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January 2Ù, 1988, Portland Observer, Page 5
Faire, Forum to Highlight Health
Awareness Week
Health Watch
by Steven Bailey, N.D.
Natural Alternatives to
the A ID S /A R C Conditions
In the past articles of this series, I have defined AIDS, discussed symp
toms, and discussed testing and transmission of AIDS. The remainder of the
series will focus on what we can do to strengthen our resistance to and/or
our response to illness.
Healthy Life-Style
In one sense, our life style is all encompassing. It represents our dietary
habits, our stress management, exercise and social activities. For the pur
pose of this article, "life style" refers to our social attitudes and activities.
I will discuss nutrition, stress management and exercise as individual topics.
It is well recognized that the vast majority of initial AIDS cases were
found in individuals who practiced very poor life styles. The homosexual
population initially at risk involved a sub set of highly promiscuous indivi
duals (estimates of an average of greater than 200 separate sexual partners
per year). I.V. drug users also represent a very unhealthy life style. Only
the hemophilliacs who got AIDS through contaminated blood supplies
showed no real departure from healthy living habits. We are now witnessing
the emergence of another group, these being prostitutes and highly promis
cuous, heterosexual individuals.
There is a common element among all these groups, including the
hemophilliacs. This is, that on the average, these groups all show weakened
and depressed immune systems. The Center for Disease Controfl (CDC)
openly admits that infection by the HIV virus requires an already-weakened
immune system.
Homosexual Promiscuity
This life-style is probably the single, highest risk for contracting AIDS.
There are a number of reasons for this high risk:
1) With any promiscuous behavior, we are dramatically increasing the
number of times that we are exposed to a wide variety of infectious organ
isms. These include: syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, hepatitis, non-specific
bacterium, and a wide variety of other funguses, viruses and bacterium.
The common response of Americans has been antibiotic or drug therapies
for their numerous infections, rather than alterations of sexual practices.
Many antibiotics actually depress white blood cell production in humans.
A secondary aspect of immune health is that with drug therapy our immune
system does not have the opportunity to complete a curative response.
2) Anal intercourse in one of the most physically abrasive forms of
sexual contact. As such, small lesions (cuts) often occur, which gives micro
organisms a direct access to the blood stream (an important component of
"Take Health to Heart - Take
Action" will be the theme of Health
Awareness Week Jan. 26-28 at Mt.
Hood Community Colelge, when 32
local agencies and health-related
organizations participate in a Health
Faire and Forum from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. in the MHCC College Cen
ter. Admission is free and open to
the public.
Over 30 booths will be featured
at the Health Faire, providing com
prehensive health information rang
ing from heart disease and AIDS
prevention to healthful foods and
exercises. In addition, community
members will be able to take advan
tage of a number of health-screen
ing activities provided at the faire.
Blood pressure checks, blood sugar
evaluations, shoulder massages,
body composition screenings, can
cer risk appraisals and vision and
hearing screening will be available
at no cost. A cholesterol check
and a Lifestyle Risk Evaluation by
Portland Adventist Medical Center
will be offered at nominal fees.
To complement the health faire,
a series of talks on key health con
cepts and issues will highlight the
Health Forum in the College Center
lake Room. Presentations by local
health experts will begin hourly from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day.
The Forum schedule Jan. 26 will
be "Birth Control," featuring Becky
Post of Planned Parenthood, at
10 a.m.; "Living Healthy: Fact or
AIDS infection).
3) A final component of risk involves a more subtle area now being refer
red to as "psycho-neuro-immunology." We will go into this at greater depth
later, but basically this involves the relationship between how we think and
feel and our physical immune system. The frequent low self-esteem asso
ciated with most promiscuous individuals coupled with the homophobia of
America and resultant difficulties that homosexual, bi sexual and lesbian
individuals have being openly accepted in society, cannot help but worsen
our immune strength.
I.V. Drug Use
There are two parts to this story:
1) Weakened immune systems: The use of street drugs involves a num
ber of factors that weaken the immune system. Stimulant use often is coup
led with a dramatic decrease in food intake. Other drug users also show
poor nutritional habits. Drug users as a whole show greater incidence of
many infectious conditions, especially hepatitis. The factors of frequent
infections mentioned above are also relevant here.
2) Shared needles: As mentioned earlier, AIDS infections primarily re
quire a weakened immune systemd and a method of transferring the virus
from one individual to another. Sharing a dirty needle is as good a way to
spread the virus as any.
