The Saturday Evening Post articles from September 1997

The Saturday Evening Post archives from September 1997

Test your nutrition IQ.
September 1, 1997... Give your mind a good workout by taking the following quiz designed to test your knowledge of fitness and nutrition. 1. Muscle is mainly made up of: A. Water B. Protein C. Fat D. Amino acids Answer: A. Muscle is...

A fresh look at tomatoes.(includes recipes)
September 1, 1997... How do we love tomatoes? Let's count the ways: We love them in pasta, on pizza, in juice, in salad and soup, sliced on sandwiches, stuffed with tuna, even dried and baked in bagels, but most of all, we love them right off the vine -- ripe,...

Gardening: the natural way.(flower gardening)
September 1, 1997... When it comes to landscaping your yard, artfully designed flower beds can add beauty and interest, but some believe the most beautiful landscaping is done by nature itself. Some famous examples are the gardens at Giverny in the familiar...

Why the best exercise buddy is a dog.
September 1, 1997... My father put on five pounds the summer after our cocker spaniel, Budgie, died. Without the family pet's need for an after-dinner walk, Dad stopped taking his nightly, 45-minute stroll around the neighborhood. Within a few months, his...

Tiger Woods: The Makings of a Champion.
September 1, 1997... "Is any 20-year-old kid worth a 70,000-word biography? Probably not, but Tiger Woods is not just any 20-year-old kids." Thus begins Tim Rosaforte's new biography, Tiger Woods, The Makings of a Champion. Rosaforte, a senior writer for...

Giving seniors a second change: The Alternative Heart Transplant Program at UCLA - the nation's first - is saving lives by offering heart transplants to patients 65 and older.(program director Dr Hillel Laks)(Heart Transplants: Special Report)(Interview)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... Until recently, people over the age of 60 or 65 in need of a heart transplant were offered little hope. They were considered too old for traditional transplant programs, especially in the face of a critical shortage of donors where healthy...

Mending a broken heart. (heart transplant recipient Norman Franzen)(Heart Transplants: Special Report)(Interview)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... In 1994, Norman Franzen faced a life-threatening impasse. At 73, he was too old for a traditional heart transplant in the United States, but without one he would probably die within three months. During a checkup, his cardiologist told him...

who gets this heart? (cardiac surgeon John Brown, chief of cardio-thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Cardiac Transplantation Program at Indiana Univ)(Heart Transplants: Special Report)(Interview)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... Dr. John Brown, chief of cardio-thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Cardiac Transplantation Program at Indiana University, has performed more than 150 heart transplants. We talked with him about the critical life-and-death priority...

Celebrities grateful for their lifesaving transplants.(Organ Transplants: Special Report)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... Over 70 million Americans received an unexpected, but lifesaving, message with their 1996 tax refund checks -- Become an Organ Donor. The broadest-based public education campaign about organ and tissue donation in history was a direct result...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a vision and a voice for our times.(German theologian who fought evil of Hitler in World War II)
September 1, 1997... It was mid-June 1944. The Allied Forces had successfully established a beachhead in Normandy and were beginning to push eastward against the German occupation force in France. For five years all of Euro had been in the dark shadow of Nazi...

Going south is for the birds: when his Snowbelt and her Sunbelt clash, don't bother to ask which one gets melted.(moving; humor)
September 1, 1997... We're moving. Again. For the 15th time. Not exactly over my dead body, but close enough. My dear wife, Lois (to be formal), and I don't see eye to eye on die custom of boxing up our belongings every 20 years or so and relocating....

Way out West: the American illustrators hall of fame.(Saturday Evening Post covers)
September 1, 1997... Records show that Hall of fame artists were painting instant appeal on Post covers at the same time Horace Greeley was coming up with the phrase "Go West, young man." Records do not show that any of the young illustrators fell for the...

Update on bipolar illness.
September 1, 1997... Q. Could you tell us about the research you've done on the familial and hereditary aspects of bipolar illness.? A. We have been identifying families with multiple cases of bipolar disorder for the last eight years or so here at the...

The Maine attraction.(includes related article on accommodations)
September 1, 1997... By 5:00 a.m., Phyllis Schartner's strawberry fields in rural Thorndike, Maine, are teeming with 300 basket-wielding visitors. Hers is a you-pick-'em farm, and novice "farmhands" line up early for the privilege of boarding the berry buggy and...