Emotions, mothers linked to overweight problems
By PATTY RHULE
Collegian Staff Writer
If you'Are been looking for someone to point a pudgy finger at
s the guilty party in your problem with weight, your mother
may stand accused. .
r According to Dan J. Peterman, psychologist at the Mental
ItHealth Center, mothers are a major, cause of overweight
:• problems because "'mothers are the first and primary people
;‘_.to teach good eating habits in the first place."
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Too often, Peterman said, mothersleach children to eat as a
of_calming thern.lie cited the exampre of a child hurting
himself and his mother offering a sweet to soothe him. "Kid's
don't need candy," Peterman said.
Other powerful determinants in weight problems are ethnic
influences and 'celebiations, Peterman said. People tend to
• associate pleasure with overcomsumption of food.
• According to Peterman, as a culture we should teach people
Wsope with their emotions without doing it with food:
i llePeterman and Guy Pilato, psychologist at the Mental
Health Center, began working with groups of overweight
; people three years ago under the assumption that behavioral
modification techniques could be used to help them.
r However, Peterman found that the problem was much more
• complex than he thought. "By now for people who are
dedicatedly overweight, it's one of the most difficult patterns
toftange," he said.
Many persons who come to the Mental Health Center for
help with a weight problem have gone through 10 or more
years of being overweight, tried dozens of diets, seen so-called
diet doctors and know• enough abut nutrition to eat an
adequate diet with the proper amount of calories. The
problem, Peterman said, is that they can't convert their ex
perience and knowledge into anything that will help them
clotrOltheir weight.
The Center's weight control program monitors five areas:
affective, behavioral, cognitive, diet and exercise.
' According to Peterman, the affective area involves "food
being used because you are trying to return to some sort of a
comfortable emotional state." This includes using food as an
- antedote to being bored, depressed or tense.
Carter's church blocks blacks
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) The deacons of Jimmy Carter's
hometown Baptist church canceled services yesterday
t and locked the doors rather thati admit four blacks, one of
' whom planned to challenge the church's white-only
membership policy.
Carter, campaigning in Texas, said he hopes the church
will reverse its stand. His mother told UPI in Washington
she will quit the - church if it persists in barring all blacks,
but she labeled yesterday's incident a political effort to
embarrass her son.
The church minister, the Rev. Bruce Edwards, said he
Opposed the 'deacons' action. He touched off an argument
with other church members by quoting the rule on which
the action was based as barring "all niggers and civil
rights agitators."
Later state Sens. Hugh Carter, clerk of the church and
Carter's cousin, said official minutes of an Aug. 15,1965,
& deacons' meeting recorded the rule as stating: "The
* ushers refuse to admit any Negroes or other civil rights
agitators to all worship services in this church."
Edwards, who has been in his post for just two years,
said he was told the rule read "niggers."
Standing before the locked doors of the Plains Baptist
Church, Edwards said he had urged the deacons to let the
Rev. Clennon King of Albany, Ga., and three other blacks
attend yesterday's services where King planned to try to
join the church.
King ran for , president in 1960 on the Afro-American
- ticket, an again for president in - 1972 - as an independent,
managed a 1970 gubernatorial campaign by his brother
against Jimmy Carter and former Gov. Carl Sanders, and
quit his brother's campaign staff to run for governor
himself as Republican.
4 ' Edwards suggested the timing of the membership rule
challenge 48 hours before election day was "Republican
politics" and "an attempt by the enemies of Gov. Carter
to sabotage his campaign."
Deacon Frank Williams said of the incident :'"I don't
know who's behind it but someone is trying to make it a
political football, and we're sick of it."
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It is common for freshman women to gain weight their first
few terms at college, Peterman said. This could be attributed
to dorm food, but it is more likely the weight results from
stress eating. According to Peterman, being in college is
stressful, and you can expect weight problems to be worse
here than in other situations.
"In working with the overweight, I'm constantly astonished
by their ability to ignore behavior," Peterman said. The
overweight tend to make overeating easier for themselves by
buying the wrong foods, not concentrating on food, not
asserting themselves and carrying money when' they don't
need to.
