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New Year has begun and with it, we present our annual Health & Fitness issue. I had intended to write about the inevitable post-holiday weight gain and the battle to burn off the (my) muffin top. But, on that awful December Friday afternoon when a CNN report broke about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn., everything changed. Twenty-six innocent children and female school officials had been brutally gunned down by a loner with a high-powered assault rifle. As a practicing licensed clinical social worker (when not editing and writing for The Boca Raton Observer), I felt compelled to tackle more serious issues. Since this latest mass-shooting tragedy (one that came just days after an all-too-familiar scene in a Portland, Ore. shopping mall), gun control has become—and rightfully so—a major topic of heated discussion everywhere from Congress to our nation’s dinner tables. An equally important issue being raised is the role that mental illness plays in such horrific scenarios. It’s important to note: Mental illness does not typically lead to violence. On the contrary, according to a study in World Psychiatry, the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association, only about 4 percent of violent acts are committed by people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and/or other mental illnesses. However, by and large, the public remains mystified by, and even fearful of, mental illness. We psychotherapists see this all too often. It’s a stigma that negatively impacts people
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Boca Raton resident Peter Gold had always planned on a career in hotel management, even studying the subject at the University of Massachusetts. Instead, he ran off and joined the circus. Gold, 48, is an internationally renowned trapeze artist and coach who spends his time teaching others how to fly through the air with the greatest of ease. He launched his company, Trapeze-Experience, in 1997 and recently opened his first South Florida location in West Palm Beach. His mission: to promote health and wellness through soaring. “Trapeze is a mountain with no top so each time you come out, we’ll assist you taking it to the next level,” says Gold, who fell for the trapeze after taking a lesson while on vacation at Club Med in St. Lucia. Remarkably, by week’s end he was hired, and spent the next four years as a trapeze instructor. He went on to perform with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, coach celebrities for “Circus of the Stars” and teach students who became performers with Cirque du Soleil. Since his career began, he’s taught more than 100,000 people, all of whom have gained strength and confidence, he says (not to mention, some great stories to share by the water cooler). Trapeze provides “an intense burst of energy that utilizes primarily your core muscles, shoulders, back and legs,” Gold explains. “In
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addition to working out the body, flying trapeze requires that you stay focused and manage your emotions while fear is present. Without being too cliche, it’s a true mind, body and spirit workout.” During his two-hour sessions, students warm up, receive a lesson on the ground, and spend the rest of the time on the trapeze learning the basics (for the daring, there’s a chance to be caught in mid-air). The trapeze is safe, Gold insists, because participants are hooked to safety belts with two ropes attached, and fly over a net. “We also train intermediate and advanced students and help place people in the circus,” says Gold, who offers classes for students ages 6 and up, and institutes a 250-pound weight limit. Prefer to stay landlocked? Consider a class with Gold’s wife, Undarmaa, whom he met in the circus. She’s a renowned contortionist who’s performed with Cirque du Soleil, during professional sporting events, on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and more. She teaches weekly classes called Cirque Flex, which focus on flexibility, strength, balance and coordination at Virtuous Productions in Boca Raton. For more information, call 877-7590044 or visit trapeze-experience.com. – Linda Haase
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There are saunas—and there are cutting-edge
median Jay Leno kept the crowd laughing—and bidding—during LIFE’s 19th annual “Lady in Red Gala, a Night of Stars” event and auction at The Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach. Seen here with gala chair Lois Pope, Leno helped raise funds to benefit abused and neglected animals and children.
saunas that reportedly reduce blood pressure, remove toxins and burn up to 600 calories in 30 minutes. That’s the claim of Infrasweat, a new sauna studio in Delray Beach’s Pineapple Grove and the first of its kind in South Florida. What makes Infrasweat different is that it delivers infrared heat directly to the body, rather than just heating the air. This is said to increase the body’s core temperature, resulting in detoxification on a cellular level. The studio’s private saunas also feature the world’s first biofeedback-enabled system which helps users wirelessly track things like heart rate, body-mass index and calories burned. According to owner Kelly Dorsey, the saunas also help relieve minor aches and pains due to fibromyalgia. For more information, call 561-276-5550 or visit infrasweat.com.
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There’s a new top dog in town. Meet London,
a 65-pound black Standard Poodle who’s captured the hearts of canine lovers everywhere—and most recently, the coveted title of 2012 Eukanuba World Challenge Champion. The pride and joy of Boca Raton corporate landlord Jamie Danburg and fiancee Michele Molnar, the gregarious 4-year-old London has won 89 “Best in Show” titles, deeming him the top-winning black male poodle in history. This is one lucky dog: It’s not unusual for London to celebrate a win with a juicy steak from The Capital Grille, and he often travels with Team London o (which includes Molnar, Danburg, (wh Ann Rairigh, London’s handler, and An her assistant) between homes in he Boca Raton and Louisville, Ky. B r, a When not performing or prepoln Michele M and g ur nb a D ping for a show—it takes 4.5 p Jamie is Miguel Judge Lu xerria hours to turn all that pouf into V Pinto Te perfection—the 3-foot-tall poodle with his own Facebook page enjoys j dancing d i (according ( di to Molnar, the pampered pooch jumps up every time he hears Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory”) and TV shows about dancing (he shuffles back and forth when contestants perform on “Dancing With the Stars”). Other hobbies include chasing squirrels and hanging out with his humans at Danburg Properties or Mizner Park in Boca Raton. What’s next for London? He’ll be getting plenty of rest and relaxation in preparation for February’s Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City. The goal, says Molnar, is for London to win 100 “Best in Show” titles. “When we first saw him we saw greatness,” says Molnar. “But he has been beyond our wildest dreams. We are still spellbound and mesmerized.” – L.H.
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GOOD TASTE “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara and fiance/hometown boy Nick Loeb a got cozy during a recent visit to SoLita n Italian Restaurant & The Parlor Lounge in ts Delray Beach. Among the 13 dinner guests he was Ramona Singer, reality star of “The en Real Housewives of New York City,” seen here posing for a pic with SoLita hostess Brianna Dapuzzo.
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Retro is the current modern chic, a mindset fully embraced at HMF, the new drinking and dining establishment at The Breakers Palm Beach. Renowned hospitality designer Adam D. Tihany and Peacock + Lewis Architects have transformed the resort’s Florentine Room into a glam space perfect for the social rituals of cocktail culture. “We conceived HMF to be an open interactive arena of decadent delights, and to cultivate a distinctly social, dynamic and inviting environment for the resort’s savvy clien-
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HAPPY (HEALTHY) ENDING Bodybuilder Frank Ferry Proves It’s Never Too Late To Hit The Weights BY EMILY J. MINOR
t started about two and a half years ago with a trip to the doctor’s office. Frank Ferry, a working-class guy who loved pasta and desserts and a big juicy steak, had eaten his way into a bit of a predicament—mainly Type II diabetes. “I loved all the stuff that’s not good for you,” says Ferry, 63, who admits exercise was never his thing. “I had never owned a gym membership.” Ferry weighed 309 pounds that August of 2010. And even though he’s 6 feet tall, it was still way too big for healthy living. So the West Palm Beach man got to work, and today’s results are nothing short of spectacular. During the course of 27 months, he dropped 122 pounds through diet and exercise. Now, he’s a competitive bodybuilder.
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building competition and placed second in the over-60 age group. Since then, he’s been on stage twice more, each time placing in the top five. What’s his lifestyle like today? Ferry has a protein shake in the morning, then a can of chicken, then another can of chicken about three hours later. For dinner, it’s lean meat and veggies. His workout is tough, usually about 90 minutes in the morning and he focuses on different muscles each time: legs one day, biceps and triceps another, then the back—until the whole body’s done. Then he starts again. “When I was a kid, I was always the fat kid on the beach, afraid to take my shirt off,” he says. “Now I get up in front of 2,000 people in a tiny string bikini and they applaud.” Ferry hopes his story motivates others. “Anyone can do this, and they should,” he says. “My life is like a storybook.” O
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CRUISE CONTROL Eccentric And Enigmatic “Jack Reacher” Brought To Life On Silver Screen rriving by interstate bus, Tom Cruise artfully brings one of the most eccentric anti-heroes in adventure fiction, cerebral drifter Jack Reacher, to the silver screen in the film of the same name. Reacher, British author Lee Child’s protagonist in his 17-book series, is a brilliant former army criminal investigator who’s always on the move, has no home,
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As with many Hollywood blockbusters, automatic weapons, horrific car chases, massive killings and much mayhem are standard trimmings, including one particularly brutal fistfight during which Reacher bludgeons a bad guy senseless using the head of the other bad guy. no credit cards, no telephone, no driver’s license, no relatives and few attachments. In “Jack Reacher,” he’s drawn to Pittsburgh after hearing news reports about a mass killing by a lone rifleman who, when questioned by police, will say only “Get Jack Reacher.” Reacher immediately senses that something is not quite right with the airtight evidence of the crime, in which an expert marksman fired six shots and killed five seemingly random people, and he works with beautiful defense attorney Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike) to sort out the ever more sinister plot. Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who won an Oscar for writing “The Usual Suspects,” the
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noirish film deftly conveys Reacher’s quirkiness—his penchant for using aliases off old baseball cards, traveling with no luggage, saying little but seeing everything—and has a cast bolstered by the menacing Teutonic presence of venerable Werner Herzog as a one-eyed criminal mastermind and the down-home comfort of Robert Duvall, a cornpone riflerange operator who tags along for the obligatory gunfight scene. As with many Hollywood blockbusters, automatic weapons, horrific car chases, massive killings and much mayhem are standard trimmings, including one particularly brutal fistfight during which Reacher bludgeons a bad guy senseless using the head of the other bad guy.
The enigmatic Reacher has Holmesian deductive powers, the combative reflexes of a ninja, and, while in a fistfight, the physical economy of a turkey carver at Golden Corral. His partnership with fetching (if idealistic) Rodin, who’s the daughter of District Attorney Alex Rodin (Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins), yields moments of sexual tension, but Reacher’s aloofness is as ingrained as his anger-management issues. Cruise, comfortable in the action-hero role from his recurring part as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the “Mission: Impossible” movies, manages to project a sense of physical menace against dastardly odds despite his noticeable lack of
Reacher’s 6-foot-5 size. The plot follows that of Child’s ninth book, “One Shot,” a reference to the army snipers’ motto, “one shot, one kill.” Since his debut in 1997 with “Killing Floor,” Child has written a new book every year except 2010, when he published two. The film suffered the box office misfortune of a release date in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. tragedy and the resulting debate over gun violence. A scheduled premiere party in Pittsburgh on December 15 was postponed. O RATED PG-13: contains violence, language and some drug material. RUNNING TIME: 2 hours and 10 minutes.
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LIQUID ASSETS Get Your Fruits And Veggies Without Ever Taking A Bite
The health-conscious among us have long realized the value of pulverizing fruits and vegetables into liquids and drinking them, a dietary habit that has a practical side understandable to anyone who’s seen how many carrots it takes to make a glass of juice. There are thousands of “experts” in this field—possibly including your next-door neighbor—but mere hundreds who’ve risen to the occasion and written books about it. The following books reveal the wisdom and benefits of incorporating juices and smoothies into your diet, and explain exactly how.
Skinny Smoothies: 101 Delicious Drinks That Help You Detox And Lose Weight By Shell Harris and Elizabeth Johnson The wonderful thing about a smoothie, which is easy to make for anyone who owns a high-speed blender, is that it’s possible to include anything that falls into the category of “daily requirement.” Medications? No problem—get your prescriptions in capsules and empty them into your smoothie. Are you a firm believer in eating a banana for potassium? Blend it in there. Daily vitamins, calcium supplements, morning shots of orange juice… ditto, say Shell Harris and Elizabeth Johnson, self-taught smoothie connoisseurs who compiled this book to combat commercial smoothies that can contain from 800 to 1,000 calories. “Skinny Smoothies” provides 101 original recipes for lighter drinks—low in fat and calories and high in nutritional value—ideal for anyone who wants to lose weight without feeling deprived. The book also includes nutritional information and tips on foods and supplements that cleanse the body of toxins.
Juicing can be done from one to three days to cleanse the body of unwanted toxins, while smoothies provide a longer-term meal-replacement strategy that keeps you feeling full.
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Healthy Juices For Healthy Kids By Wendy Sweetser
The Juice Diet By Christine Bailey Here’s one basic difference between eating food and filling your nutritional needs at least partly through juices: convenience. Juices are easy on the digestive process (contributing to uncomplicated inner workings), less likely to promote weight gain, and much handier to consume while on the go. In a crowded elevator, would you be more comfortable sipping carrot juice or eating a carrot? That’s what we thought. “The Juice Diet,” by Christine Bailey, offers more than 100 juice and smoothie recipes divided into three simple yet effective diet plans: Juice Blitz (a quick weekend jumpstart), Juice Week (a one-week plan) and Juicing for Life (a full month’s schedule). Additional chapters cover juicing for beauty, energy and immunity, providing the balance to bring out the body’s true potential. And who doesn’t want
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Making sure your child eats a healthy diet can be daunting and confusing, but here’s a book that spells it out with an assortment of healthful yet delicious drinks that kids love. And remember, for ev-
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Big Book Of Juicing & Green Smoothies By Cherie Calbom There is a juice/smoothie craze in this country (if you don’t know about it, welcome back from your extended stay abroad), and someone who helped it along is Cherie Calbom, aka, “The Juice Lady.” Calbom has written four books on the subject, including “Juicing for Life,” which has 2 million copies in print, and has created so many juice recipes that the ones in this current book
By Pat Crocker
ery healthy beverage choice your children make, that’s one less sugary concoction of high-fructose corn syrup that passes through their gullets (and sends them bouncing off the walls). In “Healthy Juices for Healthy Kids,” vitamin-packed treats incorporate a broad range of fruits and vegetables, but in flavors and textures that are childfriendly. There are drinks for every meal, as well as snacks and soothing beverages ideal for bedtime. Recipes include nutritional notes explaining the benefits of ingredients, providing useful information parents can use daily. The best part: This book makes it easy to get your kids to consume their fruits and veg-
Let’s say it has become apparent to you that, in order to lose weight and have a healthier body, regulating your nutrition using juices and smoothies is the way to go. Juicing can be done from one to three days to cleanse the body of unwanted toxins, while smoothies provide a longer-term meal-replacement strategy that keeps you feeling full. Now… how to get started? This book will tell you. It explains how to safely cleanse the body, provides tips to increase nutrition with protein and fiber supplements, gives juicing and smoothie tips and techniques, maps out a month’s worth of grocery lists for items to have on hand so you can easily whip up healthy juices and smoothies in minutes, and gives 50 recipes for juices and 50 recipes for smoothies to enjoy for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even dessert. Pat Crocker is a writer, photographer, culinary herbalist and foodie.
are called “updated.” Among other things, Calbom contends that healing juices and smoothies help fight the flu, infections and aging skin; low-carb juices and smoothies help you lose weight; and green smoothies pack a powerful punch of phytonutrients and antioxidants. Calbom earned her master’s degree from Bastyr University, a natural health arts and sciences school in Kenmore, Wash. that offers degrees in naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, herbal sciences, midwifery and other holistic pursuits. The Juice Lady is on the school’s board of regents. O
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Whoopi Goldberg Shares Observations At Kravis Center aryn Elaine Johnson has a prominent streak of practicality running through her stories of current events and modern life, probably inherited from her mother, who advised her that in order to get work in show business, a more Jewish-sounding stage name was a must. Thus was born Whoopi Goldberg. The chosen surname is typically German-Jewish. As to the given name… well, it’s not clear where in the register of Hebrew monikers she found that. Goldberg, an actress, comedian, author, talk show host, activist and philanthropist, will hold forth with her hilarious world view, morality tales and political observations at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for
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the Performing Arts on January 11 at 8 p.m. Goldberg, one of the few celebrities to have won Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony awards, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been in at least one film or stage production every year since 1982 (she’s appeared in 120 films). Her self-created stage production, “The Spook,” was seen by director Mike Nichols and taken to Broadway, where she was spotted by Steven Spielberg and cast in his movie, “The Color Purple,” for which she garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She later won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1990’s “Ghost.” In 2001 she won the Mark Twain Prize for Amer-
ican Humor at the Kennedy Center. Throughout her career, Goldberg has been a multimedia star, switching from Broadway to films, to TV, to stand-up comedy. In the 1980s she teamed with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams for several causes and liberal fundraisers. They hosted HBO’s “Comic Relief” and recently reunited for its 20th anniversary. She’s also appeared in the “Give A Damn” campaign with Cyndi Lauper to spur wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community. In 2007, she took over as host of TV’s “The View.” The observational humor she dispenses in her stand-up routine tends to poke fun at life’s ironies— racism, sexism, homophobia, police overreach and the beliefs of the political right wing. O For more information, call 561-8327469 or visit kravis.org.
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Matisyahu—who gained fame performing reggae in the severe garb and flowing beard and hair of his Hasidic faith but now is a clean-cut guy who sometimes dyes his hair blond—will perform his acoustic show at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County on January 19 at 8:30 p.m. Matisyahu was born Matthew Paul Miller but uses his Hebrew name as a stage name. He survived a troubled adolescence during which he was raised as a Reconstructionist Jew but rebelled, dropped out of Hebrew school and took to the road following Phish, the jam band to whom the Grateful Dead passed that unique baton of narcotic concerts and never-ending songs. And, as do many rebellious teen-
agers, Matisyahu eventually went to the other extreme and became an Orthodox Jew, and joined a large Hasidic movement in New York City. He had performing experience as a rapper in Oregon after completing his high school education. In New York, he joined the Jewish band Pey Dalid. His music is a reflection of his Torah studies, and when he began to record he became a sensation, singing Jamaican-accented reggae to rival Bob Marley, all while wearing traditional garb. In fact, Marley, who also composed songs with Old Testament references, was a major influence on Matisyahu. Matisyahu signed with JDub Records in 2004 and released his first album, Shake Off the Dust … Arise. In 2006 he released Live at Stubb’s, recorded in Austin, Texas, which contained what would become a Top 10 Modern Rock hit, “King Without a Crown.” Other Matisyahu favorites include “Thunder,” in which he sounds very much like Jason Mraz, “Crossroads,” a rap with beatbox, and the Marley-like “Jerusalem.” He released Youth in 2006, Light in 2009 and his fourth studio album, Spark Seeker, in July. This past November 20 he released a single, “Happy Hanukkah,” with all proceeds going to Hurricane Sandy victims. O
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Justin Bieber Brings Show To AmericanAirlines Arena hen Pattie Mallette’s little boy, Justin, began playing his guitar and singing so impressively that people would stop in the street to listen, she shared her pride with his grandmother by posting videos for her to view on YouTube. Justin Bieber is a convincing argument for the power of the Internet. The Canadian teen heartthrob’s world tour stops at AmericanAirlines Arena for shows on January 26-27, each night at 7 p.m., during which he’ll perform songs off his three platinum studio albums, which have sold about 15 million copies. Last year, he earned $55 million. Bieber, who at 18 is the same age his mother was when he was born, has 30 million Twitter followers, 48 million Facebook fans, and a fair percentage of the North American female popu-
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forthcoming from Island Records. His debut album, My World, climbed to No. 5 in 2009 and he followed with My World 2.0 four months later. Between the two albums, hit singles included “One Less Lonely Girl,” “Favorite Girl,” “Love Me,” “Baby” (which featured rapper Ludacris), “Somebody to Love” and “Never Let You Go.” He released a remix album, Never Say Never (with his mentor, Usher) in 2011 and this summer released his third studio album, Believe, which contains hits “Boyfriend,” “Die In Your Arms,” “All Around the World” and “As Long As You Love Me.” And the YouTube platform is still working for Bieber, who made a hammy video with his onagain-off-again girlfriend Selena Gomez and several friends goofing on the Carly Rae Jepson hit “Call Me Maybe” (it received 54 million views). Recent rumors that Bieber and Gomez, an actress and musician, had split were followed by more recent rumors that they had reconciled. O For more information, call 786-777-1000 or visit aaarena.com.
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‘Spamalot’ Brings Medieval Silliness To Broward Center recorded by John Cleese for the Broadway production at the Shubert Theatre. Idle’s script follows the film version nearly identically, the convoluted adventure that put a lethal twist on the Arthurian legend and included scenes of gore inflicted by a killer rabbit, Arthur’s knights caught in a hailstorm of catapulted barnyard animals, a hero cast into the bottomless abyss because he couldn’t remember his favorite color, and King Arthur galloping horseric Idle’s self-proclaimed 2004 “rip-off” of the classic 1970s cinematic romp, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” was a three-time Tony Award winner in 2005, including Best Musical, and ran on Broadway for 1,500 performances. Anyone who saw the groundbreaking 1975 film by the irreverent troupe of six absurdist British comedians likely knows the feeling of nearly choking to death on popcorn. Now the decorated “Spamalot,” whose Tony nominations numbered 14 as it struck a chord with legions of devoted Python fans who knew every line from the movie and from the four-year run of the BBC’s “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” will be performed at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on January 25-26 at 8 p.m. A voice intones before the show that audience members’ cellphones and pagers should be left on and allowed to “ring willy nilly,” prompting “heavily armed knights on stage that may drag you on stage and impale you.” The voice, which sets the tone perfectly, was
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Spouse’s Spare Tire A Turn-Off? Proceed With Caution BY EMILY J. MINOR arriage is hard. Sure, it’s fantastic to have someone around all the time that understands your moods (and your jokes), helps pay the bills, shares the responsibilities of raising children and fends off looming disasters at family reunions. Plus, remember that time when you were sick and he brought you chicken soup in a pretty bowl? That was awesome. But every once in a while, even in the best of marriages, a problem arises that requires a touch so delicate we’re stymied about how to proceed. And we’re not talking about dinner with your hubby’s mother-in-law. We’re talking about his pant size. When did he become a Size 42 waist? And how do you tell him the new spare tire doesn’t exactly turn you on? Proceed carefully—but do proceed, say the experts. “It’s a very difficult subject to broach,” says Dr. Arlene Krieger, a Boca Raton therapist and clinical sexologist. “But you live together, not in a vacuum. And if you love your partner, you don’t want to be taking care of them (because they’re in ill health) when they’re 50.”
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Again, Dr. Krieger has some very simple advice: Use your “I words.” That is, don’t start out with: You need to do this. You need to do that. “You need to approach it like, ‘I would like to eat better. I would like to lose eight pounds,’” she says. Then ask if they’d like to come along for the ride. “Make it cohesive—me and you against the world.” In essence, use the same psychology you might use with a child. That is, teach by example. If you are eating healthy and taking a walk after dinner, your counterpart might eventually do the same. And if that doesn’t work? Cast aside all trepidation and get tough, urges Dr. Krieger. “It’s
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all under the auspices of promoting the climate of good health,” she says. “Say, ‘I love you. I’m worried about you. We really should be looking out for our health, and our future.’” And when they resist, don’t give up. Change takes time, she says. For Rachel Feldman, a health coach who runs Rachel’s Wellness in Boca Raton, it’s all about teaching a couple how to make good choices. Sure it sounds cliche, but she swears by it.
