1983_04 Insight April 1983

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April 20, ins
Area hospitals join^ellness Revolution
DKIIIIIKSIOKKS
Insight reporter
,.. The   Wellness   Revolution  is
^spreading across the nation like a wild
fire burning out of control.
.„' Fresno consumers are jumping
■op the wellness band wagon to an ef-
jfort to promote good health.
/.    Wellness is a positive approach to
good health care. Its basic principles
.include self-responsibility, nutritional
awareness, physical fitness, stress
I sensitivity.
.V.. Self-responsibility is tbe core of
the wellness ethic. It is understanding
and practicing the most appropriate
j medical self-care. Self-responsibility
;s. realizing that what you do for
.yourself can be better for you.
':_. According to Donald B. Ardell,
'.Ph.D.. author of an article in Health
'Guard magazine on tbe Wellness
..Revolution, "The goal of wellness is to
.add quality of life. It is a process for
.'creating a lifestyle that is richer,
fuller and more exciting than the
.usual standard of disease avoidance
.that we call health."
.„*.. Dr. Richard E. Palmer,
..American Medical Association presl-
. dent, states, "the medical system af
fects about 10 percent of the factors
that determine a patient's state of
health; the remaining 90 percent are
determined by factors over which
doctors have little or no control."
Degenerative diseases, such as
heart disease, cancer and strokes —
which cause about three-quarters of
all deaths in this country — have been
linked with our environment and personal habits. And, it is factors relating
to lifestyle such as nutrition, fitness,
alcohol, smoking, stress and accidents that most health promotion efforts) '"
A goal of wellness is to make it as
easy as possible for each of us to take
the first steps towards better health.
Cost-containment is also a key
issue tbe health care movement deals
with. Co-coordinator of Wellness
Week Barbara Lundeen, Ph.D., said,
"Tbe wellness movement coincides
with a drastically increased cost for
private-patients' hospitalization. This
now places the burden on private
health insurance companies and their
subscribers."
Health studies show tbe "wellness
approach" of health promotion and
disease prevention — as opposed to
sickness care, drugs, hospitalization
and surgery — to be cost-effective.
The Wellness Revolution began in
the Late 70s when former President
Jimmy Carter established the President's Council of Physical Fitness.
Currently all SO states participate in
this program. California is tbe only
state that Includes a wellness program with tbe council. It is called the
California Governor's Council on
Wellness and Physical Fitness.
Because of recent budget cuts,
Gov. George Deukmejian has dropped
the Governor's Council of Wellness
and Physical Fitness. California consumers, believing there is a need for
such a program, stayed together and
now operate on a volunteer basis. The
organization is called The California
Council on Wellness and Physical
Fitness.
The council is in tbe process of
becoming incorporated so it can
operate as a non-profit organization
and collect tax-deductible donations.
To create consumer awareness
about good health, the California
council established a "Wellness
Week."
Wellness Week is in its second
year and is scheduled for the week of
May IS to 21. Each day is designed to
promote the five areas of wellness.
Wellness Week activities are
sponsored by the Wellness Round
Table Committee. This committee is a
group of volunteers whose main em
phasis is to promote wellness in the
Fresno community.
Sunday, May 15 activities include
a kick-off breakfast with community
churches participating in a "Festival
of Life" celebration.
Monday, May 16 is "Self-
Responsibility Day," with the motto,
"Change II."
May 17. Tuesday, will take off
with the motto, 'Taste It," featuring
"Nutritional Awareness Day."
May 18, Wednesday, is "Stress
Management Day," carrying the mot
to,'
e It."
For Thursday, May 19 the motto
is "Move It," which will promote the
"Physical Fitness Day."
Friday, May 20 is "Environmental Sensitivity Day" and its motto is
"Save It."
May 21, Saturday is tbe last day
and a "Recognition Dinner" is
scheduled to thank all volunteers and
summarize tbe need for continued
community support of the Wellness
programs.
Last year Americans spent
almost $250 billion on health care —10
percent of the gross national product
The rising cos t of health care has
forced hospitals, as well as insurance
companies, to look for a positive approach to health care. Hospitals are
leading the way toward promoting
good health.
Fresno Community Hospital has
developed a wellness program for its
employees and St. Agnes Medical
Center is in the process of building a
Wellness Center, which will bouse
health care programs that will benefit
the consumer. Completion of the
building is scheduled for late April.
