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Aerobic exercise elevates HDL (good) cholesterol to remove fat from blood vessels and improve cerebral blood flow; further it improves the utilization, uptake, and function of glucose — the brain’s main energy source. This allows the brain to function more efficiently, without accumulating the toxins and free radicals associated with excess unused glucose. In a nutshell, exercise tones your brain and your body.”

“Whatever the goal is — a new year, a new us — we need to know (that) I need to think a new way and I need to change some behaviors. It’s really like laying out our own strategic plan.” — Ann Wilder, director of Eastside Medical Center’s Heritage Behavioral Health Services

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— Marshall Nash, MD Gwinnett Medical Center-affiliated neurologist

The No. 1 way to improve health is to drop bad habits, like smoking, and form healthy ones, like exercise. Exercise is a ‘cornerstone’ habit because it often leads to the adoption of other healthy habits. Moderate exercise three or four times a week for about a half hour each interval is a start.”

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— Martin Austin, MD, hospitalist at Gwinnett Medical Center

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While there are a number of tips on managing weight, here are a few to focus on: Slow down while you eat, be prepared by planning meals, carry snacks in case meals are delayed, discover activities to enjoy other than food and finally, don’t feel guilty if you fall off the wagon.” — Renee Covey, registered dietitian with Gwinnett Medical Center’s Center for Surgical Weight Management

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In order to improve heart health, it is important to manage traditional risk factors by maintaining a lowfat diet, exercising regularly, refraining from smoking, and controlling diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol. However, I also challenge people to reduce stress and achieve peace of mind; the impact can be profound. Stress may produce physical or psychological damage over time. Furthermore, making this one change helps modify all of the above risk factors in a positive way, thus improving cardiovascular health.”

It’s a new year and a time — Sreeni Gangasani, MD, when many people make Gwinnett Medical Center cardiologist resolutions. Perhaps those resolutions may be We all have energy running related to health, through our whether it’s to stop bodies and when that smoking or to eat energy becomes stuck, stale or stagnant it can cause physical healthier. ailments. For example when you are under a lot With that in mind, of stress one of the first physical signs are usually the Daily Post gives gastrointestinal issues. The digestive track is very readers some vulnerable to stress.” advice on becom— Destiny Kelley, certified health coach, certified worksite wellness specialist. ing a new you in the For more advice from Destiny Kelley, see page 2C. new year.

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Keep positive energy flowing in the new year By Deanna Allen

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The health connections between the body, mind and spirit are interwoven and quite fascinating, Destiny Kelley said. The Peachtree Corners resident, who holds a bachelor of science, is a certified health coach, a certified worksite wellness specialist, a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and a certified Reiki practitioner. “In order keep yourself

healthy you must take care of your mind, body and spirit,” Kelley said. “We all have energy running through our bodies and when that energy becomes stuck, stale or stagnant it can cause physical ailments. For example when you are under a lot of stress one of the first physical signs are usually gastrointestinal issues. The digestive track is very vulnerable to stress.” Kelley said children — and adults — often show signs of stress with a “tummy ache” and that there are advantages to treating the

whole person, not just the ailment or disease. For the new year — and the new you — Kelley offers five ways to keep positive energy flowing through the body. 1. Feed the body and the soul. While eating fresh fruits, vegetables and avoiding processed food is one way to detox your body, detoxing your spiritual life can be just as easy, Kelley said. Take a break from your electronics and put away the phone and the tablet. Avoid watching violent movies or

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playing violent video games and spend time reading a spiritual book, praying or meditating. “Just 10 to 30 minutes a day can do wonders,” she said. 2. Breathe. “Just breathe,” Kelley said, “but with the intention of clearing out the negative energy and replacing it with positive energy.” She suggests sitting in a comfortable position in a quiet room. “Close your eyes, but your hand on your abdomen and breathe in and out slowly,” she said. “As you breathe in expand your belly out against your hand and as you exhale relax. Imagine a strong white light emanating from the sky into the top of your head and running down your spine. The light shines with glowing energy washing away the bad day, the hurtful things others have said and will refresh you.” Kelley suggests spending 10 minutes each day breathing in the good and releasing the bad. 3. Get outside. Physical activity causes a physical and chemical reaction in the brain, releasing endorphins, or “feel good” chemicals, Kelley said. But there’s more you can do than just exercise. “Sure you can walk on a treadmill in the gym,” Kelley said, “but when is the last time you walked in a park without your ear phones?” Kelley suggests leaving the music at home and taking a walk outside or a hike in the woods. Ask yourself what you see, hear and smell. “Take note of the wonders around you and appreciate your neighborhood, a local park or a hike in the woods,” Kelley said. 4. Volunteer your time.

