European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ann Landers August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 11 letter dear Ann Landers the Best thing you Ever wrote was that definition of please repeat in in love but this time its in dear Here it in glad you i like love is Friendship that has caught it is quiet under Mutual sharing and it is loyalty through Good and bad it settles for less than Perfec Tion and makes allowances for human love is Content with the it Hopes for the future but Doest Brood Over the its the Darin and layout chronicle of Compro Small big victories and working toward common if you have love in your it can make up for a great Many things you if you dont have no matter what else there its not dear Ann Landers i empathize with mad in America and share her annoyance with schoolchildren peddling fundraising Here Are two additional ripoffs for the list for a 5ounce bag supermarket for 8 pay in Advance and wait two months for Deli i also was taken for a set of six poly propylene tumblers not dishwasher for they Are i fear the children Are being taken advantage of while greedy suppliers hog most of the my is that children As Young As nine show up at my door after with our heightened awareness of child Why do parents permit their youngsters to take such chances kids who want to earn Money for a worthy cause should offer to Wash Rake mow shovel pull these activities can be per formed during the Day on new England fan dear Alert Good Are you parents and teachers dear Ann Landers my Friend was always a heavy but since his wife died he misses work repeatedly and gets dead drunk on week i have tried reasoning with but he gets angry and orders me out of his How can i help him name in new York dear no name trying to reason with a drunk is like trying to blow out a when he is sober let the Drinker in a nonjudgmental that you Are set aside your hostility and remember you Are angry at the not Contact the National Headquarters of the National Council on 12 West 21st new they will put you in touch with programs and services in your alcoholics Anonymous a is the most effective organization for drunks who want to Stop killing Alanon is a terrific support group for relatives of alcoholics who choose to hang in Al teen is a group for teenagers whose Parent or parents Are the majority of heartwarming than you letters i have received Over the years have come from people Ive sent to a and c news America Syndicate military weight regulations and rate of metabolism let me begin this letter by saying that in neither in the military nor am i i must take exception to a statement made in a recent reply regarding weight i completely and totally disagree with the our medical advisers Tell us that it is simply not True that some people Are naturally prone to being overweight As Long As those people Are in a state of Good Are we to believe from this that there is no such thing As metabolism that every single person uses the amount of food they eat in the exact Way at the exact same rate is it Only an illusion when we see some Lucky soul eat everything in sight and never gain a Pound and another person who has to go through life eating hard boiled eggs and cottage cheese just to maintain a decent weight and what of the extremely underweight person who has to drink fortified milk shakes in order to gain an ounce or two these people Are not rare extremes these Are the if that ridiculous statement were True there would be no need for diet diet diet pills everyone could just eat the same amount of expend the same amount of Energy and weigh exactly the come medical youre making it awfully Tough for a person who tries his Best to lose his few unattractive pounds to no Avail Only to have to Humble himself by coming to you for certainly i agree that not All Over weight problems Are caused by metabolism or glands or heredity but there arc in deed people prone to overweight and in what i think is really unattractive and dangerous is the All con suming desire we have to be As thin As unfortunately were starting to judge people not for what they can but for How they the military and these so called medical advisers Perpet uate the myth that How much you weigh is directly related to your self per haps this Way of thinking accounts for the growing number of anorexics and bulimics in our there Are people who can happily and healthily carry 1530 pounds More on their Frame than weight charts they Are Able to do their love their families and enjoy All the social amenities of they dont go on fanatical Yoyo diets or feel guilty if they dont run 10 Miles a maybe they wont live to be 95 acting against discrimination having been assigned in Nuernberg for the past 18 i would like to draw your attention to an Issue which has a devastating effect on the morale of soldiers in the Nuernberg military Community and if not examined and addressed could have an Adverse Impact on the effectiveness of the american forces in the Issue is discrimination the indignity and rejection presented to our soldiers by a number of entertainment establishments arbitrarily declared restricted to americans by their the problem not Only restricts of duty but raises questions As to the value of our presence in a country where american As a can be openly discriminated under German proprietors Reserve the right to deny admittance to whomever they this German Law is very vague in that it supposedly prohibits Dis criminal yet allows owners to have a free hand in deciding whom to permit Entrance to their the intent of the Law is focused on bar ring but Many bar and disco owners in Nuernberg consider All Ameri cans denying them admit Tance solely on this i am not suggesting that All soldiers Are soldiers have been involved in serious incidents in the past info Stu others will be involved in incidents in the if a or any behaves in a manner that clearly Demon Strates that he should not be permitted into an then he should be but to bar an individual because he is a Soldier is a grave injustice that should not be the Type of group discrimination prac tired by Many local establishments violates the Basic human right of every individual to be judged not by affiliation or association but by individual being thousands of Miles from ones family and familiar surroundings is difficult enough for every Soldier stationed in coupled with the Dis Grace of creates a nearly intolerable it is ironic that we As soldiers Are pre pared to defend a system which permits this Type of local German police and jag personal Are All hesitant to interject them selves into this and As a Soldier it is beyond my scope and influence to this human rights problem of Public discrimination should be brought through channels to the highest echelons of the Ger Man government the government could establish a position on discrimination in Public 1st Craig Vest Germany editors note Jerome equal Opportunity staff Nuernberg military replies it is the policy of the Nuernberg Mili tary Community that All of Post establish ments will be opened to All servicemen Bers and their families on the same basis As other members of the local if people feel that they have been discriminated they should through their Chain of the Community equal Opportunity the Community equal Opportunity office has various Means of tracking discriminatory practices of of Post if these alleged incidents Are found to be sub Stan then corrective measures or sanctions would be put into service members and their families do have alternatives in dealing with incidents of alleged if this office can be of any assistance feel free to Contact us at Nuernberg military or ets thanks for nothing Many times than you letters Are received through editorials in the and Many times Ive read them and thought what a great Way to say today i write to thank a special person for leaving his or her Beer bottle at the Edwards baseball Diamond behind new Edwards hous because of you my 14yearold son will carry a very Large scar on his he was playing As he often when the Ball rolled Over into some taller he his hand rolled off the Ball and onto your Beer i beg and plead that if you want to enjoy that Beer As you watch your favorite team or play on a team that you take that bottle with you dont drop it on the ground to become a deadly i thank you also that it want found in the playground this where my 4 year old and his friends dig for hours in the because if it were his tiny hand there  be a hand or fingers left to so person our family will never forget souzas Frankfurt but neither did Jim Fixx or withheld Germany editors note Preston Cannady medical Liq 7th medical replies All human beings have an intrinsic Basic metabolic this rate determines the amount of Energy necessary to do Normal daily when food consumption exceeds that required by the Normal Basic metabolic rate of a Given the body will then store this extra food and calories in the form of lipids or individuals do vary in the following fac tors Basic metabolic amount of daily exercise and caloric if an individual is truly in Good without other metabolic reasons for excessive weight height and weight guides recommended by the army can be these height and weight guides were adapted from health statistics of mortality from insurance in it has been noted that individuals who Are above these weight tables of body height and weight have an increased mortality versus their Peers who Are within the height and weight it May be of interest to note that the suggested height and weight guidelines via the health insurance companies tables Are much More stringent than the there Are certainly a Large number of individuals in the american society who enjoy and because of the Abun dance of tend to weigh More than individuals from other with appropriate change of diet and a medical screen to avoid medical reasons for increased most individuals in meet the army weight european 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