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The Language Of Skin Care Labels When it comes to skin care product labels, people shouldn’t necessarily believe everything they read. “The language on the label is not always an accurate description of the product inside the bottle or its potential effects on your skin,” said board-certified dermatologist Rajani Katta, MD, FAAD, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. “Manufacturers may use certain language for marketing purposes, and the same terms may mean different things on different products—and that makes it difficult to determine what they mean for our skin.” For example, patients may choose products labeled “for sensitive skin” or “hypoallergenic” because they believe these products will be gentle on their skin and less likely to cause an allergic reaction. Because these terms are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, there is no guarantee that these products won’t irritate the skin or cause a reaction, Katta said. She also warned patients to be wary of the term “all-natural,” since products containing natural ingredients are not necessarily good for the skin. “Remember, poison ivy is
‘all-natural,’” she said. “And even if a natural ingredient is good for your skin, some products may combine that ingredient with additives or preservatives that could be harmful.” Language related to fragrances also may be misleading. Under current labeling laws, Katta said, manufacturers are permitted to use the term “fragrance-free” on products that include fragrance chemicals if those chemicals are utilized for another purpose (i.e., moisturizing) rather than changing the product’s scent. The term “unscented” may be used
on products that utilize fragrances to mask a strong existing odor instead of creating a new scent. “Unfortunately, there isn’t any labeling language that guarantees a product is hypoallergenic and suitable for sensitive skin,” Katta said. “However, there are steps you can take to avoid adverse reactions to new products, and a board-certified dermatologist can help you if you do experience a reaction.” Katta suggested that patients with sensitive skin test a small amount of a product on their forearm for a week to see if it causes a reaction, and she
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advised all individuals to make sure they follow all product directions. Patients who are experiencing skin inflammation should avoid new products altogether, since their skin’s protective barrier is already compromised, making it susceptible to further irritation. If a skin care product does cause an adverse reaction, Katta said, it may not always be easy to identify the culprit. “There’s a common misconception that allergic reactions happen instantaneously,” she said, “but they may take a couple of days to show up, and some people may develop an allergy to a skin care ingredient after using it for months or years. If you’re not sure what’s causing a reaction on your skin, visit a dermatologist, who can help determine the cause.” Katta added, “If you’re not sure how to select the right products for your skin, visit your dermatologist. We can answer your questions about ingredients, and help you identify the products that will work best for your skin type and address your skin care concerns.” Visit www.aad.org for more tips and skin care advice. —Courtesy of the American Academy of Dermatology
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Celebrate Spring With A Cocktail Blue Bumble Bee Cocktail
SIMPLY GLUTEN FREE Carol Kicinski vodka together in a large shaker with ice, distribute in your glasses and top off with some prosecco. I think the drink looks so pretty in those old-fashioned champagne coupe glasses but flutes or even wine glasses work great, too. And I love to garnish the drink with just a few sprigs of thyme— it looks so fresh and is just a little unexpected.
Ingredients 2 Tbsp, plus ½ tsp blueberry honey, divided (recipe follows) 2 oz fresh lemon juice 2 oz gluten-free vodka 2-3 oz cold prosecco 2-3 fresh thyme sprigs, for garnish Blueberry honey: 1 c blueberries 1 c organic honey 1 c water 4 fresh thyme sprigs (about three inches long)
In a cocktail shaker (or even a mason jar) filled with ice, add the remaining 2 Tbsp blueberry honey, lemon juice and vodka. Shake until cold. Pour into the glass and Directions top off with a little prosecco. Place ½ tsp of the blueberry Garnish with thyme sprigs, honey in the bottom of the glass. if desired.
Blueberry Honey: Combine all the ingredients in a deep saucepan. Bring to a boil. Let boil, uncovered, for 15 minutes or until the mixture has reduced in size
by at least half and is the consistency of syrup. Mixture will thicken more as it cools. Strain the mixture into a bowl and let cool. When cooled, refrigerate until cold.