No matter what your sexual preference, if you are exchanging fluids
or sharing a needle with someone that you are not 100% certain is free of
AIDS, YOU ARE AT RISK. Please take AIDS seriously and practice a
Fiction," by P. Rothfels, M.D., of
Good Samaritan Immediate Care
Center at 11 a.m.; Fran Smith of
Comprehensive Options for Drug
Abusers (CODA) speaking on "Cop
ing With Change" at noon; and
"W hat's Left to Eat" by the Oregon
Dairy Council at 1 p.m.
On Wednesday, Jan. 27, Liz
Gardner of the Cascade Athletic
Club will talk about "Exercise and
Fitness" at 10 and 11 a.m.; a re
presentative from the Cascade
AIDS Project will speak on "AIDS
Awareness" at noon; and "N utri
tion" will be offered by dietitian
Jan Peiffer of Mount Hood Medical
Center at 1 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 28, will begin witn
"Taking Control of Risk Factors,"
presented by MHCC wellness advo
cate Stan Nystul using American
Cancer Society information; follow
ed by Kelly Johnson of the Good
Samaritan Immediate Care Center
at 11 a.m. covering "Nutrition and
Weight Control;" a representative
from the National College of
Naturopathic Medicine speaking on
"Staying Healthy Under Pressure:
Illness Prevention" at noon; and
"Cardiac Risk Factors" by Donna
Guthrie of Mounty Hood Medical
Center at 1 p.m.
Health Awareness Week is spon
sored by MHCC's Health and Well
ness Center. For more details call
college health coordinator Adrienne
Anderson at 667-7600.
School Exclusions For Immunizations
Begins in Oregon
child to remain in school or day
care center.
Signed written evi
dence of the date of each dose of
each vaccine that the students re
ceived is required to be on file at
the school or day care.
Vaccines that are required for at
tendance are:
Polio, Measeles,
Mumps, Rubella, and Tetanus/
Diphtheria containing vaccines.
Vaccines are available at private
physicians offices and county health
departments.
All public and private schools and
certified day care centers in Oregon
are currently reviewing immuniza
tion records to make sure each child
in attendance is properly immu
nized. Those children with no im
munization records or incomplete
records will be receiving exclusion
orders from the county health de
partments by February 3, 1988.
Parents will have until February
17, 1988, to provide evidence of
their child's immunization record or
obtain the needed vaccines for the
Help End Violence
Against Women
& Children
Every 18 seconds a woman is
beaten.
Every 3 seconds a women is
raped.
One in three female children and
one is six or seven male children
will be sexually abused by age 15.
You Can Help! by becoming in
formed about violence against w o
men and children, by saying no to
violence in your life, by sharing
what you've learned with others,
and by becoming a volunteer for
Bradley-Angle House, an organiza
tion of women committed to ending
violence against women and child
ren.
Join us for our next volunteer
training, January 26, 1988.
For
more information, call 281-3540 or
230-9026.
We can end violence against w o
men and children.
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healthy life-style.
Alternative Care
Before I begin the final "cook book" section(s) on Natural Alternatives
to the AIDS/ARC condition, I would like to discuss what the various forms
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of alternative care are:
"Alternative" is defined as "the choice between possibilities" (Web
ster's II, New Revised Dictionary), but, when used in "alternative medicine ,
it is generally accepted to mean "non-orthodox" forms of care, with the
term "orthodox" referring to the predominant practice of M.D.'s.
Alternative forms of care include: acupuncture, Chinese medicine, her
bal medicine, nutritional therapeutics, homeopathy, chiropractic and a wide
array of psycho-social practitioners.
Acupuncture: The system of using needles to puncture the skin as a
treatment for disease or illness. Today this includes the substitution of elec
tric stiumlation for the needling.
Acupuncture cannot be separated from the field of Chinese medicine,
which includes the use of herbs combined with Chinese diagnosis and acu
puncture.
Nutritional Therapeutics: The application of nutrients (vitamins,
minerals, foods and fluids) for the improvement of health.
Homeopathy: "A system of medical treatment based on the use of
small quantities of drugs that in large amounts produce symptoms resem
bling the disease being treated." (Webster's II, New Revised Dictionary).
Chiropractic: A system of therapy in which body structures, as in the
spinal column, are manipulated." (Webster's II, New Revised Dictionary)
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Taxpayer Assistance
The Oregon Department of Re
venue will provide a toll-free number
for tax assistance from Jan. 4 -
April 30. 1988, 8 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Portland: 243-2833; Salem: 371-
2244; elsewhere in Oregon: 1-800-
356-4222.
