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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. Tritsch is a health educa
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seven and eight, though all educators are
welcome.
V D Awareness Week and the annual
workshop day are sponsored in an effort
to combat the rising occurrence of ven
ereal disease locally, a pattern which
follows an alarming national trend. The
incidence of syphilis in 1977. for example,
was up 35.8 percent from 1976 in Oregon.
Gonorrhea was also up in 1977 over 1976
in Oregon.
The public is invited to participate in
the forthcoming workshop.
Further
information concerning the event may be
obtained from the Tri-County Community
Council. 228 9131.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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