PAGE 82, THE HERALD, Wednesday, July 28, 1976 |

Binkly and Doinkel have

The Department of
Consumer and Corporate
Affairs has undertaken a
major information program
since the introduction of the
Hazardous Products Act in
June 1969, to tell consumers
about product safety and to
ensure that products
designed for consumer use
meet safely standards.

A very important
audience for such a
program is young children.
Over the years thousands of
children have suffered
Needless, injury, and even
death, through the misuse of
“certain potentially hazar-
dous but common household
products. -

A special puppet
program, aimed at children,
was first staged in the
summer of 1973, The Binkly
and Doinkel presentation is
organized by the Depart-
ment of Consumer and
Corporate Affairs and
funded under the Depart-
ment of Consumer and
Corporate Affairs and
funded under the Depart-
ment of Manpower and
Immigration’s Student
Summer Employment and
Activities Program.

The script has been
developed and reviewed
with educational  con-
sultants, child psychologists
and nutritionists and it is
designed to transmit a dual
message about safety in the
home and about good eating
habits.

The use of the medium of
puppets to give information
to children has been proven
to be a most effective and
entertaining com-
municalions tool. For this
reason, a fourth summer's
program started the first
week in July.

The 1974 program in-
valyes about 20 student
puppeteers from across
Canada, who have dramatic
arls or teaching experience.
These students undergo
extensive training in Ottawa
and in Vancouver and then
take the 20-minute puppet
show lo parks and
playgrounds throughout the
country.

Since 1973, the live per-
farmances have been
supplemented by the
distribution of a 20-minute
coloured film, the Binkly
and Doinkel Safety Show,
circulated to ministries of
education and through the
National Film Board. In
addition, a series of four 60-
second public service
television clips were sent to
all television stations in
Canada, These clips used
the puppet characters,
Binkly and Doinkel, to tell
children about the dangers
of household chemical
products as illustrated by
the four symbols on their
labels (poison, corrosive,
flammable, explosive).

The 1976 summer show,
entilled Binkly and Doainkel
Road Show, features Binkly
and Doinkel, the puppet
twins from outer space;
Sniffer (the dog), who
befriends them during their
visit, Pockets (the clown),
R. Pugsley de Pugh (the
villain),

The show was written by
Noreen Young, creator of
many children’s shows,
including Hi Diddle Day and
the new ‘Pencil Box" show
and by Bruce Kingsley.. It
tells the story of Binkly and
Doinkel who, on special
assignment, have to inform
children about hazardous
preducts symbols. On earth,
they encounter R. Pugsley
de Pugh, who wants to
hypnotize the world, so he
can get rid of good eating
and fitness.

The touring program runs

a total length of ten weeks.

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By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.

DEAR DR. LAMB — I am
55 years old and enjoy your
column very much. [ would
like to know your thinking on
protein. At times you indicate
you favor a high protein diet
and other times that excess
protein goes into fat. You say
that health can be injured if
one doesn't have enough pro-
tein. What do you consider a
minimum standard for an ac-
live male of ‘160 pounds?

My diet consists of juices,
fruits, saups, vegetables,
salad and a small amount of
meat. No fried foods, no fats,
no excess salt. I wauld like to
teen my weight at the present

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DEAR READER -- There
is aright and wrong amount of
almost all good things in life,

_ and protein is no exception.

You will be getting enough
protein if your diet includes 60
grams of good protein a day.

Naw, nat all pratein is good
protein, meaning that it con-
tains adequate amounts of all
the essential amino acids that
the body cannot manufacture
from other protein.

The other proviso is that
your diel must contain enough
calories to meet your energy
heeds, particularly if youhave
already eliminated all the ex-
cess body fat so many people
carry around. If you are on a
starvation diel your body will
use your body protein for
calories to provide essential
energy.

About the only people who
need more protein than this
are those actually building
muscle mass (not muscle fat)
and that could increase the
requirement up to about 1#
grams a day.

When you take more protein
in than your body needs to
build or replace lost bedy pro-
tein, the excess is broken
down to calories for im-
mediale energy or to form fat.

A lot of people do not un-
derstand that proteins are

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of protein

made up of a varlety of amino
acids that are the building
blocks for body protein. For a
more complete understanding
of proteins in your diet and
your body needs, you can send

in 50 cents each for lwo issues ©

of The Health Letter, number
3-6 and 3-7, Proteins. Part |
and Proteins, Part IL. These
issues will tell you how much
protein you need at different
. ages and what foods provide
good protein. They also ex-
plain how your body uses pro-
lein to build vital structures
and for energy. Just send your
request to me in care of this
newspaper, P.O. Box 1551,
Radio City Station, New York,
NY 10019. Send a long,
stamped, self-addressed
envelope for mailing.
The figures I have given you
for protein are based on the
Recommended Daily

Allowances established in 1974 -

by the National Academy af
Sciences. This amount is more
than the minimal daily
allowance and includes
enough to provide an excess
for many healthy people. In

the past many of the protein ©

requirements have been over-
ly generous. These amounts
are fine for most healthy peo-
ple. In case of illness or un-
usual situations, the amount
might be different.

