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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.
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A new ‘pal’ for Hewlett High Alexandra Greenberg appointed principal, starts July 1 School in Suffolk County. Working through the coronavirus pandemic, she developed a The months-long search to multi-faceted plan that allowed find a new Hewlett High School the school to reopen once stuprincipal is over, as Alexandra dents were welcomed back to Greenberg has been given the campus. Greenberg also supnod to step in as its new leader. ported expanding the Advanced The HewlettPlacement program Woodmere School while boosting colDistrict Board of le ge and career Education finalized counseling prothe decision last grams, and setting week, allowing up weekly “learnGreenberg to take ing meetings” for over for Interim at-risk students. Principal Gerri “Dr. Greenberg is DeCarlo beginning a visionary educain July. tional leader who Greenberg was emerged as the chosen from more right choice to lead than 35 applicants, Hewlett High bringing to Hewlett School after a 14 years of experil e n g t hy r e c r u i t ence as both a ment ef for t that t e a c h e r a n d a n MARY BEdIAk included students, administrator. parents, teachers, Human resources “I’m pleased to staff and adminisannounce that we executive director trators,” Hewletthave found a great Woodmere Superinindividual to lead the high tendent Ralph Marino wrote in school into the future,” Human an email. “She is passionate Resources Executive Director about addressing the individual Mary Bediako said during the needs of students and taking Feb. 16 meeting. personal ownership over their Greenberg has spent the past academic success. Dr. Greentwo years as the assistant principal of Hampton Bays High Continued on page 12
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THE old GYM in the old Lawrence High School. The assorted items will either be sold by the school district or kept and used.
Broadway Campus rebuild
$5 million school building overhaul progresses By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
Except for the signs on selected doorways that read “Do Not Open” or “Keep Locked,” no one — not the students, teachers, administrators or security staff — who walks the halls of the Lawrence School District’s Broadway campus would
know that the building is being renovated. The ongoing $5 million capital project began two years ago, when schools — including the Lawrence elementary and middle schools, both at the Broadway Campus building — first shut down as the coronavirus pandemic spread. The work continued through the district’s varia-
tions of remote and in-person learning, and is now being done after school hours. The areas being renovated and enhanced include the corridors and the sports complex, whose heating, ventilation and air conditioning system will be overhauled. Jeremy Feder, the district’s assistant superintendent of busiContinued on page 4
’m pleased to announce that we have found a great individual to lead the high school into the future.