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.6,. Published every Wednesday - By 677209 Ontarlo Imc. Phone- Maurice Pif her 668-611,1 Editor, f FIII l b ( IToronto LUne 'iI427-1834, Alexandra Martin I- I iDoug Anderson, Productioni Man~ager 11Brook Street North, VOICE OF THE COUNTY TOWN P..Box 2Ã"6, Whitby, 'Ont., 2fd CkM postal The only Whitby newspaper independently owned and operated by LUN 5S1 Reglstratlôn #05351 ma Whitby residents for Whitby residents. When ail was sald and done on Monday nlght, Whitby rigtrason.for changing his mmnid and tumflng.dawn the council memnbers had opted to hold fast ta planning 9n it< < v proposai -- Rt wouild set a precedent. IBy tuming down the principles 'that. provide for consistent, flot patchwork, " .révision, theé Townýwll1.flot be ýsubjeot-ta other applica- housing growth ln Whitby. sion, saying the added units went boyond the accep-, tions that ais* propose. lncmeased population densities. Steele -Valley Devetopments Ltd. applled ta revise table population, denslty. Planning cormIttee rejected Whle there Is now slow growth and. a terrçtation ta be their original plan for 199 detached' homes and 88 that. recommendatlon ta allow the units,. but on Monday more flexible ln development applications, the Town has townhouses for a property, at Taunton and'Garrard councli overtumned the committee decîsion.< acted wiseiyinadhering ta sound pollcyguldelînes. roads. The revision called for the same number of One of those, who rejected the commiftee decision Such guidelînes should- be equally, applied teoal townhouses but 112,detached homes and 1 02. semi- wa s counci lior Ross Batten, who, as a member .of applications,. and will resuit ln the construction.-0f detached homes, an increase of 25 units. planning committee, had at f lrst favored the extra units. well-planned housing deveiopments when faster growth Town planning staff recommendedagainst the revi- But he, as weli, as other couniciliors, mentioned the resumes ,in Whitby.' . .. . .....I Marh.. ut'ritiLonmonthreemer By'Edie Gomifle It was anencounter with an elderly stranger in a grocery store lineup- that . prompted this clumn. Seeing. me Mith my nut strudel, trying -t make conversation, she remarked that her cancern for cholesiter>l made her eschew such an, item. (As an ethical vegetarian. I» had, of course, checked the - cake' ingredient list ta ensure that it included* no animal produets - - cholesterol, aside fram that manufactured by aur livers, i., found oly, in. animal, produete.).. I was in no mood, for argument, but she had ta continue: try as ýshe might, her- chalesterol level was StiIURp'. TO thé. Editor: am amh agreement with Mr. Neal Grandy in his estimation of the use of Lynde Creek. The best way -ta keep a -creek valley pristine is ta have zero public accese. SPeaple who want public access tp every nice piece of property,- Meem . ta forget somnething. 'Someone, over the years since thie ý-propertY was .seïttled has been paying taxes on this No,;no ceet, the public cen use it? Not likely. If the pulc can use it, the public shauld have ownéd it over the years. If Mr- S.C. Lâeahy (Viewpoint, Finding.herstatements confusmgi and net. wishing, to seem alef I1 asked, "Sa .you dn't, really eat meat, thenir' "Not' really," she replied, "I eat onlIr turkey, chicken and fish." 'Ah,. that explains it," I ad. "Thats where a good deal of your cholesterol is coxmng from." "No, they don't contain cholesterol." 'Believe me, they do." "Nô..My- dietitian told me they den't." i"al emy word 'oit, 14:naam. Ive ýbeen a vegetarian forý tený Yearà,,,and r-ve studied* thisý question.* Somne dietitians are March 6, Free Proe) wanta te see what the public can do ta, Lynde Creek, he can came aver te my place and I can show hlm enough ta, change hie mind regardrng public use cf creek valleysj. Ail of this damage bas. been done by trespassers on signed, open land.Hd te prapry en developdinta rainelot0ausng, with the owners owning. the cre bottam, none of this damage would have occurred. It would aloo previde a better habitat for fish and game, since the public would no longer be tearing it up. D.. '!BU(.W.ilsme Brooklin Thé 'gréening' of Town council To the. Editors In recent menths, there have been increasing ign of the ng'eofWh v ounil. iowhere was this mare i evidence than at the -March 4 meeting cf the planning and develepment committee. Fïrst, there was strong support for the recemmendations contained in the environniental management plan for the Lynde Shores area. Later, the. comniittee unianimausly rejected a proposai which weuld have had serieus negative envirenmental impacts on Corbett Creek and Corbett Creek Marsh. Cynics may say thlticians are the'opposte, «-Mther Nature. iffe