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a HEALTH SCIENCE TUESDAY, JANUARY. 16, 2001 POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL Group updates vitamin limits The Associated Press WASHINGTON Call it vitamania: About 40 percent of Americans pop vitamin pills. But just how much of each vitamin does your body need? When does food provide enough? And how much is too much? A prestigious science group has just how updated national guidelines on much of every vitamin and mineral Americans should eat daily for good health plus a neverbefore-compiled list of which popular megadose vitamins could harm them. But consumers will be hardpressed to use the guidelines to make more nutritionally savvy food and supplement purchases, Don't with expect food labels to be updated the new "recommended dietary allowances" any time soon. The Food and Drug Administration hasn't begun considering whether to force vitamin bottles to list the safe upper doses.

It may take questioning a dietit-, ian to learn that more than 1,000 milligrams a day of vitamin or 1,500 international units -could cause uncontrolled bleeding. Or that many people over age 50 have trouble absorbing vitamin B12 from natural food sources and thus should eat fortified foods, like breakfast cereals, or a daily supplement to ensure they get 2.4 micrograms a day, Or that the amount of vitamin older people need for strong bones has doubled, to 400 international units. The good news: Once you learn how many nutrients you need, an Agriculture Department Internet site quickly shows how much you're eating. Munched a handful of almonds? The Web site www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp reveals that's 7.5 milligrams of vitamin half a day's supply in a single snack. The Institute of Medicine, a private science organization that sets the nation's RDAs for nutrients, spent four years reviewing the seientific research into vitamins and minerals.

Between 1997 and last week, it issued four reports, hundreds of pages each, determining the proper dose of each to optimize health and how much could cause side effects. Vitamin has colling Consider vitamin Women need 75 milligrams a day, men 90. Smokers should add another 35 milligrams. But more than 2,000 milligrams a day can cause diarrhea. Dietitians are devouring the reports.

But no one has issued a consumer-friendly. list. Today's food labels are based on RDAs set in 1968. The FDA won't begin steps to add new vitamin numbers until the institute issues another report next year on how much protein, fat and fiber we also should eat. Many RDAs haven't changed a lot.

So nutritionists say a healthy daily diet, with at least five fruits and vegetables, can provide plenty of most vitamins. More important: Until FDA updates vitamin supplement labels, nobody will know safe upper doses, even as sales of multivitamins with three times the RDA and larger "megadose" supplements rage. "You can have too much of a sity nutrition professor Dr. Johangood thing." warns Tufts Univerna Dwyer. "The first message is make sure you're not getting too much." AT A GLANCE VITAMINS, MINERALS DEATH NOTICES Cavo, John formerly of Pleasant Valley and.

Poughkeepsie, passed. away on Jan. 14, 2001. Arrangements by. Ahern Funeral Home, 111 Main Unionville CT.

(860) 522-1155. Deangelis, Charles 70, of the Town of Poughkeepsie, died Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001. Arrangements by Delehanty Funeral Home, (845) 297-2640. Fitzpatrick Matthew 72, of the Town of Poughkeepsie, died Sunday, Jan.14, 2001.

Arrangements by Timothy P. Doyle Funeral Home (845) 452-0460. Halvey, Margaret 87, of Beacon, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001. Arrange ments by Halvey Funeral Home, (845) 831-0380.

Hoffman, Naomi K. 79, of Fishkill, died Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001. Arrange ments by Robert H. Auchmoody Funeral Homes (845) 896-6166.

Ralf. Lisa 76. of Town of LaGrange, died Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001. Arrangements by Robert H.

Auchmoody Funeral Homes, Rt. ,82, Hopewell Jet. (845) 221-9234. 1., 77, of Wuppingers Falls, formerly of Yonkers NY. died Jan.

15,2001. Arrangements by Flower Funeral Home, Yonkers Yonkers NY. 1-800-A-FUNERAL. Margaret F. Halvey BEACON Margaret F.

Halvey, 87, died Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001, at her home in Beacon. A lifelong Beacon resident, she was, born in Beacon on July 8, 1913, the daughter of Patrick and Margaret Hayden Forrestal. She was married to John J. who died March 24, 1990.

Mrs. Halvey was a graduate of New Paltz Normal School and taught -for several years in the Wappingers. Cen.tral School District. She was a parishloner of St. John the Evangelist Church, Beacon.