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And again, it often requires tough love. “If you have a partner who’s not taking care of themselves, you have to have that talk with yourself and say, ‘No matter what my partner is eating, I have to take care of myself,’” she says. “And you need to tell them this isn’t just about how they look; it’s about wanting them to be around for a long time.” As Dr. Krieger points out, “some-
the first things she does is check out the pantry—and it’s usually a bit disheartening. “If you can’t pronounce the back of the label and your grandmother doesn’t understand what’s on the label, you shouldn’t be eating it,” she says. “And pitch the junk. If it’s there, he’ll eat it.” Like most resolutions that come around this time of year, Feldman agrees getting healthier requires
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one in the house is deciding what to buy and what to have for dinner.” So start by getting rid of all the junk, even if it’s something your (chubbier) partner absolutely loves. When Feldman enters households, one of
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stamina and preparation. Indeed, planning is sometimes what people overlook the most, and it’s what can really make or break a new eating and exercise routine, she says. “Truthfully, so many of us are on overload right now,” she says. “We need to create a plan, create our meals, create our snacks.” Simplify, she says, “what we’re cramming in our mouths.” (She likes turkey roll-ups with a dab of avocado and maybe some walnuts or dried cranberries.) There are other ways to help (that is, trick) your better half into getting into shape, say both our experts: Take favorite recipes and convert them into healthier versions. Compliment your partner the minute they start improving their routine. Encourage a doctor’s visit so the blood work will show the starting point for important things like cholesterol and blood sugar. And eat out less. But, most of all, don’t just sit there hating the way he or she looks. Speak up. This is the person you love. “In the end, it’s about preventing disease and about being around for a whole lifetime. That’s the defining moment,” Feldman says. “I always tell my clients, ‘This is not just rewarding. This is life-changing.’” O
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Instagram Is A Great App For Creative Expression—But It Can Also Be A Portal For Predators BY CHERYL KANE HEIMLICH f your kids are old enough to shoot photos, you’re probably familiar with Instagram. The cool little photo-editing app has become insanely popular since its 2010 debut—particularly among the tweens and teens who appear to be its heaviest users. But parents may not realize that many young teens are also using Instagram as a sort of Facebook Lite: a place to post photos of themselves and their friends, engage in dialogue with those who comment on their images and build a following among people they may or may not know. “Instagram is gaining a lot of popularity with kids who feel that their parents are on Facebook, so they don’t want to be on Facebook themselves,” says Carolyn Knorr, parenting editor for the nonprofit
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organization Common Sense Media. Many tweens in particular don’t even want to bother with composing status updates, Knorr says, preferring to communicate with images rather than words. And with the help of Instagram’s special-effects filters—which can give their photos anything from a vintage-’70s vibe to a film noirish blackand-white palette—those images can end up looking pretty compelling. “The filters add this patina of cool to your everyday photographs, which makes your life look cool too,” Knorr says. “Kids are supervisual and Instagram—as the name implies—offers instant gratification for them.” There’s nothing inherently wrong with letting your tween or teen have an Instagram account. But for parents
who are wary of Facebook, it’s important to understand that Instagram is not by nature any safer. In fact, Instagram actually became part of Facebook last fall after a $1 billion acquisition that will increase the synergies between the two companies. Last year Instagram was one of the most downloaded apps on Apple and Android phones and mobile devices, as well as the most popular photography app for 12- to 17-year-olds. If you do give the OK for your child to use Instagram, you may want to spend some time learning about the app and what you can do to keep it safe. For photography buffs like my high school-aged daughter, Instagram can be a great tool for tweaking a favorite photo and showing it off to others who may “like” it,
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vent the entire world from accessing them. If you’re talking about snapshots of sunsets over the ocean, privacy may not be much of a concern. But for photos that include images of your kids and their friends, you’ll want to set that Instagram account on “private”—in other words, your kids have to know and approve any followers before those people can see their images. If a teen posts a sexy-looking photo on an Instagram account that’s not private—which some do, of course—“That means any random stranger can see those photos,” Knorr says.
Which brings up the equally important issue of location services. Photos taken on a cellphone or other mobile device are likely to be geotagged, meaning that they’re embedded with information about where they were shot. If you haven’t turned off location services on your child’s Instagram app, a few clicks of that random stranger’s mouse could reveal not only your town but even your home address. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an appropriate picture or not,” explains Boca Raton therapist Karen Ponder. “If an adult is savvy enough to find out the location where a photo was taken, that can be very dangerous.” If you need help figuring out how to adjust privacy settings and location services on your child’s Instagram app, the website SafeKids. com offers a tutorial at www.safekids. com/2012/09/09/teens-and-tweensflock-to-instragram-what-parentsneed-to-know.
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where,” Mollica-Minson adds. “So then your daughter sees that she wasn’t part of that group.” Of course, your daughter might very well have found out about that party anyway. But with Instagram, “everything can become public very quickly,” Knorr points out. “Kids are getting into the habit of posting photos as a way of excluding other people. It’s a way of saying, ‘Aren’t our lives so cool, and you weren’t invited,’” she says. “Some kids get really obsessed with all the parties they weren’t invited to, and there can be unintended consequences. Parents should talk to their kids about that.” It’s also a good idea to talk to your kids about what kinds of photos should and shouldn’t be posted online. “Kids don’t realize that what they put on the Internet can be a permanent representation of themselves,” Ponder says. “They
Instagram is gaining a lot of popularity with kids who feel that their parents are on Facebook, so they don’t want to be on Facebook themselves. – Carolyn Knorr, parenting editor, Common Sense Media
Now that you’ve made your child’s Instagram account safer, you might want to start a discussion about how all those seemingly fun photos can lead to hurt feelings or even bullying. “Children communicate in actions more than words, and that’s why I think tweens are really, really getting hopped up about Instagram,” says Dr. Marion Rose Mollica-Minson, a Boca Raton adolescent and child therapist. “It’s an easy way to communicate without saying very much. The person posting is not making comments; they’re making statements with pictures: ‘You’re invited to my party, you’re not.’ ‘This is my boyfriend, he’s not your boyfriend.’ “Let’s say your daughter sees that someone she knows was at a party, and she wasn’t at that party herself, and it’s Instagrammed some52
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do it without thinking, they do it with impulsivity. It seems fun and funny, but they’re not really able to understand the long-term effects these things can have.” Of course, many of these issues are as much of a problem on Facebook as they are on Instagram. But for younger kids who have no previous experience with social media— and sometimes for their parents— this is all brand-new territory. “The job of parenting in the digital age has become more difficult than ever because kids can easily publicly share their exploits,” Knorr says. “Kids are digital natives and they really think nothing of using these devices to text and share everything. So it’s no longer enough to tell your kids, ‘Don’t do drugs, don’t drink.’ Now you also have to say, ‘Don’t post pictures of it!’” O
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San Juan’s La Concha Resort Offers Stylish Surprises At Every Turn BY LINDA HAASE a Concha Resort mirrors its San Juan, Puerto Rico locale: Hip and hot, with a flair for the sophisticated and dramatic. After all, there aren’t many places you can dine inside a spectacular floating seashell. Seriously. Diners at the resort’s signature restaurant, Perla, are enveloped in an archiLa Concha Resort was tectural masterselected as one of the Top 21 piece designed to Hottest Caribbean Escapes by resemble a gigantic the Travel Channel, recognized shell that sits amid as one of Architectural Digest’s a reflecting pool at Top 10 Hotels and chosen by the ocean’s edge. Condé Nast Traveler as one of The dining exPuerto Rico’s hottest luxury perience is equally hotel destinations. impressive, with hand-blown Murano glass lamps softly illuminating the space, Chef Dayn Smith’s gourmet American cuisine and seafood specialties, and a wine list of
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views. At night the space is transformed into a glamorous lounge, where guests and high-society locals sip cocktails, eat sushi and enjoy the disc jockey’s dynamic selections. And when it comes to nightlife, the resort is renowned for its state-of-theart 15,000-square-foot Casino Del Mar, which never closes and offers more than 500 machines and 17 gaming tables. There’s also an area for sports fans, who can kick back with a beer and take in a game on one of 24 big-screen TVs. For evening or daytime parties and special events, a popular spot is the Atrium, an indoor/outdoor space that includes a 10-story greenhouse, and Indigo, a meeting room located in the Atrium tower. It’s accessible only by following a glassenclosed bridge suspended over water, so getting there is half the fun.
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While exploring you’ll likely encounter the unofficial mascot of the island, a tiny tree frog called ‘coqui,’ known for its powerful melodic voice and high-pitched, chirpy song.
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with 500-year-old Spanish forts and colonial cities, the third-largest river cavern system in the world, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. National Parks system, superb scuba diving and oceanfront championship golf courses. Located just 15 minutes from the resort, Old San Juan offers a showcase of Puerto Rico’s cultural influences— all in a seven-square-block area. Here, cobblestone streets lead to parks, plazas and fruit-colored colonial architectural wonders housing museums, art galleries, bars, restaurants and boutiques. Two National Historic sites, the fortresses of El Morro and San Cristóbal, are here as well, along with Paseo La Princesa, a 19th-century walkway lined with statues and royal palms. While exploring you’ll likely encounter the unofficial mascot of the island, a tiny tree frog called ‘coqui,’ known for its powerful melodic voice and high-pitched, chirpy song. History, sunshine, the beach, San Juan seems to have it all—and because it’s a Commonwealth of the United States, you won’t need a passport or visa. Although the locals call a dollar a peso, no currency exchanges are needed. So it’s convenient, too. Time to brush up on your Spanish — and prepare for a memorable trip. O
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Joining the Miami Heat last December from the Memphis Grizzlies and winning the NBA Finals just six months later was a “dream come true” for Shane Courtney Battier, the team’s 6’8”, 225-pound forward. While that may sound like a sports cliche, it’s not. Battier, a thoughtful and articulate gentleman, is anything but. “We played a lot of emotional and intense basketball games to get there,” recalls Battier, 34, now in his 12th season with the NBA. Little did Battier know that his stellar performance during the playoffs—which included some three-point
the seventh-smartest professional jock of all sports. Battier thinks things through, analyzes statistics on his opponents’ moves and creates scouting reports to predict their future plays on the court. And to keep in tip-top shape, he sticks to a strict health and fitness regimen. His diet consists of healthy foods, with lots of fruits and vegetables, and opting more for fish and chicken than those juicy porterhouse steaks. And he enjoys sweets in moderation. “I’ve watched my food intake all of my life,” he says. “I eat sensibly—whole grains and no fatty or sugary food.”
Miami Heat Front Court Man Shane Battier Is The Ideal Mix Of Brains And Brawn BY EMILY HALL plays—was a prelude to the most physically challenging year of his basketball career. Because the coach made him guard more than one player—previously, he typically guarded just one or two players—he was caught in an often rough-and-tough game against multiple big and powerful opponents. It takes a toll, even on a guy as skilled as Battier. Widely known for his aggressive defense and ability to guard the NBA’s toughest players, Battier sacrifices his body during each and every game. He admits he works in overdrive due to a more difficult and versatile court position, taking charges and placing his fingers in opponents’ faces to block their shots. Most recently, he suffered a bad sprain when fellow team member Udonis Haslem was knocked backwards into his right knee. A couple of weeks prior to that, he received a black eye after being elbowed by an opponent. Still, Battier gets the job done with physical finesse and on-court smarts—he’s known as the resident NBA intellectual, with Sporting News recently naming him 58
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He’s equally diligent about his workouts (there is no slowing down for this guy). During season, Battier goes to the AmericanAirlines Arena gym and does one hour of weight-lifting three times a week. He likes intense body sessions because, he says, they get all of the muscles working together. “My power-lifts combo of bench press, squat and deadlift incorporates the core which increases my endurance,” he says. “Bodybuilding is about functional strength and strong tendons—not a muscle beach workout.” He also does a 90-minute basketball workout, and for fun plays baseball, football, tennis and golf. It’s rare that the jock isn’t in motion doing what he loves and keeping his body strong and powerful. During the team’s off-season, which lasts from June through August, Battier typically returns to his home state of Michigan, where he works out in a local gym, continuing his disciplinary routine. This summer he stayed in his Miami home due to the late season and two preseason October games in China against the Los Angeles Clippers.
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BATMAN BEGINS Physical intensity and mental challenges are nothing new for Battier, who grew up with the singular ambition of being the best at whatever he chose to do. He lives and breathes this ethos. “I’m a worker and have always been a hard driver,” says Battier, who wears a size 14 sneaker. “I use my mind of course, but my body is my thing... and I have always taken good care of it. I treat it with respect.” Battier’s career began in 2001 as a firstround draft pick by the Vancouver (now Memphis) Grizzlies, where he played from 2001-2006, then went to the Houston Rockets through 2011 before rejoining the Grizzlies in 2011. When he signed with the Miami Heat last December 10 as a free agent, he didn’t know what to expect from the team with the highprofile Big Three—LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. “I worried I was getting into a chaotic, idiotic circus,” he admits with a chuckle, about the intense media hype. “But I was pleasantly surprised by the guys in the locker room. They were comforting and great. I felt we would do something good together.” Although it took him a few months to find his stride, Battier’s unselfish and inspired performances as a defender and shooter in last spring’s NBA Finals have indeed produced something good for all members of the Heat. Those games have also put him on the map as an essential starter—an important player with a reputation for solid and fundamental teamwork that remains unblemished. “Shane was critical to the Heat winning a championship,” says Ethan Skolnick, team insider and sports columnist for The Palm Beach Post. “It wasn’t just his three-point touch. It was his intelligence, his ability to keep accepting assignments and make it work, even when he was at a physical disadvantage.” Battier has always thrived on sport and competition. Born and raised in Birmingham, Mich., near Detroit, he started playing basketball in the second grade. By the sixth grade he was over 6 feet tall, extremely coordinated and a good shot blocker for a kid.
“I liked blocking people’s shots early on,” he recalls, laughing. “Even if my friends cried.” With two brothers and two sisters, he grew up in a typical suburban middle-class family, except that he had a black father, Ed and a white mother, Sandee. Ed ran a trucking company that hauled steel to automakers. Sandee raised the kids. Both parents were very supportive and encouraged their children to excel at sports or anything else they tackled. “We were a blue-collar family which made me work harder to achieve,” Battier says. “And there were issues.” Issues, such as growing up as a child with mixed parents. In school, Battier
As a consequence of straddling the two worlds, Battier grew up shy and awkward. “Everything I’ve done since is because of what I went through with this,” he told the Times. “What I did is alienate myself from everybody. I’d eat lunch by myself. I’d study by myself. And I sort of lost myself in the game.” Did he ever. In 1996, the “shy and awkward” Battier, then a student at Country Day’s high school program, shined on the court, becoming a star basketball player. He became known nationwide as “Batman,” because the name sounded like Battier, but was shorter and took less time to say. And he achieved all this while maintain-
“SHANE WAS CRITICAL TO THE HEAT WINNING A CHAMPIONSHIP. IT WASN’T JUST HIS THREE-POINT TOUCH. IT WAS HIS INTELLIGENCE, HIS ABILITY TO KEEP ACCEPTING ASSIGNMENTS AND MAKE IT WORK, EVEN WHEN HE WAS AT A PHYSICAL DISADVANTAGE.” – Ethan Skolnick, sports columnist for The Palm Beach Post always felt different. As a seventh-grader at Detroit Country Day School, a prestigious prep institution, he was the only biracial child. He would continue to suffer through years of feeling lost between two worlds. As writer Michael Lewis explained in an article about Battier for New York Times Magazine, he was shuttling between a black world that treated him as white and a white world that treated him as black. In the context of basketball, Lewis wrote that the “inner-city kids with whom he played on the A.A.U. (Amateur Athletic Union) circuit treated Battier like a suburban kid with a white game, and the suburban kids he played with during the regular season treated him like a visitor from the planet where they kept the black people.”
ing a 3.96 grade point average. The following year, Dan Wetzel, a writer for The Basketball Times, spent five months following Battier—watching him play, studying his daily habits, his interest in academic scholarships, and the way he applied brains to brawn. He observed him entertain basketball college scholarships while working on his academic subjects with reverence and discipline. As a reporter, Wetzel had covered hundreds of young players from all walks of life, many from large urban environments. But he said he found Battier and his disciplined efforts to study the sport to be unique in the world of basketball. “There’s this public perception that they’re all thugs,” Wetzel told the Times. JANUARY 2013
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Shane Battier at the NBA Fit Basketball Clinic in Shanghai, China; Battier and his wife, Heidi, show off the championship trophy; Battier at the Miami Heatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual holiday hospital visit this past December
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“But they aren’t. A lot of them are really good guys, and some of them are very, very bright. Kobe’s (Bryant) bright. LeBron’s very bright. But there’s absolutely never been anything like Shane Battier.” In 1997, Battier was named Mr. Basketball of Michigan and won the Naismith Award as the best high school basketball player in the nation. Out of dozens of choices for college basketball scholarships, he picked the Duke University Blue Devils for the team’s excellent basketball program and coaching staff including legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski (“Coach K”). Interestingly, Nick Arison, current CEO of the Miami Heat, was the Blue Devils’ team managaer at the time. Arison was key in recruiting Battier for the Heat. “Duke
him. They have two children, Zeke, 4½, and Eloise, 1½. Even though they’ve moved several times for his NBA career, the couple takes it in stride because they’re best friends. They support each other unconditionally, accepting each others’ successes and failures. “Heidi was a high school teacher,” says Battier. “She has a good sense of humor, a great perspective on life, and we both like to give back to our community.” Together, they run The Battier Take Charge Foundation, which is dedicated to providing resources for the development and education of underserved youth and teens. The couple initially focused on Memphis, Houston and Detroit before
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became a fantastic period of my life,” recalls Battier. “It was rigorous and competitive but I loved it.” He did well at the university, playing for four years and helping lead the North Carolina team to the 2001 NCAA Championship while sweeping the major National Player of the Year awards, including the Final Four Most Outstanding Player and the National Basketball Association of Basketball Coaches’ Defensive Player of the Year. Battier became the “winningest” college basketball player of all time. “I had a great college career but there was no magic formula,” he says modestly of the laudatory news clippings. “It was hard work. Plain and simple.” In 2001, the superstar was a two-time Academic All-American scholar when he graduated from Duke with a bachelor’s degree in religion, a subject he found fascinating. “I wanted to learn more about people and their world religions,” explains Battier, an avid reader. “Like LeBron who reads before games, I think reading is cool, and I do it a lot, but in stages. Sometimes I play the guitar instead. LeBron and I never discuss our passion for reading. It is just there.” Speaking of passion, in the summer of 2003, while playing for Memphis, Battier married his high school sweetheart Heidi, whom he first met in the seventh grade and chased for two years until she finally fell for
bringing the charity to Miami, where they look for hardworking kids and provide them with financial assistance. On January 21, the Battiers will host South Beach Battioke, an American Idol-style competition that will raise money for their foundation’s scholarships. “I like to mentor, give back and help give people chances in life,” Battier says. “This event is our main focus.” When not playing ball, working out or giving back though his foundation, Battier likes spending time with friends, watching HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and various Food Network shows, cooking at home (he says he wants to learn to bake healthy desserts), learning to play his new piano, traveling to other warm weather spots, and enjoying his children. While he insists he’s a creature of habit and is super-focused on winning the NBA Championship again this spring— he also thrives on trying new things. “I am used to everyone being on my back about something,” he laughs. “But no matter what else I am doing or how hard I am focused, I am not afraid of a good challenge. Bring it on!” O JANUARY 2013
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TO LAST These Endurance Athletes Take Fitness To Extremes
For every sport, there is a lunatic fringe, known in polite conversation as “extreme” athletes. The constant need to run farther, lift heavier weights, pedal a bicycle harder, paddle a surfboard faster, develop the muscles larger… this ongoing discipline and competitiveness result in a phenomenon that could be called the vanishing ceiling. ¶ It was once thought impossible to break the fourminute mile barrier, but since Roger Bannister did it in 1954, it’s become routine and 3:43.13 is the current standard. Ironman races used to be considered too grueling for any but superhuman athletes. One of our featured athletes, sports marketer Steve Tebon, says “Now, anyone can run an Ironman.” ¶ We’ll take his word for it. ¶ There are triathletes, runners, bikers, swimmers and CrossFit athletes in our midst, who train and compete regularly and excel at their sports. Some have achieved greatness and others are simply exceptional, but all are accomplished athletes with well-sculpted bodies and minds. The following five have interesting stories to share.
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KRISTY BRESLAW, Competitive Bicycling/Triathlons The site of the country’s first gold rush in 1828, Dahlonega, Ga., for the past 24 years has been the gold standard of amateur cyclists like Boca Raton’s Kristy Breslaw, 42, who was there in September competing in the challenging Three Gap Fifty race, which features mountainous courses of 58 and 100 miles. Breslaw and her husband, Ralph, are bicycling junkies and triathletes, having competed in about six triathlons a year for a decade, and relish the chance to escape the sunny flatness of home and pump the pedals at altitudes reaching 3,364 feet. Breslaw finished sixth in her age group at the Three Gap Fifty, which contains 6,600 feet of vertical climbing on terrain that’s much closer to that of the Tour de France than any64
thing one can find in Florida. “We do like to train in Clermont (Florida) once a month for hill work,” she says. “It’s lovely there and the people aren’t trying to kill you with their cars.” The Breslaws have competed in two Ironman races and “10 or 11” halfIronmans, and train three or four days a week, almost always on A1A, the meandering island road that has lower speed limits and is generally more conducive to longevity for a cyclist. “Depending on how far we want to ride, sometimes we’ll go up to Palm Beach Inlet twice,” says Breslaw, a stay-at-home mom with a doctorate in forensic psychology. “If we want to do 100 miles, we’ll ride up to Jupiter Island and back.” They won’t be doing that sort of
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intensive training again until April, when their off-season strength training ends and they shift to more road work with fellow club members of the Boca Raton Triathletes, of which Breslaw is secretary. The group, with 200 members, rides together and organizes open-water swims. Breslaw met Ralph, a general surgeon in Delray Beach, at a running event and they’ve accompanied each other through the ensuing thousands of miles of biking, swimming and running. “We do everything together,” she says. They bike 200 miles a week during season, and maybe this year they’ll try the Six Gap Century race, with its daunting 11,200 feet of vertical climbing at grades up to 15 percent. Maybe that’s the gold in those hills now.
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LINDSAY KENNEY, Competitive Prone Paddleboarding/Open Ironwoman Lindsay Kenney, a Delray Beach lifeguard who is the reigning Open Ironwoman of American lifeguardom, found an instant affinity with a floating object that led to her latest sport of choice. “I was running on the beach and saw someone on a paddleboard,” says the perpetually training athlete. “And I said, ‘Hey, I could do that.’” She has quite the flair for understatement, this stalwart former Florida State University swimmer, whose workouts are in four lifeguard-related disciplines—swimming, running, prone paddleboarding and ocean kayaking. Kenney won the prestigious Open Ironwoman title in August at the 2012 United States Lifeguarding Association National Championships in Cape May, N.J., after finishing third the year before. Kenney, 26, completed her 17-year competitive swimming career at FSU, where she was turning in All-ACC times in butterfly and freestyle for the Seminoles until 2008, but despite all those six-hour days in the pool, she was caught off-guard by the grueling lifeguard test to join the Delray Beach Ocean Rescue division. “It’s the most athletic test I’ve ever seen,” she says. “It starts with a rescue, and you drag the victim up on the beach, then you swim 500 yards in under 10 minutes, then you run back to where you started and paddle out to a buoy, then you swim back…” These days, Kenney maintains the level of conditioning to conquer that dizzying and daunting ordeal, working out three to four hours a day. She spent her formative years in the swimming pools of Plano, Texas, and now is an avid surfer and staunch devotee of the prone paddleboard. “It appealed to me immediately, because it’s about upper-body strength,” she explains. The board is only 10 feet long but it’s taken Kenney around the world in her three years as a lifeguard, representing America in the 2010 Lifesaving World Championships in Alexandria, Egypt, and at the 2012 Surf Lifesaving Rescue Challenge at Utsumi Beach, Japan. Just a few months ago, she competed at the Lifesaving World Championships in Adelaide, Australia. “I swam all my life,” says Kenney, who lives in Fort Lauderdale. “And I made it pretty far up the ladder. Your ultimate goal is always to represent your country. Now I can do that. It’s a dream come true.”
