Life The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville, Tenn. Page 12A, Wednesday, November 22, 1989 Three Sight Robbers Are Pre Preventable ble Three Sight AP Laserphoto Julia's Way To Cook Julia Child sits behind copies of her new book, "The Way to Cook." Her seventh book, she says it's her last. New Cookbooks From Child, Willan NEW YORK (AP) One's pastry and more. The photofirst inclination is to weigh the graphs show how to snap off the book. It's a coffee-table book, end of green beans, stuff zucchini DEAR DR.
DONOHUE: My eyesight is not what it was, but at 60 whose is? Nevertheless, can you discuss the things a person can do to preserve reasonable vision in the later years? ANSWER: The three great sight robbers are glaucoma, cataracts and diabetes, and they don't always wait for later years to begin their inroads on vision. But all are preventable. Glaucoma is buildup of fluid within the eyeball. It can eventually erode the vision nerves there. Cataract is a gradual opacification of the eye's crystalline lens, causing a fuzzy image and eventual loss of sight.
Diabetes, of course, is the blood sugar problem. It is a notorious damager of nerves and blood vessels. It affects sight by damaging the tiny blood vessels that serve the retina at the rear of the eye. All three of these conditions are treatable. Thus, the best sight preservation program involves examination for each throughout life and getting treatment when needed.
Doing that at age 60 is as important as at 40 or 50, perhaps more so. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: When resting in bed in the morning, I can feel a bulge at the right hip. Does this mean I have a hernia? How does one know? Is it supposed to be painful? G.H. ANSWER: The hip is not your typical hernia area.
Typically, hernias occur more toward the center of the body, down at the groin, just inward from the crease made by the upper leg and lower abdomen. Another fact that would make one doubt hernia here is that you tell me you feel the bulge when lying down. Doctors check for hernia with the patient standing up. In 1 that position, the downward pressure in the lower Holiday Meals Can Be Healthy NEW YORK (AP) From the Thanksgiving feast to New Year's Day football, stuffing oneself as plump as the turkey seems almost obligatory. And while a certain smugness may be the reward for not indulging, Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook" (Times Books, $18.95) calls for stuffing the bird with parsley sprigs, apples and crushed peppercorns.
A separate recipe for cornbread dressing uses egg whites, vegetable spray and just one tablespoon of marga- contains 800 recipes, 600 color blossoms, melt chocolate, stuff few will find that sufficient suste- rine. photographs. The author prom- and truss a turkey. nance at the holiday table. There are ises to tell and show you "every- Child Kafka also suggests paying close thing she knows about the essen- emphasizes healthy cook- ways to enjoy the fat of the land attention to side dishes and considertials of good cooking today." ing.
Many recipes making the New Year's dieting skipping such traditional items of the master without are low in fat or fat-free. How- any tougher. The title of this 511-page book: she does not "deli- as creamed onions, buttery mashed "The to Cook." The author: ever, give up "Holidays should be subtitled 'na- potatoes and sugary canned cranChild. cious indulgences" including sau- tional days of carbohydrates and Way Julia The cost: $50 (Alfred and hollandaise and berry sauce. sages pates, Ellen Brown writes in "The A.
Knopf). Is it worth it? For butter sauces. "I think people want some connecit will be book Gourmet Gazelle Cookbook" (Banmany, a they will While tam Books, "A few tion" to the traditions, even if they use for years. fast Child discourages take- I was horrified to realize I had years used ago are willing to make some changes, acknowledging today's This is Child's seventh book, she said. For dessert she plans to pace, out food and frozen dinners.
Her more than four pounds of butter in designed, according to the author advice: get the family to cooking Thanksgiving dinner for make a pumpkin pudding, which is for the new generation of cooks lighter than pie but "satisfies most help with the beans and the salad eight people." who need a basic knowledge of people in the sense of color, sweetgood food; for those who would greens; stages; Thanksgiving ness." plan recipes in It's estimated that make double batches of desserts gobbling can total 3,000 calories like to cook but who have "never that can go in the freezer. two normal days' worth of food for "We're not trying to set out to dedared even to string a fresh NEW women. But in prive people. If people walk around bean;" and for experienced FROM ANNE WILLAN many Thanksgiving celebration feeling constantly deprived, they are particular, with its green cooks who would like some new "LaVarenne Pratique" by Anne abundance and variety, provides a not going to stick with a diet. It's of approaches.
chance to serve and eat very important not to set up an anideas and Willan (Crown Publishers, $60) The cookbook accomplishes photo- foods without feeling left out. A tithesis between healthy food and includes 2,500 full-color healthy these goals. It is organized by graphs, recipes, is flavorful, tradition-minded dishes pleasure." 400 international key method, so that the novice and and hundreds of cooking methods without of Kafka expert alike can select a master from tying a rack of lamb to large amounts fats, will serve a fairly tradirecipe and then move on to varia- making spun sugar. cholesterol or salt. tional Thanksgiving: vegetable soup, tions.
Willan is founder and The centerpiece of most feasts, turkey with a simple bread-and-sage turkey, is a good place to start. stuffing, baked sweet president "The technique is what's im- of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne potatoes, "You should take off the skin for braised leeks, raw cranberry sauce portant here," Child says in the in Paris. Her 528-page, coffee- (with some of the canned version for introduction, "and when you real- table book contains 22 chapters your portion you're trying to lose the if ize that stew is stew is that illustrate ingredients, re- weight," said Barbara Kafka, author children), apple pie and pumpkin a a a stew, and a roast is a roast, whether it cipes and cooking techniques. of "Microwave Gourmet Healthstyle pudding. be beef, lamb, pork or chicken, Learn how to scramble Cookbook" (William Morrow and Co.