She is survived by a daughter, Ellen H. Norman and her husband, Harry, of Beacon; two sons, John P. Halvey of Beacon; Peter T. Halvey and his wife, Kathie, of Beacon; seven grandchildren, John, Harry and Patrick. Nor-.

man, Jane Guardiola, William, Joseph and Patrick. Halvey; three great Catherine, Madeline Kelly Norman; two nieces and a nephew. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Halvey was predeceased by a brother, William T. Forrestal.

Visitation will be Tuesday, 2-4: and 7-9 p.m.: at the Halvey Funeral Home. 24 Willow Beacon. A Mass of Christian, Burial will be offered Wednesday at 19:30 a.m., at St. John the Evangelist. Church, 35 Willow.

St. Beacon, Entombment will be in Cedar Hill, Mausoleum, Newburgh, Memorial donations may be made in Halvey's memory to St. John the Evangelist Church. PO Box 549, Bea: con, NY 12508 or Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps, PO Box 54. Beacon, NY 12508.

IN MEMORIAM In Loving Memory of WILLIAMS. RILEY On His Third Anniversary, In Heaven Children; Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren In Loving Memory Of William R. Maroney, Sr. We love you and miss you; Your Family On a beautiful little boy named Billy was. born to John and -Maroney.

Billy wasn't the first boy in the house. In fact, he had, four brothers, Sterling. Niles, Irwin and Keith anxiously awaiting. his arrival. Later they were graced with a little sister, Mariann.

John was a hard-working dad and Emma was a wonderful mother and housewife. Their house was full of love, Billy grew up and fell in love with Alice and they, martied. They had four children, Billy, Allison, Marinne Patti. The history is not unique, but the love shared by Billy and his family is. Mary I.

Testa WAPPINGERS FALLS Mary' I. Testa, 77, of Wappingers Falls, formerly of Yonkers, died on Jan. 15, 2001. Mary was born on July 7, 1923 to Joseph and Mary Freeman Pilkington in Jersey City, NJ, She married Ralph A. Testa in 1949 at St.

Mary's Church in Yonkers. Her husband survives. Beloved mother of Robert Testa and Patricia Testa. Zamborsky. Adored grandmother of Jonathan and Kaitlin Zamborsky.

Many nieces and nephews survive. She is by 2 brothers, Harry and Joseph Pilkington and a sister, Elizabeth Donahue. Visitation will be Wednesday, 5-9 A Funeral Mass will be Thursday, 11 am, Mt. Carmel Church. Arrangements under the direction of Flower Funeral Home, 714 Yonkers Yonkers.

Naomi K. Hoffman Fishkill, suddenly at the emerFISHKILL, Naomi. K. Hoffman, of gency room at St. Luke's Hospital, on Saturday, Jan.

13, 2001. Mrs. Hoffman was a registered, nurse, retiring in 1978. Naomi spent most of her youth in New Jersey, then moved to Fishkill, where she later married, If not devoting her time to her family, Naomi was enjoying the outdoors. She was a member of the First Reformed Church in Fishkill.

Born Dec. 14, 1921 in Union, N.J.. she was the daughter of Edwin and Edith Cox Kennedy. She was a graduate of the Vassar Nursing Program in 1945. On June 1, 1946 in Fishkill, she married Irving E.

Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman died Jan. 19, Survivors include a daughter, Elizabeth A. and son in law, Michael Cosgrove of Hyde Park; three sons, Peter T.

and daughter-in-law, Betsy, Hoffman, Town of Stanford; John C. and daughter-in-law, Jayne Hoffman of Fishkill; Christopher E. and daughterin-law, Cheryl Hoffman of Poughkeepsie; sisters, Norma Hubble of NebrasNancy Searles of Arizona; seven grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held 10 a.m., Thursday, Jan 18, at the First Reformed Church, Fishkill. Rev.

Eric Titus will officiate. To follow, an Inurnment service will be offered for Irving E. Hoffman and Naomi K. Hoffman. Burial will be in Fishkill Rural Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers contributions to The Cancer Society, Vassar: Brothers Hospital, Reade Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. Arrangements under the direction of Robert H. Auchmoody Funeral. Homes' 1028 Main Fishkill. Charles A.

DeAngelis Charles DeAngelis, 70, of' the Town of Poughkeepsie, died Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001 at St. Lukes Hospital, Newburgh. Mr. DeAngelis was a printer for Hamilton Reproductions in Poughkeepsie for 25.

years. Mr. DeAngelis was a lifelong area resident. He served in the United States Army (1951-1963) during the Korean Conflict and was a member of Holy Born Trinity Church in Poughkeepsie. Feb.

