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THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 20,1981—S.
At Wit's End
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By Erma Bom beck
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Hug your teen-ager
DEAR DR. BLAKER -
Our eldest boy is becoming an
adolescent. Do you have any
particular advice for us as
parents?
DEAR READER - Your
question may have been
answered best in this short
DEAR DR. BLAKER -
When I saw you last summer
on “The David Letterman
Show,” you said that statistics
were showing a reduction in
the divorce rate. To what do
you attribute this change?
DEAR READER - The
In August of last year, the Associated Press rented
a tree across the street from Gov. Ronald Reagan’s
Los Angeles residence.
For 50 cents a day they got exclusive rights to the
tree for 100 days from which their reporters could
view and report on the comings and goings of the
presidential candidate. -
NBC rented an apartment down the street, ABC
rented a garage, and it was rumored CBS had ex-
clusive rights to a fence nearby.
Why do we do it?
Why do we strip our presidents of every personal
thought, every intimate relationship, every corner of
privacy to satisfy our curiosity? Why do we track
down their families, attack them, and lay them bare
for cameras and writers to feed upon?
Why is it indeed that less than three dozen reporters
were uncovering Watergate while hundreds were
interviewing President Nixon’s barber?
Ironically, the White House is the only bastion in
this country where freedom of speech is punishable
by public scrutiny.
It occurs to me if TV network is willing to try an
experiment in the sports booth where the com-
mentators are silenced and everyone must watch the
game to see what is going on, why can’t we try it for
our first family?
I think we could tough it out not knowing:
How big the White House ham is for Easter.
Who is dating a married secret service man.
Where the president jogs and what his time is.
Who had a history of mental illness.
How big was the scar from his operation.
What he bought his wife for her birthday.
Whether or not they share the same bed.
How much she paid for her inaugural gown.
Whether or not they went to church last Sunday.
What the first family’s butcher, chauffeur, brother
or mother thinks of our foreign policy.
These are not a couple of life-sized toys we have put
in a doll house in Washington to look at and
manipulate. These are flesh-and-blood human beings
who have a monumental task ahead of them and who
need a certain sense of self and an occasional escape
from the demands to function.
I don’t know President and Mrs. Reagan at all.
I have a feeling that soon I will know more about
them than I have a right to know.
Copyright 1981 Field Enterprises, Inc.
Reduce fat in your diet
choices
f^[ pk Karen Blaker Ph.D.
essay written by an adoles-
cent for Dr. Michael J.
Mayer’s book “How to Love,
Understand and Cope with
Teen-Agers” (Libra Publish-
ers; Roslyn Heights, N.Y.;
$7.95 plus 75 cents for postage
and handling):
“My parents made three
main mistakes in raising me.
“The first mistake was that
they were never strict enough.
They always let me talk them
into anything.
“In addition, they were
always making me do things
they themselves never did.
Lastly, I feel my parents nev-
er did enough socially with
me, like playing games.”
This teen-ager hit three
important aspects of parent-
ing an adolescent:
1. Set rules and limits.
2. Teach by example, not by
directive.
3. Be a friend as well as a
parent to your adolescent.
Also remember that teen-
agers need a lot of support,
not criticism, from their
parents. A hug a day is just as
important for an adolescent
as it is for a younger child.
DEAR DR. BLAKER - I
have read your columns for
three years but have never
written. Now I have a prob-
lem and need your help.
I want to lose weight. I
understand that Overeaters
Anonymous has a good
program, but I don’t know jf it
has a chapter in my area.
How can I find out?
DEAR READER - Write
to Overeaters Anonymous,
2190 190th St., Torrance,
Calif. 90504. Ask for the loca-
tion of the chapter nearest
you.
Good luck!
DEAR DR. LAMB - My
17-year-old daughter is 5 feet
2 and weighs 136 pounds. She
is very solidly built. She is the
only member of the family
who is overweight. I have
been trying to help her diet
Of course, sweets and con-
centrated starches should be
avoided. Why? Because they
contain very little water or
bulk and that causes them to
be high calorie foods.
Your daughter will lose
ealth
Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
(without nagging) for the last
six months. I took her to a
doctor and she has no health
problems. I was very disap-
pointed in his advice. All he
told her was to cut down on
carbohydrates. Would you
please send me your Health
Letter, Weight Losing Diet?
Will she lose weight on it if
she follows it faithfully? She
will exercise for a short time
and then give it up. I think if
she would get more exercise
this would help. She has too
much weight on her stomach
and legs.
DEAR READER - There
seems to be a national kick on
cutting down on carbohy-
drates. It is often a misguided
effort. The most calories in
most'American diets are from
fat — not carbohydrates. A
gram of fat contains nine
calories while a gram of car-
bohydrate only contains four.
Beyond that, the biggest fac-
tor affecting the calories in
food is the water and fiber
content. Many carbohydrate
foods are low calorie foods
because they contain lots of
water and bulk. Most vegeta-
bles are in this category and
certainly most salads —
unless you add a fat-contain-
ing salad dressing.
