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1 Kathleen Features 377 Lavey Editor 1249 Lansing State Journal Jv Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1990 Page 1D What we're eating A nationally representative sample of 2,000 households was polled this spring on eating-out patterns unicKen, nsn ana vegeiaDie choices have gone up in the last two years. Here are the top 10 most ordered foods. Chicken (any kind) 2- 3. 4.

Beef (any kind) 87.1 Hamburgercheeseburger 86.5 tmmmmtifmm 'i to live a lifetime dieting. Few people feel content with their bodies. Every ounce Oprah Winfrey or Liz Taylor gain and lose is watched by an America gleeful that the famous are no better than we are at keeping thin. Most people believe thin people get paid better, get more dates, live longer, have fewer diseases. But Chernin notes this sense of well-being is precarious, since most of those who lose weight put it all back and more.

The solution remains as elu--sive as the diet that lets you eat what you want and lose weight. "The history of the diet industry in America probably represents one of the most astounding triumphs of 20th-century capitalist enterprise," Joan Jacobs Brumberg writes in "Fasting Girls." "There is nothing that isn't sold without a thin female body next to it," says Susan Gutwill, also with the Women's Therapy Center Institute. "It's really immoral. It's criminal in a very serious way." The $32 billion spent to get thin last year is $10 billion more than was spent just four years ago. And Marketdata Enterprises, a research firm in Valley Stream, N.Y., predicts the market will top $50 billion by 1995.

Research may provide more clues to the causes of obesity, but one fact doesn't change: To lose weight and keep it off, you must develop healthy eating and exercise habits for good, the experts say. Even then, you may have to accept a body chunkier than a model's. Long-term dieters also need Salads Fish (any kind) French fries 6. 7. Potatoes 8.

Pizza 9. Sandwiches 10. Vegetables Restaurant and Institutions magazine, 1990 Food obsession series hc i sn. TODAY'S Thanks to Madonna and others like her, more women are slipping into something more comfortable on a day-to-day basis. Find out more, in Style! Page 3D AM Trends and hot topics Drive the point home Your teenager may be resistant to advice, but a new pamphlet, "How to Survive the Teenage Driving Years," lays some basic safety facts on the line: More teens are killed by car crashes than by any other cause, and most of these deaths occur during the nighttime "cruising" hours.

Almost a third of all male teenage drivers killed in motor accidents were legally drunk at the time of the crash. When accidents don't kill, they can seriously maim; each year there are 180,000 cases of brain injury and 5,000 serious spinal cord injuries resulting from automobile accidents. The pamphlet, developed by the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, tells how teens can resist peer pressures that lead to the lethal mix of drugs or alcohol and driving. And how simple measures like seat belts can increase their chances of surviving. For a copy, send a stamped self-addressed envelope to Liberty Mutu-al-TDAP, P.O.

Box 777, Boston, Mass. 02117. Cities with a price New York City remains the most expensive U.S. city to visit, but worldwide it is only the sixth most expensive city for bed and board. According the September issue of Conde Nast Traveler, Paris ($331 per day) and London ($320) are the priciest cities in the world.

Findings are based on a single business traveler with three meals a day and a single room at a standard rate in a first-class hotel. Other top cities worldwide: Stockholm Tokyo Milan ($285) and New York Other U.S. cities, after New York, are: Washington, D.C. Honolulu Chicago ($192) and Boston The cheapest cities? A day's visit to San Antonio, Texas, is $99 and in Columbia, S.C., the day's tab averages $90. P.M.

Places to go, things to do That's the news News junkies will be especially interested in staying home to watch TV tonight. CBS newsman and "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace is profiled in a special show at 10 p.m. tonight on channels 3 and 6. Wallace's 40- Wallace year career is chronicled, with segments on the famous libel suit by Gen. William Westmoreland, and other highlights from his career, which goes back even further than his first CBS show in 1957.

See details on Page 6D. The Midas touch Lansing's John Midas opens tonight in for the first of four nights at Connx-tions Comedy Club, 2900 N. East St. Tickets are $6 for shows tonight and Thursday night at 9, and $8 for the 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

shows Friday and Saturday. Reservations are available at 482-1468. Keeping in step The Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band provides a fun fall diversion on more than just Saturdays. The band continues fall practice from 4:30 to 6 p.m. weekdays on the field by Demonstration Hall.

