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HIDES FLAWS What is the Unsuit’s appeal7Turkel, an actress-model and ex-wife of actor Richard Harris, is quick with an answer. “One gets a suntan because a suntan hides a lot of flaws — cellulite, stretch marks. I think this is really going to help a lot of women look better and feel better,” she said. The couple, both 32, are projecting 1984 sales at something approaching $10 million. They live in Los Angeles, where their company, Unsuit Partners, had its headquarters. Bloomingdale's initial order was 2,000 suits for its 14 stores. The store has just re-ordered 1,000 more. “It’s probably two to three times bigger than any item we've ever sold,” Lowenstein said. Neiman-Mareus ordered several thousand suits, and Buhringer said about 760 department and specialty stores have also placed orders, There are to market the suit abroad and to use the fabric for golf and tennis shirts. 7 The Unsuit comes in maillot and bikini styles for women. There is also a men's brief. Patterns include leopard, tiger, flag, red flower and blue flower patterns — designed to distort the eye just to make sure it doesn’t see through the material. Ties at the side and back allow for easy adjustments. Women's suits retail for up to $40, about average, while the men’s suit goes for $36. Buhringer has applied for a patent on the fabric, a cotton which, according to tests by the U.S. Testing Co. division in Los Angeles, allows 27 to 45 per cent of the light pass through. About 45 per cent of the ultraviolet tanning rays penetrate the suit, said Buhringer, saying that means it has a sun protection factor of six, a medium rating. Wearers are advised to use caution, especially if it is their first time with the Unsuit, and to use a sun screen on the exposed parts of their bodies so their tan will be uniform. work not good mix OTTAWA (CP) — ch gshed looking for love in wrong places, the place where you work should be near the top of your don't- bother list, Experts and vet- erans of office romance agree: Business and funny business are a volatile mixture. “My overall impression is that office romances don't work,” says Ottawa therapist Jane Kennedy, who reports an increasing number of pa tients-hurt by a love affair at work. “They inevitably seem tobreak up,and seeing the other person constantly at work is like rubbing salt in a wound.” Right or wrong, office ro- mance does seem to be on the upswing. A recent Glamour magazine survey found two- thirds of 752 young women questioned had had an office romance. More than 25 per cent of the respondents al SECRETARY BY DAY Part time Latin dancer Developed tor B.C 's Climate $89 VANCOUVER (CP) — By day, Laren Sayles is a’ con veyancing secretary in a real estate office. But after hours, she sheds her glasses and becomes a competitive Latin dancer. It's a world of eye glitter, rhinestones and ruffles, hun- dreds of hand-sewn sequins and provocatively slit skirts. It’s also a world where ser- ious competitors like Sayles, 24, can spend between $35 and $60 for an hour of private coaching and anywhere be- tween $300 and $1,000 for t di CHICKEN MANURE 10 Kg. ae hee Rose Bushes each iB) r U 449 99 BARK MULCH sec ter cecoron./rovervecs 20.204 2D DUTCH YELLOW ONIONS... 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I love it.” Four years ago, just out of eollege in California and new to Vancouver, Sayles singed up for a special offer at a Vanccouver studio — 15 les- sons for $15. “They kept telling me I was talented and I just kept buying more lessons.” NO SELLING JOB In Sayles’s case, it wasn't just a selling job. In four years of competing, she's consistently placed first. As well as her own com- petition work, Sayles has the taxing honor of being the al- ternate on Vancouver's new, 16-member, competitive Latin dance formation team — The West Coast Impres. sions. If any one of the eight women, all drawn from the province's top Latin ama- teurs, can’t perform, she has to be able to jump in and keep the group's complex dance patterning seamless. Less than a year old, the team last month captured the Pacific Northwest formation championship. That win re- sulted in an invitation to ac- company the reigning world champion team from Utah's Brigham Young University on a six-city Eruopean ex. hibition tour at the end of May. But with travel bills to foot and regular jobs to hold down, the group has had to pass on the offer. Still, Sayles hopes the team can get to this spring’s world cham pionships in Europe if an in- vitation is extended. TERM DEPOSITS UP TO. eee $500 MINIMUM Va PER ANNUM (Rates subject to change without notice) “%% Interest