Herald & Lantern 14 September '83

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Dear Dr. Beitman: In view of your recent columns on diabetes my sister and I thought it might be helpful for you to recall our case. My major complaint was having to urinate all the time and being very thirsty. It was true

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that my eyesight seemed to be going and I had palpitations from time to time You quickly determined that I had raging diabetes and were able to fix me up at first with insulin. Once I become more stable, you helped me stay on a weight

Library

by Kiithloon Duffy

What books have affected the lives of the people in our community? I’ve been out there asking and finding sorqe fascinating responses. \ James S. Kilpatrick Jr., freeholder, nanied Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which reinforced his personal philosophy and conservative viewpoint. Kilpatrick described the book as similar to Orwell’s 1984. where the government controlled everything and everyone. It did not allow for the expression of individual freedom, selfdetermination or personal freedom of will. •'Government can not be all things to all people.” Joe Zelnik, Editor of the Cape May County Herald. cited The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, which he read at a time when he was examining his personal beliefs and which affected the outcome. Macgill'sMasterplots describes the Age of Reason by citing Paine's dedication to his '•Fellow Citizens of the United States Of America.” Paine insists that the views he expresses are his alone, and he reaffirms his belief in the right of every individual to form his own opinion, for to deny the right of every individual to his own beliefs leads to slavery. He would therefore, examine all aspects of life, especially religion, with reason. Jim Smith, principal planner for Cape May County, felt that the book Why Do Manager's Fail by J. McCathy had been influential in his life. It was read as part of a graduate course and had beneficial effects in helping him on the job, to realize and avoid mistakes. “Good practical advice” was his comment summing up the contents. Bridget Saracco, library employee, mentioned Madness of a Seduced

Woman by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer which affected her thinking on the vulnerability of women.,no ; matter what the century and the far-reaching effects of abortion. She also mentiorted Sybille. a novel by Marion Meade, historian, about the life of women in the Middle Ages as well as the conduct of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition. Carol Albrechtt art therapist,’ selected Das Energi by Paul Williams, which She felt had 'Jconfirmed my feelins in the process of self actualization in< such a beautiful way, that it was like poetry”. Irv fact, she went on to say that she had been so moved that she wrote to the author and in fact still corresponds with him. Ed Sague, dentist, chose Gunter Grass’s The Tin .Drum, which made him realize he wasn’t crazy, and The Chemical Bond by -Linus Pauling, which was the first science book that didn’t confuse him. Pauling also illustrated how someone could break down the complicated workings of some hard to explain scientific theories for the layman in perfectly understandable language and then proceed to make 4 fool of himself in his later writings. R. Imler, postal worker, specified the Moddy Stock Reports, which improved his financial condition by providing the information for investing wisely. Owen Murphy, teacher, prefers to think that “reading is incremental and adds to your knowledge layer by layer, so that instead of one or two facets your awareness contains six or seven facets”. He recommended two recent books,. Human Options. by Norman Cousins, and Algthy by Jeremy Refkin.

Recycle

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private hauler or the town takes it away. It's time we generators of waste were being charged by volume so the recycler pays less than the profligate throwaway types. And it’s time that the garbage hauler, private or municipal, finds it advantageous to get into the recycling business. AS USl/AL t^ere are institutional barriers to recycling. The Board of Public Utilities (BPU) regulates the disposal rates we pay. BPU is not closely related to DEP, which regulates landfills. Both DEP and the state Department of Energy (DOE) share the state Office of Recycling. Despite generally successful bureaucratic attempts atiuiding confusion, some conflicts need to be resolved. ™e answers amy be embodied in legislation (A-3453) introduced by Assmeblyman Harry A. McEnroe of Essex County. His bill would encourage recyAng by having the BPU require private haulers to charge on a volume basis. About a third of the towns in the state use private haulers

and collectors.

It would also let the collectors make an honest buck through recycling instead of. as they currently fear, having such profits charged against their solid waste tariffs. It would also make permanent the present six-cents-per-cubic-yard recycling tax on landfilled waste, due to expire

at the end of 1986.

That latter touch would forever mean the more waste landfilled, the more tax to be paid, while the more recycling that gets done, the more state recycling grants to be forthcoming. The towns that recycle would be rewarded by the towns that do not.

B m a # 4 1 h Watch

reducing diet and now my diabetes is under control without insulin. Unfortunately therels not much to be done for the eye damage and heart damage. I guess I just let the symptoms carry on for too long However, now I feel good, my energy is back and no more needing a bathroom on every corner. My sister Betty is another story. She lives in Seattle and she had become so thin in a fairly short period of time. She was always hungry and felt tired and weak; her skin itched terribly and she also had blurry eyesight. She obviously didn’t need a reducing diet, and can you imagine, her doctor found diabetes too! Now how can that be? She so thin, and me so fat?

Sally G.

Dear Sally: • You have described a classic picture of the two major types of diabetes. You are a Type II diabetic. Your body produces insulin but has a defect in its mechanism so it can’t use

by Dr Robert C Beitmjn it efficiently, particularly when you arc overweight! Researchers don’t know why obesity makes this kind of diabetes worse; it

just does.

Your symptoms are important for our readers to remember. Unfortunately you didn’t seek medical evaluation until quite late in life,-so you accurately point out that damage was done to many parts of your body. In most cases only one warning sign might bring someone* in to discover diabetes Often diabetes is detected during a hospitalization for another reason or during a routine or insurance physical. Your sister's feelings of being tired and weak arc very common in diabetes. This is because without insulin’s working properly, the body can’t convert glucose to energy to keep her going. Numbness or tingling in the fingers or toes is another sign of damage to the body which can signal diabetes as the cause. Blurry eyesight is a

diabetes/ and evert blindness is possible. Skin infections which won't heal properly or at all, can signal that diabetes may be crippling thfc body’s ability to heal itself Diabetics need to take special care of any wounds they may incur, as the body’s insulin balance is extremely sensitive to in fection and requires professionalmonitoring. Frequent urination and thirst come fron the body's trying to dilute excess blood sugar out of cells. By removing the sugar, large quantities of-water come out of the cells, as urine. This dehydration process can cause itchy, dry skin (in women the vaginal lips may be particularly itchy), ( and dizziness. This can lead to coma if the body manages to remove too great a volume of water

from the cells Your sister sounds just like a Type I diabetic. This means her pancreas isn't producing insulin.' That's w hy she must get it through injection. Her weight loss . and hunger occur because with absolutely no insulin available she's constantly in need of more energy and her IxKly has already used \ up its energy reserves located in her fat cells. In concluding this series on diabetes, it should Ik* noted that diabetes is considered to have genetic roots. If there is a history of diabetes in your family, let your physician know so that you can bo monitored for its development. , Health Watch is a project of the Public Education Committee of the Cape May County Unit of the American Cancer Society.

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