European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Outdoorsy Sta Wass new York times a Lack of information and Opportunity or the inability to find out where to learn skills Are some of the things that May keep women from. Enjoying the outdoors a. A Patricia Hubbard founder and publisher of outdoor woman a newsletter published in Nyack n has set out to remedy that situation i found that most outdoor magazines either talked _ Down to women or did no to address them at Alt a Hubbard said a a after getting beyond youth organizations there seems to be Little Chance of learning new skills in a formal setting Ana being taught by Well meaning spouses and friends can have very negative results the relationship can get in the Way of the learning experience. Quot i get Many men who want the newsletter for their wive so they can learn to enjoy the outdoors together Quot said Hubbard who also sees the publication As a Way to. Keep in  what other woman Are doing in the a outdoors. A a a a the newsletter started in january 1990, is issued 10. Times a year missing Only the two Midsummer months. The publication will expand if therein enough interest to full Magazine status the newsletter provides a source of information for learning skills keeping up  on. Events or buying equipment a. A a a the March Issue featured Georgen Terry. A Bike a builder from Rochester n y who saw the need for Bike a a  were not just smaller versions of menus bikes if you ride a Frame with a Shorter top tube built to accommodate a woman s smaller Torso your foot will run a into the front wheel when you turn the handlebars one of. 91, / a l 9 Terry s chief changes was the use of a smaller front wheel which eliminates the problem. According to Terry women find a smaller Frame easier to control. They have proportionally Shorter upper bodies narrower shoulders and smaller hands ail things that can be considered with a special Frame design. A the March article provides the kind of information that is of great help when you go into a Bike shop to make a Purchase. Another Issue featured a canoeing article by Carol a poster executive editor of sports guide. The focus again was sizing but with a different slant. A Basic question that needs to be answered beyond the kind of water you Are going to be paddling in a White water Flat water wave and winds is can you get the boat on and off the car the Canoe Industry has been very responsive to the needs of smaller paddlers. All the major manufacturers make very Light boats that Are designed for cancers who. Don t have a Long reach and Torso size and the weights have dropped to the 20-to 30-Pound Range women involved in environmental concerns have been another editorial feature in outdoor woman the april Issue describes the work of Marion Stoddard of Fitchburg mass a a. A a a a. A Stoddard took on the task of cleaning up the Nashua River a tout sewer filled with Industrial waste Ando m e a uninfluenced by exercise by Gina Kolata. V new York times. Women who exercise even those a dedicated women who run marathons Are no a More Likely to have menstrual disturbances than women who do not exercise a new a study has found. A a a a a a a. A v m for More than a decade., Lemale athletes have been a warned that intense exercise can disrupt their menstrual. A cycles stopping them from  a a. A As a consequence they have been told they will make a less oestrogen. A Lack of oestrogen will make Calcium Leach out of their Bones and this will set the stage Tor. / osteoporosis  Bone disease later in life. A a but the new study reported in the new England. Journal of Medicine found no such exercise effect. A a instead the investigators led by or. Jerilynn c prior of the University of. British Columbia in Vancouver found to. Their Surprise that Subtle menstrual Cycle irregularities plagued exercisers and non exercisers alike causing Many healthy Young Worsen to lose spinal bore at an average rate of 2 percent a Yeara = prior said most previous studies did not look at. Groups of exercising and no exercising Worsen Over time put instead documented menstrual problems in Worsen. Who were exercising. / such studies she said Quot cannot show cause and.  but she said society had somehow leaped to the  that exercise causes menstrual problems. Pollution she protested an with enormous amounts of grassroots work generated support from the government and the local Community to clean up the River. It was an. Impressive enough Job to attract the attention of the United nations. In 1987, Stoddart received an award for her work in conservation. A a a a a. A outdoor woman also offers Short snippets about trips conferences and other educational opportunities offered by organizations around the country. Subjects from snowboarding to fishing have been listed  