European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes june 1985 Syjud Sarasohn staff writer Many military people trying to shape up for weighing think exercise losing pounds by they could be in serious and for what because doctors and fitness experts agree that weight loss from sweating is their body lost it water and needs it the body will excrete extra said Sandra chief of clinical dietetics at the air Force Hospital in while the gains Are the risks of overheating and dehydration Are and people who Force the body to work harder than it should could be in if they dont replace the water lost to they face convulsions in extreme much like a bodies need water As a and if the body it can stall and shut during strenuous the most important form of Cooling is the evaporation of the body can handle Only so much said army Michael preventive Medicine consultant for the 7th medical the medical experts recommend drinking fluids to replace the water lost during exercise or physical water is the Best Murray disdaining sport beverages such As soft drinks and Beer because they have unnecessary Salt and exercisers should drink during and after runners should drink water every two Many people risk injury by not the most serious heat injury is heat which can be it occurs when the body heat regulatory mechanisms break and rectal temperatures can soar to 108 degrees weight loss from sweating May be but it Doest add victims can lose have convulsions or become their breathing becomes irregular and death May be doctors recommend quickly lowering the temperature of a heat stroke immerse him in cold water if or Sprinkle him with fan to Aid evaporation and elevate the victims seek medical Short of heat stroke is heat due to excessive dehydration and Salt its characterized by weakness and there May be profuse tingling in the palpitations and Oral May be subnormal but the rectal temperature can Rise to 104 Bureau chief in the United businesses alone spend billion annually on employee fitness individuals Fork Over another billion for exercise clothing and thirty million americans jog in the conviction that they Are paving the Way toward Good health and untold other millions flock to swimming health exercise classes and Tennis courts in the belief that fitness equals Vernon Britain leading medical believes they Are being you can be health without being fit and you can be fit without being Coleman said in a recent interview at Leamington spa in there is no correlation Between health and most of the people who become quite vociferous on the subject have a vested interest in seeing a need develop and continue for their skills and Coleman the tragedy of the exercise and diet businesses is that they have been taken Over by extremists and built up into multimillion Pound they took something that was peaceful and pleasant and turned it into something that is More like a a general practitioner turned is not without he is respected on both sides of the Atlantic for his medical his three health related books have sold millions and been translated into 10 when people Are trying Roget they really Are trying to endure More or to get better at some kind of activity or this has nothing to do with avoiding disease and it wont enable you to live he Coleman is an avid Ive looked through a number of research papers and have found no proof that jogging or running improves he Coleman gets support from Henry a new York City cardiologist and faculty member at Cornell University medical Solomon in his recently published the exercise writes that almost nothing we have been told about the benefits of exercise is vigorous he cannot prevent heart disease or slow its and that exercise has no effect on Solomon there is about the same relationship Between activity and longevity As you might find if you were to compare the amount of chocolate pudding children eat with the likelihood of their coming Down with Chicken pox that no relationship at Coleman said that moderate exercise is beneficial and the evidence suggests that sedentary people run an increased risk of heart a lot of exercise the victim should be moved to a Cool place and his legs he should be Given water and possibly a Saline recovery normally is but medical experts dont recommend an immediate return to duty except in the Mildest exposure to heat and excessive loss of Salt May cause painful muscle body temperature usually remains unless the cramps Are accompanied by heat the cramps can be relieved by feeding the victim a mild Saline the necessity to replace lost fluids is not lessened for people who seem to be in Good a 1982 study of Montreal marathons found the typical heat stroke victim was a Man Between the Ages of 20 and who an experienced Lon distance runner and trains from 30 to 50 Miles per the marathoners were pushing themselves in the heat and not drinking water or splashing themselves during the the medical experts included some warnings for exercisers avoid rubber and plastic which some people think make them sweat More and lose there these and others like prevent Cooling by evaporation of drink during strenuous exercise and activity whether or not you feel thirst is not a Good indicator of be especially wary of overheating in humid its harder for sweat to evaporate in humid Wear Loose clothing to allow the circulation of air and evaporation of sweat particularly in the when overheating can be a avoid Salt under Normal conditions and proper there too much Salt hinders adequate thereby leading to increased also excessive Salt can cause thirst and Lead to incapacitating Doest make the body super its like a television it wont run without sufficient but More than enough current certainly wont make it run any he whatever you Coleman dont ignore pain is one of the body ways of telling us it is being Coleman said joggers who push past the pain Barrier May be doing themselves great when the body encounters pain it produces its own natural hormones known As to Block out the the body will keep but it is being damaged in the Coleman Doest say to avoid but Hes not a walk instead of driving the climb stairs instead of taking a avoid Labo saving use a regular Lawn Mower instead of a Power exercise in a fairly Normal he i Only do things which i i play Badminton Cricket and Golf and walk a hell of a there is plenty of pressure in the rest of life without bringing it into Coleman said stress is the biggest Factor in High blood heart stomach ulcers and our bodies were designed for a simpler kind of life where stress occurred for Short periods of Coleman ancient Man either killed the wild oar or the wild boar killed whichever Way it the stress didst last people Are affected by stress for even years at a