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Mail subscriptions are $20 per semester, $40 per school year and $50 per full year. To charge by VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express, call 845-2611. 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 Women with 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 ^ er, diabetes and obesity are lua; risk factors for cardiovasculari Diabetes can also increa a woman’s risk for endometri 8 r eBa' Dr. I erna e twe For c Firm cancer and pregnancy complic tions Results of an ADA sun; ir ^et demonstrated a vast differec; iac between women’s knowledj and their behavior regardit health and nutrition. Althous ls erv women say they are aware the relationship betweendi; scon and health, fewer thanonette use dietary interventions toloi scue t er their risk of heart diseas cancer or osteoporosis, though women recognize obesil Owei as a major concern, their mot irs aj vation to lose weight isstilldi etrei ven by societal standards. 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