Your doctor should have
advised your daughter to
eliminate the fat in her food
wherever possible. You can
help in this by preparing foods
without significant amounts
of fat.
weight if she follows the diet
in The Health Letter number
4-7, Weight Losing Diet, which
I am sending you. Others who
want this issue can send 75
cents with a long, stamped,
self-addressed envelope for it
to me, in care of this newspa-
per, P.O. Box 1551, Radio City
Station, New York, NY 10019.
She should not try to lose too
fast and should be content
with about a pound a week.
I am a great supporter of
exercise but unless a person is
able to do a great deal of
exercise, losing weight that
way is a slow process. A sensi-
ble goal is to plan to increase
the level of exercise enough to
use an additional 250 calories
a day while decreasing the
diet calories about 250 calo-
ries a day. On such a sane pro-
gram a person can lose about
a pound a week. Walking,
swimming, jogging, tennis and
sports one enjoys are the best
ways to increase calorie use.
DEAR DR. LAMB — Can a
out & about
COME AND SI
optimism over the divorce
rate was as short-lived as
Letterman’s hopes of becom-
ing a staple of daytime televi-
sion.
The divorce slowdown in
1976 and 1977 did not turn out
to be a signal of things to
come. Now the rate is up
again.
According to The World
Almanac, there were
1,170,000 divorces in the Unit-
ed States in 1979 — 4 percent
more than in 1978.
We are, in effect, seeing one
divorce for every two
marriages. Sorry for the bad
news!
Divorcing? Write for Dr.
Blaker’s newsletter “Helping
Your Child Accept Divorce.”
Send 50 cents plus a stamped,
self-addressed envelope to Dr.
Blaker in care of this newspa-
per, P.O. Box, 475, Radio City
Station, New York, NY 10019.
Write to Dr. Blaker at the
above address. The volume of
mail prohibits personal
replies, but questions of gen-
eral interest will be discussed
in future columns.
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Admitted
.Mrs. Clifford McFadden, 307
Ardis.
Mrs. Sandra Reed, Star
Route.
Mrs. David Thompson, 312
Texas.
Earnest Pharr, Woodhaven
Nursing Home.
Mrs. Joe Clem, 321 Whit-
worth.
Mrs. Mattie Long, 340
Highland. „
Kevin Keim, Cumby.
Master Chase Fite, Pickton.
Miss Erin Evans, Quinlan.
Master Brant Smith,
Gladewater.
Master Benjamin Blow,
Commerce.
Miss Lawanda Smith,
Saltillo.
Miss Donna Doss, Route 4.
Perry Clark Sr., 301 Oak
Avenue.
Mrs. Nettie Palmer, 306
Mulberry.
Miss Donna Davis, 309
Peach.
Mrs. Dexter King, Emory.
Dismissed
Mrs. B.C. Wilkins, 217
Parkins.
Artie Stephens, 1400 West
Avenue.
Mrs. Michael Hadaway and
baby girl, 1118 Texas.
Mrs. Joe Lynn Shearer, 420
McGrede.
Mrs. Richard Irby, Pickton.
Mrs. Dennis James and baby
boy, Saltillo.
Master Jeff Coppedge, Star
Route.
Noble Bain, Pickton.
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12&20
Stop fantasizing about sister
By ROBERT
WALLACE, Ed.D.
Copley News Service
Beverly from Beatrice,
Neb., has a very popular
sister but feels somewhat
jealous of her. Tom Over-
meyer, 18, who lives in
Fresno, Calif., and Maggie
Colfax who hails from
Springfield, Ohio, will offer
their thoughts with mine.
Welcome!
Dr. Wallace: My older sis-
ter is very beautiful and
popular with both boys and
girls. She is a cheerleader
and Is senior class presi-
dent.
Unfortunately for me, I
am not beautiful and popu-
lar and did not make the
cheerleading squad. My
only saving grace is that I
am a member of the honor
society.
My problem Is while I
love my sister, there are
times when I feel good when
she has a problem. I know
this is wrong, hut what can I
do to stop feeling this way?
— Beverly
Beverly: Stop fantasizing
about your sister’s life and
start living your own.
The correct hairstyle, use
of cosmetics, and the right
type of clothing will do won-
ders for your looks and per-
sonality. — Dr. Wallace
Hi Bev.: Let’s face it.
Brains are much more im-
portant than beauty. You
are lucky to have the
“smarts.” I never heard of
a dumb person getting a
new brain, but persons who
are not beautiful can have
nose jobs, face-lifts, hair
transplants, bust enlargers
and hip summers.
And with aU your brains,
you wUl have enough money
to make yourself beautiful.
Start thinking about the
“new you” and you won’t
have time to be jealous of
your sister.
Did you ever see a picture
of Mario Thomas (Danny
Thomas' daughter) before
her nose job — pure ugly. —
Keep Truckin’ — Tom
HeUo Beverly: You are
spending too much time
feeling sorry for yourself.
Beauty comes from within
and popularity is the result
of participation. Get in-
volved and start enjoying
your high school days. — All
the best, Maggie.
New Tool
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cessation of the injection of
sperm following the death of
her husband, especially when
that injection has been
frequent? If so, is there medi-,
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