SINAI HOSPITAL

Health Watch:
Ways To Stay Healthy

The Cancer Counseling Program Presents: The Art of
Living Retreat at the Butzel Conference Center on
Sunday, September 8, 1996 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The retreat is co-sponsored by Sinai Hospital's Hank
Greenberg Oncology Fund, and the American Cancer
Society, Michigan Division, Inc.

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A number of options for enhancing quality of life in spite
of cancer will be explored including; music therapy,
creative writing, art therapy, stress reduction methods
and Tai Chi. All methods of healing offered are meant to
augment traditional cancer treatments are designed with
the total person in mind.

To register please call 313-493-6507.

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ids (and many adults) love
to bounce on a trampoline,
but the possible injuries
can be any parent's worst
nightmare.
More than 40,000 children un-
der 15 were treated at hospital
emergency rooms in 1994 for
trampoline-related injuries. Fore-
arm fractures were the most
common injury, followed by bro-
. ken shins and fractured elbows,
according to a new study.
"Fully one-third of the children
were stretching their arm out to
break a fall and landed on the
arm, breaking it between the
wrist and elbow," says Dr. R.
Dale Blasier, director of pediatric
orthopedic traumatology at
Arkansas Children's Hospital in
Little Rock.
"Smaller children — those
younger than 8 years
old — tend to fracture
their proximal tibia
(shin) when the
bouncing trampoline
mat caught them off-
guard."
Daring kids who at-
tempt flips and som-
ersaults can bounce 8
to 10 feet into the air.
"If they miss land-
ing properly, they ei-
ther become a
projectile onto those
standing nearby,"
says Dr. Blasier, "or
they sustain a 13-foot
fall."
Aside from getting
rid of the fun but dan-
gerous contraption,
parents can do two
things to make tram-
poline play safer. 1) Al-
ways supervise
children while playing
on a trampoline, and
2) Never allow two or
more kids to bounce on
a trampoline at the
same time.
"The youngsters often will be
jumping out of sync, and as a re-
sult, the trampoline mat spring-
ing up in reaction to one child's
bounce might catch another
jumper at the wrong time," says
Dr. Blasier.

• Instead of one whole egg, use
two egg whites and save 47 calo-
ries.
• Use Neufchatel cheese instead
of cream cheese and save 24 calo-
ries per ounce.
• Replace ricotta cheese with 1
percent cottage cheese and save
52 calories per cup.
• Use low-fat yogurt in place of
sour cream and save 172 calories
per cup.
Can't live without chocolate?
Use chocolate syrup instead of
fudge sauce. You'll save 4 grams
of fat and 32 calories per 2-ta-
blespoon serving. For a creamy
salad dressing, combine nonfat
yogurt, Dijon mustard and spices.

LABEL LOGIC

The plethora of over-the-counter
drugs that once required a doc-

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TRIM THE FAT

If you need to whittle some fat
from your waist, consider mak-
ing a few dietary substitutions to
save calories without sacrificing
flavor:
• Use skim milk instead of whole
milk and save 64 calories per cup.

Alison Ashton is a writer for

Copley News Service.

tor's prescription has pharma-
cists concerned that patients are
self-medicating without really
understanding the medications.
That's why Janet Engle, act-
ing associate dean at the Uni-
versity of Illinois at Chicago
College of Pharmacy, recently
testified before a Food and Drug
Administration panel to call for
standardized over-the-counter
drug labeling.
"For many products, the in-
formation that is consistently
presented is the brand name and
design of the product," says En-
gle. "Just as Kleenex is now a
universal term for facial tissues,

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