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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and early afternoon hours is one way to Limiting caffeine consumption to morning avoid feeling sluggish in the summer heat.
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Great artists at E.M. schools Page 4 MAY 26 - JUNE 1, 2022
Teaching taekwondo
Upgrades at Eisenhower dog park are unveiled Mary Messina, of Levittown, and her dog, Denver, a shepherd collie, love playing in the Eisenhower Park Dog Park. Information on the park’s upgrades and more photos of furry friends and their owners, Page 3.
Grandmaster Sung J. Choi shares traditional martial arts expertise
“school of wisdom.” Choi said that when he was learning taekwondo it was a difIt’s no easy feat to become a ferent form than what is taught grandmaster in taekwondo, but today. “We learned how to fight,” Sung J. Choi has achieved that Choi said. “We learned how to s t at u s a n d t h e n protect ourselves. It some. Being a grandwas tougher than master means that these kids learn.” the highest level of When he was 6 taekwondo has been years old, he was achieved. Choi is a already a junior 9th Dan — or rank black belt, and — of black belt. moved up the ranks Choi, along with f r o m t h e r e. H e Lee, his wife, are the became a 9th degree owners of GM Choi black belt sometime Do Center in East in the 1980s, he said. Meadow. There he To achieve this, teaches taekwondo extensive training and hapkido. While and testing by World taekwondo is the Taekwondo is needKorean ar t of ed. punching and kickAside from taeing for self-defense, kwondo and hapkiYoUNG CHoI hapkido, also Koredo, he is also a boxan in origin, teaches Daughter ing champion in the self-defense with difmiddleweight diviferent techniques sion and trained for than taekwondo. the 1964 Summer Olympics held Choi grew up in Korea and in Tokyo. Because of different had an early start with taekwon- circumstances, however, he do. It was part of the culture, didn’t go. and most boys start learning Choi served in the Vietnam early. He is from the original War because of Korea’s mandaschool of taekwondo Jidokwan, tory service law, meaning all which was founded at the end of World War II and translates to Continued on page 14
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50 cans of food for milestone birthday to aid those in need By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com
East Meadow resident Todd Weinstein was born in 1972, and that’s how many cans of food he wants to collect and donate in honor of his 50th birthday on June 8. The “Nice things that happen in East Meadow” Facebook page founder and administrator is always starting drives and pools on the page to bring neighbors
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together. There have been multiple recipients of his generosity; this time the canned goods will be going to the Interfaith Nutrition Network in Hempstead, a nonprofit that helps those who need food, clothes and other necessities. “Instead of a party or something, I really wanted to give back,” Weinstein said. “So I’m encouraging everyone to donate, and I want it to be done around my birthday.”
It’s no surprise that the community has really stepped up for this drive, Weinstein said, because residents have always been willing to help. But he was shocked when he received a video from Stew Leonard Jr. saying that Leonard would donate 50 containers of chicken broth, 50 bags of pasta, 50 cans of beans, 50 jars of marinara, 50 jars of olive oil and 50 free ice Continued on page 12
e really brings more of the traditional techniques and forms, and nobody really teaches that style anymore.