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Aug. 24, 1977 Dayton Daily Research 'conclusive' Coffee is harmless, says Duke professor DAYTON SALEM MALLS OPEN TODAY, PRE-SEASON beings 'rabbits' or 'dogs?" Looking at the attacks on coffee, Heyden said, "You are absolutely amazed how nicotine can fare so much better" than caffeine. For example, he said, coffee has been blamed for low birth weight In children, although clgarets are the real culprits mothers who smoke produce underweight babies "In every country in the civilized Other coffee research has Indicated that coffee did not cause various diseases, but Heyden's Is the first to give coffee a completely clean bill. Heyden says the study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, is conclusive, and no further research on coffee need be done. SALE 20 OFF EVERY FUR KftKM Nwl Stnict Drink ill the coffee you can afford.

All those warnings about coffee's dire effects on health don't amount to a hill of Brazilian beans, according to a Duke University study. "It's the most harmless of all pleasures," said Dr. Siegfried Heyden, professor of community health sciences at Duke. "How could one coffee bean cause so many diseases?" PREVIOUS RESEARCH has linked coffee to such varied Illnesses as diabetes, gout, cirrhosis of the liver, strokes, peptic ulcers, heart attacks and prostate cancer. Nonsense, Hsydan said.

"Most research on coffee drinking falls to account for the fact that coffee drinking Is widely associated with another habit clgaret smoking," he said. The clgarets, he Mid, account for most of the problems found In coffee drinkers, "though, of course, the tobacco Industry doesn't like that idea." Heyden and fellow researchers studied 2,300 people In Evans County, between 1967 and 1974, dividing them Into those who drank five cups of coffee or more a day and those who drank fewer. "There was no difference In total mortality, stroke death or coronary death," Heyden said. "Wert the heavy coffee drinkers more likely to have hypertension? No. Were they more likely to have aggravation of high blood pressure? Again, the answer is no." HEYDEN DISMISSED tests on animals which showed a link between coffee and disease.

"The species difference In reaction to different agents Is well known," he Mid. "A dog or a rat may not get hardening of the arteries on the same diet that would produce hardening of the arteries In a rabbit. Are human Now's the time to buy the fur you'll wear this winter and winter is to come! Save 20 or more on every mink coat Eddie Roterti Dullv Niwi BUT DR. THOMAS Dawber, professor of medicine at Boston University and director for IS years of a similar study in Framingham, sounded a note of caution. Studies such as his snd Heyden's, he said, Indicate whether coffee causes a disease, but do not discuss Its effects on persons who already have peptic ulcers, heart disease or other illnesses.

"And I would doubt seriously that he had enough people in the very heavy consumption level (IS to 20 cups a day) to make It conclusive for Dawber said. Of course, coffee Is not without effect on the body. Heyden acknowledged that coffee can irritate the stomach lining and cause nervousness, but he said this does not mean people should be prevented from drinking as much as they want. "There are individual reactions to every known food and drink, individual sensitivities from strawberries to roses and soft drinks to clgarets," he said. "That should not deter the rest of the human race." Award-winning dress or cape every sport fur, long or short.

ing teacher brought the value of her state and national Junior Miss competition winnings to $8,900, including a full four-year scholarship to Alabama's Troy State University. With her this week In Dayton are Miss North Butler County Junior Miss Robin Rath-bun (L) and Miss Clark County Junior Miss Carol Foster. When is a simple little Unbleached muslin dress, whipped up in an afternoon, worth $300 and a four-day trip to New York? When it's lavished with crewel-work by Ohio's Junior Miss, Jo-Ann Bayus, a blue-eyed size six with flaming red hair. As first runner up in Simplicity's Jiffy Sewing Contest, the talented Youngstown teenager and danc CUSTOM PAYMENT PLANS--- What's a playgirl? All fur products labeled to show country of origin. DONENFEID'S DOWNTOWN SALEM MAIL DAYTON MALI She's not what you think, says magazine's new editor KnlgM Nri Strvlct HOLLYWOOD Playgirl magazine, contrary to what you may believe, is not supposed to be a female version of that long-standing brown wrapper favorite Playboy.

A "playgirl" is not necessarily the stereotypical well-endowed sexpot who happily marks a new notch on her bed post each evening. On the contrary she is more a female with a certain attitude toward life and love. plans to give women Just that. Traditional ways of characterizing people, according to their age, aex, size, and other physical characteristics are becoming less and less important. Fleming says, and the person she calls a typical "playgirl" is in the forefront of "this huge swing away from the old ways." "A playgirl Is in command of her life, sees enjoying herself as valid and does not have to have all her work done first before she plays and does not have to be always waiting on others.

Being a playgirl stands for more than that. "A PLAYGIRL IS a woman who feels free to control her own life; who sees options and chooses what is correct for her as an individual. What sets a playgirl apart is her set of attitudes about her self and her way of characterizing men and women. Playgirl Is definitely not a derivative of Playboy" she says. Fleming, who used to work for SEI-CUS, the sex information council in New York, and for Psychology Today magazine when It was headquartered in San-Diego where she also maintained a professional sex therapy practice, believes men and women are becoming more mature in their ideas on sex.

"People are going from a position of no informutlon, extreme Victorianlsm, no comfort and high anxiety, to a position of much Information, comfortabil-Ity and less anxiety about sex. "We have a long way to go. But we now have effective ways to deal with clinical problems and with subclinical problems. We all have sexual bodies; the reproductive organs do not work until puberty but sexual responsiveness is there from the day we are born. We can't pretend our bodies are not there." THE EDITOR, WHO has her doctorate in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, also talks about the "objectifying" of males and females, the looking at men and women strictly as depersonalized "sex objects." "Showing a naked body," as the magazine does In myriad full-color photographs, Including a center photo that folds out, "Is not using the body as a sex object." Making someone, male or female, Into a aex object meana being concerned only with that person's genitalia, Fleming says.

"I have no prejudice against looking at bodies." But enjoying the sight "does not Imply that the viewer considers that the person of the body Is an Idiot or that I am not Interested in who the person is." THE WHOLE IDEA of using people as ax objects Is an extension of the idea that we have no control over our own bodies, Fleming Mys. Nude pictures can help by offering people a degree of experience they might not otherwise get. "When people see different bodies, they Iom their self consciousness." Fleming was raised In Ohio on a farm. In childhood, as she and her sister successfully raised and showed sheep and horses to earn college money, Joyce Dudney Fleming had always wanted to be a veterinarian. She sent out applications to various schools of veterinary medicine and was uniformly turned down.

"Women were not allowed to enroll," she Mys. SO SHE DECIDED on psychology, went to Purdue and then on to Berkeley. At age 22, she married a marine biologist and worked at that union making it last Mven years. She had decided at an early age not to have children and to stake out a career. "It It absolutely true that I was raised in an extremely rural community by parents who told me to do what I wanted; they were unique in that sense and in that community particularly and going Into academla made It easier to get acceptance and permission for choosing my own lifestyle." DAYTON SALEM MALLS OPEN TODAY, JOYCE DUD-NEY FLEMING, the magazine's new editor who is also a psychologist specializing in sex-ualltv and sex therapy, sees the 'yce Fleming magazine as entertaining and erotic, sensual and educational.

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