Destiny Kelley suggests spending 10 minutes each day breathing in the good and releasing the bad. (Special Photo)

“Nothing can make us appreciate our circumstances more than helping others,” Kelley said. “Although the holidays have passed organizations need help year round.” Kelley suggests volunteering at a soup kitchen or cooking a meal for an elderly neighbor. Take your children to the local animal shelter and help walk the dogs. Or organize a neighborhood “Care Team.” “When you hear about a neighbor who is having a hard time, have a group of people who can reach out to them,” Kelley said. “One family can cook a meal, another can get their mail while their out of town, and have someone bring them flowers or mow their lawn. “It’s the little things we can do that can make a difference in someone’s life,” she added.

5. When you are feeling spiritually and emotionally drained, reach out. Kelley suggests calling a spiritual leader or someone from your religious community or reaching out to someone who specializes in clearing negative energy. “Reiki practitioners work with the body’s energy,” Kelley said. Reiki is an Eastern technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by a certified Reiki practitioner and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through each us and is what causes us to be alive. The idea is that if one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

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Make SMART healthy changes in 2014 By Deanna Allen

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When making changes in the new year, Ann Wilder said there are a few factors to consider. Wilder, who is the director of Eastside Medical Center’s Heritage Behavioral Health Services, said before making a change one should ask: Am I mak-

ing this change for me or am I making this change for another Ann Wilder reason? “Unless I can incorporate some personal value, the change won’t stick anyway,” she said. “The goal has to be

for us.” If making the change for oneself, Wilder said, one should then take the SMART approach — the goal must be specific, measurable, achievable, responsible and based on a timeline. “It really isn’t complicated,” Wilder said. “Whatever the goal is — a new year, a new us — we need

to know (that) I need to think a new way and I need to change some behaviors. It’s really like laying out our own strategic plan.” Wilder said if one can’t accomplish a goal, there’s typically an underlying reason. “What I would always encourage people to do is let’s figure out what that underlying reason is.

There’s really no reason we can’t accomplish what we want in life. Any kind of a barrier or fear, most of that can be dispelled with new ideas and new information. We need to spend enough time to get new information. That’s a component that I think we forget to include in our new year, new you plan is if I don’t get new information, I’m

just going to keep doing things the same way over and over and over.” Wilder also encourages being proud of what is accomplished, even if it’s not the specific goal that was set. “One success is a stepping stone to the next success,” Wilder said, “and then that success is a stepping stone to the next one.”

pledged to remove 1 trillion calories from the U.S. marketplace by 2012 and 1.5 trillion by 2015, compared with a 2007 baseline. In fact, as of 2012 they sold 6.4 trillion fewer calories, found an analysis by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The companies say they accomplished this through changes ranging from reducing the sugar in chocolatemilk powder to introducing more ice-cream products

with built-in portion control. “Reports like this, and the fact that they exceeded their commitment by four-fold, really shows that you can make progress in giving American families more healthy options,” said Larry Soler, president of the Partnership for a Healthier America, a non-profit chaired by first lady Michelle Obama. The group was formed in 2010 to work with the private sector on anti-obesity strategies. At the time the Partnership

was launched, critics said it relied too heavily on industry good will and called instead for stricter regulation on food production and marketing. Even with the companies’ success so far in reducing the calories they sell, some experts still warn that voluntary efforts by industry “are not a magic bullet,” said Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America’s Health, a nonprofit policy group. “Particularly with kids, there is a role for regulation” in reducing

