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PAGE 14, WIIITY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAIRY 20,1991 Living acie yosingwe4igh (NC>-Getting fit and Iosing weight are popular activitics with many Canadians. Some people launch a new activity program as often as three or four times a year. And there are' others who go on a diet so often and lose so much weight that it's surprising the' "re stili with us! CW' One-button operation Gx Pocket size Cx 50'second test lime GW New user's video tape LAB"Save $35 on Glucometer® GX* PRICE $129 MUFACTURERS REBATE Pluùs additional $25 salvings!* When you buy a GX meter we'11 rebate you an additional $25 if you purchase one bottie of 100 Glucostix(m or two packages of foil-wrapped 50's. Corne into our store and pick UPo a coupon today for this limited time cash back offcr from Miles Canada Inc. AVAILABLE AT: Dundas-Centre Brooklin Guardian Drugs I.D.A. Pharmacy 220 Dundas St. W. 65 Baldwin St. Whitby Brooklin 430-2999 655-3301 -REBATE OUOS A IBEA AR C' * O/fer val id unltil March 31, 1991 Darren Vine, B.Sc, PT. Registered Physical Therapist is pleased to announce the opening of (An aàpproved W.Cý.B. community dm10i) 1400 Ritson Rd. Nu Oshawa.*432uý91 00 SERVICES OFFERED: *Orthopedic & Sports Physiotherapy WlInjury Recove!y Programs *Injury Prevention Education 0 WrkFitness Hours: Monday-Friday 8 A.M. - 6 P.M.. N With support from the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute (a national agency supported by Fitness Canada), D r. Elizabeth Ready and her partners at the University of Manitoba have been studying activity and *weight control, especially in middle-àged women. Dr. Ready's research-along with the 'work of other specialiss-offers heiplul information for those who would like to become more active or lose some weight. Here are afew suggestions: *Go for active living. Few people stick with an activity just because it's good for them. Walking, gardening, cycling, and swimming are ail popular activities with Canadians. You don't have to take up a vigorous activity like running or join an exercise class to improve your health -or lose weight. Pursue activities you enjoy and space them comfortably throughout your day. Little things do add up! -Be consistent. Occasional activity isn't enough. Mix and match' your activities to suit your schedule, but try to be active just about every day. LIFESTYLE TIPS *Look a' t your eating habits. A weight-loss program that includes a change in diet and regular physical activity brings the best resuits. Most of us could improve our eating habits- reducing the amount of saturated fats we eat,- for example-whether we need to lose, weight or not. If you have questions about your diet, talk to a registered dietitian. -Be patient. You can catch the "feelin' good" feeling that cornes with physical activity pretty quickly. But it takes time tolose weight...so be patient. This is particularly true for women if the extra fat is in the fower body. (Fat carried here seems to be more resistant to loss through physîcal activity than fat in the stomach area.) *Don't be duped. Years ago, mas- sagers and 'giggly beits' were popular with some people as "quick,' no-effort ways" to get fit or lose, weight. The current rage is continuous ýpassive motion (CPM) tables-or toning tables as they are called ini some establish- ments. While CPM tables have value In certain therapy and rehabilitation programs, they have littie to offer healthy aduits. A review in The Physician and Sportsmedicine, a respected professional, journal, dismisses the--use 'of CPM tables saying, "They combine the myth of spot reduction with the myth of passive exercise." There are no exercises you can do that will guarantee losing weight in certain spots, let alone have a machine do il for you. .Whether you want tobecome m ore active or lose fat (or both), what you're really doing is developing new, more healthful habits. In your efforts, keep Mark Twain's wise advice in mind.- 'Habit is' habit," he said, "not to be flung out tie window. by anyone, but NO coaxed downstairs a step at a time." Even small arno'unt ot alc'oholý disturbs sleep, rsearch tinds By Lorraine Brown Having a drink bufore you go to bed migbî help you nod off (aster,1 but il is likely 10 disturb your slecp later on in the night, says a psychology professor at Queen's University in Kingston. Dr. Alistair MacLean found that as uie as two drinks taken rdgbt before ggig 10 bed increases 'slow-wave'- sleep, a deep sleep i which we do not drearn early in the night, but disturbr, jt, later on. At the saine turne,* it s uppresses REM sleep ('rapid eye movement' sleep, the shallower sleep during which we dreain) early in the nigh:, and increases it later on. MacLean explains that normally one has more slow-wave slecp in the early part of the night, and more REM later on. So alcohol follows the nonmal pattem of sleep, but exaggerates. it. The overali effect is disturbed sleep. Tlhere ta also evidence that in alcohol witbdrawal, shifts fmom REM slcep to00*1er stages of sléep - a lime wvhen, the sîceper may become restless or c'ven wake up -- become more frequent. Like many other 'drugs, acool, produc es a dual,'rebound'.effect on the body.* it bas one-effect when firat' taken, but an opposite effeci later on. Why is stili a mystery: more rcsearc is necded inb alcohols biochemical clîccis on the body. "Alcohol seemrs to affect the metabolic or biochemnical mechanisms that control sloep," says MâcLean. >Alcohol acis primarily as a dcpressant or hypnoîic; hence its initial fccî t of encouraging sleep. MacLean says. Howvever, the 'rebound' results in disturbed sleep. Whilc alcohol influences both slow- wa've and REM slccp, MacLean thinks its effeci on slowv-wavc sleep is more significant, partly because slow-wave slecp may be a much more important index ,of how well were funcîioning than REM sleep. For example, alcoholics who stop'drining and re- ebiablish normal slow-wavc sleep tend to be healthier ihan those who stop drinking but continue to have slow- wave slccp disturbarîces. If one is going to have a drink before going 10 bed; the bcsi choioe ~might be. vodka.,spys MacLean. The alcohol cYnpônçnt,-'f voda is. vety close to,.pitre ethyl 'alcohol, wbich consists of a shgort9,, tWo-hain' carbon moiccule. Vodk-a, contains no 'congeners'. - the dcrsntnis and loge aloehol moleçulèsthat give < dr yeýfbeverages. ad sie Scotch ".brandy, their unique taste and colour. Congeers especialy the longer alcohol moîccules, play a major role *0 a beverage% potency and, its ability Io disturb sleep, becas e of the way the body breaks thern dowo, Týhese long molecules gel metabolized by the body fist, and tend to blockor prïolong the breakdowno f simpler alcbols such as ethyl alcohol. In orderIoelininate theeffects of the' congeners mnd determin the effect of straight alcohol on sleep, MacLean tested student subjects with pure ethyl alcohol in orange' juice and with Scotch'. The pure alcohol'did disturb their slecp, but'less tIbm Scotch did. In spite of MacLean's researchb findings, many people bulieve that having a drink before going 10, bed will belp *1cm sleep better, and the practice is quite common. (03 ',ws n SPECIAL REBATE OFFER FOR DIABETICS m Eim-ýe-Mffl a