Daily Bulletin, Friday, June 10, 1994

HEART CARE:  What the future holds for recovery from heart
disease will be explored at a Canadian Association of Cardiac
Rehabilitation symposium to be held today and tomorrow at UW.

The event, attracting about 130 health professionals from across
Canada to examine "future directions" in the field, will feature
a keynote address tonight on heart disease by UW Prof. Michael
Houston, president of the Canadian Society for Exercise
Physiology and a member of UW's Department of Kinesiology.

Houston will evaluate the scientific evidence on the reversal of
atherosclerosis by means of diet and exercise.  His talk, titled
"Reversal of Atherosclerosis: What is the Public Health Message?"
begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Arts Lecture Hall, Room 116.  Tickets
for Houston's talk cost $20, including a reception at 9 p.m.

"This is one of the hottest themes in the health care field
today," said Prof. Michael Sharratt, president of the Canadian
Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation and director of the UW-
based Centre for Applied Health Research -- host of the
symposium/workshop.  Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease in
which the walls of the arteries become narrowed owing to an
accumulation of fat, eventually impeding and then blocking the
flow of blood.

"For instance, the famous Ornish diet is virtually fat-free and
has been shown to reverse atherosclerosis in the arteries of some
patients," said Sharratt, also a member of UW's kinesiology
department.  "On the other hand, it is quite stressful for people
to try and adhere to such a strict lifestyle change."

Besides the keynote speech, the event will look at topics such as
the management of cardiac patients with multiple diseases,
quality of life issues and curriculum development for post-
coronary education.

BUDGETING BOOKS:  UW's senate library committee is meeting this
morning in Needles Hall, Room 3004, to discuss book budgets, the
future of the card catalogue (long since relegated to storage), a
report from a task force group on "non-traditional media," such
as films and computer disks, and the currently controversial
question of how, and how many, library books are sent off to
storage as the shelves become too full."

SOCCER SPIRIT:  It's not quite the World Cup, but it's sure to be
fun, nevertheless, as the annual "friendly" soccer game kicks off
this afternoon between UW's Department of Electrical and
Computing Engineering and the Department of Mechanical
Engineering.  The game starts at 4:30 p.m. in Columbia Field.
Faculty, staff and students from both departments are expected to
participate.

TAPS TURNED OFF:  The taps will run dry in the Health and Safety
Building all day Saturday.  It's for maintenance work, according
to UW's plant operations department, which is in charge of
shutting off the water to perform any such upkeep on campus.

CBC FEATURES UW:  CBC's current affairs business program,
Venture, is scheduled to highlight the success of UW and its
graduates, particularly in computer science, in a program to be
broadcast Sunday night at 10:25 p.m.

FUND-RAISING CLASSIC:  Cycling enthusiasts can exercise their
muscles Saturday and help local charity by entering the Off Ring
Road Classic sponsored by UW's Engineering Society.

The event, consisting of mountain bike races for men and women,
will raise money for the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, said race
director Marc Risdale.  It will be held in Breithaupt Park in
Kitchener, with the first race starting at 9 a.m. and the second
at 10:30 a.m. Awards will be presented around noon.

It will feature races in novice and competitive categories.  The
novice category lasts three laps of a 2.5-kilometre course, while
the competitive class runs six laps of the same course. Each
entrant will receive a free T-shirt.

The event is supported by the Ontario Cycling Association,
Risdale said, and it has received the sanction of local citizens.
The event costs $15 to register in advance; $20 on race day.
Risdale can be reached at 725-9537 or 888-4567, ext. 2323.

BIG EVENT:  About 500 delegates are expected today for the
Ontario Women's Conference of the United Church of Canada to be
held at the Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building.


John Morris, Jim Fox
UW News Bureau, (519) 888-4444
jmorris@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca
jfox@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca