The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1974 Page: 2 of 10
ten pages : ill. ; page 23 x 16 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I-----1 join us one weekend
a month and two weeks
| I in the summer for a
g. part-time job you may
I I never give up. New
arrangements reguire
I I as short as a 3-year
committment from
I I people who've never
been "in" before, and
I I our lowest starting pay
_ JI is quite a bit more than
I 2 I $2-an-hour. If you don't
- ' have a skill, we'll train
I I you in any of the 54
_ different ones we offer,
| I your choice. And pay
- you while you learn.
| I Whether you're male
I or female.
I v Js ' | Give us a call. We
■ <do o ■ have a good deal to
I £ T5 S I offer you, right here at
| S < O K w ■ home. All you have
hmb mm hhh hJ to do is ask.
694th Maintenance
Battalion
922-6328...
OPPORTUNITY IN
SAN ANTONIO!
694th Maintenance
“■5 MMY SES“VE Battalion
432 Boswell Street
San Antonio, Texas 78214
922-6328 (8 am - 4 pm)
or
us
We want men and
women who would like
to become a computer
repair technician,
automotive mechanic,
radio equipment
repairman, welder,
business machines
specialist, or learn one
of 49 other high-level
skills as a ■member of
our team. As one of the
most highly-praised
repair organizations in
the United States, we'd
like to have you with
us one weekend a
month and two weeks
each summer. Your pay
is pretty good, and
most of us enjoy the
work.
If you'd like to know
more, mail us the
coupon or come see
any day between
8 am - 4 pm. We'd like
to meet you.
PART-TIME NOW,
WITH A FUTURE
IN RESERVE:
2 - Nov. 22, 1974 - THE RANGER
r
I
J
• 1
J
Professors believe economy main issue
1
__
M
J
• I*1
''Some people sleep a lot.
.. some people eat a lot."
by patti cerwin
second of a series
Fuller said. They thought they were
sampling different types of crackers,
to find out which was the best.
When it became mealtime, the
people who were not overweight did
not eat because they were full. The fat
people continued to eat because to
them it was time to eat again.
"They have never really learned to
know when they are physiologically
hungry," Fuller said.
"Fat people eat more when the
clock indicates it is time to eat.’’
He said fat people respond more to
external cues, when food is offered to
them.
"We are stimulated by food cues,”
McLeod said.
‘‘I was an impulsive eater,” she
said.
The difference between an im-
pulsive eater and a compulsive eater
is a compulsive eater eats constantly
and-an impulsive eater is more prone
to food cues.
"I ate in spurts but I really gorged it
in during those spurts," she admitted.
"Some societies stress
fatness."
Ml
/
He has not been too
encouraged by President
Two professors here who
advise campus political
clubs believe Watergate was
only a side issue in the
general election.
Mitchell Grossman and
James Perkins, government
professors, said Watergate
was nothing more than a
side issue. The main issue
was the economy.
Perkins is faculty adviser
to the campus chapter of the
Young Democrats, and
Grossman is the adviser for
the campus Young Re-
publicans.
"The polls have stated the
economy was the No. 1
problem,” Perkins said.
Both reacted differently to
the election results.
"I feel somewhat vindi-
cated in terms of the 1972
election. I felt the important
issues did not come out in
1972. Since then these
important issues have been
exposed," Perkins said.
Perkins believed one of
these important issues was
the integrity of public
officials.
"People questioned the
integrity of certain people in
Congress who backed Nixon
even after all the facts had
come out.
"Nixon sharpened the
poor voter turnout was
because neither party had an
answer to the economy
problem.
"All solutions, hurt the
middle class,” he said.
He noted an independent the
was elected governor in
Majne. He said neither party
represents the middle-class
in America.
"Democrats lean over
backwards to the bottom
groups of society and
protect some corporate
interests. Republicans are
not able to divorce
themselves from corporate
interests,” the YR adviser
said.
He thinks if either party
would come out as a
spokesman for middle-class
Americans it could become
the dominant political party.
He also forsees someone
trying to maintain a third
party movement which
would appeal to the middle
class, but he added it would
be very difficult.
Perkins is not happy with
the constant changes in the
administration.
He attributes this to former
President Richard Nixon's
poor judgments in appoint-
ing people to certain posi-
tions before they were
checked.
il
I1
II
> a
■
1
created more,” McLeod said.
