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Page 14 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Wednesday, August 21,1985 Nation Regardless of fat Drinkers miss out on nutrition By Ann McFeatters Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON - Analysis of na­ tional data on alcohol and obesity indicates that drinkers are not fat­ ter than non-drinkers but it also shows that drinkers have to be ex­ tra careful to eat nutritious food. The study was based on 10,000 men and women, between the ages of 18 and 74, who were involved in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The results were published by the Medical Col­ lege of Wisconsin. Much of the attention given to the drinking man's diet a few years ago was based on the fact that alcoholic calories are empty ones and put on pounds but don't offer adequate nutrition. The Wisconsin researchers, head­ ed by Harvey Gruchow, associate professor of medicine in the division of biostatistics and clinical epidemi­ ology, found that it is not exactly true that you must cut out booze if you are trying to lose weight. Because of the alcohol they drink, drinkers take in more calories than non-drinkers, the study claims. The bad news, however, is that depend­ ing on how much they drink their bodies often are missing important nutrients. On average, statistics (adjusted for relative body weights, age and differences in eating and drinking patterns found in different age groups) show men who drink take in 129 calories more a day than non- drinkers and women drinkers take in 48 calories more a day. But for heavy drinkers, who drink five or more drinks a day, as much as 1,000 calories a day -- one-third or more of a day's total intake -- may come from alcohol. Moderate drinkers, who consume one to four drinks a day, also are often displacing important nutrients with alcohol. Light drinkers, who have an aver­ age of less than one drink a day, do not face that risk, researchers say. Overall, people who drink moder­ ately or heavily use alcohol to re­ place from 15 percent to 41 percent of the calories others get from food. Either the calories in alcohol are less efficiently used than others or they may interfere with the use of non-alcoholic calories, Gruchow thinks. The researchers say their find­ ings are "welcome news for dieters who like to drink" but mean that such people have to pay close atten­ tion to eating enough foods with a wide variety of nutrients, especially carbohydrates. The most recent good-news about alcohol found that those who drink with moderation live longer, on av­ erage, than abstainers, heavy drinkers or former drinkers who gave up drinking because of health problems. The reason is that one or two drinks a day tends to have a good effect on the heart, research has found. Earlier this year researchers at Stanford University School of Medi­ cine found that two to three ounces of alcohol a day seemed to give men aged 30 to 60. protection from strokes, heart attacks and harden­ ing of the arteries. But then the researchers deflated their own find­ ings bv concluding that is too much to drink and could lead to drunk driving, deformed fetuses or chron­ ic alcoholism. The health problems of alcoholics are much different from the health concerns of moderate drinkers. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that half of the alcohol consumed each year in the United States is drunk by "one- tenth of the population. Alcoholics have a much higher rate of chronic brain damage, cancer of the mouth, tongue, pharynx and esophagus, ir­ ritated mucous membranes, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, sexual dysfunction or im­ potence. and. since the liver metab­ olizes alcohol, liver damage. EYEWEAR, NO LONGER A NECESSITY? EYE SURGERY WHICH TAKES PLACE WHILE THE PA- TIENT SNOOZES IN AN OUTPATIENT CENTER NOW OFF­ ERS THE REALISTIC HOPE OF REMOVING EYEGLASS DEPENDENCY FOR MANY WHO ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH CONTACT LENSES OR WHO SEEK FREEDOM FROM EYEWEAR FOR PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL REASONS. THESE SURGICAL TECHNIQUES, FIRST USED IN THE U.S.S.R. AND IN COLUMBIA, CAUSE BETTER FOCUSING OF LIGHT WITHIN THE EYE BY RESHAPING THE CORNEAL WINDOW. IN THE SOVIET TECHNIQUE {FYODOROVI, CALLED RADIAL KERATOTOMY, HALF MILLIMETER-DEEP RA- DIAL CUTS GOING FROM THE PUPILS EDGE TOWARD THE WHITE PORTION ALLOW A NATURAL FLATTENING EFFECT ON THE CENTRAL CORNEA TO OCCUR. REFINED IN THE U.S.S.R. 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