European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Individuals Between the Ages of 25 and for each ranges were provided for and Large body the 1983 metropolitan life tables were criticized by the american heart which said the recommended weights were too High and advocated sticking with the 1959 obesity has been strongly linked to conditions that promote heart such As diabetes and High blood some experts argued that the 1983 revisions reflected a general Rise in the average weights of americans but did not represent the optimal weights for Good the 1983 metropolitan life tables were based on data collected by the society of actuaries from million policyholders of 25 insurance to develop his alternative Andres re Analysed the same data and also Drew on the results of other recent studies from several he discarded the Bod Frame distinctions As speculative and found that the same weight according to were safest for both men and Frederic an actuary with metropolitan life who compiled the 1983 said in a recent interview that he agreed it would be desirable to adjust weight tables according to age but he had Felt the available data were inadequate to permit he said that in his View Many of the other studies cited by Andres As corroborating his thesis were Andres emphasized that he does not advocate its not my Contention that the fatter the he if youre very fat at any you should lose theres a Range of safest its my Contention that the desirable Range rises with he is there any reason for healthy individuals who fall below the recommended weight to struggle to Andres also stressed that his recommendations do not apply to people with High and other medical conditions that promote heart disease and Are exacerbated by for whom weight loss May Well be in he higher weights Are associated with greater risk of death from heart disease while lower weights Are associated with greater mortality from infectious diseases and Many experts on aging Are concerned about the Impact of what they see As inappropriate weight goals on the who Are often prone to nutritional although metropolitan life states clearly that its tables apply Only up to the age of Many including Many have assumed thai similar goals apply in later but Andres said the few relevant studies suggest that the weight gain his tables permit into the 60s should be maintained into very old metropolitan Ages 2559 men 411 50 123145 women 1oo131 101134 103137 10514o 125148 108144 53 127151 111148 54 129155 114152 55 131159 117156 133163 12016o 57 58 135167 137171 123164 126167 59 139175 129170 141179 132173 511 60 6 63 144183 147187 15o192 153197 157202 135176 64 gerontology research Center men and 11 119147 123152 a Heights without weights in pounds without metropolitan ranges or medium and Large body new York times paunch haunch by Lidia Wasowicz United press International an increasing number of american youngsters Are suffering serious health problems and developing eating disorders As a result of mounting pressure to stay a new report some most of them Are starving while another million Are afflicted with a related eating disorder called bulimia in which victims induce themselves to constant promotions of the cult of thinness and stigmatization of fatness have Given Many parents and Erma Bombeck children the wrong idea about childrens Normal body shape and reports an 11member and hoc interdisciplinary committee on children and children and teenagers Are bombarded with social messages promoting an Ideal body shape that is unrelated to youngsters Normal growth and genetically endowed body the published by nutrition communications associates of says Many Young children and teenagers some some not Are being wrongly encouraged to control their weight through extreme Low calorie diets or excessive exercise these programs fail More often than they the committee one the researchers is that Many parents do not understand Normal childhood growth for parents May not be aware that girls normally have a higher percentage of body fat than health professionals and others often add to the problem by perpetuating the notion that Chub Biness dooms a child to adult As a youngsters Are frequently steered into intensive weight loss efforts that May ultimately cause them serious physical and psychological the committee a Reader who signs herself childless and happily married for 10 years offers a theory As to Why Young people Are putting off having the she is we listened to our when we were kids and visited a Home where there were velvet Glass Coffee tables and White Bath room mama always Why not they dont have when we turned the dining room into a mama would shake her head and this House will never look like anything As Long As i have whenever we Rode the City shed look wistfully at a woman driving in a Nice clean car and we didst have to be told it was because the woman didst have lecture 1 was always about the babies that Cost More Money and time than you what a huge responsibility they were and How it was the hardest Job in the Are you still listening because heres lecture did you hear your mothers tears the Day you were born that too because never before nor since has your Mother known such for a while she could not speak to anyone about she just played with your fingers and tried to memorize every feature of your face to savor the did you hear her smile the Day on the bus when she looked at the woman in the car and i  Trade you even for what Ive did you hear her prayers the night you had the asthma attack and she was threatened with the loss of something she could not Bear to even think of living without did you hear her Pride whenever you got an award for anything or appeared in a play As a bad tooth or ran Sang loudest or thank you without being told did you hear what was in her heart when you graduated and she sat in the darkness and shared the moment when your name was called you but some real emotions dont make a lot of its hard to hear caring is real faint like a and pure pleasure from doing your Job Why some Days its so quiet you dont even know its you asked if i was sure i really wanted was i ready for spit ups on my Cashmere an Al night bout with High fever arid waiting in line for cabbage Patch dolls in not Only ready for but a Day wont go by without my complaining about criticizing their upbringing and their Lack of discipline and pointing out How much they Cost and what a Royal pain they i Hope my grandchildren not Only listen to me and appreciate me More but occasionally look at me and see what i am really c los Angeles times Syndicate August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17