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Tuesday, August 27, 1996

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1500 Town Center Dr. - Southfield

6:00 p.m.

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Fitness Forum

JACK WILLIAMS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

FORGETFUL BOOMER?
Stress can do it. So can lack of
sleep and certain prescription
medications. All, it seems, are con-
spiratorial culprits in memory fail-
ure, a condition that seems to
creep up like middle age.
Americans as young as 35 are
forgetting more and concentrat-
ing less, according to a national
survey of physicians by Pharma-
ton, a natural health products
company in Ridgefield, Conn.
`It's not uncommon today to hear
baby boomers complain that they
can't remember what they had for
dinner the night before, or that
their attention span isn't what it
once was,' said Dr. Paul J. Rosch,
clinical professor of medicine and
psychiatry at New York Medical
College.
Because poor nutrition can im-
pair memory, some of those for-
getful boomers might be vitamin
deficient. Or, worse yet, alcohol-
impaired.
Longevity magazine reports that
an English study showed dieters'
performance levels on memory
tests and other parameters of
mental ability were equal to those
of non-dieters who had consumed
two alcoholic drinks.
Stress is the most common ex-
cuse for memory loss, according
to the physicians polled by Phar-
maton.
And there's a gender component:
Men seem to be more at risk of
memory failure than women, said
the pollsters.
In any case, aerobic exercise is
one of nature's most formidable
foes of stress. It burns off excess
adrenaline and other hormones
that accumulate in tension-racked
bodies, according to research at
the Cooper Clinic Aerobics Cen-
ter in Dallas
For a free Pharmaton brochure,
"10 Tips for Improving Memory
and Concentration," call (800) 446-
5622.

CHOOSE JUICE
Sometime in the future, physi-
cians may start prescribing grape-
fruit juice to wash down certain
oral medications.
Researchers at the University
of Michigan say they are trying to
find out why grapefruit juice in-
creases the body's ability to ab-
sorb such medications, including
blood pressure drugs.
Such a finding could have a pro-
found effect inasmuch as many
medications are not fully absorbed
by the digestive tract, said Dr.
Paul B. Watkins, director of
Michigan's General Clinical Re-
search Center.
Watkins said grapefruit juice
seems to override an enzyme in
the intestine that normally regu-

lates the absorption of drugs into
the body.
While cautioning that more
studies are needed to confirm
grapefruit juice's therapeutic ef-
fects, Watkins said, "If we can har-
ness the power of the grapefruit,
we believe that it will change the
way we all take drugs in the fu-
ture."

DOCTOR'S LAMENT
Take it from America's foremost
marathoner, who also happens to
be a few weeks from earning his
medical degree: The heroic feat of
running 26.2 miles can be haz-
ardous to your health.
Bob Kempainen, a 29-year-old
University of Minnesota medical
student, might have kept up a tor-
rid pace in winning the U.S.
Olympic Trials marathon — —
but he couldn't keep down his
lunch, as viewers of the national-
ly televised event can attest.
Gastronomical comeuppance
agide, however, Kempainen's case
against the marathon is based on
bones and tendons.
`I can't imagine it being good for
anyone,' he said after his 2:12:45
victory in sub-30-degree. temper-
atures.
`It really beats up your body. I
was real sore all through the race.
Every time my foot hit the ground,
I felt it all through my body.
need six or seven weeks to re-
cover from this race. But people
who run the marathon are tough,
unafraid to inflict pain on them-
selves or others.'

HEALING HANDS
Women plagued by bulimia, the
eating disorder characterized by
bingeing and purging, may find
a helping hand in massage ther-
apy.
Massages apparently help such
women, who often are depressed
and suffer from poor self-image,
to be more comfortable with their
bodies, Florida researchers report.
In the study of 24 bulimic
women, those receiving massage
therapy were less depressed and
less anxious than bulimic women
who received standard therapy,
according to researchers at the
University of Miami Medical
School's Touch Research Institute.
Women given massages in the
study scored lower on depression
tests, had lower levels of stress
hormones and showed better at-
titudes about their eating disor-
ders than the bulimic women who
did not receive massages.
While not confined to women,
bulimia may affect as many as 4
percent of females ages 15
through 24, studies show.
Jack Williams writes for Copley
News Service.

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