body / mind / fitness
May 26, 2022
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Summer Fitness Keep your cool Avoid feeling sluggish as summer heats
the living In the warmer, longer, lazier days of summer, tend to adopt a seems easier, life less chaotic. Even adults And now, as we’re “school’s out!” attitude in summer. our ‘“new normal’ learning to live with the pandemic in to the fullest. Still, mode, we’re ready to embrace summer we can feel slugsummer can start to drag and eventually weather can make gish. Long spells of hot and humid summer feel like an eternity. by season the enjoy and you of version Be the best maintaining a healthy lifestyle. both its advoBe careful with caffeine. Caffeine has one can argue cafcates and detractors. However, no needed. Those feine’s ability to provide a boost when can really who drink caffeinated beverages in moderation summer sluggish benefit from the boost it provides. On already hot and mornings when the temperatures are can not only prohumid at sunrise, a cup of iced coffee as well. vide a boost of energy but some refreshment pick-me-up When relying on caffeine for that extra to carefully during summer’s dog days, it’s important consumption moderate caffeine consumption. Caffeine actually have the in late afternoon or in the evening can get from caffeine. adverse effect many people hope to those who drink boost, a such provides Because caffeine or in the evening caffeinated products in late afternoon night, zapping their at asleep falling difficulty have might energy the following day as a result. is not healthy Caffeine can also be dehydrating, which its toll on the when hot, humid weather already takes caffeine conbody. Keep this in mind and don’t overdo sumption. can be more Alter eating habits. Perhaps nothing a big meal. Large draining on a hot summer day than of energy and meals on sizzling summer days rob people often lead to feelings of discomfort.
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eating, even But this doesn’t mean you should avoid has taken a sumthough you may feel like your appetite eating habits can mer break. Rather, altering existing meals per day, eat provide more energy. Instead of three the day. smaller meals more frequently throughout metabhelp boost Healthy snacking during the day can of how hot olism and maintain energy levels regardless 4 hours, every 3 to it might be outside. Eat light meals lead to feelings of and avoid foods that are heavy and lethargy. do a great deal Look for foods high in fiber. Fiber can daily their from energy more for people looking to get but perhaps no diets. The benefits of fiber are numerous, ability to flush benefit is more pronounced than fiber’s toxins and wastes toxins and wastes from the body. Such during summake people feel very sluggish, particularly include fiber in their mer’s dog days. However, those who in their daily diets will notice a substantial improvement energy levels. look to exercise Exercise in the morning. Many folks the summer as a means to boosting energy during but those swoon. This is a sound and healthy approach, workouts might who don’t feel they’re maximizing their mornings instead. want to consider working out in the tired by the end of Summer heat often make people feel to less effective the workday, something that could lead work. after exercise workouts for those who the temWhen working out in the morning, however, cenfitness conditioned air in (even lower peratures are warmer inside if the ters temperatures can be noticeably in the gym and the temperature outside is especially hot) make the most of a body is better rested and ready to workout in the workout. In addition, many people who levels are higher mornings before work find their energy throughout the day as a result.
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‘Greetings from Baldwin’ mural is done By KARINA KoVAC kkovac@liherald.com
Andaluz The Artist
THE MURAl pARTIAllY completed and Andaluz The Artist.
“Greetings from Baldwin,” a 10-by-18-foot postcard mural, has been completed on the brick wall of the Deli Boy, on Atlantic Avenue, by viral street artist Efren Andaluz III, known professionally as Andaluz The Artist. Initially a concept by a 20-year Baldwinite, Steven Velazquez, who sought funding from the Chamber of Commerce last year, the mural features Baldwin legends including the late Yankees announcer Bob Sheppard and photogra-
pher Moneta Sleet Jr., and scenes such as the annual paper boat race, and is expected to add buzz to Baldwin and attract visitors who will spend money at local shops. Velazquez, who wanted to create the mural for years, said at a chamber meeting on May 11 that its completion was only the beginning of efforts to show it off, and that he planned to print postcards and a calendar with all the sponsors of the project. “People are going to see this image around the world,” Velazquez said, expressing the Continued on page 14
Baldwin woman finds lost father — at his suggestion By KARINA KoVAC kkovac@liherald.com
Growing up, Janice Segure, who was born to a teenage mother and raised by her grandparents, never knew her real father, but finding him was always in the back of her mind. Last month, Segure, of Baldwin, who is now 57, was finally reunited with her missing father — after meeting him unknowingly and taking him up on his suggestion of doing a 23andMe DNA test. In April, Janice’s husband, Steven, urged her to join ancestry.com, the genealogy website on which he was enjoying mapping his family. Janice joined as
well, to work on as much of her family tree as she knew. On the site, a woman reached out to her, saying she looked a lot like the woman’s Aunt Fay, and sent a picture. Segure recalled thinking, “Is that Photoshop? Is someone playing a trick on me?” “But then,” she added, “I noticed she had similar DNA matching.” Thinking they might be related, the two women began corresponding, and agreed to figure out how to find Segure’s father. They discovered that they were first cousins, and Segure was encouraged to return to her hometown of Pensacola, Florida, where she grew up before mov-
ing to Baldwin at age 10, to meet some other members of her extended family and ask around about her dad. She was nervous at first, but Steven pushed her to take the trip and see what might happen. While she was planning the trip, her cousin’s Aunt Fay died, and Segure was invited to the funeral. Not wanting it to be, she said, “like a movie where people ask, ‘Who is that?’” she almost didn’t go, but was ultimately glad she did. There she met more relatives, “and that’s where the connection really happened,” she said. While mingling with her newly discovered family mem-
bers, she came across a man named Frank Rogers, who was curious about her ties to the family and offered help. He said that to be sure, she should do the saliva-based biological testing called 23andMe, where he was registered and which would offer a more concrete answer. Back in Baldwin, she took the test, sending her DNA out and
getting an email response a few days later, telling her that there was a 49.5 percent chance that Rogers was her father, and that she had two sisters. “And then all of these thoughts are going through my head,” Segure recalled. She had met Rogers’s two daughters, as well, in Florida. “I just met this man, have a Continued on page 5