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4B LIFE/S^^e Cl^arlotte Thursday, August 24, 2006 Climate likely cause of stones THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tfenn. -Salt cured coxmtry ham and iced tea on hot summer days may spell extra pain for Southerner. Medical experts say kidney stones are more common in Soutiiemers thanks to dehy dration from hot weather and diets rich in meat, salt, tea and other foods that may lead to kidney stones. “There’s a ‘stone belt’ that covers the Southeast and we’re the buckle,” said Dr. David Schidl, chief of urology at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, “There’s a lot of it aroimd here. There’s no doubt. It’s a regional phenom enon.” About 10 percent of Americans can ecpect to pass a kidney stone at some point in their Hfe. But the probabil ity jumps to 15 percent for people who live in the South. No one knows exactly causes kidney stones to form, but e^qjerts agree diet and dehy dration play a large role. Stones typically form when minerals and other sub stances in urine cry^alHze inside the kidney When peo ple don’t consume enou^ liq uids, their mine is moi^ like ly to have higher concentra tions of such substances. Foods such as meat, salt, tea, spinach, chocolate and nuts also contain kidney stone- causing substances, which may spur the devdopment of stones, said Dr. Matthew urologist with Associates in Hassan, Urology Franklin. Symptoms of kidney stones include sharp pains in the back or side as the stones work their way to the blad der. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, bloody urine and a constant urge to urinate. Most stones will pass throu^ a person’s body on their own within a few weeks because they are small—no larger than the tip of a pencil. Larger stones that don’t pass naturally are broken up either with lasers. Medical experts say . the best way to avoid gettmg kidney stones is . to drink plenty of fluids, spe cially water. Universities aim to help new students avoid, Freshman 15 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DURHAM—Sunny Dawson ran two miles every other day when she started her fresh man year at the University of Southern California. But the lure of the cafeteria near her dorm became too much to resist. “Everyone I know went crazy ‘Oh my God, pizza. Oh my God, ice cream,”’ she said. Dawson soon stopped rmining and “started pil ing up the food in the cafeteria.” By Christmas break, the 5-foot-lO native of Haleiwa, Hawaii, had gained 10 povmds. ‘1 realized I don’t have to be a victim of this and started making better choices,” she said. “I ate a lot of salads and cut out sodas altogether. By spring break I was normal again. I was stoked.” As high school graduates start college this month and next, universities are offering a range of tools to help them avoid Dawson’s mis take. While experts say the so-called “Freshman 15” is usually only 5 to 7 pounds, it’s a common experience for many college new- comCTS faced with unlimited cafeteria food, late-night pizza binges and snacking that comes wiih irregular student schedules, “The patterns and the habits that students get into in the first two to three months of school is what tends to carry them through the rest of their time on campus,” said Jen Ketterly nutrition and fitness coordinator for campus health services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, At nearby Duke University the private col lege of about 6,000 undergraduates offers an interactive nutrition workshop for freshmen with eating problems. It includes tips for quick, healthy meals in the dorm, and how to eat the ri^t way in an all-you-can eat diumg hall. “A lot of kids really don’t have a clue of what they’re not supposed to eat and what consti tutes a healthy diet,” says Jainy Pavret, the nutrition manager at Duke’s Eating Disorders Program. The problem isn’t always weight gain: .Some new students lose wei^t because the^re no longer getting three meals a day fiom Mom and Dad. “Often times students have a very difficult schedule. They don’t have mou^ time to eat (properly) so they eat a lot of snacks,” said Joshua Solano, 20, of Florida, who’ll be a jimior at Duke this year, 'T actually lost a little wei^t fiom my irregular eating habits.” Campus cafeterias have improved their menus over the years and now offer more healthy choices, such- as salad bars, said Kim Dude, director of the Wellness Resource Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. “Then the issue is how to educate students on how to make the r^it choice,” she said. At Missouri, students are trained to make pre sentations to their peers at residence halls, fra ternities and sororities on eatii^ healthy han dling stress, exerdising and generally leading a healthy lifestjde, she said. Social pressures also often intensify at col lege, where students have more opportunity to compare themselves with each other because they spend so much time together, officials at several schools said. The super-fit bodies ihat saturate TV shows and commercials can exac erbate such problems. At Southern Cal, there are seminars for freshmen taught by USC jrofessors that deal wilh mess^es that can lead to damaging self- images. One such dass - “Impossible Bodies; Plastic Surgery as a New Social Problem” - explores the relationship between viewing plastic surgery reahty shows to dissatisfaction over a particular body part. Katrina’s displaced carry on Continued from page 3B fikes the choices—he can take a cookir^ d ass, a drama class. All they had in New Orleans, he said, was gym. His sifter, Kristie, 16,' made an instnac- tional video about urban dance that turned heads. . Bessie Collins relies on a fixedincome, and her 33-year- old dau^ter Crystal works at a nursing home. The govern ment helps pay rent on two apartments — but the Collinses know the aid is not permanent. There is a simple, woodcraft sign hanging in the three-bed- room apartment where Bessie lives. It was a gift to mark her 72nd birthday. It reads, “Bloom where God plants you.” ‘It means to survive where I am,” the matriarch said. ‘1 sure found that out.” They have survived where they are, for the most part, with the help of a prodigious stream of cash fium the feder al government, states, local entities and charities, which • took in billions of dollars -in donations in the months after the storm. Ihrou^ July the Federal Emergency Management Agency had doled out $4.15 billion in housing assistance to 947,404 applicants—coimt- ed by households, not individ uals. More than 1.7 million households have applied for help, but some have been deemed ineligible—in many cases because of help they were getting fium insurance claims—or referred to other programs for help. Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Adam Vogt said. But it is states, local govern ments and charities that had the difficult task of helping the evacuees find jobs and schools and sometim.es shel ter. And their observations tell the story of widespread strug gles: In Omaha, Nebraska, the housing authority is still help ing about 135 evacuees — some hving in apartments vrith government help for rent, otiiers in public housing. ' Most still have not foimd jobs, and many have lingering mental health issues, said Brad Ashford, executive direc tor of the .Omaha Housing Authority In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dty officials struggled to help evacuees who were off med ications but had no medical records. Few of the 130 evac uees the dty was helping at its peak were accustomed to the cold weather, or some were not even used to a struc tured fife. “Some were homeless where they came fium,” said Steve Falek, assodate director of IVGlwaukee’s housit^ authori ty ‘If you live on the street, there are no rules that say you can’t smoke in an eleva tor.” In Colorado, school offidals have trouble planning for the upcoming school year because they have no idea how many kids to ejqject. “So many families have returned. Oftentimes, some of the schools aren’t ready for those back in the devastated areas, so they’re remaining here,” said Dana Scott, Colorado’s coordinator for education of homeless chil dren. There are rou^ statistics, but th^e is no precise way to track exactly how many refugees remain scattered throughout the country, and how many have returned to rebuild in Louisiana and And in many cases, the evacuees haven’t decided themselves - caught between pining for what they miss and trying to establish a new fife in a strange place. For some, there is no true home right now. Tmisha Speed, 26, believes she may stay in East Lansing, Michigan. She has two young chil- dren—Anthony RhtcheH Jr, 2, and Jakira Mitchell, bom five weeks before Katrina came—and she is filling out paperwork for child-care ser vices and looking for part- time work But finding work in IVfichigan is difficult even for permanent residents: It has one of the nation’s highest imemployment rates, over 6 percent. “You’re looking at people who have been taken out of everything they know, and they’ve got to start over,” she says. ‘I feel blessed. But I’m deahi^ with it. I’m still deal- ir^ with it.” Rodney Francis knows he will settle in Dallas. There are things he and his wife. Tiffany, miss —back home in New Orleans, they could walk to most of his family’s homes. Bus service in Dallas is far away Their naghbors have barely acknowledged them. Life since the storm has felt like a disorienting, imending vacation to him And yet he is tired of the poHtics in New Orleans, the crime, the trash thrown into his yard flum passing cars. ’ ,7 -Say Yes To Success/ “Dr. Arrington teaches you how to lead a healthy, balanced and successful life Dr, Carl Arrington, Director of Market Expansion It Could Be You When we first start out on the pursuit of our dreams, it can be hard to believe that what we want can really come true. We are so used to hearing how difficult it can be- to make it in this world. We hear that so often that at times we are almost convinced that there is no point in pursuing what may be something that we have wanted ever since we can remember. People often give us reasons why what we want cannot happen. They may tell us that we do not have the money needed to invest in our dream. They may look at what we want and say that no one else will be interested in what we have to offer. Others may point out that there are already people who offer what we are interested in and that there will not be enough business for us to make it. The reasons people can give us for not trying to make our dreams come true can go on and on. But the bottom line is this. Everything that we have in this world at some point started as somebody’s dream. Just think about it. The very chair that you sit on began as someone’s idea. The car that you drive started as someone dreaming of a way to get from one place to another more quickly without the use of horses. The Jetliners that we take for granted started as someone’s dream of humans being able to fly. The air conditioner started as someone’s dream of finding a way to make life much more comfortable during the hot and humid days of summer. The list could go on, of course. Just imagine what life would be like if we did not have these things in our lives. Whatever it is that you dream of having in your life, resist the messages that try to persuade you to give up on your dream. Just keep in mind that if other people could make their dreams come true, why not you. Keep your heart and mind open to the creative powers of life, and you will find what you need to make your dreams come true. Who knows, it could very well be you who starts the next big trend or creates some kind of invention to fit a need that we all have just been waiting for! Learn to Stay on the Track to Success. Contact Dr. Arrington cla@maximumsuccess.com Your Source for Total Life Success! Contact Dr. Arrington for details 704-591-1988 • da@'inaximumsuccess.com Maximum TotentiaC Inc... /Ta-pping into the ‘Power of‘you! 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