European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 9, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7most diet plans dupe Public experts say los Angeles up a the diet plan Industry Sells almost certain failure to americans who spend billions every year on potentially dangerous weight loss plans a group of medical experts said monday. Persistent dieting can Lead to serious eating disorders and other health problems and fails to achieve Long term weight loss in 90 percent of cases researchers said. They advocate an approach similar to drug abuse treatment instead of traditional diets. A your concern is that the vast majority of people who buy weight loss treatment end up where the were before they started about a year or so later and that is pretty sad a said Kenneth Goodrick of Baylor College of Medicine nutrition research clinic in Houston. Goodrick did not discount All commercial diet plans since some include essential behaviour modification training. But he said any plan that emphasizes dramatically cutting calories is nearly certain to cause a rebound within three to four years. Americans spent $32 billion on diet programs and products during 1989, feeding an Industry with questionable ethics and effectiveness said John Foreyt also from Baylor and David Garner of Michigan state University. I the researchers comments a re published in the journal of the american dietetic association. Goodrick said approaching overeating in the same Way alcohol or drug abuse Are treated would be More effective. A people use food to ease their negative emotions. They use food like a drug. If you try to Stop that your cravings increase which is Why dieting is out a Goodrick said. A responsible approach to weight management focuses on behaviour modification not actually reducing weight Goodrick  researchers said weight management requires realistic goals and a recognition that overeating often is irrational. A successful plan includes Long Teim peer support and education that acknowledges the irrationality of overeating the researchers said. A rarely does dieting solve the problem it is intended to address. It May Well exacerbate the problem by draining away emotional and physical resources and in the event of failure by increasing a sense of ineffectiveness and inferiority a they said. Moreover Goodrick said if health professionals emphasized Overall health patterns such As increased physical activity and reduction of dietary fat intake patients would find greater  s murder Binge leaves officials baffled Roswell . A Small town customs thrive in this Eastern new Mexico Community but the talk this year has taken on a big City air. So far this year 13 people have been slain in Roswell nearly double the annual average of six to eight killings and the most since 1980, when 15 people were slain said Deputy police chief Ray mounts. A you can to put your Finger on one particular thing about Why this is happening a he said. A unrelated murders a unrelated suspects for the most part a mounts said. A a it a not serial killers its not a group its not a gang. Its just All kinds of different  signs along streets urge on the state ranked Roswell High school football team but residents in this town of 45,000 also talk about the latest killing. Robert Steven Farley 17, was handcuffed and abducted from the High school by a Man posing As a police officer. Farley a body was found a Day later in an abandoned cocktail lounge in the Middle of the desert. Prosecutors say Farley was stabbed and strangled by two men jealous of a Young woman a interest in him. A it is the talk of the town there a no doubt about that a said Jeanette Miller manager of the Roswell chamber of Commerce. A a it a been a very unusual year for us. But people Arentt hiding in their  the National murder rate in 1990 was 9.4 people for every 100,000. So far this year Roswell a rate is about three times the National average. Among the slaying victims were a Juanita Aragon 23, and Lucy m. Contreras 25. Both were found stabbed to death in their Home june 12. A Lucille Epperson 67, was accused of fatally shooting her 87-year-old Mother and beating her sister with a Hammer aug. 6 because she thought they were witches. Farley a death sept. 27 shocked residents and scared some students. A a it a very unusual for a town this size to have something of this nature happen a mounts said. A it shocks the mind of  a a it a scary a said Roswell High senior Diana Villarreal 17. A a it a like who a next you just wonder if it will be someone you know someone who Means a lot to  in three cases mounts said no suspects have been arrested including the slayings of Aragon and Contreras. Arrests also have not been made in a the april 22 death of Elmo Stock Ard 69, who was found beaten and stabbed in his Home. A the aug. 23 slaying of Jerry Gonzales 47, who was shot Down the Street from his Home. Some say hard economic times May be responsible. A transportation manufacturing corp., a bus maker that came to town in 1974, Laid off nearly 800 workers earlier this year. The move sent the areas unemployment rate soaring. Joblessness in Chaves county which includes Roswell jumped from 5.3 percent in August 1990 to 11.3 percent this August the most recent month for which figures Are available. A a in a sure some of the economic factors a the layoffs a have had an Impact a said Lynn Daugherty a local psychologist. Mounts said the police department has added five officers this year bringing the total Force to 87. And the department is focusing on Community based programs such As neighbourhood watch groups and anti drug programs to pres amps vent crime. Although killings have increased mounts said the number of rapes burglaries and aggravated assaults has decreased this year. A your Community is still basically a Small quiet place to live a he said.