The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 3

3A THE TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICH. Monday, May 12, 1975 By Mike A Duffy Junk' food explosion I guess we could call it the Great American Food Fraud. Here we sit in the land of the free and the home of the brave, eating ourselves into an early grave. America, the richest nation on Spaceship Earth, has gone ga-ga on gunk, The result? Malnutrition has joined the ranks of the common place in our split level, two-car heaven. We all know that children in America are going to bed hungry every night.

That is tragic, but it is no surprise. Poverty exists and its victims suffer malnutrition because they don't get enough of the good things to eat. But just as bizarre is the rising level of malnutrition among the rest of us. We have the resources, despite recession, to eat well, to 11,11 Ss2ff J' W-v-'M wv on! if ul 1 1 llllA, 1 msmmbm If I -f Photo byDoug Norton The city's aerial tower fire truck was one of four fire vehicles at the scene 82 boats destroyed in blaze Fire Department officials said today they will began an investigation into the $700,000 fire which destroyed 82 boats and a storage building at Stevens Marina, 207 Water, late Saturday night. How the massive blaze began is yet to be determined.

Reportedly, all of the boats involved were insured. The fire was discovered Saturday night by Port Huron Policeman Richard Davis. Fire damages frame house SANDUSKY A fire of mined origin cau'sed extensive damage to a two-story frame home here eat in good health. Mrs. Susan George Instead, we insist on pursuing the opposite': gorging our- selves on enough godavful glop to insure a steady level of middle class malnutrition.

We, the supposedly enlightened, aren't happy unless we can dverdose on the bad things. Trouble is, the cycle is almost impossible to break. I know, from first hand experience. I have always prided myself on being the King of Junk Food, the Baron of Burgers, the Godfather of Grease. I 1 persist in thinking the Golden Arches should be declared a national shrine and Colonel Sanders an American hero.

High cholesterol nd heart disease? Just a Commie plot hatched by some lettuce head vegetarians. Why, french fries are the lifeblood of America. And between meal snacking is a right, not a privilege. Gimme chips. Gimme dip.

Gimme Cocoa Puffs. Gimme Twinkies. Go team, go team, eat that junk. Gobble those burgers with a stomach slam dunk. Grease facism lives! Now, however, I am beginning to rethink my ill-fed ways.

Not that I'm changing. But I am rethinking. The fear, or rather apprehension, began when I viewed a PBS television special, "The Last American Supper," several weeks ago. In rather staggering detail, the show proceeded to illustrate just how poorly we Americans eat. We have become a nation of fast food freaks and sweetness savages.

If it doesn't taste good, we don't want it. The massive food industry lays down millions of dollars each year to send out the hard sell on television. It is money well spent, for the consumer then shells out millions more to buy sugar coated cereals, fried everything and more well-marbled beef than the army of Attilla the Hun could consume in a century. jBut that's not all. After we have spent all that money on slickly-packaged, good tasting garbage, we then have to pay the medical price.

An explosion of heart disease, high blood pressure, rotting teeth the afflictions of the affluent. The answer? Well, I know we all aren't about to start chugging wheat germ and dining on celery sticks. But there is room for common sense, otherwise known as a balanced diet. An advocate of this common sense approach is Mrs. Susan George, the clinical dietitian at Port Huron Hospital.

"A lot of it (our problems) is lack of nutritional knowledge," Mrs. George claims. "I think the schools try, but the people who. teach (nutrition courses) don't have enough knowledge to present it in an interesting way. You almost need a specialist." Mrs.

George, who admits, that even her own children are "snackers" despite her discouraging words, is no fan of fad diets, either. When askedvwhat she thinks of the Stillman water diet, she says, "I Mrs. George describes fad diets as "nutritionally inadequate" and 'adds, "They are so unbalanced that when a person loses the weight, they get so bored, they go back to Lheir regular diet." And Susan George leaves no doubt that she feels the "regular diet" of most Americans is as lacking in nutrition asthe fad diets. i Snacking is a particular villain. "The snacking that we do between meals creates more problems than what we eat at meals," she says.

But snacking, unfortunately, has become part of the American Way. "No wonder Americans eat junk food. We feed it to the children from the time they're one year old," Mrs. George says, criticizing both the food industry's assault on the public mind through TV and the tendency of most American parents to "reward" children with an endless flow of candy, pop and french fries. Despite a teenage son and daughter who manage to snack behind their mother's back, Susan George's family still sticks to the common sense edict.

"Our family doesn't eat a lot of fried foods and I hardly ever bake a pie or cake," she says. "And we always sit down together and have breakfast, and we sit down together for dinner." And while they're sitting down, with the television turned off and Golden Arches out of mind, the George family is eating the Basic Four: milk group, meat group, vegetables and fruits, and breads and cereals." Sounds nice. But actually pursuing a balanced diet is another matter, a matter of self-discipline. And neither the multi-million dollar food industry nor most Americans are willing to make that sacrifice just yet. Or perhaps it's really just a matter of wanting to have our junk and eat it too, poor health and all.

A truly spooky premise. Photo by Randy Gilbert Sandusky Fire Chief Robert Kenny said fire was discovered at the home of Ulrs. Mary Seltz, 300 South Elk, at 7:30 p.m. He said volunteer firemen discovered fire in an upstairs bedroom and were able to confine the blaze to that portion of the home. The rest of the house suffered smoke and water damage, however.

Kenny said no one was home at the time of the fire. Mrs. Seltz rented the home from Frank Stoutenburg, Sandusky. He said there was no insurance on the home or its contents. This plastic-hulled craft was burned beyond repair 1 Tfft) nJ EASY TO PARK EASY TO SHOP A I CREDIT 1 1 CARDS Travel Birthday Communion Confirmation Groduotion Father's Doy All Occasions F0MIFT IMOPf IMS OR OPEN A tARNET CHARGE ACCOUNT Reporter hurt in bike mishap Charles D.

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