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JOE FALCONE, Ironman/Spartan Death Race The test in rural Vermont that awaited 344 participants, ominously named the Spartan Death Race, was way tougher than 251 of them had bargained for, in keeping with its customary 85 percent dropout rate. No surprise. They found the race on youmaydie.com. Delray Beach Fire Rescue Capt. Joe Falcone, 36, had no idea what to expect—no one did—but as a two-time Ironman finisher, he had a record of proven determination (an Ironman involves a 2.4-mile swim, 112 miles on a bicycle and a 26.2-mile run). Then again, no one signs up for this grueling multiday trek through the woods—a mentally and physically challenging event that includes crawling through drainage pipes and wading through a 45-degree river— without ultra-marathon experience. “You don’t know what you’re getting into,” says Falcone, the fitness coordinator for Delray Beach’s firefighters for the past eight years. “You just know that you have to be the strongest you can possibly be, and mentally tough. And at some point, you find yourself asking: ‘Why am I even doing this?’” As a June Friday dusk settled on the sleepy landscape around Pittsfield, Vt., the 344 hopefuls set off in the Spartan Death Race, starting with a 12hour hike into the mountains, divided into teams, with each team member wearing a 40-pound pack and each group lugging a canoe (they don’t call it a
Death Race for nothing). Over the next 67 hours, the ever-shrinking roster would cross rivers, chop wood, carry tree stumps on their shoulders up mountainsides, walk around with 80-pound bags of cement... “In the middle of this, we would be stopped and asked to take a test,” recalls Falcone, who lives in West Boca Raton. “Three hundred questions that ranged from math to algebra to anatomy, and some of the craziest questions you can imagine.” He remembers in the fog of fatigue feeling pressure to remember the names of the Three Chipmunks. In the middle of the night, Falcone’s group came to a meadow with a horseshoe-shaped track maybe a quarter-mile long. They were told to lie down and roll themselves sideways around this track. Six times. “There were guys puking all over the place, and we had to roll through it for three hours,” he says. “That was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever done.” Falcone finished the event in 63 hours, physically spent and unable to close his eyes without falling asleep. “All and all, it was pretty cool,” says the former Air Force firefighter who met his wife, Devon, a Deerfield Beach CPA, while serving in Guam. “I’ll do it again this year.” JANUARY 2013
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STEVE TEBON, Triathlon/Half Ironman Sports marketer Steve Tebon is generally known as Mr. Triathlon, having produced 350 of the races throughout the Southeast, including so many in Florida he’s considered our state’s pioneer, but these days he’s all about Half Ironmans. Tebon, who founded and operated Exclusive Sports Marketing for 23 years and is the subject of “Game On,” a book that examines the relationship between recreational sports and business sponsorship opportunities, is an athlete himself and has witnessed the steady growth in popularity of the race concept started in 1920s France as Les Trois Sports. “We produced all those sprint-distance triathlons, and we provided a five-star platform for athletes to participate in their sport,” says Tebon, who is in his early 50s. “But Ironman is the leader in the sport now, and has been for a while. Triathlons are just a feeder system for Ironman now.” The difference between triathlon and Ironman is not semantics; it’s geography. A sprint distance triathlon consists of a .47-mile swim, 12-mile bicycle ride and 3.1-mile run. Those distances roughly double each time you advance to standard triathlon, long-course triathlon (or Half Ironman) and Ironman. The latter was first held in Hawaii in 1974 and consists of a 2.468
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mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run. The somewhat surprising message of Tebon, whose new company, Game On Sports Marketing Group, is planning a huge Half Ironman in West Palm Beach on June 1, is this: “Anyone can do an Ironman. I’ve known people who were blind, who were missing limbs, who weighed 400 pounds…,” says the Boca Raton resident. “If you have the discipline to train, you can do an Ironman.” Tebon’s athletic mentality led him to play basketball and run track at The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. His sports marketing firm helped further the triathlon craze in the 1980s and ’90s and he sold the company in 2006. His new company is based in Boca Raton. So far, he’s competed in two Ironmans and “seven or eight” Half Ironmans. “You can’t do too many Ironman races,” he says. “They will take over your life.” His event, The Motivation Man Triathlon, will begin at Meyer Amphitheatre on Flagler Drive and include a swimming course through the Intracoastal Waterway, a bicycle course out to the Everglades and back, and a running course on a 6.2-mile loop around downtown West Palm Beach. For more information, visit motivationman.com.
PREPARES FOR EVERYTHING DANA LYNCH, CrossFit Competition
Advocates of the sport of CrossFit consider it the most intensive workout possible, although the term is more a blanket to cover a gamut of exercises. Dana Lynch, 41, is regarded as a pioneer of the sport, operating a Jupiter gym almost since its inception and serving as a judge for CrossFit competitions. To illustrate the non-specificity of her sport, she points out that competitors don’t even know the workouts for which they’ll be judged until it’s nearly time to compete. “It could be a week, it could be a day, it could be a couple of hours before,” explains Lynch, who has seen Palm Beach County participation in CrossFit mushroom from 100 athletes just six years ago to around 4,000 today. “That’s really the beauty of CrossFit—when you go into a competition, it could be anything. So you train for everything.” CrossFit is a trademarked term coined by Greg Glassman and his wife, Lauren, in 2000, and was a niche pursuit until picking up major sponsorship about five years later. Local franchises are called affiliates, and from these grassroots gyms each year, competitors qualify in the Open for regional competition, with some advancing to the world championship, called the CrossFit Games, in Carson, Calif. “Sixty of our members entered the Open last year,” says Lynch, who competed in the world games in 2009. “But that doesn’t mean they necessarily have aspirations of going to California. Many might just want to expand the scope of their workouts.” The sport has its own nomenclature: A wod is the workout of the day; a box is the gym, which is noticeably deficient in workout machines. “It’s all free weights and exercises, with the exception of the rowing machines,” explains Lynch, who lives in Jupiter. Exercises include the burpee, which is a standing-to-squat-to-pushup-to-squat-to-standing procession, the alligator walk, crab walk, inch-worm walk … there’s a tuck jump, where the athlete leaps into the air and into a tuck position, then releases and lands on his or her feet. There’s a toes-to-bar where the athlete hangs from a bar and brings the legs up unbent until toes touch the bar. There’s the angry gorilla and the flying squirrel, more exercises that mimic wildlife. “Some are time-based workouts and some are work-based,” says Lynch, who runs her gym, CrossFit At BGI, with the help of her husband, Todd, a Delray Beach firefighter. “In a competition, you might have to do as many burpees as you can in seven minutes.” A good rule of thumb: Prepare for everything, be ready for anything. O
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It isn’t rare for Stephanie to hallucinate and to see things like gargoyles chasing her while she drives, or hear voices that she says whisper to her at night. “If there was a hell on earth, I have to say it’s being bipolar. I’ve never been ‘normal’ where I feel emotions calmly; where I am not afraid that I’m going to make a fool of myself,” she says through tears. Though she has the courage to speak to this magazine about her experiences with the disorder, Stephanie doesn’t want to reveal her last name. Perhaps it’s due to shame or just for privacy reasons, but most people with the disease generally don’t want to discuss it because of the stigma attached. They believe it
labels them as “crazy.” “Everybody wants to be perfect in this world. No one wants to admit they have a mental illness, especially one as debilitating,” says Dianne Matthews, clinical director of Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service in Boca Raton. “People see it as their dark secret.” It’s one that Stephanie tries her best to keep.
SEEKING STABILITY Stephanie was an avid athlete, graduated valedictorian of her high school class and took the magna cum laude title in college. She got a job in South Florida as a high school teacher and, to outsiders, probably seemed like your
average young woman starting a successful life. But what people didn’t know then and many still don’t know now is that Stephanie suffers from bouts of hopelessness and anger. She punches walls, cuts herself and once tried to run her car off a bridge. After being misdiagnosed at an early age with clinical depression, it wasn’t until she was 27 years old that she learned she had bipolar disorder. She had no idea what it was so she searched for answers and what she found scared her, which is not uncommon. It’s usually discovered between the ages of 18 to 28 and can only be treated by medication combined with psychotherapy, according to
Liz Downey, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Palm Beach County in Lake Worth. Bipolar disorder can also be diagnosed in children as young as 6 years old and it’s often confused with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. According to NAMI, children with bipolar disorder demonstrate characteristics including grandiose behaviors such as believing they are smarter than the teacher and telling the teacher what to teach, elated moods such as acting extremely excited all the time and a decreased need for sleep. Bipolar disorder causes sporadic mood shifts that could last for days, weeks or even months, depending on the person. Some experience mostly depression while others live with many moments of manic phases where they do outlandish things— spend tons of money, make bad business decisions and engage in risky behavior, such as gambling, random sex or abusing drugs or alcohol. When the manic phase is over, they can fall into a depression and stay in bed for an undetermined period of time, explains Lori Sarvis, a licensed clinical social worker in Deerfield Beach. And it isn’t uncommon for someone to be Baker Acted or go voluntarily to a mental hospital when they are in the throes of mania or deep depression. “Emotionally, they can’t handle the way the world works,” Sarvis says. Many people with bipolar disorder have trouble keeping a job and receive disability. Stephanie had to quit her teaching career after 17 years
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because the characteristics of the disorder were starting to show up in the classroom. She was losing patience with students, falling asleep at her desk and forgetting how she got to and from work every day. Sarvis sees 42 patients a week and about 15 have bipolar disorder. Many years ago, people with the disorder were often put in mental institutions, she says, but now medication is the key to allowing those with the illness to feel better
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and function productively. For some, medication has to be changed frequently to find the right one and for others, like Stephanie, that could take years. She still hasn’t found a medicine that works. “I have been on 50 to 52 different types of medications to get stabilized,” says Stephanie, who usually experiences more manic episodes. She speaks fast, can’t sit still and is overly emotional. “I metabolize medications so fast that they don’t work.” So she continues to live in fear every day, not knowing if a manic phase will hit her or if she’ll fall into a deep state of depression. She can’t predict when the voices will come or the hallucinations will appear. Though many people with the disorder are able to continue in their careers and live balanced lives, Stephanie is one of those who can’t control the disease, even with medication. And she wonders if she will ever get better. “I try to be optimistic,” she says, “but it’s very difficult when you feel
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FAMILY IMPACT Though daily life is understandably difficult for someone with bipolar disorder, it can also be extremely frustrating for their loved ones because they don’t know what to do when the person’s mood changes suddenly. And, even more importantly, they don’t know how to help. And that’s where the National Alliance on Mental Illness comes in. This organization doesn’t just exist to support those with mental illness, but also provides a safe haven for family members who feel helpless and don’t know where to turn. And perhaps there isn’t anyone better to help those families then
Downey, the mother of a 25-yearold man who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder six years ago. The mission of NAMI is to provide support, education and advocacy for people who have mental illness, and to provide them and their family members with an improved quality of life. The NAMI support groups are free, open to the public and, because there is usually a wait list for many, Downey is planning to add more groups in 2013. She says many of the phone calls her office receives are from people whose relatives are bipolar and she prides herself on being able to help them because she can say she understands and really mean it. Her son was in his second year of college when he told his parents he was hearing voices and that birds were talking to him. He was sad, irritable and would lash out for
no reason. Downey found help at NAMI and says the support group saved her life. “I just remember the fear. I was so afraid. The medical profession doesn’t really know the impact mental illness has on families,” she says. But after attending the meetings, she “went from hopelessness to, ‘Wow, I can really support him in a healthy way.’ It was so empowering.” She explains to parents that bipolar disorder is on a spectrum, like autism or addiction. John Hopkins Medicine describes four types of bipolar disorder. Bipolar Type I is the most potentially dangerous, characterized by manic or mixed episodes that last at least a week, or by manic symptoms so severe the person needs emergency care; these are followed by episodes of major depression that last weeks or even years. Bipolar Type II involves alternating JANUARY 2013
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WHERE TO FIND HELP If you or someone you know is living with bipolar disorder and you need more information and/or support, the following resources are good places to start. DBSA (DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE)
800-826-3632 dbsalliance.org Editor’s note: The DBSA will hold its national conference on June 14-16 at the Hilton Miami Downtown. To attend, call 312-988-1152; for hotel reservations call 1-800-445-8667.
GOLD COAST DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR ALLIANCE
954-923-8272, goldcoastdbsa.com
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA
“A GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS WHEN YOU GO ON MEDICATION, SYMPTOMS DISAPPEAR WITHIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.”
800-969-6642
– Joan Miller, licensed clinical social worker in Boca Raton
INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION
858-764 2496; internationalbipolarfoundation.org
nmha.org NAMI (NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS)
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1-866-615-6464 nimh.nih.gov THE BALANCED MIND FOUNDATION (FAMILY RESOURCES FOR KIDS WITH MOOD DISORDERS)
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hypomanic (less severe than mania and lasting at least four days) and depressive episodes but no fullblown manic or mixed episodes. While “up” periods are marked by milder and even enjoyable symptoms, depressive episodes may be severe and debilitating. People experiencing hypomania typically function normally and can be very productive; during the depressive phase, the level of functioning varies among individuals. Cyclothymia is an even milder form of mood cycling, while bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BP-NOS) is diagnosed when symptoms don’t meet the criteria for bipolar I, II or cyclothymia. And while most patients battle the illness with medication to stabilize their moods, some find that
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they enjoy the manic phase so much that they stop their meds altogether. That’s when things get out of control, and they may end up hospitalized until they’re stabilized. “They feel grandiose and confident and people enjoy that feeling,” says Joan Miller, a licensed clinical social worker in Boca Raton. “That
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makes treatment hard. The more people like it, the harder they are to treat.” But if the person stays on the medication, she says, and his or her mood is stabilized, they can manage their symptoms better. “A good thing about it is when you go on medication, symptoms disappear within a couple of weeks,” Miller explains. Other patients criticize the medicines because certain ones, such as lithium, cause unwelcome side effects including severe weight gain. Downey’s son, for example, gained 50 pounds. But his therapist encouraged him to exercise and eat better and now, she says, he looks and feels great. It’s different for everyone, Downey says of the disease. For her son, he was
a happy, loving person one day and the next “it was like he’d been possessed. He would say these horrible things to me and then come back later and apologize. He couldn’t help himself,” she says. Still, Downey says, he is one of the luckier ones. She knows a mother who locked herself in the bedroom because her daughter with bipolar disorder was threatening her with a kitchen knife. Another family has a son who made 10,000 copies of a flier saying the CIA was after him and then drove to Washington, D.C. to toss the fliers out the car window. “It’s a messy disorder. It’s not neat,” Miller says. “The clusters of symptoms are organized but the presentation, the duration, the onset … it’s any and all of the above depending on the person.” But there is hope. Today, Downey’s son is better. He’s on the right medication and goes to therapy. He works part-time and serves as a peer to others with bipolar disorder so he can share his story. And Downey is always more than ready to share her experience, too. “I know how horrible it was,” she says. She can provide families with inspiration, and let them know that having bipolar disorder doesn’t mean your life is over. Just look at her amazing son, she says.
CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE Bipolar disorder is not something you can simply control on your own, nor is it something you can just snap out of, as some people might believe. Maria of Deerfield Beach, now 45 years old, was 32 when she received her diagnosis. Back then, and even now, her family believes the illness is something she conjured up in her mind. Maria, who is now having success with medication, has attempted suicide five times and has been in and out of mental hospitals. “Every time my sister would come see me at the hospital I used
to get a lecture from her because she said that I wanted to be there. That I like to take drugs,” she says. “I don’t have support. They don’t understand. Who wants to be in a mental hospital?” Maria calls herself a ‘miracle’ because she’s survived as long as she has. Now when she has a manic episode, she goes to church and she meditates. “You have to take one day at a time,” she says. “There is no cure.” The disorder can be triggered by stressful events. In Maria’s and Stephanie’s cases, both were sexually abused as children and they believe that spurred the disorder. Miller stresses that just because someone is moody doesn’t mean they are bipolar. “It’s not like postpartum depression or anxiety,” Miller says. “It’s very difficult to have. They say it runs in families but they aren’t able to find the link. The answers are really still out.” People tend to use the word “bi-
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polar” loosely l l l and d that not only offendss people with the disororder, but also demonstrates trates how uninformed people l are. “I don’t tell my friends that I have bipolar disorder because they’ll think I’m crazy,” Maria says. “But we aren’t crazy. We are very intelligent.” And if you need proof, consider the list of successful people who live with the disease. Every year, more Hollywood celebrities, respected journalists and others in various fields come out of the woodwork, revealing they too live with the illness. Well-known people with the dis-
HOW TO GAIN CONTROL In addition to seeing a doctor and psychotherapist regularly, as well as taking medication consistently, the following tips are designed to help people with bipolar disorder lead healthier lives.
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Keep a regular routine. For example, eat meals at the same time daily and go to bed at the same time nightly. Be sure to get enough sleep. Be aware that symptoms improve gradually, not immediately. Do not drink alcohol or use unprescribed drugs. Steer clear of unhealthy relationships. Get regular exercise. Join a support group. Stay focused on your goals. Find healthy outlets. Learn ways to relax and manage stress.
Sources: NIMH (National Institute on Mental Health); Mayo Clinic; health.com
order include actor Jim Carrey, singer Demi Lovato, comedian Robin Williams, d director Tim Burton, dire entrepreneur Ted Turner and Zeta-Jones, who went public with her battle after checking herself into a mental health clinic earlier this year to treat her bipolar disorder. The late poet Sylvia Plath, former president Theodore Roosevelt, physicist and mathematician Ludwig Boltzmann, writer Ernest Hemingway and composer Ludwig van Beethoven were all said to be bipolar. The list is extensive. Dreyfuss, who has bipolar disorder and is an advocate for people with mental illness, will speak about living with the disease at a Ruth Rales luncheon on February 21 at Boca West Country Club. Sarvis says the acting field is perfect for someone with the illness because they get to be someone else. “They don’t have to be themselves. A lot of times they don’t feel like they are themselves anyway,” she says. People like Stephanie and Maria and thousands of others would love to feel like themselves all the time; to feel like they can shop or travel or even work without worrying if they will feel or say something dreadfully wrong. Until then, they continue to brave the world with medications and therapy and hope to find success the way others have. Because the courageous people living with bipolar disorder are not “crazy.” They have an illness, but they are smart. They are strong. And they are determined to live their lives the best way they know how. “I want people to know that it’s an illness, not a joke, and we can function if it’s controlled. This,” Maria says, “can happen to anybody.” O JANUARY 2013
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D? TIRE W e’ve all been there, maybe just last night. You snuggle into bed right at 11 p.m. and everything feels perfect—the pillows, the mattress, the quiet in your mind. And sleep—wonderful sleep—just happens. But then, there are the other nights. The ones when you stare at the ceiling, then the clock, then the back of your spouse’s head. How can they sleep through all that snoring of theirs? You think about tomorrow’s work day and the leftover couscous in the fridge and the red linoleum floor you want in the kitchen. The more you think, the more you stare, the more you toss and turn, the covers an aggravating tangle reflective of your wide-eyed anxiety. If it’s any consolation—which it likely isn’t—you’re not alone. An estimated 60 million people suffer from chronic
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insomnia, roughly 20 percent of the American population. Another 30 million report occasional sleeplessness. Americans sometimes go to work so glassy-eyed that sleep deprivation is said to have cost United States employers an estimated $18 million in lost productivity last year, according to the American Academy of Sleep. In doctors’ offices across the country, from small town to urban hub, sleeplessness is consistently the No. 1 health complaint among patients. But why can’t we sleep? When did conditions like sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome and Ambien-driven sleepwalking become everyday household conversation? And are we so addicted to going, going, going—electronic devices always in hand—that we’re too wired to be tired? That is, are we to blame for all this lying-awake business? If only it were that simple. 78
“INCREASED INDUSTRIALIZATION HAD AN IMPACT ON OUR SLEEP. SO DID THE INVENTION OF THE CAR, RADIO AND TELEVISION. THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ILL EFFECTS OF MODERN LIFE ON SLEEP GOING BACK 100 YEARS.” – Journalist and author Patricia Morrisroe, in her book “Wide Awake”
GOING UNDER COVERS For some people, sleeplessness is temporary—maybe a job loss or money worries or a sick child is keeping them up. Others may have begun a new regimen of medications or suffer from health problems.
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And then… “There are some people who just can’t get to sleep no matter what, and we don’t know why,” says Dr. Ralph Palumbo, a Boca Raton pulmonary doctor who is also licensed in sleep medicine. “That’s just the way they are.” And while many of us might feel we invented insomnia all by ourselves, we did not—nor did we invent the problems insomnia creates. “Sleep is important, yet it’s hard to get really good specifics about what a lack of sleep will cause or do to your body,” he says. Still, there is mounting research that a lack of sleep does far more than just irritate us. Chronic insomnia has been connected to Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, weight gain and body inflammation. Some studies link a lack of sleep to certain cancers. Being tired is not good for the blood pressure, nor is it good for concentration. And while everyone’s sleep
needs are slightly different, adults generally require about eight hours a night, give or take. “There are some people who, on four hours, can function totally normally and others who need 12 hours,” Dr. Palumbo says. “Sometimes, that’s a problem. I will have a wife come in and say, ‘My husband only needs four hours of sleep. I want to sleep like him.’” Sorry, no can do, says Dr. Palumbo, who always starts out with his patients by teaching a not-so-little something he calls “sleep hygiene.” And the good doctor swears by it. Some of his rules: Don’t use your bed for anything except sleep and sex. No TV watching. No reading. And certainly no working with the laptop. “You want to associate, in your brain, that when you’re in bed it’s time to sleep,” he says. Don’t exercise close to bedtime; it gets your metabolism all fired up and awakens your hormones. Likewise, and
MORE Zzzzzz’s PLEASE Yawning a lot? Feel tired and fatigued more often than not? The following are six signs that you need more shuteye.
➊ Too few hours of sleep can lead to a host of cognitive problems, like difficulty paying attention, more confusion, lower alertness and poor concentration. Also, it’s tough to be witty at a dinner party when you’re exhausted.
➋ Your eyes may glaze over now and then when you’re staring at the computer screen or stuck in a meeting, but if you
struggle to stay awake behind the wheel, you need more sleep.
➌ Get sick often? Your immune system repairs and strengthens while you sleep. So in addition to eating flu-fighting foods, log at least seven hours a night to stay healthy when you’re feeling under the weather.
➍ It could be a lack of sleep that’s
sending your emotions into overdrive. A recent study found that sleep-deprived brains are 60 percent more reactive to emotional images than rested ones.
➎ Things like stubbing your toe or knocking over a glass of wine can be explained away occasionally. But if it’s happening all the time, it could be a lack of sleep. The sleepier you are, the poorer your motor skills.
➏ Men and women who don’t get 40 winks experience a decreased sex drive, according to the experts.
Sources: Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior; American Academy of Sleep Medicine; American Sleep Association
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for similar reasons, don’t eat before crawling into the sack. If you go to bed but stay awake for more than a half hour or so, get up and do something, such as read a book or magazine. “Some people are tempted to lay there, but it really is better if you get up and do something else,” he says. Don’t nap during the day. If you must, make it a short 20-minute power nap. And don’t turn your back on sleeping aids. “They definitely have their purpose,” he says. “Some people are in a temporary rut and this helps them to reset their sleep cycle.”
through generations. Before electricity, people’s days revolved more around natural light and the rise and setting of the sun. “Now we work certain hours and have dinner at certain times,” he says. “People say we should go to bed at 10 and get up at 7, but there are some people who feel their best if they go to bed at 7 and get up at 4.” The problem with that? “It’s hard to have a social life if you’re going to bed at 7,” he says. In her book “Wide Awake,” jour-
RUDE AWAKENINGS You’ve heard of insomnia, restless leg syndrome, apnea and sleepwalking. The following lesserknown sleep disorders, or parasomnias (the “abnormal things that can happen to people while they sleep,” according to the National Sleep Foundation), can be nightmares for those experiencing them. SLEEP-RELATED EATING DISORDER: These people eat while they sleep, often walking into the kitchen, preparing food and eating it— and never recall having done so. If episodes happen frequently enough, sufferers gain weight and can develop diabetes. FATAL FAMILIA INSOMNIA: An extremely rare disorder where sleeplessness leads to loss of energy, acting out in dreams and even dementia, along with fever, rapid heart rate and other symptoms. It eventually leads to death. KLEINE LEVIN SYNDROME: Also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, people with this disorder experience recurring but reversible periods of excessive sleep (up to 20 hours per day), with episodes lasting from days to weeks. REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER: Sufferers tend to act out vivid, intense and violent dreams by yelling, kicking, punching, cursing and other often-embarrassing and sometimes-dangerous behavior. SLEEP PARALYSIS: Just as it sounds, a person when either just waking up or falling asleep becomes frozen and unable to move. Episodes typically last for a few minutes and are not indicative of more serious health problems. EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME: People with this disorder just prior to falling asleep imagine hearing a really loud sound, as though an explosion has taken place inside their heads. Talk about your unwelcome wake-up call.
