Show 'V 11 Crossword 12 Classifieds 14 April 9 2001 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday Key to outsmart calories By Kelly Davis s p there I was sitting in my office with a great big chocolate donut You know the kind Chocolate chocolate chocolate with chocolate frosting I had discovered this little beauty at 1 1 on my way to work and now there it was beaming at me from a little paper plate1 I winked at the donut I was forcing myself to finish a task that our subcontractors in Boston were waiting for I was almost done A few more strokes of the key- board and yes 1 was ready to hit “Send!” I picked up the donut brought it slowly to my lips and then 7-- ’ By Bryce ountless wooden vases small coffee tables a desk and a solid wooden kitchen table adorn this Clarkston home The carpenter Norm Ravsten is not a carpenter He’s a hog farmer But he’s now and has found himself a hobby Some people look at trees and see a living thing that needs protection Others see lumber and paper Still others see treehouses swings and playing children Ravsten sees history “When I see all these trees along the creeldine 1 recognize tlx wonderful thing that our pioneer ancestors did” he says “So I’ve tried to pass on my heritage to my grandchildren by the different wood” Ravsten was surprised to read in The Herald Journal last July that there are no indigenous trees to Logan Every tree on die valley floor except a few small willows along the creek beds was brought in and planted by set- - uHow do you eat that aiid not gain 100 pounds??’ Crap Here we go again with the 100 pounds I looked up at the well- - semi-retir- co- meaning worker I wanted to strangle that person However I smiled sweetly held lip my Diet Coke (jumbo size) and said “Just like my mother always said they cancel each other out” rules of It is fnie There dieting and weight control that people simply do not know My mother is a size 6 chocoholic so I consider her an expert The principle is simple- - Go back to high school biology (Not that part you doofus men!) Somewhere in biology we learned about calories Calories are little blobs of energy that occupy the foods we eat They are smart little blobs of energy because they would much rather hang out in a chocolate donut that a piece of broccoli Wouldn't you? These smart little blobs when left to their own devices are evil They have a homing device that goes straight to your butt making it impossible to get on the jeans you wore yesterday: The trick to stopping that homing device is to be more clever than the calories ' There are ways to do this and 1 am going to give away family secrets in order to help you The first secret I have already alluded to Combine calories with diet drinks If you start with the diet drink your body staffs thinking “OK no calories in this drink Diet ' are-man- -- ' Petersen Jr staff writer ed dors “That really got my wheels spinning I always thought these trees were native” Ravsten says So the trees he had been drying in a shed on his farm since the last fall took on a new ligit They were now a part of the human history of the valley not just the natural The first table he made last summer was out of a black on the homestead willow planted by his the table-to- p that Ravsten still owns The grain-osplits great-grandfath- er EH Norm LucaroHarald Journal n Ravsten fashions furniture and vases out ofhistorically significant trees See WOOD on Page 18 A tree can just about be apart of the family Thanks to this man you don ’t have to part with it even when it dies mode” If you get your body in that mode and thtn add the calories you create The calories are going a “Straight to the butt! Straight to the butt!” and the body is saying “Sony ' right now we’re busy' dieting Try again later” Another secret is that calories respect ownership If 1 walk past my daughter’s dinner plate and see chocolate cake sometimes I tell her that I simply must have the newspaper now: She runs out the door and I ' quickly prab a bite of chocolate cake Or two If she has to go qll the way to the driveway Those calories will not even try to travel to my butt because they are riot 'mine They have already The to ben assigned my daughter only problem with this is that she is catching on to me The other day she paused and took a bowl of chocolate ice cream with her to the driveway ' This secret also applies to restau- rant ordering If you are atThe Copper Mill and the waiter asks if you want turtle cake you say very loudly ' uOh my no thank you!” You have to say it loudly enough that the calories will hear you back in the kitchen Then when your clueless spouse orders the turtle cake you’re home free All of those calories afc his Grab the extra fork and enjoy! Another trick to outsmart calories is to divide and conquer Say there is abig chocolate cookie and' you know you are going to eat it all You may be tempted to scarf it down in five blissful minutes but if you do that you’re in trouble The homing device will go into overdrive “Straight to the butt! Straight to die tug-of-w- ar : ' EH It enables him to Ravsten recently invested in his own Wood-Mizdo all his own milling before fashioning the wood into vases (right) tables and other keepsake items er NEW YORK (AP) -- Kids are refreshingly uninhibited They pick their noses if they need to and don’t wony about who sees them They sing loudly whether or not they can carry a tune And they announce their need to use the bathroom without regard to manners ' But sometimes kids can be a little too free especially when it comes to their clothes — or more specifically to taking off their clothes Children around ages 3 and 4 often enjoy being undressed according to Dr Paula Elbirt who says it’s normal behavior “It feels good!” says Elbirt who is the Manhattan pediatrician behind the advice Web site drpaulacom But there is no clear rule on whether parents should allow their children to parade naked at home: Dr Kyle Pruett a medical1 doctor and a clinical professor of psychology at Yale Child Study Center calls nudity at home a “hugely sensitive cultural issue” that varies by state country climate and ethnic back-- ) ' Tuesday Health: A few drops may do you that time that a body is private body’ But you have to set limits We teach children to follow societal One way to do this js few the to keep their own bodies pri-- : rules and to make other people comally are more shy about showing she says vate J fortable” body parts than Europeans and peo' she says allowing a to' the be to Moreover “For the child will in live climates warmer who exposed ple allow kids to go nude for the sake of adult version of nudity is probably child tobe unclothed after a certain too stirriulating” she says convenience age canbe mentally unhealthy-rule y “Children above the age of 4 or 5 The decision also varies by family There is no Some parents feel that their child’s about when a parent should riover are Uving in a much more' cognitive up but Elbirt says parents should place There's room for too many nudity is natural and cute while otfi-etrust their iiistincts find it completely inappropriate 7 questions in their own minds It’s no “When your child looksat’ you longer a personal sensual expert- Loni Milane the assistant manag-er at Sears Portrait Studio in the differently and you’ll know when ence” she explains That’s what has Theresa Duva of that is’’ Staten Island Mall in New York N J worried that Elbirt ask 30 of about acknowledges Nutley “privacy percent parents says 6- - and ai difficult lesson to sons have a Her of is but for ‘‘naked-babbody” pictures” nude with in' of the habit teach allowed: to take playing employees are not heads underwearon their but makii their issue of a aren’t who “If children of big you photographs “They think it’s funny” she says wearing at least a diaper --7 regard-- their nudity you’re bound to transmit less of age negative feelings1’ she says And sounding a little perplexed “I think Still kids who like to play in their making strict rules about keeping it’s inappropriate” ' Duva fears that she’s got “little birthday suits in the comfort of their clothed can exacerbate the problem “If you’re rigid about the nudity nudists” on her hands own homes can worry some parents: But Yale’s Pruett is not alarmed by Why do they do it? Should it be issue it's like fdiden fruit” But Elbirt says it’s OK to curb the the behavior “When you are in allowed? What ages are appropriate? cahoots with a sibling then you are Elbirt says that by the age of 4 behavior “You can say to the child ‘It feels taking pleasure in tempting a social kids become more aware of their to feel the wind on your norm” he explains: naked bodies so they should team at ground- : ‘ Elbirt notes that Americans gener- - par-en- ts ' hard-and-fa- -- : Eli LuceroHerald Journal child is a No need for alarm i -- See DAVIS on Page 18 LucaraHeiald Journal st rs : y Features: 752-212-1 1 |