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thursday, december 11,2003
Pills can replace fruits, vegetables
By Amber Bylaray
abyarlay@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
There's another option for students too busy to eat the daily five to nine fruits and vegetables doctors recommend.
Jice Plus+ is a pill that contains parts of 17 fruits and vegetables that are juiced, dehydrated and put into capsules. When they are taken with water they expand in the stomach, creating a feeling of fullness, said product distributor Ianell Greeley.
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The Memphis, Tenn.-based company that distributes the pills through the mail and a Web site, www.juiceplus.com, is touting the capsules as a substitute for eating the recommended daily allowance of fruits and vegetables. The company claims four pills a day, two fruit and two vegetable, is equal to six pounds of
food. They sell about 500 pills for $40.
But Watkins Memorial Health Center dietitian Ann Chapman is suspicious of the product's health benefits.
"Fluids are a benefit because fruits and vegetables help hydrate us." Chapman said.
She recommends drinking water while taking the pills to keep hydrated.
Calories that the capsules contain are also an important factor to consider, Chapman said. The pills provide less calories than normal foods, so could provide less energy. For the body to benefit from the capsules the same way it would from food, the pills would need to have at least 50 to 100 calories, she said.
Each capsule contains about 10 to 20 calories, Greeley said. The body uses the vegetables and fruit inside the capsules in
"Fluids are a benefit because fruits and vegetables help hydrate us."
Ann Chapman
Wattkins Memorial Health Center dietitian
the same way it uses other foods, Greeley said, by converting it into glucose and absorbing it.
One advantage to taking Juice Plus+ is that the fruits and vegetables put in the capsules are not commonly eaten, Greeley said. They include beets, kale and parsley.
The Community Mercantile Co-op, 901 Iowa St., carries similar products filled with garlic, cranberries or other fruit and vegetable combinations, but multivitamins are far more popular, said shift manager Amber Ashbrook, Wichita junior.
Chapman said she didn't suggest college students use Juice Plus+ as their only source of fruits and vegetables.
an student has an unhealthy diet, using this product isn't going to take care of all the different nutrients a multivitamin will provide." Chapman said.
Chapman suggested taking a daily multivitamin instead to ensure students got nutrients that are not found in fruits and vegetables. However, taking the capsules would not hurt students. Greeley said.
"You can't get too much of it because it's just food — you're body will use it like it uses food," Greeley said.
Edited by Katie Nelson
Execution stopped by Supreme Court
The Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution yesterday of a condemned inmate who was part of a lawsuit that challenged one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.
Kevin Lee Zimmerman won his reprieve about 20 minutes before he could have been put to death for a fatal stabbing and robbery at Beaumont motel in 1987.
In a brief order, Justice Antonin Scalia stopped the punishment pending an additional order from him or the court.
"I'm disappointed," Zimmerman told a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman, Michelle Lyons. "I was ready to go. The stay only means 18 more
months of this crap."
The lawsuit had allowed another inmate, Billy Frank Vickers, to avoid the death chamber Tuesday. Rejection of the lawsuit yesterday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for Zimmerman's execution until the Supreme Court order was issued.
Citing the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the lawsuit sought to stop use of pancuronium bromide, a drug that paralyzes muscles.
Texas, the first state to execute condemned inmates by injection, uses a combination of three drugs: pancuronium bromide, the barbiturate sodium thiopental and potassium chloride, which causes cardiac arrest.
DIABETIC: Senior needs glucose
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Sergeant Mike Patrick with the Lawrence police said everyone who was available was assigned to comb the city.
"Not only were we trying to find this person," he said. "But we were trying to handle several wreckes throughout the city."
At 6:51 p.m., amidst wind and freezing rain, Officer Kresten Spurling located Bowlin's vehicle near the southeast corner of Haskell Indian Nations University. The car was off and parked in a remote area near a cemetery.
"Tears of joy, you name it, I was happy." Pope said.
Emergency personnel arrived on the scene shortly after. Bowlin was not able to talk. She was given a fast-acting dose of glucose and transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. People were contacted and the search was called off.
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"Tears of joy, you name it, I was happy."
Andy Pope Lawrence senior
exhausted with a massive headache shortly after they gave her the glucose. When she was found, she had a blood sugar level of 26. The average level is 100. At 40, people usually go into diabetic comas.
"It was almost like hallucinating," she said. "I came to a point where I was just crying."
Yesterday she visited the site where she ended up and tried to figure out how she got there. She didn't remember running her car into a concrete barrier.
Marcheta was thankful police responded so quickly and thoroughly. She feared Stephanie would have frozen to death in her parked car if she had not been found.
— Edited by Nikki Overfelt
Iraqi civilian casualty count to halt
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Health Ministry officials ordered a halt to a count of civilian casualties from the war and told workers not to release figures already compiled, the head of the ministry's statistics department said yesterday.
The health minister, Khodeir Abbas, denied that he or the U.S.-led occupation authority had anything to do with the order, and said he didn't even know about the survey of deaths, which number in the thousands.
Nagham Mohsen, the head of the ministry's statistics department, said the order came from the ministry's director of planning, Nazar Shabandar, who told her it was on behalf of Abbas. She said the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees the ministry, didn't like the idea of the count either.
"We have stopped the collection of this information because our minister didn't agree with it," she said, adding. "The CPA doesn't want this to be done."
Abbas, whose secretary said he was out of the country, sent an e-mail denying the charge.
"I have no knowledge of a civilian war casualty survey even being started by the Ministry of Health, much less stopping it," he wrote. "The CPA did not direct me to stop any such survey either."
"Plain and simple, this is false information," he added.
Despite Abbas' comments, the Health Ministry's civilian death toll count had been reported by news media as early as August, and the count was widely anticipated by human rights organizations. The ministry issued a preliminary figure of 1,764 deaths during the summer.
A spokesman for the CPA confirmed the authenticity of the email, saying the occupation
authority contacted the minister by phone and asked him to respond. The CPA didn't provide a phone number, and the minister didn't respond to e-mails requesting further comment.
The CPA spokesman said the coalition had no comment.
The U.S. military doesn't count civilian casualties from its wars, saying only that it tries to minimize civilian deaths.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, called that policy irresponsible.
"That deliberate ignorance of the past risks condemning the U.S. military to repeating its mistakes into the future and needlessly risking further civilian deaths," he said by telephone from New York.
Roth said the government doesn't count because "politically, it's embarrassing to talk about civilian casualties in one's war effort."
The Associated Press conducted a major investigation of Iraq's wartime civilian casualties, documenting the deaths of 3,240 civilians between March 20 and April 20. That investigation, conducted in May and June, surveyed about half of Iraq's hospitals, and reported that the real number of civilian deaths was sure to be much higher.
The Health Ministry's count, which was to be based on the records of all Iraq's hospitals, promised to be more complete.
The ministry began its survey at the end of July. It sent letters to all hospitals and clinics in Iraq, asking them to send back details of civilians killed or wounded in the war, ministry officials said then.
Many hospitals responded with statistics, Mohsen said, but last month Shabandar told her that Abbas wanted the count halted. He also told her not to release the information she had already collected, she said.
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