Dr. David S. Fuller, associate pro-
fessor of Psychiatry at the University
of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio, said each person has
his own pattern on how to cope.
"Some people sleep a lot, some
people drink a lot and some people
eat a lot," he said.
He added the tendency towards
obesity involves attitudes of the
family about eating.
McLeod said being fat stems from
her childhood. She had been fatsince
she was 6 years old.
“I blamed my mother until I realized
it wasn’t any mother who pried my
mouth open and put the food in.
"It was like a trap I let myself fall in
to.
"It's a tradition, food and love go
together."
McLeod explained that food can be
a sign of love. It can serve as a pacifier
or as a compensation.
"If someone fixes something spe-
cial for you, you've got to eat it.”
There has got to be a Change in
behavior, she said.
“When you love someone, there’s
something else to offer besides
food.
“People have got to start saying,
‘This is bad for me -- give me a kiss or
pat me on the back instead,”’ she
said.
"Jean Mayer, author and nutri-
tionist, says, ‘We are killing our
families with love.
“Some of the excuses fat people
hide behind are: “I’m glandular. I'm
big boned. My family is fat so it is
inherited. I put it on when I was
pregnant.
‘‘This is not true,” McLeod said, “It
is environment.
“What it all boils down to is most fat
people do not know how to eat. They
don't know proper food
proportions.
"I didn’t want to admit that I
couldn’t control food. We are very
independent. It would be a failure.”
Fuller said overweight people eat
more than is appropriate.
“If they are sad, anxious or upset,
they will eat even though they are not
hungry and they don’t know why.”
An experiment was conducted with
a group of people, thin and fat alike,
didn't want to waste all the food on
the weekend.”
McLeod also said fat people always
say they never eat much. He never
eats breakfast and, of course, no
lunch, but after supper anything
goes.
She gave an example to illustrate
her point.
At 3 a.m. a fat person has a craving
for a piece of cake. So, he gets up and
fixes himself a cake and has a piece -
and another piece. Pretty soon half
the cake is gone. To keep his family
from knowing he has eaten half a
cake he will eat the other half.
A thin person's response is, "A
whole cake!” but a fat person will nod
his head and say, "Aes, I
understand.”
This if the difference between a fat
person and a thin one.
As much as fat people cannot help
eating, they are miserable about their
appearance.
"I was miserable at practically
every social affair I went to. I tried to
show I was having a good time but
your feet hurt, your legs hurt and
you're always uncomfortable,”
McLeod recalled.
“There's no choice in clothes. You
took what size fit you and the
dressing rooms were kind of small.”
The little humilations and uninten-
tional hurts that a fat person has to go
through all tend to tear down their
self-confidence, little by little.
McLeod recalled when her hus-
band bought her a Volkswagen. She
had him take the seat belts out
because she said she did not like
anything strapped around her waist.
The truth was she could not get them
around her. It did not help when she
found out he put heavy duty shock
absorbers on the car to keep it from
leaning when she was in. it. ,
Alcoholics tend to be obese, Fuller
said.
“Many alcoholics don’t eat well at
all. When drinking heavily, as much
as a fifth a day, they don't have an
appetite. Some don’t eat at all for two
weeks at a time.”
He also said people from lower
socio-economic groups are more
prone to be obses.
“People of lower socio-economic
groups have more tolerance for
obesity.”
Obesity may even be cultural,
Young explained.
“Some societies stress fatness. It is
desirable in certain societies.”
McLeod said, “This means that you
are strong, that you can do hard work.
Medicine has proved that it is
different.”
Young added, "In our society,
we’ve stressed thinness and the
model figure body image through
television and advertisements.”
j
1
.1
"I ate in spurts but I really
gorged it during those
spurts."
eaters. There's a physiologically
satisfying and psychologically
satisfying thing to it. It takes the place
of something that is missing in their
life.
“Generally, there is a basic prob-
lem underneath as to why people
become compulsive eaters,” she
said.
“Statistics say most fat people have
emotional problems, some more
severe than others,” McLeod said.
“It s resentment that you’re diff-
erent. Deep down inside you feel a bit
freakish.
“I always found something wrong
with a skinny person - stringy hair,
bow-legs, crooked nose, knock-
kneed. It’s the green-eyed monster
coming out,” she commented.