If Calculated Annually. Deposit Opportunities: — 30 to 364 Days — Monthly Income — K-Term We Welcome All Inquiries. Credit Union Kootenay Savin nemesis “It started out as a fun, let’s-see-how-it-goes sort of ready were or were about to be married to a fellow em- ployee. From the mailroom to the executive suite, Cupid's ar rows hit clock-watchers and workaholics, married and sin- gle, with equal vengeance. What is it about the work place that makes it such a thing but now it's turned into a high goal-oriented forma- tion team. We really want to go for it.” CREATES ROUTINE The team brought in Lee Wakefield, Brigham Young’s dance director, to create its routine. The team rehearses every week under Barbara Child, herself a veteran of a former world champion for- mation team in England. The group's goal is to take on Wakefield's team and come out on top. But the Brigham Young dance ma- chine is known international- ly ag a formidable weapon. With university sponsorship and his own hairdressing and wardrobe departments, Wakefield regularly fields 50 dancers at the main competi- tions. Sayles estimates that there are at least a dozen teaching studios in Vancou- ver turning out hundreds of ballroom and Latin dancers. Ballroom refers to the “smooth” dances, the waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, for ex- ample. The term Latin covers five dances: samba, paso doble, rhumba, cha cha and the jive. The amount of activity is staggering, says Sayles, not- ing that five major competi- tions are held each year in Vancouver. “T'm from Los Angeles and I never knew all this was going on.” NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FOR YOU! for love affairs? THROWN TOGETHER “You're thrown together every day,” says Susan B., a federal government employ- ee interviewed by the Ot- tawa Citizen whose three office affairs have put her off work-place romance for good. “When you're working on a project with someone, you get caught up in the ex- citement, and it tends to cre- ate a bond that might not otherwise exist.” “Men and women still have a hard time being friends be- cause of the sexual under- tones,” says therapist Ken- nedy. “You have to take the sex ual aspect into the open and talk about it. You can be in timately close, in the sense of letting the barriers down, without having sex. A lot of sex is hardly intimate, as we know.” In Ottawa, government is the major industry and pow- er is the strongest aphrod- isiaec going. Nowhere is it more potent than in the mar- ble corridors of Parliament Hill. “Power and sex go to gether like this,” one former Hill employee told The Citi- zen, holding up two crossed fingers. “There's always the allure of getting involved with someone in a position of power. You get bored quickly with men your own age, who have the kind of interests men of that age tend to have.” POWERLESS TO STOP “The people you find your- self interested in — dynamic, intelligent, , powerful — you're virtually powerless to stop it.” Office layout, management attitudes and workplace at- mosphere also determine whether romances will flour. ish. While office affairs may not be encouraged by com panies, it's rare for manage ment to interfere unless the affair is hurting the firm. In some cases, an office affair injects zip into lagging job performances. Cheque out a crippled child today See what your dollars can do. Support Easter Seals Compliments of CASTLEGAR NEWS Jobs and- A » ‘ By MARK LISAC ? EDMONTON — Dr. Jan Van Stolk’s fear began in the 19608 when he worked with the late Albert Schweitzer at the medical missionary's hospital ia Oren Schweitzer shared with the Duteh-born Van his concerns about the threat he believed fallout from huclear tests being conducted at the time posed to the future of mankind, “There was a lot of fallout, the Americans and Russians were both testing weapons,” Van Stolk says. “He .. . felt if the trend continued we would all die.” h based his on for life, Van Stolk says. By the mid-1960s, when he was in his 80s, Schweitzer was continually making gloomy statements suggesting one would be better off dead than to see what humanity was going to do to itself. Van Stolk’s nuclear fears subsided in the 1960s and "70s, when the world seemed concerned about other things. But the fear returned when he heard President Reagan talking about the possibilities of surviving a third world war. Now the psychiatrist is part of the Canadian anti-nuclear arms movement. Van Stolk, president of the Edmonton chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, knows the fear is in other. people — such as the two young patients who began crying in his office and said it was beéause of their fear of nuclear war. He believes the anti-war movement has gathered so many supporters it won't fade away like the old Ban the Bomb movement. Too many people think a nuclear war is possible and survival is out of the question, he says. “I believe change will come from people and govern ments will have to respond to that.” Neatly tailored, sucking on a pipe, Van Stolk talks with a soft Dutch accent in sudden bursts of intensity. His eyes bore out of a smooth, skull-like face. The subject is death and the setting is the study of his comfortable home near the University of Alberta campus. From observing the destruction caused by conventional weapons, Van Stolk has an inkling of what a nuclear bomb would be capable of doing to a city. He left Rotterdam as a child just before it was bombed during War. The ruins smouldered for months. “I bieyeled back and I experienced . . . that something which I had taken for granted to be there, to exist, to'be part of my world, had disappeared. “(I felt) some kind of wonder, and we awe, and slight guilt that I was still alive and still here, but my environment is gone and lots of people have died ‘with it.” People can come to terms with dying, Van Stolk says, but it is the possibility of everyone nad everything around them also dying that makes the idea of nuclear war terrify- ing. ALL MUST DIE . “The horrendous thing is not to die — we all have to die and as a physician I have seen death a lot. But somehow when we die there is some kind of continuation... . I die, but somehow the trees continue to grow. “But when you really think about a nuclear war, not only children would go and the next generation, but life itself, the trees, the grass, the animals.” Admitting to that fear and doing just about anything to snuff out its source is a healthy step, says Van Stolk. “The more I know, the more I read, the more concerned I am. The other side of the coin is the more I can do. . . the more, in spite of everything I know, I feel better.” Physi for Social ibility is a Canadian group affiliated with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Van Stolk says the international group has between 60,000 and 100,000 members worldwide who hope to influence politicians by acting as a unit and telling leaders that, among other things, “in the case of nuclear war there's not a damned thing we can do.” Van Stolk says F for Social Resp y tries to be non-political, focusing on education, research contact between physicians in the Soviet Union and western countries. The Canadian group's first aim is to educate itself and the public on the effects of such things as “nuclear winter,” which some scientists now feel would result in the event of nuclear attacks, caused by massive amounts of dust being kicked into the atmosphere. PREVENTS BONE DISEASE Moms need milk too VANCOUVER (CP) — Mothers who insist their children drink milk should heed their own advice and have a glass, too. It could prevent osteoporosis, a pain- ful disease affecting older women, caused by a gradual loss of bone calcium. “A long time ago, when a woman lost some height, it was thought to be a factor of old age,” said Dr. Valerie Walker, a University of Brit- ish Columbia expert on the disease. “Now gerontologists are realizing how important it is to tackle this problem be- cause so many people are suffering, and there are ways to prevent it.” About 250,000 Canadian women are currently diag- in protein or caffeine, smo- king, alcohol abuse, gastro- intestinal disorders limiting the body's absorption of cal- cium and genetics are also factors in the disease. Women with fair complex- ions, blue eyes and small frames are also more prone to osteoporosis, said Walker. Stout women tend to avoid the disease because their extra weight promotes nat ural production of stronger bones. In early life the body con- tinually forms bone. Once growth stops a calcium bal- ance is achieved because the part of the aging process,” she said. “People go through a great deal of pain and there are things they can do to hold the bone where it is now. They also become afraid to move, to exercise, and keeping busy is one of the best things you can do.” There is nothing to mend the degenerated bone, but ‘there are measures to stop ‘further Bone ‘mass decrease. Estogen treatments, vitamin D supplements, sodium flyor ide and calcium supplements are all used individually or in ination to curb calcium body is both re-generating and re-absorbing bone. When women reach about 40, the body begins to absorb bone calcium quicker and in great- nosed as por Wal- ker said. A gradual loss of calcium, primarily in