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Show HW1 i , UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. August 5. 1997- - Pagp 13 i l ' . 11 ' ' " " Adhesive patch may help end bad habit of .... overeating? ? emeu. & pad apptala to Average 'wants 1y wight win lota-- 30 Autos New Service - LONDON Just a mouthful of known as Death by Chocolate can lead the dieter into downward, guilty spiral. Now help Is on the way. With help from a scented, uheeive patch designed to keep people flora craving chocolate, dieters will never have to succumb to temptation again. The Diet Scent patch, from the British firm LP. Slimline, is bassd on aromacology studies which say that 95 percent of taste comes from smell. The small, blue, square patch is saturated with the aroma of a tropical orchid that smells Kke almond and vanilla, which the manufacturers say "can have an almost immediate effect in VETERAN SINGERS-T- he Sesquicentennial Choir sings a tune during the UBIC during Thursday entertainment in Roosevelt Indians spent $4.2M for gambling lobby BEST PAL-- A Indian tribes spent at least $4.2 million last year to buy influence in .Washington and to protect their gambling interests, according to a study released Monday. The biggest chunk of the money, some $2.3 iwillinn, went to run the tribes Washington lobbying opera-tion- s and to hire outside lobbyists, said the Center for Responsive Politics. ' Most ofthe firepower was directed at three issues: a Successful fight to head off proposed new federal fay on tribal gambling revenue; formation of a national gambling study commission; and changes in federal regulation. The biggest spender was the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, which paid $700,000. boy and his dog watch UBIC entertainment, Saturday evening. diminishing the desire for chocolate, biscuits and cakes" when worn on the hand, wrist or just inside a shirt on the chest. LP. Slimline says the patch is completely safe beouiae it works only through the. sense of smell and cannot penetrate the skin. It cannot enter the bloodstream or interfere with other medicines. "Its what we - call the Christmas Dinner Syndrome," said Lis Paul, LP. Slimlines managing dirsetor. "Aroused by the cooking smells, all the family are looking forward to the Christmas dinner weight-inducin- g - seting on the Pavlovian aH that is except the cook who has been bending over the stove and response (of smelling the food and whose olfactory senses are immediately wanting to eat it)." Bemuse the test tubes could saturated. be eaten, he said the test was not "By the time the cook has smelled the roasting turkey and able to move beyond initial eating instincts. He tested people fbr six steaming pudding for hours, cheese and toast often seem mors months with peppermint, green apple and banana smells and appetising." Paul, a restaurant owner who found an average weight loos of 30 invented the patch, arid the idea pounds for thoea who had a normal came to her when she noticed chefs sense of smell. Though Hirsch said it is not in her rsetsurant preferred to send out fbr take-awa- y food rather than dear whether the scents triggered eat the dishes they had just a physiological change that tricked prepared. She remembered her the body into thinking it had just mother not wanting to sat the eaten the food or whether it was ust reconditioning of the Christmas lunch she ivlovian response, he did note Although aromatherapists and that the tests seemed to imply that doctors will not endorse the patch, the more the person liked the smell die man weight lam they say the theory behind it occurred. makes sense. In fact, Hirsch said he had to Dr. Alan Hindi, neurological director of the Smell and Taste stop the experiment bemuse Treatment and Research subjects wen losing too much Foundation in Chicago, has just Sut he emphasized that his published a book explaining his research linking scent to weight study covered only three scents over six months. After the six "Its dear that smelling months, "we don't know what different odon can help you loss happened to the people, and we dont know if this works fbr all said. the failun of an early odors." Ha is currently working on teat in which medical students another test over 13 months. wen askad to sniff a chocolate bar .Aromatherapist Geraldine whenever they Cnved chocolate -t- Howard said the theory behind he students ate the chocolate -- the patch mads sense "because ifs Hirsch mid he revamped his study perfectly true that some smells and trapped certain odon in a test can affect the limbic system and tube instead. caum a physiological response in The first study "only proved the body. But I would still view two things, ha said. "You can't (Diet Scent) with severe trust medical students, and they skepticism. fit1 Caution lights will remind drivers to slow down in Union High school zone press their concerns regarding the poorly marked crosswalk and the Highway safety advocates in great potential fbr accidents in the Roosevelt have been successful in congested area. UDOT repainted the crosswalks attempts to have school zone warning lights erected near Union High. last spring and following their trafRoosevelt and Ballard city officials fic survey last May declared that have agreed that each entity will warning lights were warranted. purchase flashing yellow lights to Although UDOT doesnt have the be placed along Highway 40 on the money to pay fbr the lights right north side of Union High school. now, they offered to install them if The signals are expected to bo the communities funded their purin time fiw the start of school chase, , ; fly Leelee E. Whiting oper-ation- - ' on Aug. 20. Thehighschoolritsonthebound-ar- y line which divides Uintah and According to Union PTSA President Pam Bents, a study conducted Duchesne counties and Roosevelt by the Utah Department of Trane-partitio-n and Ballard cities. The two cities prior to the end of the will come up with $375 to purchase school year last spring confirmed the need for caution lights in the school zone to warn motorists of the 20 mile per hour apeed limit. The posted speed limit when school is not in session is 35 miles per hour, but many people anticipating the 55 mile per hour speed limit just past the school zone begin accelerating too early. Bents and others wrote to UDOT officials several months ago to ex H SIDEWALK SAFETY -- Roosevelt City crews are working hard to complete construction of a new sidewalk running from lower Hillcrest Drive Road to Clubhouse Drive. The city obtained a $40,000 grant to do the work. The project includes 2,000 feet of six sidewalk running aiong the east side of the Neola High- foot-wi- UBIC EMCEES-Thurs- Perry Taylor. day night emcees were Mason Duncan and Introducing.... Lee Self, M.D. de Obstetrics & Gynecology t Normal 6 High Risk Pregnancies Infertility Family Planning General Gynecology Laparoscopic Surgery Laser SurgeryColposcopy Menopause Management Counseling PMS Pap Smears FISHING FUN Some sportsmen, sportswomen and sportskids hope to hook a nice size fish up in the Uinta Canyon area. Utah State UnivetTity Uintah Basin Branch Campus ; Announces '.'i . SECOND , , SCHOLARSHIP DRIVE C ....... T. V V y ..- - CREST GUY-- A former singer of the Crest sings his famous song, Sixteen Candles. - - , ' ' : jTvr Scholarships: Academic Sterling Scholar General . , s' . - Leadership Rodeo Specific Anas of v'O "?Jj Applications Available At VemaJRoosevelt Offices for those who have not submitted an application ' this year,.., "vr;VV.;. " Dr. Self will be starting her practice at the Uintah Basin Wamen's Health Qinic in Roosevelt, on August 4, 1997. She is coming from Rochester, New York where she has completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of rochester Medical Center. Prior to completion of her medical training. Dr. Self worked as a licensed professional counselor in lexas. Dr. Seif and her husband have one daughter that is now a student at the University of Dallas. iwy-ng- frfru r i 'omens Heali , fs ;Tiiw3ayt- - lchnVVallMedClink: L.:gQn722aikd:(Soi)738ug Uintah Basin Medical Center Uintah Basin Medical Clinic "A Jr Deadline August 10,1997 A . .rnrmm 4- . Committment to Caring " P |