European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse To your health Middle age men who exercise can probably retain a Youthful physique one study indicates. Inactivity not age responsible for Middle age spread by Rob Stein United press International of can t blame your Middle age spread on your age according to a new study. The research found physically lil men in their 50s apparently have just about he same metabolism As physically fit men in their 20s, meaning it Hoy exercised regularly hey could probably maintain the body of their younger Days. It s a bit said Carat Meredith a research scientist at the . Department of agriculture human nutrition research Center at Tufts University who headed the study. We expected of find an effect of age the study which is being published in the december Issue of the journal Medicine and science in sports and exercise involved 12 physically Active men Hall of whom were in their 20s and halt of whom wore in their 50s these Guys were All very Active but they wore nol lop top athletes said Meredith in an interview these Guys were just the Sorl of Guy who goes Oul and runs every the men lived at the Center for 10 Days. Thoy wore allowed to do their Normal exercise which included rowing cycling and running but they had their diet closely monitored and underwent tests to determine their body fat weight and fitness. Meredith and her colleagues found that the amount of exercise the men did no their age was the most significant Factor determining their physical fitness. It has been generally assumed that As people got Vidor something changes biologically to cause them to add Lal and lose physical fitness and that exercise can i alter thai said Meredith. Our data suggest that in men aged 22 to 59, Lime spent exorcising nol age is a major determinant of body Tat Energy needs and physical endurance she said Meredith cautioned that the findings May not apply to older individuals who Are believed to experience muscle loss. But the findings probably would hold True Lor women Iho same Ages she said i Ihrk in probably would apply to women but we Haven t done that study yet said Merodith. More studies involving women and people of different Ages Are needed to belter understand the relationship Between exercise and fitness she said. The other researchers who conducted the study were Michaelj. Zackin a graduate student or. Walter r. Frontera of the Center for sports Medicine and exercise sciences in puerto Rico and or. William j. Evans chief of the Center s human physiology Laboratory. Battling for the right to die by William bobbins new York timezone Day soon perhaps to a month or two in All goes As the family and its lawyer have asked the Cruz ans of Missouri May be released trom an ordeal that has seemed More tormenting than an endless prison sentence and sometimes As restrictive. The family Lester Cruzan jr., his wife Joyce iwo daughters and two granddaughters Are approaching Iho fifth anniversary of the Start of their agony the night of Jan 11.1983, when another daughter Nancy then 25 years old was thrown from a car in a crash on a lonely Road in Southwest Missouri. Since then they have regularly Vised Nancy in a Staie rehabilitation Hospital touching her and brushing her hair but have never gained a response. Their daughter is one of about 10.000 americans lying comatose in a Persi Lenl veg Lalive stale. Now the Cruz ans seek to end the extra ordnary measures that keep their daughter alive. By filing a plea in probate court in Carthage to. Recently they brought to the nation s midlands a widening Battle for the right Lodie that is being fought slate by slate a hearing is expected before february. Tho Cruz ans would have had an easier Legal course experts say if they lived in any of five other Stales thai have already had similar Legal Battles. This is and will continue to be a hotly litigated Ssue said Giles Scotfield attorney for concern for dying a right to die group in new York. Precedents in cases similar to Nancy Cruzan s have already been Sci at appellate court lev "
