European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. Aprils 1989 the stars and strikes Page 17. Education organization. Life styles have a finitely changed a Large number of americans have adopted a moderate me Stylo one thai involves health promoting activities. They be stopped smoking. They exercise. They re involved in weight reduction and they have begun to moderate or Stop drinking. A restaurants where the trend to More moderate drinking began. Showing up nearly a decade ago. The change has become imbedded. According to the National restaurant. Association a Prado group alcohol consumption in Resta urals in he United staler dropped  i960 to 1387. Although dig decline is believed to have levelled off. Hard liquor is definitely out said Alex von bidder general manager of to four seasons in Manhattan where most customers am doing business or celebrating special occasions in certain circles drinking is already passe. In the Book publishing and Magazine businesses in new York where work is often done Over lunch or dinner in restaurants drinks arc of rely part of the Deal Susan Kamil an executive editor at random House said she could no be member Iho last Stine someone ordered wine Al lunch. People save ii As a treat she said. She says the  seems from the locus on Uotko. Not irom moralist there is a need to Boaler  Day she said Jerry Sloan executive director of Public affair s  Ford motor co. In Del Oil said people who used to Dunk scotch at lunch now have a Glass of while wino of Mineral water. I think people work  to said ii s a quicker Pace they want to  Tho top of. Choir  on Iho other hand he said he had not noticed any intense social disapproval of Whoso who drink moderately nobody cares whether i have a Gin and tonic he said figures for 198s consumption Are not  it a , expected per  Sui can sumption Al Beer among inc drinking ago population Lobo. Roughly unchanged irom 1987. And Thomas Mast s my Century Al Ecol Demon rum the bar of destruction. Consumption of wino and distilled spirits to be Down 2-3 percent each. Consumption of still sparkling and Lor Lilied wines which pea feed in 1980 at 3,18 Gallons a person fell to 2.72 Gallons in 19b7. Waltors forecasts thai it will drop i02.-1 Gallons by 2000. The consumption of coolers which was negligible in 1980, Rose to 0,96 Gallons per capita in 1987 but waiters said to expected a Sharp drop in cooler consumption in 1988. Been consumption to said was 36b5 Gallons a person in i960 and Tell to 34.4 Gallons by 1987. He estimates that it will drop to 29.6 Gallons in 2000, the use of distilled spirits fell from 3.02 Gallons a person in 1qbo to 2.32 Gallons in 1987 by 2000, he expects it to be 1.89 Gallons. The consumption of Beer a drink particularly popular onion Young people has been Hurt by Tho recent increases in the drinking age in Many slates and wine use is affected strongly by currency Shilts thai affect sales of imports. Figures published in a pref show that men drink More Ihan women accounting for 75 percent of he country s alcoholic beverage consumption. Age and affluence also Aro factors. People 20 to 39 years old account for 56.1 percent of All alcohol consumption while Whoso with incomes of $35,000 or More drink the most of every Type of alcoholic beverage. The drop in liquor sales in the United states has apparently helped  for example while other factors including concern Over Over local water supplies Likely played a role consumption of Boli cd Wales increased irom 479,000 Gallons in 1978 to 1.8 billion in 9b8, said Mic Bao Bellas president of the beverage marketing corp., a consulting and research concern that specializes in the beverage Indus by. Consumption of soil drinks and fruit juices also increased he said. And the Overall decline in drinking does not mean that All alcoholic beverages Are Selling poorly. Generally the Premium  and liquors Are doing Well Thomas k. Mclyn crony executive vice president of marketing for the House of Seagram which markets the liquors Lor the Joseph e. Seagram & sons in the United Stales said the company s High end brands like Tiivas regal Crown Royal and Glenlivet have been booming even though people Are drinking less clearly they Are drinking  he said people Are willing to pay Moro   he said he expected the decline in Overall of Coyote beverage consumption to continue but to Leal Renoul within the next Dorado Tho big hit is behind us he said alcoholic beverage consumption generally speaking has always been  a pharmacologist at  of California at los Argo Lrus Tonald k. Siege contends in intoxication to be published in june by . Dottori. Thai the urge to got High whether on drugs or alcohol