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get jobs,. ‘maintains: family .
support groups. and‘ lobbies —
forresearchfunds..
Research: 4s. vital because
no one knows ‘yet what
causes schizophrenia, said
Jefferies.
“There _have been
breakthroughs since the
1950s —° until then

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‘but there's no
current

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many dopamine (a chemical)

receptors in the brain.

causing an overload and
confusion of messages, said
Jefferies.

There is evidence to
Suggest. it! ‘is genetically ,

schizophrenics were often inherited m about 60 per
‘treated with hot baths and "-cent of the cases; 40 per cent

padded .célls — and drugs
now allow about 40 per cent.
of those afflicted to live
relatively normaliives. -
But medical science is still
searching for the final an-
swer.:*. - oat . .
“Doctors ‘used to: look to
‘mothers: ‘who were ..over-
protective © or a ‘dominant,

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may be fat simply because
they live in Bagdad, Artz.

worked ‘with 32 female

they. regained up to 100
pounds of lost weight was
because of the Bagdad en-

dale, says jn the -
January’ issue of McCall's ‘
magazine, that he belicves

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changed if a‘formerly over-
weight permon is to maintain

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are unclear.
__ Whatever ‘the cause, the
_ malady is widespread.
hrenics occupy more
hospital beds in Canada than
people suffering from any
‘ other coniition, medical or
Surgical, he said. co
~The .cost to taxpayers is
some. <0 million annually

“his or her new weight.
While the Bagdad dicters
were driving 130 miles one -

' morning a week to attend

Robertson’s weight loss ,

One dieter attributed her
weight loss to the fact that
the program meant, “We got
to get out of town.”

Another agreed. “It was
‘my day. No kids, no hus-

band, no food. I didn’t even.
, mind the six-hour drive — in
fact, I loved it.” 7

Robertson said Bagdad,
population 2,600, “furnishes
nothing for the women.”

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in hospital care alone and
some estimates say related
costs such as rehabilitation
and loss of income and
production would push the
annual bill to $2 billion.

The amount allocated.
annually for ‘research is only
$500,000 a year, said Jef-
feries, or,. about $1 per
paticni. — .

And anyone, any age

(though young adults are the

incentives for. weight loss -
that previously had been
absent in theirlives, _
“It’s a terrible cycle,” one
Bagdad woman said. “I wait
to live my hfe til I'm thin,
Start wanting to live my life;

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vulnerable.

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speed that day, Jefferies
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Jefferies, a retired high
school history teacher from
Oakville, helped to found
CFS because he hopes that
some day, schizophrenics,
unlike his two brothers and
one son struck down by the
disease, will be able to lead
happy, normal lives.

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