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Show Family of missing N.H. children planning to visit Ohio site where bodies were found photobyAP TERI KNIGHT stands with her husband James Knight holding a favorite painting showing her twins holding hands with her missing children, Sarah and Philip Gehring, at her home in Hillsboro, N.H., on Saturday, Dec. 3,2005. Athourities in Ohio confirmed that two bodies found Thursday were those of Sarah and Philip. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Family members of two children who were slain by their father in 2003 plan to visit the Ohio site where the corpses were found, and a relative said they hope for some privacy. The bodies of Sarah Gehring, 14, and her brother, Philip Gehring, 11, were identified Saturday by the medical examiner's office in Summit County, Ohio. They were found two days earlier, buried in a wooded area near the town of Hudson. The children's mother, Teri Knight, had been searching for them since they disappeared in July 2003. Knight's husband, Jim Knight, said Sunday that decisions will be made in the next few days about when they will go to Ohio, probably to have the children's bodies cremated there and then bring the ashes home to New Hampshire. "At some point, we will have a funeral," he said. Knight said he hoped for greater privacy when it comes to visiting the grave site and bringing the children's ashes home. "These last items, it's just a series of things we need to do for ourselves," he said. The children last were seen in 2003 with their father at a July Fourth fireworks show in Concord, N.H. Their father, Manuel Gehring, told authorities he pulled off a highway later that night and shot the children, then drove for hours with their bodies in his van before he buried them. He was arrested in California a week later. Before he committed suicide by strangling himself in jail, Gehring told police he couldn't remember where he dumped the bodies. He did, however, provide clues that led to repeated searches along a 700-mile stretch of 1-80 from Pennsylvania to Nebraska. The US. Geological Survey concluded in 2004 after analyzing pollen found on dirt under Gehring's minivan and the shovel used to bury the children that the soil most likely came from northeastern Ohio. Teri Knight said she searched within five miles of Hudson last summer. She never gave up hope of rinding the children, who vanished just months before she gave birth to twin daughters. "I always knew it would happen someday," she said Saturday. "I was trying to figure out a way that I was going to be able to move forward in my life, and raise my daughters without having that be something that consumed my life." The children's remains were found by Stephanie Dietrich, whose dog led her to the burial site. She said she had taken the dog on several other searches for the children in the area. BYU professor loses weight by eating whatever he wants SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - When Steven Hawks is tempted by ice cream bars, M&Ms and toffee-covered almonds at the grocery store, he doesn't pass them by. He fills up his shopping cart. It's the no-diet diet, an approach the Brigham Young University health science professor used to lose 50 pounds and to keep it off for more thanfiveyears. Hawks calls his plan "intuitive eating" and thinks the rest of the country would be better off if people stopped counting calories, started paying attention to hunger pangs and ate whatever they wanted. As part of intuitive eating, Hawks surrounds himself with unhealthy foods he especially craves. He says having an overabundance of what's taboo helps him lose his desire to gorge. There is a catch to this no-diet diet, however: Intuitive eaters only eat when they're hungry and stop when they're full. That means not eating a box of chocolates when you're feeling blue or digging into a big plate of nachos just because everyone else at the table is. The trade-off is the opportunity to eat whatever your heart desires when you are actually hungry. "One of the advantages of intuitive eating is you're always eating things that are most appealing to you, not out of emotional reasons, not because it's there and tastes good," he said. "Whenever you feel the physical urge to eat something, accept it and eat it. The cravings tend to subside. I don't have anywhere near the cravings I would as a 'restrained eater.'" Hawks should know. In 1989, the Utah native had a job at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and wanted to return to his home state. But at 210 pounds, he didn't think a fat person could get a job teaching students how to be healthy, so his calorie-counting began. He lost weight and got the job at Utah State University. But the pounds soon came back. For several years his weight fluctuated, until he eventually gave up on being a restrained eater and the weight stayed on. "You definitely lose weight on a diet, but resisting biological pressures is ultimately doomed," Hawks said. Several years later and still overweight at a new job at BYU, Hawks decided it was time for a lifestyle change. He stopped feeling guilty about eating salt-and-vinegar potato