“I’D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SLEEP LIKE MY HUSBAND. HE HAS RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME, BUT HE COULD SLEEP THROUGH A HURRICANE. I LAY THERE AND START REALIZING I DIDN’T PUT THE DISHES AWAY OR I’LL START DREAMING SO MUCH THAT I KEEP WAKING UP. STUPID STUFF.” – Linda Saenz of West Palm Beach, who suffers with insomnia
What about bedtime—what’s the perfect time to crawl under the covers? Should we sleep from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.? Midnight to 8 a.m.? And what about those poor guys on the graveyard shift who get home from work at 7 a.m.? This timing issue, says Dr. Palumbo, is a little more complicated, although there’s one thing you must do: Listen to your body. Experts like Dr. Palumbo love to read about clinical sleep trials, sleep research and sleep history, and he says he just read a fascinating piece on how sleep patterns have changed 80
nalist and author Patricia Morrisroe, herself an insomniac, set out to research sleep—what it is, its history, why we need it, and what happens when we don’t get the sleep we need. On her 2010 book tour, she said her sleep hadn’t improved much, but she understands herself better. In other words, Morrisroe had improved her sleep hygiene. Her habits. In her research, Morrisroe examined how we used to sleep—experts believe early humans slept in trees— and how long a person can be deprived of sleep. (This is something researchers love to do, deprive people
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SLEEP TERRORS: Also called Night Terrors, sufferers have experiences of fear, screaming and flailing, all while asleep. Episodes typically last from seconds to a few minutes, and tend to be paired with sleepwalking. NOCTURNAL LAGOPHTHALMOS: This is sleeping with your eyes open. People with this disorder tend to suffer from painful dry eyes, and must use special moisturizing drops. If not treated properly, it can lead to recurrent erosions, ulceration and even blindness. SEXOMNIA: Also called Sleep Sex, this parasomnia causes a person to engage in sexual behavior while sleeping, often not recalling the experience upon awaking. It can be triggered by stress, sleep deprivation and excessive drug or alcohol use. HYPERSOMNIA: This is excessive sleepiness. Sufferers are compelled to nap repeatedly during the day, often at inappropriate times such as at work or during a conversation. And these naps often provide little relief. NARCOLEPSY: People with narcolepsy can fall asleep anywhere, at any time without warning. Episodes can last from a few minutes to hours, and are dangerous if operating a vehicle or engaging in other activities that require focus. It often includes cataplexy, the temporary sudden loss of muscle tone. NON-24-HOUR SLEEP WAKE SYNDROME: While most people’s internal biological clocks run on 24-hour cycles, sufferers of this parasomnia do not. Rather, their cycles might have them awake for 48 hours and then asleep for 24 hours. It’s one of the rarest of all sleep disorders. Sources: American Academy of Sleep Medicine; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Sleep Foundation; rightdiagnosis.com; Mayo Clinic; sleep.com; Cleveland Clinic
of sleep. The 1965 Guinness World Record for sleep deprivation stands at 264 hours, or more than 11 days awake, with no serious consequences.) Morrisroe also explored our use of technology, the so-called too wired to be tired theory that seems to plague us in 2013. Is there any truth to it? Indeed, she says. “I went back and took a look at the newspaper accounts over the years of how people treated sleep,” she said at the time. “Increased industrialization had an impact on our sleep. So did the invention of the car, radio and television. There is no question that people were talking about the ill effects of modern life on sleep going back 100 years.” So the BlackBerry and the iPad? The constant texting? The smartphone that you sleep with so you can take cute Instagrams of your cat, who, by the way, is always sleeping? Stop it—at least in bed. And Dr. Palumbo says it’s a good idea to disconnect several hours before trying to sleep. Of course, in the ultimate Catch 22, it’s hard to get to sleep when you’re worrying about getting to sleep. “Depression and anxiety definitely have a lot to do with sleep disorders,” he says. “Sometimes (people) can’t sleep because they’re anxious about sleep and they become so focused, it makes it impossible for them to fall asleep.”
THE INSOMNIA TRIFECTA When tired patients seek out Dr. Palumbo, he explains the basics of insomnia. There are pretty much three kinds, he says, and some poor folks have all three. “Some people have difficulty initiating sleep,” he says. “Some people have trouble maintaining sleep. And some people suffer with something called sleep state misperception. That is, they sleep—honest they do—but when they wake up, they swear they ‘didn’t sleep a wink.’ “It’s better to keep a schedule,” he adds. “The more regimented you are, the better it is for your sleep. But you don’t want to become ob-
sessed with this.” According to Morrisroe’s research, man has always suffered from insomnia. But when did sleep problems become dinner party conversation? Well, it kind of started in the 1950s. It was in those post-war days, she writes, that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep dominated sleep psychiatry, which back then basically consisted of “dream labs.” Researchers inched toward insomnia studies in the 1960s. But the real modernday breakthrough was in 1981 when scientists unraveled the causes of sleep apnea—the sleep disorder that occurs when the oxygen level slows and breathing stops. Sleep apnea is insidious, linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, even death. The subsequent invention of a contraption called the CPAP machine (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) pretty much put sleep medicine on the map. Today, it’s estimated we spend
WAKE-UP CALLS Tired of being tired? The following organizations provide valuable information, resources and support. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SLEEP MEDICINE:
630-737-9700 aasmnet.org NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION:
703-243-1697 sleepfoundation.org AMERICAN SLEEP ASSOCIATION:
sleepassociation.org AMERICAN SLEEP APNEA ASSOCIATION:
888-293-3650 sleepapnea.org SLEEPING RESOURCES:
sleepingresources.com
$18 billion on contraptions and aids and doctors’ visits in an effort to get a some decent shuteye. For Linda Saenz of West Palm Beach, the insomnia usually happens around 3 a.m. or so, and it happens with irritating regularity. Sometimes it’s because she’s in pain. Saenz is 43 now, but had a stroke when she was 29 and struggles with myriad health issues, including chronic hip pain and occasional headaches. But even on her good days—that is, the times when she’s feeling her best and is relatively pain-free—Saenz battles middle-of-the-night insomnia. “I’d love to be able to sleep like my husband,” she says, sighing. “He has restless leg syndrome, but he could sleep through a hurricane. I lay there and start realizing I didn’t put the dishes away or I’ll start dreaming so much that I keep waking up. Stupid stuff. “And I’m always tired during the day,” she adds. “In fact, I just woke up from a nap.” O JANUARY 2013
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IN MEDICAL CARE CHANGES FASTER THAN YOU CAN SAY GESUNDHEIT. HERE’S THE LATEST ON LOOKING YOUNG AND STAYING HEALTHY. BY ANDREA G. ROLLIN
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AVE IMPORTANT HEALTH QUESTIONS? WE’VE GOT ANSWERS. IN THE SPIRIT OF SHARING, WE APPROACHED SOME OF THIS AREA’S LEADING MEDICAL AND DENTAL PROFESSIONALS AND POSED QUERIES ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM HEART HEALTH AND FLU PREVENTION TO PLASTIC SURGERY AND GUM DISEASE. FOLLOWING ARE THEIR PRESCRIPTIONS FOR FEELING—AND LOOKING—GREAT.
GIOVANA RENECROOKS, D.O., BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL, BOCA RATON, ON HEART DISEASE AND CHOLESTEROL:
“The best ways to prevent heart disease—the number one cause of death in the U.S. for both men and women—is to maintain optimal numbers for blood pressure (120/80) and cholesterol (total cholesterol below 200; triglycerides below 150; LDL below 130 [below 100 for diabetics] and HDL above 40) and to quit smoking.” CARLOS BALLESTAS, M.D., BOCACARE, BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL, BOCA RATON, ON PREVENTING HEART DISEASE:
“Exercise four to five days a week for at least 30 minutes (get your heart rate up for at least 20 minutes). Eat the right foods in the right amount, decrease red meat (eat more lean meats like fish or chicken), and eat more green leafy vegetables. Also, decrease the amount of processed sugar you ingest on a regular basis and take a baby aspirin (81 mg.) daily to help decrease heart disease, stroke risk and colon cancer.” SARA LEVINE, M.D., INTERNIST, WEST BOCA MEDICAL CENTER, BOCA RATON, ON QUITTING SMOKING:
“Combine techniques— counseling, nicotine replacement therapy and
medications like bupropion, which doubles smoking cessation rates, and varenicline, which triples the cessation rate—to increase your chance of success. Quitting smoking slows the decline in lung impairment, but full lung recovery after quitting is not possible. There will, though, be a reduction in cough, phlegm and wheezing within a year.” YALE POLLAK, M.D., RADIOLOGIST, DIAGNOSTIC CENTERS OF AMERICA, DELRAY BEACH, ON MRI SAFETY AND INNOVATION:
your running shoes on a regular basis (every 350 to 550 miles is recommended) based on your distance and how frequently you run. Another important thing is where you run as you get older—your knees tend to not absorb the shock that they would when you were younger; cartilage wears down so you may want to consider using a treadmill (with built-in shock absorbers)—or running on softer surfaces.” PATRICIA KLEM, D.O., ADVANCED DERMATOLOGY & COSMETIC SURGERY, BOCA RATON, ON TREATING SPIDER VEINS:
vein, which causes it to swell and seal shut. The flow of blood then stops and the veins turn to scar tissue and eventually fade. You can return to normal activity right after both sclerotherapy and laser surgery.” MARTIN SCHIFF, M.D., ADVANCED DERMATOLOGY & COSMETIC SURGERY, BOCA RATON, ON SKIN CANCER DETECTION:
“Get your skin checked by a dermatologist once a year to detect melanoma. Successful treatment depends on early detection and risk factors like personal history of other skin cancer, family history of melanoma, very fair skin, presence of abnormal or numerous moles, history of an outdoor occupation or severe childhood sunburns, and medical conditions that weaken the immune system.”
“MRI uses magnetic resonance imaging to visualize any body part. It doesn’t use “Laser surgery to get rid of radiation to obtain images spider veins takes two to five and can be performed withtreatments of 15 to 20 minout any harm to the patient. utes each; in sclerotherapy, The newest, most powerful the doctor injects a solution MRI is the Siemens Magneinto the sp spider ns tom Verio 3T ma-chine—(it’s) 1.5 JJONATHAN LEVY, M.D., times more power-O ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, ful than a stanH HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL, FORT dard MRI magLAUDERDALE, ON SHOULDER Jonathan net and has a IINJURY AND REPLACEMENT: Levy, M.D. wider bore magnet, which helps ““For those having shoulder pain, claustrophobic paasstretching and rotator cuff strengthening tients tolerate MRI exams. RI aare crucial… A simple maintenance The increased strength proprogram that takes 5-10 minutes a vides better quality imday can maintain the health of your ages—faster with shorter shoulder and help to avoid injuries. exams.” When nonsurgical measures like CARLOS BALLESTAS, M.D., BOCACARE, BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL, BOCA RATON, ON RUNNING AND KNEE PROTECTION:
medication and cortisone injections are no longer effective to treat arthritic shoulders, a shoulder replacement is the most effective treatment. (It’s) the most reliable and successful procedure I perform—long-term relief of pain and restoration of function.”
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GLENN M. CHARLES, D.O., CHARLES MEDICAL GROUP, BOCA RATON, ON NON-SURGICAL HAIRLOSS TREATMENTS
“The three main non-surgical treatments for hair loss are prescription Propecia (Finesteride), which blocks the conversion of testosterone to DHT (responsible for hair loss in patients with male-pattern balding), low-level laser therapy, which increases scalp blood circulation, and topical Rogaine (Minoxidil), which also increases blood flow in the scalp, but can cause some local redness, irritation and itching.”
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ALAN J. BAUMAN, M.D., BAUMAN MEDICAL GROUP, BOCA RATON, ON TREATING DANDRUFF AND HAIR RESTORATION:
“Irritation of the scalp (dandruff) is caused by the use of harsh and very drying hair products; seborrheic dermatitis is due to an overproduction of sebum (scalp oils). Sometimes, removing or replacing the offending product does the job. For those experiencing irritation from Rogaine, we prescribe Formula 82M, which contains Minoxidil, but without the propylene glycol (the irritant found in the overthe-counter Rogaine or generic). For severe irritation, medicated shampoos can be used to cool down inflammation… For patients who don’t want or need hair transplantation, non-drug, non-chemical low-level laser therapy with the portable LaserCap is an excellent option. The 30 minutes every other day treatment can be done anywhere, anytime.” RAFAEL C. CABRERA, M.D., FACS, PLASTIC SURGERY SPECIALISTS OF BOCA RATON, BOCA RATON, ON BREAST ENHANCEMENT AND FACELIFT INNOVATIONS:
“The use of fat grafting to shape and contour the breast without the use of implants is the most innovative new
Alan J. Bauman, M.D.
– Gregory Albert, M.D.
Gregory Albert, M.D.
treatment for augmentation. The benefits include a quick recovery, no incisions or foreign objects in your body, and it can be performed under oral sedation, for beautiful, natural results… The most innovative new treatment for facelifts is using simple pill sedation, local anesthesia and no overnight stay. More than seven years ago, I switched from general anesthesia to oral sedation (with local anesthetic) for my faces, necks and eyes. Patients appreciate this lowanxiety sedation approach.” GREGORY ALBERT, M.D., DELRAY BEACH, ON BREAST IMPLANTS AND FACELIFT TECHNIQUES:
Rafael C. Cabrera, M.D.
“The most innovative new treatment for breast implants is the newer generation implants, which offer a more natural look and feel. Patients often call them “gummy bear implants” because of their consistency.
“The most innovative new treatment for breast implants is the newer generation implants, which offer a more natural look and feel.
(They’re) composed of more of a solid cohesive silicone than a liquid or oily silicone. Patients often call them “gummy bear implants” because of their consistency. There are now more sizes and shapes available, which allows for better matching of the right implant with the right patient… The most innovative new treatment for facelifts is a combination of laser treatment with a facelift, and possible face implants. Face implants are placed underneath the facial muscles, and give a more youthful appearance and more natural and long-lasting results than filler or fat injections.” ANDREW M. RESS, M.D., RESS PLASTIC SURGERY, BOCA RATON, ON TREATING FACIAL WRINKLES AND FINE LINES:
“Over-the-counter (wrinkle cream) products (like
Retinol and ReJuveness) are excellent at moisturizing and helping fine lines, especially for younger persons. More prominent lines
are best treated with medical-grade products like Botox and Dysport, and fillers such as Restylane.” DAVID HERSCHTHAL, M.D., BOCA RATON, ON WRINKLE CREAMS:
“The only FDA-approved prescription topical cream for wrinkles is Tretinoin (Retin-A). The only FDA-
approved nonprescription cream for wrinkles is an SPF 30+ UVA and UVB sunblock. One cannot rely on Tretinoin alone to solve any wrinkle issue. It only works well in combination with other simple procedures, such as prescription peels, laser skin tightening, replacing lost volume with fillers and relaxing chronically contracted facial muscles with Botox.” JACOB D. STEIGER, M.D., STEIGER PLASTIC SURGERY, BOCA RATON, ON SKIN LASER TREATMENT:
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cially well for the fine lines around the eyes and wrinkles around the mouth.” NAVED FATMI, D.M.D., REGENCY
“Treatment to restore or replace teeth depends on the age of the patient and the severity of the problem. Newer procedures involve less preparation and are more conservative in nature to preserve existing tooth structure." – William Kay, D.M.D.
COURT DENTISTRY, BOCA RATON, ON DIET AND GUM DISEASE:
“Diet plays a huge factor in preventing gum disease, even with routine dental checkups. Food with heavy carbohydrates tends to cause tooth staining and, if not flossed and brushed properly, tartar and calculus (a hard plaque). Brush two times a day and floss once a day. After eating/ drinking anything that may cause staining (red wine, coffee, berries, chocolate), try to brush immediately. Typically, in an ideal situation without gum disease, you
William Kay, D.M.D.
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should see a dentist/hygienist 2-4 times a year.” WILLIAM KAY, D.M.D, P.A., BOCA RATON, ON DENTAL INNOVATIONS:
“Treatment to restore or replace teeth depends on the age of the patient and the severity of the problem. Today, digital technology allows for computer-generated ceramic fillings that are extremely accurate and do away with the dreaded ‘silver
metal’ filling. Newer procedures involve less preparation and are more conservative in nature to preserve existing tooth structure.”
Valerie Rossetti, Au.D.
"The most common warning signs that your hearing is deteriorating are straining to hear words instead of processing them, feeling that people are mumbling when they talk and difficulty hearing clearly in background noise."
VALERIE ROSSETTI, AU.D., HEARING PARTNERS OF SOUTH FLORIDA, DELRAY BEACH, ON HEARING LOSS AND DETECTION:
“One out of five individuals over 65 has some degree of hearing loss. Every individual should have a baseline test, even if they are not presenting (with) warning signs of hearing loss, so if something does happen down the line, we have a test to compare with. If everything is with-
– Valerie Rossetti, Au.D.
in normal limits, every few years should be adequate (for check-ups); for someone with a degree of hearing loss, I recommend annually checking. The most common warning signs that your hearing is deteriorating are straining to hear words instead of processing them, feeling that people are mumbling when they talk and difficulty hearing clearly in background noise. Also, sudden symptoms of unsteadiness or imbalance may be an
indication; our balance organ is located in our ear and, in some cases, affected by our hearing abilities.” GIOVANA RENECROOKS, D.O., BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL, BOCA RATON, ON FLU VACCINES AND TREATING THE COMMON COLD:
“The best prevention for the flu is to get the influenza vaccine every year and as early as possible. Even if it does not completely prevent the illness, it can reduce the severity of the flu and decrease the risk of complications, such as pneumonia… The best (quickest) way to treat a cold virus is to stay rested and drink lots of fluids, particularly hot liquids. One should also blow their nose often to clear mucous and relieve congestion—and gargle frequently to relieve throat discomfort.”
“The best prevention for the flu is to get the influenza vaccine every year and as early as possible. Even if it does not completely prevent the illness, it can reduce the severity of the – Giovana Rene-Crooks, D.O. flu and decrease the risk of complications."
SARA LEVINE, M.D., INTERNIST, WEST
medication into your back or other joints.”
BOCA MEDICAL CENTER, BOCA RATON, ON THE RECENT MENINGITIS OUTBREAK:
JOHN E. CHRISTAKIS, M.D., CHRISTA-
“Methylprednisolone acetate, used in back injections, caused a fungal meningitis in 510 people with 36 deaths in 19 states due to contamination of the medication when it was produced in compounding pharmacies. To avoid getting this type of meningitis, discuss your concerns with your doctor prior to having injections of any steroid
KIS MEDICINE, BOCA RATON, ON ADDICTION TO PAIN PILLS:
“Although using narcotics for pain is a real problem for those who might have addictive personalities— smokers, drinkers, substance abusers and compulsive overeaters—it’s usually not an issue if used short term. Try alternating controlled substances with anti-inflammatories, acetaminophen
and ice packs. Of course, a thorough medical evaluation is recommended to correctly diagnose a potentially serious injury causing the pain.”
“stimulant” drinks, and are marketed to improve fatigue and increase concentration and energy, which they can do but with the risk of rapid heart arrhythmias. They have no place in the diet of children or adolescents.” CARLOS BALLESTAS, M.D., BOCACARE, BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL, BOCA RATON,
ON THE SIDE EFFECTS OF ENERGY DRINKS:
“Energy drinks can cause caffeine toxicity because they contain a substantial amount of caffeine, sugar, and other ingredients that can lead to serious side effects—including insomnia, increased or irregular heart rate, agitation, irritability, seizures and possibly even death.” O
PAUL CHRISTAKIS, M.D., CHRISTAKIS PEDIATRICS, BOCA RATON, ON THE DANGERS OF ENERGY DRINKS:
“Energy drinks typically contain caffeine, and/or guarana, among other things, and are often low in calories. So, the term “energy” drink, which implies calories, is misleading. They are, in truth, JANUARY 2013
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MEDICAL PR FILES IN THIS EVER-CHANGING HEALTHCARE landscape, it’s not always easy to choose the provider that best fits your needs. When making such an important decision, it’s crucial to do your research and ask for references. Looking for quality healthcare? The following is a compendium of our community’s leading healthcare facilities and practitioners. From vascular care, podiatry, hearing and dentistry to orthopedics, eye care, dermatology and plastic surgery services (and more), you’ll find an expert in every specialty.
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REJUVENATE YOUR HAIR Bauman Medical Group Specializes In Reversing The Signs Of Aging Hair technology to restore any hair loss that may have occurred,” says Dr. Bauman. “Hair loss doesn’t have to happen, there are so many options and we offer all of them at Bauman Medical Group.”
BAUMAN MEDICAL GROUP ALAN J. BAUMAN, M.D. SPECIALTIES FUE NeoGraft Hair Transplantation Male and Female Hair Loss HairCheckTM Measurements
Dr. Bauman starts with a custom diagnosis of each patient’s hair. For those hoping to prevent hair loss and stimulate growth, he recommends a program using a results-oriented, multi-therapy
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS M.D. with ‘Cor et Manus’ Award, New York Medical College
approach: Nutrition and lowlevel laser therapy, plus the most current, FDA-approved
Surgically Trained: Beth Israel Medical Center; Mount Sinai Medical Center
topical and oral medications. If it comes to transplantation, Dr. Bauman uses NeoGraft, the latest, minimally invasive Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) Alan J. Bauman, M.D.
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ew aspects of appearance show the world how young
and vibrant we are like a full head of healthy, shiny hair. This
tool to meticulously harvest individual hair follicles from the
“
We offer a patient-centered experience, so that the magic of hair restoration can be appreciated to its fullest.
is very possible to achieve in
”
many ways, according to Alan
is Board-certified by the
back of the scalp, and then
J. Bauman, M.D., founder and
American and International
transplant them artistically to
medical director of Bauman
Board of Hair Restoration Surgery.
recreate natural hair and
Medical Group, a national
hairlines. During the process,
leader and innovator in treating
He notes that hair loss is prevent-
patients are relaxing, listening
hair loss in men and women.
able, and works with patients
to music, watching a movie,
from diagnosis to treatment,
using their iPads or napping.
“My patients tell me that when
using all of the most state-of-the-
they look in the mirror and see
art techniques to protect and
“We offer a comfortable,
themselves after hair restoration,
restore natural, healthy hair.
patient-centered experience,”
it reminds them of how they
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LOCATION Wharfside at Boca Pointe 6861 S.W. 18th Street Suite 102 Boca Raton, FL 33433 561-394-0024 baumanmedical.com
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Dr. Bauman emphasizes. “So
looked and felt 10 years earlier,”
“We are very proactive in the
that the magic of hair restora-
says Dr. Bauman, one of just a
prevention of hair loss and in
tion can be appreciated to its
few physicians in the world who
using the most advanced
fullest.”
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CHANGE THE AGING PROCESS
BOCA RATON WEIGHT & WELLNESS INSTITUTE
M. Cecilia Lacayo, M.D. Of Boca Raton Weight & Wellness Institute Provides An Anti-Aging Model Of Health Care
M. CECILIA LACAYO, M.D.
high blood pressure and feels
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sexual function (and has 40
fatigued with brain fog and low more years to go!) Dr. Lacayo
Weight Loss Programs; Functional; Evaluation-A therapeutic plan to attack the root cause of difficult to treat illness and disease including obesity, memory decline and stress; Individualized Hormone Replacement (Thyroid, DHEA, Pregnenolone Testosterone, Estradiol, and Progesterone); Comprehensive Nutritional Analysis; Treatment of Fatigue, Fibromyalgia; Migraine Therapy; Neurotransmitter Evaluation; Intravenous Immune Boost of Vitamins; Food Sensitivity; Testing and Therapy
discovered this patient had a
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foods were removed from the
significant glutathione deficiency, suboptimal levels of magnesium, impaired methylation of folate, high levels of estrone (the bad estrogen), abnormal conversion to dehydrotestosterone, and the list goes on. These imbalances were restored to the proper ratios for optimal heath. Individual nutrient and antioxidant levels were increased immediately by an IV regimen. Inflammatory diet. This patient’s blood pressure came down, libido went
Advanced Fellow of the American Board of Anti-Aging, Functional and Regenerative Medicine
up and the extra abdominal fat disappeared. “My patient M. Cecilia Lacayo, M.D.
