The Saturday Evening Post articles from January 2003

The Saturday Evening Post archives from January 2003

It works on pigs. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... I am an Iowa pig farmer and am interested in a Chicago report about pigs being used for testing CPR equipment. We're always glad to hear about pigs being useful for more than stuffed pork chops. Abe Synhorst Knoxville, Iowa ...

Fish oils: blues busters. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... A friend told me that the Post did an article about fish oil for depression. I would like to know where I could find more information about this. Peggy Simon New York, New York Editor's note: This article appeared in the Sept./Oct....

Apron appreciation. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... Your article "Aprons Throughout History" by Ted Kreiter gave me the urge to get out all my old aprons. I tend to hang them inside the cellar door off my kitchen, where they stay unused. Your story on the great aprons in people's lives and your...

Magnesium for migraines. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... I have been a subscriber of the Post for a long time. I always read "Medical Mailbox." In the last issue I saw a letter from a lady who said she had migraines for 19 years, and since she took the recommended items, she has not had a...

Blepharitis and dandruff. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... In the Sept./Oct. 2002 issue of the Post, someone asked about a cure for blepharitis. During the early 1950s, my husband was chief of the vision section at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in aerospace medicine. At that time a study was...

Give your body to a medical school. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... Just received the Nov./Dec. issue yesterday. The letter regarding organ donations caught my eye. I was listed as a donor until I was diagnosed with breast cancer in July of 1997. As a result, even though I still am "clean" of any cancer, I am...

Can't find "Red" Tea. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... Had seen an article about the Lipton Brisk Red Tea Diet. Wrote you for a reprint--which you sent. Called the Lipton Tea Company. They said they do not make "red tea," as it is too expensive a procedure, and sent me literature about what...

Another alternative to HRT. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... Too bad your Heartbeat article in the Nov./Dec. 2002 magazine ["Women at Risk" by Patrick Perry] didn't mention the alternative to hormone replacement therapy so many women are already using. There's a triple-blind study going on now with...

Once lost, now found. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... It's not a thing I do often or have ever before, but I felt compelled to write and tell you how much I enjoy the Post. I'd like to reiterate what one writer in the Nov./Dec. issue said: "The Post is the only magazine worth the subscription...

The ref scores a touchdown! (Letters).
January 1, 2003... I was surprised and delighted to receive my first copy of the Post, and there on the cover of the Sept./ Oct. magazine was the drawing of the coin flipped in football. Last December at a football banquet, my husband, Chuck Dowds, was honored...

Honoring our father. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... If every state legislature were required to read "Let's Require Our Kids to Study George Washington" [Nov./Dec. 2002] and institute into all our schools the study of Washington and others of our ancestors who had high morals, perhaps there...

If you remember when his first TV show hit the air, you are likely old enough to be a grandparent. (Post People).
January 1, 2003... If you remember when his first TV show hit the air, you are likely old enough to be a grandparent--and perhaps wishing you'd paid closer attention. Long before there were personal trainers, before we'd ever heard of aerobics, there was...

After a few months of retirement, Beverly Sills, the former chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, has returned to action. (Post People).
January 1, 2003... After a few months of retirement, Beverly Sills, the former chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, has returned to action as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera. "Joseph Volpe, general manager of the Met, called me just before...

"These Americans are a great honor to their fields and a great honor to our country," said President George W. Bush recently in a White House ceremony honoring the 2002 Nobel laureates. (Post People).
January 1, 2003... "These Americans are a great honor to their fields and a great honor to our country," said President George W. Bush recently in a White House ceremony honoring the 2002 Nobel laureates. "We're proud for what you've done, for not only America...

America's current surgeon general's life reads like a Hollywood script. (Post People).
January 1, 2003... America's current surgeon general's life reads like a Hollywood script. Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., was a street kid from a poor Hispanic family who dropped out of high school and, at 17, enlisted in the United...

Tips for vibrant health and beauty at every age. (Look Good, Feel Good).
January 1, 2003... Tips for Healthy Lips When outdoor humidity drops, as it does in many places in the winter, your lips can become dry and cracked. Dr. Lynn McKinley-Grant, a professor of dermatology at George Washington University, recommends the following...

Those wacky kids!
January 1, 2003... "I sure miss the good old days--before Mom got wise to me." "If he asks you if you want to play darts, watch out!" "Relax! I know there's a baby in there somewhere!" "I'm not looking forward to next year. I'm going to be old...

A brisk tea diet: an American doctor has found the key to losing weight while eating what he pleases. His method: moderate exercise and drinking lots of tea.
January 1, 2003... While dining with his wife at a Chinese restaurant a year and a half ago, Dr. Liang-Chi Tao made a discovery that changed his life. It was after a course of lobster, the retired pathology professor recalls, that "a waiter brought us a bowl of...

On tour with Debbie Reynolds: the feisty and fit actress speaks out about an all-too-common problem--overactive bladder.
January 1, 2003... "I love the road, greasepaint, and roar of the crowd. I love perfoming live," Debbie Reynolds, as fit and feisty as ever, told the Post while on tour in Canada. "I am onstage two hours singing, dancing, and doing impressions in a variety show....

Pancreatic cancer--reducing the risk: researchers are focusing on preventive measures to lower the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
January 1, 2003... In the battle against pancreatic cancer, preventive steps play an important role. Today, scientists are busy identifying factors that increase an individual's risk for developing the often-deadly disease. "Historically, cigarette smoking...

Post scripts.
January 1, 2003... Sappy New Year The fate of almost all New Year's resolutions Is mid-January's Promise dissolutions. --Dick Hayman All Charged Up Christmas is over, and New Year's, too, But that isn't why I am...

