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DETROIT NEWS DETROIT. MICH. (4 659.000 (S) 1.000,000 MAy 6 1915 ISmsl /m AMERICANS' FONDNESS for moat loops packing houses busy Will meatless diet help sex life? Doctors doubt it HONS 0 3 0 9 2 5 MONS 0 3 0 9 2 6 By GERALD STORCH |WW> WoiU die reraorel of men fora your diet really interne your rex life? Hal rad other claims are made by the American Vegetarians of Akron, Ohio, ehich says it serves as e coordinating center for the SO or so vegetarian groups now operating in the United States. Seven at their contentions -- about how meat is related to cancer, lousy sex, crime, dope, overweijdsr, brain malfunctioning and world Survival - are ^printed below in boldface type. The News checked each of these statements with a professional expert. Only one of the claims (about weight) bore up; another (about dangerously high levels of harmful oolvcloriuirA hipkanvie m the Great Lakes) ms par tially substantiated. The rest are, at the less, highly disputable or, at worst, palpably false. CANCER: Dr. Newel of Camel 'says the a--sola bypredarts of man! sthnnlase cancer- seeceUgrrara. Abraham RiMcaff stales ia 1971 that at least K bnswn carcinogens are added to meat The Wall Street Jeermal ta October 73 foot pages an American Caacar Society report aamiag meal the Ne. 1 caaee ef ialealinal CtBG/f. * ' br. Michael J Bmuo, president tad medi- caJ director at die Michigan Cancer Foundation: "There'vebeea so studies we know of that have definitely denumtraied a specific correUuoo between high meat conamption and (he ieci- daooe of crioo cancer or any other type of can- r car." Dr. Breonan antes that studies of Seventh Day Advcntms -- who dou't drink, smote or eat meat -- da shew a lower inridene* of colon, breast, lung and ether cancers. "But whether that proves beef caums cancer is something no saentbt would say" --at least not without a lot more research, /vi SEX: The butyric arid ia annual fat b aa affeasbe smell. Vegetarians weigh less, have clearer comptexMws, mera stamina, less park chap breath, less sweaL Dr Raymond E/ Buck, a psychiatrist who is die director of sex therapy at Lafayette Oink, sayshe stmply has never seen any research that would indicate vegetarians have better sex lives. If it were true, "the word would have got* tenaround a lot quicker thaa this!** QUME: A study funded by the Uv Enforcemeat Assistance Act and caaducted at the Marris County prism b New Jersey revealed that criminals have more vie arid (meat by* products) ia their blood streams thaa noucTimiaab. Dr. Frank Hartung, a Wayne State University sociologist and criminologist who has written a book catted "Crime, Law and Society," was asked if he thouaht vecetarians eemmited fewer cranes than meat-eaters. `Td jamp alt over a statement like that," he replied (though be didn't use the word`jump'), "ft's absurd.'' Dr Frank McDonald, an istenust who is chief of nephrology (kidney diseases) for Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center,says uric acid b indeed a meat byproduct, as the vegetarians say, but it also comes from vegeta bkshke beans DOPE: This unc arid ia meat b trbxyporia, very similar ta nature to duxypmrta (caffem). There b a simitarcruvbg in both fcMaace* far the njii heartbeat and irrrrasrd respiratieu cmised by the parias* or toadas* hwasbsm Dr. McDonald: "! would say the of their having good scientific evidence to stgport that is extremely remote. Ia fad, I ridiculous." ifj > WEtCBT: A tfady dear by Dr. Stm* mb Dr. Hardbg rf Harvard and reported ia the Jemri of the Amerieaa Dieittb imristbe itriaia stroiod that iho average ooaaated pradaci vegetarianweighs a poods ieu Ban the aver age meal-eater. Vera Tbcxnpson, director of nutrition for the Detroit Health Department, says thb is me. "Vegetables are mostly water. Meat has large amounts of water, too, but also large q/ fat, which vegetables don't have, and that's where the calories come in." BRAIN: TW same study showed that vege- tarbus have mere red bleed cdb per cubic cen timeter, beace get man oxygen Hew to the braia. Second?, meat takes three to four tars to digest b the stomach, as opposed to 2 mbutes for aa apple. Vast amoonts of Mood are diverted from the brain after o meat aieoL (CsadaMvxPatsiD) /ty  ^ Does sex reflect diet? Cwliwi from Page IP John Hesse, a Michigan Bu naturally designed for eating are smaller and fewer "We success has been achieved . Or Warren Hardy, a neuro reau of Water Management vegetables, not meat Accord have more teeth that rip food However, several hundred surgeon at Grace Hospital, aquatic btojomst who is work ing to the North American apart than gnnd." human bodies would be needed say's this isn't right "A neat tng on the PCB problem in the Vegetarian Society of Malaga, meal or any heavy meal anti Great Lakes, says fatty fish N.J . for example, man's ca to take care of the insulin needs - of just one diabetic. bring a vast amount of blood to like lake trout and salmon do nine teeth "have ao resem One anti-meat issue that Articles in a newspaper the stomach, but that doesn't seem to have dangerously high blance" to those of cats, dogs vegetarians must deal with is called "Vegetarian World" 2 take it away From the brain " levels But most fish don't right or other carnivorous animals. that of insulin, used by diabet blames diabetes on the exces Instead, he says, the blood is shtnted to the stomach from the fiver, spleen and to some extent the legs The brain has protective mechanisms to in pow As for the DDT theory, Hesse doesn't believe it; instead, he says, PCB's get into the water as a waste from industrial But Dr James Nagy of Dear born, president of the Detroit District Dental Society, says that's just plain wrong. ics At present, the only practi cal source for it is the pancreas of pigs and cows It takes the pancreases of about 1.500cattle or 7,500 pigs just to produce one sive intake of fatty meats, processed flour products and sugar. They claim that a com bination of wheatgrass chloro phyll and rejuvelac taken sure it keeps on getting enoutfi pihnts using them in fluid in "They're about as far out as ounceof insulin three times a day has been oxygen and sugar. their transmitters and trans you can get, saying we're not "proven scientifically" to WORLD SURVIVAL: The American Chemical Society as reported ia Science News warts of dangerously high levels of polychlorinated bi phenyls (PCB) in Che waters of the world. PCB's in Lake formers. It must be noted also, how ever. that vegetables and grains don't have a PCB prob lem When PCB gets into the food supply, it inflicts stun and internal disorders on people designed to eat meat," he de clares. "You contrast man to other meat-eating animals, and you come up with pretty dose to the same kind of teeth." On the other hand, if you look in a cow's mouth, "you see As her solution, Nellie Shriver. president of the American Vegetarians, sug gests using human cadavers as the source for insulin. That's "not very good" as a method right now, says Dr eliminate the need for insulin within a few weeks. Dr Aiuto says he's not aware of any such miracle cure it is true, he says, that many diabet ics can ease their problem by losing weight But once a per Michigan coho salmon steri huge, flat molars These are James Aaito. a spokesman for son is at normal weight, and lized a whole northern Ohio meant to gnnd up pulp-type the Michigan Diabetes Associa he's still diabetic. Dr Aiuto mink term. PCB's are a prod* Many vegetarians also like to foods and grains of a vegetar tion This is currently being knows of no method except uct of DDT, sunlight and thne.M claim that human teeth __ are M. ian diet " But man's moiai^ done experimentally, and some insulin that will help // HONS 0 3 0 9 2 7 HONS 030928