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for such a vaccine.

Daniel Zagury of the Pi-
erre and Marie Curie Uni-
versity in Paris inthe
British journal Nature, ‘the
vaccine spurred his immune
system to creating defences
against two strains of ac-
quired immunity deficiency
syndrome virus.

‘The report did not mention
any test to see whether the
vaccine will actually prevent
AIDs infection,

In a letter to Nature, Zag-
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ter did not say how many
Zairians received the vac-
cine,

Zagury declined to discuss
the letter.

In the letter, the research-
ers said the experiment was
prompted by concern a vac-
cine that activates only one of
two kinds of immune res-
ponse may not be effective
against more than one strain
of the virus.

TWO RESPONSES

The experimental vaccine
was designed to stimulate
not only that kind of response
but also a second, called
cell-mediated response. The
hope is that with this kind of
response, a vaccine would be
effective against more than
one strain.

The experiment used a
génetically altered “vaccinia”
virus, which has also been
used in other kinds of vac-
cines. Researchers insérted a

Christmas.

Who knows where your new-found fitness: may lead?
Maybe you'll run a marathon, finish a triathlon or cycle to
the next town and back, J ,

Sound too easy to be true? Exactly.

Experts have one important piece of advice for those~
trying to make good on their New Year's fitness resolutions:
Go slow. It is possible to make great physical gains through
exercise, but they say that exertion after a long period of
inactivity can be dangerous.

"You didn't get out of shape and overweight in three
weeks,” says Peter Burwash, a Toronto fitness consultant
and author. “My best advice is that you don't try to lose all
that weight and get in shape in three weeks.”

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The good part about a New Year's resolution is that
you'll probably put a lot of effort into making it work. The
bad part is that you'll probably want immediate results.
That's a problem, experts say, because fitness should be
pursued slowly.

“You don’t just jump on your new exercise bike and
pedal like mad,” says Norm Gledhill, an authority on
exercise physiology and chairman of the physical education,
recreation and athletics department at York University in
Toronto.

Gledhill says injuries commonly occur when people rush
into fitness programs without proper preparation and
instruction. And, face it, enthusiasm for exercise fizzles if
you're always waking up with aches the next morning.

“The main thing is no tto overindulge,” says Gledhill.
“Ease into it

Gledhill says anyone older than-65 or unaccustomed to
vigorous exercise should consult a doctor before embarking

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* s Boss told by your doctor that you have heart trouble?

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‘e Felt faint or had spells of severe dizziness?

‘© Been told that your blood pressure is too high?

@ Been told that you have a joint problem, such as
arthritis, that has been aggravated by exercise or might be
made worse by exercise?

~ Any physical reason why you should not follow an
exercise program?

“If you answer affirmatively to any of those questions,
you should consult a doctor before you start exercising,”
Gledhill says.

START SLOWLY

Ideally, during exercise your heart should beat for 20
minutes at 70 per cent of your maximum heart. rate per
minute — your maximum is about 210 minus your age. At
first, however, your target rate and the duratiorf of exercise
should be lower. Still, you should be working out for at least
10 minutes, three times a week.

Although it may seem dull and time-consuming, experts
strongly suggest a warm-up and cool-down’ period
surrounding vigorous exercise.

“The basic, guiding principle is never stop exercising
suddenly,” says Dr. Kenneth Cooper in his book Running
Without Fear. “My experience and the experience of others
indicates that if a heart attack does occur during athletic
activity, approximately half the time it will happen following
vigorous exercise.”

Gledhill says exercise generally should be fun and
painless.

“If you own an exercise bike, put it in front of the TV or
buy a stand so you can read a book as you pedal,” he says.
“And the idea of no-pain, no-gain is not necessarily correct.
You should listen to the sounds of your body. Ifit hurts, back
off.”

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STRATFORD, ONT. (CP)
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the AIDS virus.

The letter also said re
searchers have given a group
of AIDS patients a prepar:
ation designed to induce. a
cell-mediated response
against the virus. The prep:
aration comsists of the flati-
ents’ own..blood cells with
surface proteins that mimic
those of the AIDS virus.

Results will be reported
later, the letter said

robbed a bank and got away
with it, he'd have the money
to pay for medicine to treat
his psoriasis.

said.

“It's already like being in
jail,” said Conroy, who has
spent 10 years in and out of
hospitals being treated for
the ‘skin “disease, which cov-
ets 95 per cent of his body.
with itchy, scaley skin and a
painful red rash.

During a recent interview,

Conroy sat shirtless in the

pants and a baseball cap. He
said he doesn’t wear much
clothing because it gets
stained by the ointments he
must use.