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now feels on top of the world and has truly de-aged with renewed energy, focus and a
2300 Glades Road Suite 260W Boca Raton, FL 33431 561-955-1633 bocaweightandwellness.com
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. Cecilia Lacayo, M.D.,
M
reveal specific deficiencies or
strong ability to compete,”
believes in the body’s
imbalances that can affect key
states Dr. Lacayo.
ability to heal given the right
functions of the body. Utilizing
environment. “We must attack
advanced technologies, she
the root cause of health problems,” says Dr. Lacayo, an advanced fellow of the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine
As Dr. Lacayo says, “Many people recognize that some-
“
We must attack the root cause of health problems.
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(A4M), founder and medical
thing is wrong. But all too often they turn to home remedies based on information from TV ads, online sites and retail clerks. I advise that you go to a
director of the Boca Raton
addresses these individualized
doctor who can diagnose the
Weight & Wellness Institute in
findings to repair, replenish,
underlying cause of a problem
Boca Raton.
restore and regenerate the
and prescribe the right treat-
body.
ment. That’s how we help our
Dr. Lacayo does an extensive
patients maintain optimal
review of patient complaints
Take a 55-year-old executive
health, vitality and memory at
and current biochemistry to
who has gained weight, has
any age.”
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CARE IN HIS VEINS The Boca Vein Center’s Robert Topper, MD Offers Exclusive New Treatment Of Facial Veins for my patients to know that I’m completely hands on.” Dr. Topper is a Board-certified general surgeon who specializes
THE BOCA VEIN CENTER ROBERT TOPPER, MD SPECIALTIES Treatment of Varicose, Spider and Facial Veins
in vascular conditions. He graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine, and has been living and practicing in Boca Raton for 20 years. He uses state-of-the-art equipment to provide full outpatient care from diagnostic testing to treatment of veins of all sizes.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS Undergraduate: Brandeis University Medical School: University of Miami School of Medicine Diplomate American Board of Surgery
Dr. Topper says people don’t always know when going to
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see a vein doctor if their condition is medical or cosmetic. “If it’s cosmetic, we offer that consultation free of charge,” Robert Topper, MD
H
ave unsightly bluish-red veins on your face and legs
kept you from enjoying an afternoon in the South Florida sun?
9970 Central Park Blvd. North Suite 102 Boca Raton, FL 33428 561-483-4800 drtopper.com
Dr. Topper says. “If further evaluation shows it’s medical, it
“
I personally do every patient evaluation, all the treatments, injections and follow-ups. It’s very important for my patients to know that I’m completely hands-on.
Well, stay indoors no more. Thermolysis System. “There is There’s a new cutting-edge
minimal discomfort and
treatment that will instantly
maximum results.”
eliminate those veins and give
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can be covered by insurance.” Dr. Topper says he uses sclerotherapy to treat spider
you the confidence to let the
Helping you look and feel your
veins, the VeinGogh® system
light shine in.
best is Dr. Topper’s priority at The
to eliminate facial veins and
Boca Vein Center, where from
the VenaCure EVLT® laser to
And there’s only one doctor in
the start to finish, he is involved in
remove larger varicose veins.
Boca Raton who offers it.
every aspect of a patient’s care.
“It’s a heat treatment applied
“I personally do every patient
debilitating, and people don’t
with very small probes,” Robert
evaluation, all the treatments,
like how it looks,” Dr. Topper says.
Topper, MD, FACS says
injections and follow-ups,” Dr.
“I enjoy treating patients and
of the VeinGogh® Ohmic
Topper says. “It’s very important
making them feel good again.”
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HIGH-TECH HAIR SURGERY Charles Medical Group Offers Leading-Edge Computer-Assisted Hair Restoration “Today, Alex’s hair is growing Dr. Glenn M. Charles
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again,” says Dr. Charles. “It’s a tremendous boost for his selfesteem.”
Hair Restoration Surgery Robotic Hair Restoration Cosmetic Surgery
With his extensive experience in all aspects of hair restoration—
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for both men and women—Dr. Charles attracts patients from all over the country. He carefully
Undergraduate Degree: Michigan State University
assesses a patient’s overall health, since medical conditions, prescription drugs, nutrition and
Medical Degree: Nova Southeastern University School of Medicine
diet can affect hair loss. “We take a holistic approach to achieve the best results,” he
Internship And Residency: Diagnostic Radiology at Michigan State University affiliated hospitals
adds. Dr. Charles, the immediate past President of the American Board
Cosmetic Surgeon/Diplomat of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery
of Hair Restoration Surgery, is a frequent lecturer at international conferences on hair restoration
LOCATIONS 200 Glades Road, Suite 2 Boca Raton, FL 33432 561-395-5544 charleshair.com
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hen it comes to state-ofthe-art hair restoration
procedures, Charles Medical Group offers the perfect blend
“
This computer-assisted and doctorcontrolled robot is the latest technology in hair transplant surgery.
of man and machine. Recog-
5520 South Lewis Ave. Tulsa, OK 74105 866-395-5544
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”
nized as a national leader in his
follicle extractions before they
techniques and also a member
field, Dr. Glenn M. Charles is the
are placed at the exact angle
of both the International Society
first surgeon to bring the
and pattern of your natural hair
of Hair Restoration Surgeons and
ARTAS™ Robotic Assisted FUE
growth. “It’s an extremely pre-
the Coalition of Independent
(Follicular Unit Extraction)
cise technique with excellent
Hair Restoration Physicians.
procedure to Florida.
results and minimal downtime
“This computer-assisted and
and no linear scar on the back
Now, Dr. Charles’ Boca Raton
of the head,” he adds.
office will be an official training
doctor-controlled robot is the
center for the ARTAS™ technol-
latest technology in hair trans-
In one remarkable case, Dr.
ogy, bringing in doctors from
plant surgery,” says Dr. Charles.
Charles used the ARTAS™ tech-
around the world. He says, “We
Using sophisticated imaging
nology to transplant hair follicles
look forward to training the
technology, Dr. Charles guides
from one identical twin to
medical community on this
the ARTAS™ through the entire
another. His patient, Alex Ford,
leading-edge technology, while
procedure, carefully controlling
lost his hair at age 12 following
helping our patients achieve the
the angle and depth of the
treatment for brain cancer.
best possible results.”
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STATE-OF-THE-ART IMAGING Diagnostic Centers Of America Opens New Boca Raton Facility
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we want our patients to receive the best possible care.” DCA is also a technology leader in offering patients the benefits of 3D mammograms, a test that is revolutionizing how breast cancer is detected. “Our women’s imaging centers are the most advanced that you will find anywhere in the
MRI/MRA 3T & 1.5T CT/CTA Dual Energy 64 & 128 slice Digital Mammography Breast Tomosynthesis (3D mammogram) HD PET/CT Ultrasound Bone Density Nuclear Medicine EKG Xray
country,” Shullman says. “We were one of the first outpatient
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centers to bring digital mammography to Palm Beach County, and we continue to From Left: Dr. Craig Silverrman, Dr. Daniel Rudensky, Alan Shullman, COO, Steven Shullman, CEO/President, Dr. Joseph Kleinman, Dr. Carlos Jimenez and Dr. George Khoriaty
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ith its spacious new Boca Raton imaging center
filled with state-of-the-art technology, Diagnostic Centers of
stay in the forefront with our 3D imaging.”
“
Our vision is to invest in the best possible technology for our patients. We will never compromise with quality.
America (DCA) continues to set
”
new standards for patient care,
Shullman says. “It also uses the
Serving the Palm Beach County
comfort and convenience.
lowest levels of radiation—a
community since 1992, DCA
“We offer a full range of imag-
particularly important consider-
is the largest non-hospital
ing services using advanced
ation for children, and for adults
owned imaging center in
equipment to produce the
who need multiple exams.”
Palm Beach County. Its centers
highest-quality diagnostic
provide a full range of tests,
images,” says Steve Shullman,
DCA’s new Boca facility
including MRI, CT, nuclear
president and CEO of DCA,
also has the latest magnetic
medicine, Pet/ CT, ultrasound,
which has four centers serving
resonance imaging (MRI)
bone density, X-ray and
patients in Palm Beach County.
technology, using a super-
women’s services. The four
powerful 3T magnet that
DCA centers are staffed by an
The new 11,000-square-foot
dramatically reduces the time
experienced radiology group
Boca center, conveniently
patients spend in the MRI. With
that includes more than 25
located at 8142 Glades Road,
a large opening, patients feel
sub-specialized and board-
includes the world’s fastest CT
less claustrophobic and more
certified physicians. All are
scanner—a Siemens Flash. “Our
relaxed. “Many people believe
experts in their field. “Our vision
new scanner takes crystal-clear
that it doesn’t matter where
is to invest in the best possible
images so quickly you don’t
you have a test performed,”
technology for our patients,”
have to hold your breath or
Shullman says. “But there is a
Shullman says. “We will never
worry about a child fidgeting,”
huge difference in quality, and
compromise with quality.”
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LOOKING OUT FOR YOU Dr. G. Richard Cohen Of The Dry Eye Center Of Florida At The Cohen Laser And Vision Center Introduces Breakthrough Treatment patients have when visiting eye
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care professionals,” says G. Richard Cohen, M.D., at the
Treatment of dry eyes including Lipiflow; laser vision correction, LASIK, cornea transplants
Dry Eye Center of Florida at the Cohen Laser and Vision Center. “We are thrilled to introduce
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the new LipiFlow® treatment to help those patients who are frustrated with this chronic
University of Virginia
disease. The LipiFlow® treatment helps the meibomian
University of Virginia School of Medicine
glands resume their normal function and patients com-
Internship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Internship Internal Medicine
ment on the benefit this treatment has made in their life. Until now the only treatment for
Residency: Virginia Commonwealth University-Medical College of Virginia, Residency, Ophthalmology Fellowship: Tufts-New England Medical Center, Fellowship, Cornea and External Disease
G. Richard Cohen, M.D.
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Center, a full-service eye
care center, is pleased to announce to the residents of Dade County a new treatment
3020 North Military Trail Suite 150 Boca Raton, FL 33431 561-981-8400 dryeyecenterof florida.com cohenlaser.com
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es, over-the-counter wetting drops, daily ointments, and
ohen Laser and Vision
“
Dry eye disease is one of the most common complaints patients have when visiting eye care professionals.
Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-
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dry eyes was warm compress-
Hopkins and Duke Eye Center.
for patients who suffer from
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prescription drugs, which only treated the symptoms of dry
Evaporative Dry Eye disease.
Dry eye disease affects more
eye. The new LipiFlow® treat-
This disease stems from a
than 100 million people world-
ment, however, addresses the
deficiency in the oily lipid layer
wide. Of those, 85 percent
cause of evaporative dry eye
of the eye’s natural tear film
suffer from Evaporative Dry Eye.
by unblocking the meibomian
causing the tears to evaporate
Common symptoms of dry
glands that secrete oily lipids.
sooner. The Dry Eye Center of
eye include dryness, grittiness,
In controlled clinical studies of
Florida at the Cohen Laser and
soreness, irritation, burning,
patients who received the
Vision Center has introduced a
tearing and eye fatigue. These
LipiFlow® treatment, 79 percent
new, advanced in-office treat-
symptoms can hinder daily
of patients reported improve-
ment, called LipiFlow®, which is
activities such as reading,
ment in dry eye symptoms after
intended to treat patients with
using the computer, wearing
only one treatment.
blocked meibomian glands. This
contact lenses and being out-
ground-breaking technology
doors. Many dry eye patients
“This is truly revolutionary,”
is also found at the most
complain that their symptoms
states Dr. Cohen. “As a Dry Eye
advanced eye centers in the
worsen throughout the day.
Specialist, I have been waiting
United States such as Wills Eye
30 years for this evolutionary
Hospital in Philadelphia, The
“Dry eye disease is one of the
technology. I am thrilled to
Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns
most common complaints
introduce it to my patients.”
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EYE ON PERFECTION Dr. Barry Ginsberg Delivers Top-Notch Care In A High-Tech, Boutique Setting with him for decades—has its own lab for spectacle lenses. “You can go get some lunch or a cup of coffee, then come back in less than an hour,” he says. A 3D TV system in the waiting room is fascinating, showing all the latest bells and
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whistles that he loves to use. Dr. Ginsberg offers patients a year subscription to MedFlash.com,
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a centralized computerized filing system that provides 24-7 access to medical information. His 1,000-plus designer frame
Yeshiva University Pennsylvania College of Optometry
collection is spectacular. And contact lenses? Dr. Ginsberg has been practicing in Florida for 30 years and Dr. Barry Ginsberg
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ith its impressive selecttion of designer frames,
the latest high-tech equipment and a veteran team of experi-
Florida Optometric Association
specializes in astigmatism lenses, multi-focal lenses and
“
Whatever your needs, I can find a vision solution. That’s what I love. That’s my gratification.
”
enced professionals, Eye Doc of Boca offers top-notch
eye exams everyone deserves,
lenses that change the eye
service in a boutique setting.
changing his technique right
color. He also provides
Perfection, right?
along with new technology.
consultations for Lasik Vision
Currently, Dr. Ginsberg is
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But even that’s not enough for
using high-resolution equip-
prior to cataract surgery.
Dr. Barry Ginsberg, O.D., P.A.,
ment which maps microscopic
owner and operator of one of
irregularities of the cornea that
But it’s not diplomas and
South Florida’s most prominent
compromise quality of vision,
credentials that matter most
optometry practices. “For me,
resulting in a prescription so ac-
to Dr. Ginsberg. What matters
it’s all about helping people
curate and detailed it’s “almost
most is helping patients see
see better,” says this Boca
like having custom LASIK for
better.
Raton husband and father.
your glasses,” he says.
“That’s what I love to do.”
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“Whatever your needs, I can His boutique office in Boca
find a vision solution,” he says.
For years, Dr. Ginsberg has
Raton—where the same
“That’s what I love. That’s my
been providing the kind of
experienced staff has been
gratification.”
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JOY AND HEALTH AND BEAUTY Dr. Khongruk Wongkittiroch Of Feinstein Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery Balances Patients’ Wants And Needs
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SPECIALTIES Board-Certified Dermatologist, Mohs Surgeon & Cosmetic Specialist
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS Residency: Dermatology Residency at Largo Medical Center/Nova Southeastern University Internship: Jefferson Health System Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University-College of Medicine State University of New York University of Florida
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hether it’s reducing wrinkles with a facial filler,
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remove a cancerous tumor, if what she’s done gives her patients a renewed outlook on life, then Dr. Khongruk Wongkittiroch, “Dr. Wong,” calls it a good day. It is her belief that a knowledgeable, courteous doctor and staff should be the expectation not the exception. She strives for this daily at Feinstein Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery, where she tailors treatments to each patient’s unique needs and desires. “My goal is to make you look like a younger, healthier you;
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“I had been wanting to join a practice where I could grow professionally as well as personally,” Dr. Wong says. “Feinstein Dermatology’s reputation precedes itself. It is a state-of-the-art facility with a broad range of services available from photodynamic therapy for chronically sundamaged skin to laser-based treatments for brown spots, and
My goal is to make you look like a younger, healthier you; not an artificial you. not an artificial you,” says Dr. Wong, as she’s known to patients. “I want my patients to feel comfortable talking to me, and to be confident that I can educate them and treat their skin conditions.” Born in New York and raised in South Florida, Dr. Wong is a Board-certified dermatologist who specializes in general, surgical and cosmetic dermatology with a focus on Mohs Micrographic Surgery, skin cancer detection and treatment, photodynamic therapy, laser surgery and aesthetic enhancements with Botox and dermal fillers.
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Mohs micrographic surgery for higher skin cancer cure rates on cosmetically sensitive areas.” Dr. Wong strongly recommends a patient interested in cosmetics see a Board-certified dermatologist trained in facial anatomy and the art of aesthetics before having any procedure done. “Patients come in with what they think is a cosmetic issue but they might have a real skin condition,” Dr. Wong notes. “It’s important to fulfill their needs cosmetically and medically. At the end of the day, it’s my passion to bring the joy of health and beauty into their lives.” JANUARY 2 0 1 3
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Gelb Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy Center’s Jay Itzkowitz, MSPT Delivers Expert Physical Therapy After receiving a bachelor’s degree in physical education
JAY ITZKOWITZ, MSPT
and athletic training, Itzkowitz went on to earn a master’s
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degree in exercise physiology at Adelphi University and a master’s degree in physical therapy from Mercy College. He is currently a transitional
Physical Therapy Sports Medicine Orthopaedics
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
doctor of physical therapy student at St. Augustine Univer-
Brooklyn College
sity. Along the way, he was a
Adelphi University
trainer for New York Sports Clubs, helping people with osteoporosis, arthritis and lower
Mercy College
back pain learn how to work out safely. He also assisted the head therapist of the New York
Certification: Exercise Test Technologist, American College of Sports Medline
Islanders championship hockey team, and treated high school Jay Itzkowitz, MSPT
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ay Itzkowitz, MSPT is a handson healer. The physical ther-
apist helps patients overcome sports injuries, back pain or
and college athletes. He is certi-
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We spend a lot of time with our patients, identifying the cause of a painful problem and determining the best form of therapy.
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joint problems, and recover as quickly as possible from ortho-
chanical relationships of
fied as an exercise test tech-
paedic surgery. “We spend a
different parts of the body.
nologist by the American
lot of time with our patients,
“We look at problems like pain
College of Sports Medicine
identifying the cause of a pain-
in the knee or lower back from
(ACSM) and is pursuing his
ful problem and determining
a broad perspective, taking
certification in manual therapy.
the best form of therapy,” says
related areas of the body into
Itzkowitz, who leads the
consideration,” he says.
physical therapy (PT) team
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Since 2001, Itzkowitz has worked closely with Howard
at the Gelb Sports Medicine
Itzkowitz began his career in
Gelb, M.D., founder of the
& Physical Therapy Center in
sports medicine in 1980 at
Boca Raton sports medicine
Boca Raton.
Brooklyn College. “At that time,
center. “We have an excellent
sports medicine was in its
program, led by a great ortho-
Drawing on more than 30 years
infancy and we learned about
paedic surgeon,” he says. “All
of experience in sports medi-
rehabilitation, as well as injury
of us work as a team to help
cine and physical therapy,
prevention, from the ground
you maintain your health, fit-
Itzkowitz understands the me-
up,” he says.
ness and sense of well-being.”
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Dr. Gelb also stays in close touch with patients during the recovery process, and recommends appropriate cross-training sports and fitness activities.
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“Modifying your normal workout can help keep you active and fit,” says Dr. Gelb, who
Fellowship: Sports Medicine, Arthroscopic Reconstructive Surgery, Cincinnati Sportsmedicine and Orthopaedic Center Residency/Internship: Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, M.D. College: Cornell University Certifications: Subspecialty Certified in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine; Fellow, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Diplomate American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
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enjoys running, weight training, golfing, skiing and karate. “There’s no reason an injured shoulder or knee should sideline you indefinitely. It’s better to modify your activity to fit your ability rather than do nothing.” Board-certified in sports medicine by the American Board f you suffer a sports injury, an accurate diagnosis is the first
step toward recovery. A joint,
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I get a lot of satisfaction in treating our patients and helping them continue to enjoy their favorite sports and lifestyle activities.
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be more complex than it seems
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at first glance. “It takes special-
school and college athletes,
of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Dr.
ized training and years of expe-
adult “weekend warriors” and
Gelb specializes in arthroscopic
rience, not just an MRI scan, to
seniors who understand the
surgery of the shoulder, knee
assess the injury and develop a
importance of keeping fit.
and elbow. Dr. Gelb also per-
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plan for treatment or therapy,”
forms total shoulder replace-
says Howard J. Gelb, M.D., a
“We take the patient’s age,
ments and reverse shoulder
Board-certified orthopaedic
overall health and favorite activi-
replacements, as well as partial
surgeon in Boca Raton who
ties into consideration when
and total knee replacements.
specializes in sports medicine.
determining the best treatment plan,” says Dr. Gelb. For exam-
Dr. Gelb has been treating
Dr. Gelb and his team at Sports
ple, young athletes with an ACL
South Florida patients since
Medicine & Orthopaedic
(anterior cruciate ligament)
1995 and is the team doctor for
Center see patients of all ages
injury are treated with minimally
several Palm Beach and
and backgrounds who enjoy
invasive ACL reconstruction with
Broward county high schools
an active lifestyle. He diagno-
meniscal repair as needed. Old-
and the Chris Evert Tennis
ses and treats children, high
er athletes with chronic arthritis
Academy.
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to help patients achieve their
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skin care goals, including laser
faculty at the University of Miami
A Diplomate of the American
treatments for skin tightening,
Miller School of Medicine, train-
Board of Dermatology, Dr.
resurfacing, vascular, pigment
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Jordana Herschthal earned her
and hair removal. Other
medical degree and complet-
services include Botox, fillers,
“Jordana brings new skills to
ed her residency at the Univer-
microdermabrasion, and care
our practice, including Mohs
sity of Miami, where she was
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surgery for skin cancers and
recognized for excellence in
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SHOULDER DOC Jonathan Levy, M.D. Of Holy Cross Orthopedic Institute Excels In Treating Elbow And Shoulder Injuries
HOLY CROSS ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE JONATHAN LEVY, M.D.
Jonathan Levy, M.D. Inarguably, Dr. Levy is one of the foremost experts in his subspecialty. He is the only South
SPECIALTIES Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Florida surgeon named to the prestigious American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, an invitation-only society composed of the leading national and international orthopedic surgeons. Dr. Levy, also clinical director
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS Northwestern University Northwestern University Medical School
of the Holy Cross Orthopedic Research Institute, concentrates on continuing clinical research to stay ahead of the latest advancements and has published more than 30 peer-
University of Miami Orthopedic Residency Fellowship: Shoulder & Elbow Surgery Florida Orthopedic Institute
reviewed articles.
Visiting Clinician: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
E
arly in his medical career, Jonathan Levy, M.D., devel-
oped a special interest in shoulder and elbow surgery that has made him one of the
“
Continued support of cutting-edge research and evidence-based orthopedics is what helps me consistently improve my patient outcomes.
top orthopedic surgeons in
”
South Florida. With his impressive
with a shoulder and elbow
history of academic achieve-
fellowship with Mark Frankle in
the latest technology, Dr. Levy
ment, scholarly writings and
Tampa, and was a visiting
has played a critical role in the
national and international
clinician at the prestigious
design of some of the latest
lectures, Dr. Levy provides his
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
shoulder replacements. He trav-
patients a niche expertise in
Keeping at the cutting edge of
els around the country educat-
arthroscopic and complex
As chief of orthopaedic surgery
ing surgeons on how to perform
shoulder and elbow recon-
at the Holy Cross Orthopedic
shoulder surgery and is the pro-
struction that makes him one
Institute in Fort Lauderdale, he
gram director for the Holy Cross
of the best in the field, and has
combines his steady surgical
Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship.
made Holy Cross Hospital a
skills with state-of-the-art tech-
tertiary referral center for
niques to treat the most com-
For him, the academics will
shoulder and elbow problems.
plex shoulder and elbow prob-
never stop. Dr. Levy believes
lems—from reverse shoulder
that “continued support of cut-
A graduate of Northwestern
replacement to all arthroscopic
ting-edge research and evi-
University Medical School, Dr.
rotator cuff repairs, complex
dence-based orthopedics is
Levy did his residency at
revision surgery, fractures and
what helps me consistently im-
University of Miami, followed
shoulder and elbow instability.
prove my patient outcomes.”
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SECOND TIME AROUND Dr. Rafael C. Cabrera Of Plastic Surgery Specialists Of Boca Raton Specializes In Natural-Looking Facelifts
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I
t’s no secret that we all want to look as good as we feel,
right? Nobody understands that better than well-known and
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to be in balance with their inner
of Reconstructive Plastic
He is renowned for his beautiful
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Surgery. In practice for more
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than 15 years, Dr. Cabrera has
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surgical and anesthetic
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“I’m very upfront,” says Dr.
approaches and many
to be what it once was. My
Cabrera. “People understand
procedures can be performed
patients are active, healthy
that I mean what I say; I say
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In addition, Dr. Fatmi is one of the few dentists in the region who is on call seven days a week for dental emergencies,
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brighten your smile, Dr. Naved
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As part of Dr. Fatmi’s commit-
of patients a day,” says Dr.
needs change. “Our unique
ment to quality care, his office
Fatmi, who provides personal-
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all our patients, including a
Florida dental school who
one simple premise: Provide ev-
follow-up call the day after
completed his training at
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YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD Podiatrist Dr. Glen B. Schneider Provides State-Of–The-Art Foot Care In Boca Raton
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s we start the year thinking about health and fitness,
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A common problem Dr.
are one of the most overlooked
“Consult both your primary
Schneider treats daily is fungal
body parts when it comes to
physician and podiatrist before
toenails, called onychomycosis.
exercise.
beginning any fitness program.
