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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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W. Hempstead back to budget drawing board In lone Long Island district not to pass spending plan, board resolves to move on By JAKE PEllEGRINo jpellegrino@liherald.com
By the morning of May 18, it became apparent that the West Hempstead school district was the only one on Long Island that had failed to pass its 2022-23 budget. It had proposed a spending plan of just under $71.4 million, an increase of nearly $2.5 million, along with a 2.14 percent increase in the tax levy. But it was voted down overwhelmingly, receiving only 734 votes of support, compared with 1,103 in opposition. Board of Education President Karen Brohm, who was re-elected to another term on election night, said there could be a variety of reasons for district residents’ rejection, but the most logical one is voter apathy. “People didn’t come out
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THE WEST HEMPSTEAd school district was the only district on Long Island that did not pass its 2022-23 budget. and vote for it,” she said. “I think people who were concerned with their rise in taxes came out stronger than the people who felt it was fiscally responsible. I think a lot of people that maybe would have voted for it didn’t come out because
they felt it was a, ‘it will pass, it always does’ kind of thing.” Brohm said that she and the board still stand by the spending proposal. “I do feel it was a fiscally responsible budget,” she said. “The entire board voted for it. It
didn’t cut anything. It kept programs, and didn’t go over the tax cap. We felt we went out with something that the taxpayers could stand behind, but apparently some taxpayers didn’t feel that to be the Continued on page 2
Avvinti re-elected in Malverne, with new faces in W.H. By JAKE PEllEGRINo jpellegrino@liherald.com
Burt Blass won his contest for West Hempstead Board of Education trustee over Jennifer Johnson in last Tuesday’s school board election, while incumbent Karen Brohm, running unopposed, won another term as board president. Byars Cole also captured a seat running without opposition. In Malverne, Laura Avvinti won another term as trustee, and was also unopposed. Blass won narrowly, receiving 912 votes to Johnson’s 871. Brohm had 1,326 votes, Cole, 1,298, and Avvinti, 451. For Blass, an accountant and a financial manager, a seat on
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t’s tough enough raising a specialneeds child, but I can tell you from experience, it’s a maze trying to navigate the whole bureaucracy.
BURT BlASS
Newly elected West Hempstead school board member the board means an opportunity to put his financial background to good use. “The residents know
the importance of funding a good public school system, but they also want to know where the dollars are going and if they’re being spent as well as they could,” he said. “I think I’m in the unique position to know those answers and be able to communicate effectively.” Blass started his career in public accounting before moving into financial analysis for major oil companies, and most recently worked as a financial manager for Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His first order of business with the new board, he said, would be to help parents of special-needs children. “Special needs is always a special passion for me, for both the children who
are in the schools and those who are receiving services from our district,” Blass said. “It’s tough enough raising a special-needs child, but I can tell you from experience it’s a maze trying to navigate the whole bureaucracy. So I think I might as well start not with the easy stuff but with the hard stuff right out of the gate.” Brohm is the deputy director of communications for the NasContinued on page 13
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