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_BS-Wednesday, June 18, 1980 - North Shore News

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Hot weather joggers should eat bananas

GAINESVILLE, helped Case with his study.
(UPD) - Better have a banana What can be done? .
or an orange before you start “Runners should eat
that five-mile jog this things containing potassium,
summer, recommends a _ such as bananas, oranges
University of Florida and tomatoes, before they
researcher. run to compensate for

Through a series of ex-
periments funded by the
Florida Citrus Commission,
graduate student Joel Case
said he has found that long-
distance runners lose large
amounts of potassium in hot,
muggy weather.

“Potassium loss can cause
profound muscle weakness
and muscle fatigue,” said Dr.
James Cerda, associate
chairman of the UF College
of Medicine’s gastroen-
terology department, who

Court

Court House West, North
Vantouver’s entry in the
Lower Mainland lacrosse
league's midget ‘A’ division,
is the team to beat in the
playoff round which starts
this week.

Court House defeated
Norburn 12-8 Wednesday
night after holding an 1!1-1
lead to maintain their
position on top the stan-
dings. They have six wins,

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potassium loss,” said Cerda.

Case, a _ long-distance
runner himself and health
physics major from Winter
Haven, obtained permission
from the committees for
Experimentation on Humans
and for the Use of Radio-
isotopes on Humans to have
himself and five others
injected with small amounts
of potassium-42, a _ radio-
active element that can be
traced in the body.

The dose he used was

four ties and one loss, an 8-6
setback to New Westminster
Salmonbellies last Monday.
Chris Calla, who scored
five goals against Norburn,
and Brian Baker who
contributed a pair, have lied
the team in scoring. John
Martin, Peter Giese, Jerry
Olynyk, Wayne MacIntosh,
Todd Richardson, Kent
Molgat and John and Mike
Gillis also have hit the

equal to a
diagnostic X-ray.
Next, he had to talk four

_other runners into under-

going the tests.

“I had to go first to prove
to the others that I wouldn't
grow horns or anything,” he
said.

Then Case ran ex-
periments to ensure that the
potassium was free of
bacterial toxins, a feat he
accomplished by injecting
the element into rabbits.

Finally, Case and the
other four runners, injected
with the potassium, ran 10
miles in 92-degree weather
and underwent a series of
tests to measure their
potassium losses.

ouse team to beat

scoresheet consistently, and
Brian McDonald has been
steady in goal.

In the playoff round,
Court House will play two
games cach against Norburn,
New Westminstcr,
Coquitlam and Surrey. First
game ts 8:15 Monday night
against Norburn at North
Van Rec Centre.

Court House already has
been invited to participate in

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A special camera hooked
up to a computer that
detects gamma rays was used
to find and measure the
radioactive potassium in
different parts of their
bodies before and after their
runs.

“We found a significant
loss of potassium, especially
in the heart, liver, lungs and
kidneys,” Case said. “But,
we found a significant in-
crease of potassium in the

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