University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 9, 1992
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Speaker: U.S. must eliminate hunger
By Michelle Betts Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
It would be inconceivable to hear that 35,000 people died every day in airplane crashes, said Forrest Swall, director of the undergraduate social work program.
But the same number of people die from hunger and hunger-related diseases in the world, he said.
"Thirty-five thousand people crash every day in this tragedy and there is literally nothing about it."
KU Students Against Hunger sponsored a speech by Swall yesterday that was part of War On Hunger Week '92.
Swall spoke to about 40 people at University Forum, a weekly luncheon forum held at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave.
Swall said that the problem of hunger in the United States could be lessened or even eliminated. The Medford Declaration to End Hunger in the U.S., which was drafted in 1990 at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., outlined how hunger could be greatly decreased by 1995 and eliminated by 2000.
Many people cite economic exploitation of underdeveloped nations as a cause of hunger.
"Thirty-five thousand people crash every day in this tragedy."
Forrest Swall
Director of undergraduate social work program
Swall said that although people pointed fingers at the causes of hunger, the United States had the knowledge and the programs to decrease hunger in the nation.
Programs such as school breakfast and lunch programs, which would provide meals to students who may not get them at home, could be expanded. They would not only increase nutrition among undernourished students, but would help them be more attentive at school.
"Children who come to school without breakfast are not good learners," Swall said.
The WIC program, which provides healthcare and food for women, infants and children, is used by 70 percent of eligible mothers and children in the United States.
The 30 percent of women who do not use WIC should be informed about and encouraged to use the program. Swall said.
He said Headstart, Meals on Wheels and food stamps were programs that should be expanded to decrease hunger in the United States by 1995.
Self-sufficiency in the United States would eliminate hunger and is the ultimate goal of the war
"We are among the first generation to know that hunger can be eliminated, not just lessened," Swall
Child-care programs and health care policies can be modified so people can become more self-sufficient and move out of poverty, he said.
Kishor Allada, one of the vice presidents for KU Students Against Hunger, said the group hoped the speech would educate people about hunger.
"As you get more educated people, it perpetuates their desire to learn," he said. "Maybe in the future they will take some action."
Swiss scientists find cause of beer belly
The Associated Press
BOSTON — At last, science has found an explanation for one of the obvious effects of drinking too much—the beer belly.
Swiss researchers report that when people drink alcohol, their bodies burn up fat much more slowly than usual. And any fat that is not burned is stored in the paunch, the thighs or other places where people tend to put on weight.
The study suggests it is not just the calories in alcohol that make it fattening. It is the way alcohol throws off the body's normal disposal of fat in the
"This is one good explanation of why people get fat drinking alcohol," said Clifton Bogardus of the National Institutes of Health.
The study was based on an experiment in which people were put on a diet that included about 3 ounces of pure alcohol a day. This much alcohol, about six shots of whiskey or six beers, reduced their bodies' fat burning by about one-third.
The study, directed by Paolo Suter of the University of Zurich, was being published in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
The research is one more piece of a larger idea to emerge from recent investigation of how people get fat or what nutrients that fat has makes people fat.
When people eat extra carbohydrates, sugar or starch, they tend to burn most of it, adding little to their diet. They can fuel fat sparingly and instead saves it away.
Of course, not everyone who drinks
get a spare tire. It depends on what they eat. Beer guzzlers and whiskey drinkers who live on hamburgers and potato chips will almost certainly put on pounds, while vegetarian wine sippers will not.
The Swiss study found that alcohol suppresses the body's already stingy disposal of fat. Just why this happens is unclear. The body may simply prefer to burn alcohol first, or alcohol may have some other effect on metabolic processes in the liver.
The finding points to the fact that energy balance over the long term has a lot more to do with fat balance than anything else we eat, said Bogardus. The main way to stay thin is not to eat fat.
The study was conducted on eight healthy men during two sessions. In one, alcohol made up 25 percent of
their calories, but their total daily calories did not change. In the other, they drank enough alcohol to increase their daily calories by 25 percent.
On both diets, the men's bodies turned about twice the deer fat calorie. The drunks' dryskins
The study reached one modestly positive conclusion. People who substituted alcohol for other food but did not increase their daily calories actually burned up slightly more calories overall than when not drinking. The reason appears to be that alcohol boosts the metabolism.
This finding provides a strategy for drinking without putting on flab.
Suter said, "If somebody wants to drink socially and avoid gaining weight, he should have a substitution diet, substitute fat calories for alcohol."
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