You can figure that a pound .

of raw, separable, lean meat,
fish or poultry will contain

/ about 100 grams of protein. .

That is the weight after all
skin, bone and inedible parts
have been removed. ;

Milk and milk products are
an excellent source of good

protein. You can‘use the non- —

fat products to avold fat and
still get protein. The problem
with many so-called high pro-
tein diets is that they contain
Jats of fat, too. That is not
necessary if one uses low fat
dairy products and lean
meats, fish and poultry and
the proper food preparation.

IF you ask for Kitchen
Cabinets at Al & Mac,
and so very many people
do, you are directed to
Dennis & Kelly. Dennis
and Kelly are fully
trained in the art of
establishing the proper
layout for your home, be
it an older model or
brand new: Estimates
and drawings are
available free-of-charge
and terms are available
fo sult your budget.
Cabinets are stacked at
Al & Mac by the hun-
dreds, in fact Al & Mac is
the only stocking dealer
of Kitchen Cabinets
between Prince Rupert
and Vancouver. You have
to da It that way If you are
to give proper service
here in the north and

philosophy Insists upon
service, It's no wonder
Dennis & Kelly are such
busy men! °

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Government supports handicapped

An additional $1 million
will be injected into han-
dicapped workshops this
year under an improved
payment formula an-
nounced recently by Human
Resources Minister Bill
Vander Zalm,

The increase, which is the
first change in the han-
dicapped workshop formula
since 1973, will double the
allocation to the 65 centres
and provide a $2 million
incentive for the workshops

. to improve and expand their

client participation.

“We were faced with an
totally inequitable situation
where some of the bigger
and more efficient centres
were receiving only 16 cents
for each participant-hour,
while the smaller operations
were being paid up to $1.20
per participant-hour,”’
explained Mr. Vander Zalm.

The formula establishes a
set rate of 62.5 cents per
participant-hour and
represents a substantial
increase to nearly all
centres. The few centres
which had been operating
above the new rate will
continue on the schedule

until their capacity brings
them in line with the new
formula.

In addition to the rate
changes, the Minister an-
nounced that the three basic
categories of handicapped
facilities will be brought
under one umbreila and be
called Achievement Cen-
tres. Included in the
designation will be han-
dicapped drop-in centres,
activity centres and
workshops.

“These changes are only
the first in a series of steps
that we will be undertaking
in the next few months to
improve workshop facilities
for handicapped -persons,”
said Vander Zalm.

“As outlined in the
Guaranteed Available In-
come for Need (GAIN) Act,
we are planning to establish
an association which will
coordinate the activilies of
these workshops in an effort
to prevent duplication of
production, and assist with
enhancing marketability of
workshop goods.
production and assist with
enhancing marketability af
workshop goods.

“Some of the centres are
roducing outstanding
items and nearly all of the
others could be similarly
improved if we could
establish guidelines for
quality control] or arrange
for transportation and
marketing,’’ said the
Minister,

Mr, Vander Zalm aiso
noted that Human
Resources Department
staff, in conjunction with
Provincial Secretary Grace
McCarthy, are arranging _a
booth at this year’s P.N.E.,
lo display the variety of
goods produced at the
workshops.

In addition the Minister
explained that through the
association the Department
is hoping to arrange for
display. and sale of han-
dicapped persons’ products
in such government-run
operations as ferries and
provincial parks.

“We would like to make
these products more ac-
cessible to the general
public and to show people
how creative and adept the
handicapped can be,” said
Vander Zalm.

“Itisa mystery tome why
we should be importing
these goods when we have
an inexhaustible reservoir
of talent right here in British
Columbia.”

Vander Zalm noted that
changes will not involve
expanding the number of
centres in British Columbia
at this time, but rather
improving those now in
operation. .

The new achievement
centre rate structure is
effective as of July 1, 1976
and will involve the work
performed by some 3,500

ndicapped persons.

The complex previous
formula involved =a
graduated payment plan in
which the centres were paid
a decreasing participant-
hour rate as the total
number of hours for each
centre increased.

For example, the first 600
hours earned $720 or about
$1.20 per hour, while 5,400
hours earned the centre only
$2,160 or 40 cents per hour.

“In essence, we are
penalizing centres for im-
proving and expanding their
operalions,"’ explained

ander Zalm,

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