The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Lt Frank Luke Jr. Part 2 Oct. 21, 2005

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Lt Frank Luke Jr. Ballon Buster Part 2



September 12th, 1918. 0500 hours.

The St.-Mihiel Offensive begins.

It had been raining for days, and did not stop.

That morning Frank Luke and Joe Wehner took off together into the mist, rain, and fog. It is unlikely that Lieutenant Grant knew about it.

Wehner spotted a drachen near Montsec and approaching from behind and put 100 rounds into it. The balloon’s crew began winching it down rapidly, and considering the ceiling (no more than 800 meters at that time and day) the job couldn't have taken very long. Joe made another turn but the drachen was already in its nest. Though it never burned Joe requested confirmation of a balloon kill when he returned to base.Luke reported spotting three enemy aircraft near Lavigneville and that he flew east after them toward Pont-A-Mousson, where they disappeared toward Metz. Luke was now out of his sector. According to his flight report it was at this moment that Luke spotted a draken near Marieulles.

Frank came in shooting and closed to yards of the balloon before pulling off. The thing wasn’t burning. He throttled back and swung around again, flying his Spad dangerously close to the draken before firing. Nothing. A third time, with the frantic ground crew winching their draken down as fast as humanly possible, Frank Luke flew through the antiaircraft cannon and massed machine-gun fire and gave the Draken one last, long, frustrated burst. Both guns jammed, and Luke broke left to reduce the stoppage while simultaneously wheeling around for another pass.

But the partially deflated balloon had started to burn, and the flames now spread rapidly. In an instant - at exactly 8:09 a.m.- it exploded in a red ball, the flaming bag dropping the short distance to the ground to consume both the Draken and the winch crew.



Almost no one had believed he had shot down the Albatros on Aug. 16th. Rather than turn his Spad back toward Rembercourt, Frank put down near an American observation balloon on our side of the lines at Dieulouard. American infantrymen rose up out of their trenches as the wheels of Luke's Spad splashed through the French mud and hustled Luke into the trenches before his Spad attracted artillery fire. But, hey, no draken, no artillery fire!

The Americans in the trenches were most pleased to see the Draken destroyed. Wounded waiting in the front line trenches could be carried back to the doctors at 9:00 AM that day instead having to wait for dark to make the long muddy trip. Water, food, and ammunition could be brought up.



Luke had several of the officers write affidavits that Luke had indeed shot down the Drachen.

COMBAT REPORT - September 12, 1918

Lieutenant Frank Luke reports:

Saw three E. A. (enemy aircraft) near Lavigneville and gave chase, following them directly east towards Pont- a-Mousson where they disappeared towards Metz. Saw enemy balloon at Marieulles. Destroyed it after three passes at it. Each within a few yards of the balloon. The third pass was made when the balloon was very near the ground.

Both guns stopped, so pulled off to one side. Fixed left gun and turned about to make one final effort to burn it. The next instant it burst into great flames and dropped on the winch, destroying it.

There was a good field near our balloons, so landed for confirmation. The observer, Joseph M. Fox, who saw the burning, said he thought everal were killed when it burst into flames so near the ground. Left field and started back when my motor began cutting out. Returned to same field and there found out my motor could not be fixed, so returned by motor cycle. Attached you will find confirmation from Lieutenant Fox and Lieutenant Smith. Both saw burning.

Luke’s Spad was picked up that night. The squadron head mechanic inspected Luke’s Spad and said:

"Lieutenant, I've seen a lot of planes come in. But when they come in this way, the bird that drives 'em gets it and he gets it fast."

Luke grinned.

"They can't get me. Look at that!" - inserting a finger in the hole through the seat - "Why didn't that one hit me?"

Patrols on the 13th yielded no results.

The 14th was another successful day for the young Arizonan.