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When I entertain, especially for a smaller gathering like brunch or a dinner party, I prefer to have one signature cocktail, such as this Blue Bumble Bee Cocktail, rather than setting up a whole bar. This pretty little cocktail is fun and fresh and perfect for spring and summer meals. I start off by making a thick blueberry and honey concoction, almost like a quick jam. It adds great flavor, a lovely color and just the right amount of sweetness to this drink. All you need to do is boil blueberries and organic honey together with a few sprigs of fresh thyme until it gets nice and thick. You can make the honey blueberry mixture up to a week ahead of time—just store, covered, in the fridge. This recipe makes one good sized cocktail. You can double, triple or quadruple the recipe. Put about a half teaspoon of the blueberry honey in the bottom of each glass, shake more blueberry honey, lemon juice and
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Willing Hearts Helps Alzheimer’s Caregivers
National Nurses Week 2017 This week celebrates National Nurses Week (May 6-12), honoring the legacy of Florence Nightingale (pictured), a nurse who became a hero for treating wounded soldiers during the Crimean War (part of the Ottoman wars in Europe, Russia and Turkey). Nightingale was a British social reformer and statistician, and during
her service as a nurse, became knows as “The Lady with the Lamp” for making most of her rounds to the wards at night while carrying a lamp. She founded a nursing school in 1860 and established nursing as a true profession. National Nurses Week coincides with Nightingale’s birthday (May 12).
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation’s Willing Hearts, Helpful Hands Program connects those caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias with free support services. Services include in-home consultations; family consultations; support groups; education and training programs on how to care for someone with Alzheimer’s disease; respite scholarships; access to volunteer companions and memory cafes. All services are free and available to caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias living in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Willing Hearts, Helpful Hands served over 650 Long Island families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias in 2016. The initiative, which is funded in part by a multi-year grant from the New York State Department of Health, seeks to serve an additional 500 caregivers in the coming year. “Long Island is home to approximately 50,000 people who are afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. More than half of these
individuals live with a family member or friend who cares for them,” said Michael N. Rosenblut, president and CEO of Parker Jewish Institute. “The support services provided by Willing Hearts, Helpful Hands are vital to reducing caregiver stress and burnout, and helping caregivers allow their loved ones to live at home for as long as possible.” To help ease the stress associated with being a caregiver, Willing Hearts, Helpful Hands provides respite or temporary relief so caregivers can take a break. The program offers a scholarship that covers in-home care, adult day services or overnight stays in an assisted living facility or nursing home. Caregivers can receive up to 120 hours or a maximum of $1,800 per calendar year. In addition, caregivers also have access to volunteer companions. Trained volunteers are matched with family caregivers and make weekly visits. They provide a friendly visit; they reminisce, sing songs, play cards and games, and go on walks with their senior. Visit www.willingheartshelpfulhands. org or call 516-586-1507 for details.
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Coffee Associated With Liver Wellness THE LIVER SPECIALIST David Bernstein, MD
Middle East long before it made its way to Europe. Interestingly, the first coffee house in Europe was reported to have been opened in England by a Turkish immigrant in the mid-17th-century, some 30 years before the opening of the famed coffee houses in Vienna. Over the centuries, coffee has become a mainstay of our culture with coffee shops, both independent and chain stores, located on almost all main streets in America. It is the first beverage most adult Americans drink in the morning. For this author, it functions as an eye-opener on many early mornings. Coffee is consumed not only because of taste and pleasant aroma, but because of the effect it has
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on those who drink it. Caffeine, found in most coffees, is a known stimulant. For this reason, it is popular among Americans who use its effects to get more energy for work, to stay awake at night, or sometimes to help reverse the fatigue effects of alcohol. In addition to caffeine, coffee has also been shown to stimulate the production of cortisone and adrenaline, two stimulatory hormones. Coffee has been shown to have numerous medical benefits. It increases the effectiveness of some painkillers and may be helpful in improving symptoms of migraine headaches. Coffee increases gastrointestinal motility and thus may help improve symptoms of constipation but it can also cause significant diarrhea. It also acts as a diuretic, which leads to frequent urination, and can lead to dehydration. Therefore, dehydrated people should avoid coffee until they adequately rehydrate themselves. Some people claim that coffee increases short-term memory, improves asthma symptoms and lessens the likelihood of gallstone formation although these claims have never been proven. Researchers report that drinking coffee decreases the risk of the development of alcoholic cirrhosis by 22 percent. Four cups of coffee per day reduced the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 80 percent. Research has also shown that coffee drinking can prevent the development of liver cancer in people with chronic liver disease. There is an inverse association between coffee consumption and liver cancer in people with and without a history of liver disease. Overall, an increase in consumption of two cups of coffee per day is associated with a 43 percent
reduced risk of liver cancer amongst populations who typically consume anything from one to more than five cups per day. These studies did not state or speculate as to how coffee was playing a role but they did note that this protective effect was not seen in tea drinkers. However, more than 10 separate studies have come to the same conclusion. It should be noted that these findings pertain to black coffee, not all the fancy flavored or high caloric sugar and milk laden products which are so common in our country. While coffee seems protective in this population, the primary approach to reduction of alcoholic cirrhosis is the avoidance or cessation of heavy alcohol drinking. Drinking coffee, however, does not come without some potential health risks. Too much caffeine can lead to nervousness, anxiety, discoloration of the teeth and increased blood pressure. While some people drink coffee to stay awake, others find that coffee leads to significant insomnia thus creating a cycle of drinking coffee to stay awake and alert during the day but being unable to sleep at night requiring at times the use of sleeping medications. So what are we to take away from all this information? Certainly, many of us love our coffee and will continue to imbibe regardless of any new information. Perhaps coffee is good for us, perhaps not. Perhaps drinking it in moderation is the safest strategy until we are told otherwise. David Bernstein, MD, FAASLD,FACG, AGAF, FACP, is the chief of hepatology at Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases and a professor of medicine at Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine.
