2M eceart it et abct Ha Be LT IE Working on Plato Reading Placement Test, Interconnect client Ella Quock - Is galning building blocks for the future as she'begins the training pro- gram. Quock is one of several students currently in the program who will be on the job, galning real work experience, once she has completed her evaluation and basic skill development in the classroom. ~ Health-Wise Starting with this issue, the Terrace Review will begin publishing a weekly health and nutrition column as a service to our readers. The author, D. J.A. Scharffenberg, is art internationally recognized authority on public health and nutrition. _ On Snacking 3.A. Scharffenberg, M.D., M.P.H. Dear Doctor: *- A child has been placed in my home by the Welfare Department. When ‘someone from the department comes .to see how the child is getting along, he gets upset because I do not give my children snacks between meals. The department has rules which require that snacks be given to the children. I was brought up with good health . habits and snacks were not considered a part of such a program. What can I tell the representative from the Welfare Department? Sincerely yours, Mrs. Darlene Winthrop Dear Mrs. Winthrop: You have inquired concerning the advisability of your child eating be- tween meal snacks, Many parents pro- vide snacks as evidence of their tender loving care! From a health standpoint this should really not be encouraged. It is estimated that sugar eaten be- tween meals will cause three times the number of tooth cavities as the same . amount of sugar taken at meal time. Even if there is no sugar or fat in the snack, eating elevates the blood fats. This causes the platelets to become stickier and the red blood cells to clump more and form clots. Educators believe that the frequent flooding of the blood stream by fats may not be good. Sugar, even in the form of fruit juice, when taken between meals may decrease the ability of the white blood corpuscles to engulf and destroy germs. Studies show that [8 teaspoons of sugar will decrease this phagocytic ; action by 85 percent. A banana split ‘has 25 teaspoons of sugar. If you are ill with influenza the preferable fluid between meals is water rather than _ fruit juice. - » ‘The pancreas produces insulin each time the food is ingested. This pro- _ duces a hypoglycemic response follow- ing the rise in blood sugar. Causing the pancreas to work frequently and ir- regularly may not be good for one’s ~ health. Snacking is often a cause of poor appetite. We put a child on two meals a day because she was skinny and had TERRACE — Success stories are just beginning to emerge as the first round of Interconnect students are being employed in the community. Keith Tasa, an apprentice partsman at Totem Ford, Oliver Falcao, a service at- tendant at Jim McEwan Motors, Richard McMurray, a service at- tendant at Totem Ford, and Rick Goyette, a carpenter's helper at H & H Builders are just a few of these stories. There are others in the field and more in the classroom preparing for the next step. by Tod Strachan A Terrace and District Com- munity Services project funded by Employment and Immigra- tion Development/Canadian Jobs Stragegy program, Interconnect is finding jobs by providing training and support for the employment disadvantaged in Terrace — people who have had no long-term work experience and have been on income assistance for an extended period of time due to academic or social shortfalls, Interconnect is a modular pro- gram with a continuous intake format and three main units of highly specialized training. Students begin with ‘‘in-house’’ training and receive computer- assisted instruction in life skills, basic reading and- math. While in this phase of development, students learn word processing and prepare what may be a first- time-ever resume, ‘This method of- personal ‘learning has proven to be very ’ gram, students are ‘‘job ready’’ You don’t have to her meals spaced so closely together . that she was never hungry. On two meals a day with good spacing of the meals she ate well and her weight came up to normal. The chairman of a university pediatrics department said it well: ‘Remember that children eat two good meals a day and pick at one.”” ° A study was done in which a snack of one ounce of peanuts was given one hour after a meal. This delayed com- pletion of the digestion and emptying of the stomach. It is comparable to adding dirty clothes to the washing machine in the middle of the launder- ing cycle. The elimination of snacks is the first step to follow in a weight management | program. Every 100 calories used each day represents 10 pounds of extra weight each year. Besides most snacks are not the best type of food. They are either high in sugar or salt. Two meals a day are adequate for many people, and most need no more than three meals. Sincerely yours, J. A. Scharffenberg, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Nutrition Loma Linda University *A community service of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ©General Conference of successful and has provided great motivation to the trainees because of their sense of ac- complishment,’’ says Intercon- nect coordinator Detlef Beck. “Interpersonal skills, personal marketing, behavioral topics and safety are all subjects ad- dressed in the initial training program.”’ a Following completion of their individual in-house training pro- is yours for Canada’s Job — be rich to advertise! A classified ad in the Terrace Review Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 9, 1988 19 and able to move on to the next step: work experience with a suitable employer. Student skills are matched with employer re- quirements for an ‘‘on the job”’ training period of up to six weeks. While with the employer, students are monitered and, if necessary, given further assistance or training specific to their employment situation. In the final phase of the pro- gram, students find permanent full time employment, often with the same employer from whom they received their on the job training. Interconnect’s success after Interconnect scores first round of job placements — only a short period of operation is found in two basic concepts according to Beck: students receive no pay while in training (it is viewed as a personal invest- ment in the student’s life with benefits to be reaped through full-time employment) and a strong focus on the needs and re- quirements of the employer. “‘From a business perspective, Interconnect provides trainees who are job-ready and eager to work; are highly motivated, thus- demonstrating a better attitude towards good safety, attendance and job performance,”’ says continued on page 2 Following classroom work and elght weeks of work experience training, In- terconnect graduate Keith Tasa is now an apprentice partsman at Terrace Totem Ford. According to Totem Ford Partsman Dale McAllister, Tasa Started out In shipping and recelving and “caught on" to the job very rapid- ly. And now, “he’s doing well. 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