Oregon daily emerald., April 13, 1978, Section A, Page 3, Image 3

Parents to study diet for hyperactivity
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
Eugene parents who are tired of
feeding their hyperactive children
junk food that only inflames the
hyperactivity will be able to find
alternative diets through a new
group to be formed tonight at 7 in
the School District 4-J Office, 200
North Monroe St.
According to Emanuel Lotito, a
local physician, a diet that may aid
hyperactive children will be dis
cussed at the first meeting of a
group of parents interested in
combating hyperactivity through
eating habits instead of through
medication.
The diet, a special program de
veloped by Ben Feingold, a San
Francisco pediatrician, is de
signed to eliminate all foods that
may contain certain chemical
dyes, preservatives and other
food additives that set off the
No perfect method
for birth control yet,
but group offers info
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
Workers from Lane County’s
Planned Parenthood office Wed
nesday told a group of mostly
female students there is no per
fect method of birth control.
Speaking before a Women’s
Symposium question-and-answer
session, Patty Van Meter told the
group that birth control is “still in
the horse-and-buggy stage,” and
there was much more to learn.
Planned Parenthood doesn’t
"recommend any one method. It’s
a very personal decision based on
medical history, sex life, etc. We
try to give information on all
methods and let the individual de
cide,” Van Meter said.
Dorothy Schwarz gave the
group some startling statistics
from an English study conducted
on women on birth control pills.
The study found women who
had taken the pill five years or less
have a five times greater risk of
developing circulatory diseases
such as a heart conditions,
strokes or blood clots, than those
not on the pill. For women taking
the pill more than five years, that
risk increases to 10 times.
The study, done by the College
of Medical Practitioners, was
“very professionally'' done,
Schwarz said. It also states the
risk of death associated with the
pill may increase with the length of
time taken and may not go away
after usage is discontinued.
In association with these fig
ures, Van Meter presented a chart
showing the annual deaths re
corded related to birth control. The
highest risk group was women
who smoke and take the pill. The
lowest was women who use a
diaphram or condom and then
have an abortion should preg
nancy occur.
Another chart listed the most ef
fective forms of birth control.
Women who take the pill have less
than a half percent chance of be
coming pregnant. Intra-uterine
devices (IUD) are 99-97 percent
effective, diaphrams are 97 per
cent effective, as are foam and
condoms. Leaving things up to
chance gives a woman a 90 per
cent chance of becoming preg
nant.
Van Meter told of a “natural
birth control" method now being
studied, in which women check
the consistency of the mucus ac
cumulated at the base of the
uterus. At a certain mucus consis
tency, a woman should be able
to tell if she is in her fertile period.
The oniy problem, according to
Anna Lisa Robert, is deciding
what method of birth control to use
during the fertile period.
Planned Parenthood, located at
134 E. 15th Ave. offers daily
clinics, pregnancy testing, a
speaker’s bureau, information re
ferral and counseling services.
Women are given complete vagi
nal examination yearly and are
given their chosen birth control
device on their first visit. For more
information, call 344-1611.
IFC
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unanimous.
In other business, the IFC allo
cated $1,323.89 for the two YMCA
goals — a youth basketball as
sociation and a big brother/sister
program. In doing so the commit
tee cut half of the group's initial
budget proposal.
While acknowledging the value
of the programs, Eggleston said,
“It’s inappropriate for incidental
fees to go to such an organization
as the YMCA that has other
sources of income and revenue.”
Other committee members
supported the program, but asked
for frugality in its budget. The mo
tion for the IFC-modified budget
passed 4-1 with one abstention.
Eggleston opposed any allocation
of incidental fees to the YMCA.
The Computer Science
Graduate Student Organization
(CSGSO) and the Condon Soci
ety, composed of geology stu
dents. also submitted budgets.
A request by the CSGSO for
$85 was denied because only a
small percentage of this year’s
budget has been used to date.
Oregon
Eggleston said the IFC does not
want to provide funds that are not
being used.
The IFC passed a request by
the Condon Society for an in
crease in order to expand their lec
ture series program, but denied a
request for additional funds to fi
nance field trips. The society,
which initially requested $1,295,
received $895.
The committee voted to fund
those proposals that provided
worthwhile services, while trying
to eliminate wasteful expendi
tures. Committee Member Dave
Tyler said academic unions and
organizations are a voice of the
students, and are worthwhile if
they provide important services
like lectures, surveys and field
trips.
The IFC is distributing money
obtained through the $31 inciden
tal fee each student pays as part
of tuition, for goals already ap
proved in hearings held last
winter. The spring hearings will
continue through April.
hyperactivity, Lotito says.
Through research and experi
ments with hyperactive children,
Feingold found what appears to
be a genetic deficit in the central
nervous system that reacts to cer
tain chemicals. Those chemicals
are found in foods from hot dogs,
sausage and lunchmeats to
natural fruit that contain a similar
chemical.
The Feingold diet, Lotito says,
has been tested across the nation
and found to be more effective
against hyperactivity than the
medication Ritalin, which is widely
prescribed.
The meeting will cover a variety
of topics, including presentation of
a menu from the Feingold Diet
Center in Salem, Lotito says. Most
of the participants will be parents
who have used the diet and want
to help other parents in their posi
tion.
Parents who join the Feingold
group will probably have to
change their shopping habits as
well as their eating habits, Lotito
says.
“The parents have to go on the
diet 100 percent,” he says. “There
can’t be any cheating or the kid will
go higher than a kite.”
While the diet calls for the elimi
nation of artificially flavored and
colored food, Lotito says shopping
for the diet’s menu is just as easy
as shopping for other food.
For $7 a year the Salem Fein
gold Center will send parents
menus, shopping lists and re
cipes, Lotito says. With these
aids, the parents can do 80 per
cent of their grocery shopping in a
regular grocery store and 20 per
cent in a health food store.
The diet, which allows hyperac
tive children to eat meat, fish and
poultry that is free of additives, is
close to a not-so-strict vegetarian
diet, he says. The food prepara
tion also comes close to a Weight
Watcher’s diet.
Parents who attend the meeting
will be asked to continue with the
diet as long as their children need
it, Lotito says. Eventually the
group may let the children speak
for themselves on the diet’s merit,
he says.
“We know that this diet is not
going to work on all kids,” Lotito
says. “But if the parents can teach
their kids better eating habits
through it, then it will have been
worthwhile.”
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Q: “29.5 Degrees” is:
a) The new book by Dennis “Credit Hours” Yeider, college
student since 1904.
b) The latitudinal coordinate of an area of unexplained
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c) The temperature of Aunt Gertrude’s holiday smooches.
d) The temperature at which Schlitz is Chill-Lagered.
A: Always (d) and sometimes (c).
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