demand for unhealthy, highcalorie fare. It is not clear yet how the companies accomplished the dramatic reduction, said UNC public health researcher Barry Popkin, who led the analysis funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest public health philanthropy. Some of the decline may have come from the recession, as financially-strapped families cut back on junk food. When the pledge was announced, companies said they would substitute lowercalorie products, re-engineer existing products to cut their calories, and reduce portion size, such as with the popular 100-calorie packs of cookies and other snacks. Popkin and his team have found that beverage companies are producing more drinks that have both sugar and artificial sweeteners and, therefore, fewer calories than sugar-only drinks. They are also “shifting advertising to lower-calorie beverages,” he said, as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo both did. The biggest reduction in calories sold was to households with young children. “It seems to be parents who are driving the calorie reductions,” Popkin said. Several participating companies made lower-calorie versions of their popular foods. Last winter, General Mills introduced 80-calorie Fiber One chocolate cereal (other cereals in the Fiber One line have 170 to 220 calories, though the “serving” size is also larger). It has rolled out a 90-calorie Fiber One brownie, 100-calorie Yoplait Greek yogurt

(versus 140 in the original) and 90-calorie Yoplait light (versus 170). The introductions have been hits with consumers. The brownies “generated more than $100 million in retail sales in their first year,” said General Mills spokeswoman Kris Patton, while Yoplait Greek 100 “reached $150 million, making it the single largest new-product launch for Yoplait in 20 years.” Nestle USA has reduced the sugar content of its Nesquik chocolate powder more than 25 percent since 2000 and intends to cut it another 15 to 20 percent this year. Its Stouffer’s brand of meals has less fat, and it now counts more than 30 ice cream products from its Dreyer’s, Haagen-Dazs and other lines which come in single-serve cups or bars or are otherwise portion-controlled: when people dig ice cream out of a 48-ounce tub or even a pint, they consume an average of at least two servings. Coca-Cola is “offering low- and no-calorie options for nearly all of our brands,” said Sandy Douglas, president of Coca-Cola North America, and those drinks “now represent nearly onethird of our beverage volume in North America.” Smaller sizes such as 7.5-ounce “mini cans” of Coke, Sprite and other sodas have helped consumers imbibe. However, the reduction in calories sold may not yet move the needle for the more than two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or obese. The 6.4 trillion fewer calories works out to 78 fewer calories per person per day.

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Gwinnett Tech student named EAGLE delegate Gwinnett Technical College student Syedah Hill has been named one of Georgia’s 2014 EAGLE delegates for her outstanding performance in adult education. EAGLE stands for Exceptional Adult Georgian in Literacy Education, and the award recognizes the educational achieveSyedah Hill ment and outstanding leadership skills demonstrated by students who are in the process of studying for or have earned their GED credential at one of Georgia’s 24 technical colleges. One of Hill’s instructors, Judith Plumb, nominated the New York native to represent GTC because of her dedication, which includes commuting by bus from Atlanta three

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save money, go back to school, earn my bachelor’s degree and become a family counselor,” she said.

Parent from Kanoheda given state award A Gwinnett parent was recently awarded a Georgia Parent Leadership Award by the Georgia Department Keith Farner of Education. Mariana Hernandezdays per week. Goodwin, who represents “Syedah knows what she Kanoheda Elementary, was wants for her future and is one of six award recipients doing what is necessary to for outstanding leadership achieve her goals,” Plumb in creating a foundation of said in a news release. support for student achieveHill dropped out of ment and success. school as a child, but The recipients were earned and certificate in scheduled to receive the medical assisting, and later honor during a ceremony her GED, which she didn’t on Saturday during the think was possible. Hill 2014 Georgia Family credited the GED prepaEngagement Conference ration program at GTC in front of 1,000 registered for offering her support parents and educators. and encouragement in the Parent leaders are process. nominated each November “There are so many during Georgia’s Parent things I want to do: Get a Engagement Month by job as a medical assistant, public school personnel.

Any caregiver who assumes the responsibility for nurturing and caring for a student’s entire well-being consisting of educational, emotional, spiritual and physical health is eligible for the honor. The Georgia Parent

Leadership Awards are given each year to six parents representing Title I schools and non-Title I schools. “We know that when parents are actively engaged in their child’s education that students do better in school and are

more successful in future grades,” State School Superintendent John Barge said in a news release. Keith Farner writes about education. Good News from Schools appears in the Sunday edition of the Daily Post.

