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Newspaper Page TextxxPage 6B EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Tuei.. Sept. 4, 1962 1 To Your Good Health Diverticulosis A Common Disorder By OR. JOSEPH G. MOLN'ER Dear Dr. Molner: I wa told after a barium-enema X-ray that I have diverticulosii. What medication and diet does thia condition require? la it curable? D.A.M. You, sir, are one of many and as time goes on diverti culosis will become familiar to more and more people. The longer we live, the more chance of having it, and the more chance of finding it. But don't jump to the con clusion that something awful1 Is happening. Diverticulosis is simply a pouch or bulge that occurs somewhere In the in testinal tract not unlike the Way an automobile tire, years ago, used to develop a bulgy place. We called it a "stone bruise." Tires are much better now, hut there has been no basic change in human physiology. We are still subject to acquir ing these little pouches. Some experts say at least one per son in four has diverticulosis. As a general rule, these pouches don't do any mischief and don't require medication or special diet. They are there, and there is no "cure" short of surgery to repair the place in question. But it is pretty rare that surgery is needed. Just let the pouch stay there. Don't bother It unless it bothers you. How can It bother you? Well, it may become irritated and painful. It may even bleed. In such cases, natural ly, treatment is necessary. The avoidance of seedy fruits, nuts and foods with an undue amount of rough fibers may at times be the first step in stopping the irritation. Regular bowel action also is desirable, and if necessary a patient may need one of the common bulk-producers to encourage regularity. If the pouch becomes in flamed, meaning that some In fection is starting, then ap propriate m e d i c a tion is needed. Only In the most severe cases is surgery suggested, because most of them calm down with conservative meas ures. I'll repeat: In the vast ma jority of cases, a person never knows he has diverticulosis, and most are found through X-rays taken for some other purpose. So don't let it alarm you if your doctor, in going over the X-rays, comments that "you have a diverticulum," or "you have diverticulosis." It doesn't deserve more than a casual comment unless, oc casionally, one of them be comes irritated. Then is time enough to do anything about It. 1 -Ask Andy- Light Travels Fastest How fast does light go? One of history's greatest astronomers was named Galileo and he tried to clock the speed of light more than 300 years ago. He wanted to know how long it took the light from a lantern to cross from one hilltop to another hilltop a few miles away. The flash seemed to take no time at all and Galileo decided that light flashed across the vast reaches of space in no time at all. He was wrong. Scientists have been trying to clock the speed of light for more than 300 years. All kinds of machines and gadgets have been in vented to do the job, but men of science were not satisfied with their figures until about 30 years ago. Even then they were not quite satisfied. In fact, a new experiment is just starting to check the figure we have for the speed of light. Scientists think they know the speed of light almost exactly, but they want to be as accurate as possible. The sunbeam that kisses your nose with a pretty brown freckle traveled eight min utes and 18 seconds to reach you. The earth is more than 92 million miles from the sun and it takes light eight minutes and 18 sec onds to flash across this distance from the sun to the earth. If the sunbeam missed the earth, it could go on traveling another seven hours and maybe fall upon Pluto, the lonely little planet which pedals around the outside rim of the Solar System. Suppose we could make a sunbeam run around and around the world. It would whiz around the equator seven and a half times in a single second. The sun's light pours forth in all directions and only a small part of it falls on the planets. The rest goes on and on into outer space. Here it travels in a vacuum with no air or solid bodies to get in its way. Air and clouds and drifting dust slow down the speed of light a tiny fraction. So when we give the speed of light, we mean the time it takes to travel through the vacuum of space. Its speed is about 186,300 miles a second which is roughly 669 million miles an hour. Light is the fastest traveler known. Scientists are orderly people and they like to keep their figures neat and tidy. The neat est number system goes in tens: A kilometer is equal to 1,000 meters and a meter equals 100 centimeters. On this system, light travels almost exactly 300,000 kilometers a second which equals three hundred thousand million centimeters a second. Are flies of any value? If we like our luxury planet the way it is, then we must allow a place for every living thing upon it. Flies, however, have no place in the kitchen because they carry germs on their furry feet. But they do have a place outdoors. They supply food for the frogs that sup ply food for raccoons and all kinds of four footed charmers. Many of our song birds also dine on fly meat and if we lost all the flies many of our sweet warblers would starve to death. We would also lose many pretty swifts and swallows. (1 Andy Awards each day a full let ol Lba ii IVnrlrf Unnk rn.u.Inn.ill. nK ,h. ,1 . .., J ha selects to answer When a aecond question $ i It answered a large world globe or atlas Is u rFITNOU.') I r i awarded. Questions are accepted from teen-aee or lest-than-teen-age readers They should be i addressed to the Register-Guard. 91b High St. i Eugene Andy prefers that questions be wrlt ten on postcards rather than In letter form f i q 20 Skeletons Unearthed Scientists Probe Cliff Cities WASHINGTON Excavations by the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society of three cliff cities in Colorado's Wetherill Mesa have recently uncovered 20 skeletons and seven storerooms filled with pottery and corn husks. Archeologists are seeking a clearer understanding of the culture and history of cliff dwellers who vanished mysteri ously before Columbus discov ered America. When winter halts work early in the fall, scholars will analyze the new discoveries at the main labora tory in Mesa Verde National Park and associated laboratories around the country. Digging will resume in the spring. Indians settled the Mesa Verde area about the time of Christ, then abandoned it 1,300 years later. Tree-ring studies indicate that a prolonged drought parch ed the region between A D. 1276 and 1209. Warring tribes also may have helped drive the In dians away, even as they forced them earlier to build fortress cities on the cliffs. The corn found in the Mesa's Step House points up the im portance of food grain to the Indians. Without it nomadic hunters probably could never have settled down to a life of farming; they would not have had leisure time to build the cities which stand as their mon uments today. Cliff - dwellers supplemented their corn with beans and squash. They raised turkeys, and hunted deer and smaller game. Skeletons, such as the 20 dis covered in Big Juniper House, suggest how the people looked and lived. Women averaged five feet tall; men a little more. They had to stay trim to squeeze through doorways only two feet high and a foot and a half wide. Cadets are not the only things kept under strict sur veillance at West Point, N.Y. The largest part of the gov ernment's stockpile of sil ver bars is kept there. This silver is used for monetary purposes and represents ap proximately 40 per cent of the silver mined every year. Q Encyclopedia Britannic. Their simple, gritty foods were apparently as hard on teeth as today's rich ones are. Few skeletons show complete sets, and many of their teeth had been ground down. For a time, archeologists be lieved that two tribes inhabited the Mesa Verde and Wetherill Mesa. The earliest skeletons possessed long, narrow heads. Later skeletons had wide, flat ones. Actually, the tribe was the same, but the method of child care had changed. When the Indians moved from prairie houses to cliff cities, they possibly feared their ba bies would suffer crippling falls. So mothers bound infants to pillowless boards, which left the skulls permanently flattened in back. The cliff cities were lost to man for 600 years after the In dians abandoned them. 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