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Friday, November 3, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Wellness Center aims to ease student stress
Workers in program say not all tension is bad
By Mark McHugh Kansan staff writer
Students who feel overburdened by midterms, holidays and finals can turn to the Wellness Center to ease the weight of stress.
"Not all stress is bad," said Arvella Frazier, supervisor of the Wellness Center, a student-run operation at 138 Robinson Center. "Stress is any challenge from the environment in which you have to cope."
There are two types of stress: eustress and distress, Frazier said. Distress is the kind of stress that stems from personal problems and daily hassles, and eustress the kind of stimulation that makes people work to better themselves.
Frazier said that a person's wellbeing correlated with his stress level.
being correlated with his stress level,
"I think of wellness as a creative act," Frazier said. "I think it's exciting because you're creating your own life and your future and your own habits and lifestyle." It's to
the benefit of all of us to get interested in wellness and manage the difficult areas of our life. It has to be voluntary."
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A lot of people think that relaxing is watching television or drinking beer. That's leisure time; it's not relaxation where your thought process clears or your muscles relax.'
- MaryPat Blum
Hays graduate student
An individual's well-being can be affected by diet and most people deprive themselves of important nutrients because they aren't aware of healthy exercise and eating habits, Frazier said.
"Men sometimes exercise too much," she said. "They want to look
trim and muscular, and they can end up becoming anorexic by overexercising.
"There are essential fatty acids that you must have in your diet every day. If you cut out all fat, you're going to be in serious trouble."
Frazier said women were more stressed than men because of concern about their physical appearance. Women usually think that they're overweight and that the best way to lose weight is to increase their diet intake by 500 calories and exercise to burn off those 500 calories, she said.
The center offers Macdiet, an evaluation program on the Macintosh computer, to help people manage their diets.
"It's an energy-balance appraisal," Frazier said. "It tells you whether you're meeting your dietary needs and how your energy balances against your dietary input."
In addition to diet appraisal, the center offers consultation on stress management and relaxation.
Mike Rozell, Overland Park junior, receives stress-relaxation exercises from MaryPat Blum
Julie James/KANSAN
MaryPat Blum, Hays graduate student, manages the program.
"Relaxation is a learned skill." Blum said. "All I can do is guide people through the exercises. A lot of people think that relaxing is watching television or drinking beer. That's leisure time."
Blum takes the patients through relaxation techniques that can be measured by bio-feedback. The center gives people hand-held thermometers to measure any changes in body temperature
"Bifeedback is any physiological response that you can measure," she said.
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