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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104, NO.118
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1995
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DOWNSIDE TO DIETS: METABOLISM MATTERS
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
Your own body may be ruining your diet. According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the body's metabolism slows energy consumption after
weight loss, requiring fewer calories to operate.
If correct, this means that once a person diets and loses weight, he or she would have to be aware of eating too much, said Ann Chapman, registered dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
If a dieter goes back to eating the same number of calories as before the diet, the excess calories will be stored as fat.
"They will just have to be vigilant for the rest of their lives," Chapman said.
According to the study.
after losing weight, the body's metabolism resets itself at a lower rate, in effect becoming more efficient. The body requires fewer calories to perform daily functions and fewer calories to exercise.
According to the article, the body has a sophisticated system for regulating fat stores.
"I find a lot of people who successfully lose weight and have a hard time keeping it off," Chapman said. "A lot who have lost weight put it back on very easily if they up their calories."
Though many people want to rid their bodies of fat, Chapman said, fat was essential for good health.
"I find a lot of people who successfully lose weight and have a hard time keeping it off."
"The body has to have fat stores," she said.
Ann Chapman registered dietician
Valerie Crow / KANSAN
Left: Phi Stillwell, Hutchinson junior, jogs on the treadmill in Robinson Center. Bottom left: Tim Johnson, Overland Park senior, lifts weights during a physical conditioning class in Robinson Center.
Fat insulates organs and plays a role in hormone systems." Fat also helps maintain body temperature, she said.
Wayne Osness, professor of exercise physiology, said dieters who didn't exercise lost muscle mass instead of fat, which could cause the body's metabolism to require less energy. However, losing muscle is not a healthy way to diet.
"If you don't exercise, it's self-defeating," he said.
Instead, experts recommend long-term. moderate levels of activity. Forty-five minutes to an hour of moderate exercise, such as walking, jogging, rowing or stair climbing, will burn fat.
Amy Drusel, Garden City senior, said she tried to follow a balanced diet.
"I'm careful of how much fat I eat," she said.
Drussel said that exercise has helped her lose weight from fat instead of muscle.
Chapman said it was important to exercise at a proper rate. One method of determining the proper rate to burn fat is breathing. If you can carry on a conversation while exercising, she said, you are at the proper fat-burning rate.
"If you're so winded that you cannot carry on a conversation, your heart rate is too high," she said.
BACK YOUR OWN WEIGHTS
Daily levels of calories and fat Experts recommend that 20 to 30 percent of your calorie.
Calories 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300
Fat Content
(30% of Calories) 46 50 54 56 60 60 64 66 70 74 78
(20% of Calories) 31 33 34 38 40 42 44 47 49 51
Source: The Can Have Diet and More. Patricia M. Stelb, RD,Norma J. Winn, RD
30 percent of your daily calories should come from fat, the chart on the left shows the grams of fat needed daily compared to the amount of calories eaten daily.
Time needed to work off calories:
The benefits
SOURCE THE Complete Guide to Walking and Running,
Walking the Runs, Walking with Kids research
BY INDEE KIRSHN
Participation/ dropout rate
▶ Creates a feeling of well-being
Sixty to 70 percent of U.S. adults who start exercising drop out within the first month. Walking has the lowest dropout rate.
Uses all the major muscles in the legs
> Strengthens the heart: aerobic exercises require the heart to pump faster to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the muscles.
> Strengthens the breathing muscles, increasing lung capacity
> Uses all the major muscles in the legs
KnightRidder Tribune and Noah Musser/KANSAN
Universities could get budget cuts
KU would be hit hardest with $3.4 million slice
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
The Legislature has the Board of Regents scared.
The Regents' primary concern is with the Legislature's budget, said Frank Sabatini, chairman of the Regents. Tighter times bring tighter budgets, and tighter budgets mean cuts.
Not only is it threatening to cut the Regents' budget, but it is also threatening to disband the Regents.
To this year's Legislature, Regents institutions look like prime candidates for budget trimming.
A vote on the budget in the Kansas House of Representatives will be held today.
Last week, the House Appropriations Committee approved a revised version of Gov. Bill Graves budget that would cut $5.8 million from Regents universities' general operating expenses. The University of Kansas would be hit the hardest by the committee's budget with $3.4 million in cuts.
