University Daily Kansan. Januarv 25. *1982
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Experiments examine caffeine and alcohol
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Nowadays, everything causes cancer. Chances are that if someone is hit by a truck, it will someday cause cancer.
With all of the gloomy studies being released, it may be comforting to know that someone is looking for positive effects of a substance on humans.
Chris Aglui, Lawrence graduate student, is beginning a 12- to 16-week study in exercise physiology that will examine the effects of caffeine and alcohol on volunteer men between the ages of 30 and 55. It is sponsored by the Kansas City chapter of the American Heart Association.
"There have been very few ingestion studies with humans," she said. "We're going to see if the ingestion of alcohol or caffeine—two substances that are in humans—people's lifestyle patterns—may be beneficial to one's cardiovascular health.
Aguilar said exercise physiology dealt with the effects of exercise performance and stress.
SHE SAID that it was not a new field but that it had become more popular with increased interest in health.
Volunteers for the study must meet three qualifications: be a non-exerciser or a very mild exerciser, be an ex-volunteer, and be a mild consumer of caffeine or alcohol.
An orientation meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in 202 Robinson Center.
Aguiral said these restrictions were chosen to eliminate confusion in the test results. It has already been determined that patients with exercise affect cardiovascular health.
"Otherwise you've got muddy water," she said. "If you take a away two things, you're more in drawing or illustrating as it affects cardiovascular health."
Aguiar said that women were not chosen because of the hormones that are present.
"in women, hormones would affect the blood lipids we are looking at. Lipids are fats like the blood. It's a lot of them," she said, from the data you have." she said
Aguilar said there was risk involved in the study although she had taken precautions and the entire study had been monitored by a committee on human Experimentation.
SHE SAID volunteers would be informed of the risks involved, which could include addiction.
During the study period, volunteers will spend about 10 minutes each weekday at the Exercise Physiology Laboratory in Robinson Center, where they will ingest alcohole or caffeine. At the end of each four-week period during each participant will undergo a blood analysis and complete a dietary survey.
Volunteers will not be paid, but they will get physiological tests that include total complete blood lipid profiles, serum triglyceride, fat, and individual dietary analysis.
on campus
TODAY
A DISABILITIES DISCUSSION GROUP, sponsored by the Students Concerned with Disabilities, will meet at 4 p.m. in Room 7-D LAp.
There will be a MANAGERS MEETING FOR THE RECREATION DIVISION WATER BASKETKILL at 5:30 p.m. at the Robinson Old Pool.
TOMORROW
THE NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS ORGANIZATION will sponsor a DUTCH LUNCH for members from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Cork Room on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
JACK LEMON, master printer and founder of Landfall Press in Chicago will show RECENT PRINTS at the University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art from noon to 10am, in the museum's Art Print Room.
There will be a THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR studying Mark's Gospel at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
THE JAPANESE FILM SERIES will feature "DRUNKEN ANGEL" (Oidore Tenshi) directed by Aikara Kurosaura at 7 p.m. in Dyche
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS will sponsor a JOB SEMINAR featuring Monroe Dodd, managing editor of the Kansas City Times, at 7 p.m. in the Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union.
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Although the success of Lee and Sandy O'Day's Balloon-O-Grams business largely depends on making it easier for Dennis to begin because Sandy couldn't stop crying.
"The business was my husband's idea. He was tired of me crying," she said.
"I was so homesick. All I could do was sit around and cry, "Sandy O'Day said Saturday afternoon, referring to the move she and her husband made two years ago from Rochester, N.Y., to Topeka.
Then, after reading about home-operated businesses in some of his wife's women's magazines and remembering how happy balloons made the patients in a hospital he put down on the floor, the notion of Balloon-O-Grams.
Lee O'Day wanted to find something for his wife to do with her spare time to help her overcome her homesickness there were three small children at home.
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and started our business on Feb. 26 of last year," Sandy O'Day said.
The first two weeks of business were slow for the O'Days, but then St. Patrick's Day rolled around.
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"I did deliveries by myself that day."
From those 22 deliveries on St. Patrick's Day, the business has expanded to more than 25 requests for Balloon-O-Grams a week, Sandy O'Day said.
She attributed the success of the balloon messages to their uniqueness.
But no one yet has taken pot shots at the Balloon-O-Gram delivery game, Kris Seeley. On the contrary, the popularity of the messages grew so rapidly that the O'Days opened two branch operations.
SANDY O'DAY estimated that 50 percent of all Balloon-O-Grams were used to wish people Happy Birthday. Thirty percent are get-well messages
"Sometimes, I'm afraid my delivery girl will get shot while delivering a car."
and the rest are used for a variety of messages, she said.
"I don't care if they're two years old or 82 years old."
"I think it's because they're different," she said. "Also, balloons make people smile.
They now operate offices in Manhattan and Lawrence, she said. Edward Hinton, a KU graduate from Syracuse, manages the Lawrence operation.
"We've had people send Dear John letters through our Balloon-O-Gram's,
"My garage is now my factory, and my dining room is my office."
"For me, it's a full-time job," Sandy O'Day said. "It's probably more than a full-time job. I'm running a full-time corporation.
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