Conroy, 32, must also wear
plastic surgical gloves on his
hands and plastic boots on his
feet. Both are necessary in
the treatment of the disease.

He was first striken with
the disease 10 years ago, af-
ter his father died in a fire in
‘Windsor, Ont. While in hos-
pital for a back injury in 1981,
the condition worsened.

Two years later, Conroy's
wife left him and took their
son, he said.

Each day, Conroy must
take pills and apply ointment
to his skin. But the eight
prescription drugs and three
ointments he relies on aré
just about finished.

body is starting to scale
heavily.”

He said he has a monthly
income of $700 from a dis-
ability pension with London
Life insurance and a con-
tribution from Canada Pen-
sion. His drug bills are about
$933 a month.

Though disabled by the
1981 back injury, he made
ends meet by taking in
boarders at a home he owned
in Stratford. But he had to
sell the house last May to re-
pay $9,000 friends lent him to
help pay his bills.

If Conroy were in hospital,
theOntario Health Insurance
Planwould pay his drug bills.
But he’ said he is happier at
home.

“It'd rather be at home be-
cause I can do the treatments
there,” he said. “I've had it
with hospitals.”

cancer on his fingers. He also
found out he has osteopor-
osis, a bone disease probably
caused by thé drugs.

Since returning to Strat-
ford earlier in the month af-
ter six weeks in hospital, he
has been seeking help with-
out success.

“We have moved heaven
and Earth to find something
for Terry,” said Joe Ver-
berne, Conroy's social work-
er at Strateford General
Hospital. “There's nothing
we haye found yet, but we're
still looking.”

After a visit to welfare of-
fices to check about receiving
a drug card tohelp pay for his
medicine, Conroy was told
his income was too high.

The Canadian Cancer Soci-
ety has offered $6.95 a month
to cover the cost of one drug.

Excess cholesterol linked to
the deaths of 80,000 a year

TORONTO (CP) — At
least a quarter of all adult
Candians have an increased
risk of heart disease because
of high cholesterol levels, and
in many cases even their
doctors are not aware of the
danger, experts say.

Excess cholesterol in the
bloodstream is one of the
principal causes of cardio-

vascular disease, the leading
killer in Canada, which claims
about 80,000 victims a year.
Recent studies show safe
levels of cholesterol in the
bloodstream are much lower
than previously believed, and
experts say many doctors are
unaware of the new research
and are tolerating unsafe
levels in their patients.

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“The proper level now is
something that was unthink-
able a few years ago,” said
Dr. Jiri Frohlich, director of
the lipid clinic at Shaugh-
nessy Hospital in Vancouver.

“Now we think about the
proper level in an adult being
below 200 milligrams per de-
calitre. There is a definite
risk over 220 and there are
recent reports claiming that
your risk of heart attack in-
creases if your level is over

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He said B.C. laboratories
still have normal levels of
cholesterol for adults up to
250 or even 300 milligrams
per decalitre.

“I saw lab

BANK MUSICIANS . . . Kaslo Concert Society
presents “Music From Banft". Pictured above is this
rx trio. (From left) Linda Bardutz (cello) has

een playing professionally since 1976; Erika Lun-

dmark (violin) studied in London and Holland; and
Elizabeth Franzen (piano), is an American native
who began playing piano when just a child.

» — Photo submitted

Kaslo concert ready

On Wednesday, April 8, Kaslo Concert Society will
present its fourth “Music From Banff” concert at 8 p.m. in
Kaslo school,

These concerts are unusual because at the tinie of
booking it is not known who or what the performers will
be other than that it will be a chamber ensemble of three
to six players, These are selected during the course of the
winter from among the young professionals who take a
season off work ‘to study repertoire under a series of
famous teachers at Banff.

One used to wonder whether something worthwhile
would turn up, but after three of these presentations
confidence is building. Only musicians of a very high
standard are admitted by audition to this program, and
those that go on tour are the cream of their group.
Looking back such musicians as pianist Kevin Fitzgerald,
soprano Catherine Lewis, horn player Robert McGosh

and cellist Mark Rudoff were outstanding in their various
ensembles.

This year’s performance is by Erika Lundmark,
violin; Linda Bardutz, cello; and Elizabeth Franzen,
piano. Although making up the standard piano trio, these
performers will play only one trio; otherwise solos and
duos.

The program opens with Schubert's Sonata in A
major for violin and piano. Although an early work, this is
a fully developed sonata in four movements. Next follows
Kodaly’s Duo for violin and cello, opus 7, then Variations
on a theme by Rossini for cello and piano by Martinu.
Then comes Chopin's Ballade in A flat, opus 47, after
which all three players finally get together to play the
Trio in E, upus 67, by Shostakovitch.

