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o The Clackamas Print Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 ‘Back’ into shape By Nathan Sturgess Associate Photo Editor Getting eight hours of sleep and eating three square meals a day aren’t normal parts of college life. You drag yourself out of bed, often hours before you’d like,, barely have time to shower and scarf down some Cheerios before you have to head out the door either to your first shift or your first class. But even as our lives seem to get more and more hurried and stressful, our awareness that it isn’t the best for us is becoming more apparent. Books, reality TV shows, documentaries and even iPhone apps that deal specifically with helping people make better decisions about their health are becoming commonplace. Another avenue by which we can learn about wellness and what it means to be healthy is through community sponsorship of pre sentations that create awareness about lifestyle choices. One such event occurred on Jan. 20 at the Carnegie Center in Oregon City. The speaker for the event was Heather Rike, a health educa tor that works with Complete Health Chiropractic Center, a chi ropractic clinic in Oregon City. The clinic sponsors Rike to travel around to different venues, edu cating people about health and the potential benefits of chiro practic care. In her presentation, Rike emphasized the importance of stress management and how mis managed stress can lead to more malicious diseases. According to Rike, stress can be broken down into “distress” which is negative stress and what she referred to as “eustress.” “Eustress (is) the positive stress, things like job promotion or buying a new house, having a baby. Those are good filings that happen to us, but they’re stress ors,” she said. It’s important to try to avoid allowing both good and bad stressors to pile up and become too difficult to deal with at once which, according to Rike, can Nathan Sturgess Clackamas Prtn Health educator Heather Rike addresses an audience about the importance of the spine on Jan. 20 at the Carnegie Center lead to diseases like cancer and heart failure, the two top killers of Americans today. In order to avoid these pitfalls, it’s important to adopt the components of a healthy lifestyle. A few of the components that Rike touched on were getting seven to eight hours of sleep every night, eating healthy meals and avoiding unhealthy substances like tobacco and drugs. Another important point that she made was that research has shown that it’s actually easier to maintain good health with a minimum of 60 minutes of exercise per day. A theme throughout Rike’s presentation was an emphasis on the importance of chiroprac tic care. She explained how our backs, along with giving the body support, also houses the spinal cord, which is a major part of our nervous system. “Stress in any part of the ner vous system may result in a vari ety of health problems throughout the body,” she said. She explained that each ver tebra houses nerves that go to all parts of our body and help regulate how that organ or tis sue functions. One example Rike used was the symptoms of stom ach trouble, like heartbum and indigestion, can be caused by nerves being unabje to communi cate with the brain and properly regulate stomach function. According to Rike, the need for health education is becoming more important in the light of the way that we eat in America today. She went on to explain how poor diet is being connected to diseas es like diabetes and dementia. - Unfortunately, even with the relevance of Rike’s informa tion, the presentation was not well attended. The only attendees besides the library staff were two elderly ladies from the local area, Ramona Tracy and Lorraine Moll. But they were both interested in wellness and how health care is changing. “We’re at the point where people are just ready to realize they have to take responsi bility for their own health,” Tracy said. “It’s amazing that people assume that if they aren’t on medication that they are well.” The Oregon City Library ref erence librarian, Sue Adams, hosted the event. In spite of the low attendance, she was encour aged by the talk. She mentioned several things that she wanted to work on as a result of Rike’s presentation, particularly exercis ing more, finding more time to relax during her day and spending more time with friends. Shake your hips to slim your hips hour of a fast-paced routine'. The first practice I was able to go to, I was expected a very simple, watered-down dance; something easy for all of us who have been off the dance floor for so long. What we got, how ever, was a high energy dance from Thunderbird camp where the team goes every summer. Hopefully, I won’t make a fool By Kayla Calloway out of myself come February. Co-Editor-in-Chief For those of you who are looking for a fun way to get or all you naysayers out back into shape, I’d recommend there, dance is a sport. dance in a heartbeat. With the It’s a sport that requires dozens of types out there, from ballroom to hip hop, there’s a strength, flexibility, endurance and grace. It works muscles form and a rhythm for every you never knew you had and one. You can go to a studio if you the cardio can be a workout in and of itself. Over the last want some one-on-one instruc three years, I had forgotten just tion from an expert, and there how much of a workout dance are even some classes offered here at Clackamas, such as aer could be. On Feb. 12,1 will be perform obic dance, which will get any ing with over a dozen Molalla pulse pumping. if you’fe not up for a full High School dance team alumni at the Indianettes’ home dance blown class, with video games competition. I was on the team systems as intuitive as they are all four years of high school in today you can simply dance addition to my studio classes I in your own living room. The had been taking since I was six. Nintendo Wii has “Just Dance,” But even with all those years a fun way to get you up and under my belt, my body was moving to today’s top hits. feeling the pain after only an Microsoft’s Xbox 360, with its F new Kinect sensor, has “Dance Central.” With the Kinect sen sor, you don’t have to worry about controllers getting in the way of your fun. And while you’re having fun dancing, remember that eating right is half the battle. Like I mentioned last week, I’m eating a piece of fruit a day. Already I’m feeling more energized, which will come in handy on the 12th. But this isn’t enough. Starting this past Sunday, I am giving up soda for a week, maybe more if I have the will power. Considering that I typi cally drink at least one every day at school and work, this is x going to be a true challenge. Read next week to see if I make it through the high fructose com syrup withdrawals. This week’s words to live by come from a Chinese proverb: “He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.” - Do you have any ideas to help others get back into shape or any healthy recipes to rec ommend? E-mail Kayla at chiefed@clackamas. edu. Fitness Nutrititi WEIGHT: Step away from the serving spoo “Cut out time in your schedule to work out to offset th| (bad) eating habits,” said Rhoden. Most students will say something about how they wa love to exercise, but they just can’t afford a gym members! “Money shouldn’t be an issue ... we have great nutril and health and fitness classes should you want to get into I of those,” said Rhoden. ] “I walk a lot (but I) never think about calories and fat,” d Hill, who instead bases his choices off of number of ingri ents. “Three to five ingredients is so overly processed it’s I not good for you.” One of Hill’s biggest concerns about exercising at the d lege is that the gym isn’t all that convenient. “They tend close too early or open too late,” he said. “The access is, sal limited.” Others see the gym hours of availability as a good thl ■ One student, Jess Smith, works out five times a week eil in the gym here on campus or at home. She enjoys our fact because there is a great variety of equipment. > One thing to keep in mind is that your body continue! bum calories at a higher rate after you finish working] according to Rhoden. | “You’ll feel better, look better and your self-image is I ter,” said Rhoden. Randall weight room hours: Monday and Wednesday 8:30 - 10 a.m. and 1:00- 8 p.n Tuesday and Thursday 12:00- 8 p.m. Friday 8:30 - 10 a.m. and 1:00- 5 p.m. The room is the same. The desks are the same. It’s your future that will be different. You may already be familiar with the Harmony campus of Clackamas Community College. The surprising thing is, you now can get a Marylhurst University education there as well. We're bringing our Accelerated Bachelor's Degree Program in Business Management to you. Small, seminar-style courses taught by full-time faculty and I working business professionals are offered one night a week] It's the perfect next step to your career. 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