the ver- tebrae, hips and wrists, makes bones brittle and prone to sudden fracture. Researchers are now find- ing the fall that broke Gran- ny's hip may, in fact, have been Granny's hip suddenly shattering and causing the fall. er ies, which can re- sult in osteoporosis is ade- quate calcium is not replaced by diet. “One of the factors that also affects bone is, as you grow older, you don't absorb calcium as effectively which increases the body's need for ealcium-rich foods,” said Walker. Gerda Todd, a Vancouver 0: is causes a pain- ful, gradual loss of height and mobility, sometimes charac- terized by extreme spinal curvature known as dowa- ger’s hump. LESS BONE The disease is most com- mon in women because they have less bone mass and menopausal loss of estrogen promotes bone mass de- crease at a faster rate, said Walker. A diet low in calcium, high > Castieaird Plaza p sufferer, organ- ized the self-help group OSTOP B.C. in November. A registered nurse, she had hip and back pains for many years but thought they were the result of “getting old.” TAKING VITAMIN She is currently battling further bone degeneration by taking calcium supplements and vitamin D prescribed by her doctor. “The tragedy is so many people think is loss. But the best treatment is prevention, which Walker says is as easy as including calcium-rich foods in the daily diet. She recommends wom- en in their 40s ingest about 1,400 milligrams of calcium daily, almost double the quantity required in early adulthood. Recommended calcium rich food include: 85 grams of sardines which contain 272 mg of calcium; 225 grams of almonds — 382 mg; 28 grams PROVINCE-WIDE CLASSIFIED ONLY $99 CALL us: CAS NEWS swiss cheese — 262 mg; 28 grams cheddar cheese —219 mg; 168. ml milk — 182 mg; 225 grams peanuts — 107 mg. Exercise, however gentle, is also important, said Wal- ker. Inactivity accelerates bone loss, but putting weight on the bones helps promote their strength. for new moms HAMILTON (CP) For new mothers who dislike an extended hospital stay and might have preferred giving birth at home, McMaster Medical Centre offers a com promise — have the baby de- livered in hospital, but take him home soon after. The program, in co-oper ation with the Hamilton Wentworth Regional Health Unit, allows new mothers and their babies to go home hours after giving birth in stead of staying the more traditional five to seven days. Some mothers leave as early as four hours after giving birth but, among those opting for early discharge, most leave within one day. All must meet rigid require ments. “My friends thought I was absolutely crazy” when she arrived home 55 hours after giving birth, Angela Maloch said. “Anyone I talked to tried to talk me out of it. My mother was at me. Even my mother-in-law, who was look ing after me, kept telling me I should be in hospital. “There is just this linger ing myth that you rest better in hospital. Now that every one sees how well rested I am, they think there must be something to it.” SAW ADVANTAGES Maloch knew from the birth of her first child, Eli, now 3, that she would prob- ably be happier and less tired at home. Even though she had a pri vate room with her first baby, she was constantly dis- turbed by doctors, nurses and cleaning staff. “At home, someone wasn't always coming in to take a urine sample or my temper ature.” When she and her new son David arrived home, they went to her bed and had a “quiet nap.” Her mother-in- law guarded her privacy. Although McMaster had had only a small number of new mothers participating in the program (49 out of ap- proximately 6,000 births in Hamilton last year), the numbers are increasing. The concept began in Bri- tain as a means of freeing hospital beds for prenatal patients who required hos- pital care. ANOTHER OPTION At McMaster, the impetus for the program came from physicians and the director of the regional health unit who saw it as another option for couples. Janet Rush, patient care co-ordinator in obstetrics at McMaster, said the mothers who choge the early dis- charge program see child- birth as an extension of health. “Some, in other situations, would have preferred home birth but because of the safe- ty they opt to come here. Once they afd their baby are stable they would rather re- cover in the confines of their own home.” To participate, the expec- tant woman must first re- ceive her doctor's approval. Once obtained, she is re- ferred to the public health unit and home care program. To qualify, the woman must be a healthy, low-risk patient and the fetal heart must be healthy with good growth and development. 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