Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Tempo Section Gail c1 january layered clothing is what the bes dressed outdoors enthusiast wears and dont Wear anything too outdoor Winter exercise healthy with proper precautions y by Paul Mckie staff reporter Doest look quite human As it moves toward its head is shrouded in a Hood and the face covering almost entirely White from its Frozen and its wearing of the seemingly Gen de Neutral figure is just another one of those fitness nuts out run Ning in the dead of Winter when its gulping Arctic air All in name of getting what a you it turns out the real morons May be those of us who sit on our backsides All making fun of these Winter ath letes with the Frozen experts say that not Only is run Ning outdoors not but being Active outside is a Good As Long As you go about it biggest concern Gordon a University of Manitoba says exercising outdoors is Good for albeit a different expert but precautions must be his biggest he is with the occasional win Ter the regular Winter Jogger already knows what must be one of the most common mis conceptions about Winter jogging is that inhaling All that frigid air is injurious to the Wayne of the pan am sports Medicine says the air is heated when you breathe it so it int the same temperature As the outside he says you can increase the heat if you Wear a mask when you Cross country ski or moist air gets trapped in the mask when you exhale and gets pulled in again with the colder air when you breathe Giesbrecht says the worst that can happen from breathing in cold air is some minor irritation to the but no he says Hes reviewed the research and theres no Way anyone can freeze their lungs by running or exercising in the so now that its established that you can exercise out certain approaches and precautions should be Giesbrecht has special words for those of you who have decided to Start an exercise program outdoors As part of a new years keep it keep it the same he says of Winter Start Short and work your Way he recommends starting at sessions of 10 to 15 minutes Long stick to slowed if pos Hildahl warns even if youre a seasoned a two Kilometre run in the Winter is totally differ ent from a two Kilometre sum Mer its a different Type of run the Slipperiness of the streets and All the Snow makes the gait he another says Gies is that Many run ners or even skaters dont do any stretching exercises before they because its no one wants to stand around and Giesbrecht says the inclination is to Start working out and build up that heat As quickly As of is the you want to have As much As you can when youre engaged in outdoor and what you you want to Giesbrecht and Hildahl say its All in the Giesbrecht says when most people Start they have on lots of clothing which they remove As they Progress through the work out and get heated in he says the opposite should be Hildahl agrees you should Start off with what you think youll need to Wear when your activity is at its As they slow they can put the clothing Back he layered clothing is always the Best dressing approach to he and dont Wear anything that too the idea is to have pockets of air which can act As you also dont want your sweat to freeze when your activity has Many athletic clothing stores sell Long underwear made from which keeps the body lets the skin breathe and allows moisture to evaporate from the skin so it wont athletes Wear Sells underwear such As that starting at about Bottoms and tops sold separate its the frostbite in most concerned whether its the feet or the says who cautions outdoors buffs to be wary of High windchill the extremities cause the greatest discomfort if not protected Many of us wont go out because of the risk of cold to exposed Hildahl warns that frostbite in childrens devel Oping hands and feet is most Seri masks ear bands or masks Are the things to he equally important Are Good socks and special ski masks can be bought at sporting Good stores starting at athletes for Sells sock and Mitten liners to put under existing apparel for extra warmth and too Many pairs of socks can actually make your feet warns the important thing is to have some room in your socks for insulating if you Jam your feet into ski boots or runners with several pairs of you defeat the blood flow is delivering heat to that part of the Gies Brecht a tight fit not Only robs insulation it constricts the blood none of this is of much help to outdoor those tight skates make toes susceptible to the great win try outdoors rather skates Are a disaster because theres no insulation in them and they have to be laced says if you he advises you Wear skates that Are a Little on the Large size Wear a thick pair of socks in Giesbrecht does have one word of warning about exercising out Side cold air in the lungs can be harmful for people where the cold air causes cold air Doest cause colds or he but it can reduce the body especially if you have Damp clothing says dont let the cold keep you research clears Dairy items of bad rap this i have Good news for those who share a love for ice Frozen cheese and other Dairy every More than North americans who develop kidney stones Are told to avoid these a study from Harvard University shows doctors have been giving the wrong advice about the products of Dairy four out of five kidney stones contain this fact prompted doctors to advise patients with kidney stones to decrease their consumption of Dairy prod even though a 1993 report from Harvard there is no evidence that a Large intake of Dairy products promotes kidney Stone but recent evidence prompted Harvard researchers to renew their claim that it int the hens and cows who Are the bad so what is it a study of men showed those who consumed the highest amounts of Calcium were on third less Likely to develop a kid Ney Stone during the next four years than those who consumed the smallest amounts 4 the doctor game Gifford the difference in Calcium consumption Between these two groups was the equivalent to two glasses of milk a Mother was right once again when she drink your a renal Stone is a hardened Mineral it starts As a microscopic particle in the lining of the kidney and gradually during a period of months or into a visible Stone found renal stones have never heard of sexual eighty per cent occur in Treyve also been with us a Long a Stone was found in the mummified Corpse of an egyptian who lived about there Are several types of eighty per cent consist of Calcium oxalate and Calcium while 10 per cent Are composed of uric men with gout Are particularly prone to this Stur Vite stones account for the final 10 per and Are due to bacteria that make urine creating an Ideal condition for stones to the first indication of trouble May be blood in the resulting from the chronic irritation of the or its con Stant presence May trigger urinary infection associated with frequent and painful the worst scenario is renal the first episode usually occurring Between 20 and 40 years of this happens when a Stone or a part of a Stone Breaks Loose and gets trapped in the the Small tube that carries urine from the kidney to the this causes the Muscles of the ureter to repeatedly contract in attempts to dislodge the youre having a Lucky Day when a Stone that is about to cause trouble passes in the urine without significant if its not your renal Colic is one of the most severe pains by and one that neither sex will Ever it brings grown men to and women say they would rather go through childbirth than suffer another what causes renal stones Prosperity and renal stones go hand in years Fredic of the University of Chica a world authority on renal told me manual labourers have a on half per cent risk of getting a Calcium but the risk was 10 to 12 per cent for professional and dehydration can set the stage for stones when the urine becomes dark and concen in this crystals can Sepa rate from the urine and become the Core of a theres some evidence that a diet High in animal protein seems to increase the risk of Stone while eating lots of potassium Rich foods and drinking plenty of liquids decreases the Why does extra Calcium in the diet help to decrease the risk of kidney stones har Vard not Bushey speculate that Calcium in the diet decreased the presence of a substance in the urine called oxalate is present in High Levels in peanuts and oxalate is also less Friendly to the urine than compared to it takes smaller amounts of oxalate to form renal researchers believe that if excessive amounts of oxalate make their Way into the they will not remain dissolved and team up with Calcium to form Crys eating Calcium Rich Dairy appears to keep dietary oxalate from becoming part of the urine by bind ing with it and sending it out of the body via the my once is to keep Basic Dairy products on your shopping these products have stood the test of time for hundreds of they Haven killed the Farmers and they wont kill i wish i could say the same for More glamorous foods packaged by multinational Compa ;