events Calendar. Also listed Are general items but of the greatest value Are the specialized programs and events for women. A product reviews also come under the newsletters. Purview with a special look at equipment designed for women. A review of a Backpack in the june Issue was definitely not a puff piece with attention paid to some -. Problems that occurred in use. The Field test was a two month trip to Australia and new zealand certainly Long enough to find All the bugs. /. Quot we will continue to do As Many product Tayfel jews As possible and try to focus on different  the other outdoor magazines do Quot Hubbard said.  going to be a major feature Quot v. The Dean of the Teg Jar contributors is Milli Gay a new Hampshire writer who offers observations from the unique perspective of 75 years spent interacting with  world. / a a a. A. A a Quot. A in upcoming issues several new columns will debut. A column on women and environmental issues will discuss the use of Lead shot in. Sports shooting. The. Column Wilt be written by Laury Marshell Forbes who works for the Izak Walton league a fishing organization. Other new columns include camping gourmet which will assist readers in feeding themselves Well in the Back country and outdoor journal writing with Bonnie Hyatt Murphy who teaches writing courses through Yellowstone Backwoods expeditions. Quot the newsletter Quot said Hubbard Quot will address topics of current interest and try to show women How to get the Best from the outdoor . A a for information about the Magazine write to outdoor woman p 0 Box 834, Nyack by 10960. Page 16 the stars and stripes the idea that women cannot Tram too much Quot tends to. Confirm our cultural ideas Quot prior said. Quot we be come to. Tolerate exercising women but we still think there is something suspicious about it it is just not quite right Quot but women who were ovulating before they started. Exercising will not be Hurt even by running a Marathon prior stressed. A a. In her. Study prior selected 66 women aged 21 to 42. Yho had had two consecutive Normal menstrual cycles before the research began. One third of the women a a a began training for a Marathon during the study one third ran regularly but less intensively running More than an hour a week and the rest did not exercise regularly. The investigators found that about Only 20 percent of. A the women in the study had Normal menstrual cycles. Every month of the yearlong study. The others had some menstrual cycles that lacked sufficient progesterone a. Female sex hormone produced after ovulation. Because these women were making Normal amounts of Esirtgen prior suggested that it was a Lack of / progesterone rather than oestrogen that led to the Bone loss a. A a. /. A a some of the women had months when they did not  All even though their cycles were of Normal length. The women with aberrant cycles were the ones. Whose Bones thinned. Prior suggested that the Lack of. Saturday december 15,1990o in x s /is.1. It a we progesterone led to the Bone loss  Young women. Prior and others including or. Christopher Longcope of. The University of Massachusetts medical school in. Worcester mass., who wrote an editorial accompanying prior a article called for further studies before making any recommendations that women with abnormal menstrual. A cycles take progesterone to prevent Bone loss the finding that exercise does not cause menstrual disturbances Longcope said a was a Little bit surprising a a he agreed with prior that others could have come to a different conclusion because he said previous studies had inadequate  or. Janet Hall a reproductive endocrinologist at Massachusetts general Hospital in Boston said she. Found the new study  a a a a. Quot it goes against wha people had thought Quot she said but she said of previous sit idies Quot to just done to think the data were . A prior a findings also run counter to the findings of a study published in 1985 by or. Janet Mcarthur and or. A a Beverly Bullin of Boston University but these researchers studied 20   increased. Their exercise regimen. A /. Quot they had very acute training Mcarthur said Quot they worked up to running 10 mites a Day Over a two month  most of these women had irregular periods or skipped their period when they trained so vigorously Mcarthur and Bullen found. A. Mcarthur said that it might have been the stress of this intense training that caused the women to have menstrual problems. She also said that no one had followed women after a sudden increase in training intensity to see if the menstrual problems persisted after their bodies adapted to the exercise routine. She said she suspected that the women in prior s study might have increased their . Gradually than the women in her study which might. A account for  findings