COMBAT REPORT - September 14, 1918 [Morning Patrol]

Lieutenant Frank Luke reports:

Left formation at Abaucourt and attacked an enemy balloon near Boinville. Dove at it six times at close range. Had two stoppages with left gun which carried incendiary bullets and, after fixing both, continued the attack. After about seventy-five rounds being left in right gun, I attacked an Archie battery at the base of the balloon. Am sure that my fire took effect as the crews scattered.



After my first attack on the balloon the observer jumped after he shot at me. The last I saw of the balloon, it was on the ground in a very flabby condition.Confirmation requested.

Compare Luke's report to Lt. Dawson's:

I [Dawson] left the formation over Moranville and attacked an enemy balloon near Boinville, diving at it three times and emptying both guns. Tracers entered it in great numbers. The observer jumped and the balloon was hauled down in a very flabby condition. White flaming balls were fired at me. Lt. Luke was below the balloon firing at the Archie battery. I left after the balloon had struck the ground it was not sent up again, at the time I left, twenty minutes later. From what I could observe it was very badly shot up.



And Lt. Lennon's version:

Followed Lt. Luke and Dawson. Saw them attack enemy ballon in vicinity of Boinville. Observed that the observer jumped and enemy archie began to burst. The balloon flattened out and went to the ground. I dove on it and fired 50 round from each gun. The last I saw of balloon it was on the ground in a very flabby condition.

That afternoon the 27th was ordered to attack another draken over Buzy. When Hartney briefed his officers (the now Captain Grant, Lt. Lawson, Lt. Clapp, and Lt. Lennon) on the plan Clapp suggested the unwelcome Luke be given the hazardous assignment. If he succeeded, fine. If he failed he would ship out. If he died they wouldn't lose much sleep over it. Luke would dart out of the formation to be the "shooter;" and only Joe Wehner would cover him.

September 14, 1918 [Afternoon Patrol]

Lieutenant Frank Luke reports:

I and Lieutenant Wehner were to leave with formation to attack enemy balloon by order of C. O. On arriving at Buzy, left formation and brought down enemy balloon in flames. While fixing my guns so I could attack another balloon near by, eight enemy Fokkers dropped down on me. Pulled away from them. They scored several good shots on my plane. I saw Lieutenant Wehner dive through enemy formation and attack two enemy planes on my tail; but, as my guns were jammed, did not turn, as I was not sure it was an Allied plane until he joined me later. You will find attached confirmation of balloon.



Lieutenant Wehner had been flying high cover for Lieutenant Luke. He had saved Frank from death, and neither for the first nor the last time.

With two confirmed balloons to his credit the other pilots could no longer call Luke a liar. Mad, maybe, arrogant certainly, a jerk, an ass, whatever, but not a liar.

According to Hartney Luke tried to go up on an unauthorized third patrol at dusk in another pilot's plane and was massively chewed out by Captain Grant. Major Hartney persuaded him to fill out his combat reports and accept Grant's orders. Joe Wehner did fly that evening; and while a French flier beat him to the balloon, he shot down two Fokker D-VII's (although not confirmed).

By the evening of the 14th the legend of Frank Luke had begun to take shape. He was no longer dismissed as only a flake. Perhaps he was boastful and unpopular but he and Wehner had "the right stuff". They had destroyed three balloons and fought off defending German fighters. To Mitchell, Hartney, and other American commanders, the 27th seemed to be the unit to tackle the heavily defended "sausages." With Luke and Wehner on the sharp end.



The next morning, the pattern continued. As specifically noted in Frank's combat report, he was ordered to leave formation and attack the gasbags at Boinville and Bois d'Hingry

COMBAT REPORT - September 15, 1918 [Morning Patrol]

Lieutenant Frank Luke reports:

I left formation and attacked an enemy balloon at Boinville in accordance with instructions and destroyed it. I fired 125 rounds. I then attacked another balloon near Bois d'Hingry and fired fifty rounds into it. Two confirmations requested.

Wehner kept pace with his deadly friend, burning two balloons and shooting down two Fokkers that tried to get on Luke's tail. A very nice piece of teamwork by our two youngsters.



