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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.
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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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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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Gov. Hochul rescinds zoning proposal Murray said. “We, as the mayors, are the closest to the people. We have zoning which fits our own mwilson@liherald.com, tcarrozza@liherald.com municipalities.” Rockville Centre Mayor FranOn Feb. 16, Murray said, he cis X. Murray said he was received a call from Hochul pleased to see Gov. Kathy Hochul informing him that she was pullpull a proposal from ing the proposal. the 2022-23 state budThe mayor said he get that would have was pleased that the required local govgovernor considered ernments to permit feedback from an expansion of Republicans as well apartments in sinas several of her felgle-family neighborlow Democrats. hoods. Hochul put the On Feb. 18, local proposal in her Janofficials celebrated uary budget proposHochul’s decision at al before the Legislaa news conference ture. It has been outside an East widely criticized by Meadow home. Days local elected offiearlier, Murray, the cials, many of whom new president of the said they believed New York Confer- FRANCIS that so-called accesence of Mayors, had sory dwelling units gone to Albany to MURRAY would put a strain relay the concerns Mayor, on Long Island h e s h a r e d w i t h Rockville Centre resources and many other local endanger its suburelected leaders about b a n l a n d s c ap e. the zoning proposal with Lt. Gov. Hochul, however, saw it as a way Brian Benjamin. to potentially fix the affordable “I gave him all of our con- housing crisis that plagues the cerns about why this isn’t the state. right thing for the state of New Posting in a Rockville CentreYork — taking zoning away from centric Facebook group, many every municipality in the state,” CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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CLEANUP EFFORTS CONTINUED this week in Rockville Centre, after a 12,000-gallon fuel tanker crashed into a vacant building early in the morning of Feb. 16.
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DEC focuses on impact of gas spill on Mill River By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
Cleanup crews were still at work in Rockville Centre on Tuesday, as the Herald went to press, six days after a 12,000-gallon tanker truck crashed into a vacant building early in the morning of Feb. 16. In addition to the truck driver, three firefighters were injured in the aftermath of the incident. One firefighter was treated at the scene, while the driver,
who had not been identified, was treated and released from a local hospital, along with two other firefighters, according to village spokeswoman Julie Grilli. The gasoline tanker was headed east on Sunrise Highway at about 1:11 a.m. on Feb. 16 when it struck the vacant La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries store, which had been closed fo r m o n t h s. T h e c r a s h sparked a massive fireball as fuel spilled from the truck, and part of the building col-
lapsed. Black smoke billowed into the air as the fire spread to the sewers beneath the street. Some 25 fire departments from surrounding communities rushed to the scene, along with the village Fire Department, Police Department, Department of Public Works and Office of Emergency Management. The state Environmental Conservation and Transportation departments CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
e as the mayors are the closest to the people. We have zoning which fits our own municipalities.