Hospitals are well-equipped to
teach the consumer about good
health. Many classes such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),
stress management, nutrition and exercise planning are offered through
hospitals.
As an extension of hospital services, clinics are being established as
another source of medical treatment.
Most clinics offer tbe consumer
reasonable fees, extended hours and
shorter waiting times. Some also offer
bilingual medical assistance. Tbe
clinic's main emphasis is teaching Its
patients positive health care as well
as reducing its costs.
In Fresno, Valley Medical Center
nouses a walk-in clinic that promotes
positive health habits. Tbe clinic also
serves as an internship program for
medical students.
Major companies are getting involved by taking a positive approach
toward tbe health care movement.
An alcohol rehabilitation program established at General Motors
saw a 49 percent reduction in tost
employee's work hours and a 29 percent reduction in disability costs.
Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) estimated that it saved $3.46
for every $1 spent on its employee
assistance efforts with their health
care program.
Tbe United States Postal Service
reported a savings of $1,969 per person a year in sick leave and leave
without pay.
Producers Cotton Oil and The
R.T. French Company, both of
Fresno, have integrated wellness into
their health programs.
Producers Cotton Oil Co. sponsors
a stress-awareness program for its
employees. These programs teach
employees about stress and bow it can
be dealt with.
Since the Wellness Revolution has
hit Fresno, both businesses and consumers are expected to Join tbe band
wagon and promote tbe principles of
good health.
If you are interested in volunteering in tbe activities of Wellness Week,
contact Barbara Lundeen, Ph.D., at
222-2555, or drop a note to: Wellness
Round Table, 164 N. Blackstone
3 1507, Fresno CA 93721.
Dorm parking lot tire spikes
give sharp one-way warning
MONTE RICE
Insight reporter
About those spikes sticking out
of the road off Cedar Avenue going
.toward the dorms — tbey're^iot
as deadly as they appear. -'
While many a driver might be
apprehensive, always fearful of a
blowout when approaching the
spikes, only two accidents have
resulted frofrT tbe "traffic enforcers" since they were first installed during tbe early 1970s.
Both accidents, according to
CSUF Safety Information Officer
Ed Roddy, resulted either from
vandalism or cars going tbe wrong
way on Scott Avenue, which is a
one-way street.
In November 1978 Roddy said
"a couple of kids, obviously as a
prank, took the spikes out and
reversed them." Later, when a
CSUF student borrowed his roommate's car, he drove over them
and ruined two of his friend's tires.
Roddy said when he received
tbe police report be didn't believe0
the spikes were reversed. "But as
it turned out, he (the student) was „
right," Roddy said. Tbe campus
paid tbe student for tbe damaged
tires.
The other accident Roddy
mentioned occurred last January
when "this fella came into the
campus off Cedar, made a U-turn,
and then tried to go back out the
way be came in." ^
Roddy said, "He then wanted
to make a claim against the state
after his tires were ruined,"
despite a large, red "wrong way"
sign just before tbe "traffic enforcers." Two smaller signs are
also Installed near the spikes
which read, "DO NOT
ENTER-ITRE DAMAGE."
Traffic enforcers were first installed as a "necessary evil"
because "too many people just ignored tbe 'one-way' sign on Scott
Avenue," said Virgil Cope, assistant to tbe public safety director
for the campus.
Cope also said the real problem — if one exists — is not with
_ the traffic enforcers but with Scott
Avenue being a one-way street.
The purpose of the traffic enforcers is to keep people obeying
the traffic laws, said Cope.
Cope said be would rathenage
Scott Avenue converted into a two-
way street "so people don't have to
drive so far around the campus to
exit."
It would be beneficial to us,"
said Cope "to have them (traffic
enforcers) out because of tbe inconvenience of drjvtng all the way
around to Shaw again." Cope said
the one-way road "forces too many
autos onto Shaw as it is."
BUI Knooz. assistant district
traffic engineer for Caltrans said,
however, Cedar Avenue .would
become too conjestedVif Scott
Avenue were a two-way street.
So it appears the spikes are
here to stay. Perhaps tbe fear of
ruined tires does not really exist.