Luke had noticed that the German fighters left the draken in time to land in the late dusk while there was still some light. The draken were therefore without air cover during the late evening. A Spad could fly low across no man’s land at part throttle and not be noticed from the balloon against the dark ground while the Draken could be seen against the sky glow of late dusk. With luck, the draken installation would not realize they were under attack until the Spad was perhaps a mile away. The Spad at full throttle then climbed and fired into the German balloon. Starting from a four mile distance the Spad could complete an attack run within the four minutes. Seems a short time, hey? Four minutes is the time it took Frank Luke to flame one Draken and then another one four miles away on the evening of September 16th, as is described by Edward Rickenbacker below. Luke proposed to rely on a lit-up airfield to land safely, and pure cussedness for navigation.

His evening patrol report follows:

COMBAT REPORT - September 15, 1918 [Evening Patrol]

Lieutenant Frank Luke reports:

Patrolled to observe enemy activity. Left a little after formation, expecting to find it on the lines. On arriving there I could not find formation but saw artillery firing on both sides. Also saw a light at about 500 meters. At first I thought it was an observation machine but on nearing it I found that it was a Hun balloon, so I attacked and destroyed it. I was Archied with white fire, and machine guns were very active. Returned very low. Saw thousands of small lights in woods north of Verdun. On account of darkness coming on I lost my way and landed in a French wheat field at Agers about twenty-one hours thirty. Balloon went down in flames at nineteen hours fifty.

Records from German Balloon Company Eighteen of Balloon Battalion Thirty- three confirmed these victories.



Wehner had shot down two balloons and three combat planes in three days, and Luke had killed six draken. Most likely the other pilots of the 27th sucked it up a bit. One likes to see the good guys win.Lieutenants Luke and Wehner became celebrities. Congratulations came in from other units and reporters asked for interviews. Newspapers back home carried the story. I don’t like this vulgar display forced on such men but the media are like bedbugs or lice, ubiquitous and grotesque even then.

On the morning of September 16 Luke and Wehner again patrolled the front. The German balloon line had become wary. Twice they sighted German balloons, and twice the bags were hastily landed before they could be attacked. Not terribly hard to see why, hey.

The very dangerous balloon attacks became entertainment that evening when Hartney invited Col. Billy Mitchell to watch the show.
v In the late afternoon Mitchell and sundry brass arrived in a Mercedes auto. Luke and Wehner did a show and tell, a song and dance, and then it was getting to be time for the show itself. Some American artillery began to fire and the German balloons rose up a bit to get a better view of the muzzle flashes.

As dusk deepened Luke and Wehner left Major Hartney’s headquarters and walked to their machines. Luke pointed to the two plainly visible German observation balloons to the east of the field, suspended in the sky about two miles back of the German lines and perhaps four miles apart.

From Captain Edward Rickenbacker:

“Keep your eyes on these two balloons”, said Frank as he passed us. "You will see that first one there go up in flames exactly at 7:15 and the other will do likewise at 7:19."

We had little idea he would really get either of them, but we all gathered together out in the open as the time grew near and kept our eyes glued to the distant specks in the sky. Suddenly, Major Hartney exclaimed, 'There goes the first one!' It was true! A tremendous flare of flame lighted up the horizon. We all glanced at our watches. It was exactly 7:15 on the dot!

"The intensity of our gaze towards the location of the second Hun balloon may be imagined. It had grown too dusk to distinguish the balloon itself, but we well knew the exact point in the horizon were it hung. Not a word was spoken as we alternately glanced at the second-hands of our watches and then at the eastern skyline. Almost upon the second our watching group yelled simultaneously. A small blaze first lit up the point at which we were gazing. Almost instantaneously another gigantic burst of flames announced to us that the second balloon had been destroyed. It was a most spectacular exhibition."



