ise n. Wednesday, December 5, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 11 id fa \tkep, )? Medicine for middle-age on the rise United Press International [lake BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Morris Notelovitz, an expert in the field of'middle age, is 49 and cringes at the thought of being 20 again. HWhat Notelovitz shouts from the | ■ountaintops is acceptance — and enjoyment — of middle life. As a gy necologist, Notelovitz specifically targets menopause as the main prob lem for women. ■ Notelovitz, a University of Florida professor, is chairman of the Inter national Congress on the Meno pause. The congress, which at- j tfctted 500 experts in the field, recently met to try to dispel the “myths” surrounding menopause and middle age. JThe experts admit the human bodv undergoes many changes as people approach and enter middle age However, people no longer must sit back and take what life throws their way, the new theory goes. B“0nce you accept a new lifestyle, age almost becomes irrelevant,” said Notelovitz. I’ Regular exercise, appropriate diet and moderation in everything resent the foundation for a life change, Notelovitz said, p He said such simple measures can help stave off cardiovascular prob lems, diabetes and even osteoporo sis, a crippling bone-thinning disease that primarily af fects women after menopause. ■ That’s the basis for much of the study of climacteric — middle-age — medicine. Prevention is the key. Di eting and exercise must be under taken at 35 instead of 65, when it’s probably too late to help. ■ But climacteric medicine is rela tively new compared with pediatrics ichildren) and geriatrics (the el derly). Notelovitz said too much em- jHiasis has been placed on those pjlds and not enough on climacter ics |! But climacterics is gaining, and Notelovitz predicts it will be raised to the same level with pediatrics and geriatrics in the next decade. With more emphasis on middle age medi cine, Notelovitz said people will be healthier as they grow older and less [^pressure will be placed on doctors j treating the elderly. testyle fe Around town Apply for Fish Camp chairman now Student Y Fish Camp is now accepting applications for chair man, sub-chairman and recreation coordinator. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Thursday. There will be a reception for all ap plicants in the MSC on Friday The course lations insurance, through Aftet Hours Program will sponsor a driver safety . This course mav be used to have certain traffic vio- ■ppaty . to receive a it) percent discount on automobile Registration will be held from B a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday hi 216 MSC. For more information call 845-1515. 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COLLEGE AVE. -(BETWEEM WYATT'S CAFETERIA AND FARMER'S MARKET BBQ) RO Pension costs are down impact of ERISA 5 HT :ter United Press International ■NEW YORK — Federal pension reform legislation, which caused howls of protest when it was imple mented a decade ago, has not turned out to be the economic burden many businesses predicted. bIA study of large corporate pen sion plans this year found a down ward trend in pension costs, accord ing to Mary Fanning, manager of the national research center of John son & Higgins, which has conducted surveys of the country’s 700 largest companies for the last seven years. ||Tne study found that 1983 pen sion expenses were almost 5 percent lower than in 1982. ||“We find this study, published on the tenth anniversary of the Em- j)loyee Retirement Security Act par ticularly significant,” said Carl Swope, head of research and devel opment for Johnson 8c Higgins. ERISA required minimum stan- rds of funding for private pension plans in an effort to insure that com panies which claimed to provide pension protection for their employ ees actually did so. At the time it was passed into law, business lobbyists claimed the cost of ERISA Would send some companies uptcy, from providing pension benefits at all. The Johnson 8c Higgins study, however, found pension expense per employee in 1983, when ad justed for inflation, was virtually the same as when ERISA was passed. The performance of the stock and bond market, where most pension assets are invested, helped keep costs down, Johnson 8c Higgins said. De cline in inflation was another factor, since a rising cost of living pushes pension expenses higher through salary increases and benefit formula improvements. The study also cited increased use of specialized pension asset manage ment, including dedicated or immu nized asset portfolios and expansion of investment in real estate. “I think the key point for us was that pension plans are coming out of the closet as a matter of corporate fi nancial planning,” said fanning. “There was a time people thought of pension plans as a purely benevo lent act on the part of the employer. Something of that aura has hung over them for years.” Now Johnson 8c Higgins has been finding companies are using the same strategic planning for pensions JsfioS ^CONVEIW’ 5 8e