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Page 6 Portland Observer Thursday. March 23. 197« University researches effects of nutrution on heart diseases G e . 1 i I.HG IT TO G E T H E R - Mvrna Hah [left, com m u n it y advisor far Portland Urban 4-H Center, supervises a sewing session at C E D Coûter, where students are participating in the annual International Cultural Fan-Fair on the 4-H calendar April 22nd. from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m„ at the M att Dishman Community Center. Further information can be obtained by calling Ira Mumford, extension agent, 287-1770. Y offers mother’s workshops The Portland YW CA is offering moth ers a chance to get out of the house and into a series of interesting workshops with its new "Mom's Morning Out" program, scheduled on six Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 o.m, beginning April 6th at the Downtown Center, 1111 S.W. 10th Avenue. The morning will begin with a coffee time, followed by workshops in areas such as positive self awareness, cooking. things to do with children and natural ways to look and smell great. A sack lunch will top things off. The "Mom's Morning Out" program features child care for participants, part of the Portland YWCA's new effort to establish a drop-in child care facility for people taking classes at the Downtown Center. P O R TLA N D , OR. - Better nutrition and better health are the aims of two research projects being conducted at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center (UOHSC). Dr. William Connor, director of the UOHSC Lipid Atherosclerosis labora lory, is principal investigator for the two projects, funded until 1981 by the Na tional Heart. Lung and Blood Institute. One project, "The Family Heart Study." is funded for over $1 million. It will involve 200 families, who volunteer to take part, from the Hollywood district of Portland. Over the next five years. D r. Connor and his colleagues will help the families change from the typical, high cholesterol American diet to an “alternative diet" that is low in cholesterol saturated fat, table salt and high in fiber and unrefined carbohydrates. Studies by D r. Connor have shown this “alternative diet" may help prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and gall stones. He said the 200 families will be selected randomly and recruited door-to-door be ginning in April. Over the next year, about 20 families a month will be recruit ed. D r. Connor hopes the random selection will result in a group that is a “m irror of our society." Local headquarters for the study will be Portland's Northeast YM C A , 1630 N.E. 38th Street. There, D r. Connor and his staff have remodeled a kitchen and office area. Groups of Family Health Deltas give scholarship check A check in the amount of $730 was presented February 26, 1978 by Delta Sigma Theta. Inc., Beta Psi Chapter, to Mrs. bynette Taylor Executive Director, and Mrs. Frances Flippen Deputy Direc tor. National Headquarters Staff Delta Sigma Theta. Inc., Washington, D.C., to be contributed towards the establish ment of the Delta Sigma Theta Dis tinguished Professor Endowed Chair. Tuskegee Institute is the first and pre sent holder of Delta Sigma Theta Distin guished Professorship. The recent $750 scholarship award results in a total contribution of $1,400 for the United Negro College Fund for 1977-78. Beta Psi Chapter also contributed $250 to the E . Shelton Hill Scholarship Fund at Concordia College and $200 to STAR Productions for campships at their annual Black Heritage Brunch which was held at the King Neighborhood Facility on Feb ruary 19th. The Executive Director and Deputy Director were in Portland to meet with the Farwest Regional Director, Addie J. Haynes and the local chapter to assist with planning for the Farwest Regional Conference to be held in Portland June 23rd-25th. It’s time to plant onions Onion sets are now showing up in garden stores. They are a convenient, quick and economical means of obtaining early green onions for your table accord ing to Ray McNeilan, Home Horticulture Extension Agent. Onions are a crop that can be planted early to start supplying the dinner table by mid-spring. The sets now available are either yellow or white varieties mostly. Sets can be planted to use as green onions or be allowed to grow until late summer and harvested as slicing onions. If onions are enjoyed by your family, plant lots of them, harvest every other one for green onions up until early summer then let the remainder grow for hamburger sized slicers. Plant the sets 1-1/2 to 2 inches deep and an inch or so apart. These will be readv for eating when the tops reach eight to ten inches, usually in about a month. If you want to grow large bulbs, plant the sets only about 1/2 inch deep and three inches apart. Onions will grow in almost any type of soil, but it must be fertile, have good drainage and be in good tilth. The plants respond to both compost and commercial fertilizers. A handful of complete fertiliz er, such as 16-16-16 applied alongside the row at planting time will get the plants off to a good start. If the soil in your garden is still too wet and sloppy to work, plant some sets in a flower pot in the house. All you need is a good potting soil, a container with a drain hole to remove excess water, and plenty of light. W ithin a few weeks you can be eating greenery from your own home display A two-part educational and informa tional workshop April 5th will highlight V enereal Disease Action Week sponsored April 1st through the 8th by the Venereal Disease Action Council (VD A C ), ac cording to local businessman Randy M iller who chairs the group. The goal of VDA C is to foster better public under standing of venereal disease in an effort to reduce the incidence locally of that disease in its various forms. The workshop is the joint project of the Governor's Commission on Youth, the Oregon Council of Parent, Teacher and Student Associations, the Oregon Medi cal Association Auxiliary and the Tri- County Community Council, a United Way organization. This year’s V D Workshop is organized in two parts and is scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Oregon Medical Association Building, 5210 S.W. Corbett in Portland. The first half of the workshop, from 9:00 a.m. to noon, is billed as a VD information update. Featured guests are Dr. King Holmes, Dr. Hugh Tilson and Len Tritsch. Dr. Holmes is professor of Medicine and head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the U.S. Public Health Hospital in Seattle. D r. Tilson is Health Officer and Director of the Mult nomah County Department of Human Services. M r. 