COMBAT REPORT - September 16, 1918

Lieutenant Frank Luke reports:

Patrol to strafe balloons. Everything very carefully arranged. Lt Wehner and I left airdrome passing over Verdun. We attacked balloon in vicinity of Reville at 19 h 03. Both Lt. Wehner and I shot a burst into it. It burst into flames and fell on observer who had jumped a few seconds before. We started for another balloon in vicinity of Romagne. I attacked and destroyed it. It burst into flames on the ground, burning winch. The anti-aircraft guns were very active scoring several good hits on my plane. The last I saw of Lt. Wehner he was going in a south-easterly direction after the first balloon went down. I shot at supply trains on my way back. Two confirmations requested.

COMBAT REPORT - September 16, 1918

Lieutenant J. F. Wehner reports:

Patrol to strafe balloons. Flew north-east passing over Verdun and attacked balloon in vicinity of Reville with Lt. Luke at 19 h 05. We each fired one burst when I observed that it instantly caught fire. The observer jumped but was burned to death by the flaming balloon before reaching the ground. I headed towards the Meuse river trying to pick up another balloon; could not locate one so headed towards Verdun. On the way back saw a fire in the vicinity of Romagne which evidently was Lt. Luke's second balloon. While waiting for Lt. Luke near Verdun saw red flare over Mangiennes. Thinking it our prearranged signal from Lt. Luke, I headed in that direction. Saw balloon just above the tree tops near Mangiennes and brought it down in flames with one burst at 19 h 35. Anti-aircraft very active. Two confirmations requested.



Three Draken destroyed the 16th.

September 17 - no reported combat

September 18 - Joe Wehner was killed. The two men destroyed two draken over Labeuville and were attacked by several German fighters. Wehner was killed and Luke shot down three.

COMBAT REPORT - September 18, 1918

Lieutenant Frank Luke reports:

Lieutenant Wehner and I left the airdrome at 16 h 00 to spot enemy balloons. Over St. Mihiel we saw two German balloons near Labeuville. Maneuvered in the clouds and dropped down, burning both. We were then attacked by a number of E.A. (enemy aircraft), the main formation attacking Lieutenant Wehner, who was above and on one side. I started climbing to join the fight when two E. A. attacked me from the rear. I turned on them, opening both guns on the leader. We came head on until within a few yards of each other when my opponent turned to one side in a nose dive and I saw him crash to the ground.

I then turned on the second, shot a short burst, and he turned and went into a dive. I saw a number of E. A. above but could not find Lieutenant Wehner, so turned and made for our lines. The above fight occurred in the vicinity of St. Hilaire. On reaching our balloon line, flew east. Saw Archie on our side, flew toward it, and found an enemy observation machine. I gave chase with some other Spads and got (cut) him off from his lines. After a short encounter he crashed within our lines, southeast of Verdun. Lieutenant Wehner is entitled to share in the victories over both the balloons. Confirmations requested, two balloons and three planes

Frank Luke was now the leading American ace with four planes and ten balloons destroyed. Of these fourteen thirteen had been destroyed in one week during which he had flown on five days.

This photo was taken the next day, showing Luke standing in front of the wreckage of the observation aircraft he had destroyed the previous evening:



A newsman put Luke in front of the September 18th Halberstadt and took this photo. I believe I can see that Luke finds this fellow vulgar. Notice the strain showing around the eyes. Lieutenant Luke is twenty-one years and four months old.

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[Valin]

have to work tonight

I tried that once....not for me.

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On this Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on October 23:
1752 Nicolas Appert inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
1844 Louis Riel Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
1905 Felix Bloch US physicist (Nobel 1952)
1906 Gertrude Ederle US, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1910 Hayden Rorke Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
1923 Frank Sutton Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
1925 Johnny Carson Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
1927 Dezs” Gyarmati Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
1931 Jim Bunning Phillies pitcher (perfect Game against Mets 1965)
1935 Chi Chi Rodriguez golfer (PGA Seniors-1987)
1940 Edison Pel‚ Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire (NY Cosmos)
1941 Greg Ridley bassist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1942 Michael Crichton US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)
1946 Miklos Nemeth Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Dwight Yoakum country singer (If There Was a Way)
1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1962 Doug Flute WFL/NFL QB (Generals, Bears, Patriots)

