European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 a the stars and stripes monday december 28,1992 obese dad needs professional help today s crossword dear Ann Landers my father is an executive and has an extremely stressful Job. In be Learned that most people in his kind of situation develop a vice. Some drink too much others smoke a lot. My father eats. Dad is extremely overweight and he knows it but his eating is so out of control that he has just Given up. Please print the letter 1 have written to him. He reads your column every morning. Maybe hell recognize himself and it will help. Dear dad i care about you and in a scared. Your weight problem is beyond Safe limits. Eating has become an obsession. Your obesity has driven a wedge Between you and your family. I realize your problem is psychological and i can to help you dad. You have to see a professional a and you must do it of your own free will. When i think about what you arc doing to yourself and that you could die soon i get shaky. I know you want us to have the Best of everything and that you make a lot of Money but if you die All the material things would mean nothing. Mom and Alt of us kids would be heartbroken. The pain would be unbearable. It is agony to watch you eat yourself into an Early Ann Landers grave. Your suits and shirts get tighter and tighter. Surely you must see this yourself. Please daddy get some help soon. We love you so much and Are All worried sick. A sad daughter in Louisville dear daughter your Beautiful love letter to your father will be seen by thousands of other fathers who share his problem. Dear Ann Landers your column in the Jacksonville Fla., paper recently contained a Story that was so old it had whiskers. It was the one about the Turkey that was dropped on the floor. Ill Tell you one that actually happened. When i was about 12 years old my father took me on a business trip. Dad took six of his Best customers to dinner at a very Nice restaurant. Of course i was included. Naturally everyone ordered the most expensive steaks. When the waiter arrived with the steaks he had several plates lined up on his Arm. When he went to serve my father the Steak Slid off the plate and onto the floor. The waiter apologized profusely then picked up the Steak and said Quot ill be Back in a few minutes with another my pop piped up a no Way leave that Steak Here and go get me another one a d.j., Jacksonville Fla. Dear Jack thanks for improving on that very old Story. Letters to Ann Landers should be addressed to her at . To 11562, Chicago i60611-0562. C creators Syndicate diner squawks Over poultry problem dear Abby please help Settle an argument i recently had with a Friend we were in a restaurant discussing Chicken Anatomy after 1 had ordered a breast of Chicken and was served half of a Chicken breast. Abby does a Chicken have a singular breast or two breasts so far we have consulted vets science teachers and butchers in several grocery stores nobody seems to know. I say a Chicken has Only one breast not two a Only two halves. I would appreciate any help you can give me on this one. Dick in Denver dear Dick Over the years 1 have dealt with problems involving a Chicks a Hen pecked husbands dumb clucks and ail manner of a Towli play however at the risk of laying an ill try to answer your question. Unlike humans chickens do not have two breasts. In the Chest area they have one a breast a which is divided by Bone and cartilage. Dear Abby please remind nurses and other health care proves quibble dear Abby signals that a persons weight is a personal and private matter. The Scales in my doctors office arc right beside the receptionists desk and Only a few Steps from the waiting room. The nurse who weighed me on my last visit saw fit to announce my weight loudly enough for my husband As Well As the other eight people in the waiting room to hear. Abby i am not ashamed of my weight but it does no to have to be a matter of Public record. Incidentally the nurse who blurted out my weight was plenty Large enough to assure me that she would not care to have her weight announced. Abby people done to need another reason to avoid going to their doctors and this practice of weighing in and loudly announcing the results is one of the reasons people dread this checkup. I finally told that nurse a write it Down and show it to me if i ask a keep it private Mobile Ala. Dear keep it private ill bet this letter will be tacked up on a few bulletin boards. Thanks for writing. Letters for this column should to addressed to dear Abby at . To 447 mount Morris. Iii. 61054. C Universal press Syndicate Tafte ul�l�0m�. 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