Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba B4 Winnipeg free press september Tempo Gail living without meat menus Tough for vegetarians trying to steer healthy diet course by John Lyons staff writer Lenore Ozolins has changed her Way of thinking about meat since that fateful Day three years ago when the idealistic 18yearold became a but she still wont eat i went through the stage where we should All live in mud huts and save the Twenty pounds of Grain is needed to make one Pound of Ive gotten Ive found that beef and cattle Are Good for the so Why am i still a vegetarian i really cant maybe because a Way of in not Comfort Able with meat Ozolins says Shes in better shape now that she Doest eat yet she concedes that she gets tired quicker when doing physical exercise or she says she is careful to Monitor her diet to make sure Shes getting a properly balanced some thing she suspects Many other teenage vegetarians dont the problem with teens is that they think they can solve the worlds problems by becoming a but you can just Arndke yourself says the University of Winnipeg its Fine to take a social but if youre not youre not accomplishing any Vivian an associate pro Fessor of foods and nutrition at the1 University of says people can make themselves sick by attempting to become vege simply dropping meat from your she int the Way to do it takes a lot of knowledge and a lot of says they have to know How to Combine cereals and grains in a Way that meets their nutritional Low in fats diet tends to be Low in so you have to make it up with then can you meet the protein require ments by combining the right cereals is a teenager going to Combine All of that i dont you might be talking about peo ple with Low protein maybe they think there Ozolins believes Many teens at least flirt with vegetarianism because of concerns for their personal or Over the health of the she herself didst quit eating meat in Isola Tion five other friends gave it up at the same Ozolins remains the last Ellen Public nutritionist with the City of win says teens generally become vegetarians for a limited number of one of the common reasons is concern about the sometimes it is a concern about chronic like cardiovascular disease and cancer some times like the think meat causes these and that not it can also be symbolic of an eating often the first food they eliminate is red if i were a i would want to be comfortable with the reasons my child wanted to enter this Ozolins says her Mother was comfortable with perhaps because her older brother had already tried vegetarian there has been give and take on both sides Ozolins says she has persuaded her Mother to reduce her intake of red meat her Mother makes her read Arti cles stressing the importance of Shes pretty As Long Asim taking care of myself and in not eating too much of one thing and not enough of Ozolins balance essential the proper balance is essential to Bruce teenage years Are a tremendous period of there is a tremendous increase in height and Bone growth and muscle the requirement for Calcium is the Iron requirement is the Iron requirement for girls is even the Best source of Iron is red Vogel agrees that it can be difficult to eat vegetarian and to do it if an individual is following a vegetarian diet and Treyve done the research and had some professional coun then theres certainly nothing unhealthy about the concern is when people follow that diet and dont do it proper for the hardest part of becoming a vegetarian was eat ing in at first its you dont realize How much meat you eat until you give it a lot of the problem at restau rants is the ingredients Are not so you have to go ask about each the waiter is Why Are you making my life miserable often the waiter int even sure whats in women workshop planned by Manfred Jager staff writer a group of Winnipeg women has organized a on Day health and Well Ness workshop to keep women talking with each the which will Deal with things such As stress Man sexual health service awareness and Community takes place on 26 at Harbour View Kiliona participants will pay to Register for the Harriet a member of women in Community Leader ship who Are sponsoring the says women need an event like this More than women in today society need More Opportunity to get to Gether and share ideas and do the number women in the workforce is still the various de mands on these Munfor Are still largely an unknown says the idea for a conference resulted from an informal meet ing of a group of professional women earlier this that we got together to talk about professional develop then some of us decided to go a step further and Orga Nize something on the Broad aspects of health and says a research officer with the Manitoba sports fed she adds that one goal of the workshop is to make it easier for women to do their network ing and improve their coping skills in the sexual harassment topics to be discussed in clude recognizing and dealing with sexual harassment being a Good health service consumer reaping the physical and emotional benefits of exer Cise weight preoccupation stress and anxiety manage and dietary speakers include nursing coordinator Gayle Paddy Loe of the Manitoba human rights an official from the women health Vivienne to Hen of the stress and anxiety clinic and Theresa assistant Deputy minister of the women women need coping Strate Gies More today than says though Only a few women worked for a living 20 years there expected to have All the do everything for themselves and those around them be an pm a a a child of their own parents and assist As their parents get old she for More tact women in Community 250 Dogwood r2g play the top 10 billboards contest and win Perry Ferguson c pictured with Joe the prize Guy l and Tom Mcgouran was a Lucky Dollar Winner in the classic Rock pm top 10 billboards listen to classic Rock pm for contest details you could be one great classic Rock track after another e classic less ;