body / mind / fitness
May 26, 2022
With a focus on
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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Mepham teen leads Ramadan relief project money to provide the eye surgery to children in the African country of Mali, and in less then The holy month of Ramadan, two weeks on GoFundMe, he according to Haluk Yavas, is all raised $2,200. about practicing self-discipline Cataracts are a progressive, and finding empathy for those degenerative eye condition that who are less fortunate. causes distorted vision, and Yavas, 16, is a sophomore at eventually blindness. According We l l i n g t o n C . to Yavas’s website, Mepham High RumiClub.com, School, and has due to a lack of long been commitadequate health ted to helping othcare in Mali, nearers. Having startly 800,000 people ed a service orgasuffer from catanization called the racts. The money Rumi Club, Yavas he raised in 2019 has taken part in funded the sura number of gery for 10 chilrelief projects. dren. “Rumi” means During Ramapeaceful or good dan this year — HAlUk YAVAs in Arabic. The which was celeRumi Club isn’t brated in April — af filiated with Yav a s a g a i n Mepham High, but rather is focused on helping others, but composed of family members this time in Pakistan. The and friends of Yavas’s around month-long observance takes the world. place in the ninth month on the “I started the club just Islamic calendar, and focuses on because I wanted to give back,” daytime fasting, prayer, personal he said. reflection and community outYavas’s service to others start- reach. ed in 2019, he said, when he Yavas, who is of Turkish launched a project called Help descent, has a family friend, Them See with a Cataract Surgery. The goal was to raise Continued on page 10
By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
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All smiles on lag Baomer Children roasted marshmallows over a bonfire last week, during the Chabad Center for Jewish Life’s Lag BaOmer barbecue and family fun day. More photos, Page 3.
Live, from Israel: Charlie Goldberg to be part of inaugural Maccabi Media Program By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Charlie Goldberg may be best known around town for being the “on-air extraordinaire” of Charlie Goldberg Live, a media network he created while a student at Sanford H. Calhoun High School. Now studying at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the Merrick native continues to make waves inside and outside school.
In July, Goldberg will be part of the inaugural Maccabi Media Program for Maccabi USA. He is set to head to Israel to be part of a 14-person team of aspiring sports media professionals from across the U.S. who will do play-by-plays, sideline coverage, color analysis and more during the 21st Maccabiah Games. The Games, often referred to as the Jewish Olympics, are a month-long, international Jewish and Israeli multi-sport event held
quadrennially in Israel. In December, when Goldberg learned of the applications for the media team, he put a lot of work into it, he told the Herald. “I had to submit a reel — a lot of information about myself and who I am,” he explained. “I had to write an essay as to why I wanted to be in this program — a couple of writing works.” His mother, Jodi Turk-GoldContinued on page 4 May 26, 2022
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