Volunteers help children
Frosh twirler tosses to title1
DIANE PUTLER
Insight reporter
.*. At the age of 18, Yolanda
Castellanos is (l.) a freshman at
'CSUF, (2.) a World Champion and
'(,3.) a professional coach of her
specialty — baton twirling.
V Castellanos won the World title
last August at the close of a three
week competition in Tokyo.
Castellanos began twirling when
sbe was 6 years old. When she
.entered Fresno High School sbe
. became the school's solo twirler for
all three years. It was during her
sophomore year that her coach, Jerry
Alveraze, spotted Castellanos and
began training her. •».
Her determination and preparation for tbe World title actually began
two years prior to the Tokyo competition. In 1981, Castellanos competed
with the U.S. team to France for tbe
World championship. She came In second place.
"It was then I decided to win it,"
Castellanos said. "I was
determined."
During the next school year,
Castellanos trained for three to four
hours daily at tbe National Guard Armory. During tbe summer, sbe to-
creased her practice hours to eight to
10 hours a day.
-"R-was really hard," Castellanos
said. 'Tension builds when it gets
closer to a competition." She said it
was also hard for her "because my
friends were always asking me to go
out"
During the semi-finals in the
United States, Castellanos found out
that Mard Papadopolous, tbe 1981
World Champion, was going to defend
her title in 1982. Castellanos said she
was nervous with this news, but said
sbe became that much more determined.
"I was tbe underdog," said
Castellanos, "but I beat her during
tbe semi-finals, proving myself."
With sparkling eyes and a bubbling personality, Castellanos is a
popular girl around tbe CSUF Marching Band. She entered CSUF last
fall as a freshman and Immediately
became the solo twirler.
"Freshmen afe hardly ever
treated like this," sbe said.
Castellanos now teaches and
coaches her own students privately.
Her students' ages range from four to
16 years old. Castellanos also performs at benefits and at parties.
Castellanos, a psychology major,
said she feels as If sbe has a good
underetanding of people through competition. Sbe said sbe would like to
work as a psychologist in the field of
ELIZABETH PAYNE
Insight reporter
One out of five homes in America
has only one parent present — and 80
percent of these single parent homes
are headed by women.       ^-y-
Jim Brooks, now 32 and a CSUF
student, grew-up in one of these single
parent homes and had a desire to be a
special friend to a young boy who, like
himself, is growing up without a
father figure.
Brooks is a volunteer for Big
Brothers/Big Sisters of Fresno, an
organization designed to establish
relationships between adults and
children 7 to 18 years old. Besides
keeping a busy schedule that includes
being CSUF track team manager,
sports and games activity leader for
Camp Bulldog and a full-timestudent,
Brooks takes on the role of big
brother to his two 'little brothers.'
Brooks became involved with Big
Brothers about three years ago. "Initially, my motivation was the fact
that although I had a stable borne environment and a caring mother that
worked, I didn't have a father in my
home environment. There was a lot of
being somebody's father in my wanting to become involved in Big
Brothers. However, this relationship
is not a father/son relationship. It is a
friend relationship.Jn which a big
brother is a positive role model,"
Brooks said.
The importance of one-to-one contact with someone besides the single
parent is Important for children growing up in this environment, explains
Donna Callahan, a social worker at
Big Brothers.
"It's important that these
children get that extra one-to-one
Jim Brooks (front) takes all of his "little brothers" to a local roller rink.
time. Someone to come on a consistent basis and whose only reason for
beng there is that they like tbe
youngster well enough to spend Ume
with them," Callahan said.
Don Waring, executive director of
Big Brothers, said, "The children
know that tbe big brother wants to be
there. There's no hidden agenda. He
thinks, This person knows all about
me and still wants to be here. Maybe
I'm not so bad after all. Maybe I'm as
good as the next person — maybe a
little bit better.' "
Many of the Utile brothers and Utile sisters have a low sense of personal worth. Waring said. "They set
themselves up to fail. This is where
tbe importance of a consistent big
brother or big sister comes in. If tbey
don't show when they have a planned
activity, tbe child feels tbey have done
something wrong," Waring said.
The4 low self-esteem of many
children is explained by Callahan. "If
the child has been deserted or abandoned, whether literally or figuratively, he feels he has done something to
make a significant adult in his life
leave. The emotional guilt and game
playing goes on. Dad may use the
child to get back at mom or vice versa. A child begins to see adults as people be can't trust and that translates
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