This concert is the last in the 1986/87 Kaslo Concert
Series.

Bows in for spring

TORONTO (CP) — Sassy
bows, soft cascades of dots,
luscious lace and tendrils of
tulips will be ‘among the first
signs of spring this year as
women stride into the new
season.

Soft and subtle are the key
looks in hosiery, which is
getting more attention than
ever as skirts shrink to
expose more leg.

“Colors are pastels this
spring — very, very soft pas-
tels, almost muted pastels,”
says Elsa Reia, co-owner of
Leggings, a chain of hosiery
stores in Toronto.

Mesh fabric is still on the
fashion scene as is lace, says
Reia, but the laces continue
the subtle look with goass-
mer-like patterns reminis-
cent of Victorian times.

Stripes are also part of the
season's fashion statement,
including the fine, business-
like pencil stripe on a sheer
background by Calvin Klein.

Sensuous seams are also
appearing in this spring's

hosiery lineup. But they're a
long way from the dark
brown line, on basic beige
that women once had so
much trouble keeping
straight.

This year seams are decor-
ated with a perky single bow
in black or metallic colors,
co-ordinated to their solid
backgrounds — such as yel-
low on yellow — or a jaunty
line of end-to-end diamond
shapes marching up the leg
from heel to thigh.

The other kind of line that
too often goes from ‘heel to
thigh is the age-old run. Leia
says a manufacturers still
have not brought out a 100-
per-cent run-free product,
but the introduction of Lycra
into hosiery fabrics is an im-
portant advance in the in-
dustry.

“Lycra has greater durab-
ility, it retains its shape,” she
says. “It feels nice and
smooth. There's no worry
about sagging, it launders
very well and it's a lot

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stronger than purely nylon
hose.”
" CALL OF WILD

For those about to take off
on a safari or just interested
in keeping up with the latest
fashion trends, designers
have not forgotten livery for
the legs in the Out of Africa
look.

Reia says the calls-of-the-
wild style concentrates on
strong, earthy neutrals in
such colors as putty, khaki,
cream,grey, navy, various
browns and black.

The other big solid color
for spring — including hosi-
ery — is a return to the ‘60s
look of denim.

Leslie Alt, executive co-
ordinator for Secret panty-
hose in Toronto, says the
company has introduced a
whole new line of blues, led
off by a shade called denim,
which she calls “a perfect
match” for the blue denim
clothes crammed on the racks
of retailers this season.

‘FINER THINGS

TORONTO (CP) — Where can you buy @ handpainted
mink? What can you do when your neighbor buys the same
model Mercedes as you? And just why do top-of-the-line
Cuban cigars go for $45 apiece?

‘The answer to these and other questions about the finer ©

" things in life can be found at the Connoisseur Showplace, &

other luxury items and mI

Suitably, the celebrity spokesman for the show is Robin
Leach, host of TV's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

But despite the image e
show, Leach said “you don't have to be rich to enjoy an
improved seale of lifestyle. A connoisseur is anybody and
everybody who wants to improve their lifestyle.”

Beyond the archways of pink and turquoise
aspiring connoisseurs can see the latest in ultra-chie
communications gear — like the Fiero Plus, a “high-styled
memory phone with the sleek lines of a Ferrari.”

TRENDY ITEMS

They can cheek out some trendy itemis in the recreation
field, such as the Buddy Bike, a side-by-side bicycle built for
two.

And they ean find out where to shop for a $4,800 pair of
stereo speakers, a $15,000 marble-topped commode or, for
those who can't afford the $205,000 Lamborghini, where to
rent a Porche for only $250 a day.

As for the hand-painted mink, you can pick one up for a
mere $13,000 to $16,000 at Norman Rogul Furs in Toronto.
The exclusive designs, varying from Oriental and Aztec to
floral, are painted on the suede-like inside of the fur and can
be reversed to be worn on the outside.

“The patterned side becomes a very formal type of
coat,” says Andy Rogul, company vice-president. “A mink
coat you caf wear every day.”

One of the coats will be auctioned with other donated
items to raise money for the Canadian Children's
Foundation. Some of the gate receipts will also be given to
the foundation, which promotes such projects as child-abuse
shelters. .

Imagine the horror of buying a Mercedes and finding
out your neighbor has one exactly like it, No need to hide in
shame — a little bit of custom work it can make it an original.

Wayne Takeuchi of Brabus Autosports of Toronto, said
his firm customizes cars for a lot of doctors, lawyers and
dentists: “All of their friends have Mercedes, Porches, Jags
(Jaguars). They want theirs to look a little bit different.”

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