Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Tempo Section Gail b1 Jan Gay by Paul Mckie staff reporter seminars attract overflow crowds As experts offer advice exercising with weights and resolving Back prob lems caused by Calcium deficiency Are All part of the burgeoning area of health concerns specifically related to not Only is the healthcare system special izing in providing specific types of health care in those but women themselves Are expressing a keen desire for How keen when the health sciences Centre has held special seminars on various women health its had to turned peo ple in october a talk on menopause was attended by 700 one Hundred others were turned a Daylong seminar on women health issues held in the fall of 1993 attracted a capacity audience of with 125 other peo ple put on a waiting those people have first shot at the newest women health on starting at 9 in the Basic medical sciences building at the registration is and seating is limited to for Call at the several experts on various health concerns relating to women will lec Ture on topics ranging from osteoporosis to the free press asked some of those experts to talk about some of the misconceptions and realities of each of their areas of exercise one of the biggest myths about exercising is that if you cant stick to a regular you May As Well not not says Michelle program director at the Kinsman refit she says in the exercise was recommended at least three times a week for 20 minutes a but theres a recognition now that hectic lifestyles especially for women who work outside the Home mean regular exercise can be now were saying just try to be says one Type of exercise Meade recommends is weight she says there Are myths that women who weight train will look mus like Arnold they have to understand its resistance she Meade says women dont have to Bench press 68 she says lifting something As Light As kilo Grams can do Good if the exercises Are done and weight lifting actually helps increase Calcium deposits on the ovarian cancer there Are Many misconceptions about this says Garry head of obstetrics at Hsc and head of the obstetrics depart ment at the University of the big he is that ovarian can cer can be detected by a Pap it in Repart says detection of this illness is nearly that the big theres virtually no Good screening for he another myth about the disease is that birth control pills increase the in says the Pill decreases the Inci people also think you cant inherit the Dis Repart says this is if a woman Mother and or Mother and sister had ovarian cancer then chances Are 50 per cent Shell get Repart says if a woman Falls into this ovaries Are removed just to be on the Safe nutrition getting women to eat a Well balanced diet can be a prob Lem in a world where images of Elle Macpherson and Claudia Schiffer bombard the Wendy clinical dietitian at the women sees a lot of fad diets this time of she cautions that the Best Way to reduce weight is through a balanced diet and slow weight Borody int concerned with body her interest is in women having a body weight that is healthy so they maintain Good cardiovascular you dont need to think of nutrition As she Peanut butter Sand a Glass of milk and some fruit make a nutritious Borody even pizza is a Good nutritious menopause people Are faced with so much information and misinformation about they dont know which Way to says Richard director of Day surgery and family planning at the women Hospital and chief of gynaecology at but he Doest necessarily see that As he thinks women Are now actively seeking information about menopause and its Atten Dant medical there Are genuine health risks for menopausal and postmenopausal women things like heart strokes and Osseo but Boroditsky Calls it the epidemic of the worried healthy women concerned about what might that Why seminars on menopause Are so Well he says its up to women to and seminars can help empower women to make a decision that right for Ken i Oliotti Winnipeg free press my Job is to give information to patients and give risk he he adds its not his Job to push hormones on a he says that of the women who go on hormone 50 per cent quit in six months because of things Treyve heard about the that Why he wants women to be informed so that when they make a decision on hormone there doing it with the proper information at breast cancer ten years the detection of breast cancer might have meant a Radical Mastectomy removal of and part of the Chest but now three Basic characteristics of the disease have changed approaches to attacking says Harvey head of he otology and oncology at Boniface general and an associate professor of Medicine at the University of Schipper says it is now known the tumor has the ability to it can grow beyond the area of the body in which it is first detect and it can set up in another part of the body it can it has a particular pattern it can its systemic from Day he removal of the breast or partial removal Are the common surgical proce Schipper says the difference Between the two often depends on the woman Schipper says self examination of the breast is still Worth he says he tells you Are the worlds leading expert on your he says that while there int firm information that Early detection through Selfe Ami nation helps in the Long the procedure is but he says women be Over anxious about the risk of breast he mentions one patient who checked her breast three times he says even if you find a the chances Are Remote that its caused by can your assignment try to help Bentley today topic is about a bad a very bad and your if you choose to read is to gather your thoughts when youve finished put them Down on paper and Send them to Basi i want you to share your ideas on what can be done about a Twoy Earold German Short haired you Bentley is a very bad he is to canines what the Power rangers Are to childrens and what Saddam Hussein is to world to Hes crashed through four Glass Hes destroyed Worth of custom vertical Hes torn up Wall Towall carpeting in the Hes ripped up so Many packages of garbage bags that his master Brad Bayer has lost he Doest eat the Bayer says in Bentley he just scatters it around the pet perfect Bruce Owen once and this is really weird Bentley climbed up on Bayers slate Pool table and relieved him because this is a family lets just say it sort of rhymed with its Bayer describing his dogs behave but the fact is Hes not that bad to i keep thinking one Day ill figure him out and Well have his Day of Bayer has taken Bentley to the vet Monique Brison of the South end veterinary Hospital to see if she could get inside Bentley head and figure out his As it turns Bentley does have a its called separation meaning that when Bayer leaves Bentley alone at Bentley goes even when Bayer gets up and goes to another Bentley cries and follows him for some something in Bentley head compels him to be with Bayer All the time and to do some very bad things when Bayer leaves him its As if Hes challenging Bayer Hes telling me that if i that Hes going to do and he Doest care if he gets Bentley gets a couple of Long walks a Day and Hes got lots of room inside and out to Romp so the problem int a Lack of Bayer has also tried crating but the dog started chewing his Hind quarters when inside his causing him even More Bentley is also Obe Brison has told Bayer to try to reduce his emotional attachment Bayer with Bentley dont mess with his Pool ipes free press with like not giving him so much Bayer even stopped letting Bentley sleep in his that made some differ ence in Bentley but not a Bayer adds that he got Bentley from the humane society and owner was Overly strict with whether that a Factor in Bent Leys no one what Bayer does know is that when Bentley is left alone with another Hes Bentley is quite aloof and i feel that his previous owner gave he has slowly grown to Trust and love no kisses yet but i refuse to give up on so what can Bayer do there is medication available that May control Bentley but it could have Side effects and change positive Points of his per if you have any other Send them to me at the address ill share them in a later Many pets suffer from stress related so by creating a forum we May be Able to help Bentley and his canine and feline Brison stresses that each Situa Tion is and if your pet exhibits this Type of severe youll get the Best result by talking to your own Send me your thoughts by fax ins me at 6977412 or dropping a note in the the address is the Winnipeg free 1355 Fountain ;