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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.
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. 33 No. 9
Hochul shelves zoning proposal
Reassessment audit begins
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Central H.S. prepares for SAT changes that busywork is eliminated by it being on the digital platform. Kids at this point are very techMajor changes are coming to savvy, so they’re very comfortthe SAT, according to the College able with the digital platform.” Board. The test, which has been a Milani has questions, howevmainstay of the college admis- er, about how the College Board sions process, taken will guarantee a lapby millions of high top or tablet for school students every test taker. “We every year, will go were told that the completely digital College Board would beginning in the provide students spring of 2024. with a laptop or tabW h i l e a n swe r let if they don’t have sheets, booklets and one of their own or sharpened No. 2 penif we don’t have cils will eventually enough for them,” he be a thing of the said. “We don’t have past, testing will still that many extras … take place at a test a lot of details have center or school. Stunot been provided dents will be offered yet, since it’s still far the choice between off.” using their own tabThe length of the lets or laptops or the RoBERt MilANi test will shrink from schools’ devices. three hours to two, Robert Milani, Assistant principal, there will be shorter assistant principal Valley Stream reading passages, of Valley Stream Central High School and students will be Central High School, allowed to use calcusaid he welcomed lators on the math the switch to an online-only for- section. mat. “Taking the SAT, and the col“A big part of administering lege application process, is very the exam when the kids arrive on stressful,” Milani said. “We feel test day is them filling out all this that this streamlined version will paperwork,” Milani said. “All of Continued on page 9
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ACtiVists FRoM NY Renews, joined by State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, above, rallied in Mill Brook Park for major budget spending for climate action.
Officials and activists rally for ‘climate justice’ funding By JUAN lAsso jlasso@liherald.com
Earlier this month, State Assemblywomen Michaelle Solages and Taylor Darling and climate activists from NY Renews hosted a news conference in Mill Brook Park in South Valley Stream to advocate for $15 billion in “climate justice” funding in the 2022-23 state budget. Solages said she was trying to make a point by holding the conference and rally
in South Valley Stream. When Hur ricane Sandy tore through Long Island in 2012, high waters from Jamaica Bay surged up the tributary that runs through the village, flooding hundreds of South Valley Stream homes. To deal with the aftermath, the Town of Hempstead launched an aggressive $3.8 million, statefunded storm resiliency project. Then Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said that such mitigation projects were needed because, in light of what’s
happening with the climate, Sandy was a preview of more extreme weather events to come. The village saw officials from every level of government work to invest in resiliency and green infrastructure to protect residents and roll back the worst effects of climate change, according to Solages. Now the state government must make a bold investment to spread those Continued on page 14
aking the SAT . . . is very stressful. We feel that this streamlined version will reduce a little bit of that stress.