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Deaths which occurred on October 23:
0042BC Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi [H]
1260 Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1450 Juan de Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
1903 Francis Ellingwood Abbot theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1935 Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
1935 Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
1939 Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67

1978 Mother Maybelle Carter country singer, mother of June Carter Cash, One of the founders of modern country music, dies at 69
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1983 Jessica Savitch Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1983 Tamara Shayne actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1984 David Gorcey dead end kid actor, dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 Oskar Werner actor, dies of a heart attack at 61
1994 Robert Lansing, actor (Twelve O'Clock High) dies of cancer at 66

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
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US Captain John R. Teal Ba’qubah - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack


Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY


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On this day...
1642 The Battle of Edgehill. The first major clash between Royalist and Parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars.
1668 Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1690 Revolt in Haarlem, Holland after public ban on smoking
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1783 Virginia emancipates slaves who fought for independence during the Revolutionary War
1790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1814 The 1st plastic surgery was performed in England
1829 The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia received its 1st prisoner, burglar Charles Williams (18). It was based on the Quaker idea of reform through solitude and reflection.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C. for all military-related cases
1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
1921 Green Bay Packers play their 1st NFL game. They won 7-6 over Minneapolis (Damn Cheeseheads!)
1927 City of Netanya, Israel founded
1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1944 The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast

1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/

1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve the new Canal treaties
1978 CBS raises LP prices to $8.98.
1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion

1983 241 U.S. Marines and sailors in Lebanon were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
2000 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held groundbreaking talks in North Korea with communist leader Kim Jong Il and attended a huge spectacle of 100,000 performers honoring her host.
2001 U.S.-led forces maintained their intense pressure on the Taliban, pounding positions around the Afghan capitol of Kabul and the militia's southern stronghold of Kandahar for the 17th consecutive day. Vice President Dick Cheney was given the International Republican Institute's 2001 Freedom Award. He promised the war against terrorism being waged in Afghanistan would be "relentless."
2001 John Ashcroft, US Attorney Gen’l., said 3 men wanted by German authorities, Said Bahaji, Ramzi Binalshibh and Zakariya Essabar, were part of a terrorist cell in Hamburg that included 3 men from the Sep 11 attack on the WTC.
2002 In China rescuers fought to save 29 miners trapped underground after a coal mine explosion in the northern province of Shanxi killed 21.
2003 A 3-day dominos tournament began at the Ocho Rios resort in Jamaica
2004 50 unarmed Iraqi soldiers were killed in eastern Iraq as they headed home on leave after basic training. Many were shot execution style with gunshots to the back of the head.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Thailand : Chulalongkorn Day (1868)
US : United States Day
Afghanistan : Id-Qurban Day
National Dental Hygiene Week (Day 6)
National Mole Day
National Applejack Month!!
National Hobby Month.
Polish-American Heritage Month

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Religious Observances
Ang, Orth, Luth : Comm of St James of Jerusalem, Brother of Jesus
RC : Mem, St John of Capistrano, patron of military chaplains (opt)
Jewish : Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth

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Religious History
Ussher's "Chronologies of he Old and New Testaments" was first published 1650-54.
1239 In England, the main cathedral at Wells (begun c.1186) was consecrated. The most striking interior feature of the cathedral are the inverted arches (14th century) by which the piers of the tower are strengthened.
1385 In Germany, the University of Heidelberg was founded under Pope Urban VI as a college of the Cistercian order. (Among its faculties today are theology, law, medicine and philosophy.)
1857 Delegates from eight states met in Nashville and organized the Southern Baptist Sunday School Union. The organization proved short-lived, when it was nullified by the onset of the American Civil War.
1871 Birth of Edgar J. Goodspeed, American Greek N.T. scholar. He taught at the University of Chicago 1898-1937. In 1931, he co-authored with JMP Smith "The Bible: An American Translation," better known today as "Smith and Goodspeed."

