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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

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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

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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

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“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.

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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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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 size, but one characteristic Canadians seemed to share was 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.

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The report found that the greatest numbers of regular exercisers were from British Columbia and Alberta, where 62 per cent said they were active.

They were followed by Nova Scotia (60 per cent), Saskatchewan (55 per cent), Ontario (52 per cent), Manitoba (51 per cent), Quebec (50 per cent), New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (both 43 per cent), and Newfound. land (36 per cent).

Corresponding figures for the numbers of sedentary people range from a high of 27 per cent in Newfoundland to less than five per cent in Alberta.

The authors found that many more people in the West than in the East reported being active weekly and have been so for a longer period of time. Quebec residents were less likely than other Canadians to have been involved in some activity at least once a week for a period of five years or more. On the other hand, the authors found that many in Quebec who reported weekly activity had begun such a regular program recently — perhaps marking the start of a trend.

‘The study, sponsored by the Canada Fitness Survey branch of the federal Fitness and Amateur Sport Department, said city people fit into the active category more often than rural residents. The exceptions to this rule were rural British Columbians, who were more active than urban dwellers from either the Atlantic or Quebec regions.

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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.

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Airbus Industrie, the Eur- opean builder of the A-300 and A-310, tested three lap- top computers popular with business travellers: the Hew-

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