—The Daily Collegian Monday, October 4,1976
Dietetics of alcohol
Although drinkers may consider the new enforcement of the
alcohol policy the worst thing to befall Penn State partying
since Prohibition, for dieters it may be the best thing since
fruit-flavored yogurt.
According to a pamphlet available from the Nutrition
Information and Resource Center, “Alcoholic drinks are a
hazard” for dieters. Alcoholic beverages tend to be high in
caloric content but low in nutritional value, providing the
dieter with empty calories.
From “Food Values of Portions Commonly Used” by Bowes
and Church, one eight-ouhce glass of beer has 114 calories, a
high ball (eight ounces) contains 166 calories, and a four
ounce Old Fashioned has 179. But surprisingly the alcoholic
beverages themselves are not what causes weight gain.
According .to a book by Oakley S. Ray entitled “Drugs,
Society and Human Behavior,” alcohol cannot be stored in
the body in any form. The energy produced by alcohol is used
up immediately by the body. Therefore, since none of the
calories in the alcohol can be stored, they do not make a
person fat.
However, Ray- writes that the alcohol is used to meet the
body’s energy requirements, so any foods eaten before, during
and after drinking that are not used immediately by the body
are stored in the form of fat.
All those munchies at parties add up to excess weight. The
beer bellies of armchair quarterbacks are due to a com
bination of “grabbing all the gusto” and grabbing the peanuts
(sailed, three and one-half ounces contain 566 calories) and
the pretzels (one large Dutch pretzel at 58 calories and who
stops at one?!).
U.S. nuclear cruiser served
with writ in New Zealand
AUCKLAND, New
Zealand (UPI) A lone
protestor yesterday
delivered a writ to the
captain of the nuclear
powered U.S. cruiser Long
Beach by canoeing up to
the 16,000-ton warship and
sticking the document on
its side.
The protester, Donovan
McGrath, said the writ
summoned Capt. Harry C.
Schrader, 44, of Seeboygan,
Wis., to court for bring
ing into Auckland harbor
Men found happier after job changes
STORRS, Conn. (UPI) interviews that made up the
Middle-aged men who change study showed the opposite,
jobs find themselves happier, Among the career changes
despite the financial risks, a studied were a systems
preliminary University of analyst who became a kin-
Connecticut study claims. dergarten teacher, an
The researchers said the engineer who bought a book
majority of the men in- store, a businessman who
terviewed said they took • became a college professor, a
substantial financial risks in stock broker who became an
changing jobs, but virtually innkeeper and a data
all of them said it was worth- processing manager who
while. joined the clergy.
The researchers said when ' Paula Robbins, a .project
they began their study they researcher, said the study
had expected to see a large found that the men’s
number of divorces among , marriages benefited from the
their subjects, but the 75 upheaval. "In most cases the
By PATTY RHULE
Collegian Staff Writer
an “injurious substance”
namely the Long Beach.
McGrath said he obtain
ed the writ from a court.
“I understand a sailor
took the writ to the captain,
who was watching from the
Long Beach,” McGrath
said. “If Schrader is not in
court tomorrow, I un
derstand I have the power
to ask for his arrest.”
Lawyers for Schrader
say the- writ was invalid
So now all you alcohol aficionados are thinking you’ll
replace alcohol with some other elements of your diet, but
remember that alcohol gives you “empty calories”
meaning it supplies no essential nutrients. According to Joel
Fort’s book, “Alcohol: Our Biggest Drug Problem,” vitamin
due to a technicality: it was
delivered on a Sunday.
McGrath said security
around the Long Beach was
not very good and 0
saboteur would find it easy
to reach her and cause a
nuclear accident.
McGrath . tried un
successfully to deliver a
similar writ to the captain
of the nuclear-powered
U.S. cruiser Truxtun in
Wellington last month: he
tried to drop it from a
plane..
change seemed to be .very
much a ‘we’ rather than an ‘l’
effort,” she said.
She said in many cases the
men switched jobs to be able
to spend more time with their
families and that most men
said they made the changes
after evaluating their lives
and desires.
