Soft Drinks Take Fizz Out Of Calcium intake SOUTHAMPTON There is a growing concern that teenagers do not understand the consequ ences of inadequate calcium intake since the total population’s annual consumption of soda is 47 gallons versus 21 gallons for milk, according to Althea Zanecosky, R.D., Dairy Council’s nutrition media specialist in Southampton. According to a study reported ing soft drinks, calcium intake fell in “Nutrition Today,” soft drink to 66% and 59% of the RDA for consumption among teenagers calcium, respectively. Seventy- Perry County Names Dairy Baby and a cow bib. Her parents were awarded with REAL dairy pro ducts, including milk, yogurt, whipped cream, butter, cheese, ice cream, and frozen yogurt. TTiey also received the cookbook, Royal Recipes, featuring recipes from past county princesses. Perry County Dairy Princess Jennifer Hummel awarded the gifts to the new parents. (Perry Co.) The Perry Coun ty Dairy Promotion Committee sponsored a First Baby in June contest. To enter, parents had to send in their baby’s date and time of birth. Paige, daughter of John and Deb Morrison, was the winner of this year’s contest. She was bom on June 1 at 3:10 a.m. Paige won a stuffed cow, a cloth book about farm animals, IT DOES A BODY GOOD. had a negative impact on adequate intake of vital nutrients including magnesium, riboflavin, vitamin A, ascorbic acid and most conspicu ously, calcium. Even among girls who consumed no soft drinks, only 75% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for cal cium was met. And among girls occasionally or regularly consum- one percent of boys ages 12-18 also consume less calcium than the RDA. Consuming soft drinks may seem like a pretty harmless addic tion. There’s no hangover, no fat, and no cholesterol. But new stu dies out of Harvard’s School of Public Health suggest that binging on soda can weaken bones. When surveying more than 5,000 former female college athletes, soda drinkers were abouUwice as like ly as non-soda drinkers to suffer a first bone fracture after the age of 40. “This is a troubling result, because many athletes drink large amounts of soda,” states Althea Zanecosky, R.D., nutrition media specialist of Dairy Council in Southampton. This effect may be due to the presence of phosphoric acid in sodas; studies suggest that this compound interferes with the absorption of calcium, which the body uses to build bone. Another likely explanation is the fact that soda consumption has increased by 300% over the past 30 years. According to Zanecosky people are drinking soda where they once drank milk, so calcium intake is down and bone fracture incidence is up. ■ 55 PTO hp ■ Smooth running 4-cyl. Perkin engine ■ 22% torque back-up means less downshifting ■ 8-speed manual or Synchro Shuttle to speed back-and-forth operations ■ Choose 2WD or 4WD with unbeatable 50-degree steering angle Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser One often is told to mark all of the pictures that are taken of fami ly! Of course, we know who is in the photo but 50 or 100 years from now who will remember? I think that slides too should be marked. Recently, when emptying my unmarried cousins’ house, I came across hundreds of slides in a cardboard box. I had quite a time acquiring a projector to view them. After everyone was in bed and asleep, I’d project them on my white kitchen wall. They showed a slower way of life in the 1940 s and 19505. There were pictures of favorite cats, ducks and even geese. There were pictures of va cations at the shore and a trip to Niagara Falls. Flowers were a favorite subject and these included tulips and dog wood in the spring, roses in the summer and beautiful fall foliage. And, some snowstorms that piled Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 3, 1991-813 the snow in high, high drifts. There were many group pic tures of Mennonite ladies. But, I knew none of them. There were pictures of young people and I would guess they were members of a Sunday School Class in Read ing. I even found pictures of my children and of my parents. Also some of my uncle and aunt as they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. My sister’s big church wedding was also included with two pretty flower girls. As there are no descendants of this particular family, the hun dreds of slides will be forever unidentified I fear. Whenever I get a film developed and receive dou ble pictures for my children, I make it a point to sit down and write names, dates and places on the back of the 48 pictures. But, maybe no one will care who is in the picture in the year 2040. rerrectiy Practical
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