chips. He also stopped eating when he wasn't hungry. Slowly and steadily his weight began to drop. Exercise helped. His friends and co-workers soon took notice of the slimmer Hawks. "It astonished me, actually," said his friend, Steven Peck. "We were both very heavy. It was hard not to be struck." After watching,Hawks lose and keep the weight off for a year and a half, Peck tried intuitive eating in January. "I was pretty skeptical of the idea you could eat anything you wanted until you didn't feel like it. It struck me as odd," said Peck, who is an assistant professor at BYU. But 11 months later, Peck some- times eats mint chocolate chip ice cream for dinner, is 35 pounds lighter and a believer in intuitive eating. "There are times when I overeat. I did at Thanksgiving," Peck said. "That's one thing about Steve's ideas, they're sort of forgiving. On other diets if you slip up, you feel you've blown it and it takes a couple weeks get back into it.... This sort of has this built-in forgiveness factor." The one thing all diets have in common is that they restrict food, said Michael Goran, an obesity expert at the University of Southern California. Ultimately, that's why they usually fail, he said. "At some point you want what you can't have," Goran said. Still, he said intuitive eating makes sense as a concept "if you know what you're doing." Intuitive eating alone won't give anyone six-pack abs, Hawks said, but it will lead to a healthier lifestyle. He still eats junk food and keeps a jar of honey in his office, but only indulges occasionally. "My diet is actually quite healthy. ... I'm as likely to eat broccoli as eat a steak," he said. "It's a misconception that all of a sudden a diet is going to become all junk food and high fat," he said. In a small study published in the American Journal of Health Education, Hawks and a team of researchers examined a group of BYU students and found those who were intuitive eaters typically weighed less and had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease than other students. He said the study indicates intuitive eating is a viable approach to longterm weight management and he plans to do a larger study across different cultures. Ultimately, he'd like intuitive eating to catch on as a way for people to normalize their relationship with food and fight eating disorders. "Most of what the government is telling us is, we need to count calories, restrict fat grams, etc. I feel like that's a harmful message," he said. "I think encouraging dietary restraint creates more problems. I hope intuitive eating will be adopted at a national level." • SPILL From page 2 between a communist system that tightly con- • University of Science and Technology. trols information and a fast-changing society. "I don't think even one or two big incidents Investors and ordinary Chinese want to know like this one can change the general pattern more about the economy, health and other in China, because it involves too many things issues, and the public faces an array of threats - the central government, local government, from pollution, bird flu and other problems. how free the media are, the legal system," Ding said. 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Chinese government affairs at the Hong Kong Premier Wen Jiabao visited Harbin three Businesses, small groups, large groups! Ask about our $5 menu! days later and promised to investigate the disaster and to protect the public better. The Chinese government was forced to make embarrassing apologies to both its public and to Russia. By contrast, when Chinese farmers elsewhere protest that similar pollution ruins their crops, the government breaks up the demonstrations and suppresses mention of them in state media. "The Chinese central government perhaps now has much more knowledge about crises in local areas," Ding said. "But that doesn't mean the local government levels will be as honest to outsiders, media or to ordinary people." Lieberthal points to China's bird flu outbreaks as a possible area where even Beijing is not completely candid. China has reported dozens of outbreaks, but only three confirmed human cases. "Epidemiologists that I talk to say those ratios are not feasible. There have to be more people who have contracted it," he said. "The shortfall seems to be in their commitment to avoid panic." So far, Beijing says the problem in China's My Printing is pone on time!" latest disaster was the chemical spill on the Songhua, not the decision to keep the public in the dark. But the loudest outcry was over the secrecy, which Chinese media say was a choice made by provincial party leaders. Time magazine, citing an unidentified participant in a government meeting, said last week the leaders were worried about possible damage to tourism or investment. There has been no sign that any of them will be punished. The country's chief environmental regulator, criticized for failing to detect the spill sooner, resigned in an apparent warning to officials to keep Beijing better informed. "Maybe next time, the local officials will become more effective at reacting to a crisis," Ding said. 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