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r i Shut up , Ame Prime t\ Big neti By Peter J. Boyer AP Television Writer Shut Up, America. Please. When a camera crew from ABC or CBS or NBC knocks on your door asking if there's anything bizarre you'd like to do on prime time, say no. Better, tell them that your family reads books and ask if they'd like to film that. Do not, please, tell them that your daughter eats peanut butter-and-live-gold- , fish sandwiches. Do not tell them about Cousin Harry who hasn't bathed in six years, or about the cult of oody odorists to which he belongs. You will only feed the rabid "Reality ' Television" beast, which already roams reckless over the airwaves in hordes. IT THE TELEVISION'S "Reality"' plague has proven anything, it's that the nromico n f iieinrt rool |/t VtilltJV VTA UlJAlIg 1 vai Americans for entertainment was better as an idea than as a fact. The creatures go by many names, "Real People," the prototype, "That's Incredible," "That's My Line," "Games People r-iay. ine most oaious 01 them is this one called ] "Speak Up America" on NBC. Geroge Schlatter, one of | television's most creative I and original forces, thought it would be good to have a show allowing Americans to Speak up about their Nutritic caiisp. nr By Cyndie Lorsen Gamocock Staff Writar Schizophrenia, manic alcoholism, drug addiction, depression, anxiety and jus ; nerves: are these afflictions a v i some people, making life > struggle, a chore, alleviated te drugs and frequent visits to ?. 1I_: ?i: i v-vutu : is suiiicuilllg CUling ( i something they're eating? Research scientists have knc years that severe nutritional cause severe mental illness. | years, a number of research less serious mental condition evidence that the twilight zor ill- * ? * uuiess are aiso caused or w< nutrition. Most recently, a f have discovered that certaii genetically predisposed to < nutrient needs. Could this I mining factor between who mental illness and who is not? ; Dr. E. Cheraskin and Dr. W. present evidence to support th? their book, Psychodietetics: Key to Emotional Health. " mounting evidence that sound principles underly the f phenomenon, and that dieU have a profound influence or feel, think, respond to, and iuapIW qpnnn/t no TTVft A\4 Ui V/UllVl UO llllll 111 should be used as an adjunct forms of mental therapy." Ii the doctors treated, diet alone < Dr. Donald Eccleston, assis !i of the MRC Brain Metalism f University of Edinburgh, r "The notion that moods can b by biochemical defects in the I ( difficult to accept. Now, twenl ! the first indications, evid( cumulating in support biochemical lessons as a cans* of psychiatric disorders." One metabolic disorder thoi ten percent of the American hypoglycemia, or low blood inability of the body to me bohydrates and stimulants sue i rica. Please I me real vork mi troubled times He'd use Columbus, Ohio's QUBE system to give viewers an immediate input to the show. Okay. A little close to the edge, perhaps, somewhat Do not, please, tell them your daughter eats peanut butterand-live goldfish sandwiches. You will on/v feed the rabid "Reality Television'' Beast reminiscent of the lunatic Howard Beale show in "Network," but if done with restraint, it could be entertaining and informational. RESTRAINT AND good taste were fast chucked out the window. To host the show, Schlatter hired Marjoe Gortner, a child huckster preacher who has brought all the tools of his former trade with him into adulthood - the frenzipd pitch, the hell-fire tone, the hand gestures that once framed exhortations to get right with the Lord. To help Gortner in his mission, Schlatter provided >n def ici inni'ol il icniai it ranges in its de severe. -depression, It can cause irritability, from anxiety, .4 - * * ii piain oia stant worryini vay of life for weight, depres a constant thoughts, aller mporarily by to nervous brea the analyst's Ringsdorf a hem, or is it abnormal plun perilous, send >wn for many every cell in deficiencies system, and t In recent erratic menta lers studvine hvnnalurpmia , -c --j r~ov s have found les of mental - . orsened upon Al tlUmui ew scientists studvina i people are J "U ;xtra special mental je the deter- x is beset by 'OUtlO ?1 M. Ringsdorf '""W ise findings in lllnBSS 8ti Food as the n i it., nnnr nutn r>uj>eu on me ? bio-chemical ?? ood-to-mouth strung out on s iry nutrients control, with i the way we frequently res< perceive the Schizophreni icnal therapy have been t to all other adherence to i many cases certain vitami iid the trick. needed for pro itant director have recovere< Unit of the eported that Adele Davis _ J-i ' 1 lUnl i.l v ueierminea inenuii cc brain may be some cases ty years after magnesium, snce is ac- and/or the B-< of primary contributing fa 3 of a number a too low calori ight to afflict In this so Population is processed and sugar. This slowly inducir tabolize car- ourselves an :h as caffeine through our ig \ity, is to ke co-hosts Rhonda Bates and Jayne Kennedy. Miss Bates, loud and corny, is prone to intermittent shrieks that could give dead men headaches. Miss Kennedy, you'll recall, was once a sports inurnalict nf cni<(c nn PDO1 JVVU IIMIIUV \/A ?aui U1 \J 11 VyUkJ "NFL Today" show. She was bad there. The company she's with now makes her seem a female Eric Sevareid. The one "Speak Up America" segment I saw opened with a segment on the women sailors from the USS Norton Sound threatened with discharge from the Navy for alleged homosexuality. "Speak Up America" managed to get all oiaht of tho nmmnn f I ui? VI^III v* tllV nvilicii VII 111C show to give their views on their highly publicized hearings, something no TV news operation, to my knowledge, had been able to do. BUT BEFORE I could mutter "Good job," Marjoe the preacher left the platform to work the crowd. He soon found a woman who said, "My husband's in the NflUV I Wich oil tho umtr\nn - * J * "w" M,v n VAI1V11 in the Navy were homosexuals." So, please when the network folks come to your door, hide your five-legged Airedale. And never try to pick up a woman with a big mouth and a shrill voice. iencies lness gree of severity from mild to a whole relm of symptoms uniauiiivjr, uiouiiuiia, UUH* g, underweight and ?version, mood swings, suicidal gies, dizziness and fainting, ikdown. nd Cheraskin write, "An ige in blood sugar levels is ling shock waves through the body and the nervous he brain most of all. An 1 state results. A typical victim is an emotional yo-yo, w of researchers ' less serious /tM ^ a i.viiuniuii!> nave ridence that the zones of mental e also caused by 'tion. i chemical reaction he cannot reactions so severe they jmble insanity." ics and manic-depressives successfully treated with a hypoglycemic diet and ins, minerals and hormones iper food metabolism. Many i primarily by this method. , noted nutritionist, reports infusion and depression is in caused by deficiencies in pantothenic acid, protein, complex vitamins. 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