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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Out of baby formula? Two doctors share some of the dos and don’ts of latest crisis formed outside Masjid Hamza, the Islamic Center of the South Shore, for a baby formula drive,. The coronavirus pandemic Health care providers also has created a number of supply have worked around the clock to chain issues in the past many provide resources — and altermonths, but it’s likely none have natives. Like Dr. Marc Lashley, a met with the kind of pediatric specialist urgency as the one in Valley Stream, that’s making it a n d D r. L a u r e n hard for families to Macaluso, a physifind baby formula. cian with a specialty Federal officials practice exclusively have stepped up in dedicated to mothers recent days to prowho are breastfeedvide some relief, ing their babies. including the reInfant formula is opening of the shutpreferred over altertered Abbott Laboranatives like cow or tories after a safety goat milk, primarily recall, and President Dr. MArc because for mula Biden’s decision last manufacturers try to week to invoke the lASHElY mimic breast milk Defense Production Pediatric Specialist, as much as possible, Act to make the Valley Stream Lashley said. manufacture of “They add special baby formula a priingredients now that ority. can increase brain function and Until shelves are fully eye development, and cow’s milk restocked with baby formula, a can be very harmful,” he said. number of parents in Valley “When we feed children anyStream and neighboring commu- thing else, we show that they nities are grappling with the have decreased intellectual abilishortage as they worry about ties, and they can have metabolic how they might feed their chil- problems and growth problems.” dren if the supply runs out. While experts like Lashley That urgency was felt on Monday as a long line of parents Continued on page 14
By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
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SpEEcH pAtHologiSt MicHElE Tritschler sent a letter to Mayor Edwin Fare requesting that he issue a proclamation making May 14 Childhood Apraxia of Speech Day — an effort to raise awareness of the relatively rare speech disorder.
Rare disorder gets spotlight
Village proclaims an official day for apraxia By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
From the moment they’re born, children run the race to acquire the vital speech and language skills that set them up for the rest of their lives. And while children typically run at their own pace, those who suffer from speech disorders often don’t reach the important language milestones of their peers. But one can be especially troublesome — childhood apraxia of
speech, which makes it difficult for kids to accurately move their mouth muscles while talking. But it’s not because the muscles are weak. “A child affected by childhood apraxia knows what they want to say, but cannot p hy s i c a l ly p ro d u c e t h e sounds or words,” said Dr. Michele Tritschler, a speech and language pathologist who specializes in apraxia. “The signal from the brain to their mouth is disrupted, and they
are unable to move their jaw, lips, tongue and cheeks in order to produce the sounds, words, phrases and sentences that they want to say.” And in the long, varied menu of speech disorders, CAS — as it’s called — is quite rare. In fact, childhood speech apraxia affects just 1 in every 1,000 children in the United States, It’s about as common as Down syndrome. Yet, despite its low inciContinued on page 14
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