European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Aerobics for children by Janet Dagostino medical writer in Kenneth Cooper the Man who helped turn a nation of adult Couch potatoes into illness fanatics said children Are i worse shape today than they were in the1970s children irom kindergarten through 12th Grade were Lound latter and less conditioned aerobically when studied in 1986 and then compared to children examined in 1975, to said. Cooper coined the term aerobics 21 years ago when he was an air Force senior High surgeon stationed in Texas and wrote his firs Book for the air Force population ii was his publisher who decided to title the Book alter one chapter called aerobics. Cooper Witolo his second Book on aerobics because Many of Ilic readers of the first Book were Over 40 and women Hal full the military alter 13 years to set up a private practice because my concepts and ideas wore foreign Hack in those Days. My specially my Intel Cost. Did t have a place in the  his medical practice in Dallas Texas mushroomed into a 30 acre Complex called the aerobics Center and a  Branch called the Institute for aerobics research to is the author of several books on aerobics and preventive Medicine topics such As  and osteoporosis an adviser to the army and dict Vircer. Among other roles. Visiting the v corps area  May at the invitation of commander i. Gen. John w. Woodmansee or. Cooper blamed television last food and inactivity Lor today s flabby weak children. The blame also Falls on schools because they fail to promote physical education As a routine part of the curriculum Cooper said during an interview. Illinois is the Only state that requires physical education irom kindergarten through 12th Grade he said adding that schools Don t push physical fitness because of a Lack of Lime Money and expertise. Because of these findings Cooper interrupted his plan to write live books on preventive Medicine to pen his next Book on aerobics Lor children. Cooper said both he and his wife run regularly and that their two children have followed their example of making exercise a part of their everyday life. Millie Cooper. Cooper s wife and an aerobics and health advocate in her own right said Young people May not know what the word aerobics really Means. Due to Jane Fonda a lot of people think aerobic exercise is jus working out to music with a Leotard on she said while speaking to a group of women at the Frankfurt playhouse aerobics in t a Gimmicky exercise program to make  aerobic dance is Only one of 31 exercises that fit her husband s definition of aerobic exercise. Other exercises include walking cycling swimming basketball and walking. Walking is a Beautiful exercise Millie said Don l let anyone intimidate you if they Are a runner or cyclist. The description of aerobics Cooper gave to the Oxford English dictionary in 1986 is a method of physical exercise Lor producing Ben uricial changes in the respiratory and circulatory systems by activities which require Only a modest increase in oxygen intake and so can be  aerobic exercise is the Only Type of exercise which strengthens the heart lungs and blood vessels he said. Isometric and isotonic exercises can build muscle and make people More relaxed but do not elevate the heart rate High enough or Long enough to strengthen the heart. All. Have Merit Only one has the potential for prolonging your  he said. When Cooper first started writing his books on aerobics to believed that As Long As someone exercised they could eat poorly and still be Liu ally. I doctors try to capitalize on liver s ability to regenerate itself by Harold m. Schmeck or. New York times very year about 30.000 americans die of liver disease despite everything medical science can do Lor them. At most about 1,500 other patients got a new Chance Lor life because of liver transplants. This huge disparity in numbers explains Why scientists and liver specialists at Harvard University and Tho Massachusetts Institute of technology Are trying to capitalize on something the liver does incredibly Well rebuild Itsell. The liver has a greater capacity to regenerate alter severe loss than any other Organ in humans or mammals. In animal experiments almost three quarters of the liver can be removed and the Organ will quickly grow Back to Normal size. Then in an equally remarkable and mysterious step the growth slops. The human liver also has a great capacity for regeneration and control and can rebuild a Large portion within a month. Both qualities the ability to regenerate and the timely Hall of the extra growth Are under scrutiny by scientists seeking to Cope with Many diseases including cancer. The research is particularly import land to liver specialists. There is a huge clinical need said or. Joseph p. Vacant director of the liver transplant program at Boston children s Hospital and assistant professor of surgery at Harvard medical school. In collaboration with of. Robert s. Langer and or. Linda Clima of Mit. He is trying to mobilize the regrowth potential of liver Colls to develop a new kind of transplant Small samples of growing cells irom which functioning tissue would grow. If successful such tissue would reduce the need for donors and make liver transplants far More broadly available. Since no one can survive without a liver surgeons today Are dependent on donors who have died but had healthy livers. Tho project is still in the Early stages of animal research any potential human application is probably several years away. Bui already researchers have kept. Liver implants of this kind alive in rats for As Long As six months Vacanti said. In a report at a recent scientific meeting Langer said such implants have produced the protein albumin one of the most abundant products of a Normal liver. To Dale there has been no attempt to show whether an animal could survive with an implant As its Only liver tissue. The idea that we have is to dissociate pieces of liver Down to their functional units Vacanti said. These Are the individual hepatocytes or liver cells. The concept being explored with the Mit scientists is to grow the liver Colls on a scaffolding of biodegradable material and implant this. Recently discovered growth substances that act on the liver or promote the formation of blood vessels would be incorporated in the transplant to help the cells grow while the scaffolding gradually disappears. Some other specialists believe there Are formidable problems ahead in trying to use this strategy to save liver patients but transplants of portions of liver Are already being done. At the University of Pittsburgh surgeons led by or. Thomas Starzl have Cut human livers in half or even in Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday. May 30,1989