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Enjoy a handful of plain walnuts or almonds, chop some up and sprinkle them on salads.
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kind of antioxidant heart? polyphenol, which is another What’s the formula for a healthy cholesterol. health, that helps to lower LDL (bad) Many factors contribute to your heart and including exercising regularly, not smoking a bigeating healthy foods. But some foods pack it comes ger nutritional punch than others when some to a healthy heart. Yes, every year, there’s rage, but new food item out there that’s all the Spinach of heartof all vegetacertain superfoods remain staples nutritious most the Spinach is of your lutein (a healthy diet that should be a daily part bles, packed with B vitamins, folate, iron, calcium nutrition plan. your carotenoid) magnesium, potassium,salad with You probably have some of these in make a on your and fiber. And it’s so versatile; olive oil or diet already. Add in others and you’re it, steam it then add a little garlic and chicken way to a happy heart. chop and freeze it to mix in with pasta, dishes, soups and more.
Blueberries of High in antioxidants, blueberries are one foods you the most powerful disease-fighting vitamin C. can eat. They also contain fiber and topping They’re great plain, in a fruit salad, or your whole-grain cereal.
Oranges Everyone knows oranges are rich in vitamin C, but did you know they also contain potassium, flavofolate (folic acid), fiber, carotenoids and that noids? Carotenoids are a type of antioxidant in contain the red, orange, and yellow pigments of a type fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids are
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Swiss chard in a This vegetable (a cousin to beets) comes leaves. variety of stalk colors with beautiful green Swiss chard is rich in potassium and magnesium it also that helps control blood pressure. And heartcontains lutein and zeaxanthin, two of olive oil healthy antioxidants. Sauté with a bit pepper until wilted and season with herbs and for a tasty treat.
Edamame The fiber in these green soy beans is helpful
Black beans and kidney beans beans Like spinach, black beans and kidney contain B-complex vitamins, folate, magnesium, fatty calcium and fiber, plus niacin and omega-3 for extra acids. Add them to soups and salads flavor and heart-healthy nutrients.
Salmon and tuna The American Heart Association recomand mends eating fatty fish, such as salmon These fish albacore tuna, at least twice a week. fatty are abundant in polyunsaturated omega-3 for heart acids, which help reduce risk factors blood disease including high cholesterol, high fatty pressure and high triglycerides. Omega-3 that acids can also help decrease inflammation improve contributes to chronic disease, and they cognitive and behavioral function.
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Oatmeal This heart-healthy grain is a smart breakfast up in the choice. Soluble fiber helps fill you includmorning, while oatmeal’s other nutrients, ing omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, potassium, your folate, niacin and calcium help protect choheart. Studies suggest that oats can lower cerlesterol levels and may even help prevent tain cancers.
Flaxseed huge This low-carb whole grain packs a B6, nutritional punch. Flaxseed is high in vitamin mangaphosphorus, copper, folate, magnesium, nese, fiber, omega-3 fatty acids and phytonutrior ents such as lignans, which may help prevent Research forestall the onset of type 2 diabetes. the has also shown that flaxseed may decrease arrhythrisk of blood clots, stroke, and cardiac favormias. Grind up flaxseed and add it to your or ite heart-healthy hot or cold cereal, muffins bread.
Walnuts and almonds and If you’re counting carbs, walnuts your diet almonds are good additions to omega-3 because they contain fiber, along with fatty acids, vitamin E, magnesium, monounsatuphytosterrated and polyunsaturated fats and ols, which seem to decrease blood cholesterol.
HERALD Your Health Heart Health Inside
Vol. 25 No. 9
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Phillips to audit reassessment
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Potential for a museum just down the road the remaining board members, Betty Lippai and Paul Laursen, want to reorganize the group Frequent travelers on Mer- and get plans moving. rick Avenue have likely passed “I’ll do what I can to keep the the original Merrick Library, historical society going — we’re though they may be unfamiliar initially going to be reorganizing with its history. The building — it,” Baker said. “One of our goals which has stood on the corner of is to the take the old library in Merrick and Kirkwood avenues Merrick and make it into a dissince its completion play room.” in 1897 — is an If a museum or accredited New York display room is creState Historical Site ated, it could be used that has been unused by local schools durfor many years. ing the week, and Recently, the Hisperhaps be open to torical Society of the the public on weekMerricks has disends. cussed putting this The Merrick treasure to use, and Library has a storied though a plan is in JoE BAKER history, and has the earliest stages of President, Historical occupied several development, the Society of the locations over the opening of a one- or decades. Early MerMerricks two-room museum rick residents inside the original Edward C. Camlibrary may be in Merrick’s mann and Richard P. Kent estabfuture. lished the First Library of MerJoe Baker, a lifelong Merrick rick in 1891, in a barn on the Wilresident who founded and serves liam Hewlett Farm off Merrick as the president of the South Avenue, according to the MerMerrick Community Civic Asso- rick Library Archive. ciation, is now the acting presiIn 1897, the Cammann family dent of the Historical Society of donated the property at Kirkthe Merricks. Following the wood and Merrick Avenue, and death of society President Larry Garfinkel last year, Baker and Continued on page 4
By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Maria Cestero/Herald
REsiDENts AND NoRtH Bellmore School District representatives attended the Town Board meeting last week to hear from developers and to share their concerns.
Locals express concerns over Temple Beth-El rezoning By MARiA CEstERo mcestero@liherald.com
North Bellmore residents are voicing their concerns about the possible demolition of the former Temple Beth-El synagogue and its replacement with a 28-unit apartment complex. The three-story synagogue, on Bellmore Road, merged last year with the East Meadow Jewish Center, and is currently unoccupied. A rezoning proposal, if approved by the Town of Hempstead Town Board,
would allow the repurposing of the property. Construction of the apartments would take approximately a year. The proposal was discussed at the Feb. 15 Town of Hempstead Town Board meeting. The proposal to rezone the property came from the building firm SDL Bellmore LLC, and was presented by its representative, Daniel Baker. According to the presentation, the new building would be only slightly taller than the synagogue.
“Something has to happen with the property,” Baker said. “The temple isn’t going to use it. The reality is that we believe this proposal is the best fit for this property and the community.” The building he said, would not only provide highend homes for new residents, but also be an aesthetically pleasing addition to the community. Board members expressed their concer ns about the height of the proposed buildContinued on page 12
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he building is the perfect location for artifacts.