THE IOLA REGISTER, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010, PAGE 2
Diets differ around the world
By JENNIFER HUGET
Special to
The Washington Post
Register/Jenelle Johnson
The Rev. Paul Miller became the new pastor of First
Assembly of God Church, 1020 E. Carpenter, on Sunday.
Pictured with Miller are his wife, Kari, and daughter,
Bethany. The couple also have a son, Jon.
Assembly of God
welcomes pastor
By JENELLE JOHNSON
Family Living Editor
Paul Miller served eight
years as pastor of what he
described as a “small country church” in a suburb of
Indianapolis, Ind.
As his young family began
to grow, he and his wife,
Kari, began looking for a
church in a smaller community. They wanted to make
their home in a town where
their 9-year-old son, Jon,
could ride his bicycle to
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school and their 2 ⁄2 -year-old
daughter, Bethany, would
have a yard to play in.
“We were excited when
we learned Iola’s First
Assembly of God Church
was looking for a new pastor,” he said.
The Millers were familiar
with Iola and the surround-
ing area. He has a sister living in Chanute and a brother in Wichita.
The couple met and married while attending Grinnell College in Iowa. She
was originally from Indiana
and he from Nebraska.
“I knew I was being called
to the ministry when I was
in high school, but it wasn’t
until I was in college that I
made my decision to
become a pastor,” he said.
The couple moved on to
Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., where
he pursued a master’s
degree in divinity.
“We’ve only lived in Iola
for a few days, but we know
this was the right choice for
us. Everyone has been so
friendly and helpful,” Kari
Miller said.
Police report
Mower stolen
A John Deere riding mower was stolen from O’Malley
Equipment, 2701 N. State
St., sometime in the past
month, police officers were
told Tuesday.
Vandalism reported
Nancy Proctor told police
officers Tuesday her car
was damaged by vandals
while it was parked in the
100 block of White Boulevard.
James I. Boeken told officers Thursday his pickup
truck was damaged while it
was parked in the 400 block
of North Street.
Driver arrested
Johnny M. Brown Jr.,
Neosho Falls, was arrested
Wednesday evening for
driving without being in
possession of his driver’s
license following a traffic
stop in the 700 block of East
Madison Avenue.
Woman arrested
Rebecca Chapman, 18,
was arrested for battery
when police officers were
called Thursday to a residence in the 500 block of
North Chestnut Street.
What do Xu Zhipeng and
Rick Bumgardener have in
common?
Zhipeng, 23, a computer
graphic designer in Shanghai, is 6 feet 2 and weighs
157 pounds. Bumgardener,
54, of Halls, Tenn., is a
retired school-bus driver
who’s trying to shed 100
pounds so he’ll be eligible
for weight-loss surgery. At 59, he weighs 468 pounds.
Each man eats about 1,600
calories a day.
Both are featured in the
recently published book
“What I Eat: Around the
World in 80 Diets” (Material
World), which documents in
text by Faith D’Aluisio and
photos by Peter Menzel the
way 80 people from 30 countries eat. It’s a gorgeous volume and, at more than 4
pounds, a weighty one.
I read an awful lot about
nutrition and food, but never before have I seen such a
broad and graphic demonstration of what real people
put in their mouths. The
book also drives home how
directly our cultures and
lifestyles are intertwined
with the way we eat.
The book is organized
according to the number of
calories each of its subjects
consumes in a given day.
This became a useful lens
through which to view
menus that differ so
markedly from one another,
and from my own comparatively boring daily regimen.
And it allows the authors a
framework for introducing
their subjects with respect
and without judgment.
“What I Eat” presents a
baffling array of body
types, foodstuffs and dining
habits. It begins with a profile
of
Noolkisaruni
Tarakuai, a 5-foot-5 Maasai
cattle herder in Kenya who,
at age 38, weighs 103 pounds
and ate only 800 calories on
her depicted day. It ends
with
31-year-old
Jill
McTighe, of London, who is
represented by a binge day
that tallied an astounding
12,300 calories. McTighe,
whose eating habits result
in part from her past struggle with amphetamine
abuse, is also 5-5, but she
weighs 230 pounds.
How to make sense of the
disparities? For one thing,
the calories listed are snapshots of a single day and
may not be sustainable
long-term. Beyond that,
Menzel told me, “Most of
the world is driven by eco-
Peter Menzel
Chinese acrobat Cao Xiaoli (16 years old,
5 feet 2, 99 pounds) consumes 1,700 calories a day, while Chicago ironworker Jeff
nomics. The choices they
make are based on what
they can afford. In the
developing world, diets are
grain-based, with less meat.
That’s a generally healthier
way of eating.”
