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Show .',-.-' .- ' , ' ' v ' . . - Fitness' Tips ce most people enjoy eating, that's got to be an advantage for the runners. At Stanford University, male runners aged 35 to 59 were found to ingest 2,960 calories per day, compared to 2,360 for randomly selected select-ed 'average" males j i the corresponding figure for middle-aged women runners was 2,390 calories per day, compared to 1,820 for average women of the same age. The lesson we are learning from runners 4s that large food intakes are often associated associ-ated with leanness,, and small : food infakes with obesity. Could more food .intake give more needed nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, bulk; etc., to' make one more healthy without' increasing weight? At any rate, runners make . good fat burners and it is obvious that cardiovascular exercise is the key factor. Not only do runners burn calories at a higher rate, white running-their resting metabolic rate is increased above that of sedentary people for many hours after running. , The appestate mechanism probably functions better tat high energy expenditures enabling runners to more easily maintain an ideal weight. x' A final subtle' point may - have something to do with fat tissue acting as a heat insulator. Since runners are 4 skinny, they lose heat rapidly. This helps keep runner slim by burning extra calories, especially when itds calories, especially when it's cold. , Whatever the reason, the Vproff of the pudding" is that you just don't see fat runners once they get conditioned and stay with a ! . good running program. . A few stops along the fitness trail .r,eem appropriate appropri-ate at this time. Remember Linus Pauling, the Nobel Laureate, and the controversy he has stirred up relative to vitamin C? One -of Pauling's claims is that . vitamin G will benefit cancer patients, , but hisviews v are notweiKacceptetl.anipng the medical v" establishment' because of too little experi-1 ' mental evidence to . support it. -v, . ;. - 1; Medical Update and Health Heal-th Digest, volume IV, numb-v numb-v er -1, mentions some new experimental evidence in support of the claims. v University, of. Colorado researchers are how prepar- -ing data showing ; that ;smali : doses of .vitamins vC and E ; applied , to: tumors test tubesenhance the -effect of drug therapy and greatly slow tumor growth; . ;.' ; " s J 1 ; : ; A TTe,xas study showed that animals" treated with, vita mijisA and 'Calotig: with these - drug's; i survived ; three : tinjes longer thanuntreated animals. Researchers believe, that the;; vitamins; act by stimulating' th'er bbdy'sim: j munities to fight growth. , . A National Cancer Institute Insti-tute trial showed that increasing increa-sing the amount of vitamin C dose from 5 grams to 1 8 grams (that's a big - dose) -over two days quadruples young patients' ability to fight the disease. , Pauling found that cancer patients given' vitamin C :.jiv6d an average of four times longef.ihan cancer patients who did not receive 'vitamin supplements. , , . At any rate, an open mind seems to be more appropriate appropri-ate than nori-acceptance of these so-called "far 'out'' ; t vitamin cjaims. Obviously, , much more research is .needed, but these, data .should not be ignored, since r cancer is the second leading cause-; of. death in this country. ' - ' . " - i . f:js .' : I : : f Advantages of Being f ' : : A Runner ! , f :; Thirty: percent of middle-aged .women and 15 percent J ' " middle-aged men are obese. They weigh more than 120 percent of desired weight What's more, they eat less than active people (runners) . Sin- |