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Many people ask about liver wellness and what they can do to keep their liver healthy. The best recommendations that I can give are to avoid potential risk factors for chronic liver disease such as drug and alcohol use, make sure vaccination against hepatitis A and B are performed and proven effective and to follow a healthy diet with adequate exercise. The healthiest diet is one low in carbohydrates, high in fruits and vegetables, low in red meat and high in proteins such as chicken, turkey or fish. Exercise should consist of at least 30 minutes a day of a vigorous regimen. Coffee has repeatedly been studied and coffee drinking has been associated with liver wellness in patients with chronic liver disease. From the health pages to the business sections of the media and social media, coffee is a hot item. A recent study pointed out that coffee drinkers live longer. Coffee is the second most commonly traded commodity in the world behind petroleum and is the world’s most consumed beverage. Coffee had been popular in the
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Share feelings, concerns, experiences, ways to cope and more at The Brain Tumor Center’s support group for brain tumor patients, family members and caregivers on Thursday, May 18, from 4:00 to 5:45 p.m. at Neurological Surgery, P.C. at 1991 Marcus Ave., Suite 108 in Lake Success. Tina Sapienza, L.M.S.W., O.S.W-C will facilitate the support meeting. Reservations are required. Call Richard Van Allen at 516-442-2250 for more information and to reserve a seat.
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5:00pm to 8:30pm Center for Wellness and Integrative Medicine (previously known as PRACTICE) 1500 Old Northern Boulevard 2nd Floor Roslyn, NY Pre-registration is required. $25 – Register with a friend and receive $5 off each (use promo code CWIM). A healthy dinner will be served and attendees will receive a gift bag. Cancellation policy: All cancellations must be confirmed in writing to womenshealth@northwell.edu or 1981 Marcus Avenue, Suite E110, Lake Success, NY 11042 no later than May 12. No refunds will be made after this date for cancellations or “no shows.”
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In recognition of National Stroke Awareness month in May, NYU Winthrop Hospital’s Department of Neuroscience will host a free stroke risk assessment and stroke awareness fair for the community on Thursday, May 11, at 6 p.m. The program will be held at the Winthrop Research & Academic Center, located at 101 Mineola Blvd. in Mineola. It will offer individual stroke risk assessments and an informational fair at 6 p.m., followed by a lecture at 7 p.m. The assessment will consist of a blood pressure check and risk factor review. Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required. To register, call 516-663-3916.