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Further information concerning the event may be obtained from the Tri-County Community Council. 228 9131. LYNN KIRBY'S Learn what you can do to protect yourself against the nation's number one killer, heart disease. A four session course is being offered at Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, beginning Tuesday. March 28th. at 7:00 p.m.. featuring local cardiologists, heart surgeons, and a University of Oregon Health Sciences Center research dieti tian. Classes will cover anatomy, medical and surgical treatment, and risk factors leading to coronary artery disease. For further information call Portland Com munity College Community Services, 244 6111. Party donation tion specialist with the Oregon State Department of Health and Education. The morning half of the workshop will focus on the latest facts and scientific and medical finding concerning VD. A new E.C. Brown Foundation film. “A Family Talk About Sex," will be presented during the morning. During the afternoon session partici pants will divide into workshop groups to discuss their particular concerns with the VD specialists. A special workshop for teachers and school administrators will focus on "W hat, When and How to Teach about V D ," le d by Oregon V D Coordina tor A1 Klascius. this discussion will emphasize V D education in grades, six, LIMITED E D IT IO N 2 8 engm t. AT, PB, PS, A M F M radio Stk N o I plaque on the arteries. Researchers will study the effect which fiber in the diet has upon the absorption and excretion of cholesterol and other processes. Dr. Connor said research findings by others suggest a relationship between lack of fiber in diet and the incidence of numerous disorders, includ ing heart diseases, varicose veins, cavi ties of the teeth, and appendicitis. In addition to D r. Connor, others involved in "The Nutrition and A thers- clerosis Training Program" include asso ciate program directors Dr. Oscar Port- man, biochemists Drs. Peter Bentley, Richard Jones. Howard Mason, and Jack Fell man; medical psychologists Drs. Jo seph Matarazzo, A rthur Wiens, and Ste ven Fey; medical researchers Drs. Scott Goodnight, M. Rene Malinow, Matthew Riddle, Don laym an , and Roger filing worth; biostatisticians Drs. Lyle Calvin and Gary Sexton; medical research asso ciate Don Lin; and research dieticians Sonja Connor and Martha Fry. Those taking part in The Family Heart Study project include D r. Connor, Sonja Connor, Drs. Matarazzo, Fey, Carmody; pediatrician Dr. Ilanoo Jhaveri; research dieticians M artha Fry, Sabine Wilde, Joyce Gustafson, Nancy Becker, and Sue Erickson; nurses Sandy Bacon and laiuise Queener; educational aide Claudia Chap pel and biostatisticians Drs. Calvin and Sexton. Dr. Connor, Sonja Connor, and Martha Fey are co-authors of the recently pub lished The Alternative Diet Book, featur ing recipes and menus. Workshops increase public knowledge about venereal disease Class explores heart disease Ms. Marian Gilmore, president of Delta Sigma Tbeta’s local chapter, presents scholarship donation to l.vnnette Taylor, national executive director, and Frances Flipper deputy director. pressure and since the diseases which cause these deaths develop over the lifetime, the preventive approach and widescale treatment approach on a com munity basis are undoubtedly the most important factors for control of these diseases in our population." Much of the study in this project will take place in the UOHSC Clinical Re search Center. Some of the five coordi nated areas of the project will involve volunteer subjects. Volunteers will be used in a study to learn what dietary factors cause their serum cholesterol (fat in blood) level to elevate more than others as they grow older. "This information could be of greut help in the development of atherosclero sis prevention progrums," Dr. Connor said. UOHSC researchers also will study volunteer subjects from the Tarahumura Indian Tribe of Mexico. They hope to gain more information on designing a diet which would help prevent heart disease. D r. Connor said the Tarahumara In dians, whose diet is low in cholesterol content, have been found in recent surveys to have low serum cholesterol levels. The feeding of dietary cholesterol to most adults living in the U.S. seems to iead to an increase in serum cholesterol concentrations, he said. Another research area is the study of collagen, the major connective tissue of the body. Since Collagen is a family of different proteins, researchers are trying to determine which collagen deposits attract lipids (fats) and develop into Study participants will meet monthly at the “Y" for group discussions and cook ing demonstrations. Throughout the study, family mem bers' cholesterol levels will be monitored In addition, researchers will look care fully at the families acceptance or rejec tion of the new diet to see what factors helped or hindered the change over pro cess. The other project, the "Nutrition and Atherosclerosis Training Program" is funded for over $290.000. It will offer postdoctoral training to doctors of niedi cine, doctors of veterinary medicine, and those holding doctorate of philosophy degrees. Atherosclerosis is hardening of the arteries. Fatty plaque begins to line and finally clog the body's arteries. It can lead to strokes, heart attacks and serious impairment of blood flow to the lower part of the body. Dr, Connor said it is hoped those trained will become teachers or research ers of the nutritional aspects of cardiovas cular (heart and blood vessel system) disease and softie will enter community health programs in leadership positions “with the specific goals of bringing to bear the modern concepts of nutritional prevention of disease in the community setting." Those working in community health programs could be especially important, I)r. Connor commented. “Since more than half of this country's deaths relate to heart disease, stroke and high blood JOHN R E E D BOOK STORE In the Dekum Building 519 S.W. 3rd Avenue Sixth Floor Or call: 2272902 / _ LYNN KIRBY FORD Q An Old Car Company With Some New Ideas = N.E. Broad wav «I first 288 5211 A- 5430 N. Lombard, in Si. Johns wvia'"1“ i
