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Five Smart Nutrition Resolutions For The New Year 2000 calories a day should consume about two cups of fruit and two and a half cups of vegetables daily. Try to get a wide variety of colors from your fruits and vegetables for a plethora of antioxidants.
The New Year is a great opportunity to transform your health and nutrition. Try to make one commitment to yourself this year and focus all of your energy into accomplishing that goal. You can start by choosing one of these smart nutrition resolutions to kickstart your 2018:
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Track Your Food Daily
Keeping a food log can provide great insight into various aspects of your eating habits. Tracking your food holds you accountable and can make you more conscious of portion sizes. Keeping a log of your food can make you think twice before taking that extra bite of your daughter’s macaroni and cheese. This can help open your mind to sneaky extra calories you may have been consuming throughout the day. Some great food tracking
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apps include My Fitness Pal and MyPlate Calorie Tracker.
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Get Your 5-A-Day
Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables in your diet? Most of us can benefit from an extra couple of servings throughout the day. The 5-A-Day for Better Health Program is a nationwide campaign to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables to at least five servings a day. Someone who needs
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Drink An Extra Quart Of Water Daily
Your body depends on water to survive. Every cell, tissue, and organ in your body requires water to function. Not only is hydration important for weight management, but it’s essential for good health. A quick estimate of your daily hydration is simply drinking half of your body weight in ounces daily. For example, if you weigh 140lbs, aim for around 70 ounces of water daily. If this is a big jump, incorporate an extra four cups of water (two in the morning, two after work), daily to help reach your hydration goals.
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Cut Out Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners are far more potent than regular table sugar; a small amount of aspartame for example provides a very sweet taste when compared to the same amount of sugar. Frequent consumption of artificial sweeteners can overstimulate our sugar receptors. Try to cut out artificial sweeteners from your diet, and use a small amount of the real thing on occasion.
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Eat More Fermented Foods
Have you ever heard of probiotics? Probiotics are live “good” bacteria that can help restore the composition of the gut microbiome, which is crucial to our general health and digestion. Research on probiotics has shown that they can boost immunity, manage gastrointestinal
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symptoms, and even assist in weight management. Incorporate more fermented foods such as yogurt, kefir, kombucha, kimchi, and tempeh to reap the probiotic benefits. Remember that challenges and slip-ups will happen; what matters most is that you pick yourself back up and keep moving forward. Honor your integrity to yourself and stick with your commitments. Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year. Stefani Pappas, MS, RDN, CDN, CPT, is a Clinical Dietitian Nutritionist at St. Francis Hospital. She also provides private and group nutrition counseling at her office in Great Neck, NY. Visit her website www.StefHealthTips. com for more information or call 516-225-1745 to schedule an appointment.
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Liver Transplant Allocation: New York Finally Catches A Break
iver transplantation remains a modern miracle for the treatment and cure of patients with advanced liver disease. While the actual surgery is complex and time consuming, the results are excellent. There are two pathways for receiving a new liver. The fastest is called living related donation. Living related donation involves one person (donor) giving a portion of their liver to another person (recipient). The donor must be the same blood type and approximately the same size as the recipient and the donor must have a healthy liver. Only a small minority of liver transplants are living related donations. Most liver transplants in the U.S. are the result of the death of a donor who has previously agreed to be an organ donor or whose family agrees to organ donation. At present, the U.S. is
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divided into 11 regions for organ allotment. In essence, each region keeps its own list meaning that the sickest people in the country are not necessarily the ones who receive the needed organs. There is tremendous geographic variation in deceased donor organ donation across the country. New York and Vermont make up region nine. For example, in region nine in 2016, 327 livers were donated
while in region three, the Deep South and Puerto Rico, more than 1,300 livers were donated in the same time period. This makes the most important determinant of a patient receiving a life saving organ not their medical condition but rather the zip code in which they reside. One would ask, “Why are there so many more liver donors in the South than in the Northeast?” The Deep South is the center of America’s stroke belt due to significantly higher rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension. These conditions lead to an increased number of fatal strokes and a greater supply of donors. In addition, many Southern states have higher death rates from motor vehicle accidents leading to an expanded donor pool. In the U.S., there are 143 liver transplant centers that performed 7,841 deceased donor liver transplants in
2016. Currently, there are more than 14,000 people on waiting lists for a new liver and more than 1,000 die each year while waiting. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network approved a new policy to more equitably distribute livers across the country. The new policy extends the area in which a liver can be offered by drawing a 150 nautical mile circle around donor hospitals, with some exceptions. While this new policy does not equalize
organ allotment based upon medical need, it does increase the geographic area that a given region may receive organs from. This is good news for New York as it will mean more usable livers for our patients and more transplants. As New York expands its potential for performing liver transplantation, this new policy should help, especially the currently underserved liver population on Long Island, where as of now, no liver transplant programs operate.
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One Day A Year, What You Wear Is A Matter Of Life And Death
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National Wear Red Day is February 2
Support Go Red For Women by participating in National Wear Red Day on Friday, Feb. 2. But why Go Red? Cardiovascular diseases in the U.S. kill approximately one woman every 80 seconds. However, 80 percent of cardiac events may be prevented with education and lifestyle changes. Go Red For Women advocates for more research and swifter action for women’s heart health. Wear Red Day is a one-day nationwide awareness and fundraising campaign for women’s heart health where thousands of organizations join together in the fight against women’s number one killer: heart disease. Volunteer to be your organization’s Wear Red Day coordinator, register and then receive the kit to help you create a Wear Red Day to remember. On Feb. 2, employees all around the country can dress in red and donate $5 to the Go Red For Women campaign to support women’s heart health awareness, research and advocacy. Make it fun by organizing a heart-healthy pot-luck, lunchtime walk or lunch and learn. If your company or organization will Go Red and Wear Red, register online to receive your official Wear Red Day materials.