This affects about 20 percent of
This includes a complete
people between the ages of
physical and foot exam.”
40-60 and affects 90 percent of
“As you exercise, pay attention to what your feet are telling
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the elderly. Dr. Schneider is
you,” says Dr. Schneider, a
Improper foot care during exer-
equipped with the newest,
national expert who practiced
cise is a contributing factor to
most advanced, state-of-the-
in New York prior to moving to
many foot ailments, according
art laser that is used to kill the
South Florida 11 years ago.
to the American Podiatric
fungal spores in a fast, safe,
Pain is never normal. Dr.
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Kay, D.M.D., creates extraordi-
3D scanner to assess complex
Meanwhile, Dr. Kay continues to
nary smiles for his patients. “With
dental problems and determine
apply his creativity, skill and ex-
today’s dental technology, ev-
the right solution. For instance,
perience to the “battlefield” of
eryone can have a beautiful,
Dr. Kay recently helped a refer-
dentistry, where his solutions
natural-looking smile,” says Dr.
ral patient avoid an unneces-
can turn the ordinary into the
Kay, an experienced prosth-
sary tooth extraction and im-
extraordinary. As one of Dr.
odontist who specializes in com-
plant surgery by identifying a
Kay’s patients said recently,
plex, restorative, cosmetic and
painful abscess that was not
“My dental treatment has
implant dentistry. His full-service
visible on a routine dental X-ray,
been life-altering. Having spent
Boca Raton dental office in-
but did show on a 3D X-ray.
10 years with my hand cover-
cludes a hygienist and a laboratory with dental technicians.
ing my mouth, never smiling in To design the right dental
pictures and being ashamed
crowns, veneers, inlays and im-
of my teeth, this new look was
With his boutique practice, Dr.
plants, Dr. Kay uses high-defini-
overwhelming. When I smile
Kay spends plenty of time with
tion CAD-CAM technology to
now, it is from the depths of
each patient, using tools like a
create “blueprints” for the in-
my core.”
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PERFECTING SMILES Paul Krykhtin, D.D.S. Of Yamato Family Dental’s Gentle Approach Builds Lasting Patient Relationships patients, and a comfortable, relaxing environment. “My approach is gentle, caring and honest,” Dr. Krykhtin says. “I want to establish long-term relationships with my patients based on trust and quality.”
YAMATO FAMILY DENTAL PAUL KRYKHTIN, D.D.S. SPECIALTIES Dental Care Comprehensive Dentistry Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry Minimally Invasive Dentistry
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
The father of two says he opened his practice in Boca Raton because he wanted to serve the community he calls home. “This is where my wife and I are
Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine University of Rochester Residency: St. Peter’s Hospital
raising our family,” Dr. Krykhtin says. “I’m part of this community and I want to give back to it.” Dr. Krykhtin earned his dental degree from Stony Brook University in Long Island, N.Y.,
Fellowship: American Dental Implant Association Certification: Standard Dental Laser Proficiency, Academy of Laser Dentistry; Clear Aligner Braces
and chose an optional Dr. Paul Krykhtin
I
f you ask Paul Krykhtin, D.D.S.
residency at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, N.Y. He then got a
“
one you’ve been given.
I want to establish long-term relationships with my patients based on trust and quality.
He prefers sharing with you
don’t have to destroy tooth
fellowship with the American
minimally invasive facts and
structure for the sake of a
Dental Implant Association. He
options prior to selecting to go
beautiful smile.”
says implant dentistry is a large
perfecting a smile means
preserving and enhancing the
”
with the irreversible procedures.
part of his practice and an At Yamato Family Dental, Dr.
exciting area because it allows
Whether your needs are
Krykhtin’s minimially invasive
for the preservation of teeth.
comprehensive or cosmetic,
approach comes with state-of-
Dr. Krykhtin is skilled to deliver
the-art equipment and the
“I love this profession,” Dr.
fabulous results that will have
latest technology in dental
Krykhtin says. “Someone can
you grinning from cheek to
care. His new office in the
come to me with a chipped or
cheek.
Yamato Crossing plaza
missing tooth and leave with a
features digital X-rays, nitrous
brand-new tooth. It’s very
“I try to be as conservative as
oxide gas in every room to
rewarding being able to help
possible,” Dr. Krykhtin says. “We
provide ease for anxious
people.”
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THE DISH ON FOOD, WINE & RESTAURANTS
TRÈS BIEN: Stéphane’s famous Poulet de St. Tropez
ECLECTIC EATS Karma Sushi Steakbar Opens At Mizner Park hat could be better than a juicy steak cooked to perfection? Savoring that steak with a side of fresh sushi, of course. Award-winning Chef Chuck Gittleman is cleverly pairing the unlikely (but very tasty) duo at the new KARMA Sushi Steakbar in Mizner Park. His vast menu is equally eclectic, which is not surprising when you consider that he draws culinary inspiration from his mother’s home cooking, his father’s barbecues—and Julia Child. Dishes include “KFC” Korean-Fried Chicken Drumettes, served with Asian pear-kimchee slaw; Jumbo Lump Crab with Creole-lime butter; Wasabi-Crusted Tuna Mignon and New York Strip Steak topped with truffle butter. Desserts are equally impressive, especially the decadent Ginger-Orange Crème Brûlée and White Chocolate Bourbon Bread Pudding. The accomplished chef has an impressive resume: He won the Garlic Fest Iron Chef Competition in 2011 and 2012, and in 2007 catered a meal for Bill and Hillary Clinton. On the menu:
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Prime Center-Cut Beef Porterhouse
The sleek bar area
Salmon Roll
Wasabi-Crusted Ahi Tuna Salad
Blackened Mahi Mahi in vanilla rum butter with coconut rice and sautéed spinach, Grilled Wild Salmon with maple ginger glaze, rice pilaf and sautéed broccoli, chopped salad, apple strudel and blueberry pie. Formerly with Deck 84, Henry’s, Max’s Grille and The Addison, Chef Gittleman says he feels right at home at the new Boca Raton venue, a modern American steakhouse with indoor and outdoor seating, two indoor bars, an outdoor martini bar and a disc jockey that spins tunes late into the evening “I am so excited to spearhead the menu for KARMA Sushi Steakbar,” he says. “The originality and variety of KARMA’s menu allows me to be creative and at the same time present the staples and favorites that I have become known for.” O – Linda Haase
KARMA SUSHI STEAKBAR is located in Mizner Park, 346 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-361-3999 or visit karmasushisteakbar.com
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Raw Stir-Fry
NO OVEN, NO PROBLEM
IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE OR SIMPLY DON’T ENJOY COOKING, A RAW FOOD DIET—THAT IS, UNCOOKED FRUITS, VEGETABLES, NUTS, SEEDS, SPROUTED GRAINS AND THE LIKE—MAY BE THE WAY TO GO. AUTHOR AND LE CORDON BLEU-TRAINED CHEF ANYA LADRA’S BOOK, “RAW FOOD DETOX,” IS FILLED WITH DELICIOUS (REALLY) LOW-CALORIE RECIPES DESIGNED TO IMPROVE ENERGY AND BURN FAT. THE FOLLOWING ARE FIVE OF OUR FAVORITES.
TOMATO QUICHE WITH ALMOND PASTRY This savoury tart features fresh and sun-dried tomatoes within a crisp, nutty crust that’s wheatand dairy-free. It’s so delicious, you’ll want seconds. (Serves 8) INGREDIENTS FOR PASTRY DOUGH 2 cups blanched almonds 2 tbsp. olive oil INGREDIENTS FOR FILLING ²/³ cup sun-dried tomatoes 4 large tomatoes 1 fresh red chili 2 tbsp. balsamic vinegar 2 tbsp. pure maple syrup 1½ cups cashews
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Salt and freshly ground black pepper Arugula, to serve (optional)
Tomato Quiche with Almond Pastry
INSTRUCTIONS For the pastry dough: Soak almonds
in a bowl of cold water for 6 hours. Thoroughly drain and put in a food processor with olive oil. Blitz until almost smooth; add water a teaspoon at a time, and keep blitzing until sticky dough forms. Season to taste. Transfer pastry dough to a 10-inch loose-based tart pan. Push dough evenly over base and side of pan with your fingers to make a neat shell. Put tart on a non-stick dehydrator sheet and dehydrate at 115˚F for 4-5 hours or until pastry is dry. For the filling: Soak sun-dried to-
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matoes in bowl of cold water for 15 minutes. Thoroughly drain sun-dried tomatoes, then put in a food processor with fresh tomatoes, chili, vinegar and maple syrup. Blitz to a mousse consistency. Add cashews and blitz again until smooth. Season to taste. Spoon
filling into dehydrated tart shell and level with back of a spoon. Serve immediately with or without arugula.
VEGETABLE ‘NOODLES’ Here sweet potato and zucchini are spiralized into noodleshaped strips. The result is a unique, tasty and satisfying meal. (Serves 2) INGREDIENTS 1 red bell pepper, seeded ½ bok choy ½ zucchini 1 sweet potato, peeled Salt 3 spring scallions, sliced 1 generous handful of fresh cilantro, chopped Freshly squeezed juice of ½ lime Tahini Sauce or Thai Dressing Sesame seeds, to sprinkle INSTRUCTIONS
Very thinly slice or julienne bell pep-
per and thinly slice bok choy. Use a spiralizer to spiralize zucchini and sweet potato. (If you don’t own a spiralizer, shave zucchini into ribbons using a vegetable peeler and julienne the sweet potato.) Combine prepared vegetables in bowl, sprinkle with generous pinch of salt and gently toss together. Allow to rest at room temperature for 15-30 minutes. When ready to serve ‘noodles,’ add scallions, cilantro and lime juice. Serve with Tahini sauce or Thai Dressing and a scattering of sesame seeds.
or blender and blend until smooth. Thinly slice sweetcorn, bell pepper and cabbage; julienne carrot and zucchini. Slice sugar snap peas diagonally. Divide broccoli into small florets and Vegetable ‘Noodles’
RAW STIR-FRY This dish is a feast of textures and colors. Make sure to marinate everything for a full hour to allow flavors to develop and vegetables to soften slightly. (Serves 4) INGREDIENTS FOR VEGETABLES 6 ears of baby sweetcorn ½ red bell pepper, seeded ¼ Savoy cabbage, cored 1 small carrot, peeled ½ zucchini ²/³ cup sugar snap peas 1-2 broccoli stalks 1 cup sliced shiitake mushrooms Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 big handful of pea shoots INGREDIENTS FOR GINGER SHOYU MARINADE 1¼ cups sesame oil (cold-pressed, unrefined and untoasted) 3 tbsp. nama shoyu (unpasteurized soy sauce) 3 tbsp. agave nectar Freshly squeezed juice of 5 limes 1 garlic clove, peeled 1 red chilli, chopped (seeds in) ¾-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped 1 small handful of fresh cilantro, chopped
Carob Coconut Truffles
Red Onion Bread
CAROB COCONUT TRUFFLES These energizing treats are simple, pretty and make great desserts or pick-me-up snacks, and they’re packed with nutrients. (Makes about 24 pieces)
chop finely. Put all prepared vegetables in a bowl with enough ginger shoyu marinade to coat well. Refrigerate and marinate for 1 hour. Season to taste and serve with the pea shoots.
RED ONION BREAD This easy and flavorful seeded bread is made with onions for extra taste and moisture. It can be eaten with sandwiches, dips or on its own. (Makes 9 pieces) INGREDIENTS 2 red onions, peeled ½ cup ground golden flaxseeds ²/³ cup sunflower seeds, ground 1½ tbsp. nama shoyu (unpasteurized soy sauce) 3 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
INSTRUCTIONS
INSTRUCTIONS
To make the ginger shoyu marinade, put all ingredients in a food processor
Very thinly slice onions by hand or with the fine slicing blade of a food
processor. Mix all ingredients in bowl. Add up to 6 tablespoons of water; stir to combine, adding more if necessary to achieve a paste (don’t add too much water, as it will make the dehydration take longer). Using a spatula, spread paste out on a dehydrator sheet to a rectangle about 1⁄2-inch thick. Slice into 9 squares and dehydrate at 115˚F for at least 20 hours, flipping pieces over halfway through. Bread is ready when it’s dry on both sides. Store in an airtight container.
INGREDIENTS 1 cup walnuts, plus extra, finely chopped, to coat ¾ cup coconut chips, plus extra to coat 1¼ cups soft, pitted dates ¼ cup raw carob powder (or raw cacao powder, or a mixture of both) 2 tsp. coconut oil INSTRUCTIONS
Put all ingredients in a food processor and blitz to a smooth paste. Divide paste into 24 pieces; shape each piece into a ball using your hands (heat from your hands will help to soften the paste and form neat balls). Roll some truffles in finely chopped walnuts, and others in coconut chips. Leave remaining truffles plain. Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving. O “Raw Food Detox” by Anya Ladra is published by Ryland Peters & Small. Photography by William Longwood. Find it at rylandpeters.com or wherever books are sold.
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Veal Chop
MAKING MEMORIES Casa D’Angelo Ristorante Serves Unforgettable Italian Delicacies In An Elegant Setting BY LINDA HAASE he simple elegance at Casa D’Angelo Ristorante permeates throughout the restaurant, even in its bustling kitchen, where
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The basil used in the pesto sauce, for example, contains only the sweet, small leaves and no stems—this meticulousness produces the
Photos by South Moon Photography
Veal Milanese
Seafood Pasta with South African Lobster Tail
delicacies like Mediterranean Octopus Salad and Ossobuco with San Marzano Sauce are created. Behind the memorable menu is award-winning Executive Chef Rickie Piper, and his insistence that every morsel served is fresh, sustainable and of the highest quality available. Just-picked herbs, imported olive oils and 100-percent Buffalo Mozzarella are staples at this popular Boca Raton restaurant.
best pesto sauce you’ll ever consume (the Whole Wheat Fettuccine with Basil Pesto and Roasted Scallops is an ultimate taste sensation). What changes daily are many of the 18-24 mouthwatering specials offered, chosen only after Chef Piper contacts local purveyors for their freshest meat and fish selections. Kudos to our accomplished waiter, Peter, who recited the entire list without missing a beat, making each dish sound more
where Casa D’Angelo Ristorante is located at 171 East Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-996-1234 or visit casa-d-angelo.com (sister restaurants are D’Angelo Trattoria in Delray Beach, D’Angelo-Pizza, Wine Bar and Tapas in Fort Lauderdale and Casa D’Angelo Ristorante in Nassau/Paradise Island and Fort Lauderdale).
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tempting than the next. Although the regular menu is impressive, with Italian classics we all know and love, the specials give Chef Piper and his staff a chance to invent remarkable dishes. Appetizers of Tempura-Coated Zucchini Flowers stuffed with fontina cheese, and Meatball and Sausage served with sweet roasted peppers and eggplant, have become mainstays coveted by regular diners. One of the new favorite
entrees is the Frutti Di Mare Ravioli (giant ravioli stuffed with chunks of shrimp, calamari, scallops and lobster). Complementing the cuisine is a 25-page wine list divided by regions and vintage. The Italian-born Chef Piper, a graduate of Istituto Alberghiero Tor Carbone in Rome, enjoys mingling with diners as they savor their meals alfresco or in one of the cozy dining rooms. Soft authentic Italian music and diffused lighting encour-
ages a leisurely pace, which is imperative, because ordering one of the incredible desserts is a must. We highly recommend the homemade gelatos, especially the vanilla, which tastes like creamy marshmallow, and is divine served atop warm molten Chocolate Delizia (a round slice of super-moist cake). Another tasty option: the warm made-to-order Apple Puff Pastry Tart with cinnamon gelato, a serving generous enough for two.O
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MAX’S HARVEST 169 N.E.
ABE & LOUIE’S Glades Plaza
Second Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ ❘ Dinner nightly, Brunch Sunday.
561.447.0024
MIA'S GRILLE 2399 N. Federal
AMERICAN/STEAKHOUSES
561.381.9970
❘ 2200 W. Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly, Sunday Brunch. ATLANTIC GRILLE Seagate Hotel & Spa ❘ 1000 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.665.4900 ❘ Dinner daily, Brunch SaturdaySunday. BISTRO 241 241 N.E. Second
Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.330.4080 ❘ Lunch and dinner daily. BOGART’S BAR & GRILLE
Cinemark Palace 20 ❘ 3200 Airport Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.3044 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. BONEFISH GRILL Shoppes at Boca
Grove ❘ 21065 Powerline Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.483.4949 ❘ Dinner daily.
BREWZZI Glades Plaza ❘ 2222 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.2739 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. THE CAPITAL GRILLE Town
Center ❘ 6000 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.368.1077 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
CHOPS LOBSTER BAR 101
Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.338.6388 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Monday-Friday, Sunday. Closed Saturday.
HEAVEN ON A BUN Shake Shack To Open At University Commons
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oon burger lovers won’t have to schlep to Miami Beach or Coral Gables to enjoy Shake Shack’s gastronomic delights. The modern-day roadside burger stand’s Boca Raton location is scheduled to open mid-year at the University Commons shopping center, just across from Florida Atlantic University. The popular national chain began in 2004 as a hot dog cart in New York’s Madison Square Park, and has since evolved into a hotspot renowned for its all-natural burgers, one-of-a-kind frozen custards, flat-top dogs, milkshakes, beer, wine and more. But the burgers are what fans rave about. What makes them so tasty? The meat is ground daily and contains no hormones or antibiotics. For non-meat eaters, a delicious ’Shroom Burger is made with whole roasted portobello mushrooms. “We are thrilled to be joining the vibrant scene at University Commons,” said Randy Garutti, CEO. “We hope this Shack will be an exciting destination for Boca locals, FAU students and visitors alike.” Shake Shack will be located at University Commons, 1400 Glades Road, Boca Raton. For more information, visit shakeshack.com.
Plaza Real South ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Dinner nightly.
561.395.2675
TWO GEORGES AT THE COVE MARINA 1754 S.E. Third Ct. ❘
Deerfield Beach ❘ 954.421.9272 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
CUT 432 432 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘
Delray Beach ❘ 561.272.9898 ❘ Dinner nightly.
DADA 52 North Swinton Ave. ❘
Delray Beach ❘ 561.330.3232 ❘ Dinner nightly.
THE GRILLE ON CONGRESS
5101 Congress Ave. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.912.9800 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner Monday-Saturday.
HENRY’S The Shoppes at
Addison Place ❘ 16850 Jog Rd. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.638.1949 ❘ Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. HOUSTON’S 1900 N.W.
KARMA SUSHI STEAKBAR
Mizner Park ❘ 346 Plaza Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.361.3999 ❘ Dinner nightly. KATHY’S GAZEBO CAFE 4199 N.
Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.395.6033 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner Monday-Saturday.
MORTON’S, THE STEAKHOUSE
The Shops at Boca Center ❘ 5050 Town Center Circle ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.7724 ❘ Dinner nightly. NEW YORK PRIME 2350 N.W.
Executive Center Dr. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Dinner nightly.
561.998.3881
OCEANS 234 234 N. Ocean Blvd. ❘ Deerfield Beach ❘ 954.428.2539 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Sunday. THE OFFICE 201 E. Atlantic
Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.276.3600 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
PARK TAVERN 32 S.E. Second
Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.265.5093 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
THE PAVILION GRILLE 301 Yamato Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.912.0000 ❘ Lunch TuesdayFriday, Dinner Tuesday-Saturday. RACKS DOWNTOWN EATERY & TAVERN Mizner Park ❘ 402
Plaza Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.395.1662 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. REBEL HOUSE 297 E. Palmetto
Park Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.353.5888 ❘ Dinner nightly.
RED, THE STEAKHOUSE Wyndham Hotel ❘ 1901 N. Military Trail ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.353.9139 ❘ Dinner nightly. RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE
KEE GRILL 17940 N. Military
Trail ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.995.5044 ❘ Dinner nightly.
Mizner Park ❘ 225 N.E. Mizner Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.6746 ❘ Dinner nightly.
SALT SEVEN 32 S.E. Second Ave.
FIFTH AVENUE GRILL 821 S.E.
Executive Center Circle ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.998.0550 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
MARIPOSA Neiman Marcus at
Town Center ❘ 5860 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.2320 ❘ Lunch daily.
❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.274.7258 ❘ Dinner nightly.
GRAND LUX CAFE Town
J. ALEXANDER’S University Commons ❘ 1400 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.347.9875 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
MAX’S GRILLE Mizner Park ❘ 404 Plaza Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.368.0080 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Saturday-Sunday.
SEASONS 52 2300 N.W. Executive Center Dr. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.998.9952 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
Fifth Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.265.0122 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. Center ❘ 6000 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.2141 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. 116
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SIX TABLES 112 N.E. Second St. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.347.6260 ❘ Dinner Tuesday-Saturday by reservation. THE SUNDY HOUSE 106 S. Swinton Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.272.5678 ❘ Lunch FridaySaturday, Dinner TuesdaySunday, Brunch Sunday.
ASIAN/SUSHI ASIA SUSHI/WOK/GRILL
7600 Camino Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.8100 ❘ Lunch daily except Saturday, Dinner nightly except Friday and Saturday. BUDDHA SKY BAR 217 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.450.7557 ❘ Dinner nightly.
FUSIONARIE JAPANESE SIGNATURE Royal Palm Place ❘
500 Via de Palmas, #79 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.367.3283 ❘ Lunch Tuesday-Saturday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday, Brunch Sunday. GARY WOO ASIAN BISTRO
3400 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.368.8803 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. Closed Tuesdays. HOUSE OF SIAM 25 N.E.
Second Ave., #116 ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.330.9191 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. JAPANGO Regency Court ❘
PEI WEI Fifth Avenue Shops ❘ 1914 N.E. Fifth Ave. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561. 226.0290 7152 Beracasa Way ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.322.1001 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO
University Commons ❘ 1400 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.393.3722 ❘ Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. PHUKET THAI Palms Plaza ❘ 22191 Powerline Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.447.8863 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner daily except Monday. PINE GARDEN CHINESE RESTAURANT 1668 N.
Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.395.7534 ❘ Lunch MondaySaturday, Dinner nightly.
KANSAI Del Mar Village ❘ 7140
S.W. 18th St., #108 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.8808 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly.
Beracasa Way ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Lunch daily, Dinner nightly. 561.395.8862
RISE MODERN ASIAN CUISINE AND SUSHI 6060
Park Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.2999 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. KAPOW! NOODLE BAR Mizner
Park ❘ 431 Plaza Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.347.7322 ❘ Dinner nightly. Cloased Sundays. KIN NOODLE BAR 200 S.
Sushi appetizer from Saito's Japanese Steakhouse
BLUEFIN SUSHI THAI GRILL
Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.361.8777 ❘ Lunch MondaySaturday, Dinner nightly. KYOJIN BUFFET Shops at Boca
SPICY GINGER 6020 N. Federal
Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.998.3388 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Monday-Friday, Dinner Saturday-Sunday.
STIR CRAZY FRESH ASIAN GRILL Town Center ❘ 6000 Glades
Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.338.7500 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
CAY DA VIETNAMESE 7400 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.998.0278 ❘ Lunch TuesdayFriday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday.
LA TRE 249 E. Palmetto Park
LEMONGRASS ASIAN BISTRO
SUSHI THAI 100 N.E. Second St. ❘ Boca Raton 561.750.4448 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
6877 S.W. 18th St. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.395.1109 ❘ Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner daily. Closed Friday night.
FAH ASIAN BISTRO Boca Valley
Plaza ❘ 7461 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.241.0400 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. 118
MAI HIBACHI 4801 Linton Blvd. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.499.2766 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
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MISSISSIPPI SWEETS BBQ CO.
