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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 10, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 9 to ads offering kids fat Chance new study finds Atlanta a saturday morning to often targeted for criticism about its violence packed car Toons has sharply increased the number of ads for High fat foods aimed at youngsters a new study shows. Earlier research has shown that the More to Young sters watch the fatter they Are and the higher their blood cholesterol  latest study released monday shows that the advertising for fast food chains am packaged meals such As canned Spaghetti has suddenly doubled after remaining constant at about 20 percent of commercial for two decades. And an even bigger proportion of these ads than Ever Are filled with images of fatty Frie Chicken hamburgers and pizza. You can get a healthy meal at a fast food restau Tant but a child watching television does t get to see those said Lisa c. Cohn a nutritionist who conducted the study with or. Thomas j. Stare at Columbia presbyterian medical Center in new York.1 Cohn and stare set out to see what happened on television after the National cholesterol education program Drew up new dietary guidelines for children and teen agers in 1991.the eating rules suggest that youngsters Cut their daily intake of fat to less than 30 percent of total Cal ories. Saturated fat should make up no More than 10 percent of calories. Currently . Children get about36 percent of their daily calories from fat and 14 per cent is saturated  researchers compared saturday morning Broad casts from 1989 and 1990 with those in 1993. The found that a youngster who watches five hours of to on saturday morning sees 65 food commercials or about one every five minutes. The researchers found that this year 38 percent of saturday morning commercials were for fast and pack aged foods and that 92 percent of these ads showed High fat foods. In 1989, 20 percent of the ads were in this category and 64 percent of them were for High fat items. Current recommendations for Low fat foods Are being ignored by commercial television ads aimed at children stare  makes up 38 percent of the food ads aimed at children and the researchers found that none of the cereals promoted was High in fat. About 20 percent of the drinks and 40 percent of the snacks advertised were High fat. The most common fast food items advertised were hamburgers which made up 43 percent of the fast food pictured and pizza which was 28  researchers presented their findings at the an Nual scientific meeting of the american heart association. Stare recommended that food advertisers develop More healthy foods for children and promote them. The late King of Rock v Roll pm Presley is portrayed at various stages of his career in these commemorative dolls unveiled monday by to maker Hasbro in new York. Holtig Htiu memories of Elvis tailored to suit fans of $50 new York a Elvis May not be living but scribed As fully Posable authentically detailed. He s still a  beloved Singer is Back somewhat miniaturized in a series of dolls depicting various stages of his legendary  s teen idol Elvis decked in his scale Street checked jacket and military Elvis resplendent in an army uniform Complete with authentic ribbons and Crew Cut. Sure to be a hit is Jailhouse Rock Elvis. Another shows him wearing the White rhinestone suit he made famous. Others feature the Black leather or Gold lame stage apparel he loved too. The first three limited edition Hasbro dolls go on Sale Jan. 8 Elvis birthday and the next three aug. 16 the Day he  12-Inch Vinyl dolls were unveiled monday at the company s Manhattan showroom. They re do perfume do you at $50 a pop the toy maker sees the dolls going primarily to collectors. Most people i imagine won t even take it out. Of the Box said Larry Bernstein president of has Bro s toy division. There have been several Elvis dolls the most re cent was the 1983 world doll version. But Hasbro is hoping its attention to detail like the 232 tiny rhinestone stars pasted on the Aloha from Hawaii Elvis suit will make its doll a superstar. One stage of the Singer s career is noticeably missing Elvis fat period. There s no Point in doing that said Jack Soden chief executive of Elvis Presley enterprises. You Don t see any pictures of a fat Liz Taylor promoting fast food restaurants encouraged to ban smoking new York a officials from16 states asked fast food restaurants monday to ban smoking saying it is Hurt ing Young customers and workers. Every Day millions of children an teen agers in this country spend time eat ing playing and working in fast food restaurants new York attorney general Robert Abrams said in a statement. Be cause smoking is permitted in almost All of these restaurants Young customer Sand workers Are exposed to passive smoke a Carcinogen Tor which no Safe Levels of exposure have been Stab  passive smoke is responsible for 45,000deaths annually in nonsmokers in the United states according to the Environ mental Protection Agency. Also joining the Effort Are the attorneys general from Arizona Connecticut Idaho Iowa. Massachusetts Minnesota Mississippi new Mexico Oklahoma Oregon Texas Utah Vermont and wis Consin along with the Hawaii office of consumer Protection. The group pre pared a report titled fast food crowing children and passive smoke a danger Ous menu. Gary Gerdemann a spokesman for Kentucky Fried Chicken corp., said the request to ban smoking is misdirected. If the will of the people and the politicians elected by them decide it s not right for society to smoke in restaurants they need to pass Laws that we can follow rather than pressuring us to conduct pub Lic policy experiments he said. We re a private Industry simply trying to serve the needs of our Consumers. Pass Laws and we will fulfil  of pfc s 5,000 . Restaurants 3,000are franchised and smoking policies Are up to the franchise owners. In the 2,000 corporate owned facilities there arc Al ways nonsmoking sections where size permits Gerdemann said. Burger King spokesman Michael Evans declined to comment saying he had not seen the report. He said that of Burgering s 6,000 restaurants 5,200 Are franchised and about 10 percent of those Don t allow smoking. Of the 800 company owned restaurants All offer nonsmoking areas. Fast food Leader Mcdonald s did no immediately return a Call placed for com ment. Jetliner lands after deported chinese grow unruly. _ _ i 7vi n a  pm alms be or to Folia Era to to f 11 it k i n c i a of c in i c in i i tis a n it the airline Tanta a thirty one illegal chinese aliens being deported from Mexico caused a ruckus Onan airline flight prompting an emergency Landing on . Sou. Authorities said  causing More problems on the ground they were later put on a flight Back to  one was injured. The Lufthansa flight was travel ing Early sunday from Mexico City to Frankfurt Ger Many when the disturbance began. The chinese re Quested alcoholic beverages and started the Melee when the airline refused to serve such drinks to the group said Thomas p. Fischer District director of the immigration and naturalization service. We were told by the Lufthansa Captain that they re Quested alcoholic beverages and were being denied these beverages and that coupled with the language problem prompted the fracas on the air plane Fischer  chinese were put off the plane after the Emer gency Landing at Hartsfield Atlanta International air  said the ins declared the chinese Passen Gers to be Lufthansa s responsibility and the airline chartered a plane to take them and their eight mexican guards Back to Mexico. When the chinese were told of the return flight sunday evening another fracas or Melee developed that had to be calmed Down by Atlanta police Fischer said. None of the chinese took advantage of the time on the ground to ask for Asylum Fischer said. The Opportunity was there but they apparently were More concerned with the amenities of life he said  
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