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The Battalion
Monday, January 16, 1989
Professor counsels
holiday overeaters
By Sharon Maberry
Staff Writer
The holiday season, a time of
sharing with family and friends,
often revolves around the sharing
of food. Irresistible treats seem to
be everywhere and people tend to
eat more than usual.
Many people gain a few extra
pounds during this time and
upon returning to their normal
schedules in January, try to shed
the extra weight quickly. Some di
eters rely solely on appetite sup
pressants to do the job. But Texas
A&M psychologist Dr. Paul Well
man says effective weight loss re
quires more.
“It took a couple of weeks to
put it on and you won’t be able to
drop it immediately,” Wellman
says. “You could use appetite sup
pressants, but they won’t work by
themselves.”
A danger in using appetite
suppressants is people often ex
ceed the prescribed dosage in the
belief that if a little is good, then a
lot must be great, Wellman says.
However, overdoses can result in
such things as hypertension and
cerebral vascular accidents.
For those wishing to lose a few
pounds, Wellman advises dietary
restriction.
“Sometimes you have no
choice,” he says. “If you’re (A&M)
President (William) Mobley, you
might have a problem because his
job involves a lot of entertaining
which usually includes good food.
That’s part of the problem with
the Christmas holidays. Your par
ents overfeed you.”
Wellman also suggests the loca
tion of your weight scale can aid
in the prevention of overeating.
“During the holidays, you stop
getting on the scale,” he says. “Put
the scale out where you can use it
every day, like by your bed or in
front of the refrigerator. Then,
when you go to the kitchen
looking for something to eat, you
might decide you don’t need that
extra snack.”
Moderate exercise, such as
brisk walking, in conjunction with
dietary restriction will increase
weight loss, Wellman says.
“A couple of people in my de
partment lost 10 to 15 pounds in
a few months by walking a mile or
two in the evening,” he says.
Doug McMillan, a nationally
certified exercise specialist and
athletic trainer at A&M, agrees
that exercise is an important part
of effective weight loss.
“The best advice is a combina
tion of diet and exercise,” McMil
lan says. “If you just diet alone
and try to restrict your calories,
you become very hungry. How
ever, if you mildly restrict calories
and engage in appropriate exer
cise, you can achieve a deficit
without restricting your caloric
intake so heavily.”
McMillan advises low intensity
aerobic exercise such as brisk
walking, jogging and cycling.
“If you exercise at low inten
sities, you can sustain it over a
longer period of time,” he says.
“If you exercise aerobically, your
body starts utilizing fats for
food.”
Walkers can achieve appropri
ate caloric expenditures by walk
ing 45 to 60 minutes at about four
miles per hour, he says. Joggers
expend the same energy in 30 to
40 minutes at about six mph. Cy
cling requires about an hour and
a half to two hours because it is a
non-weight bearing exercise.
Although swimming is an aero
bic exercise, McMillan does not
recommend it as a method for
weight loss.
“It’s tough to lose weight
through swimming,” he says. “It
is non-weight bearing and 90 to
95 percent of the muscular work
is in the arm and shoulder girdle.
Your arms will be trained aero
bically, but there is much less
muscle work involved than most
people would think.”
McMillan offers some general
guidelines on dieting:
• Mild caloric restriction.
• Don’t snack between meals.
• Don’t eat unless you’re hun
gry.
• Eat well-balanced meals.
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Sakowitz to re-enter Dallas area
DALLAS (AP) — Houston-based
retail chain Sakowitz plans to re-en
ter the Dallas market less than four
years after it left.
“We want to make a major
statement by re-entering the Dallas
market with focused concentration
on a, personal service, specialty-
oriented, men’s and women’s fash
ion store,” said Robert T. Sakowitz,
grandson of the chain’s founder.
The chain has signed a lease for a
33,000-square-foot store previously
occupied by Foley’s in Highland
Park Village, an upscale shopping
center, and Sakowitz that could be
the start of several stores in the Dal
las area.
“Anybody who enters a city would
be foolish not to look at the opportu
nities to expand,” Sakowitz said.
“Dallas deserves that. We don’t see
Dallas as a one-store market.”
Sakowitz, which once operated
three stores in Dallas and one in
Midland, filed for Chapter 11 bank
ruptcy in 1985 as the state’s oil bust
translated into retail market failures.
Now with only four stores in Hous
ton, Sakowitz is hoping its Dallas
venture marks the chain’s first suc
cessful outside expansion since its
emergence from bankruptcy.
