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Show 2B The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 2, l!)(j Former Olympian Cathy Rigby Discusses Eating Disorder workshops, Ms. McCoy told the largely female audience at Highland High School she was led to purging her stomach because she felt out of control, under pressure and uncared for beyond her performance. The problem began when her weight rose to 103 pounds during adolescence. Ms. McCoy's battle with the eating disorder lasted through 12 years, one marriage and two pregnancies. Ms. McCoy suggested at one point that those with eating disorders may be predisposed toward anorexia or bulimia. "We have this need to prove ourselves for some reason, she said. The gymnast's bulimia ended only when she was confronted by her current husband, actor Tom McCoy, and decided to overcome her habit. Eating without vomiting for the first time "was a big risk, she said. I was afraid I was about to gain 20 pounds and I just sat there waiting to see what would happen." Ms. McCoy's appearance in Salt Lake was part of a series of addresses she is making across the country to eating-disordconferences. Despite her incredible gymnastic skills an unprecedented Olympic performance, her fears of anonymity and apathy drove Cathy Rigby to bulimia, the athlete told a Salt Lake conference Saturday. I didn't want to feel invisible, like a nobody," said the former Olympian, now Cathy Rigby McCoy. If I just could have sat down with my mother and father and coach and just talked, not about food. "You can't focus on food and how much they anorexics or bulimics weigh, because you'll only get rebellion," she said. The comments were made during a Unconference on iversity of anorexia nervosa (deliberate starvation) and bulimia (eating binges followed by vomiting). Ms. McCoy and other speakers stressed the need for parents to talk with their children about the stresses of adolescence which lead to eating disorders, instead of lecturing about weight and eating problems which result from that stress. "It seems to me there needs to be an open communication, not preachy," she and THE METER IS RUNNING . . . With the state looking everywhere but under the bed to try to find a couple of extra bucks to throw' at the ad (I spent all weekend examining the contents of my icemaker and have almost the complete works of Lady Chatterly but before I could get to the juicy part, it melted) With such a keen eye and sense of sleaze, one could probably see the movie Kitten With a Whip" in a pigeon dropping. II APP Y?????D A Y " The Legislature seems to be having a tough time trying to fit the proposed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday into the state's calendar and have narrowed it down to trying to decide whether to dump Columbus Day or Lincoln's birthday . Being an honorary member of this august club, I thought the people should make their preferences known and I conducted a totally unscientific poll on my radio show on KALL Friday morning . The question: What should we dump. Columbus or Lincoln? . The results: 19 for Columbus, 2 for Lincoln, 15 for King, 2 for Pioneer Day, 1 for Arbor Day, 1 for Christmas and 4 to dump the Legislature. STUFF AND STUFF . . . Mountain Fuel has asked permission to lower their rates and I would like to personally OK that . . .Can spring be far behind when the county commission is talking about banning beer in the parks? . . There is reason to go on living the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated is due any day . . Speaking of sports, lovely golferpos-tergir- l Jan Stephenson is featured in a new pin-u- p calendar wearing only strategically placed Dunlop golf balls It gives new meaning to the term, May I play through?" IS THERE LIFE AFTER MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? . . This is the hardest time of the year for us football fanatics with weekends now empty of kickoffs, halftimes and postI recently have disgame shows covered Bloopers, Blunders and Practical Jokes" on Monday nights but it's just not the same I never thought I would actually miss the . hordes that threaten to at the seams, our intrepid Crusader Rabbit" Attorney ' General David Wilkinson, is spending 'taxpayers' money at the rate that would make a defense contractor smile . . Now that he has run out of . courts and judges here in Utah to en- tertain, he has taken his traveling dog and pony show to Denver, bringing down the house with his version of Don Quixote In this case the windmills have 21 inch screens in liv-- , jng color with remote control . . . To Cable TV or Not To Cable TV" -That is the question . . . Stay tuned folks with the tab running in the doneighborhood of a llars, the ending could be very sad no t matter how it turns out. lemming-lik- e . burst our schools . . . ... . half-millio- n . IS THE PILLSBURV DOUGH v pOY A PERVERT? . . . These and (other questions will be answered once and for all if the Legislature suc-feeds in passing three bills aimed at requiring warning labels when adver- tising or recorded music contain subliminal messages . . . Just when there was a threat that Utah might escape the embarrassment of another stupid law that would bring finger pointing and laughter lrom the rest of the country, up pops Rep. Frances Hatch Merrill, who is afraid that her mind and those of her children might be invaded . . . This silliness was brought to the fore by one Terry Jessop, the founder and head (and tail for that matter) of the National Institute for Subliminal Research . . . NATIONAL???? . . . It's a organization that he runs in his spare time. Mr. Jessop contends that sublimin-al- s are a multibillion industry and said he has boxes of stuff to prove his To whit, he puts on a slick point presentation that shows ads for booze in which he sees buttocks in the shadow of the bottle I looked and. frankly, couldn't determine if it were male or female or equine. . .He also sees the word SEX in ice cubes, in the k one-ma- d Tribune Stotf Photo By Poul Frouohton . Cathy Rigby Disorders Prove Risky . . . said. In her keynote address, and later mv 4- - 'I'1 p If S v HfiMII Round trip from Los Angeles No more charters - ... n ... ... Offer good until March 15. Roundtrip from Salt Lake City. No more charters. SAW DIEGO ... ... : d . . t - . fine-hone- d ' i- . USFL! CIAO! wav (Tom Burberi can be heard an KALL Radio from 6 to 10 am. Monday through Friday). Teachers' Group Favors The American Federation of Teachers has announced it will join in a coalition supporting House Bill 90, requiring that Political Action Committees operating in Utah be accountable to the public. In a recent letter to the legislators. AFT stated: Voters who elect public officials have a right and need to know . . who is behind each PAC. LOS ANGELES The false alarm is a major complaint of security system owners. Some home security systems cry wolf so often that, when a real break-ioccurs, their alanns are ignored. System 2000 is the security sys m No more charters. Western Airlines PAC-Disclosu- Hill re which PACs are local and which are out of state." Pat Denslow. AFT director of organizing. issued a challenge to other PACs to join the AFT, League of Women Voters, AFL-CIand other organizations in supporting the bill. 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