“We call skinny people skinny
civilians.’.’
Because fat people cannot easily
take the weight off, about all they can
do is laugh it off, McLeod explained.
Fat people tend to be rather loud-
mouthed and showy to try to get
attention so that people will overlook
their problem, she said.
McLeod, once well over 200
pounds herself, speaks from
firsthand experience. Although now a
slender attractive woman, she still
refers to herself as a fat person.
Fat is more than a physical condi-
tion. It is a state of mind, as well. One
you can lose, the other you cannot.
“Fat people live to eat rather than
eat to live,” McLeod explained.
“It’s like a disease that you have
that can’t be cured, but it can be con-
trolled. It’s not easy.”
“I had the feeling when I was frus-
trated, somehow the food would help
me.
"Subconsciously you put love and
food together. The two words are
related to us. We thought the food
would control our problems, but it
didn’t.
“It's like being an alcoholic. We
reach for food because we feel food is
going to solve our problems and, it
\_________________
Weight problems quite often are
the outward sign of some
psychological problem.
Compulsive eating may be trig-
gered by emotional problems,
alcoholism, economic position,
environment or culture.
Eat, drink and be merry for tomor-
row we may die.
This is the jolly attitude most peo-
ple believe their rolly-polly neighbors
with the laughing bellies like bowls
full of jelly have.
This is the jolly attitude fat people
like others to believe they have.
OLXing Cole was a merry ol’ soul,
but really was he?
"Don't you believe it!” was the only
reply of Eddie Faye McLeod's, area
manager of Weight Watchers of
South Texas.
“That’s a front we put on because
we feel they expect it.”
Frustration, loneliness, boredom,
anxiety and stress help to pile that
weight on, Dr. Eleanor Young,
assistant professor in the department
of medicine at the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San
Antonio, said.
“It's really not having any direction.
Eating is a psychological outlet for
people who become compulsive
J
1
j
7
■-
.... -
happen in the next two years.
"Assuming the economy
improves, Ford runs for
re-election, and the Demo-
crats squabble over what
candidate to run, I give Ford
better than a 50-50 chance
to be re-elected.
"If the Democrats come
out with a
McGovern-type candidate I
think Ford’s chances will be
75-25," Grossman said.
Gerald Ford’s judgments
either.
Perkins does not believe
Ford's campaigning before
November general
election did any good for the
Republican candidates.
“Ford making statements
such as ‘the Democrats
could threaten world-peace
was seen through by the
voters. Not many of the
candidates Ford cam-
paigned for won,” he said.
He added a lot of the
conservative states do not
like someone coming in and
telling them for whom to
vote.
Grossman is not worried
about the 1976 election. He
said Nixon won by a majority
in 1972. “Now look what
happened. Anything can
Psychological problems cause
compulsive eater's weight gain
Thin people think in a wholly diff-
erent way.
“If a thin person puts on two or
three pounds, he will try to get it off
immediately," McLeod said.
“A fat person will get on the scale
and say, Five pounds? Oh, I can
always take five pounds off.’-Six
months later, he’ll get on the scale
again and say, ‘Five pounds? I can
always take five pounds off,' but he’s
forgotten about the five pounds
before and the weight accumulates.
"We always felt we could lose it,”
she said.
"We were always on a diet, and we
always went on a diet on Monday. We
* n
George
mJ
public awareness of what
qualifications we want in a
leader, especially the
President," he said.
However Grossman's
reaction was one of
disappointment. He agreed
with Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C.
that some good people were
defeated over issues in
which they had no control.
Grossman seemed dis-
appointed that only 38
percent of the people voted
in this last election.
He said this was the lowest
voter turnout in 45 years. He
also did not think the
Democrats had won by a
landslide.
“You cannot have a land-
slide when less than 50
percent of the people
voted," he said.
He also added that many of
the elections were very
close.
Perkins said Congress
must work with the
President. "There has to be a
sharing of responsibility," he
said.
He also sees the need for
price controls.
“As unpopular as price
controls are, I think we need
some of those unpopular
price controls now, " Perkins
said.
Grossman believes the
J
tJ
■■/I
'I
School
Home Phone
Zip
City
State
Address
Name
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
San Antonio College. The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1974, newspaper, November 22, 1974; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1337521/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting San Antonio College.