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HAMILTON (CP) — A
young man in a small office
sits ramrod straight. He
breathes rapidly and sucks
on a cigarette as if it was his
lifeline.

Outside the office, psychi
atrie patients shuffle along
the hallway. Some stand still
as potted plants, their eyes
following passers-by. An old
man in a wheelchair rolls
himself a rough cigarette and
mumbles to himself.

“I want to get out of here,”
the young man says, staring
straight ahead.

Donna Hall, the patient

at the Hamil

guess.” He points to his ab
domen. “Because all I've got
in there is junctions.”

The young man, who suf
fers from schizophrenia,
wants to leave the hospital,
but doesn't know how to do
it. He has no place to go.

Il, confused and unsure of
his rights, he’s typical of the
visitors who wander into the
Patient advocate's office.

The advocate’s job is to
ensure psychiatric patients

treated fairly and that
Yi concerns are voiced and

Psychiatrie Hospital, balan-
ces a white pad on her knee.
“Why?” she asks. “They're
giving me psychiatric drugs
for a physical ailment.”
“What's the ailment?”

‘The man sucks a quarter of
his cigarette to ash. “I have
plastic-coated veins,” he an-
nounces.

“What do they call this

= also pilots her clients
through legal channels
which to many patients, seem
treacherous and frightening

Hall, 40, is one of 12 patient
advocates in Ontario's 10
provincial psychiatric hospi
tals.

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The man’s face twists.

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information, 21 per cent
needed help with their dis
charge from the hospital or
had concerns about their
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TORONTO (CP) — While her friends gobble burgers
and fries in the noisy fast-food joint, Dana Kamin clutches
her stomach in pain.

“| get nauseous, dizzy and feel generally exhausted,”
the 21-year-old college student says of her attempts to
grab a quick snack between classes.

Kamin's doctors say she suffers from food allergies
that include certain additives, cheese and milk — all
ingredients found in most of the fast-food restaurants she
visits during her heetie college schedule.

Although the hamburger and chicken spots make her
sick, Kamin says she can't avoid them.

“I don't like to cook and, besides, I don't have time. I
need fast food to survive.”

She would like the restaurants to provide
information about ingredients so she can avoid the foods
that give her the most trouble.

Unlike the makers of pre-packaged foods, restau
> rants are not required by law to list ingredients on

produce wrappers or cartons.

So for people like Kamin, eating on the run can be a
serious gamble. And with the growing awareness of
nutrition generally, even dedicated fast-food eaters are
beginning to wonder what they're swallowing.

“Fast foods are often laden with additives that make
them flavorful and preserve freshness,” says Susan
Daglish, president of the Allergy Information Associa
tion

‘IT CAN BE HELL’

“Most people don't notice, but for allergy sufferers, it
can be pure hell.”

The jation and the C s A jation of
Canada have started to lobby restaurants to inform
consumers.

Most companies provide some nutrient and ingredi-

a sen

B.C., Alberta
number of

Where do the fittest Canadians live? Where are the
flabbiest ones from? Are city-slickers soft? And are rural
residents active?

Just published are findings from a federal survey of
20,000 adults that shed some light on these questions. Much
has happened since the information was gathered in 1981,
ineluding the jogging and aerobics booms, but the report is
the best profile yet of fitness in this country.

Allergy sufferers gamble
eating fast-food

ent information, but consumers must write or phone
restaurant head offices to get it. -

Cara Operations Ltd., which owns Harvey's, Swiss
Chalet and Steak and Burger, refuses to disclose what
goes into its menus, claiming there isn't enough public
interest and that they have to safeguard recipes.

But Cara vice-president Martin Peskin says the
company would provide such information to a “bona fide
group with legitimate concerns.” -

Wendy's and McDonald's publish detailed nutrient
information booklets about their products with meal
suggestions for customers on special diets.

 Gpekeemen for Kentucky Fried Chicken say people
who are allergic to the flavor. enhancer monosodium
glutamate should avoid their chicken. The company has
developed a chart for people with food allergies, telling
them which foods are safe to eat and which are not.

Kamin was amazed to learn this information is
available. Although she has made ingredient inquiries at
most of these restaurants in the past year, she was never
told about the booklets, she says.

None of the restaurants lists ingredients on packages
and the allergy association and consumers association
would like them to do so. In the United States, consumer
groups are lobbying for a federal law requiring such
labelling

‘The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Associa-
tion, which rep’ 12,000 outlets lly, shudders
at the idea of ingredient listing.

“This information concerns such a small percentage
of the population that it hardly makes good sense,”
association spokesman David Harris says.

Many ingredients are added by suppliers and
restaurants would be hard-pressed to break down all
products accurately, he says.

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have largest
exercisers

meaning some activity but no more than three hours a week
nine months a year. Only 13 per cent were what the authors
called “sedentary,” meaning less than three hours a week,
less than nine months a year.

