Bradford County Extension Meeting
The public is invited to
attend the Bradford County
Extension Annual Meeting,
Thursday, November 5, 7:45
p.m. at the Towahda Elks Club
meeting room, South Main
Street, Towanda. Reservations
must be made by advanced tick
et sales only by October 30 and
are available from Executive
Committee members or from
the Extension Office at $6.00
per person.
A full evening agenda
includes entertainment by the
Winding River Players with a
humorous presentation titled,
“I’m in a Hurry;” the Exten
sion Cooperators Awards; Top
4-H Girl and Boy remarks;
Extension Today by Steven
Tuttle, Regional Program
Leader and a short business
meeting and election of 2
Owens Brackman, Linda Wri
sley, Ellen Foust, Roy Beards
lee, Larry Brown and Sylvia
Murphy.
Former Rural Youth
directors.
Executive Committee mem
bers who will have tickets are:
Robert Thomson, Dale Allis,
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brought laughter and applause.
They even lost their partners and
had to start over “just like old
times.”
The former club not only
exposed them to new ideas but also
new friendships. At least 30 cou
ples boast that the club played
Cupid and found them their
spouse.
Carl Gore, Anita Whipple, Joy
ce Kerrick, Ronald Butts,
Brubaker said he met his wife
Martha Jane Reist when he served
as president of the organization
and Jane was elected secretary.
Mrs. Brubaker joked, “I worked
for him then, and I’ve been work
ing for him ever since.”
Evidently, relationships didn’t
turn out so well for everyone. On
Saturday night, one fellow said,
“Well, look who is sitting at that
table—there’s the girl I gave a
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 7, 1987-819
bouquet of violets.”
Guests joked about their trifoc
als, dentures and white hair, but
admitted they “show concern if I
feel my mind is beginning to go.”
Rural Youth of Lancaster Coun
ty filled an active role for 15 years.
Roy Brubaker, a former RYLC
president, explained the club was
unique since membership was con
stantly changing because “when
we got married, we dropped out.”
The club was formed mostly at
the urging of Mary Brubaker
Clark’s mother who pressed the
Farm Bureau, extension services
and vocational departments to con
tribute to RYLC. From the begin
ning, RYLC remained an indepen
dent organization, but they did rely
upon financial help from the Farm
Bureaus educational fund to send
some of the youth to leadership
schools.
Although the group was not
affiliated with any religious orga
nization, it had strong Christian
beliefs with its preamble to the
constitution stating one of the pur
poses was “to create more interest
in Christian principles and ideals.”
Others were “to build personality,
integrity and other important fac
tors which are essential in the
building of an aggressive and hap
py generations.” The organiza
tion’s code was “To encourage
democratic processes and living by
the golden rule.”
As the anniversary observation
drew to a close, Brubaker encour
aged his peers not to dwell on the
past but to think about the future,
for blessings are not a one-way
street
Lose Weight
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Callaway’s patients weigh in
only every six weeks to avoid “the
weekly guilt trip”. “We measure
their metabolic rate and give them
a whole list of things they can
expect to happen,” he says. “The
last thing on the list is weight loss.
We can tell them how quickly or
how slowly they can expect to
lose. By deemphasizing weight
loss and telling them we are inter
ested in these other things happen
ing, all of a sudden we’ve changed
their orientation,” the physician
explains.
Callaway believes the change of
regimen is harder for a farm wife to
adopt than for the professional
women he sees in his Washington,
D.C. practice. He says he saw farm
wives during his IS years at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota.
The three most important things
a person can do, Callaway advises,
are to (1) establish a meal pattern
with 2S per cent of the daily calorie
intake at breakfast and another 30
per cent at lunch, (2) cut back on
needless source of fat, such as fried
foods—don’t cut out meat and
dairy products—and (3) build in
some sort of a daily exercise
program.
If a woman works by herself all
day long, she probably needs some
sort of an exercise network to
motivate her, the doctor thinks.
Without external rewards, it is
very hard to do it on one’s own.
The other thing for women to
realize, according to Callaway, is
that not everyone is genetically
predisposed to be five feet nine and
112 pounds. With the distribution
theory, the experts are looking at,
not how much a person weighs, but
where the fat is, he says.
“One way to get at this is to mea
sure waist and hip circumference.
Divide the waist measurement by
the hip measurement. If the waist
is 80 percent or more than the hips,
the women really need to lose
because they’re at greater risk for
diabetes and heart attack. If it’s 70
per cent or less, there’s really no
health advantage to losing.” Calla
way says.
“If we can shift the focus to
healthy weight, rather than “ideal
weight”...focus on those with belly
fat to bring down their weight
slowly... These are achieveable
goals,” he states. If on the other
hand, people expect to “meet the
hype and lose three pounds a
week...they’re never going to get
there,” Callaway emphasizes.
“They’re going to try once or twice
and get discouraged and feel even
worse about themselves.”
The time will come, the doctor
believes, “when we’ll look back on
starving the way we look back on
bleeding and purging. It’s well
meaning but uninformed.”