European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse F be ginning with the founding of tops take off pounds f Why in in the group weight concept has spread throughout America and v hot the i while the methods of achieving weightless goals All of the better known groups emphasize a in behaviour or attitudes toward and labout exception stress the importance of the mop is keeping individual from going on staling weight often referred to As a commercial of Over caters diet workshop to diet watchers Are among the Best known of these thousands enrolled in such programs swear by Rand insist that they Are staying slim through the k p of group therapy and calorie though these groups initially Drew Only a lukewarm Ponse from the medical More and More dots now arc recognizing the value of the group con it in bringing about desired behavioural and weight watchers can be helpful for those o need to lose More than a few Fariss Tony of the weight loss programs Are but a nonprofit is always popular i the it is the most Active of All weightless ups in american communities tops has had to live Down the rep lotion that ii is a women but men now Tatlong to a number of Jerman chapter has six male members its and weight recorder Judy Moorhead says Nen in the chapter would like to see More interest in Mclen Leader of Heidelberg chapter Era a similar i leaves is one of the men who swears by is after losing 40 pounds at his wife chapter in i looked like a circus i tried every la to lose weight but could not keep the weight so i med to join i feel that military persons with a weight problem should have the Opportunity to join a pro Gram such As tops chapters Are open to adults and children who share the common goal of wanting to lose we believe that everyone can lose weight by but we do not endorse a specific co Unsworth diets Are prescribed on an individual basis by at progressive stages members receive awards for losing but the emphasis is always on modest loss philosophy that helps to explain the Success of the tops member trying to lose weight didst put it on in two Moorhead and we know its impossible to effectively take it off in two if it takes six a or then that is the time it weight goals Are set by new tops members and once these Are reached a maintenance program is recommended to maintain Ideal Many members find that the Best Way to stay slim is to remain Active with in staying with Moorhead i know its the Only Way i can keep myself while us main push of tops is on exercise is recognized As an important corollary to any weight loss chapter 33 members Unda showers and Cindy Dona Hue emphasize the need for regular for months they have been taking Long walks Donahue is convinced that the big lift of tops comes from the Way the group influences individual if any one of us has a problem we know we can depend on the others for if youre tempted to dig into that fresh chocolate you can always Call up the other and the chances Are Good they will talk you out of the its the pressure of the group that keeps you in if you gain then you develop a guilt feeling because youve let the group Shirley director of the Frankfurt goal weight sponsored by american Community has a similar idea about group maintaining a sensible weight does not mean a lifetime diet of Rabbit nor hours of agonizing people who cant lose weight and who eat too much often Are like those with alcohol and drug she Kado asks those enrolled in the workshop to keep diaries on what they these Are discussed at group particularly when an individual is having Trou ble losing in its Volunteer weigh control known As operation the Navy goes along with the group therapy concept by recommending the Over caters Anonymous a self help nonprofit Over eaters Anonymous is patterned after alcoholics Anonymous and stresses the idea that compulsive Over eating is a the Success of this and similar programs is often cited by experts As proof that very few weight prob lems Are due to glandular abnormalities an excuse sometimes used by the obese to rationalize their excess whatever else it obesity is a Thorn in the Side of those who must meet military weight while not easy to experts arc convinced its a problem that can be met with resolve and a sensible adjustment in caloric flails How America went to pot junk foods pose health 1977 the military Battle against flab is a reflection of society in an age of super Abun there is mounting evidence that America is going to pot in Pur suit of the Good beyond the visible signs of too much food and too Little statistics Tell the Story of distressing physical data on life expectancy and disease con firm the suspicion that something is decidedly wrong in the land of compared with their counterparts in advanced Industrial american men rank 19th in life expectancy american women rank disease brought on by environmental factors afflicts five times As Many people As illness attributed to every year a million americans die from heart and blood vessel Mil Lions More vegetate in the Vic Tims of degenerative Why must there be All this pal and suffering what has come Over a people descended from nearly Pio neers diet is surely one an automated life style is yet Herman dietician at the air Force Hospital in Ger Many is convinced that Subtle changes account for the growing National health in my fathers generation people ate Hearty meals but they did a lot of heavy Labur to compensate for the Large food now weve become a sedentary Socie but we continue to have big appetites and an abundance of not Only in but also in food has become an nourishment experts say far too Many junk items now adorn the american one critic singles out the consumption of White sugar up nine times in a Century As the single most damning evidence of dietary soft drinks and potato chips Are cited As the types of trash foods that contribute to health by even the most conservative Esti obesity afflicts from 10 to 20 per cent of the american despite the ravages caused by poor far More Money is spent curing the disease than on educational programs which might prevent the second Factor that affects health is physical something that millions of americans avoid like the Kenneth the former air Force physician who developed the Aero bics test says there is Strong Evi Dence that America is falling behind other nations in the vital area of he cites a comparative testing of Austri an army and air Force recruits to show that Young americans May not be As physically Strong As they ought to results of the test administered to austrians and All aged 18 to showed a substantially poorer performance by the thirty one per cent of the austrians achieved an excellent rating in the 12 minute running while Only six per cent of the americans qualified As Excel less than per cent of the were rated very compared to three per Cunt of the Cooper the far better showing of the austrians to their invigorating life while Young americans ride nearly everywhere they the austrians Are More Apt to hike or travel by Stanley american Academy of Points put that american children All too often fail to get the exercise they need to keep their bodies in Good Many children in the although healthy and Well Are in relatively poor physical condition because they live in a civilization on Harrison Cooper links the fitness of the nation to the machine in the relatively Short Span of so the automobile has so altered Pur Way of life that walking the most natural Mode of locomotion now seems almost Dis he it the automobile is not just a mechanical replacement for the it rep resents an entirely new a new set of customs and it is ushering in an Era of physical Over Many thousands of since the Dawn of our bodies have been geared to and sustained by habitual and extensive physical with dramatic this functional Pat Tern has been our legs Are techno logically and our entire health suffers for at this Point in it is evident that technical Progress May backfire unless it is matched with a balancing regard for human health and in its broadest the question is whether Man can Prosper in the technological environment he has the stars and stripes Page As
