, such as smoking,
he said. Another com
!■ plication is that heavy
drinkers often do not eat
; properly, since alcohol
t is loaded with calories.
This can lead to nutri
tional defects which
I themselves might be
; responsible for cancer.
"When pure alcohol is
Z; given to lab animals,”
Sandler said, ‘‘they
don't get cancer.” Alco
holic beverages, how
ever, are seldom pure
alcohol. Wine, for in
stance, has about 1,500
different substances in
it that give the drink
body, flavor and aroma.
Some experts recom
mend drinks like vodka
Dewberry
Has Done
Good Work?
Continued from Page 2
made on the educational
building. Gethsemane
owns six homes and has
made plans to continue to
help the sick and aging.
Rev. Dewberry works
beautifully with our youth
as well as our senior citi
zens. He visits the sick and
helps those in need. He
prays for the saved as well
as the unsaved, the drunk
ards and liars. He asks
God's blessing on them all.
Now that the books have
been audited and cleared
by the auditors no one has
hurried to the press to say,
"it is all over and clear,"
nor has anyone come to say
that they are sorry that this
has happened for the world
would know what they were
and what they stood for.
These same people who
have stretched Rev. Dew
berry's name high and
wide as evil are still look
ing for some wrong doing.
I want to ask God to have
mercy on the souls of these
people I am going to listen
and follow Rev. Dewberry.
I have seen his good work.
It has been proven that he
if not a thief. God bless
you, Rev Dewberry.
{ Byron L. Dae
or gin, which have
fewer extra compounds
than Scotch or red wine
Sandler said that be
cause of the research
limitations, there is no
scientific consensus on
how alcohol causes
cancer.
“If alcohol really pro
motes cancer,” he said,
"it's hard to decide how
it does that."
“There are so many
other problems with al
cohol...1 would recom
mend moderation,"
Sandler said. “There is
some evidence that mo
derate alcohol consump
tion is good for your
heart."
Sandler said coffee
and its possible risks
are getting publicity,
largely due to a 1981
article in the “New En
gland Journal of Medi
cine,” which told of a
study showing a strong
association between cof
fee drinking and pan
creatic cancer. Pancre
atic cancer is a parti
cularly dangerous type
and was associated with
coffee drinking regard
less of the patient’s use
of tobacco, alcohol or
tea. The study also
found a significant dose
response relationship
among coffee drinkers.
Based on the study’s
i 1
(Hidings, one of its
authors said he would
stop drinking coffee
However, Sandler
said, “I think most
people would not see
this as demonstrated
evidence that coffee
causes cancer.”
Studies such as the
one on coffee take a
group of cancer pa
tients, ask them a bar
rage of different ques
tions, then try to “com
pare them with healthy
people by asking them
the same things. Sand
ler said much of the dif
ficulty comes from
trying to find the group
for comparison. He said
certain types of people
were missing from the
control group in the cof
fee study.
He compared this
type of research to
going fishing.
"The thing about go
ing fishing,” Sandler
said, “is there’s a good
chance you might catch
something. It is import
ant to confirm this
finding in other stu
dies.'*
Sandler said another
study linked decaffein
ated coffee to cancer.
There was no distinc
tion between coffees in
the “New England Jour
nal of Medicine”
article.
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COMMUNION CELEBRANT - Theolo
gical Student Yves Eugene Joseph, 28, of
Montrious Theological Seminary, Haiti,
passes THE CUP to young parishioner at
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal
Church last Sunday. The divinity student,
house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith
of 1510 Kay Street in Oaklawn Park
residential section, was assisting church
rector Father Joe Coulter following the
morning service at which he was guest
speaker. Divinity student Joseph will
visit Raleigh, Greensboro, Chapel Hill
✓
and the Migrant Worker Lamp at Newton
Grove while in North Carolina while he
does further study on his thesis on
"Church History" in preparation for his
Ordination in December of January.
When he returns from a visit in Colum
bia, S.C. Joseph will work as an inter
preter for the Mecklenburg County
Health Department's Haitian Refugee
Screening Clinic to be held October 20
and 27 at the county’s facilities on
Billingsley Road
Registered Nurses To Meet In Greensboro
Special To The Post
More than 500 registered
nurses will meet in Greens
boro October 21-23 to dis
cuss nursing’s role in
health care in North Carol
ina by the year 2000.
At the annual convention
of the North Carolina
Nurses Association, pro
grams will focus on social,
political, and economic
changes projected for the
next two decades, how
these forces will shape
nursing, and how nursing,
in turn, can shape health
care.
Veronica M. Driscoll,
R.N., Ed.D., of Albany,
N.Y., will give the keynote
address on “Nursing 2000:
Shaping the Future.” Dr.
Driscoll is a writer and
lecturer and former execu
tive director of the New
York State Nurses’ Asso
ciation.
The Association’s House
of Delegates will hold its
annual meeting on Satur
day, October 23. This
voting body is composed of
elected representatives of
33 district associations. De
legates take positions on
current professional and
health care issues.
A convention feature will
be 50 exhibits of health care
facilities.
Mrs. Beatrice Bennett
Is Lay Council Speaker 1
Mrs. Beatrice F. Ben
nett, popular Charlotte
Mecklenburg teacher, was
the dynamic speaker for
the 10th Anniversary Lay
Council celebration last
Sunday at Bynum Chapel
AME Zion Church in Kings
Mountain.
Speaking on the subject,
‘‘Working Together in
Unity,” Mrs. Bennett gave
the audience four forces to
think about: Leadership.
Fellowship, Friendship and
Love. She charged the au
dience to "remember that
if these four forces are
adequately utilized with
continuous movement to
ward the right direction;
growth, development, and
experience in the highest
magnitude will be
achieved.”
Mrs. Bennett is totally
committed to the four most
important areas of her life:
family, church, community
and education. She is
married to her childhood
sweetheart, James W.
Bennett, also a teacher in
the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
schools. They are the
parents of four lovely child
ren: Mrs. Cynthia B.
Thompson, teacher, Char
lotte-Mecklenburg schools;
Jimmy, Insurance Super
visor with the Claims
Department of Allstate
Insurance, Roanoke, Va.;
and Broderick, an engineer
with the Vulcan Company
of Charlotte.
Having been the im~
mediate past president of
Mrs. Beatrice Bennett
Dynamic Speaker
the Lay Council at Geth
semane, Mrs. Bennett is
also a deaconness, class
leader and assistant Sun
day School teacher. She is
also faithful to her home
church, Womble Chapel in
Lilesville where her late
father, the Rev. A. W.
Frye, served Zion for many
years.
William Qrr is president
of the Lay Council at By
num Chapel AME Zion
Church in Kings Mountain.
The Charlotte District
Choir provided music for
the occasion.
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