For a giblet gravy that's lighter cooking begins to make sense." bake eggs, "The skin, unfortunately eggs, deep-fry pan-fry than normal, she suggests cooking eggs, and sadly, is going to contain a Child tells you how to clarify eggs, make folded, flat and and the turkey neck, wing tips and gibstock, knead dough, boil eggs, souffle omelets all illustrated major cholesterol lets (except the liver) in a container portion of the fat and the poach fish, shred cabbage, bake by color photographs. in the bird." of water in the microwave. Then, The roast turkey recipe in the rather than the fatty pan drippings, American Heart Association's "Low-. use the broth as the gravy base. New Wave: Water-Of-The-Month -Mon th Club amazing.
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What they're buying, for guzzling or gifting, through an area when they could no longer run Recently coffee-of-the-month clubs isn't cheap. Six liter -size bottles of selected the horses and the men were just so weary after advertised are even acceptable, and there may be a place waters from around the world are delivered for riding for 12 hours straight. And they stopped at for the nut-of-the-month catalog. But water of the $39.95 a month, $109.95 for three months, $199.95 this month? spring, and they drank the water, and they for six months and $349.95 for a year. immediately recovered.
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The water -free water, is located in Edison, N.J., Mr. Siebenberg And for those who don't understand the signifi- that generates the most is requests a pear-flasays Texans have been particularly interested in cance of each water, a note describing its back- vored offering called Swiss Altima. "It has a the mail-order water-of-the-month club. ground is also enclosed. unusual very or different taste," Siebenberg says.
The "About 20 to 25 percent of our customers are in "Every water that we have has a history or a Swiss water is also one of the most expensive, Texas," Mr. Siebenberg says. "It's absolutely story behind it," says Siebenberg. "For example, selling for $1.85 for 32 ounces. Personal Ad Respondent Suffers Risk Of Rejection By JUDITH MARTIN DEAR MISS MANNERS I recently ran a personal ad and got several replies, all of which I felt compelled to answer, because one always answers personal letters from human beings.
Although my ad clearly emphasized that I place great importance on intelligence, I received one marginally illiterate, partially illegible reply, which could only have come from a wholly incompatible person. I replied with what I believe was a kindly worded but fairly frank rejection letter. I thanked the person for her interest, did my best to place the onus on myself (i.e., "I'm probably too cerebral for you" rather than "You're not smart enough for and wished her the very best. What any, does the anonymity of the personals have on the rules of courtesy? Would it have been kinder of me simply not to answer this letter? Would some sort of white lie have been appropriate? Were Miss Manners a gentleman, how would she have worded what amounts to a rejection of a lady on the grounds of intellectual incapacity? GENTLE READER Imagining that she is a gentleman running a personal advertisement is too diffi- Dr. Paul Donohue Miss Manners cult for Miss Manners.
So she will try to imagine that she is the lady in question, in order to determine whether she would prefer the reply you sent or no response at all. In both instances, she finds herself thinking: "Aha! He thinks he is too good for me." This is not a pleasant experience, but it goes with the territory. One should not use personal advertising if one is unprepared for abrupt rejection. On the whole, Miss Manners thinks she would prefer the uncertainty which would permit her to beHeve that her letter had been lost. PURE BOTTLED WATER Home Other UNITED STATES WATER SYSTEMS 552-2200 abdomen accentuates any hernia bulge.
Some hernias cause pain, especially when under strain, but some patients complain only of a vague tightening sensation. Even though I doubt you have a hernia, there's a sure-fire way of finding out. See your doctor. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have taken three Pap tests in the past two months, with no signs of venereal infection.
Yet I still have annoying discharge. What factors can be causing this? I have been on birth control pills for more than a year. ANSWER: Assuming your doctor has checked for the common infections yeast, candida, trichomonas, gonorrhea, chlamydia, etc. it is time to consider non-infectious causes of discharge. High on the list are skin disorders, like eczema and psoriasis.
Normal secretions can increase with birth control pill use. Clear, odorless, somewhat sticky discharge is typical of that. Irritants make up the rest of the checklist deodorants, strong soaps, bubble baths and so on. Some women solve the problem by using only 100 percent cotton undergarments that can "breathe." FOR MRS. M.
A lone kidney cyst very seldom causes mischief. If your concern is cancer, forget it. Cysts never become cancerous. Your cyst size (5 cm) is a factor in your favor. Larger cysts, those the 10 cm or larger category, may in time impinge upon adjacent kidney tissue and cause pain or bleeding.
That doesn't have to happen. And cysts don't have to enlarge at all. From what you say in your letter, your doctor seems to have a good handle on this. Let him carry the ball. Dr.
Donohue welcomes reader mail but regrets that, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to answer individual 1 letters. Readers' questions are incorporated in his column whenever possible. Happy 1st Birthday, Nov. 22 Tiffany Renee Gronberg, daughter of Roy and Rachel Gronberg of Clarksville. The Leaf-Chronicle asks readers who want their children featured, free of charge, in Happy First Birthday to: 1.
Submit a head and shoulders picture of the baby at least 10 days before the child's birthday. 2. Color prints can be used, but they must be of good quality. No Polaroid snapshots, please. Black and white pictures are preferred.
Photo size does not matter. 3. The child's parents must live in the Clarksville area. 4. The name of the child, date of birth, and the parents' names, address and telephone number should be printed on the back of the photograph.
5. Photographs should be mailed to Happy First Birthday, The Leaf-Chronicle, P.O. Box 829, Clarksville, Tenn. 37040. Photographs will not be returned, but they may be claimed at the newspaper after they have been published.
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