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BOOK REVIEW
Mania, Depression, Recovery–And Poetry Review of: Setting The River On Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania and Character. Kay Redfield Jamison. New York: Knopf. 2017, 560 pp. BY JOE SCOTCHIE
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Is your child artistically gifted? Does he or she have a strong creative streak? Obviously, this is a good thing, even a blessing. Still, parents should stay on alert: Creative people suffer terribly for their art. That’s the sobering message of Kay Redfield Jamison’s biography, Setting The River On Fire, of the poet Robert Lowell. Jamison, the author of best-selling books on mental illness, may be too attached to her subject. She is married to a man whose ancestry is part of the formidable Lowell family tree. Setting The River On Fire is part biography and part meditation on creativity and sanity, with the latter, all too often, losing out. Jamison declares Lowell’s life a success. He died of a heart attack in 1977 at age 60. He was also a prolific, award-winning poet,
the successor to his fellow New Englander, T.S. Eliot, as a master of modernism. Lowell was an only child of parents who could be both cold and indifferent. Along with hereditary problems (Lowell’s grandmother went insane), this was a source of the poet’s madness. Also in the family tradition, Lowell was remarkably ambitious (another source of anxiety), determined, at an early age, to be the Great Poet of his time. Along the way, the man had some luck. As a youngster, Lowell was already being treated for depression. His physician was a gentleman named Merrill Moore. That mattered significantly. Moore, a native of Columbia, TN, was a member of the Fugitives, a group of students, professors and poetry lovers at Vanderbilt University who met on Saturday evenings in Nashville to discuss poetry and to critique each other’s verse. That fraternity spawned the careers of John Crowe Ransom, Allen
Tate, Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, Andrew Lytle and Laura Riding. Moore was a prolific author of sonnets (tens of thousands of them!) who ended up with a psychiatry practice in Boston. Moore referred the young Lowell to Ransom, who then was a professor at Kenyon College in
Ohio. Ransom, in turn, introduced Lowell to Tate, who was living on a “throwed away” farm in middle Tennessee with his wife, Caroline Gordon, herself an accomplished novelist. Lowell was so enthused by the opportunity that he turned up on the Tates’ doorstep with a sleeping bag, offering to sleep outdoors just so he could study at the feet of the writing couple. At Kenyon, Lowell studied with Ransom, by then a leading poet/ critic and the editor of The Kenyon Review, a journal that had made little Gambier, Ohio the literary capital of the United States. Lowell also had the young Peter Taylor, himself a prize-winning short story writer, as a classmate. These mentors and classmates all inspired a young writer who needed little pushing, but Lowell was in the right company. Jamison, correctly, considers “For The Union Dead” Lowell’s greatest poem. In 1960, Lowell read the poem with its famous
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lines—On a thousand small town New England greens/the old white churches hold their air/of sparse, sincere rebellion; frayed flags/quilt the graveyards of the Grand Army of the Republic—to a crowd of 1,000 at Boston Commons. (Poetry still mattered then.) The Tate-Lowell connection is obvious. “For The Union Dead” complements, rather than answers, Tate’s “Ode To The Confederate Dead.” Both address the question of pietas amid the ravages of modernity. In Tate’s poem, a New South businessman visits a Confederate cemetery without ever comprehending the enormity of the situation. Lowell’s poem, likewise, curses the “yellow dinosaur steamshovels” digging up a Boston landscape near the legendary Robert Shaw Civil War monument. Can the past survive? Neither poem is particularly optimistic, even though Tate’s “rumors of mortality” offers up a more tragic view than Lowell’s grouse about a material world gone overboard. Lowell’s life and art was a success. Beginning in the mid-1940s, the poet suffered an outbreak of mania on a yearly basis. Lowell fell victim to bouts of delusion,
Robert Lowell fancying himself as a great man in the Napoleonic mode, while being unnecessarily abusive to loved ones and yet, he always battled back. Sobering statistics aside, Jamison may be overstating
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the case of creativity and insanity. One can be productive, while living a long and normal life. Mental illness may not be fatal to the creator. Creative people need to be reminded time and time
again that their art is not their life. Lowell’s first wife, the novelist Jean Stafford, had her own drinking problems, which made that union an impossibility. However, Lowell’s second wife, the critic Elizabeth Hardwick, truly cared— and even pitied—her husband. (Full disclosure: This reviewer had Miss Hardwick as a graduate school teacher back in the mid1980s.) All Lowell ever needed was right in front of him. Sadly, it wasn’t enough. Lowell was intensely involved in the 1960s, opposing the Vietnam War and marching with Norman Mailer at the famous 1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon. When that decade ended, Lowell seemed burnt out. The thrill of living in modern America was gone. He left the U.S. and took a professorship in London, where he promptly divorced Miss Hardwick and married a young Englishwoman. That didn’t work, either. The poet simply could not escape those yearly mania attacks. The physical burden alone wore him down. In Lowell’s case, a life lived to age 60, one that produced a thick body of work, was indeed heroic. But the tragedy was that Miss Hardwick’s love couldn’t save him.
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