European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday August 13, 1988 americans overweight despite diet know How stateside Atlanta a despite greater awareness of exercise and healthy foods Many americans remain significantly overweight according to researcher who say most government nutritional goals Are unlikely to be met. Everybody knows what is required to lose weight yet the prevalence of overweight does t seem to Chang much said or. Marion Nestle of the . Office of Dis ease prevention and health promotion in Washington. The National centers for disease control in its weekly report thursday reviewed the Progress toward the government s 15 top priority goals for american nutrition in 1990. Substantial Progress has been made in several areas and three of the goals will be fully met researchers said. But despite the Progress americans will probably fall Short of eight major goals including that of getting people to lose weight said Nestle whose office helped prepare the report. The research that relates poor diet to disease Isnow incontrovertible she said. It s really time now to Start looking at ways to implement the recommendations that everybody is familiar with ways to improve the nutritional status of the  three objectives researchers think will be fully met she said Are having More than 75 percent of the population aware of nutritional risks for conditions  As heart disease and High blood pressure fats and Salt and . Gets of on free Needle plan for addicts new York a a Long debated Experiment to distribute free clean Needles to 200 drug addicts in an Effort to slow the spread of aids has been judged Lehaland will begin soon the City s health commissioner said. Or. Stephen c. Joseph said in an interview published in Friday s new York times that the Experiment is expected to begin in about 10 weeks. Needles already Are distributed in several other countries. But despite nationwide debate no govern ment Agency has yet done so in the United states. If new York s Start up program is successful officials Hope to broaden the distribution among the City s estimated 200,000 intravenous drug abusers. Sample blood tests indicate about half that group already Are infected with the aids virus. The Experiment was approved this week by the stat health department and local prosecutors have judged it to be Legal the times said. Critics of the Needles plan including some prosecutors and Black officials contend it will promote illicit drug abuse. The end is commendable of course said manhat Tan Borough president David n. Dinkins a Black who is against the plan. But i maintain that drug use i unacceptable and i do not accept the notion that we can make drugs  the 200 people to receive Needles will be chose from waiting lists of addicts seeking drug treatment. Another 200 will be chosen As a control group the will not receive Needles but their drug behaviour and aids infection will be monitored. Anyone who receives free Needles will be required to turn in used ones each time they get another to pre vent improper distribution of the Needles. Tooth decay Between meal sweets. Awareness already runs As High As 90 percent in some categories. Having 90 percent of . Adults aware that to lose weight they must eat fewer calories or increase physical activity or both. The percentage was 73 in 1985 and is rising quickly Nestle said. Implementing a comprehensive National nutrition status monitoring system. It is already in place the cd in Atlanta reported. The goals not Likely to be met Nestle said include having less than 10 percent of american men and17 percent of american women Over the significantly overweight level defined As More than 20 percent Over desired weight. Haying 50 percent of the overweight population on a weight loss program combining diet and exercise. Recent surveys show half the nation s overweight peo ple Are indeed trying to lose weight but Only half Are using both diet and exercise researchers said. Having at least three fourths of All mothers breast feeding their babies at the time they leave the Hospital. A 1984 Survey put the figure at 61 percent up from 45 percent in 1978. Having All packaged foods labelled with useful calorie and nutrient   is the Case in55 percent of packaged foods up from 42 percent in 1978, Nestle said. Including nutrition education in the required school curriculum in All states. By 1985, Only 12 state Shad  a requirement the government said. Struck by lightning Susan Goral in a state of Shock after she and a Friend were struck by lightning at it. Lauderdale fla., tells police officer Mike Daniels about the Bolt that killed her 31-year-old companion norwegian tourist Tor Stolsmo. Attempts to re Vive Stolsmo on the Beach were unsuccessful. Weekly news Magazine gets 3rd editor in 4 years Washington a Roger Rosenblatt will be come the third editor of . News & world report inthe last four years the weekly Magazine s owner and editor in chief has  b. Zuckerman said in a statement wednesday that he selected Rosenblatt a senior write rat the Washington based publication to succeed David Gergen on sept. 1. Gergen is assuming the new position of , 47, joined . News earlier this year after holding a similar senior writing position with time Magazine since 1980. He has been a Fulbright scholar director of education at the National endow ment for the humanities and a columnist for the Washington  said he has admired Rosenblatt As a journalist and a writer for Many  became editor of the Magazine in 1986 and prior to that was communications director for presi Dent Reagan. Earth shakes from quakes Down in year s first half Washington a the Earth Shook a Little less in the first half of this  . Geological Survey reported thursday that there were 26 significant earthquakes in the first six months of the year three fewer than in the same period a year  Only 12 deaths have been attributed to quakes around the world in the first half of the year. If that rate continued an annual total of 24 death would be the lowest Ever recorded the Survey said. The current Low record is 77 deaths in 1984. The Highway 600,000 in 1976. Of the 26 significant quakes this year Only two affected the United  be considered significant a quake must cause casualties or measure at least 6.5 on the Richter scale. The Richter scale is a measure of the Force of quake As determined by ground motion. Reagan schoolhouse sold to preservation group Dixon 111. A Ronald Reagan s old school a Brick building erected 80 years ago has been sold for $500.the Only bidder on South Central school was the privately supported Ronald Reagan boyhood Home preservation foundation which owns the Ronald Rea Gan boyhood Home on the same  t. Beckman foundation Secretary said the group May use the 46,000-Square-foot building to House presidential Memorabilia or restore it As it was when Reagan attended fifth Grade there. He said the decision will be up to the president. South Central school is the Only school still standing in Dixon that Reagan attended. Classes have not Bee held there for several years but the building was used to House District offices. . Cooling costs soar during july heat wave Washington a july s hot weather Cost Ameri cans More than a Quarter billion dollars More than Normal in keeping Cool the government reported thursday. The National air conditioning Bill for july was $4.3billion, some $255 million More than would have been expected in Normal weather the National oceanic an atmospheric administration rep9rted. That averaged out to a july air conditioning Bill of$104 for the typical Home $6 More than Normal. Costs varied with the weather from Region to Region with Only the West South Central states spending less on Cooling than in a typical july. The monthly study of climate impacts does not in clude estimates for Alaska and Hawaii. Electronic Battlefield proposed for . Winston Salem . Up the Navy wants to convert a bombing Range on the North Carolina coast into an electronic Battlefield Complete with radar stations that would simulate those of Eastern bloc nations. In a copyright Story the Winston Salem journal reported the mid Atlantic electronic warfare Range would be built in an area covering parts of Carteret Craven Pamlico Beaufort and Hyde counties that already has airspace restricted to military aircraft. But the use of the sophisticated elec tronic equipment in an area near towns and recreation areas poses a threat to humans and wildlife one doctor told the journal. The article said the Battlefield would be Complete by the mid-1990s, but Nocost was reported. The proposed Range would give pilots More realistic combat training said col. Kenneth Holland the director of operations for the 2nd Marine aircraft Wing. Holland said pilots from Marine basest Cherry Point ., and Beaufort s.c., currently conduct mock attacks at the Navy s bombing Range at Piney is land a 12,000-acre stretch of grass off the coast of Carteret county. The 50 radar stations Are called threat emitters and enhance the pilots training by giving them the Opportunity to experience what it would be like to attack a defended target Holland said