‘Richiiond > “also
Studies by the Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare ‘show “women who
smoke like men will en-

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* Jennifer was a 26-year-old |
“woman' who. had suffered. .

‘from, schizophrenia 11 years.
‘She:*was weak, depressed
and: had suici idal: tendencies,

creat in long hours of
therapy: But nothing helped.

Then. Dr.’ Marshall
Mandell decided to test
Jennifer for allergic reac-
tions to foods and things
common to her. en-
vironment.

Mandell and a colleague
were able to trigger all her
schizophrenic symptoms by
exposure to various foods
and chemicals: saccharin
made her dizzy and anxious,
low levels of chlorine - less
than in drinking water -
mader her depressed, lamb
caused mental confusion and
depression, and_ several
episodes of catatonic rigidity
were induced.

Mandell placed her in a
controlled environment free
of pollutants.

“In four days of fasting she
was completely normal,” he
said.

Mandell believes that
allergic reactions are the
underlying causes of many
types of physical and mental
disorders, ranging from
compulsive eating ‘or
depression (to migraine
headaches. This idea, other
specialists say, has been
around a long time but has
not been proven.

said

counter similar risks’
smokers.

By: 1983, the report
warned, the female death
rate from lung cancer could
be higher than that for breast
cancer.

But Mandel is convinced
allergies have a key role in
many disorders.

“Why be committed to
long-term medication and
physiotherapy when all we

have to do is modify
somebody’s home en-
vironment, activities and

change their diet?” he said.
“Medication suppresses the
symptoms. We should get
more at the causes-and deal
with them and less at sup-
pression.”

He likened treating a
patient whose illness is
actually caused by an allergy
with the standard drug for
the illness by a brain tumor.

“What you really have to
do is get in there and get it
ut,” Mandell said.

Mandell is medical
director of the New England
Foundation for Allergy and
Environmental Diseases and
head of the Alan Mandell
Center for Bio-Ecological
Diseases at Norwalk, Conn.

He began studying allergic
reactions as the cause of
many illnesses about 15
years ago - he calls them
brain allergies.

“I began working with
provocation tests as a means
of getting better diagnoses,”
Mandell said. “Instead of
looking at the skin to see if
there was a positive response
(to an allergy test), 1
deliberately exposed the
patient to the possible of-
fender 1 got pollens and
molds and put them on a
toothpick and had the
patient sniff them.

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decline for both ‘men and.
women,.

In a message ac-
companying the report,
HEW Secretary Patricia

“I saw the reaction. There
are people who have
negative skin ‘tests who
reacted to my tests.”

Skin testing for
allergies often will not show
a slight allergic reaction
causing an illness because
the skin tests have error
factors built in, he said.

Mandell, who was writtefi
a book, Dr. Mandell’s 5-Day
Allergy Relief System
(Thomas Y. Crowell, $9.95
hardcover). said people
whose illnesses are caused
by allergic reactions are not
adequately treated by their
doctors because they do not
respond to the medical care.

“The doctors say the
patient is not responding to
treatment and the patient
becomes the scapegoat,”
said Mandell. “Doctors call
the illness psychosomatic.”

He said if the allergy is
caused by an environmental

factor, “you can watch the
illness melt away. Freed
from the burden of their

environment, the patients’
symptoms can clear up in
four to six days.”

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“Cigarette ‘smoking, an

‘The. report gaid- that the
death rate for women from

lung'cancer was steady until

the-early 1960's, when ‘it was .
a little‘less than 5 deaths per

100,000. . ‘Then the rate
began | to” ‘imcrease, first

“If you are
and you'd like to
pose as a Sun-
shine Girl then I'd
like to hear from:
you.

themselves.

“in the years that I’ve been
photographing Sunshine Girls,
it has become apparent that
women.17 years and older have
the poise and confidence to

-pro ject the. strong. aesthetic
‘qualities: demanded of this
photo feature. As far as
possible. I'd like to have

models of that age.

. Slowly and then’ at increasing

_speed. The. rate, has. now. proved.
” tripled; ...to- reach: early 15°

early sign of woman's social
emancipation, - ist now a

threat -to-her personal. ~ report said.
bear ;

- Cancer.

The Sunshine
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deaths-per 100 000 i in 1978,”
it said.

“This ‘tra nslates é : -
app roximately 25, 000 deaths. Thus, it may-be too. facile
per. year. Using. simple. to blame thie ‘incredse’ on a
mathematical tions,

greater -popularity of

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our scientists project that smoking among women in

the rate will-approach 25
deaths per 100,000 by 1983,
surpassing the death rate
from breast cancer,” the

But thé Tobacco Institute,
‘which © represents. the in-, |
dustry in Washington, also* -
issued: -its own. report. -on.
femate smoking’ and ‘health.
this month, “and: again “%,
challenged any‘ concrete link: ~,
between smoking and lung

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attractive women. If any of you would like a paid
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