But, he continues, “With
more wealth, people add
more things. ... Sweets, fats,
meat, milk. When people
have more money, that’s
what they go for.”
Extremes aside, the bulk
of participants’ calorie
counts cluster closer to
2,000, the standard number
on which U.S. federal
dietary
guidelines
are
based and around which
Nutrition Facts panels are
built.
And that’s as it should be,
suggests Susan Roberts,
senior scientist and director of the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts
University. Roberts hasn’t
read “What I Eat,” but she
gets the gist and is concerned that the extreme cases it presents might skew
people’s views of how many
calories they need. Roberts
says U.S. dietary guidelines
take into account such factors as gender, age, height
and activity level in assigning optimal calorie intakes,
which generally range from
1,600 calories to 3,000 a day.
Roberts says that unless
you’re trying to lose or gain
pounds, energy (or calorie)
intake should equal energy
expenditure.
In “What I Eat,” that
equation is not always
clearly in play. Take Jeff
Misc.
BUSTER KEATON
CELEBRATION
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Friday, September 24, 2010
7:30 ...FRIDAY EVENING SCREENINGS:
MY WIFE’S RELATIONS (1922) Short starring
Buster Keaton
OUT WEST (1918) Short starring Fatty Arbuckle
TBA - a short from Educational Pictures starring
Buster Keaton
PATHS TO PARADISE (1925) Feature starring
Raymond Griffith
Saturday, September 25, 2010
8:30....Registration
9 p.m..Welcome
9:20....RAYMOND GRIFFITH’S TRAGEDY - Hooman
Mehran
10:10..CHARLEY CHASE: Renaissance Man of Early
Film Comedy - Yair Solan
11:10..THE GREAT DANE: The Life and Career of
Karl Dane - Martha Jett
Noon. .Lunch Break
1:30....Welcome and Introduction
1:40....A SATYR IN A SOFT SHIRT: The Early Sad
Comedies of Roscoe Arbuckle - Joanna Rapf
2:30....Screening of SATURDAY AFTERNOON (1926
Short starring Harry Langdon)
2:50 ...Break
3:00....EVERY SILVER LINING HAS A CLOUD: Turning
Tragedy into Comedy - David Macleod
3:40....The Premiere Screening of THE MODERN
BLUEBEARD (1946) Buster Keaton Sound Feature
in Spanish with English subtitles.
5:30....Dinner Break
7:30 ...SATURDAY EVENING SCREENINGS:
LIMOUSINE LOVE (1928) Short starring Charley
Chase
NOBODY’S BUSINESS (1926) Short starring
Lloyd Hamilton
A DASH THROUGH THE CLOUDS (1912)
Short starring Mabel Normand
THE CAMERAMAN (1928) Feature starring Buster
Keaton
Correction
Autumn Simpson was the
middle child pictured in a
photograph from Ag Days
published in Wednesday’s
Register. Simpson was
misidentified in the picture.
The Register regrets the
error.
Baker family
reunion planned
The
annual
Baker
reunion is at noon Sunday
at Central Park Pavilion in
Chanute.
Those attending are asked
to bring a potluck dish.
Drinks will be furnished.
“With more wealth, people add more things.
... Sweets, fats, meat, milk. When people have
more money, that’s what they go for.”
Peter Menzel, author
Devine, a 39-year-old highrise ironworker in Chicago,
who is photographed on a
beam 50 stories up, his day’s
repast spread before him.
Except for a banana, it’s all
packaged, processed food,
but mostly healthful stuff
such as smoked salmon, cottage cheese and a fruit cup.
Devine’s
spread
also
includes 10 bottled beverages of various sizes; six of
those are diet sodas, and
just three of those are little
12-ouncers.
According to the book, the
6-foot-1 Devine weighs a reasonable 235 pounds despite
consuming some 6,600 calories a day. It’s hard to fathom that Devine’s food adds
up to that many calories,
especially with all those
diet sodas. And it’s hard to
see how he can burn it all
off, even with a job and
bodybuilding regimen that
demand lots of fuel.
Menzel and D’Aluisio
make plain that they are not
nutrition experts (though
they’ve included in the 340page book essays and com-
I wish to thank
everyone for the
cards, calls & gifts
on my birthday;
especially my boys
& Earline for their
help in making it
a wonderful day.
God bless you all.
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mentaries from dozens of
experts, many with helpful
nutrition info), so they’ve
taken pains to explain in
detail their methods for collecting, analyzing and presenting data.
And, in the spirit of fairness or perhaps of self-discovery,
Menzel
and
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daily diets and calorie
intakes in the afterword.
His calories: 2,800 per day.
Hers: 1,500. Their meals are,
predictably enough, full of
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yogurt, granola, organic
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