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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Smoking is the biggest killer
0 Continued from previous page B About 27% of Northerners
admit smoking too much, closely followed by the Scots (26%). Londoners are the least likely to give up. Dr Bentley says: “This is the
key health risk because smoking is the biggest single cause of ill ness and early death.”
DRINKING B A quarter of adults admit
they drink too much. This figure rises to 29% of men and 32% of under 30-year-olds. B Only 2.5% would be tempt
ed to go on the wagon if it meant living for more than 10 years longer. Dr Bentley says: “The general advice is to stay within sensible
limits on drinking, which is 14 units for women and 21 units for men weekly. Drinking double that would be counted as binge drinking.”
FAST FOOD B Nearly 40% of those aged
under 30 say they overdose on fast food, but only 22% believe it is worth foregoing a longer life for more French fries. H The North is a region of
fast-food junkies, with 25% unwilling to give it up at any price; 21% of Londoners and 22% of Scots indulge in too much fast food. Dr Bentley says: “Within the
conte.xt of a healthy diet, an occasional snack of a burger and salad is not harmful. I t ’s only damaging if you ate this for every meal.”
NORTHERNERS arc mosl addicted to junk food (s)
CHOCOLATE B Women far outnumber men
as chocoholics (40% compared to 29%), and 38% of men would be more likely to give it up for the prospect of an e.xtra 10 years’ life compared to 26% of women. IS Just 35% of Southerners
would give up their choc snack attacks to extend their life. Dr Bentley says: “Eating it at
every meal would be unwise because of the sugar, but a chocolate snack from time to time won’t do any harm.”
RICH FOODS B The survey found that 38%
eat too many rich foods - and only 6% would give them up if it extended their life by two or more years; 24% would go with out if it increased their lifespan by five years. B Northerners are most
addicted to rich food, with 26% refusing to give it up under any circumstances, while 46% of Londoners and Scots confess to
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eating too many carbohydrates. Dr Bentley says there is no
evidence that excluding foods, such as carbohydrates, is helpful for the majority of people, but that a healthy diet is the goal. But she adds that foods which are rich in fat “should be an occasional treat in a healthy diet”. “If you follow that and have
an active lifestyle they shouldn’t have any long-term ill effects.”
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High-profile speakers give thought -provoking talks
THERE were thrnught-pro- voking views expressed when (hree prestigious speakers addressed a one-day confer ence lield by the
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said, the use of water from the Colorado River to irri gate new golf courses, to the detriment of Mexico which relies on th a t river as an essential source of water. Typically a new golf
course with hotels, pools, health facilities and all the rest of the infrastructure which go along with it uses as much water as would be required for normal use by 15,000 people. Filled with interesting.
and often humorous exam ples Dr. Freethy spelled out the importance of a clean and reliable water supply, even more so than food. He identified one of the
main threats to the water supplies in the 21st Century as the accountants and politicians - “the men in grey who permit themselves to be ruled by the bottom line and never mind the eth ical and humanitarian con siderations.” A lively and penetrating question time culminated in a well deserved vote of thanks by member Philip Bulpin.
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H O L I S T I C T H E R A P E I A
David Jenkins was intro duced by member the Rev. Ian Robins and spoke to the title: “Beliefs in the 21st Century. Religions look anthropologically endemic, but does God ideologically have a future?”The previous
on water supplies and direc to r of the International River Foundation, entitled his address: “Rivers and water related problems, how world needs could be met,” in a session introduced and chaired by member John Earnshaw. Dr. Freethy observed that the next war could well be
lecturer. Dr Freethy, had predicted that future wars might be over water supply rather than over oil, and this apocalyptic and prophetic message had produced dis turbing and confusing thoughts in the speaker’s mind. The Bishop suggested
th a t the solutions to our problems are basically sim ple if we can only find the will to work together, espe cially in discovering a God who comes into life in ways other than “religiously”. We have to persuade people to take a risk and find the joy of falling over God and falling in with God, rather than falling out with him.” The Bishop traced his
own faith to the time, 70 years ago, when as a boy, in home-based Bible study groups, he learned to argue and to challenge the Bible narratives. There was free dom to wrestle with the texts but no attempt made to enforce a particular doc tr in al point of view. “ I became convinced th a t Jesus showed that God was for me - and I understood that God was for everyone! I now understand that Faith is finding God in the muddle and through the muddle of daily life”. The Bishop referred to the
ancient texts of the Old Tes tament formulated around the 8th Century BC - point ing out th a t the Creation Story in Genesis Chapter One is ’’quite cheerful”, but in the succeeding chapters, with Cain and Abel ’’there’s hell to pay”, mirroring the muddle of life from then until the present but - "I remain convinced that God does know me, but I ’m damned if I know what he’s up to!'. He referred to the classical stories of Abraham and the Patriarchs not as historically or literally true, but illustrating the nasty
religious systems. Only a realism about the human origins of the texts, and a realism about life as we experience it will help, for all claims to inspiration need tc be questioned, examined and tested. People must take responsibility for this critical appreciation, rather than meekly accepting with out question outdated reli gious tru th claims. Ques tions were chaired by Mr Robins and the vote ol thanks given by John Hud-
Tlie news man THE third speaker, Mar
tin Henfield, for several years introduced North West Tonight on BBC TV. His varied career has seen him not only as anchor for that programme but he has managed BBC GMR , and
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been involved in various capacities in other radio and television programmes. He currently includes in
his portfolio the training of company executives in how to handle the media. Reviewing the changes in
taste, social pressures and technical development he explained th a t , before he could look forward, he had to look back. He described how he had witnessed the technical development ol the media through his 40- year career, with illustra tions using news of the time. He had, in court, wit
nessed one of the last sen tences of death by hanging, only a few years before TV became virtually a licence tc print money. The media became a driv
ing force for technical change - smaller cameras, mobile phones, video phones, and so on. Similarly other technical
extremisms of which the human race is capable. “In view of this it is vital that we get beyond a literalist understanding of scripture and religion, whether Chris tian or Moslem”. The Bish op referred to a recent inter view on television in which a young Moslem claimed that the Koran was the very Word of God himself, and must therefore be obeyed, even if this led to extremism and violence. I t is, he said, vital that in
this 21st Century we chal lenge all claims to absolute authority, whether from the Roman or P ro te s tan t Churches or other dogmatic
advances had been seized upon by the media - the Internet being the latest example. It was interesting to note that when President Lincoln was assassinated it took two years to “tell the world”. When Kennedy was shot
it took one hour for every one to hear about it. The future for the media, he said, hinges on what ideas might catch the imagination of the public. Whatever trends can currently be detected, it is unlikely, he said, that any one can forecast with cer tainty in what direction the media might develop. The question session was
chaired by U3A vice-chair man Mike Houseman and then the vote of thanks was given by Ian Ramage.
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