The company filed its Chapter 11
petition in August 1985 and
emerged with its debt reorganized in
November 1987. As part of the reor
ganization, Sakowitz sold part of his
equity to a subsidiary of Australia-
based L.J. Hooker International.
Although 1988 sales for both Sa
kowitz and Houston-based Foley’s
exceeded expectations, the flatness
of the retail industry — especially in
women’s apparel — and flagging
sales at its downtown store caused
Foley’s to reassess its presence in
Dallas.
Foley’s closed its Highland Park
Village location and will close two
other Dallas stores, including its
downtown facility on Jan. 21. Offi
cials said the Highland Park location
made buying difficult because its
small size didn’t fit in with the rest of
the chain’s needs.
But Sakowitz said that won’t be a
problem for his operation.
“We are not a department store;
that’s not who we are,” he told the
Dallas Morning News.
sive men’s designer items as
Boss suits and Armani ties.
Still, analysts say the speciai
.lure of the store, the smallsiiij
the extra financial burden of
ing one store in the market:
the prospect risky.
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Despite fierce competition from
other tenants of Highland Park Vil
lage, like Chanel, Polo, Calvin Klein
and other upscale boutiques, Sako
witz said the more-focused retail
store will have a good chance of sur
vival. The store itself will have gran
ite and marble walkways, glass and
chrome partitions and plush carpet
ing. Fashion will feature such exclu-
“It’s tough for just one stt>.
succeed, especially one so focul
women’s apparel where sale
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the venture will be worth it.
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took it,” he said.
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MIDLAND (AP) —There’s a birdman in town
whose heart flies with the birds and particularly,
with aerobatic hummingbirds, who savor life’s
sweetness.
Woody Erskine is his name.
For 28 years, he has been the spouse of Midge
Erskine, an outspoken environmentalist and bird
rehabilitator, who, at least in the media, has over
shadowed her husband.
Erskine himself is a geologist. Since there’s a
slowdown in that field in West Texas, he has put
his inventive talents to work in other ways.
“I’m an exploration geologist,” he said. “And
there’s about as much use for an exploration ge
ologist in Midland the last few years as there is
for a slide-rule salesman.”
One of his innovatons is fancy hummingbird
feeder of his own design.
The ceramic feeder is molded from the earth’s
best clay, kaolin, is hand-decorated and fired in a
kiln at at 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is marketed under the Erskines’ Capote Re
search and Development Company. “Capote” is
taken from “El Capote,” Erskine’s grandfather’s
ranch, so called because of low-flying clouds that
cloaked its South Texas hills.
The feeder, Erskine said, represents a quixotic
quest: a seemingly futile effort to preserve the
world’s wildlife. Erskine’s fears he is “romancing
with noble deeds and unreachable ideals.”
“We are not going to save the hummingbird by
coming out with a hummingbird feeder,” said
Erskine, 58, who has had an affinity for birds and
treating sick, injured and crippled birds since his
childhood in Iowa and St. Louis. “Our society is
doing everything possible to destroy the hum
mingbird — pesticides, chemicals and habitat de
struction.”
The feeder’s aesthetic beauty will appeal to
people far more than its practicality and may
hold special appeal to people who enjoy “House
Beautiful” magazine.
“That’s really the idea of the feeder,” he said.
“It’s a personal thing. It’s for people as well as for
hummingbirds. It’s a good deal.”
From a functional standpoint, the feeder is de
signed to be “the best hummingbird feeder on
the market,” Erskine said. “It has so many things
going for it that other hummingbird feeders
don’t.”
Such as:
• The porcelain feeder is heavy enough to re
main stable in the West Texas wind.
• It is not cheap-looking and gaudy as are
some plastic feeders and it is durable.
• It is adaptable for feeding larger birds and
is designed to discourage bees and wasps from
robbing the birds of the sugared water.
• It is impervious to harsh weather and is
dishwasher-proof.
• The feeder’s lace-like porcelain screen con
ceals the polystyrene reservoir bottle, which can
be filled from the top.
• The bottle’s plunger valve is activated by a
tin weight, which, unlike lead, is not toxic to
birds.
• The feeder’s design allows ultraviolet light
into the reservoir and prevents mold formation.
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Shell Oil Co. He never made it back tosck
finish the degree. ____
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Shell in Houston and Abilene, he settled in
land in 1970. He left Shell in 1974 tobecoi
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