University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 7, 1987
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Diet can reduce cancer risks
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
Today, scientists think most cancers may be related to lifestyle and environment. But the good news is personal cancer risk may be reduced by dietary habits.
Last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Charis Ross, a University of Kansas dietician, spoke about nutrition for cancer risk reduction. Ross defined the importance some foods play in cancer reduction and gave some protective factors to follow.
Ross said it was important to eat a liberal amount of high-fiber foods because they exercise the gastrointestinal tract and keep the tract strong and healthy.
Dairy food consumption should be kept moderate because of its high fat content, Ross said. And protein consumption should not be much higher
People in the United States need to reduce red meat intake because the meat can become carcinogenic, or
cancer-causing, if it remains in the intestines too long. Ross said red meat should be substituted with fish, poultry and other lean meats.
"Empty calories" like rich desserts, sweets, oils, fats and alcohol should be sparsely consumed or not consumed at all, she said. These foods provide plenty of calories, yet afford little protein.
Ross cited research from The American Cancer Society listing several healthy habits to follow to reduce the risk of cancer.
The Society said to eat more cabbage-family vegetables, which includes broccoli and cauliflower. Studies show that these vegetables protect against colorectal, stomach and respiratory cancers.
Also, the Society said a high-fiber diet may protect against colon cancer. Fiber is found in whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
Choosing foods with Vitamin A may help protect against cancers of the esophagus, larynx and lung, the
Society said. Fresh foods with betacarotene like carrots and peaches are the best sources of Vitamin A, not vitamin pills.
In addition, Vitamin C may protect against cancers of the esophagus and stomach. This vitamin is found naturally in many fresh fruits and vegetables like grapefruit and tomatoes.
Obesity is also linked to cancers of the uterus, gallbladder, breast and colon, the research said. Exercise and lower calorie intake may help prevent gaining weight.
"People need to maintain their ideal body weight," Ross said. Women can calculate their ideal body weight by taking 100 pounds for the first five feet of their height, and then adding five pounds for every inch after that.
Men should take 106 pounds for the first five feet of their height, and then add six pounds for every inch after that to calculate their ideal body weight.
Hunger strike gets small response
By a Kansan reporter
Eight days after he began a hunger strike for divestment, a KU student has received a small number of letters urging the Kansas University association to sell its stock in companies that do business in South Africa.
Maher has not eaten since March 30. He is protesting KU's investments in South Africa, a nation that practices a governmental policy of racial
Mike Maher, Roeland Park senior,
westerday in his usual spot in the
Hallway at Hollyford.
segregation
Maher says he will not eat solid food until he gets at least 50 letters from KU alumni urging the Endowment Association to divest from companies with South African ties.
Only a few letters have come to Maher's house, but he said he was not worried.
"Wednesday was our first day for publicity," he said. "It's reasonable."
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said yesterday that he knew about Maher's strike from newspaper stories, but
that he had no response.
"I would have no comment whatsoever, because I don't know what he's trying to accomplish," Seymour said.
Maher said that letters from alumni would influence the Endowment Association.
"These are people who, even though they have graduated from KU, still have an interest in KU." Maher said.
"KUEA has shown that they don't really care about moral issues, so we have to deal with them on dollar terms."
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On page 12A of the March 22nd Journal-World can be found an advertisement devised and paid for by the Keep Downtown Downtown Committee. As this group of admittedly distinguished citizens considers "public funding for downtown redevelopment" an acceptable response to a phenomenon which many of its members think threatens their respective businesses, it wants the public to assume $20.3 million of the fundamentally flawed 600 block downtown mall's $55.7 million cost of construction. However, when calling for publicly-funded economic development downtown, these congenial entrepreneurs flagrantly misuse their considerable capacity to analyze, proclaim and influence.
Because capitalism was designed to liberate the individual by giving to, in Adam Smith's words, "Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice... (the right) to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with" like-minded folk; those now advocating publicly-funded economic development should be emphasizing how large shopping malls work against our freedom and national health as their existence involves both the irresponsible consumption of natural resources and disproportionate concentration of wealth and power.
Instead of calling for a return to Adam Smith's and Thomas Jefferson's capitalism, local economic development ideologues--who are among the most fortunate victims of this insidious Economic Development Syndrome--want the public to help pay for the de facto destruction of our beautiful downtown. Because most of this country's governing bodies squander public funds on comparable economic development schemes, the suffering and number of this Economic Development Syndrome's less fortunate victims, who need and deserve public assistance, have substantially increased.
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