Ci10- * Sunday News, July 5, 1981 ask hayden ste art | Freelance Counsellor Hayden Stewart may be reached at 261-6242 for appointments for individual, family or group counselling. His office in the International Plaza Hotel (Open Tuesdays only) is for the convenience of North Shore residents. He has never had a date QUESTION: I don’t know what's wrong with me. Straight out, is it unhealthy or unnatural for a 20 year old guy to have never _ had a date? STEWART: Not having had a date at 20 is not in itself either unhealthy or unnatural. But, you say, “I don’t know what is wrong with me”, so How old before sex? “s QUESTION: ' How old should ‘a’ girl be before: she has sex? ATLANTA (UPI) - Long distance running can have a contraceptive effect — but it’s not a dependable method, says a gynecology obstetics professor. Edwin Dale of the Emory University School of Medicine says women who run more than 30 miles a week aren't likely to get pregnant. If they want to conceive, he says, they should consider reducing their total weekly running distance to no more than 10- 15 miles. Writing in the Obstetrics and Gynecology journal, Dale said a study of 168 women aged 18-48 showed 922-4171 STEWART: A few years older than. she is when she feels the need to ask that question. Running birth control? marked difference’ in menstrual patterns, total body weight, weight loss over time, percentage of body fat, exercise patterns and some serum hormone levels among female long- distance runners. 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Not even if she looked like Bo Derek, came wrapped in mink, smothered in diamonds and richer than the Shah of Iran! Life may not have begun at 40, but it's certainly a lot more peaceful around the pad since I got rid of that aggravation. that ca use it And just maybe, our . Insensitive one is trying to convey a message to his tear- stained aging bride... who assumes, like a ‘lot of us, that it must be somebody else's fault because “there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with ME!” STEWART: Sometimes, when a writer to our column expresses himself as feelingly as you have, without asking a question, that writer quite often leaves a little advice, or a whole set of directions as to how to handle life. But you - what have you asked or what have you given us? 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