Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reading your story on Joseph Califano and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare [June 12], I am convinced that this country needs another round of Mr. Califano about as much as Miami Beach needs snow...
Califano is injurious to my health and my pocketbook. Let's get back to basics cut the waste...
...concerned about. Women are well suited to take part in rugged athletics. Indeed, women hold many long-distance swimming records for both sexes and have run men into the ground during ultramarathon races 50 miles long. Says Dr. Joan Ullyot, a physiologist at San Francisco's Institute of Health Research and a world-class marathoner herself: "The evidence suggests that women are tougher than...
...making them somewhat more susceptible to injuries like dislocated shoulders. Women can also have problems with what is known as the "overload phenomenon"-putting too much force on a muscle, tendon or ligament. But that can be avoided with proper training. Says Dr. C. Harmon Brown, director of Student Health Services at California State University in Hayward: "Four years ago it was not O.K. for girls to participate in sports, and they were forced to be sedentary. Now it's suddenly O.K., but teachers are not equipped to show girls how to gradually improve their physical fitness...
...retrospect, it looks as though Harvard, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Charles A. Thomas, who was accused last December of violating the government's strict guidelines for recombinant DNA research, are all relatively innocent...