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Sleep could help weight loss: study
From: Agence France-Presse
Vancouver, Canada
October 21, 2005

IF you want to lose fat, getting the right amount of sleep each night may be just as crucial to shedding excess pounds as diet and regular exercise.

Research presented at a Canadian conference on obesity this week in Vancouver shows a strong link between lack of sleep and increased fat, as well as an increased risk of several life-threatening diseases.
The findings, suggested researchers, will lead to sleep being added to treatment regimes for obesity, diabetes and other ailments.

The research reveals that body-chemical changes caused by lack of sleep lead to weight gain, and that disruption of normal sleep patterns can destroy the body's ability to regulate appetite.

In modern societies people are sleeping nearly two hours less each night than they did 40 years ago, said Esra Tasali of the University of Chicago.

To find out if there is a link between soaring obesity rates in the industrialised world and a lack of sleep, researchers in Chicago studied metabolic changes in healthy young adults.

The adults were divided into three groups, one group had their daily sleep restricted to four hours, the second group was allowed a normal eight hours while the third group was granted an extended sleep period of 12 hours.
The sleep-deprived adults quickly experienced cravings for high-calorie sweets, while their metabolisms resembled that of people with diabetes.

There was an increased glucose tolerance after six days of just four hours in bed, Mr Tasali told researchers at the annual meeting of NAASO, The Obesity Society.

Separate research presented here found that a lack of sleep can also contribute to several life-threatening diseases.

James Gangwisch and Steven Heymsfield of New York analysed a US government National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey seeking links between lack of sleep and hypertension, diabetes and heart attack.

The study, they concluded, showed that sleep deprivation was associated with significantly increased risks to such conditions.

Other researchers, who studied sleep patterns and obesity rates among 323 men and 417 women in the Canadian province of Quebec, showed that people who get the least sleep have the most body fat.

The study, which examined body fat as well as the levels of the hormone leptin, found that people who slept seven to eight hours were the most healthy, compared to those who received less or too much sleep.

The findings suggest that the optimum amount of sleep is 7.7 hours each night, said Jean-Philippe Chaput who worked on the Quebec study.

He said while much more research is needed before medical treatment plans can be adopted, ensuring that people get adequate sleep will soon become a standard part of the treatment for obesity.

It is possible that in a couple of years, sleep will be added to diet and physical activity in tackling weight loss, Mr Chaput said.

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Thought for the day :
"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
Michael Crichton

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

[Valin]

HA HA! I beat you!


That sound you're hearing is my ego inflating.

[Professional Engineer]

How can you're ego be inflating when

Birthdates which occurred on October 23:

ENTIRELY MISSED Msdrby's birthday? Hmmmm

[Valin]

OH THE SHAME!!!!


Note: If people tell me I'll be more than happy too include them, ditto any days of note.

Freepmail me

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning FOXHOLE!!
PE, I guess Bittygirl has not done this yet??

[Professional Engineer]

1978 CBS raises LP prices to $8.98.

LP? You mean those big CDs that won't fit into my CD player?

[Professional Engineer]

No worries mate.

[Professional Engineer]

She's tried. We didn't have the camera around either.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh nuts!! LOL

[alfa6]

1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price

Jo Shelby and his men at The Battle of Westport

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[alfa6]

1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt

The beginning of the end for Hitler in the West.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[msdrby]

Hehe, I'm having a pretty good birthday thus far. Got some cool presents from mom. We were planning on going out for lunch, but I made a concoction (rice, chicken, sour cream, salsa, mushrooms, doritos, cheese) that did the job just as well. We are off to Linens and Things and then HOME. Bittygirl just woke up from her rather long nap.

[snippy_about_it]

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
General George S. Patton

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Linens and Things

oooh. One of my favorite stores. I have a thing for sheets and towels, can't get enough. (over 300 thread count of course).