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For more information about National Wear Red Day, visit www.goredforwomen.org/wearredday, email Jessica.DiMeo@heart.org or call 516-962-0794. —Submitted by Jessica DiMeo
The American Heart Association also announced that the Women of SterlingRisk will be honored at the American Heart Association’s 17th annual Long Island Go Red For Women Luncheon. This year’s event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 28, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. SterlingRisk’s dedicated concern for the wellbeing of its employees led to its close partnership with the American Heart Association and the Go Red for Women campaign. The Women of SterlingRisk serve as 2018 Go Red for Women honorees. The SterlingRisk women named as Go Red honorees represent a cross-section of professionals within the organization’s ranks and include Marci Waterman, COO; Donna Raab, chief talent officer; Jillian Menna, general counsel; Joanne Krush, CFO; Erin Sussman, senior attorney; Gina Murphy, personal lines manager; Angela DeChiara, director of commercial lines; Maryalice Nazaretian, president of employee benefits; and Evelyne Caloras, executive assistant.
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Feinstein Institute Grant Funds Fertility Decision Tool The grant will help female cancer patients to plan for future family-building
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einstein Institute for Medical Research Assistant Professor Catherine Benedict, PhD, has been awarded a two-year, $165,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to understand how young women who completed cancer treatment make fertility decisions and plan for future family-building. The study will lead to the development of a decision-making and planning tool to help young survivors evaluate their options for having children after cancer. This current study is a continuation of Dr. Benedict’s research, which found that young adult females who survive cancer do not receive enough information about their fertility as part of their survivorship care. There are more than 400,000 young adult female cancer survivors currently living in the United States. One of this population’s main concerns after treatment is fertility
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since many cancer treatments have been associated with infertility issues and place women at greater risk for early menopause. Benedict’s research will examine fertility decision-making after cancer treatment to ensure that patients receive the information they need and take appropriate steps for successful family building. “Even if young women make some fertility plans before undergoing cancer treatment, many are still unclear of how to navigate their options post treatment when they actually want to plan for a family,” said Benedict, who is also a member of the new Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research. “They are often surprised with the cost of fertility treatments, unsure if they will go through early menopause or unaware of their options as a whole. I thank the NIH for their support, this will help us develop a tool that can weigh the medical facts with other considerations and help our patients develop a tailored fertility plan.” Benedict and her team will collect data about how young women after cancer treatment make decisions about future family-building, their decision-support needs, as well as preferences and perceived barriers to making a choice. This will be used to create a web-based tool to help guide female cancer survivors through the decision-making process about their fertility options. “This is novel and innovative work,” said Michael A. Diefenbach, PhD, professor at the Feinstein Institute, director of behavioral research in the Department of Medicine at Northwell Health and Dr. Benedict’s mentor. “The existing research focuses on informing patients about fertility implications of cancer treatment before their treatment starts. Dr. Benedict and others have clearly demonstrated that women at this point in their life are less able to make decisions about children. They are too focused on getting through treatment and beating cancer. From a decision standpoint, the time after treatment is better suited for planning and decision making, but is often overlooked by health care providers to inform patients.” “Dr. Benedict’s previous research
Catherine Benedict identified a large need in survivor care for young female cancer survivors,” added Kevin J. Tracey, MD, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institute. “The NIH’s investment in the next phase of this research is a major step to filling this need and improving care for this patient population.” The recently-formed Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research at the Feinstein Institute leverages technology and big data to deliver new solutions that improve health care delivery. “Dr. Benedict’s study is an example of how our researchers in the Center for Heath Innovation and Outcomes Research are driving the mission to improve delivery of health care,” said Thomas McGinn, MD, MPH, head of the Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research at the Feinstein Institute and senior vice president of physician network operations at Northwell Health. “We are proud to have the NIH’s support in this endeavor, which will provide patients with private, individualized support through devices that are familiar to them.” —Submitted by The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health
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HEALTH BRIEFS Support Group Meeting The Brain Tumor Center at Neurological Surgery, P.C. will host a support meeting for brain tumor patients, family members and caregivers from 4 to 5:45 p.m. Share feelings, concerns, experiences, ways to cope and more. Tina Sapienza, L.M.S.W., O.S.W-C will facilitate. Light refreshments will be served. Reservations are required as seating is limited. Call Richard Van Allen at 516-442-2250, ext. 110 or email
rvanallen@nspc.com. Funding for this program is provided by Voices Against Brain Cancer and NSPC.Neurological Surgery, P.C. is located at 1991 Marcus Ave., Suite 108 in Lake Success. ........................
Friday, Jan. 19 Practice Transformation 200Hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training Yoga Teacher Training at the Center for Wellness and Integrative Medicine at Northwell is designed to be an unparalleled experience of
self-discovery, community, and higher learning. The curriculum, designed by Lisa Bondy ERYT 500, Director of Yoga, with more than 15,000 hours of teaching experience, offers a comprehensive study of yoga as a science of transformation toward greater health and well-being of body, mind, soul. This program is ideal for the aspiring instructor as well as the student looking to deepen their practice and everybody in between. The session starts Jan. 19. For more information and to register, call 516-858-3095.
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