is so widespread that in constitutes 3 Basic drive. Our species has always had alcohol he said it s not going logo  abuse victims can almost always bin Clit from  Deal with Tho psychological Al jocks Al being so legibly treated such As a damaged sense i self Worth and conflicts Belicen wanting to love their parents while recognizing Tho abuse thai happened child abuse refers to a Range of maltreatment a addition to physical harm and sexual abuse researchers also include serious neglect i a child s co Fonal and physical needs and Lorms of emotional abuse such As incessant berating of a Chad they arc finding that the Long lasting Elf eels of All these  abuse share much in common in any Given year Between 1 and 1 i percent o american children Are subject to abuse of some kind said Krugman by the Lime they reach adulthood about one in four men and women will have experienced Al least one episode of abuse Al some Pool during childhood a study by Judith Herman a psychiatrist in Somervill. Mass., found that among women who had been incest victims although half seemed to have recovered Well by Audi Hood those who suffered forceful prolonged intrusive abuse or were abused by lathers or step fathers had Ifie most serious problems later mme. Virtually All those who suffer from multiple personality a we but severe psychiatric disorder have a history of Sovero abuse Tho disorder is thought to Stem irom ways some children try to defend themselves against the horror of unremitting abuse a 1985 study of All 15 adolescents in the United states who were condemned murderers found that .13 had been victims of extreme physical or sexual abuse in nine cases who abuse was so severe characterized As murderous by Iho researchers thai it led  damage similarly a study of nine women imprisoned Lor fatal child abuse found hat All of them had experienced severe maltreatment themselves while All these studies depict an alarming pattern researcher Point but that the statistics do not reflect the Large numbers of abused children who do not suffer from these problems that abused children need not go on to abuse their own children was shown in a study of More Ihan 1,000 pregnant women 95 of whom had been abused As children. The report by Williajm Alt Meier a paediatrician Al Vanderbill University medical school and his colleagues was published in 1986 m Iho journal. Child abuse and neglect. The study found thai the strongest predictor from childhood of becoming an abuse to Pawn was no having been abused but rather having Felt As a child unloved and unwanted by one s parents an attitude common of course among abused children but also found in Lamfus were Here is no overt abuse. However studies in which there have been More careful observations of mothers and their children have found a stronger link Between having been abused in childhood and being an abusive Parent. In a Survey of such studies Joan Kaufman and Edward Zigler psychologists at Yale concluded that 30 percent is the ties 1 estimate of the rate at which abuse of one generation to repeated in the next. Denial thai one has been abused is emerging As a source of trouble later in life researchers find that Many adults who Weto abused As children do nol think of  having been victimized. Fat instance three quarters of men in on study who. Described punishments that by objective standards constitute abuse such As being burned for an infraction of a minor household Rule denied thai they had been abused. Thai phenomenon is common among those who go on to become child abusers according to Krugman and is part of the Cycle by which abused children become abusive parents. When you ask them if they were Ever abused they Tell you no said Krugman Bui it you ask them to describe what would happen in they broke a Rule they la say something like i was locked in a closet Loi Aday then beaten with a Bell until i was Black Art Wuo. Talieri you ask them was that abuse and their answer is no 1 was a bad kid and my parents had to beat me to make me turn out  when such people go on to abuse their own children they see themselves As simply being Good  Krugman added. They often bring dire led expectations of what constitutes Good behaviour to raising Ihler own children while there has been much attention by psychotherapists in recent years on women who were sexually abused in childhood a More recent focus is on men who suffered sexual abuse. Such men Are much Moffe reticent than won Fri Aboul admitting what happened to them and dealing with the trauma according to Mike Lew cd director of the next Slep counselling Centre in Newton Massand author of for clams to longer Nevraumont about the problem