The cognitive aspect involves talking yourself into eating by
engaging in elaborate food fantasies, negative self statements
In Texas, where he attended a Baptist service in Fort
Worth Sunday, Carter told reporters: "The only thing I
know is that our church for many years has accepted any
worshippers who came there and my own deep belief is
that anyone who lives in our community and who wants to
be a member of our church, regardless of race, ought to
be admitted."
"I know the pastor agrees with me, and I hope this will
be the outcome of the problem in Plains."
The candidate's mother, "Miss Lillian" Carter, was
asked in Washington whether she would remain in the
church if membership was denied solely because of race.
"If it happens that no black can join, no matter who it
is, then I will drop out of the church," she said.
But she described King as "An activist . . . into every
little thing in politics" and said she "certainly" felt the
timing of his bid for church membership was politically
motivated.
"I know that if any other black who was decent wanted
to come into the church they would welcome him," she
said.
"But this man is an activist who shouts from street
corners. If you ask me, I'm glad they didn't admit him.
Edwards said the deacons suggested "if I was un
comfortible with this policy, I should go somewhere
else." He said he has not decided whether to quit.
King drove up to the locked church Sunday with two
women and another man.
"r happen to have been here ' last Sunday when
Reverend Edwards said differences of race should not be
a standard, and the only standard should be faith in Jesus
Christ," he said.
King said the timing of his visit had nothing to do with
the election.
"There's no timing at all, but God times things," King
said. "I don't know why God timed it this way." He said
he would return to the church next Sunday to again seek
admittance.
Several blacks have attended services in the church
including black reporters and Secret Service agents.
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and fat thoughts. Peterman said that people sit in a boring
class thinking how good a bubble gum ice cream cone would
taste and after class go downtown and get one.
Peterman suggests substituting these food thoughts with
some other pleasurable fantasy.
"If we could get rid of three things we could reduce the
overweight by a couple of ton's," ' Peterman said. He said
Baskin Robbins, the doughnut shops and McLanahan's make
it too easy for dieters to "blow it."
According to Peterman, the Center's weight control
program does not place most of its emphasis on actual weight
loss, but in establishing "an approach to eating that will be
permanently maintained."
Peterman encourages the overweight to engage in some
form of exercise,'especially running, because "it's the world's
easiest way to keep off about 12 pounds per year."
"It's a rare chronically overweight person who is involved
in an exercise program," Peterman said, and he stressed
running for those who are seriously interested in permanent
weight loss as a relatively efficient way to burn calories.
Peterman sees dorm students falling into the pattern of
associating eating with any kind of celebration. For the food
addict, this pattern is disastrous and Peterman suggests
substituting some other pleasurable activity.
The overweight tend to be uncreative about finding pleasure
in activities other than eating, Peterman said. "That's a tough
pattern to break; one of the primary pleasures of life is food,"
he said.
According to Peterman, persons who think the Center has a
magic answer to their weight prroblems have the toughest
problems. ,
Peterman said he loses interest in those people who want to
lose weight for temporary reasons, like being able to fit into a
certain dress size. He encourages persons who see weight
control as a major change in their lifestyles.
"We aren't going to deal with overweight by coming up with
a perfect diet," Peterman said. The solution lies in teaching
children to exercise regularly and teaching them good eating
habits.
Because of the limited resources at the Center, Peterman
Help Center has
The Student Assistance
Center (SAC) is sponsoring a
"Student Counselor Week"
today through Friday.
Student counselors will be
available to answer
questions about - •the services
provided by the SAC each day
this week from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. in the HUB ground floor
and from 4 to 7 p.m. in the
dining halls of each dorm
area.
The center's primary
Student open records policy in effect
The Final Policy on Con
fidentiality of Student
Records, a policy that makes
student records available to
students, was put into effect
Oct. 19 by University
President John W. Oswald.
The University policy
makes all records available
to, students except medical,
employment •and , security
records. Also, the policy
states that no one outside the
University may have access
to a student's records without
the student's consent.