2399 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.394.6779 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Monday-Saturday, Dinner Sunday. PA BBQ GRILL 1198 N. Dixie Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.416.7427 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
CARIBBEAN
Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.488.4040 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
❘ 5250 Town Center Circle ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.394.9506 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
420 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.278.5050 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. 101 Plaza Real South ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.8181 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
Yamato Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
SHINJU BUFFET 7875 Glades
Grove ❘ 21073 Powerline Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.218.1708 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
EURO FUSION RESTAURANT AND BAR (KOSHER) Wharfside ❘
LUCILLE’S BAD TO THE BONE BBQ Regency Court ❘ 3011
561.218.8788 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
8841 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘
861 Yamato Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.981.8986 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly.
Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.4568 ❘ Dinner nightly.
BARBECUE
SHORTY’S BAR-B-Q The Reserve ❘ 9858 Clint Moore Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.487.0024 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
SAITO’S JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE KAO TONG 217 E. Palmetto
YOKOHAMA 9168 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.451.1707 60 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.9328 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
561.997.9557
3011 Yamato Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ Shoppes of Parkland ❘ 7367 N. State Road 7 ❘ Parkland ❘ 954.345.4268 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. 561.999.1263 Riverstone
YAKITORI SAKE HOUSE 271 S.E. Mizner Blvd., #41 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.0087 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
SUSHI RAY Shops at Boca Center
CARIBBEAN GRILL 1332
N.W. Second Ave. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. 561.362.0161
OLD CALYPSO 900 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.279.2300 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly, Brunch Saturday and Sunday. ROCKSTEADY JAMAICAN BISTRO 2399 N. Federal Hwy. ❘
Boca Raton ❘ 561.465.3167 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily 1179 S. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.910.1562 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Monday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.
CONTINENTAL
TEMPURA HOUSE The Reserve ❘
BOHEME BISTRO 1118 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.278.4899 ❘ Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily.
UNCLE TAI’S The Shops at Boca
FLEMING’S BISTRO 6060 S.W. 18th St., #103 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.347.1117 ❘ Dinner TuesdaySunday.
9858 Clint Moore Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.883.6088 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. Center ❘ 5250 Town Center Circle ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.368.8806 ❘ Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly.
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75 MAIN DELRAY 270 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.243.7975 ❘ Brunch and Dinner daily.
CHEF FRANK ROSANO & WIFE ANTONELLA Exclusively at Villa Rosano
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JOSEF’S TABLE Polo Shops ❘ 5030 Champion
Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.353.2700 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
LA CIGALE 253 S.E. Fifth Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.265.0600 ❘ Dinner Monday-Saturday.
Genuine Cuisine From The Homeland The Boca Raton Observer
Best Of Boca And Beyond 2009 Boca Raton Magazine
One Of Those Fabulous Finds Palm Beach Post-2010
★★★1/2 Sun Sentinel-2010
LE PAVILLON 14812 S.E. Military Trail ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.499.9882 ❘ Dinner nightly. Closed Mondays. LE RIVAGE 450 N.E. 20th St. ❘ Boca
Raton ❘ 561.620.0033 ❘ Lunch Tuesday-Friday, Dinner nightly. RUSSIA HOUSE RESTAURANT AND VODKA BAR 99 S.E. Mizner Blvd ❘ Boca Raton ❘
561.361.8170 ❘ Lunch and Dinner TuesdaySunday. Closed Monday.
OLIO BISTRO 42 S.E. Second Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.278.6633 ❘ Dinner Thursday-Saturday. ST. TROPEZ 7860 Glades Rd. Suite 130 ❘ Boca
Raton ❘ 561.368.8580 ❘ Dinner nightly.
CATERING FOR ALL OCCASIONS ~ NOW ACCEPTING CALL AHEAD SEATING Monday-Saturday Lunch 11:30-2:30
Dinner Every Evening 5-10
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TEA-LICIOUS TEAROOM & GIFTS 4997-B W. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.638.5155 ❘ Breakfast and Lunch, Monday-Saturday. THE BOCA BEACH HOUSE 887 E. Palmetto Park Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.826.8850 ❘ Breakfast and Lunch Tuesday-Sunday. Closed Monday.
FONDUE THE MELTING POT 5455 N. Federal Hwy. ❘
Boca Raton ❘ 561.997.7472 ❘ Dinner nightly.
FRENCH BISTRO PROVENCE 2399 N. Federal Hwy.,
#4 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.368.2340 ❘ Dinner nightly.
CAFE DE FRANCE 110 E. Atlantic Ave., #120 ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.455.2140 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Sunday. CASIMIR BISTRO Royal Palm Place ❘ 416 Via De Palmas, #81 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.955.6001 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Monday-Saturday. Closed Sunday. MIMOSA Polo Shops ❘ 5030 Champion Blvd. ❘
Boca Raton ❘ 561.997.0027 ❘ Dinner TuesdaySunday. STÉPHANE'S Boca Raton ❘ 2006 N.E.
Executive Circle ❘ 561.893.8838 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Saturday and Sunday.
GERMAN BIERGARTEN Royal Palm Place ❘ 309 Via De Palmas #90 ❘ 561.395.7462 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
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GREEK ESTIA TAVERNA & BAR Royal Palm Place ❘ 507 S.E. Mizner Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.245.8885 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. IT’S ALL GREEK The Reserve ❘ 9704 Clint Moore Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.883.6337 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. MILOS TAVERNA 1600 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.750.6720 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. TAVERNA KYMA 6298 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.994.2828 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly.
INDIAN CURRIES & MORE 217 E. Palmetto Park Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.2999 ❘ Lunch TuesdayFriday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Closed Monday.
ITALIAN ANTHONY’S COAL FIRED PIZZA Shops at
Boca Grove ❘ 21065 Powerline Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘
561.218.6600 115 N.E. Sixth Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.278.7911 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
ARTURO’S 6750 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.997.7373 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. BRIO TUSCAN GRILLE The Shops at Boca Center ❘ 5050 Town Center Circle ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.3777 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. CAFFE LUNA ROSA 34 S. Ocean Blvd. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.274.9404 ❘ Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. CAFE MED BY BICE 2096 N.E. Second Ave. ❘
Deerfield Beach ❘ 954.596.5840 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Sunday.
CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN Town Center ❘ 6000 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.368.2805 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. CARRABBA’S ITALIAN GRILL Wharfside Plaza ❘ 6909 S.W. 18th St. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.8838 ❘ Lunch Sunday, Dinner nightly. CASA D’ANGELO 171 E. Palmetto Park Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.338.1703 ❘ Dinner nightly. DAVITO’S 19635 State Road 7 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.482.2323
❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
DOMIANO Regency Court at Woodfield ❘ 3011 Yamato Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.613.6460 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
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CELEBRATE ALL THE GOOD IN OUR COMMUNITY Benefiting the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres: 6:30 p.m. Program promptly to begin: 7:30 p.m. Boca West Country Club 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton Event Chairs: Debra & Larry Halperin Great food, entertainment & good company: $50/person
Minimum family contribution of $365 to the 2013 Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Annual Campaign is required to attend.
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DOMINICS 8177 W. Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.487.3186 Westwinds of Boca ❘ 9834 W. Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.487.6325 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. FERRARO’S 8208 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.477.2750
❘ Dinner Monday-Saturday.
FRANK & DINO’S 718 S. Federal Hwy. ❘
Deerfield Beach ❘ 954.427.4909 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. IL BACIO 29 S.E. Second Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.865.7785 ❘
Dinner Thursday-Saturday.
JOSEPHINE’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 5751 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.988.0668 ❘ Dinner Wednesday-Monday. LA STELLA'S RESTAURANT 159 E. Palmetto Park Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.2081 ❘ Dinner Monday-Saturday.
Boca Raton
LA LUNA BISTRO The Polo Shoppes ❘ 5030 Champion Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.997.1165 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
233 S. Federal Highway | 561.392.0773 www.matteosrestaurants.com
LA VILLETTA RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 4351 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.362.8403 ❘ Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. MAGGIANO’S 21090 St. Andrews Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.361.8244 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
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MARIO’S OSTERIA 1400 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.239.7000 ❘ Dinner nightly.
6370 N. State Rd 7 ❘ Coconut Creek ❘ 954.420.3100 ❘ Dinner Monday-Saturday. MARIO’S RISTORANTE & WINE BAR
Little Princess Parties
Bridal Showers
Birthday Parties
Ladies Luncheons
Business Luncheons
Catering
Baby Showers
NICK’S NEW HAVEN-STYLE PIZZERIA & BAR 2240 N.W. 19th St., Suite 904 ❘ Boca
Raton ❘ 561.368.2900 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
Fundraising Luncheons
MATTEO’S RESTAURANT 233 S. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.0773 ❘ Dinner nightly.
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NINO'S Fifth Avenue Shops ❘ 1930 N.E. Fifth Ave. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.9075 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. OVENELLA 499 S. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.395.1455
Call For Catering Details And Menu Selections MondaySaturday 10-4. Open On Sundays For Private Parties. 4997-B W. Atlantic Avenue Delray Beach, FL 33445 Northeast Corner Of Atlantic & Military 561-638-5155 www.TeaLiciousTearoom.com
❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner
nightly. PASTA FEVER 4251 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca
Raton ❘ 561.338.0012 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
PELLEGRINO'S RISTORANTE 3360 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.368.5520 ❘ Dinner Wednesday-Sunday.
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Valentine Be My
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Enjoy exquisite food, fine wine and a sophisticated atmosphere. Chef Mario and his wife Nadia are looking forward to welcoming you! Ask about our Private Party Room.
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PICCOLINO RESTAURANT 78 S. Federal
Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.395.8858 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner Monday-Saturday.
POSITANO 4400 N. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.2920 ❘ Dinner nightly. RAFFAELE RISTORANTE Royal Palm Place ❘
508 Via De Palmas ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.392.1110 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner Monday-Saturday.
RENZO’S OF BOCA 5999 N. Federal Hwy. ❘
Boca Raton ❘ 561.994.3495 ❘ Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly.
RISTORANTE SAPORI Royal Palm Place ❘ 99
Royal Palm Place ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.367.9779 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.
ROSARIO’S RISTORANTE Royal Palm Place ❘ 145 S.E. Mizner Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.393.0758 ❘ Dinner nightly. Closed Monday.
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954.420.3100 www.marioristoranteitaliano.com
ROSSO, ITALIA Wyndham Hotel ❘ 1901 N.
Military Trail ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.353.9819 ❘ Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily.
SAPORISSIMO 366 E. Palmetto Park Rd. ❘
Boca Raton ❘ 561.750.2333 ❘ Dinner nightly. Closed Monday.
TABLE 42 KITCHEN & WINE BAR Royal Palm
Place ❘ 399 S.E. Mizner Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
561.826.2625
TANZY iPic Theaters at Mizner Park ❘ 301 Plaza
Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.922.6699 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
TRAMONTI 119 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.272.1944 ❘ Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. TRATTORIA ROMANA 499 E. Palmetto Park
Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.393.6715 ❘ Dinner nightly.
TUCCI'S FIRE N COAL PIZZA 50 N.E. First
Ave. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.620.2930 ❘ Lunch Tuesday-Saturday, Dinner nightly.
VIC AND ANGELO’S 290 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘
Delray Beach ❘ 561.278.9570 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Saturday-Sunday. VILLAGIO ITALIAN EATERY Mizner Park ❘ 344 Plaza Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.447.2257 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. VILLA ROSANO The Reserve ❘ 9858 Clint
Moore Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.470.0112 ❘ Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. VINO WINE BAR AND ITALIAN TAPAS 114 N.E. Second St. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.869.0030 ❘ Dinner Tuesday-Saturday.
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AZUCAR CUBAN CAFE Boca/Ray Plaza ❘ 4900 Linton Blvd. Suite 14 ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.495.4427 ❘ Lunch Tuesday-Friday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. CUBAN CAFE RESTAURANT 3350 N.W.
Boca Raton Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.750.8860 ❘ Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. Closed Sunday. CABANA RESTAURANT 105 E. Atlantic
Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.274.9090 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. GOL, TASTE OF BRAZIL 411 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.272.6565 ❘ Dinner nightly. PADRINO’S Mission Bay Plaza ❘ 20455 State Road 7 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.451.1070 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
Referrals & Admissions 561.227.5140 t hpbc.com
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THE SPANIARD TAPAS BAR & CAFE 99
S.E. Mizner Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.347.7000 ❘ Lunch Tuesday-Friday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. ❘ Closed Monday.
Licensed since 1981. Accredited by The Joint Commission. 501(C)(3) not-for-profit organization.
MEDITERRANEAN/TURKISH ANATOLIA MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE
212 S. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.361.4000 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. BOCA SKEWERS Mizner Plaza ❘130 N.E.
Second St. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.347.9961 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Monday-Saturday. Closed Sunday. MOZART CAFÉ (KOSHER) The Fountains ❘ 7300 W. Camino Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.367.3412 ❘ Breakfast and Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner Saturday-Thursday. SINE 212 S. Federal Hwy. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.361.4000
❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
MEXICAN BAJA CAFE UNO 201 N.W. First Ave. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.394.5449 ❘ 1310 S. Federal Hwy. ❘ Deerfield Beach ❘ 954.596.1305 ❘ Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. THE MEXICAN Royal Palm Place ❘ 133 S.E. Mizner Blvd. ❘ 561.300.5280 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. ROCCO’S TACOS AND TEQUILA BAR
The Shops at Boca Center ❘ 5250 Town Center Circle ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.416.2131 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. SEÑOR BURRITO 513 N.E. 20th St. ❘
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UNCLE JULIO’S Mizner Park ❘ 449 Plaza Real ❘
Boca Raton ❘ 561.300.3530 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Saturday-Sunday.
ORGANIC APROPO KAFE 147 S.E. First Ave. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.393.1223 ❘ Breakfast and Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner Wednesday-Saturday. Closed Sunday. 4TH GENERATION ORGANIC MARKET
THE BOCA VEIN CENTER ROBERT E. TOPPER, MD, FACS Diplomate Amercian Board of Surgery 9970 Central Park Boulevard Suite 102 Boca Raton, Florida 33428
561-483-4300 bocaveincenter.com
75 S.E. Third St. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.338.9920 ❘ Lunch Monday-Sunday, Dinner MondaySaturday. SOPHIE N ME 4251 N. Federal Hwy. ❘
Boca Raton ❘ 561.961.4899 ❘ Dinner TuesdaySaturday. Closed Monday.
PUB/SPORTS BARS BRICK YARD MICRO BREWERY The Garden
Shops ❘ 7050 W. Palmetto Park Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
561.544.0001
DUFFY’S SPORTS GRILL 21212 St. Andrews Blvd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.869.0552 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. THE ENGLISH TAP & BEER GARDEN 5050
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Town Center Circle ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.544.8000 ❘ Lunch and Dinner Monday-Saturday. HOLLOWAY'S PUB Royal Palm Place ❘ 504 Via De Palmas ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.361.8445 ❘ Lunch Thursday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. HOOTERS Boca Commons ❘ 2240 N.W. 19th St. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.391.8903 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. HURRICANE GRILL & WINGS Mission Bay ❘ 10125 Glades Rd. ❘ 561.218.8848 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
Now Open! Expanded Stadium Seating Spin Room World Class CertiÄed Personal Trainers Newly renovated full service 20,000 sq.ft. Ätness center! Classes Include: Zumba, Yoga, Pilates, Spin, Get Ripped, Bootcamp, TRX, and Abs Class!!
MILLER’S ALE HOUSE Shoppes at Blue Lake ❘ 1200 Yamato Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.988.9142 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. Boca Lyons Plaza ❘ 9244 W. Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.487.2989 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. THE WISHING WELL IRISH PUB Royal
Palm Place ❘ 111 S.E. Mizner Blvd., #9 ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.750.5208 ❘ Dinner nightly.
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YARD HOUSE Mizner Park ❘ 201 Plaza Real ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.417.6124 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
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BEN’S NY KOSHER DELI The Reserve ❘ 9942 Clint Moore Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.470.9963 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily.
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FAU Medical Students Team With Spirit Of Giving Network To Help Community edical students in Florida Atlantic Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have joined the Spirit of Giving Network (SOGN) on a collaborative project to address the vital needs of eight nonprofit organizations in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Issues addressed will include Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease/dementia, child abuse, health and social services for minority populations, childhood grief due to loss of family members, autism and developmental disorders. The Community Advocacy, Research, Engagement and Service (C.A.R.E.S.) project began last spring when the SOGN, an organization
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DRF will host its 28th Annual Gem of an Evening Gala, “One Hot Night on Palm Beach” to benefit diabetes research and education on February 2 at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach in Manalapan. The evening will honor Boca Raton-based Bluegreen Corporation and its President and CEO John M. Maloney, Jr. Since 2002, Bluegreen and the Maloney family have devoted countless hours and nearly $1 million in financial resources to its Greater Palm Beach County Chapter. Support comes from many resources including corporate sponsorship, employee participation in JDRF’s Walk to Cure Diabetes and company-sponsored events like
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the annual Bluegreen Charity Golf Tournament. “The focus of our giving program is predominately on health issues, education and children in the communities in which our associates live and work,” Maloney said. “Supporting nonprofit organizations, as well as charitable events and activities, is an important way to give back to the communities in which we do business and to the people and organizations that patronize our businesses.” Type 1 diabetes strikes children and adults, makes them insulin dependent for life and can lead to serious and often life-threatening complications. The Maloney family engages in many activities to raise funds to help the cause.
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Gala leadership includes Renee Kay and Lisa Kimmelman, chairs; Cindy Watts, live auction chair; Virginia Tracey, silent auction chair; Ellen Devine, collateral chair and Amanda Gauger, David Sabin and Andrew Wieseneck, young professionals chairs. Presenting sponsors are Mr. and Mrs. David T. Chase and Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Parker. Returning partners are Bluegreen Corporation and PNC Wealth Management (Diamond sponsors). Media partners are The Boca Raton Observer, ESPN 760 AM and WPTV NewsChannel 5’s Jay Cashmere as emcee. O For more information, call 561-6867701 or visit jdrf.org/greaterpalmbeach.
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MAKING AN IMPACT
Boca Raton Museum Of Art Showcases 50 Years Of American Fashion Design n true style, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is paying homage to the illustrious designs created by members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) with an art exhibit and black-tie gala. “IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA” is the first museum exhibition to celebrate the quintessentially American artistry of the leading fashion trade organization in the United States. Spearheaded by the organization’s president, designer Diane von Furstenberg, the exhibition includes garments and accessories by 600 of the most impactful (hence, the name) creators of the last 50
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in celebration of the CFDA’s 50th anniversary, we are proud to present, in partnership with the Boca Raton Museum of Art, an exhibit that represents the tremendous work of our members for the last five decades,” said von Furstenberg. Among the designers featured
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Boca Raton Museum of Art will host the Art of Fashion black-tie gala on January 26, with elegant cocktails, food, fashion and entertainment. O For more information, call 561-3922500 or visit bocamuseum.org.
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BREAKING THE STIGMA
Richard Dreyfuss To Discuss Mental Illness At Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service Luncheon cademy-award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss will be the keynote speaker at Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service’s Reflections of Hope Luncheon on February 21 at Boca West Country Club. Dreyfuss, who lives with bipolar disorder, will discuss breaking the stigma of mental illness. Proceeds from the event will benefit JFS’s comprehensive mental health services. “We look forward to welcoming all of our guests to share in an afternoon of hope, inspiration and possibility,” said Deborah Steinberg, co-chair of the luncheon with Judi Donoff and Nancy Schiller. “JFS welcomes all who need help, with a sliding fee scale for psychiatric care,
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skills and support in a therapeutic, caring, creative setting.” “Our inaugural luncheon sponsor, Marleen Forkas, has led the way in championing this new effort which will help so many in our community,” said Donoff. Reflections of Hope is also sponsored by Gail and Arthur E. Benja-
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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
FIDF Solidarity Gala To Take Place At Boca West Country Club he Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Palm Beach/ Broward Region 2013 Solidarity Gala will take place January 13 at Boca West Country Club, when the guest speaker will be IDF Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi. The gala will celebrate Israel’s 65th anniversary. Gala honorees will be Dr. Robert and Donna Litowitz, and recipients of the Friends of the IDF award will be Richard and Gail Rubin Kwal. The evening will honor and celebrate Israel’s soldiers, many of whom will travel from Israel to Boca Raton to speak with FIDF supporters. Among gala participants will be FIDF National Chairman, Nily Falic; FIDF National Director and CEO,
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FIDF Boca Raton board. “These young people are the future of Israel—not just the protectors, but the future. It’s so important that we continuously support them and the FIDF Palm Beach/Broward Re-
gion’s 2013 Solidarity Gala helps to make that happen.” The funds raised at this event will benefit FIDF and its educational programs for IDF soldiers. FIDF was established in 1981 by a group of holocaust survivors as a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing and supporting educational, social, cultural and recreational programs and facilities for the heroic men and women of the IDF. Today, FIDF has more than 120,000 loyal supporters, and 16 regional offices throughout the United States and Panama. FIDF offers its support to IDF soldiers and their families through a variety of unique and innovative programs. These opportunities reinforce the vital bond between the communities in the United States, the soldiers of the IDF and the State of Israel. O For more information, call 212-2443118 or visit fidf.org.
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FEDERATION FÊTE Actress Renee Taylor To Speak At Jewish Federation Of SPBC Event
op women donors of Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County will be treated to an entertaining afternoon with actress and comedian Renee Taylor, who will help kick off the organization’s new “Just for You” series on February 17 at the Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center in Boca Raton. During the event, Taylor will perform her one-woman show, “My Life on a Diet,” followed by a conversation and cocktails with the star. Born in Bronx, N.Y. as Renee Wechsler, Taylor may be best-known for playing Sylvia, the outspoken mother of Fran Drescher’s character on the TV series, “The Nanny.” Taylor’s 50-year career has also included stage and film roles; she wrote the Broadway show, “Lovers and Other
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Strangers” and has been nominated for an Academy Award for writing and directing. The “Just for You” series is especially for women who contribute to the 2013 UJA/Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Annual Campaign at a minimum $10,000 Major Gifts level. “We’re thrilled with this opportunity to show just how much our women who contribute as Major Donors are cherished and appreciated,” said Wendy Pressner, the Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy campaign chair. “These are very special times to celebrate all that their generosity accomplishes.” “We’ve designed two unique, intimate gatherings just for this exceptional sisterhood, to build community with stimulating intellectual and cultural content as well as fun,” added Judi Schuman, Women’s Philanthropy major gifts vice chair. Wells Fargo Private Bank is the sponsor of The Dorothy Seaman Department of Women’s Philanthropy. The “Just for You” series is generously sponsored by Boca Raton Regional Hospital and Ivan & Co. Jewelers. The Boca Raton Observer is the exclusive magazine sponsor. O
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South Florida Science Museum Receives $240,000 Grant From Quantum Foundation he South Florida Science Museum in West Palm Beach will heighten its “wow factor” when its expansion is complete later next year, thanks to a generous gift from the Quantum Foundation. According to Lew Crampton, South Florida Science Museum CEO, the museum received a $240,000 grant from Quantum Foundation to support its “Science on a Sphere” exhibit, which is targeted to be part of the expansion scheduled to open in early 2014. The South Florida Science Museum is the only public museum for science, technology and natural history education in Palm Beach County. The newly expanded museum will feature state-of-the art hands-on exhibitions, including a new traveling exhibition hall to showcase top new exhibits, an expanded aquarium and an interactive Everglades Adventure. Expansion construction started earlier this month, and the museum will remain open during the entire construction period.
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JANUARY 4-5 Brooklyn-born Jerry Seinfeld is renowned for spinning life’s minutia into amusing anecdotes, which he shares in his hilarious stand-up act and for which he became famous during his long-running sitcom, “Seinfeld.” (“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”) The 58-year-old comedian became interested in stand-up after performing in college and began hitting the club circuit with a vengeance. But it wasn’t until his appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” that his career took off, becoming a regular fixture on TV talk shows, including “Late Night with David Letterman.” In 1989 he decided to partner with comedian and writer Larry David to create “The Seinfeld Chronicles,” which morphed into “Seinfeld,” a cult favorite that aired for nine seasons and lives on in reruns. Known for his dry wit, youthful appearance and infinite sneaker collection, the married father of three kids is now on tour, and will bring his act to Hard Rock Live. His show about nothing is sure to be something to remember.
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Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org JANUARY 1-6 “Mary Poppins” Show times vary. JANUARY 19 Matisyahu Show begins at 8:30 p.m.
