GET READY FOR BATHING SUIT SEASON Fll kESS EXP, SFR 1=7 Saturday, March 23, 1996 at Troy's Somerset Inn 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Achieve your life-long fitness and health goals by attending Fitness Explosion by Intentional Health, Inc. Lectures and programs hosted by fitness experts will teach you to lose weight effortlessly, find the right exercise program to give you the body you want, and provide information on managing a healthy lifestyle. PROGRAMS INCLUDE: • Intentional Health Inc.'s Complete Fitness Workshop • Low Impact Aerobics • Body Sculpting • Walk Your Way to Fitness • Country Western Line Dancing • Nutrition Made Easy LECTURES TO GET YOU FIT AND KEEP YOU HEALTHY INCLUDE: • A psychologist speaks on body image - what is realistic? • A physician specializing in sports medicine discusses getting started on an exercise program - safely • A Chiropractic _physician will teach techniques on lowering stress with Pressure Point Therapy. • Low Fat Cuisine/Easy, Creative Menus. The cost for Fitness Explosion is $125.00 per person for advanced registration and $150.00 per person for walk-ins. Participants must register by Wednesday, March 13 to receive the $125.00 rate. Registration fee includes a continental breakfast, low fat luncheon and a healthy mid-afternoon snack. Fitness classes, lectures, and educational programs are included in the fee. Wear comfortable clothing and the appropriate shoes and be ready to get fit! ir:amimitizetr.m 4 • For More Information Call: (810) 788-2964 Send Checks To: Intentional Health Inc. • P.O. Box 251781 • West Bloomfield, MI 48325 Weight Management Join The Program — We're having GREAT Success. A Little Signal Is Cause For Alarm DR. MARSHALL FRANKLIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ack "Deep Threat" Phillips was referred to me after he fainted at a football game. He wasn't in the stands; he was on the field, racing to catch a long pass that would win the game for his high school. "I saw the ball until it hit my hands," he said. "I thought I had it. Things turned gray and then black. They told me I passed out, but I don't remember it." Jack was a wide receiver and got his nickname by "going deep" to make the big play. He was a standout at a local high school and was finishing his senior year. He was looking forward to a pro- ductive college career and then to professional football. Colleges from all over the country were trying to recruit him. Jack's parents had known of a heart murmur since he was lit- tle. They told me he never had rheumatic fever or any other se- rious illness. He was always the fastest and best at almost any athletic game he tried. He wasn't much of a scholar, but no one worried about that because his future was in sports. As time went on, physicians continued to hear the heart mur- mur, but because of Jack's out- standing prowess, no one felt it was a deterrent to his playing sports. As I examined Jack, he said he felt a little fatigue during the past year. On a couple of occasions he felt lightheaded after a long run at top speed. He was fast enough that he didn't have to push him- self that hard to outrun most of the defensive backs who tried to cover him in high school. j I listened to Jack's murmur. When he was lying quietly, the murmur was unimpressive. When he stood up, however, it got a little louder, and after running in place, it was even louder. Jack had what sounded like an inno- cent murmur at rest, but it as- < sumed pathologic proportions under stress. I notified Jack's parents of my findings and recommended some follow-up studies, including an echocardiogram. An echocardio- gram utilizes a sonar array to visualize a moving outline of the heart. With it, one can see a two- dimensional view of the heart walls and changers, the heart valves and with the addition of Doppler wave analysis — detect directional blood flow. It is truly an amazing diagnostic instru- ment, and it is totally safe. Initially, Jack's parents re- fused the echocardiogram on the grounds it might jeopardize a col- lege scholarship. They knew he had a normal chest X-ray and ar- gued that should be enough to clear him to finish the one game left in the season. They insisted his evaluation could wait until af- ter he had obtained his scholar- ship. I try not to be an alarmist, but the possibility existed that Jack might have a potentially fatal heart condition. Jack might have something we call hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the thickening and stiffness of the walls of the heart. It predisposes to serious H irregularities of the heartbeat, es- pecially under physical and emo- tional stress. It is one of the more common causes of sudden death HEALTH WATCH Diet and Pharmacologic Appetite Suppression on an individual basis with an internal Medicine Specialist 1996 estimated cancer deaths Dr. Donald L. 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