Practices are open to the public with parking available in the stadium parking lot or at metered parking by the Music Building. For more information, call 355-7654. Compiled from staff and wire reports. Today's calendar. 2D f53 fr LK5 Associated Press This Is Part 1 of a 4-part series examining the American obsession with food.

Look for stories on body image, dangerous eating habits and dieting Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Today section. As Americans battle the bulge, a perfect body remains elusive By MARY MacVEAN Associated Press In childhood, chef David Liederman recalls his brother and his stepfather lunging forks first toward the last pork chop. Dad speared the brother, and in the chaos, Liederman came up with the chop. "We were so eager to get to the portion that we barely tasted what we were eating and whatever hit the table was de- voured as if hit by a buzz saw," he said. -Liederman was off on a de- cades-long journey of devour- 1 ing that eventually led him to map trips through France 1 aimed at hitting as many three-1 star restaurants as possible.

At 38, he topped 300 pounds. He opened two New York I City restaurants and a chain of chocolate chip cookie shops, called David's Cookies. And though he has dropped 100 pounds, kept it off for three years and written a book, "David's Delicious Weight-Loss Program," he remains obsessed with food. "My biggest project in life is keeping from getting fat," said Liederman, now 41. "If you believe the way I do that compulsive eating is not only a sickness but an addiction, how do you get rid of the problem Source: without spending the psychological energy?" One therapist likened his situation to "psychological tyranny." But Liederman, for now, is content.

He carries a pocket diary everywhere, recording every single taste of food in tiny little letters, down to the spoonful of clear broth and mushroom soup tasted at his Broadway Cafe. He is fanatic about daily exercise, usually with a trainer. At 5-foot-11 and about 180 pounds, he looks healthy and moves fast. "My goal in life is for someone to say, 'You look terrible, David. Eat he said.

Millions of Americans feel an immediate affinity with those words. Half the adult women and 30 percent of adult men in this country are on a diet. Americans spent more than $30 billion trying to lose weight or keep it off last year, and a congressional committee is investigating the industry. Still, an estimated 34 million American adults are obese that is, they weigh at least 20 percent above their ideal weight. Americans turn to self-help books, relaxation techniques, Overeaters Anonymous, Weight Watchers, modified fasts, liquid diets, liposuction, wired jaws, stapled stomachs, grapefruits, acupuncture, hypnotism, fatty photos on the refrigerator, fake fats, artificial sugars, jogging, spas, aerobics, Stairmasters, gyms, drugs.

Dieting is part of the mainstream; going off a diet is failing. WILX hires By MIKE HUGHES Lansing State Journal WILX (Channel 10) has launched the second round in the battle of the sportscasters. Matt Morrison has been hired as the No. 2 man. He's a Lansing native who has ranged from producing for CNN to playing centerfield in "Twin Peaks" country.

Morrison, 28, will arrive in time for the Michigan-Michigan State University football showdown. "He's going to be the best guy in the state," insisted Tim Staudt, the WILX sports director. The hiring came at a time when all three sportscasts were looking for a backup man. WLNS (Channel 6) needs a replacement for Dave Luciani, who left to take an MSU job. WLAJ (Channel 53), which hopes to hit the air Oct.

8, needs a backup for sports director Mark Wilson. But moving first was Staudt, who needed a replacement for "I couldn't bev lieve the response," he said. "We had 92. applications Of those, 21 were No. 1 at their stations." 1 89.2 86.1 84.5 83.1 82.0 81.8 80.8 77.2 to satisfy physical hunger rather than to stave off guilt, loneliness or other emotional longings.

Women often believe that if they are thin, if they control their appetites, they will be happy, loved and respected, Kim Chernin writes in "The Obsession." Losing weight, Hillel Schwartz argues in his book "Never Satisfied," has become "the modern expression of an industrial society confused by its own desires and therefore never satisfied." The obsession strikes girls early. A 1986 study in San Francisco found that of 500 girls in grades 4 to 12, almost 80 per-' cent of 10-and 11 -year-olds reported dieting to lose weight. And many parents have overreacted to researchers' warnings that television-addicted children would grow obese; nutritionists had to admonish parents not to take all the fat out of their children's diets. That provides a glimpse at one of the strange aspects of America's obsession with weight: One need not be overweight became an intern with CNN in Atlanta. He was occasionally the voice for "Headline Sports," but mostly was behind the scenes.