The cuts stem from a lack of awareness about what higher education does for Kansas, Sabatini said.
"It's just an outgrowth of the frustration."
Frank Sabatini chairman of the Board of Regents
Some of the Legislature's hostility might come from its frustration with the complicated governing system for Kansas colleges, Sabatini said. While the Regents control Kansas' six public universities, the Board of Education controls Kansas' community and junior colleges.
This could be the cause for yesterday's hearing in the House to discuss eliminating both the Board of Education and the Regents.
"It's just an outgrowth of the frustration," Sabatini said.
In an effort to save itself and its budget, the Regents have developed a public relations campaign to clarify what the Board and its universities do.
A common complaint about universities is that they spend too much on administration, but the complaint does not hold true at KU, Sabatini said. KU spends 14.1 percent of its budget on academic administration, he said, while its peers spend about 16.1 percent.
Not only are KU's operating costs lower than its peers, but it also gives taxpayers a good return on their money by infusing the economy with jobs, Sabatini said.
Research also contributes to the economy, said Andrew Debicki, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
Research leads to technological developments that benefit business and industry, he said.
But Debicki said the public wasn't aware of the contribution universities made to the economy.
"I think this story needs to be told more often," he said.
If the Legislature follows through on either of its threats, KU will suffer. Sabatini said.
State Rep. Troy Findley, D-Lawrence, said the reduced budget stood a better chance of approval than the elimination of the Regents.
There will be a hearing today on a constitutional amendment to abolish the Board of Education and the Regents and to give the Legislature control of state higher education. But its chances of passing are slim, Findley said.
The tallest player on the Kansas women's basketball team is 6foot-3, so the No.23 Jayhawks practice with Dave Templin and other team managers in an effort to prepare for taller opponents.
Practice makes perfect
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Many students diving into betting pools
By Paul Todd Kansan staff writer
The 64 teams have been chosen. The brackets are out for the Big Dance.
And some KU students' wallets will be inching their way through the draws with their favorite college basketball teams. But according to authorities, those small betting pools are against the law.
Betting pools for the NCAA Division I basketball tournament are prevalent around the KU campus. After paying a certain amount of money, students fill in the NCAA brackets with the teams they think will win tournament games. Each participant gets one point for a first round win, two for the second round and so on up to eight points for picking the final champion. The money then is divided among the participants who earn the most points.
Andy Moore, San Diego freshman, said
"It's not legal—it's gambling."
Gayle Larkin assistant district attorney
the pool organized by his fraternity last year awarded $65 to the first-place winner and $35 to the second-place winner.
But some pools with more participants are worth big money to the winners.
Mike Weishaar, Liberty, Mo., senior, said the pool he was participating in with his friends had not been set up yet since the brackets just came out yesterday. His pool probably will have between 40 and 50 participants, each paying three to five dollars. This is the first time he is participating in this pool, he said.
But betting pools such as this one are illegal, even though participants are hardly ever approached by authorities.
"I did it in high school, but other guys have done it for the past three years," Weishaar said.
Weishaar said he thought the pools were harmless and that they should not be against the law.
"It's not something that gets reported and that gets investigated." Larkin said.
"It's pretty widely known that this goes on in about every business location in the U.S." he said.
But don't expect the police to go knocking on any participants' doors.
"It's not legal — it's gambling." Larkin said. "If it's a game of chance where you have the possibility of winning money, it's gambling."
Gayle Larkin, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said the pools were illegal gambling, even when the bets were only a couple of dollars per person.
Kirk Peters' pool at Battenfeld Scholarship Hall probably will have 5 bettins in the. The Shawnee senior said he thought that the pools should be legal in private residences and offices.
However, not everyone agrees that the betting pools are harmless.
"I don't personally have a problem with it," Peters said. "It's not a national pool with a bookie."
Bob Frederick, chairman of the NCAA Division I basketball committee, said he wished that betting on the tournament was not so prevalent.
"The plethora of office pools reflect the amount of interest the tournament has created," he said. "But I'm upset about the gambling part."
Frederick said that he wanted the press and television to help increase awareness about the gambling problem associated with the tournament.