1930 in. Poughkeepsie. he was of Ralph and Marion Bates DeAngelis: He attended Poughkeepsie schools. On Nov. 10, 1956, in Poughkeepsie, he married Marcella, McCumber DeAngelis.

Mrs. DeAngelis died on Nov. 15, 1993, Survivors include three sisters, Patti Buck of North Carolina: Cathy Slater of Pleasant Valley: Marie Carr of Mas. sachusetts: a brother. Arthur DeAnge: lis of Pleasant Valley, and several: nieces.

and nephews. He was predeceased by a son Brian DeAngelis in 1976, and brothers, Phillip and Ralph: DeAngelis, Calling hours will. be 7.9 p.m, Wednesday, at Delehanty. Home, 64 E. Wappingers Falls.

A Mass of Christian Burjal will be offered 9:45 a.m., Thursday, at Holy Trinity Burial Church, St. Poughkeepsie. will be in Peter's: Ceme tery, Poughkeepsie, John W. Cavo PLEASANT VALLEY John W. Ca vo, formerty of Pleasant Valley and Poughkeepsie, passed away alter a long illness in Avon.

CT on January 14, Mr. Cavo, was a local real estate developer owner and of the John W. founder and long time: Cavo, an appliance dealership and electrical contracting firm in Arlington and Fishkill. He was born in New York his: City in 1907 and lived locally most of. life.

He attended graduated from local schools and Colgate Univer-: sity. While living in the Poughkeepsie area, Mr. Cavo was active in the Ar-. tington Rotary: Club, The Community Mixed Chorus and he was 'a choir member at the Pleasant Valley Church for years. He and his wife, the former Lois Masten of Pleasant Valley (the retired Chairman of the Modern Language Department of Poughkeepsie High School), moved Sun City, AZ after Mr.

Cavo retired and sold his local business in 1970. More recently, the couple resided at The Gables in Farmington, CT. Besides his wife, he is survived by a son Edward of Santa Cruz, CA, a son John, and daughter-in-law, Lynn, of Farmington, CT, six grandchildren and four In lieu of flowers, the family bas requested that contributions be sent to the Pleasant: Valley Presbyterian Church, in memory of Mr. Cavo. Arrangements by Ahern Funeral Home, 111 Main Unionville C7.

Matthew J. Fitzpatrick Jr. Matthew J. Fitzpatrick 72, of the Town of Poughkeepsie, died unexpectedly, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001 at Albany Medical Center.

Mr. Fitzpatrick retired in 1984 as a Facility, at Sergeant from, Fishkill Correctional Green Haven Correctional Facility in 1954 and transferred to Matteawan State Hospital. He also worked at Western Publishing after graduating school. He was a member of the Heart Health Cardiac Rehab Center and a member of St. Peter's Church.

Mr. Fitzpatrick served in the United States Army during the Korean War (1950-1953) and also served in the Navy prior to entering the Army. Matthew loved to walk, every day and had a love for animals. He was always available to help family. and friends.

Born Oct. 23, son 1928, in. Matthew Poughkeepsie, he was the of J. Fitzpatrick Sr. and Dorothy Garrison, He attended Poughkeepsie High School.

He was married to Margaret Gress in Poughkeepsie, who survives at home. In addition to his wife, he is also survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Rosemary and Curtis Mascarenhas of Poughkeepsie; a stepson and stepdaughter in-law, John and Anne O'Donnell of Poughkeepsie; a step daughter and stepson-in-law, Maureen and Brian Johnston of Florida; two sisters, Dorothy Bauer and Rose Decker both of Poughkeepsie: a brother, Edward Fitzpatrick of Florida; grandsons, Sean and Nicholas Mascarenhas and Tyler O'Donnell; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by two- brothers, James and Charles. Calling hours will be 6-9 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 18, at Timothy P.

Doyle Funeral Home 371 Hooker Poughkeepsie. Funeral services will be private. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery. Memorial donations may be niade to the: SPCA, 9G.

Hyde Park, NY 12538. Lisa M. Ralf TOWN. OF LAGRANGE Lisa, Ralf, 76, of the Town of LaGrange and formerly of Fishkill and Holiday, FL, died Saturday, January, 18, 2001 at Vassar Brothers Hospital Born in Hamburg, Germany on July 18. 1924 she was the daughter of War demar Voss and Erna Zimmerman.