Mother Nature bursts inta green in the spring and fades as the-year prgess paliticans become increasingly green i the'fal of their terms mn office, _but - the green fades abruptly in thespigathr next term. There isabundthi evidence fromn the past, at some levels of government, ta support that theory. In the case of members of the Whitby council, however, I prefer ta behieve that they have aiways wanted ta do the right thing from an environmental perspective. As the public, with the support and leadership of the press, have veiced their desire ta keep natural areas green, council has respanded in a posfitive manner. - I would- like ta take this opportunity ta, express my support for the direction taken by the planning and devlopment committee and council relative ta green spaces in Whitby. I hop others of like mind will do th msme. Dnie Barry ý Whitb ignorant." I was in nomood totell her .that; chicken and fish are not health foods; that they are overly hbighin protein, and chemical and bacterial contaminants; that chieken contains the same amaunt of chole§Werol-,as, beef: 25 niilligraxns per.ounce (Penniington & Church. 1985. Food Values .f Portions 'Commonly Used. 'New York Harper- & Row.);' that cholesterol is fôund primiarly in the: lean portion of meat; that, according. to Dr. William Castelli, M * Direétôr of the Frmnlam- Heart Study, on châlesteolanà- heart.disae vegetainshve a fration. of the hear at=%Zat and only 40 per cent of the cancer rate of the rest ,of the ppulatiôn, as he explains ini Dr. eil. Bernard's The Power Of Your Plate (1990). It la, of course,. possible that she had muderstood her dietitian. But one thing is crystal clear: she hadne'been told of the benefits of a vegetarian diet. Wihy not?' Why do various heaIlh-related -organizations speak cf reducing. fat intake, yet seldom-mention vegetarianism as. an altern ative? Why do they neyer tell us that we have that heaithier- option?' Why do . they publi sh cookbooks1 that, ta their Credit,- feature seme- meatless meals, yet imply that eliminating meat ls netadvisable? Why must -their soups have -a chicken stock base, why' are homemade or commercial vegetable stocks not mentioned? Is this ignorance or a deliberate. misleading? Why, in the 1986, Canadian- Cancer Society -publication 'Dietý and Cancer," in* a section entitled 'Ways ta Rèduce Your Total Fat' Itake,l do bath lunch and d inner fauemeat? Why not cucumfber sandwiches, or banana on fresh rye, and meatless, lasagna for supper? -Was Dr. Linus 'Pauling, the omiyersn ever ta win two solo Noberizes :(chemistry, .1954; peace, 1962),- right whfen heý declared, "Everyone should know that the« war an cancer is largely a fraud, and that the- National Cancer, Insitute and the American Cancer Socièty are derelict in their duties ta the public who support.them?" As R.W. 'Mass, former Assistant Director 'of Public. Affaire at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cénter, on the cover of whose 1980 book The Cancer Syndrome the above quote appears, writes: Not long ugo , t/w cancer experts rejected any suggest ion cf a -lUnk between /b-fod and malhgnancy, and 'generally pomnted with pride at t/w 'kreat American -diet." Recause cf t/ais attitude, t/aroug/aout t/w- 1960'i and muc/acf 't/w, 1970's, - NCI [National Cancer InstituteJ spent virtually not/aing aon nutrition researcha. T/w same /wld true cf Ot/wr cent ers,, suc/i as Sloan-Kettering, w/aida avaided t/w tapie almost entirely. In 1974,. under presre' a t/w parents of c/idrn with caner, Congress forcedl NCI te a part of its budget to nutitin. venso, t/ais amountedi to juat one per cent c f its :total funda, and even. t/ais amount wus not always spent. A turning point- came, /aouweer w/aen Senator George, McGouern 18 Senate Nutritio*n Subcommittee issueda report, "Detay Goals for t/wë, United Statesr," -w/zick idcated' t/w faty, ouer-proeessed American diet for the hig/a incidence of cancer and at/r -degnerative diass Despite acreama cjf "insufficitent evidenoe" fom t/w'American Medical Assoiation 1and' ot/wr bastions ofcure-oriented medÏcine, MeGoern's -report, was infuent' 1 (Lms Angeles Timïes,* Januany 24, 1978) Because federal heaàlth officialsý depend on Congress for' their jébo andppropriations,. they côuld MéGoven wasand National Instituteà .of Health Directar Frederickson 'thereupon testified . before McGoveWns committee that of the estimlated. 75 per cent of human cancers -due ta environental causes, moat may be related . te f"o .NCI directar Up tan,' Ph.D., declared, "A large =-tden of the cancer burden may be rèlate d ta ciet." Stay tuned. Opinions expressed'are t/aose af t/w author. "The boardi has decided on a 10 percen incroiase. ,Any questioýns?" I NO publié access to valley'lp