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Wednesday,Marcn 1 /, i n c ai\. v ui_,rv v i_i\ Special Pre-S eason Event!! 1957 - 1997 40 • Up to 5 0 % off Selected Fixtures • All Table & Floor Lamps 1 5 % off • All Prints 2 5 % off Quantities limited. * Some Sales Final. Valid from Saturday March 13th - Friday March 26th at noon. Closed Saturday March 27th for inventory. L I G H T I N G S H O W R O O M S OAKVILLE SHOWROOM ONLY 4 4 5 IN G L E H A R T S T R E E T O A K V IL L E O N T A R IO 8 4 5 - 2 4 6 1 ALTERNATIVES 579 Kerr St.just north of Speers 844-2375 Join us to launch our community centered health and wellness "Lets Talk Health" seminars and workshops. We are launching these bi­ weekly talks with an exciting panel of experts to answer your health con­ cerns and questions. Our speakers will include: a Medical Doctor, Naturopathic Doctor, Homeopath, Herbalist, Chiropractor, Psychotherapist, Sports Nutritionist, and a Fitness Trainer. Model image weighs heavily on teens By Claudia D'Souza SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER How intimately intertwined is the mind with health issues such as eating disorders and body image struggles? Just ask Michael Lavelle. The University of Toronto 'counselling specialist was the guest speaker at a recent edu­ cational seminar co-hosted at regional headquarters by the Body Image Network of Halton and the Body Image Coalition of Peel. Lavelle's theories target why so maay people have little regard for their own health. "Why are so many people smoking, not exercising and not doing a lot they should to take better care of their health?" he asked. "It has to do with the wanting, longing pain that's so close to the surface of life called existential pain." In his experience, most peo­ ple's problems can be reduced to the four 'givens' of existential pain: death, freedom (making our lives as we will), loneliness and seeking meaning. He has never met anyone who isn't struggling with at least one of these four 'givens.' Just as people choose how they deal with their existential pain, they also choose their own illnesses, Lavelle believes. Drinking, smoking, veging in front of the television, and con­ trol issues such as eating disor­ ders, are choices that affect our lives. The beauty of life is the freedom of choice, but fear is at the core of most addictions. You can exert your own power or get stuck in your own pow­ erlessness by 'hanging' it on something else, said Lavelle. Following Lavelle's open­ ing address, one of four related workshops conducted by Oakville child, adolescent and family therapist, Diane Garley, delved into the issues surround­ ing teens and body image. We're familiar with those at the extreme end of the body image continuum - they are the high profile victims of the eat­ ing disorders like Karen Carpenter and Princess Diana. But Garley states more and more teens and young girls are being swept toward that end of the continuum in frightening numbers. The statistics compiled by the regional health department tell the story. Sixty-five percent of girls in Grade 7 and 8 are trying to lose weight, 37% of 11-year-olds, 42% of 13-year- olds and 48% of 15-year-olds say they need to lose weight even though they're already within normal standards. One in 10 teenaged girls between 12 and 19 manifest signs of sub-clinical eating disorders, that is, distorted thinking not severe enough to be a full­ blown eating disorder. A phenomenon of Western culture, eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia, are complex emotional issues with roots in poor self-esteem, feeling unloved and/or unlov­ able, unworthy and incapable of taking control except for food intake, Garley explained. Most who suffer from them are bright and accomplished. Part of the problem is the values society holds near and dear beauty, perfection, youth­ fulness, power and success. The vast majority of youth draw a perilous association between body size and being attractive, powerful and accomplished. This is perpetu­ ated through the distorted and manipulated images they see in magazines, on television, and in the movies. "These distorted images are ingrained in our culture," Garley says. "They see physi­ cal perfection as a way to attain the better things in life. There is pressure to conform. We must educate them on the sub­ liminal and insidious methods used in advertising." What young people need to realize is that their genes play a key role in what their bodies look like. Only 4% of the population have the genes that make them "model" mate­ rial. "Teens mistakenly think they can alter their shape by reducing their weight," says Garley. "You can't change that. It's uniquely ours and beyond our control and cruel practices such as vomiting, using laxa­ tives, enemas and starvation will not work. We should emphasize fitness, not body size." Parental behavior and attitudes toward dieting, exer­ cise and food in general have a huge influence on children, she stressed and can encourage dieting and a preoccupation with weight. "God created a myriad of body types. Youth need to real­ ize the key to success doesn't he in the bathroom scales but in the courage to accept them­ selves, seek new challenges, being informed and thinking independently." featuring the new PowerMac T"G3 and PowerMac ™G3 Powerbooks with prizes, software give-aways and factory representatives. Also this month the Macnificent Seven Macintosh User Group Meeting on Wednesday, March 24th at 7:30. Everyone welcome. Featured this month AGFA products. Canadian Computer 414 Speers Rd., Oakville, ON. L 6K 2G 2 (905) 849-0737, toll-free 1-877-849-9949, www.canadiancomputer.com j k Pre-Inventory Sale Evangelical scholar discusses Serving Christ in Third Millennium Rev. Dr. John R. W. Stott of the Langham Trust and Evangelical Literature Trust, will speak to the four com­ bined congregations of Chartwell Baptist Church on Sunday, at a special service at Oakville Trafalgar High School (OTHS) at 10 a.m. His topic will be Serving Christ in the Third Millennium. OTHS is on Devon Road west of Maplegrove Drive. Dr. Stott, regarded as one of the most influential clergy­ men in England, is one a three-day lecture tour of Oakville, Hamilton, Guelph and Burlington. He established the Langham Trust to provide doctoral scholarships to promising young evangelical scholars in the Third World, and to date 57 of them have completed their doctorates. He also established the Evangelical Literature Trust to provide books to pastors, seminary stu­ dents and seminary libraries in Third World countries. Dr. Stott graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, (1940-1941) as a senior scholar in modem languages and theology, and trained as a pastor at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, from 1944 to 1945. He was ordained in 1945. He served All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, England, as assis­ tant curate, 1945-1950, and as Rector for 25 years to 1975 and Rector Emeritus since 1975. For 25 years, 1952 to 1977, he conducted missions in universities in Britain, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Asia. He was Chaplain to the Queen from 1959 to 1991. And, since 1979, Dr. Stott has traveled to Third World countries, speaking at seminars for pastors and student conferences. He is the author of 35 books, including Understanding the Bible (1972), Christian Mission in the Modem World (1975), Issues Facing Christians Today (1985), The Authentic Jesus (1985), The Contemporary Christian (1992) and the eight-volume The Bible Speaks Today series. For more information, call Chartwell Baptist Church, 844-2801. If you have a news tip or story Idea, call the Oakville Beaver at 845-3824. l i t I Our door is open. Come see the completely reinvented Power Macintosh G3. It's the world's easiest-to-upgrade minitower - and the world's most revolutionary computer. The new Power Macintosh* G3 comes with a superfast PowerPC" G3 processor. Integrated ATI RAGE 128 graphics accelerator. Up to a gigabyte of memory, up to 100GB of internal storage and built-in FireWire,* USB and 10/100BASE-T Ethernet. Now available in 300MHz, 350MHz and 400MHz models. at the Canadian Computer Open House Thursday, March 25th - from 2:00PM to 7:00PM AMAZING FIND?: Ted Cluley of Saltfleet Stamps in Stoney Creek examines a stamp at the Oakville Stamp Club's annual stamp show on Saturday at St. Paul's United Church on Rebecca Street. Photo by Peter C. 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