In- 1947 in Germany she married Max Helmet Ralf Mr. Ralf died, in 1991. She is survived by 2. sons, Jan Ralf of LaGrangeville and Jim Ralf of Pocasset; MA; and 1 grand-daughter, Erika Ralf of LaGrangeville. She is also survived by many relatives in Germany.

service and burial will be private and at the convenience of the family. Arrangements by Robert H. Auchmoody Funeral Homes, Route-82, Hopewell Junction, NY. Salamanca mourns dead matador; SALAMANCA; Spain Spain's bullfighting community on Monday mourned the one: of its most respected bullfighters, Julio Robles, a matador who was left crippled by a bulla decade ago, 'He was 49. Robles died Sunday in a hospital.

in this north central city following an unsuccessful stomach operation, doctors said. 'A top-ranking bullfighter, les was left paralyzed from the whist down after being tossed by a bull in a ring in the southern French town of Beziers in 1990. He had been bullfighting since he was 17 was a mirror to other bullfighters and also a mirror of life owing to the strength he showed in recent years in a matadox. Jose Ortega Cano told: reporters. On Monday some 4.000 people lined the streets of Salamanca and applauded as.

Robles' remains were taken to a church. He was to be buried later in the day at a cemetery in the Salamanca provincial town of Abigal de Los Aceiteros, Information on survivors was not immediately available. The Associated Press James Yule, 84, dies; was POW at Colditz LONDON James de Deane Yule, a World War Il prisoner who operated a hidden radio and arranged music for other captives. while the Nazis held them in a huge Saxon castle, has died at age 84. Yule, who held the rank of lieutenant colonel, died Dec.

25, his. family said. Yule was taken captive when" Germany's Luftwaffe attacked a train carrying a British signals detachment in Norway in May 1940. After an attempted escape, he was sent to Colditz prison a castle near Leipzig in July 1941. most Colditz was escape-prone designated for the Allied prisoners.

German officers thought it was impregnable, but 35 of the 400 prisoners escaped. As a Royal Signals officer, Yule was chosen to operate a clandestine radio that the prisoners kept hidden in a small space in the castle roof. The Associated Press A sample of recommended dietary allowances for certain vitamine and minerale, and upper limits for those deemed harmful at high doses. from the institute of Medicine: a 1 Vitamin RIDA. 900 micrograms for men, 700 for women.

Found in carrots and other dark- colored vegetabien and fruits. Upper limit. 3,000 micrograms. da Vitamin B12: FDA, 2.4 micrograms, beef. the amount in 3 Many people over 50 lose the ability to absorb B12 from food sources and should consider fortified foods or a supplement: a Vitamin ADA, 75 mil ligrams for, women, 90 for men.

Eight ounces of orange juice yields a day's supply. Vitamin FIDA, 200 International unite for most people; 400 ILs for people ages 51 to 70. Found in fortified milk. Vitamin ADA, 15 milligrama. Upper limit, 1,000 milligrams; higher levels risk uncontrolled bleeding.

Folio acid: RDA, 400 micrograma. Found in orange juice and fortified toode. Upper limit, milligram a day; more can cause nerve damage. I Calcium: ADA for most adults, 1,000 milligrams dally: for teenagers, 1,300 milligrame; for those over age 50. 1,200 milligrams.

I Vitamin. FDA, 120 micrograma for men, 90 for women. Found in green leafy vegetables. Iron: RDA, 8 milligrams for men and postmenopausal women. Food guide pushes exercise to fore News' Service ST.

PAUL, Minn -Make your mother happy. Eat unlimited fruits and vegetables. Get exercise. These recommendations come from the newest food guide pyramid that's trying to cinch, the nation's expanding waistline. Other food pyramids have been around.

for years, but creators of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid say this is the first one to target weight loss, weight maintenance. and long-term health. Physical activity is at the center of. the pyramid, a visual jump-start for a nation of couch potatoes. An estimated 97 million American adults are well over, what health care professionals consider a healthy weight.

Health risks of being overweight include heart disease, high blood pressure; diabetes and certain kinds of cancer. "We are taking a health approach and a lifestyle approach," said Dr. Donald Hensrud, assistant professor of preventive medicine, and nutrition at the Mayo Clinic, "It's a matter of incorporating it into your life." The Mayo pyramid promotes. a principle that's become popuJar again in research and diet cir-. cles; eating foods that' people to feel full on fewer calories.

Depending on the amount of water and fiber, foods can be low or high in energy density (ratio' of. calories to the weight. of food). For example, whole fruits have lower energy density compared with dried fruits. Fruits, veggies at base, That's why unlimited quantities of fresh or.

frozen whole fruits and vegetables form the base of the new' pyramid." Carbohydrates, preferably those from wholegrain sources, occupy the 1 next level of the pyramid. Protein and dairy come next, especially those from lean sources. Heart-healthy fats follow, with sweets ---75 calories per. day topping the pyramid. Eating more of certain foods goes against our diet mentality.

