European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To your health eating right not in America Survey finds by Marian Burros new York Tomas the dramatic nutrition revolution thai was going to change the Way americans Eal is no happening lodging by a recent nationwide Telephone Survey conducted by the new Yor times. In act among the most startling findings is thai people age 18 to 29 the generation that grew up amid a flood of eating in America attention to health percentage who say they pay attention at every meal to these components in heir Diel nutrition research have poorer eating habits than their Kjera. According to the Survey. These Young adults Are three times As Likely to snack As people age 45 to 64, and tour times As Woty to snack As people Over 64, their grandparents generation. They Are More Likely to choose sweets or Salty snacks than older people and less Likely to choose Mil Yogurt cheese or bread. The results of she Survey one of lha most comprehensive studies of Ealing patterns Ever conducted. Chale Sterol Salt tata Adlum and preservatives sugar and Ahtl Ca Lorlei nit caffeine Mil 19% 43 31 20 34 16 12 21 female 31% go 46 25 42 36 21 30 1b-29 years 13% 39 25 16 30 21 10 20 30 and older 30% 57 44 25 42 29 19 28 White 2611. 5239 23 3b 27 17 25 Black 23% 61 38 25 so 24 u 2s total 25% 52 39 23 33 27 17 25 the munchies when they hit. 18-29 30-44 tt-64 ovrs4 total it lunch 1d.a 6% 7% 3% 7% afternoons Mara dinner jut dinner All Dor Don t mock 24 11 is 15 17 7 20 11 21 14 13 14 is. 9 17 16 12 21 12 i 13 20 11 30 19 id 17 18 14 17 and what they Are 18-29 30-44 45-64 Over 64 total 53% 43% ,, Popcorn bread or Cracker soil drink Yogurt Cereal 24 15 7 s s 2 6 23 24 9 6 6 44% 20 26 12 6 9 4 1 3 36% 12 27 is 7 11 4 2 6 46% 21 22 10 6 7 3 1 6other Leith none percent. Bad on 1,870 Telephone interview conducted oct. 29-nov. A 01 Tom 877 respondents mid they nicked the Day before the interview net Pondelli Wen allowed up to three Ani Weri. The with no Inwer Are not included. Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday january 19,1988 indicate Hal most americans regardless of age have not responded in a significant fashion id cats for decreasing fat in the diet reducing sodium taking in fewer calories or gibe Wise eating More  still Ike Trench tries More than baked potatoes red meat More than Chicken or fish and soft drinks More than Mil juice. In acing is a National past. Where there Are differences they Are most notable in the responses from women As contrasted to those from men. From those who Are on diets or weight or health reasons compared Wilh those who Are not and from exercisers compared with no exercisers. But the differences Are marginal. Differences based on income or Region to owed no discernible pattern Corege graduates reported butter eating Habte than people with Lesse Dunafon bul even this difference is marginal. Most of the 1,870 people surveyed in the pol conducted by . 29 to nov. 5, said that americana pay Loo Itolle attention to whal Hoy eat and Hal americans eat Loo much junk loj. More than half said Thoy had changed their eating habits in a major Way in the past ova years Bui their responses to questions about the foods they actually eat Ollen belied the attitudes they claimed to hold. Throughout the Urvey respondents were asked about their general behaviour and attitudes and then asked Aboul whal they had done Specif Italy on the previous Day. This method provided a Check on the sen serving claims Many gave for example some respondents claimed to pay Alle lion to cholesterol Al every meal but reported Ealing meals heavy in red Wal and eggs. None of the findings came As a Surprise id health professionals most of whom believe that healthful eating habits must be taught Early in life Milhor of Home or in school. Generally health professionals agree that nutrition education has been sorely lacking in the nation s schools. Instead of teaching Good nutrition in schools we subject our kids to television commercials Hal push East foods soft drinks Candy bars and sugary cereals said Bonnie Loebman director of nutrition at the Center for science in the Public interest a consumer interest group in Washington and then we wonder Why kids Don t ask lot fruits and vegetables. I m not sure there s anything a teacher could do in a classroom to overcome to commercials but we re nol even trying this Pepsi generation consumes More soft drinks than any other age group according to the findings for 1 a to 29-year-Olds, and is More Likely to have soft drinks for breakfast. Older people said they were More Likely to drink Coffee than soda or Tea. Calvin Walker a 25-year-old electronics technician la the a Force in win la fals Texas and a staff sergeant in the air National guard was one of the breakfast soda drinkers at Tho time of the Alivoy. I d just started a new Job and was having a rough Lime getting up at 4 in he morning so i drank Mountain Dew said Walker a Survey respondent. It has a kit of caffeine in it. Bui i be Given it  members of he 18-10-29 age group were More Likely than those Over 30 to say that they eat red meat wed goods and butter often. They also reported eating less fish and Chicken. For example 38 percent of the Young adults who said they ale lunch had beef compared with 26 percent of those Over 30. The Young were Moro Likely than the old to say that they exercise end Hal Hwy exercise Ollen. But when people from 18 to 29 were asked to they led exercised the Day before ewer of them reported doing so Bun people Over 64. Why such behaviour among the Young youth has a magic feeling that they ate  said Fabian Unden executive director of the consumer research Center of the conference Board a marketing information a Savioe. They Don t pay much attention to the medical Wisdom we have Accuu fatal in recent years Al age 25, walk said he had just Woken up to  me thought he was Invin Oblo Al 16. A said i could have cared toss about this stuff he said Bui i m not getting any younger so i might is  can of the body Ive  while people Over 30 have better Oating habits even they do no appear la be Ealing a significantly More nutritious diet than they used to