"I was learning a lot about television production, which is very helpful," Morrison says. "But I wasn't using the skills I wanted." So he landed the job in Great Falls, where high school sports reign. For the WILX job, he got an endorsement from Nick Vista, the retired MSU sports information director who lives in Atlanta. "I got that real Cadillac endorsement from Nick," Staudt says, "and I took a look at his tape It was clearly the best of the 92." Morrison will anchor on weekends and report during the week, along with part-timer Ken Landau. He'll also do weekday anchoring during the winter, when Staudt does play-by-play for Big 10 basketball games.

-I'll be doing about 12games, lOof them during the week," Staudt said. "So he'll be picking up a lot of time then." That philosophy is part of the problem, according to therapists who say food represents other problems. If people learned to eat to ease hunger for food, rather than hunger for love or something else, most eventually would reach a weight that's good for them, they say. Financially, emotionally and physically, Americans are paying for being so persistently and obsessively focused on an ideal they most likely will never attain. Why? For one thing, women, and men to a lesser extent, are victims of a culture that worships a sylphlike figure to the virtual exclusion of other body types.

"You can't work with women and not work with eating problems, body image," said Andrea Gitter, a therapist at the Women's Therapy Center Institute in New York City who specializes in eating problems. "It touches on everybody's insecurity. The underlying message is that you're not OK as you are," said Gitter, who was a compulsive eater until she learned to eat to become educated about nutrition. For example, while the typical American diet includes about 40 percent of its calories from fat, many experts recommend 20 percent to 30 percent. "They really have very little idea what a portion size means in terms of cutting it," Xavier Pi-Sunyer, director of the Obesity Research Center at St.

Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, said in a recent speech. "They have very little idea of how much fat is in a food they eat or how much sugar there is in a food they eat." Liederman knows his nutrition, exercises daily and appears to have motivation in abundance. But will he keep his weight off? "I could regress. I could find some rationale I can't foresee," Liederman said. "I could still fall off the wagon." Frightening, to a dieter.

By World War when this country had its first best-selling diet book, there also was a U.S. Food Administration. Herbert Hoover, as its head, called on the nation to eat less. "Fatness was careless, selfish, wasteful, treacherous and un-American," Schwartz wrote. "There was to the culture of slimming between 1930 and 1960 an element of fear that the more one had, the emptier one would be." In 1952, the director of the National Institutes of Health declared obesity the primary national health problem.

In See FOOD. Page 4D Def words to take the rap Gannett News Service Yo mon. Yo, dad. Ever wonder what all that def rap talk means? To help you understand, the makers of the new syndicated show "Pump It Up!" have created a handy glossary of rap terms. B-boy, B-girl: Rap music fans (the 'B' stand for beat).

Biscuit: Easy Clockin': Bringing in, acquiring Def: Outstanding terrific Dis, dissin': To show disrespect, to harass. Fly-boy, fly-girl: Attractive male or female Fresh: Fine, very good. Homeboy, homegirl: Friendly term for someone from the same neighborhood or school. Hard: Tough, authentic I heard that: I agree Posse: A group of friends. Sweat: To give someone a bad time.

a backup sportscaster That included Morrison, who was learning the business at KRTV in Great Falls, after visiting other spots. Ed Morrison was the starting quarterback on MSU's 1950 freshman team, before his career was eclipsed by pro-bound Earl Morrall. He graduated from MSU and went to work for IBM. Most of his seven children were born in Lansing. Matt, however, was only 2 when the family moved to Birmingham and 7 when they moved to California.

"Anyone who can remember me here must have an awful good memory," he says. Matt Morrison was a walk-on with the UCLA baseball team, soon landing the centerfield spot and: a scholarship. He hit .303 for his college career and played minor-league ball for the Tri-City Triplets, a Washington team'; located roughly in "Twin Peaks" territory- He hit anJ was irieased: soon realized I wasn't really thee as Morrison did some spbrtswridng while "finishing his English degree at UCLA, then i i iriCfDS TODAY: Kihsey Report, 2D; TELEVISION: Thejwremtereot 'Cop RockflM).