European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Siai nation tourist office people Are becoming More educated about in benefits of walking walking for exercise by Gayle Young United press International Ith joints tender from jogging and feet sore from dancing exercises doctors say More and More people arc lacing up their sneakers and walking for their daily dose of aerobic exercise. Walking has been the number one form of exercise across the United Stales for years surveys have shown. It has Long been part of european lifestyle but with characteristic seriousness health conscious americans Are starting to hit the pavement with More on their minds than getting from Point a to Point b books on walking and even a new Magazine devoted to the subject have cropped up in the past few months and health gurus Are beginning to talk pulse rates in America and abroad people Are becoming More educated about the benefits of walking said Michael l. Pollock director of the University of Florida s Center Lor exercise in Gainesville we Are a very health conscious  the benefits of walking like All exercise involving aerobics Are numerous according to doctors. Walking at a brisk clip starts blood pumping and strengthens the cardiovascular system it can also improve functions of the lungs general endurance and Lead to weight loss they said while the gains can be substantial and life saving aerobics is nothing More than the repetitive movement of Large Muscles such As those in the legs Over an extended period of time walking tits the Bill said Pollock. You get the same benefits As you do from jogging or  however Dewing the Beno hts May take a Little longer. Forty or 50 minutes of walking at a brisk clip equals a 20 or 30 minute jog. Said Pollock you have to increase duration or frequency it you Are going to substitute walking for jogging or swimming he said. Or walk  walking As a form of exercise has always been popular among the elderly said doctors. But an increasing number of serious walkers Are Young adults who have been injured by other forms of aerobics or who Are tired of health clubs and expensive exercise programs. Jogging causes a lot of compression Force when you hit the ground Pollock said. There Are joint problems and stress in the shins Knees and Back associated with  and dancing. You hit the ground much harder than you do while  he said pregnant women and people just stalling to exercise also find walking less stressful and easier to Slick Wilh than other forms of aerobic exercise. However Young people must walk faster than their elderly counterparts to gain Benefit from the exercise said doctors the elderly can strengthen their cardiovascular system cruising at 2 Mph. Or even 1 Mph said or. James m. Rippe a cardiologist who studies exercise at the University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester. A recent new England journal of Medicine report sealed that an elderly person walking a Mere five City blocks will gain substantial physical improvement Over a person who slays Al Home he said younger adults meanwhile must shoot for a speedier 4 or 5 Mph he said. But More important than Mph is pulse rate. To really Benefit from walking you should try for 70 percent of your predicted maximum pulse Rale he said. The maximum pulse rate is derived by taking the number 220 and subtracting your age. The remaining number is the predicted maximum number of beats your heart can produce in a minute. For instance a 40-year-old would have a maximum of 180 and should try to walk last enough to get his pulse up to 126 beats per  Rippe said. If unwilling to measure their pulse walkers can measure the benefits of their exercise by the time they put into it said Pollock. The Lime element is More important than the distance he said recommending that people walk briskly for an hour several limes a week. If someone Slicks with the program they la find they cover More and More distance during that  he said perhaps the Best part of walking is that it costs nothing and can be done anywhere. There is no need of special shoes club fees equipment or instructors which is perhaps Why it is rarely promoted. Walking has been overlooked by the health Industry said Pollock. But people Don t look Down on it now. It s becoming a very successful acceptable form of exercise "  United press International Illions of americans suffer medical ailments and deep psychological wound growing up in the abnormal atmosphere silence and secrecy that typically Surour alcoholic Parent. An estimated 28 million million americans about one out of every eight have at one alcoholic Parent researchers say. These adult children of alcoholics Are now showing u vast numbers at treatment centers with such symptom anxieties learning disabilities eating disorders stress i medical problems compulsive behaviour and drinking problems. We re suddenly noticing that very Large percentage any typical mental health population have alcoholic Par said Stanford University psychologist Stephanie brow has pioneered realm enl for adult children of alcoholic 1977. Psychiatrists who Are not specializing in alcohol me routinely that from 60 to 80 percent of their Cas Foar the children of alcoholic but they never noticed it un8 began to read about  to said. There s now a Labelling and acceptance of a Phenor that s been  specialists even have developed a shorthand term i children of alcoholic parents Aca. In contrast to a few years ago when treatment Prog these people were virtue / nonexistent Aca patients t flocking to Stanford s in or Ity Hospital s new alcohol drug treatment Center to program has grown irom t Long term group to at least 14 groups of eight people i said Brown adding that there s a Long waiting list. Aca chapter an offshoot of alcoholics Anonym have sprung up across the United states and a Nab organization for children o alcoholics has formed a Clearinghouse for information and referral. Brown who came from an alcoholic household a Aca patients have for years sought help for ailment which the real cause was t pinpointed by health professionals a big percentage of whom have been to be children of alcoholics themselves. These number in the millions and millions of Peon soon As the cultural denial was broken the floodgate were opened she said. Breaking of the denial is to step toward recovery. Adult children of alcoholics now have the Legitime right and need for treatment Independent of the Ald there s a phenomenal sense of rebirth of a new Bej Luis Largel Syjud Sarasohn medical writer. ,w Omen Are finding it difficult and in " Many cases impossible to get Iuo bii�., control devices at . Military Hospit in Europe. Their experience mirrors the situate in the states where american manufacturers of intrauterine devices have stopped production of the most popular luos because of fears of product Liabo lawsuits. Air Force and Navy hospitals in Europe Are no Lorn prescribing Luis we re out of the business said air Force or. U col Theodore Yurkosky chief of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at the Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center. The army s 7th medical come has advised Gairo providing g d. Searle s Copper Luis even though to devices Are acceptable to the food and drug administration. However army medical facilities May continue prescribe Lippes Loop by Ortho pharmaceutical cot As Long As stocks remain said or. Col John Parka surgical consultant for the 7th medical come. Searle and Ortho have stopped production of thai Luis. There is not an Fra recall of these devices military officials stressed and women using them of not need to have them removed unless they Are experiencing difficulties. If they have an 1ud and it s working they shout. Page 14 the stars and stripes