University Daily Kansan, October 2, 1981
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Fad diets possibly unhealthy,profs say
By JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
WARNING: Fad diets may be dangerous to your health.
"It's certainly a health problem," he said. "It's also a cosmetic problem."
About 40 percent of Americans are overweight and trying to lose that excess bagge, Peter Beyer, assistant professor of dietetics and nutrition at the School of Allied Health, said yesterday.
UNFORTUNATELY, many overweight people are trying to lose weight by following some faid diet they have about in a book or magazine, he said.
"The average person who reads a book or magazine article about dieting is just scratching the surface of good food and learning how to shipper the surface, just cracking it."
The problems with fried diets, such as the Pritikin Program, the Liquid Protein diet and the grapefruit diet, is that they are not nutritionally balanced and they cannot be used as an eating pattern throughout life. Ever said
"Dietis should be checked out with a physician or clinic." he said.
Most of the fad diets, despite their claims to originality, are low-carbohydrate or high-protein diets, Beaver said.
"Just reducing carbohydrates reduces energy stores," he said. "We don't advocate it."
THE REFERENCE ALSO problems with protein is important nutrient.
"High proteins provide a very high load for the kidneys, which have to rid themselves of the metabolic breakdown products of protein," Beyer said.
After the body breaks down protein, acids called "ketone bodies" are left behind. They cannot be used by the body, and are potentially harmful because they are corrosive, so they flushed from the system by the kidneys.
Also, people on a high-protein diet must drink a lot of water to help the kidneys flush ketones from the body, and that means that people on high-protein diets have to go to the bathroom often.
Ketone bodies also make people's breath smell bad.
breath smelt bad.
FASTING IS another dangerous fad
FASTING IS another dangerous fad diet. Reynolda
"Your body still needs certain
nutrients," he said. "You'll be losing
nutrients, and not replacing them.
Marie Z. Cross, an associate professor of human development and family life who teaches nutrition, will spoke out against diets yesterday.
"Fad diets in general are bad," she said.
- The diet must meet all of your nutritional requirements.
- They are bad, she said, because they don't meet any of the three criteria that are essential for a healthy diet.
- You have to reduce calories, but you shouldn't eat less than 1,000 calories a day. If you do, won't be meeting your nutritional requirements.
- It should be a diet that retains your eating habits, one that you can live with and enjoy.
FOR KU STUDENTS who want to lose weight safely, without diets,
Watkins Memorial Hospital offers a weight reduction program.
The program is run by dietitian Pam Mangrum.
"Most of the people who come here have been on all the diad firts, the whole gamut," she said. "They don't work." She said she saw about 100
Mangrum said she saw about 100 dieters a month.
People who want to get into her people, she'll do a doctor first, then recompensate to be
"I prefer to work with people who are at least 20 pounds overweight, the ones with a real weight problem," she said. "I feel I can do more for them than I can for the people who just need to lose five or six pounds."
BESIDES RECOMMENDING a healthy diet. Mangrum also recommends that dieters enroll in exercise classes, and she tries to modify dieters' behavior so they don't feel the need to overeat.
On the record
Police arrested a Lawrence man
wished night on a charge of inde-
pendence.
Police said Charles R. Abbey, 21, 1703 W. Sixth St., told them God had made him wake nude to two houses and knock on the front doors.
Police said the first victim told them her young daughter had answered the door and immediately called for her. Police had begun a search of the neighborhood at Second and Iowa streets when they received a second call from the First Street and Providence Road area.
When police arrived at the second call, they said a woman told them she had not been aware that the man was
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Abby is in jail on two counts of indictable exposure, police said. His bond has been set at $250,000.
She told police that he had asked for an address and then left. Police said she called them after she watched him walk away.
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SUA FILMS
Friday, Oct. 2 Every Man for Himself
Jean-Luc Godard's newest film, acclaimed as a classic by the *Film Society*, was directed by a TV director at an impasse, his girlfriend, and an archetypal Godardan prostitute, the occasion for intellectual and visual observations in a world of unseen beauty beautiful and often very funny"... Vincent-Cain, with Isabelle Hassall and Marjorie Brillow. $39.95; m.n.j. Color, French Subtitles; 3:30, 8:30.
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The second feature from Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, American Pop) is his best, and the second feature to tealish who freaks out at the drawing board. Plus: Dinosaur and the Missing Link and 20 Minutes Thrill. (76/125) and 20 Minutes Thrill. Rated X- one under 18 admitted.
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The Stunt Man
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