pane lil 3 Spot reducing a myth “eay Wid LLEZ WANTED of Chiropractic Sports Sciences. “I'm sure those people on sore backs, is the lack of consumer advice about safe erty He leie | Hi Fa li rif [ee a ae a a ul The glistening, vn teeiee tr the TV did not get to look that way by doing what they do in the cials beckon: wipe away those years of neglect with a few minutes each day on a gut-busting, tummy-tightening , device, ‘The message mixes nicely with the new no-pain, no-sweat concept of fitness. Conveniently, inexpensively, a few simple strains of the stomach will make that paunch disappear. “Society is hung up on seeking the easy solution,” says Dr. Robert Goode, an exercise physiologist at the University of Toronto. “What is really needed to lose weight and keep it off is a lifestyle change — regular exercise and a better diet included.” What concerns Goodyear, who sees several patients who use some of the inexpensive devices and end up with exercise. For example, some still think the best way to doa sit-up is with your legs straight and by touching your knees with your elbows when you pull your body up. But straight-leg sit-ups are hazardous to the lower back, Goodyear warns, and can be even more dangerous when “done on a device that’ provides some resistance to your m , “A quarter sit-up, with knees bent, is certainly good enough for the vast majority of people,” Goodyear says. CLEAN COTTON RAGS Castl SHEN (EMU ie fie ej ? a Sound too easy to be true? Experts say it pretty much \ 197 Col bia Ave., it fcasseceees= Blind sailor plans trip IT’S A MYTH PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) said. “I expect to be nervous and that I need assistance,” brought along and will also be working on a book of his develop strength and endurance. Exercise long enough on serlesece : He rei i tia ft rt el 2 3 i g aie 7 them and you'll burn enough calories to help you lose some 3} < ae (Baral! EE fcr ® m a Ife? i il he a NOSEID 9 aiuva ied ‘G11 09 1V9INL0373 2 ONIGWNId pup mou Ang @SD0J2U] 814g SY, {Deg ie jBuyay] Eds WOe e069 4 veg Oy 41d yeejU00 voewes 01d enuue YZ) Ou Tae wou) 00-z! (ear) 18089 "WUON uy 89\NQUNCD OF JeAO wou see14)® O00'r wey)” cow yum 180 “Moye 068 Bu P SeeqUeA YO, MON 10 @6 826009 fruociBeu eyodeueipuyy Cj ae mAOR a0 i! @ canst rf! if hase | mt | see OUL, aya Ved Bucs weesp ® sp.008 vow ® ¥OIMIEM eUUOIG ‘ABp B40) ve From Asoye. nom" ml Ae WuUyor “1804 ORES A s06eyjs0> “ay DIquINiCD iS7L Hf 8tZS-S9E AO, 30} @WOY © YIM, ed. janie ’ pia} dl owwer) AL = WOU, 1 ow ou, Saar woes But “spot reducing” — exercising a part of body to —Ablindmanwhohasnever for the next three or four he said. reduce the fat covering it — is a myth. No amount of sit-ups alone gets rid of your spare tire, for example, and no amount of just jogging erases fat thighs. Regular all-round work-outs, however, will help burn off fat all over the body — and, with it, midriff bulge. A few years ago, former Canadian tennis champion Peter Burwash mistakenly thought he could shed his stomach fat through 200 sit-ups a day. “All I ended up with was a cast-iron set of stomach muscles and a flabby covering,” Burwash, now a leading fitness consultant and author, recalled in an interview. “By overworking the muscles of your stomach, all you are doing is building a strong stomach.” NEED AEROBICS Only through a regular program of aerobic exercise, a work-out that gets your heart beating fast enough to burn calories, can you shed that stomach flab. But until recently, many trainers and athletes believed that working a particular muscle group eliminated fat in that area. That myth was disproved by research into exercise and fat loss, but the new wave of gimmicky products and catchy TV commercials proves that old notions die hard. What bothers some experts is that the necessary commitment to exercise is soft-pedalled in the product push. “The attitude in those ads is the problem — it looks like a quick, easy, cheap way out of the ‘Molson's muscle,’ ” says Gary Goodyear of Cambridge, Ont., a director of the College Day care spent more than an afternoon sailing alone shoved off for Plymouth, England, today on what he hopes will be the first solo crossing of the Atlantic by a sightless per- son. Jim Dickson shouted, “I'm going to haye fun,” gave a thumbs-up salute, and set sail in the 10-metre sloop Eye Opener from Bend Boat Ba- sin. “I'm nervous,” Dickson Study NEW YORK (AP) — A new study of the human gene that causes the most common childhood form of muscular dystrophy when it is defec- tive adds to evidence that it is the biggest human gene known, a Canadian research- er says. “This gene is incredibly large,” said Arthur Burghes