“In general, the men have
sought ways in which they
could better control their
destiny, see the results of
their work and help people at
the same time," she said.
ields food for sober thought ’
Kidnapers free consul after 20 months
BOGOTA, Colombia (UPI)
The Dutch Consul in Cali,
Eric Leupin, was freed
Saturday evening after a
record 20 months in the hands
of his Communist guerrilla
kidnapers, family sources
said last night.
The sources said they did
not know if any ransom was
paid, but added that Leupin,
44, was in good health.
“He’s healthy, just a little
thin, and he has to rest a lot.
He’s exhausted, he’s walked
quite a lot. But mentally he’s
100 per cent,” the sources
said. /
Hurricane
LA PAZ, Mexico (AP) -
Rescue supplies poured into
Baja California yesterday,
where workers pulled hun
dreds of bodies from the
muck and debris left by
Hurricane Liza.
Official figures and
estimates of the number of
bodies already found ranged,
from about 400 to 750, but
hundreds of others were
reported missing and most
sources agreed the toll could
go as high aB 1,000.
Mexican. '' troops im
mediately buried the bodies
in mass graves or burned
them to avoid epidemics.
La Paz, the capital of the
state of Baja California Sur,
deficiencies and malnutrition are likely to occur if alcohol
replaces an ordinary balanced diet.
Not only are alcoholic beverages no-nos for dieters because
of their high calorie content, but researchers have found that a
combination of dieting, alcohol and exercise could produce
dangerous results for the reducer. According to an article in
Psychology Today by Jack Horn, Canadian researcher J.
Murray McLaughlin and his co-workers found that a healthy
person who had been dieting for as few as two or three days
can become drunk after one or two drinks or could possibly
develop hypoglycemia, a low-blood sugar condition.
McLaughlin found that a reduction in the intake of car
bohydrates, an exercise program and the consumption of
alcohol cut down the amount of sugar in the blood.
Dieting reduces the carbohydrates that help to maintain the
blood sugar level, exercise uses up the available sugar and
alcohol prevents the production of new carbohydrates from
protein and fat.
In his experiment, McLaughlin put 12 people on a diet of 650
calories per day. On the third day of dieting, each person
drank one and a half ounces of whiskey at 9:30, 10:30 and
11:30. All complained of headaches and nervousness and most
felt drunk. One person became too ill to continue the ex
periment. ,
With all these sobering thoughts in mind, perhaps the fact
that root beer contains approximately 78 calories will help to
raise your spirits. Cheers!
This week’s dorm diet guide is prepared by Cheryl Sowers
(7th-nutrition). The menu is a 1,200 calorie per day diet plan,
rather than 1,500 as reported last wefek. Sowers adds to this
plan that she would hesitate to replace skim milk with Tab,
because, although Tab is a low-calorie beverage, it does not
They Said Leupin, who holds
dual Swiss and Canadian
citizenship, was spending the
weekend with his Dutch wife
Annekej and their two
Colombian children.
Leupin arrived back home
after walking out of the
mountainous area where he
had been held by the guerillas
of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia.
The first person he saw was
his wife, who apparently was
expecting him. Later he was
reunited with other'members
of the family and met with
Dutch Ambassador to
death count climbs
was worst hit. The city of five to six inches of rain.
85,000 and about a dozen Many of the victims died
towns nearby were without when the storm cracked a 30-
adequate drinking water and foot earth dam. The flood
had no electricity or washed away a crowded
telephone service. shanty town of thatched roof
An estimated 70,000 persons wooden, and cardboard
were left homeless by the shacks,
hurricane. The Mexican, A blanket of mud covered
government said it was the area below the dam, and
rushing in 100,000 meals and the city’s streets were strewn
40,000 temporary shelters by with hundreds of wrecked
boat and plane. automobiles and debris.
Workers dug frantically in The .Los Angeles Times
the 100-degree heat, looking reported some residents were
for bodies in piles of mud and angry. -at the government,
half-buried cars. claiming officials had ignored
Neighborhoods were wiped requests to shore up the
out by the storm, which earthen .dam* But officials
carried winds of up to 135 said many of those, in the
miles per hour and dumped shanty-town either failed to
y./ "ytts/si
Family brewers for more than 200 years.
Colombia Gerrit Regt
doorzee.
