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wednesday, September 20,1995
UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Pioneer fruit drink makes a comeback
The Associated Press
ATCHISON — Pioneers used to down rich, fruity drinks with such offbeat names as Grape Toot or Lime Ricky as they headed west.
But the Hekelenkaemper Bottling Co., manufacturers of the 7-ounce drinks, went out of business in the mid-1960s.
One man, Jack Hayslett, former instructor of business math at Hillyard Vocational School in St. Joseph, Mo., couldn't forget how much he liked Orange Bubble.
The Hekelenkaemper descendants gave him a sheaf of recipes, including the one for Orange Bubble. Then Hayslett spent hours experimenting, testing and testing.
"After I retired, I decided I wanted to recreate it," the Atchison man said. "It was the first athletic drink—like Gatorade or All-Sport is today—and we used it when we were kids."
The other requirement was pure spring water. Hayslett solved that problem by bringing in bottled water from Arkansas.
Haysett decided he would spare no expense duplicating his soda. That meant buying the best flavorings and finest bottlers' sugar.
Finally, he had his product bottled at All Star Bottlers in Kansas City, Kan.
The drink is now available in Atchison markets, but only in gallon containers. Hayslett is working on bottling it in smaller containers to sell in stores in the St. Joseph area.
Prenatal drug exposure the focus of ongoing study
KU receives grant to research children
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
To continue research that has been going on for four years, the University of Kansas and University of Minnesota will be splitting a $900,000 grant to study children exposed to alcohol and other drugs before birth.
The two universities, along with the University of South Dakota, have been studying the families of 270 children, all from different social and economic backgrounds, during the first four years of the children's
lives. Two-thirds of the children have been exposed to drugs and alcohol prenatally.
The money was given to the two universities by the United States Department of Education.
Judith Carta, associate scientist with the Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies, said that the grant would allow the research to continue following the children for four more years.
The Schiefelbusch Institute is located at the Juniper Gardens Children's Project at 1614 Washington Blvd., Kansas City, Kan. The institute is financed by KU.
"We can follow them into grade school." Carta said.
Carta said that this was the first investigation to follow children exposed to drugs and alcohol prenatally from kindergarten to third grade and record their successes and failures. Barbara Terry, assistant research professor, said that this was a chance to see how the children responded to the new environment of school.
Terry said this would be useful in trying to help parents and educators create programs that would help the children make it through school successfully.
"If we know how they respond, we can make the environment work for them." Terry said.
Carta said that the money from the
grant could be cut after a year. Congress may cut the program under its proposed cuts for special education research. If this happened, the researchers would be able to follow these children through kindergarten only.
"We really won't have any idea of what these kids are like once they reach school age." Carta said.
In the research conducted so far, Carta said that the researchers had discovered that drug exposure by itself did not account for the differences in the children's behavior. She said variables such as poverty, oneparent households and moving from foster home to foster home also influenced the children's behavior.
Diet pill ads are heavy on promises, light on results
By Joann Birk
Kansan staff writer
But doctors insist that these diet pills are not magic and that they are often unsafe and ineffective. Ann Chapman, registered dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said many KU students came to her after they had tried and failed to lose weight with various over-the-counter diet pills.
Advertisements for diet pills often announce that using their products will lead to love, fortune and beauty — all in a little magic pill.
"A product like that is really a crutch because it allows you to avoid taking responsibility for eating healthy," she said.
Chapman said students who took diet pills often developed a tolerance to them and consequently increased their dosage beyond recommended levels. But the potential for health problems also increases. For example, diet pills that contain a diuretic, a substance that increases the discharge of urine, can create problems in the urinary tract.
While diet pills may control appetite temporarily, Chapman said that longterm positive effects were unlikely.
"Women are often guilty of trying to starve themselves," she said. "But that will always backfire."
And it is not only female students who are searching for a quick fix to their weight problems.
Amy Boresw, Prairie Village sophomore, said she had a male friend who ordered diet pills because he heard they had few side effects. Her friend has taken the diet pills for only three days but already has noticed that they may not be as safe as they were described.
"The first day he took the pills, he was
not hungry at all, so all he ate was a cup of yogurt." she said.
Boresow said that her friend fainted from lack of food.
Boresow said her friend planed to continue taking the pills because he hoped his body would adjust.
Chapman said this method of dieting was common, but was one of the most dangerous and ineffective. She said the most effective method of weight loss involved no pills or other gimmicks.
"The answer may sound simple," she said, "But you have to eat a little bit less and exercise a lot more."