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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 21, 1999
Serb leader to discuss NATO bombings on Kosovo
By BriAnne Hess
Special to the Kansan
University of Kansas students can hear an insider's viewpoint today about the effects and aftermath of the NATO bombing on Kosovo.
Svetozar Stojanovic, a leader in the Serbian opposition movement, will present, "Serbia, Kosovo, and the NATO World Order" at 4 p.m. at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. The lecture is free.
Bruce Berglund, assistant director for the Center for Russian and East European Studies, said it was important to hear the views of a Serbian who was in Belgrade during the bombing.
"We received very biased coverage of the NATO action here in the States," Berglund said. "The general picture was of NATO, as the good guys, flying in to defend the innocent Kosovar Albanians against the evil Serbs."
As a visiting professor, Stojanovic taught courses on Marxism, communism and post-communism at the University between 1989 and 1996. During the NATO bombings this spring, Stojanovic chose to stay in Belgrade where he is the international director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.
recent e-mail to Anne Merydith-Wolf, programs director for the Office of International Programs. "In truth, not much more is left to him. Today, he would accept an offer to join the NATO "Partnership for Peace" with both hands, but such an offer is surely not in the works."
Berglund said that the lecture was important for students because of NATO's domination in the news during the past eight years and the absence of a quick solution to the conflict. He also said that getting a Serbian's viewpoint might open students' eyes.
"Students should take a critical view of the information they receive from
"Milosevic is still buying time in the hope that political changes favorable to him will occur in Russia," he wrote in a
American news sources during the NATO bombing to question how much of it was essentially, propaganda," Berglund said. "Hopefully, this will prompt them to consider more thoughtfully what they receive from the media in general."
Program sponsors said Stojanovic might not support the NATO decision. Members of the opposition have said NATO acted outside of its realm in the bombing of Kosovo because the organization was conceived to act as a defensive organization, but took the offensive in the bombings. NATO also went outside of its self-imposed boundaries and bypassed the United Nations, Merydith-Wolf said.
"It was a gutsy decision," she said.
"NATO is supposed to value national sovereignty but also value human rights and self-determination. They are conflicting values that the world will have to decide how to deal with."
Serbia currently is under international isolation since the United Nation Tribunal in The Hague indicted Milosevic for war crimes. An anti-Milosevic front in Serbia continues to grow and to protest in the streets to demand Milosevic's fall from power.
The lecture is sponsored by the Office of International Programs and the Center for Russian and East European Studies.
— Edited by Matt Gardner
Dr. Atkins' protein diet recommends increasing protein intake while restricting the consumption of carbohydrates. Although this leads to weight loss, many dieters have found that a significant decrease in energy and a strict diet of meats result in a quick fix rather than a lifestyle change. Photo Illustration by Carrie Julian/KANSAN
Protein diet a quick fix, long term results vary
By Amber Stuever
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Go ahead. Indulge in bacon, steak,
hamburgers or a block of cheese. Eat
all the nuts, ham and eggs you desire.
And then, sit back and watch the
weight melt off.
Many University of Kansas students have tried this new weight-loss trend, the protein diet. Quit cutting back on calories, the diet recommends, and start cutting back on carbohydrates. Proteins, they believe, are a dieter's friend. And as for portion-size? Ignore it.
Like most dieting trends, students and dietitians agree that the protein diet is too good to be true.
"Any time a diet eliminates any food group a red light should go off for a consumer," Anne Chapman, Watkins Memorial Health Center dietitian said. "We have each food group for a reason. Any diet eliminating or severely limiting one or more food groups is not a healthy approach."
Although thousands on the diet have lost weight, others aren't so sure of its effectiveness. It fails, they say, because it "goes against the grain," both figuratively and literally.
The protein diet ignores most of the standard advice given to dieters.
Robert Atkins, the man behind the diet, said in his book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, that cutting calories was not the way to lose weight. Rather, the key is to restrict carbohydrates. Without carbohydrates, the body will be forced to burn fat and protein for fuel.
Atkins' diet therefore cuts all carbohydrates found in grains, cereals and
bread from the diet.
Cutting carbohydrates, however, also cuts energy.
Tricia Lichtenberg, Kansas City. Mo., junior, said she was constantly tired while she was on the protein diet, leaving her unable to exercise.
"You lose all your energy to even go outside and run." she said.
Lichtenberg did lose 10 pounds during the summer and kept off five. She quit the diet when she returned to the University because it was too hard to stick to, she said. The foods, which are very limited, were almost impossible to prepare at college.
The diet also restricts alcohol, which is a staple in the college diet for some students.
The diet's small window of acceptable foods is another reason it fails, Chapman said. People get tired of the diet's monotony. If they lose weight, they often gain some or all of it back.
"If all you an eat is meats, you burn out pretty quickly," she said. "It's not a lifestyle change. It's a quick fix."
Because of this, dieters don't learn to eat correctly and they cannot maintain a lower weight. Chapman said.
Rebecca Herren, a Wichita junior who is trying the diet, agreed that a person must have the willpower and long-term commitment to keep the weight off.
"A lot of people wouldn't be able to stick with it," she said. "It's a really good way to lose weight, but you have to stick to it forever or the weight will come back."
Lichtenberg said she would recommend the diet to a friend if she were trying to lose a quick 10 pounds. But it's not sensible for the long term, she said.
"What I do now is just exercise and watch what I eat and have the same satisfaction," she said.
— Edited by Clare McLellan
Studies to weigh in about exercise
Overweight students eligible for extensive study on weight loss
By Todd Halstead
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Several studies at the University of Kansas are aimed at finding ways to prevent the excess of Americans — an excess of fat that is.
Joseph E. Donnelly, chair of the Department of Health, Sports a Exercise Science said 50 percent of the American population would be considered clinically obese by 2010. He said the studies were mainly geared toward the effects of exercise.
"The studies are important to clarify the role of exercise on weight without dietary restraint," Donnelly said. "There are a whole bunch of things we are investigating that deal with weight loss, weight prevention or weight gain."
The studies included a $2.4 million five-year aerobic exercise study funded by the National Institute of Health, another study.
to determine the effectiveness of weight loss drugs such as Xenical and Meridia, and a two-year aerobic and weight lifting study funded by $50,000 from the American Heart Association.
Donnelly said the department was also preparing to unveil its Energy-Balance Lab next January. The lab will use state-of-the-art technology to measure participants' energy intake and expenditure.
Donnellly said the NIH study was looking for around 20 to 25 more participants.
"They have to be overweight," Donnelly said. "They don't have to be huge. It's one of those things where we want people who are moderately overweight, but if they are too big they will not qualify."
over weight, but if they are the study pays participants $2,000 and consists of mainly walking on a treadmill, but subjects can perform other exercises 20 percent of the time. The control group merely needs to come in for monthly checkups and also receives a $2,000 cash stipend.
Subjects have to exercise five days a week for 45 minutes, come in for monthly check-ups and eat three times a day at Ekdahl Dining Commons for two months out of the academic year.
Although anybody is eligible for the study, Donnelly said time requirements make it difficult for non-KU students to participate.
"We're essentially accessing what are the likes and differences between the two types of training programs." Luttrell said.
Subjects are also put on a nutritional diet program that gives them a reduced caloric value, Luttrell said. A duel energy x-ray absorption machine will be used. Luttrell said the machine emitted very low radiation that penetrated the body and revealed body fat.
The department will sponsor a joint conference with the University of Kansas Medical Center Oct. 23 and 24 in Kansas City, Mo., for health care professionals with at-risk patients. Call University Relations at 864-8855 for more information.
- Edited by Matt Gardner
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