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‘Couch potato hypothesis’
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Young
Americans are more overweight than
ever, a “fattening of America” that one
researcher blames on a generation of
couch potatoes that spends as much time
watching television as in the classroom.
Rates of obesity among children and
adolescents went up an average of about
45 percent between 1960 and the early
1980s, said Steven Gortmaker, associate
professor and acting chairman of the De
partment of Behavioral Sciences at Har
vard University.
A key factor in explaining the rise are
1983 studies that show children spend an
average of at least 25 hours a week in
front of the television, said Gortmaker,
who speculated that the actual number of
viewing hours is higher.
“Television viewing for children is
now practically a full-time job equal to
the time spent in school,” he said, add
ing that television viewing is up from an
average of 18 hours per week in 1968.
Diet, a general decline in physical ac
tivity, and TV commercials that re
inforce the appeal of high-calorie foods
contribute to the dramatic increase in
overweight youths, said Gortmaker, who
explained his “couch potato hypothesis”
last month at an American Dietetic Asso
ciation meeting.
The link between TV-watching and
obesity rates holds true for adults, too,
he said. One study showed that adults
who watch an hour of television a day or
“Television viewing for
children is now practi
cally a full-time job equal
to the time spent in
school.”
— Steven Gortmaker
associate professor in the
Department of Behav
ioral Sciences at Harvard
University.
98 percent in the same age group.
Among youths aged 12 to 17, obesity
went up 39 percent and super-obesity
rose by 64 percent.
Obesity and super-obesity were mea
sured with a skinfold test that does not
readily translate into percentage of body
fat or other measurements, he said.
The greatest increase among males
was between the ages of 6 and 11, and
the biggest among females was in those
aged 12 to 17. Obesity was less prevalent
among blacks than whites, but that gap
has narrowed recently, he said.
Obesity is equally prevalent among
wealthy and poor children, Gortmaker
found. The greatest number of obese
youths are found in the Northeast while
the fewest are west of the Mississippi
River.
Obese children face health risks 1
eluding hypertension, psycho-soa
damage, respiratory and orthopei
problems. They also tend to bee®
overweight adults, Gortmaker said,
To counter the trend, he recommei
individualized programs to target ovi
weight youth, and school and comt
nity-based nutrition programs.
In another presentation, John Fore
an associate professor at Baykr Coli ientary clcctions
tons parties
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less have a 3 percent chance of being
obese, compared to a 25 percent chance
of obesity among adults who watch three
hours per day.
Specifically, Gortmaker found that be
tween the late 1960s and 1980, obesity
rates went up 54 percent among children
aged 6 to 11. Super-obesity rates went up
Houston woman
vows fight to keep
700-pound pet pig
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston
woman who has bowed to pressure from
city officials and agreed to move her pet
pig out of town is calling for friends to
march on City Hall in a campaign to
“Keep Jerome at Home. ’ ’
The 700-pound pig known as Jeffrey
Jerome has been used as an attraction at
charity events by owner Victoria Her-
berta Ziesig, who believes the animal de
serves special treatment as an exception
to city ordinances.
“As far as I’m concerned, he is instru
mental to the work I am doing as ambas
sador to the needy, ’’ Ziesig said.
have been feeding street people for four
years out of my own pocket.”
Jeffrey Jerome appeared on the porch
of Ziesig’s home Sunday in a “Vampig”
costume at a gathering that drew about
1,000 people, who donated a pickup bed
full of food for Jerome’s last appearance
as a Houston resident.
“They agreed to let me keep him for
his Halloween party today, but they said
after that, they want him out of the city
limits,” she said.
“We have parties for him and . . . ask
people to bring canned goods,” she said.
“This helps me because sometimes my
demand gets past what I can supply. I
“In other words, I’m going to cooper
ate with the city in the hope they’ll let
met get a special permit and let me con
tinue my work with street people and the
needy,” Ziesig added.
of Medicine in Houston, reportedthati
eting has become the norm amongAt
ican women and has become comm
among young children
“We have become a nation obses
with body shape, body size. Women
particular are not satisfied with theirko
ies today, either size or shape,” hesa^, e l po f the religiol
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Behind
every campaign button is a story.
And every dedicated collector is a
storyteller.
Put the two together and what have
you got? Life, piercing what Charles
Cotrell, St. Mary’s University aca
demic vice president and political sci
ence professor, terms “dead” his
tory.
This particular story begins with
1,000 political buttons dating back to
the 1896 William McKinley-William
Jennings Bryan presidential cam
paign that recently found their way to
St. Mary’s University, thanks to a lo
cal anonymous collector whose de
ceased brother once attended the col
lege many years ago.
The political Americana, which
will be on display at the university
through Nov. 9, ranges from the
somber McKinley photograph to
“Drive Carefully — the life you save
may vote Republican (Gold water
’64).” Although the collection has
yet to be appraised, Cotrell said the
button bearing the likeness of McKin
ley, the 25th U.S. president who was
assassinated, is one of the most valu
able buttons today.
The McKinley button was the first
of the type of campaign buttons used
today. Earlier buttons were made
from lithographs on steel and more
recent ones are made of paper with a
celluloid covering.
“A button really expresses the
First Amendment,” Cotrell said. The
professor pointed out that symbolic
speech is protected by the First
Amendment, a ruling made in the
1969 U.S. Supreme Court case of
Tinker vs. Des Moines School Dis
trict. The case arose when the school
district forbade its high school stu
dents from wearing black armbands
to protest U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War.
“So much of political science is
symbols,” Cotrell said. “Buttonsare
Fixed imagery that goes back before
the turn of the century. They afford a
concrete touch with history in an age
that almost depends on a flickering
image (television) of reality.”
David Frost, a paratransit coordi
nator for VIA Metropolitan Transit
Authority, began his button collec
tion 30 years ago and has amassed at
least 1,000 assorted buttons.
“Buttons tell where we have been
as a nation and how we got to where
we are now,” he said. One of his
most prized items is a George Wash
ington campaign token. “I found it in
an antique store In South Carolina,"
said the 43-year-old history buff.
The Student Chapter
EL PASO (AP
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