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BROADWAY HIT: “The Jersey Boys” perform January 1-6 at The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
JANUARY 10-13, 17-21 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s “Dragons” Show times vary. JANUARY 26-27 Justin Bieber Show begins at 7 p.m.
AutoNation® IMAX® Theater Museum of Discovery & Science, 401 S.W. Second St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-467-6637; mods.org JANUARY 1-24 “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Show times vary.
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Bicentennial Park 1075 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-358-7550; bayfrontparkmiami.com JANUARY 18-21 Miami International Art Fair—MIA (Bayfront Park) Show begins at noon. Foreigner
Coral Springs Center for the Arts 2855 Coral Springs Dr., Coral Springs, 954-3445999; coralspringscenterforthearts.com JANUARY 2 “STOMP” Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
JANUARY 12 Chris MacDonald’s “Memories of Elvis in Concert Rockin’ Birthday Bash” Show begins at 8 p.m. JANUARY 25 Mike Birbiglia’s “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” Show begins at 8 p.m.
happenings calendar JANUARY 26 “The Legends of Doo-Wop” Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
Hard Rock Live Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, 954-797-5555; hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com JANUARY 4-5 Jerry Seinfeld Show begins at 8 p.m. JANUARY 9 Foreigner Show begins at 8 p.m. JANUARY 13 Sinbad Show begins at 7 p.m. JANUARY 26 Engelbert Humperdinck Show begins at 8 p.m.
Parker Playhouse James L. Knight International Center 400 S.E. Second Ave., Miami, 305-416-5970; jlkc.com JANUARY 25 Yuri Show begins at 8 p.m.
707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222; parkerplayhouse.com JANUARY 4-5 The State Ballet Theatre of Russia’s “Romeo and Juliet” Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
SPEAKS HER MIND: Margaret Cho performs “Mother” at The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on July 27
JANUARY 15 THROUGH FEBRUARY 3 Agatha Christie’s BBC Murders—Broadway Across America Show times vary.
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek 5550 N.W. 40th St., Coconut Creek, 954-977-6700;
seminolecoconutcreekcasino.com JANUARY 5 Three Dog Night Show begins at 8 p.m. JANUARY 11 Rick Springfield Show begins at 8 p.m.
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JANUARY 18 The Machine Show begins at 8 p.m.
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222; browardcenter.org
The Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300;
JANUARY 5 Satire and Controversy: An Evening with Oliver Stone Show begins at 8 p.m. JANUARY 7 Itzhak Perlman Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
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JANUARY 14 Johnny Mathis Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
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JANUARY 22 Natalie Cole Show begins at 8 p.m.
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JANUARY 25-26 Monty Python’s “Spamalot” Show begins at 8 p.m. JANUARY 30 THROUGH FEBRUARY 17 “Wicked” Show times vary.
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Savor the “menu” of 2013 programs funded during the 10th anniversary of the Jewish Women’s Foundation, honoring Roxane Lipton, Founder, and hear renowned Chef Michelle Bernstein serve up some insights about her successful career in the culinary arts! Date:
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Event Co-Chairs: Linda Brodie & Mady Friedman Couvert:
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All Community Women Welcome – $75 per person Kosher dietary laws observed
To RSVP, visit jewishboca.org/grantingwishes For more information, contact Lisbeth Cauff at 561.852. 3188 or lisbethc@bocafed.org.
Michelle Bernstein, Chef & Restaurateur Since entering the national spotlight in the mid 1990s, Chef Michelle Bernstein has been one of South Florida’s most successful chefs and restaurateurs. A Miami native of Jewish and Latin descent, this passionate chef has dazzled diners and critics alike with her sublime cuisine and bright personality. A James Beard Award winner and author of Cuisine a Latina, Bernstein recently opened Crumb on Parchment in Miami. Her cuisine is also featured at Michy’s on Miami’s Biscayne Corridor and Sra. Martinez in the Miami Design District, dubbed one of the “Best New Restaurants in America” of 2009 in Esquire magazine. Bernstein is also executive chef at The Omphoy in Palm Beach County. Exclusive Magazine Sponsor
Bernstein hosts her PBS weekly television series, Check, Please! South Florida, and is a regular guest on Top Chef, The Today Show and the Martha Stewart Show. As a community activist, Bernstein launched the Miami chapter of Common Threads, an after-school cooking program for underprivileged children. She works with the Miami-Dade schools on improving the quality of cafeteria food and has partnered with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools!, targeting childhood obesity.
happenings calendar JANUARY 12 Paul Anka Show begins at 8 p.m. JANUARY 27 Margaret Cho’s “Mother” Show begins at 8 p.m.
events JANUARY 5 The Policemen’s Ball This black-tie dinner and dance includes a cocktail reception, live auction and presentation of the Annual Palm Tree Award. Benefits the Palm Beach Police Foundation. Takes place at The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 561-820-8118 or visit pbpolicefoundation.org.
“Your Medical School” Gala Enjoy an evening of dinner, dancing, live music and the chance to meet FAU’s medical students. Black-tie optional. Takes place at the Royal Palm Yacht Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 561-699-7198 or visit fau.edu. JANUARY 10 THROUGH MARCH 3 Cirque du Soleil “Totem” Enjoy an exciting performance revolving around the evolution of mankind. Takes place at Sun Life Stadium in Miami. Show times vary. For more information, call 305-943-8000 or visit livenation.com.
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JANUARY 12 51st Annual Boca Raton Regional Hospital Ball Celebrate the transformation of the Wold Family Center for Emergency Medicine with a cocktail reception, dinner, dancing and live auction. Takes place at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 561955-3249 or visit brrh.com. JANUARY 12 A Touch of Football for CCFA Watch 20 teams compete in a flag football tournament and check out a behind-thescenes stadium tour. Benefits the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. Takes place at Sun Life Stadium in Miami. Starts at 9 a.m. For more information, call 646430-0559 or visit ccfa.org. JANUARY 12-13 26th Annual Boca Fest This community art festival highlights more than 150 exhibitors featuring a wide range of works. Takes place at The Shops at Boca Center in Boca Raton. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 561-746-6615 or visit artfestival.com.
JANUARY 5-6 25th Annual Las Olas Art Fair—Part 1 Check out fine arts and crafts, enjoy great food and drink and more. Takes place on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 561-746-6615 or visit artfestival.com. JANUARY 5 FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine’s 158
JANUARY 11 Caron and Hanley Treatment Centers Gala 2013 Partake in dinner and dancing to benefit the Lifesaver Scholarship Fund, which offers financial assistance to people seeking addiction treatment. Takes place at The Breakers Palm Beach in Palm Beach. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 561-841-1048 or visit hanleycenter.org.
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JANUARY 13 2013 FIDF Annual Gala Dinner Pay tribute to Israel’s heroes and celebrate the country’s 65th anniversary. Hosted by the Friends of the IDF Palm Beach/Broward Region. Takes place at Boca West Country Club. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 561483-2771 or visit fidf.org. JANUARY 17 JAFCO Author Luncheon Enjoy a luncheon featuring keynote speaker Laurence Leamer, best-selling author of “The Kennedy Women.” Takes place at St. An-
drews Country Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 954-749-7230 or visit jafco.org. JANUARY 17 Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Lion of Judah Luncheon This luncheon will feature guest speaker Lara Logan, “60 Minutes” and “CBS News” chief foreign affairs correspondent. Takes place at Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 561-852-5054 or visit jewishboca.org. JANUARY 17 Yigal Azrouel Appearance At Saks Fifth Avenue Meet the designer and enjoy a fashion-filled evening featuring Cut 25 by Yigal Azrouel and a preview of the designer’s Spring 2013 collection. Benefits the Nadel Center for Early Childhood Education at Congregation B’nai Israel. Takes place at Saks Fifth Avenue in Boca Raton. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 561-620-1231. JANUARY 19 OPAL Awards Join the Rotary Club of Boca Raton for an evening of cocktails, dinner, live entertainment and silent and live auctions to benefit local youth scholarship programs. Takes place at Boca Pointe Country Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 561-477-7180. JANUARY 19 The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2013 Palm Beach Gala An event with dining, dancing, silent and live auctions and a show by international Cirque performers. Takes place at The Mar-a-Lago Club
in Palm Beach. Starts at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 561-775-9954 or visit lls.org. JANUARY 19-20 24th Annual Downtown Delray Beach Festival of the Arts An art festival featuring retail stores, fine dining, and arts and crafts. Takes place on Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Delray Beach. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 561-746-6615 or visit artfestival.com. JANUARY 19-20 Fourth Annual Boca Raton Fine Art Show World-renowned artists will offer sculpture, paintings, clay and glass pieces, jewelry and more. Takes place at Sanborn Square Park in Boca Raton. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 941-755-3088 or visit hotworks.org. JANUARY 19 Inaugural Sunshine Boca Blues Festival An all-day festival featuring performances by the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Doctor John, Walter Trout, Sonny Landreth, Sean Chambers and many more, plus food and beer. Takes place at Mizner Park in Boca Raton. Starts at 11 a.m. For more information, call 800-653-8000 or visit livenation.com. JANUARY 20 2013 Annual Leadership Education Forum Enjoy breakfast, lunch and keynote speakers Ambassador Ron Prosor, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, and Dr. Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Presented by American Friends of The Hebrew University. Takes
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happenings calendar place at The Four Seasons Hotel in Palm Beach. Starts at 8 a.m. For more information, call 561-750-8585 or visit afhu.org. JANUARY 21-26 Palm Beach County Poetry Festival Eight of America’s most gifted poets will teach workshops for qualified writers of poetry. Takes place at the Old School Square in Delray Beach. Event times vary. For more information, call 561-243-7922 or visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org. JANUARY 23 The 37th American Red Cross Designers’ Show House Preview Party Get a sneak peek at this extraordinary design showcase featuring the best in home decor. The house will be open to the public January 24 through February 16. Takes place at 123 Santa Lucia Drive in West Palm Beach. Starts at 6 p.m. For more information, call 561-650-9131 or visit pbtcredcross.org. JANUARY 23 30th Annual MS Gala Luncheon Join more than 1,200 guests at this prestigious luncheon to benefit multiple sclerosis research and education. Takes place at the Sheltair Hangar #1170 in Fort Lauderdale. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 954-731-4224 or visit nmssfls.org. JANUARY 24 Food For The Poor’s 10th Annual Fine Wines And Hidden Treasures Gala Enjoy an exclusive wine tasting followed by a four-course gourmet dinner, dancing and entertainment, plus live and silent auctions. Takes place at The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. Starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 954-427-2222 or visit foodforthepoor.org.
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JANUARY 24-27 30th Annual Boca Raton Greek Festival An event featuring Greek music and dancing, traditional meals and pastries, kids’ rides and amusements, church tours, raffle prizes and vendors from around the world. Takes place at St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church in Boca Raton. Show times vary. For more information, call 561-994-4822 or visit saintmarkboca.net. JANUARY 26 20th Annual Caribbean Cowboy Ball Saddle up and enjoy an open bar, food, a live band, a dance performance, an auction and a fireworks finale. Takes place at Red Reef Park in
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JANUARY 26 Boca Raton Museum of Art Impact Gala To coincide with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDAâ&#x20AC;? exhibition, this elegant black-tie gala will feature food, fashion and entertainment. Takes place at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Boca Raton. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 561-392-2500 or visit bocamuseum.org/gala. JANUARY 27 The Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation Eighth Annual Bipolar Dinner Dance The Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering awareness, understanding and research for early-onset bipolar disorder. Takes place at Club Colette in Palm Beach. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 888-944-4408 or visit questforthetest.org. JANUARY 28 Time is of the Essence Luncheon Presented by Hearing the Ovarian Cancer Whisper, featuring guest speakers Dr. Judith Reichman and Dr. Robert Bast. Takes place at the Flagler Museum Pavilion in Palm Beach. Starts at 11:30 a.m. For more information, call 561-837-2285 or visit ovariancancerpbc.org. JANUARY 28 Annual South Florida Luncheon of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum A luncheon with a prominent keynote speaker (TBA), reception, lunch and presentation. Takes place at the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 11:30 a.m. For more information, call 561-995-6773 or visit bocawestcc.org. JANUARY 31 Second Annual Country Club Chef Showdown South This evening will feature an Iron Chef-style competition, food, cocktails and a silent auction. Benefits Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation. Takes place at Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 7 p.m. For more information, call 561-265-6042 or visit hpbcf.org. JANUARY 31 Palm Beach Wine Auction Dinner and a live auction to benefit the education programs at the Kravis Center. Takes place at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. Starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 561-8327469 or visit kravis.org. O
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COUNTESS DE HOERNLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION In true philanthropic style, the Countess De Hoernle celebrated her landmark birthday by raising more than $250,000 to support local charitable organizations. Guests gathered at Boca West Country Club for military presentations, an award ceremony and live music.
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ALENE TOO’S “SHOP ALL THINGS PINK” “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Kyle Richards joined guests at Alene Too Regency Court in Boca Raton for a great day of shopping to benefit breast cancer awareness. A portion of sales proceeds benefitted Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
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BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL’S GO PINK LUNCHEON Nearly 1,500 guests attended the Go Pink Luncheon at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. Themed “Go Pink Goes Hollywood,” the guest speaker was entertainment journalist and breast cancer survivor Giuliana Rancic. The event included more than 500 luxurious raffle prizes and raised more than $750,000 for breast cancer research.
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“Ladies Night Out” Event Hosted By Dr. Gregory Albert “Ladies Night Out” was a delightful evening held to benefit local programs supported by the National Council of Jewish Women, Boca Delray Chapter. Dr. Gregory Albert and the Greenroom Salon believe in giving back to the community in which they do business. The evening was attended by more than 175 women who came out in support of charity. Dr. GregDr. Gregory Albert and Steven ory Albert, recognized as one of the area’s leading Jackson, hair designer and board-certified plastic surgeons, has been a major owner of the Greenroom Salon supporter of NJCW in furtherance of its valuable work in our community, and was a named sponsor of the 2012 NCJW luncheon, held at Boca Pointe Country Club. Dr. Gregory Albert, 6290 Linton Blvd., Suite 203, Delray Beach, 561-495-2700320; drgregoryalbert.com.
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Mark Rader Appointed Chief Executive Officer At Northwest Medical Center As CEO of Northwest Medical Center, Rader will lead a team of more than 600 physicians, 800 employees and more than 100 volunteers toward fulfilling its mission of providing excellence in healthcare for the community. He will oversee all aspects of administrative operations while supporting a solid foundation of core inpatient and outpatient services and spearheading the launch of new services and facility expansions, such as the newly approved ER expansion slated to break ground the second quarter of 2013. Northwest Medical Center, 2801 North State Road 7, Margate, 954-9784320; northwestmed.com.
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happenings [the local real estate report] SUBDIVISION
ADDRESS
BUYER
SELLER
ADDISON RESERVE
16059 VILLA VIZCAYA PL
SCHAYER NORMAN
LEEDS ELAINE N
AZURA
17359 PAVAROSO ST
BROVERMAN FREDDA R
TOLL FL X LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
BEL MARRA
755 BERKELEY ST
IANACE LINDA
BOCA FALLS
12242 ROCKLEDGE CIR
BOCA ISLES NORTH BOCA LAKES
PRIOR SALE PRICE
SALE PRICE
PRIOR SALE DATE
$390,000
$405,800
$1,027,522
$5,100,000
01-FEB-97 05-FEB-10
STERN AGNES G
$423,000
$585,000
06-JUL-06
MAROSCIA JOHN J
ISACKSON BRYAN A
$475,000
$220,000
01-JUN-96
19603 BLACK OLIVE LN
RUBENSTEIN LAUREN
BOGATZ DEBRA A
$387,500
2541 NW 39TH ST
GROMOSAIK AMANDA L
DEUTSCHE HOME LOAN FUNDING LLC
$479,000
$359,700
11-MAY-12
12-SEP-11
BOCA POINTE CC - MERIDIANA
22664 MERIDIANA DR
ALTER PAUL
GROSS EVELYN A
$245,000
20-AUG-12
BOCA RATON RIVIERA
300 NE OLIVE WAY
NORDHEIM BRIAN
MCMULLEN DANNY
$450,000
17-MAR-06
BOCA WEST CC - FAIRWAY OAKS
20149 FAIRFAX DR
NUZIE BRUCE
VALLENILLA MARIA D
$375,000
$530,000
12-JUL-05
BROKEN SOUND CC - OAK RUN
2471 NW 63RD ST
KAY THOMAS
SLAVEN ARTHUR
$310,000
$460,000
01-AUG-05
LAKE ROGERS ISLE
3399 NE 6TH DR
KRON CHRISTOPHER M
HARTMAN WILLIS E
$325,000
$414,000
LEXINGTON ESTATES
10060 VENEZIA PL
BATMASIAN ARMEN
CLERK & COMP PB COUNTY
$244,200
MARINA DEL MAR ESTATES
5223 DEERHURST CRESCENT CIR
BLAKE KRISHNA
DYE CHARLES BLAKE
$320,000
MISSION BAY - THE ISLES
20416 SAN RAFAEL CT
PIEHL DAVID C JR
WOLF JOHN J
$380,000
$252,500
MIZNER’S PRESERVE
6071 VIA VENETIA N
BEHRMAN KEVIN
RAMSEY KENNETH
$652,500
$555,000
PALM BEACH FARMS
1420 SW 20TH ST
COX KATHY
MCMAHON WENDY KAY
$397,000
PALM BEACH FARMS
1498 SW 20TH ST
MILLER ROBERT H
WOLFE DOUGLAS K
$455,000
$234,000
01-OCT-87
PALMA VISTA
21057 BELLA VISTA CIR
TORCHIN DAVID
KANDELL ALAN T
$600,000
$525,000
20-AUG-08
PALMETTO PLACE CONDOMINIUM
99 SE MIZNER BLVD PH 38
SAGAWA ELLEN M
MILLER A MATTHEW
$450,000
05-APR-04 01-AUG-94 26-OCT-09 01-JUL-96 07-JUL-09 10-JAN-05
20-JUL-12
Source: Palm Beach County Property Appraiser
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SUBDIVISION
ADDRESS
BUYER
SELLER
SALE PRICE
PRIOR SALE PRICE
PRIOR SALE DATE
SATURNIA ISLES
9895 SAVONA WINDS DR
SAM TONG YAN
KAHL MALCOLM
$470,000
$484,779
29-OCT-03
ST. ANDREWS COUNTRY CLUB
7279 BALLANTRAE CT
KAPLAN ROBERT ANDREW
MARSHALL ROBERT A
$450,000
$445,000
01-MAR-97
ST. ANDREWS COUNTRY CLUB
17169 WHITEHAVEN DR
LERNER FERN
LEADER DAVID
$620,000
$725,000
01-MAY-95
TIMBERCREEK
2374 NW 32ND ST
DEMIC REBECCA
GADALA-MARIA MARY
$265,000
$88,000
01-JAN-79
TIMBERCREEK
2851 TIMBERCREEK CIR NW
BERNSTEIN ADAM B
GARRIDO MARTA N
$439,500
$400,000
18-FEB-10
TIMBERCREEK NORTH
3518 PINE HAVEN CIR
LEO DANIEL
ROBELEN CRAIG G
$610,000
$295,000
01-MAY-99
TIMBERCREEK NORTH
3494 PINE HAVEN CIR
LEONDIS MARY
MURPHY MARTIN J
$460,000
$230,000
01-JUL-99
TOWNSEND PLACE CONDOMINIUM
550 SE MIZNER BLVD APT B309
FRENCHMAN LAURIE
SALZMAN DOLORES L
$400,000
$480,000
22-OCT-08
TROPIC ISLE
982 MCCLEARY ST
SHEFET FLORENCE
DAVIDSON JOHN
$25,000
$1,385,000
TUNISON PALMS
814 NW 6TH DR
GRABER ASHLEIGH
CAVALLARO MAUREEN
$280,000
WOODFIELD CARRIAGE HOMES
4352 NW 29TH WAY
CASTRO SERGIO
THEAL SUSAN J
$563,000
WOODFIELD CC - HAMPTONS
3246 WESTMINSTER DR
MELTZER SUSAN B
RUSSELL JOHN H
$420,000
$99,450
WOODFIELD CC - HAMPTONS
5896 ST ANNES WAY
THEALL SUSAN J
GROSS ANDREW M
$607,500
$435,000
25-APR-01
WOODFIELD CC - HAMPTONS
5831 HAMILTON WAY
THALER JOSEPH
SOHIGIAN ARSEN
$800,000
$825,000
01-MAR-07
WOODFIELD CC - MAYFAIR
4268 NW 61ST LN
KARLIN RONALD A
KARLIN LOUISE
WOODFIELD CC - REGENTS SQUARE
5612 NW 38TH TER
REINGOLD MARTIN
SANDMAN JANET L
$480,000
WOODFIELD CC - SOMERSET
6524 NW 40TH CT
OLSON RONALD A
PASHCOW NEIL V INDIV TRUSTEE
$580,000
WOODFIELD CC - STRATFORD GREEN
3367 NW 53RD CIR
REIFINGER ROBIN
RAPHAN JANICE
$550,000
$490,000
14-DEC-09
WOODFIELD HUNT CLUB
3055 ST JAMES DR
GARCIA ROBERTO RIVERA
MANDEL BRADLEY S
$530,000
$575,000
26-MAY-10
WOODFIELD HUNT CLUB
3150 EQUESTRIAN DR
WILLIAMS KIMBERLY J
RINE SERAPHIM M INDIV TRUSTEE
$750,000
04-SEP-03 01-OCT-93 13-JAN-11
$30,000
07-JUL-03
16-OCT-06 $378,600
01-JUL-94 09-NOV-11
Source: Palm Beach County Property Appraiser
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Boca Raton’s High-5 Basketball Makes Sure No Kid Gets Stuck On The Sidelines BY EMILY J. MINOR ome big things start out with a small pang of indignation, and that’s how Boca Raton attorney Gary Cohen came up with the idea for High-5 Basketball. Cohen saw a young boy sitting on the sidelines during one of his kid’s sporting events, and he said to his wife, “What the heck?”
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Why isn’t that kid out there playing? His wife, Caren, found out why. “She told me the boy had a mild form of autism,” Cohen remembers. “And I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t understand why we couldn’t do more for these children.” So Cohen approached the organizers of another Boca charity, Boca Hoops, which at the time had been around for 15 years, and he asked about setting up a sports program for young athletes with special needs. The response? Great idea, but someone else has to do all the heavy lifting. And Cohen’s been lifting ever since. In the 10 years since he started the High5 program, hundreds of children have had the chance to play basketball during the regular fall season. In 2002, they had 22 athletes, five coaches and 28 B’ball 176
Buddies—local high school kids who mentor the special-needs athletes. This past year—their 10th—they had 90 athletes and 81 B’ball Buddies and coaches. For Cohen and the participants, it’s the buddy system that makes the program work, and makes the athletes feel mainstreamed. Each athlete gets assigned an on-court mentoring partner. (For some of the partners, it’s all in the family, with one, two or three siblings taking part in the program.) The partner is there to greet the athlete, and then help them get ready for the game and play on the court. “If the athlete doesn’t have the upperbody strength, they might help them shoot,” Cohen says. “The goal of the program is recreational sports for health purposes, but also for socialization purposes.” The reward for him is two-fold: To see the special needs kids playing ball, and to
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TEAM EFFORT: (Clockwise From Top) Coach Dave Komeluk and players Scott Rubin and Brett Williams; Williams and player Tony Marciano; Dani, Caren and Gary Cohen
watch his B’ball Buddies mature through the season. “It’s a real learning experience for them,” he says. Today, High-5 has four age brackets and four divisions, creating 16 teams. Most of their athletes have been diagnosed with autism or Down syndrome. In the spring, there’s a wheelchair division. Want to help? High-5 is a 501(C) charity with an annual budget of about $20,000. So they always need money for uniforms and plaques and end-ofseason pizza parties. But what Cohen really needs, he says, is more community interest and empathy. “The thing that’s most important to me is more advocacy,” he says. “We need more programs for this population.” O For more information about High-5 Basketball, call 561-395-7372, ext. 114 or visit bocahoops.com or high5basketball.com. Registration (at the Boca Raton Community High School cafeteria) begins April 14 for returning players and April 19 for new players. Registration is $50. The mailing address is P.O. Box 880572, Boca Raton, FL 33488.
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