The final policy will replace
an interim policy which was
put into effect at the
University, Jan. 1, 1975.
The permanent policy is
essentially the same as the
interium policy. i Changes
include the addition of the
purpose is to help students
with various problems, said
Betty Moore, SAC general
counselor. Students assist the
center's day staff by
providing information and
advice to help students solve
their problems.
The student counselors are
the information sources on
campus from 4 to midnight
Monday through Friday and
noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday in 102 Boucke.
words "by any means (in
cluding the telephone),"
referring to the fact that no
information in a student's
records will be given out by
any means to anyone outside
the University.
Also, the permanent policy
states that a student may
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The Daily Collegian Monday, November 1, 1976-9
can deal with only about 20 people per term in the weight
control program. However, if a group of students in the
residence halls would be interested in hearing a talk on weight
control, they should call the Center.
Cheryl Sowers (7th-nutrition) prepared this week's menu—
at 1,200 calories per day for dining hall meals.
YOU MAY HAVE AT ANYTIME: tossed salad with lemon
or vinegar (no oil), coffee or tea (black or with lemon).
ALL BREAKFASTS: ah glass juice, choice of unsweenened
cold,cereal or hot cereal with 1 h tsp. sugar, 1 glass skim milk.
TODAY'S LUNCH: 1 bowl chicken noodle soup, I slice rye
bread, shredded cabbage toss, 1 glass skim milk. •
TODAY'S DINNER: stuffed flounder, scalloped potatoes,
French style greerrbeans, mandarin orange sections.
TOMORROW'SLUNCH: American chop suey, sliced peach
es, 1 glass skim milk.
TOMORROW'S DINNER: sweet-sour pork on rice, peas,
purple plums.
WEDNESDAY'S LUNCH: cheese, lettuce and tomato on 2
slices whole wheat breed, tangelo.
WEDNESDAY'S DINNER: veal Cordon Bleu with cheese
sauce, spinach, whole peeled apricots.
THURSDAY'S LUNCH: pizza sandwich, banana, 1 glass
skim milk.
THURSDAY'S ' DINNER: barbecued chicken, broccoli,
slices carrots, 1 slice whole wheat bread with 1 pat
margarine.
FRIDAY'S LUNCH: macaroni and cheese, apple.
FRIDAY'S DINNER: French fried perch with 1 tbsp. Chili
sauce, green beans, 1 slice bread with 1 / 2 pat margarine,
grapefruit sections.
SATURDAY'S LUNCH: hot turkey sandwich (no gravy),
coleslaw with sour cream dressing, sliced apricots.
SATURDAY'S DINNER: cheese stuffed shells, mandarin
orange sections, 1 glass skim milk.
SUNDAY'S BRUNCH: mushroom omelet, 2 slices toast with
1 pat margarine, pineapple tidbits, 1 glass skim milk.
SUNDAY'S DINNER: Swiss steak, broccoli, honey bran
roll with 1 / 2 pat margarine, purple plums, 1 glass skim milk.
counselor week
The student counselors
have answered questions
from where can I get a lab
test to see if I'm pregnant, to
how do I go about getting an
emergency loan, to my
girlfriend left me; I can't live
without her, to what time is
the field hockey game today?
The counselors deal with
these and other questions and
problems through an ex
tensive information filing
system, anonymous
view his records within 45
days of the submission of a
written request while the
interim policy only allowed 15
days.
The University developed
the policy in compliance with
the Buckley Amendment
which was established by
telephone calls and student
to-student advising.
Personal counseling,
veteran's counseling and
legal counseling are also
offered by the center's day
staff. Appointments must be
made for legal counseling by
calling the SAC telephone
number 863-0465.
Applications for becoming
a student counselor 'are
available at the SAC and must
be returned by Dec. 10.
Congress in 1974.
The Buckley Amendment
formed guidelines for making
student records available to
students and for requiring all
educational institutions
receiving federal aid to
comply with those guidelines
or lose their federal aid.
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