$1 billion settlement of d in Exxon Oil spill Anchorage Alaska a a Federal judge tuesday accepted a $1 billion settlement Between Exxon and the state and Federal governments to lend the governments litigation Over the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil spill. . District judge h. Russel Holland also accepted guilty pleas from Exxon and its shipping subsidiary and approved a $900 million civil settlement and $125 million in criminal fines and restitution. Holland said Exxon a voluntary efforts to pay some civil claims and its work Over the last three Summers to clean up Prince William sound were the most important factors in his decision. A obviously Exxon corporation is very Large and has been very profitable. But what is now very Clear to me is that Exxon has been a Good corporate citizen a Holland said. A it is sensitive to its environmental  he said the main reason he approved the settlement after throwing out a similar one five months ago was that the new one provides More Money to rehabilitate Prince William sound. James Neal Lead attorney for Exxon shipping co.,-said he thought Exxon a attorneys earlier had done a bad Job of portraying the company a environmental record. A this time we did a much better Job a he said. A Prince William sound won and the trial lawyers lost a Neal said. The settlement ends All state and fed eral litigation Over the 1989 Accident but would have no effect on civil suits. During the hearing Holland accepted guilty pleas to four Federal pollution misdemeanours. Two felony counts were dropped. Five months ago Holland rejected a $1 billion Deal Between Exxon the state and the Federal governments saying it failed to punish Exxon enough for the environmental damage it caused. Meanwhile a newspaper reported tuesday that unpublished government studies say environmental damage from the spill could run to $15 billion. The los Angeles times citing sources it identified Only As experts familiar with two government evaluations of damage from the spill said the studies lowest estimate was $3 billion and their highest was $15 billion. The newspaper gave no breakdown for the figure and did not say what agencies were involved in the studies. It said one study was conducted by a Federal team the other by a state team. Economist Robert m. Solow with the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge was on the Alaska team and fellow Nobel laureate James Tobin from Yale University in new Haven conn., was on the Federal team. The economic modelling method used to calculate damage never had been tested in court and government lawyers concluded it was too risky to use in a criminal trial the times said. Erik d. Olson an attorney with the natural resources defense Council in Washington said the estimates Are so grave that they represent a potential embarrassment to government negotiators eager to avoid a trial. Quot daughters More like grandmas poll shows new York up a a three generation Survey of More than 16,000 american women shows daughters Are More like their grandmothers than their mothers when it comes to childbearing and marriage it was reported monday. The Survey published in the november Issue of Mccall a Magazine found that 75 percent of the daughters and grandmothers surveyed were More Likely to wait to have children whereas a third of the mothers had their first child Between the Ages of 16 and 20. The Survey found that 61 percent of the mothers married Between the Ages of 16 and 20, and 60 percent of these said they wish they had waited. The Survey concentrated on what makes women of the 1990s Happy and found that 57 percent of respondents reported they were satisfied with their lives. Other findings included a the single most important happiness Factor is feeling happiness with a partner. Eighty one percent of the happily partnered Are satisfied with their lives. A with every generation More women Are having their first sexual experiences before the age of 18, but a great majority of each generation 65 to 78 percent say they should have waited longer. A women with Good jobs Are twice As Likely to feel very Happy with no partner 19 percent As those in a bad relationship with a partner 9 percent. A mothers Are not significantly happier than non mothers. A eighty two percent of women of All generations reported they married for love