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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Possible
ctors are low blood sugar and
e intake.
ciety of fast foods, over1
too readily available, are we
ig psychosis and neurosis in
d our loved ones, largely
norance and eating habits?
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