But the notion of eating untunited fruits and vegetables dates back to, work done in the 1970s at Uni-' versity of Alabama: More recently, researchers at The Pennsylvania State University the notion of getting full on less. They even, published book, "Volute metrics." detailing their program, The Mayo guide is a narrowpurpose pyramid, said K. Dun Gifford, president of Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust, Boston-based think tank that publishes several ethnic food pyramids. The USDA Official Food Guide Pyramid, on the other hand, is a broad-purpose pyramid. "One size doesn't fit all," Gifford says.

"If this gets to a group. of people and influences them, this is very good. But I do wish they'd mix some white pasta in with the brown pasta." The pyramid is a depar: ture from the USDA pyramid, which positions carbohydrates at the bottom, fruits and vegetables the, next. level up. Oldways' Mediterranean, Asian' and Latin American pyramids also put carbohydrates at the base to.

reflect different cultural eating habits. "They're whole grains. They're not refined," Gifford says. "In this country, we're eating nothing but white flour." Other food pyramids have made exercise a separate compopent of their recommendations. Dr.

David Klurfeld, chairman of nutrition and food science at Wayne State University in Detroit, said positioning physical activity inside the Mayo, pyramid sends the message that exercise is an integral part of good health. At the same time, no one knows.if the new pyramid is appropriate for long. term weight, maintenance, he said. Scientists study South Pole air history Service la double digit subzero temperatures and with winds blowing as high ad 15 mph, a group ofatmos: pheric, scientists from across the country! began drilling a hole at the South: Pole last week to examine the quality of air in the past 150 years. The deeper they drill in the next two weeks, the further back in his: tory, they'll go as they break through the layers.

of packed snow that contain the clues to how much the atmosphere has changed in the past century and a half. It's not the first time that seientists. with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra: tion have drilled for air samples, in far-flung places like Alaska, Greenland, on, in this case, the Antarctic. They've been faking air samples since 1957. But it is the first time they will try to capture and store the air in 2-liter canisters.

When the drilling is complete and the air is pumped into the stainless steel canisters, the ples will be shipped in February to NOAAs Climate Monitoring arid Diagnostics Laboratory in Boulder for further study. "We're them 'The Millennium, Archives, said Russell Schnell, director of atmospheric observations for NOAA in Boulder, Colo. "And bopefully we'll discover some new trends. It's important to be able to' look back in time and see what the air in the atmosphere was like at the turn of the 20th century and to be able to compare it to There's no better place for such an experiment than the South Pole, Schnell said, because that's where gases, chemicals and fossil fuels eventually wind up whether it's carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, fluorocarbons or nitrous oxide. And the list goes on.

"At the South Pole, you get the of everything." Schnell said "It's. like meeting a river where it dumps into the ocean. It's the end.of the. world and the end of the air cycle." Scientists from the federal agency arrived at the South Pole in late December to prepare for the experiment, which, when all is said and done, will cost close to $750,000. They were accompanied by several professors from Bowdoin College in Maine, the University of Wisconsin and Princeton.

Survival class taught Once there, they took a four-day outdoor survival class to learn how to camp and hike, in frigid temperatures. Then they strapped on, snowshoes and hiked 15. miles south of the NOAA substation, where they set up camp and readled themselves for the big drill. Schnell, who's monitoring the expedition from afar, said. he hopes atmospheric scientists will 'be able to detect larger trends such as how much carbon dioxide was in the attaosphere sever'al decades ago.

"Twe look back and see that the amount was twice as high as it is today," 'he said, "then we'll also fIt's kind of like a detective's novel, haying different periods of time at Russell Schnell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration know that the Antarctic was much warmer, and we can say that that correlates with climate change. "It's kind of like a detective's. novel, having the different periods of time at hand." Certainly, it's no mystery, he said, that the world is getting warmer, that the spring si season will soon be arriving earlier and fall will be arriving later all because of global warming, otherwise known as the greenhouse effect, Still, a lot of headway has been made in reducing the amount of chemicals that are responsible for the breakdown of the protective ozone layer in the stratosphere, which has proved extreme over Antarctica and in other southern countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Schnell said the Montreal Protocol of 1987, in which many agreed to ban chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, was a good start. "Flowers say what words can't convey" "Growing Since 1950" SABELLICO GREENHOUSES FLORIST Visit Our Website: www.Sabellico.com 33.

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