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Tuesday • April 18,1
Early voting begins
Women s health endangered by poor dif
Early voting for the Bryan and
College Station city and school board
elections began Monday and will
continue until May 2.
Bryan residents may vote in the
lobby of the Bryan Municipal building.
College Station residents may vote at
the College Station City Hall Council
Chamber or the College Station
Independent School District
Administration building. All sites are
open Monday through Friday from 8
a.m. until 5 p.m.
No excuse is needed to vote early.
Suburban schools
By Amy Tramm
A.P. Bf.utel Health Center
report more crime
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STERLING HAYMAN, Opinion editor
ROB CLARK, Aggie life editor
NICK GEORGANDIS, Sports editor
DAVE WINDER, Sports editor
STEWART MILNE, Photo editor
Staff Members
City desk— Stephanie Dube, Kasie Byers, Eleanor Colvin, Lynn Cook, Brad Dressier, Lisa Messer,
Gretchen Perrenot, Tracy Smith, Wes Swift, and Brian Underwood
News desk— Kristi Baldwin, Michele Chancellor, Kristin De Luca, Kristen De Rocha, Libe Goad,
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Photographers— Tim Moog, Amy Browning, Robyn Calloway, Nick Rodnicki, Eddy Wylie, Bart
Mitchell, Roger Hsieh and Rogge Heflin
Aggielife— Michael Landauer, Amber Clark, Amy Collier, Keryl Cryer, Nikki Hopkins and Jay
Knioum
Sports writers— lames Anderson, Kristina Buffin, Tom Day, Shelly Hall and Robert Rodriguez
Opinion — Erin Hill, Drew Diener, Laura Frnka, Zack Hall, David Hill, Kyle Littlefield,
Jenny Magee, Jim Pawlikowski, Elizabeth Preston, Gerardo Quezada, David Taylor
and Amy Uptmor
Cartoonists— Greg Argo, Brad Graeber, Alvaro Gutierrez and Quatro Oakley
Office Assistants— Wendy Crockett, Heather Fitch, Adam Hill and Julie Thomas
Graphic Artist — Ines Hilde
Writing Coach— Mark Evans
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LONGVIEW (AP) — A new study
that found suburban districts reported
the largest percentage of crimes
occurring on Texas school campuses
was surprising to the authors and
some education officials.
Researchers from Sam Houston
State University and the two state
agencies surveyed 50 school
districts statewide, ranging from
Houston with 200,445 students to
Three Way with 128.
Researchers found a lower on-
campus crime rate in the Houston,
Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth and San
Antonio systems than in smaller
suburban districts.
The greatest percentage of
incidents was reported by districts
with 25,000 to 49,999 students
each. Arlington, Klein, Lubbock,
Northeast and Spring Branch.
Researchers study
heart blockages
DALLAS (AP) — A device that
reams out clogged heart arteries
may result in more deaths than
angioplasty, a more traditional
method that uses a tiny balloon to
open blockages, a study suggests.
Researchers found that 2.2
percent of patients who underwent the
scraping procedure, known as
atherectomy, died within one year,
compared with 0.6 percent of patients
who had the balloon procedure.
Atherectomy involves inserting a
device attached to a catheter into a
blocked artery to shave off fatty
plaque from the vessel wall.
During angioplasty, a balloon is
pushed into the area of the blockage
and inflated, widening the pathway
for blood flow by flattening plaque
against the artery wall.
Women’s health is a critical
issue and political platform.
Although women live longer
than men, women have more
chronic conditions and a higher
incidence of disabilities from
health problems.
The leading causes of death in
North American adult women are
cardiovascular disease, weight,
osteoporosis, cancer and diabetes.
Excess body weight, especial
ly in the abdominal region, is
the primary predictor of cardio
vascular disease in women.
Consistent with men’s health,
elevated levels of low density
lipoprotein cholesterol indicate
heart disease risk. However,
unlike men, low levels of high
density lipoprotein cholesterol
are a greater predictor of heart
disease than LDL.
To reduce the LDL in your
blood, buy lean meat and trim
off fat. Eat less fatty meats
such as ground beef, bacon, ribs,
sausage and lunch meats.
Add more fruits and vegeta
bles to your diet. The American
Dietetic Association recom
mends two to four servings of
fruit and three to five servings
of vegetables every day.
Use less fat in cooking. Bake,
boil, roast and stew foods.
Exercise more. Increasing
your aerobic activity to three to
five times per week, only if it is
just for 15 or 20 minutes, will
improve your cardiovascular
system, decrease your LDL and
reduce your risk of obesity.
Women are vulnerable to
health risks associated with being
overweight, losing weight and be
ing underweight by choice.
Between one-quarter to one-
third of North American women
are overweight.
Obesity may cause coronary
heart disease, high blood pres
sure, diabetes, gall stones and
cancers of the reproductive or
gans. Excess body weight has
also been linked to ose-
teoarthritis of the knee, infer
tility and increased risk of in
fection after surgery.
Women may also experience
economic and emotional stigmas
associated with being over
weight. In a society that re
wards thinness and often rejects
people who are overweight,
women may find it difficult to
have a positive body image.
This fear of being fat drives
many women to be underweight,
which also is associated with
medical risks.
For many women, a constant
struggle to control weight en
courages disordered eating pat
terns such as compulsive eating,
binge eating, purging, severe
calorie restriction and fasting.
According to the National Insti
tute of Nutrition, approximately
95 percent of those suffering
from bulimia and anorexia ner
vosa are women.
Women with unrealistically
low body weight may increase
their risk of mortality. Health
risks include: absence of men
strual cycle, depression, irri
tability, stunted growth, hypo
glycemia, hypothermia, bloating,
K.
It Is essential for women
achieve a healthy weight
a realistic body image.
not obtain the l-iecommended
etary Allowance for calcium
Caffeine, alcohol, sodium
protein can increase the
of calcium lost in the urine,
arette smoking adversely
bone density. An optimal
includes three or four daily
ings of milk, yogurt, low|
cheese, tofu or dark-green
vegetables.
Cancer is the second-le;
cause of death in the U;
St ates and Canada. A he
diet may help prevent 30 to
percent of certain cancel
Breast cancer will affect one
nine women in North America,
High levels of dietary fat
be a link to breast cancer,
diets of American women are
to 45 percent fat. Japa
women, who have a much
incidence of breast cancer,
tain less than 25 percent of
total energy from fat.
Eating more fruits, ve|
bles and whole grains lowei's: eof
intake and may decrease cam
in women, including cancer
the breast, uterus and colon.
Diabetes is a raa;
health problem
women as they af
especially Africa®Am
American women
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betes have twiceii
risk of heart diseai
to
with
constipation and increased risk
of osteoporosis.
It is essential for women to
achieve a healthy weight with a
realistic body image through
healthy eating and finding self-
worth unrelated to body size.
Bone disease affects more than
25 million women in the United
States and Canada over the age
of 45. The best way to prevent
bone disease is to build strong
bones early in life with a calcium-
rich diet and daily exercise.
The body stores calcium until
age 30. Then, calcium remains
relatively unchanged until
menopause, when the body may
lose five percent of total body cal
cium each year. According to the
third National Health and Nutri
tion Survey, many women may
than men with diabetes. Togei “f ^
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