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has in lowering cholesterol levels. Their protein And been shown to reduce triglyceride levels. boiled. they also make a delicious snack when
Enjoy a handful of plain walnuts or almonds, chop some up and sprinkle them on salads.
Superfoods that make
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. 57 No. 9
Following through on school project
Hochul drops zoning proposal
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Channel survey expected soon in Island Park local waters, with the marina and boaters there,” Ana Fisyak, Equinor’s community engageEnergy company Equinor is ment manager, told the Herald. continuing surveys off the coast “We want to thank everyone for of Lido Beach and Long Beach their flexibility while we get as well as in Reynolds Channel New York state to their clean this month, as part of the energy goal of nine gigawatts.” Empire Wind Project, in conFisyak expects the surveying junction with the City of Long in Reynolds Channel to take only Beach, the Town of six or seven days if Hempstead and the the weather cooperVillage of Island ates. Smokey’s work Park, with the hope in the channel is of bringing renewstill awaiting the able offshore wind completion of a energy to New York. joint permit appliIsland Park resication, which dents may have requires sign-offs seen the small lift f ro m t h e A r my boat, Smokey, which Corps of Engineers, was deployed in HARRIsoN FEUER the state departJanuary in Reyn- Director of New York ments of Environolds Channel. It will Public Affairs, Equinor mental Conservaconduct geotechnition and Interior, cal surveying and other agencies. through March, collecting data The energ y goal Fisyak on the underwater soil and rock referred to was set in July 2019 so that export cables can be laid by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and forto carry power from future off- mer Vice President Al Gore shore wind turbines to the elec- when Cuomo finalized the trical grid. Mott MacDonald, an nation’s largest offshore wind engineering management and agreement, creating the Empire development firm and Equinor’s Wind and Beacon Wind projects, subcontractor, is overseeing the the second of which will be surveying. located in the Atlantic between “We understand there are a lot of important stakeholders in Continued on page 14
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GABRIEllA RElUzCo, lEFT, and Sydney Tavroff look to raise awareness of the lack of child care with their winning DECA essay.
OHS juniors raise awareness of the challenges of child care
By KEPHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com
Sydney Tavroff and Gabriella Reluzco have more in common than being 16-yearold juniors at Oceanside High School. They both want better — and less expensive — options when it comes to caring for children of working parents. Especially in the new pandemic era. The duo will join two dozen of their classmates on a trip to Rochester on March 11
to make their case with the career and technical student organization DECA as part of a statewide communityawareness essay competition. “We both have a background in child care, and we wanted to find an issue that we both felt for,” said Reluzco, who, along with Tavroff, is considering a career in the medical field. Tavroff wants to become a pediatric physician’s assistant. Reluzco provides children’s health and wellness
services for several charities, and Tavroff volunteers to babysit three times a week, works with an organization that raises money to send children to summer camp, and has even volunteered at Cohen’s Medical Hospital. “We were going through ideas, and it took us a little while, because it’s difficult to spread awareness, especially right now because of Covid,” Re l u z c o s a i d . “ B u t t h e moment we were talking Continued on page 14
t’s exciting to bring an entire new industry to Long Island.