“The first thing he said to
me was how good I looked,”
said one relative.
The family sources in
dicated Leupin would not
speak to the press for several
days. , _
' The Communist guerrillas
at one point asked for $1
million from the Dutch em
bassy in Bogota, another 1
million' Colombian pesos
(about $30,000) from - the
family and the release of
three political prisoners from
Colombia’s Gorgona prison
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have the essential nutrients that milk has
YOU MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME: tossed salad with lemon
or vinegar (no oil), coffee or tea (black or with lemon).
ALL BREAKFASTS: Vi glass juice, choice of unsweetened
cold cereal or hot cereal with Vi tsp. sugar, 1 glass skim milk.
TODAY’S LUNCH: fish sandwnich on lettuce with Vi tbsp.
tartar sauce, tokay grapes.
TODAY’S DINNER: roast veal (no gravy), broccoli, sliced
carrots, whole wheat bread with Vi pat margarine, 1 glass
skim milk.
TOMORROW’S LUNCH: chef’s salad bowl with 1 tbsp.*
dressing, 1 slice bread with Vi pat margarine, fresh pear.
TOMORROW’S DINNER: Salisbury steak (ho gravy), peas,
1 slice bread with Vi pat margarine; tropicana salad on lettuce
with Vi tsp. poppyseed dressing.
WEDNESDAY’S LUNCH: mostaccioli with 1 tbsp. Par
mesan cheese, 1 slice cracked wheat bread with Vi pat
margarine, baked apple. V
.WEDNESDAY’S DINNER: oven-fried chicken (no gravy),
Brussels sprouts, 1 piece cornbread with Vi pat margarine,
bananas in orange juice.
THURSDAY’S LUNCH: fruit plate, 1 slice bread with Vi pat
margarine.
THURSDAY’S DINNER: roast lamb (no gravy), candied
sweet potatoes, shredded cooked,cabbage, 1 slice bread wit£
Vi pat margarine.
FRIDAY’S LUNCH: grilled rueben sandwich (two halves),
dill pickle strip, orange.
FRIDAY’S DINNER: lemon-baked fillet of sole, spinach
with lemon slice, honey bran roll with Vi pat margarine,
pineapple chunks.
island in the Pacific Ocean. saga of the Dutch consul, the
When both the Dutch and government hardened its
the Colombian governments stand on paying kidnaping
refused to negotiate, the ransoms, even though sucL
guerrillas asked for 2 million action ia not officially a crime.,
pesos (about $60,000) from the ... , I
familv Leupin, who was honorary,
Dutch consul in Cali, is the 1
However, an attempt by the last of several dozen
family to pay the ransom prominent kidnap victims of
money - backfired wheh the the past two years to be freed.
. government of President „ • ... . , . .
Alfonso Lopez Michelsen He was abducted from Mfe
confiscated the money and ar- lumber ranch near that city
rested Leupin’s wife and an in- l^e n| Bbt °^ an - 31 > 1975 > by a
termediary, Colombian »™P of 20 men *essed in
composer Jorge Villamil. stolen army - uniforms. A ■
. , domestic employe was killed
During the long kidnap in the process.
in Baja California
heed or did not hear Patt Morrison wrote her;
evacuation warnings when, impressions of the scene in La
the' storm approached on Paz:
Friday. “A middle-aged man,
Javier Maya, a state sweating in the sulttty
engineer, estimated the twilight, pulled a dead dog
number of dead at 750 as he behind him on a rope. ;
helped supervise the burial of “Another stumbled toward ,
shanty town casulaties in a waiting car, • clutching a’
common trench graves. La pillow and a table lamp. A'
Paz municipal - president mother marshaled her
Jorge Santana waß aldo family,. saving sin electric
quoted by the San Diego hairsetter, a warped sewingy*
Union as saying 750 bodies machine and a playpen,
had been recovered. “Amid the wreckage of a
"On Saturday, the state blue and green dinette set, a
government put the number woman stood with her arm
of confirmed dead at 397, but around her weeping son, a
the mayor's office said 800 strapping youth who could,
persons were still missing. - only sob about “losing
Los Angeles Times reporter everything, everything.’ ” w ■
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