Black Single Women's
Support Group
Group will be informal focusing on
day-to-day problems and concerns
Group will be limited to 10 single
females. Northeast YWCA. Call
Barbara, 284 8803
Under the A cid Cloud:
Posters by the Children of
Quebec
Today, children are faced with
many frightening issues; among
them the threat of acid rain. The
children of rural Quebec face this
issue everyday and have illustrated
their concerns in an exhibit called,
"Under the Acid Clouds," on dis
play at OMSI, Friday, Jan. 15 thru
Feb.12th.
"In Defense of Free Speech
and Privacy Rights" Discussion
The internationally endorsed Free
way Hall Case's fight against the
new McCarthyism will be discussed,
on video, by two defendants. Port
land case supporters will answer
questions on how this case effects
working women, unionists, people
of color, activists and lesbians and
gays. Join Radical Women in dis
cussion on Thursday, January 21,
6:30 p.m., Multnomah County Cen
tral Library, 801 S.W. 10th Avenue.
Call 249-8067. Wheelchair acces
sible.
Volunteers Needed
N.E. Elderly need you. Volunteer
for transportation, visiting, chores,
weatherization, respite or escort.
Project Linkage Volunteer Organi
zation, Jan. 21, 1988, 7:30-9:00
p.m. Call 249-8215.
CPR and First A id Classes
The following Red Cross-sponsored
and instructed classes will be offer
ed at Emanuel Hospital, 2801 N.
Gantenbein: CRP: Saturday, Janu
ary 16, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., cost
$15; First Aid: Saturday, January
23, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., cost $20.
"Eyes On The Prize: Awaken
ings 1954 1956" to Air on PBS
KOAP (PBS) will air "Eyes On The
Prize: Awakenings 1954-1956" de
tailing discrimination in post-WWII
America, with special attention to a
lynching trial in Mississippi and the
bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala
bama, Monday, Jan. 25, 9:00 p.m.
"Searching For Justice" to Air
KOAP (PBS) will air "Searching For
Justice” Monday, Jan. 25 at 10:00
p.m. Columnist Carl Row^n ex
plores major constitutional issues of
our times — the death penalty,
abortion, and desegregation.
Calcium ft Osteoporosis Class
"Calcium & Osteoporosis" is a
course that explains the impact cal
cium has on general nutrition, and
the contribution calcium makes to
healthy bones, posture and energy
for life. Osteoporosis is a dege
nerative bone condition that makes
the body's bones become brittle
with age. It is found most frequent
ly in women, but not exclusively.
The class will be held from 7-8:30
p.m., Jan. 26 at Emanuel Hospital,
2801 N. Gantenbein Ave., Portland,
in Room 1075. Info: 280-4284.
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Albina Branch
3605 NE 15th, 221-7701: Jan. 28,
4 p.m. "School Daze With Miss
Nelson". The Snapdragon Flayers
present creative dramatics and sto
ries.
Kids Day O ff: W hat To Do
Jan. 29 is a day off for students
in Portland Public Schools. Hang
ing around the shopping malls is
one option for them, but Portland
Parks and Recreation has sugges
tions that are definitely more inter
esting. "School's Out —Play Day",
Peninsula Park Community Center,
6400 N. Albina. Beat the winter
blues with activities planned around
a summer theme.
Included are
games, crafts, tournaments, and a
snack. For ages 6-12. 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. The fee is $2.
Multnomah County Library
North Portland Branch
512 N. Killingsworth, 221-7702:
Saturday, Jan. 30 , 2:30 p.m., film:
"Benjamin Walks the Dog," "The
Beast of Monsieur Racine," "The
Day the Colors Wents Away." -
for kids. Storytime for preschool
ers: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Ages
3-5; and 11:15 a.m., age 2 with
parents.
For Adults:
Jan. 30,
10:30 to noon.
"Afro-American
Health Issues." Local health-care
professionals will lead the discus
sion.
Poetry Workshop at PCC
Oregon's Ambassador of poetry,
Penny Avila, author of several
books and past poetry editor for the
Oregonian, will be the feature pre
senter at a poetry workshop hosted
by The Cascade Poets of the Ore
gon State Poetry Association and
the Cascade Cultural Affairs Com
mittee.
The workshop will take
place at PCC Cascade Campus, 705
N. Killingsworth, from 9:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. in Cascade Hall, Room
B 47. The cost is $5. There will
be a question and answer period in
the afternoon. Please bring a sack
lunch. Info: 283-3682 after 6 p.m.
M u ltnom ah C ounty Library
St. Johns Branch
For Kids: Saturday, Jan. 30, film:
"Best Horse," "The Bird Who Is
a Clown," "Just Say Hie!". Story
time for preschoolers: Fridays at
11:00a.m., ages3-5.
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