of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. days. After that, I expect to have the time of my life.” Dickson, 41, will be using a $12,000 talking computer on his trip, which, if successful, . Should last about a month. Three separate electronic systems are on board in case of emergency. “All I have to do is pull a little Velcro tab and two people in a control room will know exactly where I am The white yacht with a handicapped symbol on its stern appeared immaculate. In the small cabin, charts were stowed in wall slots and a bag of oranges was sus- pended from the ceiling in a small hammock. BLIND SINCE SEVEN Dickson, legally blind since age seven, with retinitis pig- mentosa, said he would keep busy by listening to some of the 25 talking books he detects gene interview, Burghes said it may have three million bases, in contrast to the 45,000 to 50,000 bases of standard hu- man genes. Louis Kunkel, associate in- vestigator with the Howard The size of the gene may help explain the frequency of Duchenne, Kunkel said in a telephone interview, because with so many bases “it’s such a big target,” for random mutations. Hughes Medical Institute at Children's Hospital in Bos- ton, said Burghes’s projec- tion was “not unreasonable. It’s going to be large.” Duch dys- trophy is marked by destruc- tion of the muscles that con- trol voluntary movement. Almost all victims are male. own about the trip. Two cameras were mount- ed on the railing of the boat to record video tapes for a documentary he is preparing. The 2,800-nautical-mile trip would be difficult even for a sighted person, said Tony Lush, a Newport sailing consultant who has crossed the Atlantic alone eight times. “Every system has to run smoothly,” Lush said Mon- day. “Every connection has to be watertight.” The talking computer will tell him his position, speed and wind direction. “If I'm not having a good time out there, if I have major equipment failure, I'll not hesitate to put in half way across,” he said. “I'd have no hesitation in turning back to shore or putting out a beacon to ask for help.” He said he hoped his trip would demonstrate that blind people can lead productive lives with a little help from technology. 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Ceramics has become Wel. sh’s pastime since she started at Garry and Shirley Ford's Golden Years Day Care. It allows her to get out once a week and do things she wouldn't normally do cooped up all day. “Someone asked me how I liked it here,” says Welsh. “I said, ‘I love it, it's just like going on a picnic.’ They're so nice and kind, they show you how to do things.” Shirley Ford smiles. She likes to hear that kind of talk. Ford and husband Garry are co-owners of the centre, which provides a sitting ser. vice for elderly people who cannot be left alone for long periods of time, and for seniors who want to get out by their family when a rela- tive suggests such an alter- native. The centre, which has room for 12 people, is housed in a ‘small home. Some reno- vations were needed — such as adding a second bathroom, accessible to wheelchairs, and a ramp leading to the front door. “For today’s two-job fam- ilies, looking after grandma or grandpa can be a heavy burden to carry,” says Ford. “Getting out and being with people of their own age will help,” says Ford. Nurse Karen Pare, who has taught a course on caring for the elderly, says such a service helps relieve some of the stress of caring for se- niors. After stress, she says, comes burnout. “After burn- out there's no alternative but to put an elderly person in a nursing home.” The cost is $3 an hour for a full day, which includes breakfast, lunch and snacks. The cost rises to $5 an hour if gene’s size may contribute to the frequency of the illness. Burghes, with Ronald Worton, Peter Ray and others at the hospital, report on the gene that causes Duchenne muscular dystro- phy in the British journal Genes are sequences of chemicals called bases that lie along chromosomes like pearls on a necklace. The body's genetic machinery “reads” these sequences as instructions to make particu- lar proteins. Genes involved in genetic diseases like muscular dys- trophy work normally if their sequence of bases is normal. But if part or all of the se- quence is missing, or if a por. tion is garbled by mutation, the result can be a defective protein or no protein at all. That causes the disease. Since the discovery of the Duchenne gene last year, scientists have been studying it to discover what protein it helps produce. That would disclose the basic defect of the disease and help lead to better treatments. 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