The most popular forms of exercise were swimming,
calisthenics and biking. Walking was not considered an
activity in the survey. Even though jogging wasn't among
the top four forms of exercise, when people were asked what
new activity they would like to begin, more said jogging
than anything else.

The results differ according to region or
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guilt: more than 80 per cent of those surveyed said they
wanted to exercise more often.

Why didn’t they? Right across the board — rural and
urban dwellers, coast-to-coast — the No. 1 barrier cited was
a lack of time. One-quarter of rural residents said they didn't
exercise more because they didn't have facilities nearby.

Study authors Barry McPherson and James Curtis
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meaning they exercised at least three hours a week, at least
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LOURDES, FRANCE (REUTER) — Skimpy cloth-
ing excessive drinking and nights of revelry have become
a headache for the religious authorities at the Roman
Catholic shrine of Lourdes.

Local clergy have long accepted the traffic jams,
hotels and gaudy souvenir shops that cram the
pilgrimage capital, visited by more than 4.5 million people
every year.

But they fear that casual clothing and bars that allow
dancing could stain Lourdes’ reputation as a religious
retreat.

“These abuses have reached a critical point,” the
Pyrenean town’s bishop Henri Donze said in a statement
recently. “The lax behavior of some . . . is affecting the
atmosphere sought by the vast majority of visitors to
Lourdes.”

Local clerics fear the over-exposed bodies of the
healthy may offend the thousands of ‘chronically ill and
disabled who visit the shrine in search of spiritual
strength and cure at a holy foundation said to have
miraculous healing powers.

“We haven't been firm enough up until now,” said
Rev. Joseph Bordes, rector of the shrine commemorating
a day in 1858 when the Virgin Mary reputedly appeared
to a peasant girl later canonized at Saint Bernadette.

BAN SEMI-CLAD

“Thousands of visitors wander about half-dressed as
if they were on the beach,” Bordes said in an interview.
“If they don't want-to respect this place as a religious
centre, they should go to the mountains or the French
Riviera.”

Notices requesting “appropriate clothing” have been
posted in prominent positions, and guards to the shrine
now bar the inadequately clad from entering.

Clerics are also up in arms against the piano bars and
pubs inside Lourdes’ many hotels. The number of visitors
is up by two million a year from 2.6 million 20 years ago,
and Lourdes has more hotel beds than anywhere in
France outside Paris.

One hotel entices clients with the notice, in English:
Tonight and Every Night, Irish Singsong in Our Relaxing
Piano Bar. Everybody Welcome.

Bishop Donze's said: “The or ization of

drinking sessions and noisy parties in certain public
places and hotels in the area where pilgrims stay merits
severe reprobation.”

TOO MANY HOTELS

But hotel owners in Lourdes, where most of the
residents make their living from tourism argue that they
have been forced to seek alternative sources of cash
because developers have built too many hotels, and many
beds remain empty.

The Union of Cafe Owners says there are around 15
piano bars in the town.

“The Irish and the British often like to get together
for a friendly drink to relax after a day of prayer; there's
no harm in that,” said sanctuary spokesman Rev. Jean
Ramond. “What we oppose are places set up by locals to
make profit.”

The religious authorities condemn the commercially
run piano bars because they say they often disturb the
sick and elderly and are totally out of keeping with the
spiritual aura of Lourdes.

They have no legal powers to close such places, but
Bordes says he believes their owners will heed the
bishop's warning.

PRESERVE CHARACTER

The clergy are supported in their campaign by Rene
Espier, president of the local hotel-owners’ union. “It's
important hotels preserve the religious character of
Lourdes,” he says.

Most hotels are long used to catering to the ill and
the elderly, providing special ramps and elevators for
wheelchairs and diet-controlled food. They also have close
links with the hospitals set up to house chronically sick
pilgrims

This is not the first conflict between God and
Mammon.

Angered by accusations likening them to the Biblical
merchants of the Temple, the town’s 350 souvenir shops
formed a joint commission with the religious authorities
several years ago to control the sale of Lourdes
memorabilia.

Banned by the commission is trade in the waters of
the holy spring said to have been scratched out of the
rock by Saint Bernadette under the guiding eye of the
Virgin Mary.

So too are the dealers in miracles, who pass off
pebbles as chunks from the grotto or tap water as drops
from the healing spring, claiming the objects will bestow
good fortune.

While the fakes have been taken off the market,
there are no rules to decide what is merely vulgar and
what is positively disrespectful, says Jeanne Biraben,
vice-president of the Union for the Sale of Religious
Objects.

‘Gizmos’ a problem

aboard planes to while away
the flight — games, com-
puters, tape recorders and
toys — don't always amuse
the airlines.

Some of these devices are
thought to be a potential
source of electrical emissions
strong enough to interfere
with sensitive aircraft radio
and i

It hasn't been proved
they're dangerous, but pend-
ing further testing, the air.
lines are curbing their use.

The U.S. Federal Aviation

banned the use of
computers aboard their

Airbus Industrie, the Eur-
opean builder of the A-300
and A-310, tested three lap-
top computers popular with
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struments.

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