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Thanks from Red Cross Society LETTERS On Tues. Feb. 25, our Branch Annual Meeting was held and special mention was made to acknowledge the support our services received over the past year from our community. We wish to acknowledge with sincere thanks the support all our services receive from the Waterioo Chronâ€" icle throughout the year. We would like to express our gratitude to you and your staff for being available to Red Cross services and give reliable information to the members of our comâ€" munity should an emergency occur. It is most reassuring to us and indeed gives us the reassurance we need to continue our work in the community. I‘m sure you‘ve heard that in order to maintain good health you should drink at least eight glasses of water per day. As we breathe we lose some of our body‘s water through our lungs. We can see this loss of water particularly in the cold weather as steady billows of water vapour escape our mouths. Though not noticeable in the warmer weather, water vapour is still escaping at a steady rate, creating a need for us to consume liquids to replenish our sysâ€" tem. Our lungs act much in the same fashion as a humidifier. The padded lining inside a humidifier looks very undesirable after only a few weeks use. When water is lost through the lungs and not replaced, the mucous lining in the lungs becomes thick and glueâ€"like. This decreases the lungs natural ability to fight off chest infections. Water is particularly necessary in great quantiâ€" ties when suffering a cold or flu with which chest infections are often part of the illness. _ Water also plays a great role in the easy distribution of our blood throughâ€" out our bloodstream. e _ When we are under a great deal of stress, either through illness or mental fatigue, opy_blopd t_l_\ic!(ens. _ The red blood cells from the marrow and spleen contribute to the clotting effect thick blood creates. This sludge travelling through our system can get clogged and stuck in our organs and Feedback "I don‘t want to pay it (extra). 1 think if you are a patient for years, they (docâ€" tors) would give you the same treatment." Fred McGrath President Red Cross Fitness Forum Waterioo Kathy Hammond Fitness Instructor vessels creating serious health probâ€" lems. â€" Though medication is available to thin the blood, the long term effects of the medication itself is not known. Increased amounts of water will keep the volume of urine output at a high level preventing numerous urinary tract infections as well bladder infecâ€" tions, gallstones, kidney infections and uitimately kidney failure. Symptoms of dehydration which often lead to the diagnosis of the problems above are a) decreased mental alertâ€" ness, b) increased fatigue, c) blood pressure elevations and, most imporâ€" tantly, d) fluid retention. Many people, particularly women, feel they suffer from water retention and go across the border to the United States where water pills are not a prescription drug, and use the pills to help them relieve fluid build up. Ashamed of resident reaction This is in reference to the recent controversy on Granny Flats in Waterloo. The major problem with water pills is that they work by drawing salt out of the body, taking excessive amounts of fluids with the salt. This, however, dehydrates the body creating a need to further replenish it with fluids, thus rebuilding fluid retention. I attended the recent informal meeting at the Waterloo city council concerning this matter. I was quite surprised by the extremely negative reaction of Waterloo residents to this issue. They seem more concerned about money and property values than about people. They talked about their rights as property owners but no one seems to address the rights of the applicants, Mr. and Mrs. Norman. They have the right to use their property within the limits of the law. The law defines what is a reasonable use of that property. Since the Government of Ontario and the City of Waterloo, as our representatives, define Granny Flats as a reasonable temporary Drinking eight glasses of water a day is not as easy as it sounds. Though tap water is cheap it‘s often better for washing dishes or watering gardens than drinking. The amounts of chemiâ€" cals pumped through city water often makes drinking the stuff unappetizing. Are you concerned about deteriorating medical care pending the extraâ€"billing ban? use of the property, then it is within the rights of the Normans to have a Granny Flat installed. This is regardless of the neighbors views. I also believe the issue of "property values‘" is unfounded and only backed up by ignorance and suspicion. It takes something more extreme than a Granny Flat to affect property values. I really doubt that anyone considering purchasing a house will care if a Granny Flat, as unobtrusive as this one, is in the neighborâ€" I am personally ashamed of the attitude of Waterlo residents in this matter when compared to the acceptance of Granny Flats in Sudbury and Ottawa. Derek Kirkland 365 Albert St.., Waterloo, Ont. hood. This is especially true in the current housing boom. I suspect a lot of people have been afraid that with the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister in Stockholm, the world has lost not only a statesman, but another of the decent, orderly and civilized patches in an increasingly terrorized universe. When I said as much recently to the Swedish Ambasâ€" sador, former Prime Minister Ola Ullsten, his response was both surprisâ€" ing and encouraging. I had half expectâ€" ed him to say something to the effect that, yes, it was a shame, but that even Sweden couldn‘t expect to escape the realities of international terrorism, and that things no doubt would never be the same. But Ambassador Ullsten, as it turned out, didn‘t feel that way at all. Like most Swedes, I suspect, he was deterâ€" mined that the loss of the Prime Minister would not be compounded by the loss of a people‘s innocence and a nation‘s civility. He did not want Sweden to brutalize itself by responding primitively to brutality. He said in the course of our brief interview that the way to deal with violence was not with guns but by trying to locate and remove the root causes of that ultimate ugliâ€" ness. The late Prime Minister, Mr. Palme, almost alone among western leaders, had been unable to forget the hideous reality of the Iranâ€"Irag war, for examâ€" ple, and had used his good offices to try to end it. He had worked untiringly for Asked uptown Waterlioo "I think we‘ll be in a lot of trouble. I back the doctors. There‘s too much governâ€" ment control." Christine Simpson Brantford WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1986 â€"â€" PAGE 7 Guest column Peter Trueman peace, wherever it was threatened. But any diplomatic and political assault on the breeding grounds of violence, it seems to me, is bound to be inâ€" complete. What I admire most about the Swedâ€" ish response to date is their apparent determination not to be stampeded by the assassination into harsh and alien security restrictions. In Stockholm, the acting Prime Minister, Ingvar Carisâ€" son, said recently that he would tolerate bodyguards, but only until Mr. Palme‘s killing is solved. He said that the ability of Sweden‘s leaders to go unguarded is an essential element of his country‘s ‘"open, democratic‘‘ practice. I don‘t think we could ever have got away with that here, with our political "star"‘ system, and with the guntoting tradition of a raw, frontier society, although I suspect that is a tradition imposed on us more by American television than our own pioneer experiâ€" ence. But I wish we had tried. I suppose the last Canadian Prime Minister who felt able to stroll about this capital like an ordinary citizen was Louis St. Laurent, and our relations with our leaders have suffered ever since. If the men and women who lead us cannot do ordinary things, cannot slip out with a spouse for a simple evening at the movies, they cease to be ordinary people. And in a democracy, that cannot possibly be a good thing. Paper‘s support helped cause Our sincere thanks for the help you have given us in our recent campaign. Without your support and timely reminders to the public, we would have a much more difficult time reaching our goal. As you know, our target this year is $175,000 for the residential canvass. We are well on our way to reaching that figure and hope to have a final figure by the end of March. "I say yes to overâ€"billing (to stop the deterioration)."‘ Beveriey Dombiowski Waterioo #a Greta Sinclair Publicity Committee Heart and Stroke