The White Falcon - 30.08.1985, Side 7

Preventive dentistry
Dental Clinic will sponsor back-to-school program
Story by Lt S.R. Peck
The Naval Station Dental Clinic will be spon-
soring a "Back to School" Preventive Dentistry
Program from Sept. 3-17 at the dental clinic,
building 862. Appointments for the program can
be made by calling the dental clinic, 7425, Aug.
30 through Sept. 6 between 1 and 4 p.m. Children
participating in the program will receive an ex-
amination, cleaning, flouride application, and
oral hygiene instructions.
Many parents ask when should their child first
see the dentist? The American Dental Association
recommends a first dental visit before the age of
two. This is by no means a hard fast rule. If
your child has obvious dental problems or injures
the teeth in an accident, you should see the
dentist right away. The main point is to try to
have the child meet the dentist in a situation
not associated with discomfort.
How the child accepts the idea of dental care,
depends largely on the parents. If the parents
are apprehensive, the child will pick up on that
attitude and will react the same way, even if the
parents say nothing negative about going to the
dentist.
How can parents help their children feel good
about going to the dentist? Schedule your childs
first visit at an early age. Teach your child
that the dentist and the dental staff are
"helpers" -- people who can help the child have
strong, attractive teeth that will last a life-
time. Treat the trip to the dentist as a posi-
tive adventure. Make the child's first visit
a time of orientation by letting the dentist give
a guided tour of the office and the child's mouth.
Need to lose weight? There are no shortcuts says flight surgeon
Story by Mai. Steve Grayson, Flight Surgeon
Surprised by a mass weigh in?
You're in good company. Renewed
emphasis has been placed on wei-
ght control Air Force wide.
Being too fat drains energy, pro-
motes health problems and is bad
for esprit de corps.
Now that you've been labeled
fat, how do you get off the list?
A diet, right?
Dieting is a cruel delusion.
A hard-fought victory over fat
is a temporary one. More than
95 percent of dieters will regain
weight lost, often gaining back
more fat and less muscle than
before. Diet aids don't change
this poor success rate.
Diet aids can be divided into
two groups: hunger suppressants
and food supplements.
Suppressants are pills that
have amphetamine-1ike properties.
They cause loss of hunger, ner-
Staten Island, N.Y. (NNS)--
Customers shopping at the Navy
Exchange will find first rate
merchandise being sold and every
product the genuine article, ac-
cording to Navy Exchange offic-
ials. John Marecki, Director of
Merchandise Division at the Navy
Resale and Services Support Of-
fice here, assures customers
vousness, light headedness and
irregular heart beats. And like
amphetamines, the effect on hun-
ger decreases with time, so the
dose must be increased to main-
tain suppression. This obviously
is not the way to go.
Food supplements are differ-
ent. These are vitamin-loaded,
low-calorie powders intended to
be mixed with milk and substit-
uted for one or more meals. If
this is done regularly, they
work.
However, if a person normally
eats a 1,200-calorie evening
meal and substitutes it with a
160-calorie mildshake, more than
1,000 calories will be cut out
of the day's intake. Just three
days of this and a pound can be
lost.
The only thing better, and
cheaper, would be to skip the
supplement and drink plain milk!
It's easy to spend $1 or more
per day on rneal supplements.
that the problems of counterfeit
products have not reached the
shelves at Navy Exchanges.
Counterfeit products are be-
comming more of a problem for
the civilian marketplace. Rang-
ing from counterfeit Levi Jeans
to birth control pills, these
inferior products are being found
in stores around the world.
In addition, the weight lost
may be 50 percent muscle, not
just fat. Save your money and
go for a walk instead.
Fat people have three choices.
They can stay fat, watch their
diets forever, or exercise and
eat sensibly. Those are the
cold hard facts.
"Something has come between us, Gertrude.”
A recent article in "Navy
Times" warned service shoppers
to be on the look out for these
counterfeits so as to avoid pay-
ing high prices for inferior
products While the article
stated that there wer no "coun-
terfeit horror stories" in mili-
tary exchanges, it still advised
customers to be alert while shop-
ping on base just in case.
No counterfeits on NEX shelves
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