Zeroing in on a cure for diabetes: a medical breakthrough is freeing patients with diabetes type 1 from the endless cycle of blood testing and insulin shots, and transplanting a dramatic improvement in quality of life.
January 1, 2003... In May 1955, 12-year-old Ken Bernstein received the startling diagnosis-type 1 diabetes. "I was perfectly healthy and there was no history of diabetes in my family," remembers Ken. "I just remember being in school and experiencing terrible...

The patient patient. (Open Forum).
January 1, 2003... "Had we but world enough, and time..."--ANDREW MARVELL He had never had a medical problem until his first heart attack eight years earlier. The father of three had buried a wife, become a financier, and willed a company to success, then...

First Ladies: in their own words: a new book offers an intimate look at the fascinating women who have endured what may be the most demanding job of all: being the wife of the president.
January 1, 2003... America's First Ladies: Their Uncommon Wisdom by Bill Adler 240 pages, Taylor Trade Publishing $25.95 "I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else," Martha Washington wrote. Abigail Adams declared she'd...

Stolen hearts: a murder mystery: will the desperate donor heart shortage result in murder for money?
January 1, 2003... FROM LAST ISSUE: After meeting a mysterious man named Johnny on the mean streets of New York's west side, runaway Daryl West, 16, wakes up in a strange facility. Soon he falls into a numbing routine of eating and sleeping while a blonde nurse...

The challenge of being young, creative, and bipolar: diagnosed with manic depression at age 17, Lizzie Simon found little written about and for young people suffering from the devastating disorder--so she wrote her own story.
January 1, 2003... "Everything was perfect," wrote Lizzie Simon in her recently published autobiography, Detour. "And then I went insane." Simon, now 26, appeared to be on the fast track to success. Attending her senior year of high school abroad at an...

All dressed up: our illustrators don't go back to the fig leaf, but still they cover the clothing question quite well. (The American Illustrators Hall Of Fame).
January 1, 2003... Call it finery, frippery, gaudery, flashery, bib and tucker, Sunday-go-to-meeting, glad rags, or what you will. We are going to put it all into the simple single word of "clothes." And when one is so arrayed, we call it not only dressed up,...

Enter the "No Spin Zone": five nights a week, Bill O'Reilly tackles tough issues in a no-holds-barred style that can make the powerful cringe and the timid take cover. (Cover Story).
January 1, 2003... "In the No Spin Zone, you can watch those charlatans stammer and the spinners slip out in shame," television anchor Bill O'Reilly writes in his New York Times bestseller The No Spin Zone. "In the No Spin Zone, rationalizations are scorned, lies...

Kids say the strangest things! Consider these words to the wise uttered by children seven and under.
January 1, 2003... No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person. A four-year-old girl was...

Can you name this picture?
January 1, 2003... ... contest: The Saturday Evening Post will award $100 to the author of the winning limerick for this picture. Your limerick must contain exactly five lines. Send your entry on a postcard. Entries will not be returned. Enter as many times...

Where do you think you are?
January 1, 2003... East or West, North or South, each of the distinctive areas above appears on the map of a single city, state, or province. In terms of routes, state parks, mountains, and memorials, there is, as the saying goes, "no place like it." Can you...

The perfect squelch.
January 1, 2003... When her new neighbor suggested that they pool their efforts in entertaining some friends at a lawn party, Mrs. Wellman agreed it was a fine idea. Later she wished she hadn't, for her neighbor turned out to be the type who supplied ideas and...

You be the judge.
January 1, 2003... When Henry sought a permit to erect a 30-unit apartment house with only a three-car garage, the city turned him down. Officials cited an ordinance requiring new apartment buildings to have at least one auto-parking space for every three...

Losing weight with tea. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Can tea keep the calories from sticking to your ribs? If Dr. Liang-Che Tao has it right, you can cleanse greasy fingers by dipping them into a bowl of tea and the tea will not appear oily. They do it in China. Dr. Tao theorizes that tea in your...

Vitamin therapy for macular degeneration. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: I have heard that vitamins might help fight age-related macular degeneration. I wonder if these study findings have been publicized and accepted as valid. Gladys DeKruyter Oak Brook, Illinois A major study...

Magnetic inserts helped his foot pain. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: I never heard of peripheral neuropathy until I was hit with it last year. Since then I have read about it in the Post on occasion, searched the Internet for info, and had every test you could imagine to try and find out...

Swallowing problem after bypass surgery. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: First, I want to thank you for your "Medical Mailbox." We readers are truly blessed to get medical insight not only from you but also from your readers. Perhaps you or your readers can help my husband. It has been...

Folate and other B vitamins help heart patients. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: I read that a six-month regimen of folic acid, vitamin [B.sub.12], and vitamin [B.sub.6] can help prevent recurrence of blocked arteries in patients who have undergone coronary angioplasty. Can you tell me how much one...

Coping with breast cancer. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and am undergoing treatment and surgeries. I would greatly appreciate any information you can provide. I am new to all this and, at age 32, was not at all expecting to have to...

What sexual partners should know. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: My friend says she is safe because her boyfriend uses a condom. Does a condom prevent viruses that cause hepatitis and AIDS? You ask a good question. The human papilloma virus is infectious through the skin. It can be...

Medicare coverage for Alzheimer's disease. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: A cousin read in the Sept./Oct. 2002 "Medical Mailbox" about Alzheimer's treatment being covered by Medicare. How can we get more information on this? His wife is receiving the medication, and it is very costly. ...

Reader remedies for blepharitis. (Medical Mailbox).
January 1, 2003... Dear Dr. SerVaas: First, let me confess that I had always thought you were a man until I read your delightful article about having dinner with President Reagan in the Sept./Oct. Post! I am writing about Robyn Hope's problem with...