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.Orono Weely imes, Wednesday, June 18, 1997 -Il INTERACTIVE HEALTH Got a lawnmower that's acting up? A mechanic miglit suggest the need for oil. When your sewing machine begins to malce a racket, what's the solution? Often, a wee drop of oil. Any apparatus com- posed of many well-tooled, integral, machined parts is in constant need of simple, reg- ular maintenance. Without this it cannot possibly per- form at optimal levels. So; - are our bodies any dif- férent? We, too, have tiny, well- tooled parts, each with a well prescribed function, each in need of regular maintenance, for health. We can put to good use the concept of a weli-oliled machine. Cholesterol, tiglcerides. good fats, bad fats, low fat diets, fat-free foods', the lîst goes oni and on. How is one ever to know who to believe. Read on - if you have an interest in well-documented but, until lately, not always available information on the confustng subject of FAT. DID YOU NOW? - that 80% of people who have had heart attacks did not have elevated levels of cholesterol prior to their attack? - that there are fats that heal us and fats that kill? - that 15-20% of our calo- ries, units of heat energy, should comefrorn fats? -the building blocks form- ing the skin around every lit- tde ceil ta our bodies are made from fat in the form of fatty acids? - that reflned dietary sug- ars ti the diet almost always turn into fat, better known as adipose tissue? - essential fatty acids, (we've ail heard the teru) are those we mnust get from our food (our bodies cannot nmake them) in order to be healthy. E.F.A.'s should be about 1i/3 of the total fats consurned? - that fatty acids are com- posed largely of carbon, hydrogen and acid, items basic to life? AWELL-OILED M1ACHINE By Pat I wnLvcet Nutritionist, CertiJied Iridologist Phone: 983-9475 -that dholesterol is essen- Uial for our heaith? The more stress we are under the more dholesterol our bodies make because cholesterol is the precursor of stress hormones. The less dholesterol we con- p sume, the more of it oui- bod- ies produce. -our bodies make sex hor- mones from cholesterol? - oui- bodies make Vitamin D, the suxishine vitamin reg- u-lating phosphorus and cal- cium, from cholesterol? -during pregnancy the plcnaalso makes clioles- terol, from whidh it manufac- tures progesterone. This keeps thle pregniancy frorn being terminated. - cholesterol cannot be broken down in the body and must be removed througli oui- stool. Adequate dietary fibre is vital here. DID YOU KNOW THAT 999 out of 1000 PEOPLE CAN CONTROL THEIR CHOLES- TEROL LEVEL AND CARDIO- VAS CULAR HEALTH BY NUTRITIONAL MEANS ALONE? and >- that polyunsaturated oils are a nutritional mixed bless- Ing? - that in order to tacrease shelf lîfe of many products including oils, nutritional quality is often sacriflced? - Hydrogenation of fats, a process for making shorten- Ings and margarines, pro- duces many altered fat sub- stances and brings rnany food additives tato our diet. Except for the fact that our body does not need it, and it contains some toxins HYDROGENATED FAT IS A MANUFACTU1RER'S DREAM: AN SUNSPOILABLE SUB- STANCE THAT LASTS FOR- EVER For all of your health con- cerns be sure to contact your health care provider. References are available upon request. Biowmnan-%ýviîlle Toastmasters Has anyone ever asked you, "VWhat Makes You You?" Toastmaster Irene Konzelrnann, Chairman, challenged each member to do' some soul seardhing to answer, that question. Answers ranged from family and life experiences to life- long learning., F011 owing up on this theme, Toastmaster Denise Marek, in lier winning speech, incorporated the idea that happiness is a deliber- ate frame of mind. She stressed that tbjoy is to be found in the joumney not at the destination. -Members and guests were treated to an Educational presentation relating to tech- niques for Impromptu Speaking. Our summer meetings will be July 8, 22, August 5, 19. Visitors are welcome at any meeting. No obligation come and see what we're ail about. We meet at "The I)arlington Information Hydro Centre". For more information please calIrene Konzelmiann Orono -983-9423. Arthur Black There is no new thing under the sun Ecclesiastes 1.9 WeIl, begging your pardon. 0 Leamned Scribes, but there is one brand new thing unider the sun. A whole new science, in fact. Mark Hostetier invented it. It's called Splatology. Hostedler is an entomolo- gist with the Department of Zoology at the University of Florida. That means hlecol- lects and studies insects. What separates 'Hostetier from his bug-grubbîng col- leaguesis where he collects bugs. Hostetier serapes bis-spec- imens off windsields. Or col- lects what's left of -thern - after they've gone spiat!, Hence the, 1namae Splatology. His favourite collecting ground - Hostetler's Olduvai Gorge, if you will - is the main bus terminal in Gaineeville, Florida. That's where the big Greyhounds roll in afler driving hundreds of miles across the American south. That would be . . ..the American insect-infested south. Greyhound buses have windshields as big as pool tables, whiceh means that on any given run, those buses um, linterface' with an awful lot of bugs. "During some months," Hostetier recails, -the front end was practical- ly covered with insects! I had a fantastic time collecting specimens." Not that he didn't turnaa few heads in the Gainsvflle Bus Terminal while he was out there, crawling around the front ends of Greyhounds clutching his tweezers and bis specimen jars. Hostetler remembers one kid tugging at his mother's arn and ask- ing "Mommy.. .why is that man scraping bugs off the windshield? Is lie crazy?" Crazy, no ... . definitely touched. Hostetier undeni- ably caugit the bug' bug. H1e decided that the Gainseville Bus Terminal wasn't enougli. He had to go out there li the North American wildemness and meet those insects on their own turf. And s0 in the summer of '94, Hostetler set out on a cross-continient tour in bis 1984 Honda, specially rigged up with a catch sheet to trap the carcasses of tnsects that ricodheted off the wlndshield. Hostetler piloted bis mobile bug catcher from Florida up to Massachusetts, then west to Detroit and Chicago, up to South, Dakota, across to SeattIe,ý north to Vancouver and then down to California, -ýParrsthe southern 1U-S, prairies: through swamp- lands and suburbs. As you can Imagine, lie hit a lot of bugs along the way. So many, in fact, that they inspired a book. It's called That Gunk On Your Car and it's dedicated to the proposi- tion that ail those buigs that go splat on your windsield are worht more thani a muttered curse and a quick spritz with the windshi1eld washer. For one thing, accoridng to Hostetier, each bu g produces it's own, species- distinctive splat. Mosquitoes usually leave a small grey-black dot. If ther e's a spot of blood ta it -- congratulations! You've taken out a femaie mosquito- (they're the ones who bits us humans). Butterfiies and moths go out with a thick white or yellow gunky splat. And that's enougli of that. Suffice to say that Hostetier bas compiled characteristic bug-spiat images for 25 dif- ferent kinds of insects rang- ing from flying ants to mole crickets. And why? Why would a guy choosèî to spend bis spare Urne analyzing insect impact patterns on windshields when lie could be running for office, selling crack or writing advertising copy for hemor- rhoid creains? A nature writer by the namne of Fred Kauffmnan puts 1it perfectly:. "Hostetier shows that 'gunk' is not junk' says- Kauffmnan, 'but a whole uni- verse of small and fascinat- ing creatures. We get to know ail about the unlikely hitch- bikers we collect on long car trips." Exactly. Hostetler's book opens our eyes to the uni- verse within that speck on the windshield. That Gunk On. Your Car by Mark Hostetier ISBN 0- 9653788-0-2 KENDAL ORANGE HALL 15 Church St., Kendal T U"ES DAY Starting May 6th - 7:90 p.m. Everyone Welconze! 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