European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tybur health pneumonia still takes its toll by Janee Brody new York times pneumonia continues to be a leading killer taking a disturbing number of Young lives. Pneumonia is expected 1o strike nearly 3 million americans this tall and a Linler. A third of them will require hospitalization. For Iho Lull year experts expect More than 65.000 americans to die from the disease making it the sixth leading cause of death in this country with people Over 65 accounting for three fourths of ils victims. While a Large number of pneumonia cases and deaths is not surprising Given the growing number of elderly americans who Are especially susceptible to lung infections there has also been a disturbing death rate from pneumonia among younger adults. 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Colenan a Pioneer in studying the Issue says there s no question that sexual addiction exists and that his patients include men who Are masturbating to to is limes a Day resulting in physical injury hiring prostitutes on a daily basis or having multiple Anonymous sexual encounters without any regard to risk of health or commitments to family or concept has become increasingly widespread in recent years spurring the creation of self help groups modelled after alcoholics Anonymous wary Ann Milter a psychologist who founded the Chicago chapter of sex addicts Anonymous has estimated that up la 6 percent of americans Are addicts. -. \ however sociologists Martin p. Levine and Richard Troiden wrote in the August Issue of the journal of sex research that the sex addict theory amounts to 1 transforming sin into s no such disease As sexual addiction or sexual compulsion. It does t exist said Levins at Bloomfield College in new Jersey. You can be. Addicted to sex. Addiction is a physiological dependency on a arid Troiden of Miami University in Oxford. Ohio wrote that the invention of sexual addiction and sexual compulsion As diseases threatens the civil liberties of sexually variant Peoples like homosexuals. A / not addictive in the chemical sense sexual addition causes behaviour that is pathological and sail defeating says Coleman a psychologist in the University of Minnesota medical school s human sexuality program. These individuals display hyper sexually in response to feelings of anxiety depression or Page 16 the stabs and stripes loneliness. Many describe a sexual act a a fix to some very negative feeling. But this Relief is Short lived and negative feelings or. Theresa Crenshaw a san logo physician and sex therapist who served on president Reagan s aids commission said the sex addicts she treats want help. They Don t like the behaviour. It is not ordinarily a diagnosis superimposed from the outside. It s a compulsive behaviour pal Tern the person continues to repeat in spite of disruption to marriage or primary relationships. In spite of Levine said sett help groups like sex addicts Anonymous and sex Holics Anonymous simply try to shut Down the sexual behaviour and not Deal with the underlying problem for those who Are unhappy because Ihetu frequent sexual behaviour violates moral standards. Coleman mid he and other sexual addiction therapy pioneers agree thai underlying feelings of worthlessness must be treated. " treatments such As lha 30-Day sexual dependency program at Golden Valley health Center hear Minneapolis help people team How to in sexual in healthy ways while self help groups Lei sex addicts know they Aren t alone end encourage members to obtain professional therapy said Coleman who lectures there., a. But there is no unanimity of treatment he said. Some View this As a psychiatric condition and treat it with medications. Others treat ii with psychoanalytic or behavioural therapy. Others adapted hit methods of treating alcohol addiction.". " Levina said the sex addiction compulsion concept appeals to most americans because. If you re engaging in behaviour that traditionally has been defined As san transforming it into a disease absolves you of any moral y Levine said when a disease like Label like sex addict is applied to people they can be forced to get treatment and that the notion of addiction can be used to justify attacks on homosexuality and other sex outside of person s sexual behaviour should be considered a problem Only ii it makes him unhappy involves an unwilling partner or directly harms others he said. Levine and Troiden View the notion of sexual addiction As a product of increasingly conservative american values a backlash to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the upsurge in Christian fundamentalism increased emphasis on monogamy and commitment and fear of aids herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases. Tuesday november 15,1988 faulty focus in school sports by Michael Specter Washington Post k Hysi Cau fitness tests uttered to millions of american students each year rely on outdated assumptions about health and fitness according to a growing number of experts in sports Medicine and exercise physiology. Competitive sports remain the essential yardstick Lor measuring physical fitness in the great majority of America s schools although it rarely contributes to Long term health throwing a perfect football pass is still considered a More worthy achievement than developing aerobic endurance -. Schools in this country persist in promoting sports and awards thai Only reword elite athletes said or. Russell Pate a leading researcher in the Field of fitness testing and director of the human performance Laboratory at the University of South Carolina playing Field hockey is Nice but does anybody play Field hockey when hey Are 407 it s about Lime we started to Leach our youngsters How to gain and maintain Good As the relationship Between physical activity and Good health becomes increasingly Clear exercise researchers complain that there is Little attempt in school physical education programs to emphasize sports such As running swimming or cycling that children could very on for the rest of their lives. Most attention and resources Are devoted to games thai comparatively few students compels in football basketball and baseball. While All three offer valuable lessons about Competition discipline and teamwork As Well As Good physical training several studies have shown that even the most ardent High school football Star has usually switched from playing to watching by the Larne he is 20, there is now Clear evidence from population surveys that those who Are lit have a healthier life. For example heart disease the nation s leading cause of death is frequently linked to a fat Rich diet and sedentary
