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THE TIMES, OCTOBER 24, 2013, PAGE 10
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By DR. RANDOLPH HOWES M.D PhD
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Longtime medical columnist for The Times, the author is an
accomplished surgeon, medical inventor, and Country music recording artist. Dr.
Howes grew up on his parents' Ponchatoula strawberry farm. He is a graduate of
St. Joseph, Ponchatoula High School, Tulane - two doctorates, followed by a resi-
dency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in plastic surgery. He says he is "retired" now
in Kentwood. The doctor's column appears on facebook.com/theponchatoulatimes))
Exercise has repeatedly been
shown to have a wide spectrum
of health benefits. Exercise has
been shown to decrease the risk
of most major diseases, such as
cancer, heart disease, strokes,
obesity and diabetes. But, just
how much is enough to main-
tain or improve your overall
health?
Many health experts rec-
ommend 150 minutes of mod-
erately intense activity per
week. Some authors have even
considered housework to be
adequate but the BMC Public
Health study, which surveyed
over 4,500 adults, found those
who counted housework were
heavier than those who did oth-
er activities.
They found that house work
and DYI (do it yourself activ-
ity) are not strenuous enough
to count toward the 150 min-
ute weekly target. Prof Marie
Murphy said, "Either people
are overestimating the amount
of moderate intensity physical
activity they do through house-
work, or are eating too much to
compensate for the amount of
activity undertaken."
People who get the 150 min-
utes of weekly exercise or more
may live for up to several years
longer than those who do not.
Exercise provides the partici-
pant with immediate and long
term health benefits. You do not
have to participate in sports
or go to the gym but any activ-
ity is better than no activity. It
L:(
Dr. Howes
seems that the only activities
that count are those that in-
crease your heart rate, speed up
breathing and which make you
feel physically warmer.
Yet, experts seem baffled as
to the underlying explanation
for the improved health and in-
creased longevity linked to ex-
ercise and suggest it is related
to genetic and lifestyle factors
and the wealth and status that
comes with sporting success.
Surprisingly, they overlook
the obvious benefits of increased
oxygen intake associated with
exercise. I have no doubt that
increased oxygen uptake is re-
sponsible for the salutary re-
sults.
I believe this is the reason
that such a wide variety of ac-
tivities and exercise regimens
can produce the same beneficial
results.
Oxygen consumption in-
creases up to 20 times during
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oxygen to most organs and tis-
sues of the body. Each episode
of exercise is equivalent to a
substantial dose of oxygen and
its subsequent metabolic prod-
ucts, which protect you and I
from bacteria, fungi, viruses,
protozoans and cancer.
Many athletes are actually
working against themselves by
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In the America that I love,
we realize that over 60% of ath-
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vitamin supplements because
athletes, coaches, trainers,
sports doctors and dieticians
have been misled to believe
that antioxidants will give the
athlete an edge over their com-
petitors. Don't rely on "pills"
and meet your weekly exercise
requirements.
Yes, you can do it.
Cotton Candy and
Atomic Fireball flavored
electronic cigarettes are
bad for you
By ROSS P. LANZAFAME
American Lung Assoc.
National Chair
E-cigarette use among mid-
die school children has doubled
in just one year.
Last month, the Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion (CDC) announced that
e-cigarette use also doubled
among high school students in
one year, and that 1-in-10 high
school students have used an e-
cigarette.
Altogether, 1.78 million mid-
die and high school students na-
tionwide use e-cigarettes. Yet,
the Food and Drug Administra-
tion (FDA) still is not regulat-
ing e-cigarettes. The absence of
regulatory oversight means the
tobacco industry is free to pro-
mote Atomic Fireball or cotton
candy-flavored e-cigarettes to
our children.
Clearly, the aggressive mar-
keting and promotion of e-ciga-
rettes is reaching our children
with alarming success.
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a thousand being paid in cash
and the balance in three annual
notes. A stipulation in the sales
agreement was that the hotel
building had to be kept insured
against fire damage.
The Packwood Hotel came to
an end on the Valentine's eve-
ning, February 14, 1907 when
the massive wooden building
was consumed in flames. Pon-
chatoula did not then have a
fire department and so the fee-
ble efforts to halt the progress
of the fire were unsuccessful.
Someone apparently ran to the
telegraph office in the train de-
pot and sent an urgent message
to summon the Hammond Fire
Department. By the time the
Hammond Fire Department
loaded their equipment onto a
train car and arrived in Pon-
chatoula there was only a huge
pile of ashes and charred wood
remaining.
The fire had seemingly
spread slowly at first as news-
paper reports stated that most
of the household items in the
hotel building were saved. No
one was reported as being in-
jured in the fire but the his-
toric structure, the older part of
which had stood for half a cen-
tury, was no more.
Mrs. Mary Campbell's prop-
erty on East Pine Street was
now of much reduced value,
"the buildings that stood on
said lots were recently burned
and that the property as it is
now yields no revenue." Mrs.
Campbell, now a widow, asked
the court in May 1907 that the
lots she had acquired from R. Al-
len Pierson in January 1905 be
sold. The various lots were sold
to Morgan Davies in June 1907
for $3,000. Morgan Davies, who
would later marry Mary Camp-
bell's daughter Alice in Decem-
ber 1911, cleared the lot where
the hotel had been located and
began the further development
of East Pine Street.
By October 1908 the former
hotel site was the location of a
large one story frame building
which housed a restaurant, and
three nearby wooden buildings
which were occupied by a jew-
elry store, a meat market, and
a barber shop.
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