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LAWRENCEVILLE — The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office is asking locals to consider joining an organization that helps pay for training and other programs across the state. The Georgia Sheriffs’ Association is accepting applications for 2014 honorary members. Annual dues of $20 include a membership card, bumper sticker, window decal, one-year subscription to the group’s quarterly magazine and the

opportunity to purchase a members-only auto tag. In Gwinnett, 758 members will be receiving renewal notices. Above all, the program supports a number of training, education and youth programs throughout the state. Those include: • The C.H.A.M.P.S. program, which provides elementary school children special curricula concerning healthy, drug-free and nonviolent activities promoting safety. • The Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes, which

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Heritage center to host Build It Green event By Deanna Allen deanna.allen@ gwinnettdailypost.com

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center is hosting special activities Jan. 20 in which guests can explore the green features of the 65,000-square-foot multiuse building in Buford. The event, Build It Green, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and focuses on science, technology, engineering and math. Participants will construct a model building using recycled materials, learn what architecture and ecosystems have to do with each other and look at the importance of green building methods in relation to watersheds. Green features of the

IF YOU GO • What: Build It Green • When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 20 • Where: Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center, 2020 Clean Water Drive in Buford • Cost: $5 for those 13 and older, $3 for children ages 3 to 12 and free for children 2 and younger, as well as center members • For more information: Call 770-904-3500 or visit www.gwinnettehc.org

facility include LEED certification, a green roof that is the largest sloped vegetative roof in the Southeast region, a water feature that plays an integral role in heating and cooling the building, pervious pavement and energy-efficient lighting.

“The whole day is just a host of activities connected to science, technology, engineering and math that families can do and enjoy together,” Jason West, director of programming for the center. Looking to get a sneak preview of the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center’s new exhibit Amusement Park Science? The center will also offer activities during the July 20 event to preview the new exhibit opening in February. Admission to the Build It Green event is $5 for ages 13 and older, $3 for ages 3 to 12 and free for children two and younger and center members. For more information on the event, as well as

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center’s green roof, pictured here, is just one of the innovative green building techniques Gwinnett residents can learn about at the Build It Green event Jan. 20. (Special Photo)

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Annual tree recycling program ends this week By Keith Farner

Fire Station 14, 1600 U.S. Highway 23, 30518 Fire Station 24, 2735 Mall If you’re looking to of Georgia Blvd., 30519 recycle your live Christmas Fire Station 29, 2800 tree for parks and trails in Thompson Mill Road, 30519 Gwinnett County, this week Dacula is your last chance. Fire Station 17, 2739 Gwinnett Clean and Brooks Road, 30019 Beautiful’s “Bring One for Fire Station 27, 2825 Old the Chipper” Christmas tree Fountain Road, 30019 recycling program, in its Duluth 30th year, is underway at loFire Station 5, 3001 Old cations across Gwinnett. The Norcross Road, 30096 program began in 1984 as a Fire Station 7, 3343 Bunpartnership between Gwinton Road, 30096 nett Clean and Beautiful, Fire Station 19, 3275 N. local governments, Georgia Berkeley Lake Road, 30096 Power and Jackson EMC to Grayson reduce the illegal dumping Fire Station 8, 2295 Branof trees on roadsides. Trees nan Road, 30017 will be accepted through Hoschton Friday. Fire Station 18, 1515 MinUnadorned live trees will eral Springs Road, 30548 be converted into mulch that Lawrenceville will be used for walking Fire Station 9, 1900 Five trails and to beautify Gwin- Forks-Trickum Road, 30044 nett parks. Fire Station 15, 275 S. For the last nine years, Perry St., 30046 Gwinnettians have recycled Fire Station 20, 1801 the most trees in the state, Cruse Road, 30044 and Gwinnettians recycle Fire Station 25, 3575 one of out every six trees in Lawrenceville Highway, the state. 30044 GCB officials have said Lilburn the average Christmas tree Fire Station 2, 12 Harmoweighs 20 pounds and fills ny Grove Road, 30047 up almost as much landfill Fire Station 3, 4394 Five space as a washing maForks-Trickum Road, 30047 chine. Fire Station 22, 2180 The “Bring One for the Stone Drive, 30047 Chipper” event is also lookLoganville ing for volunteers for the reFire Station 28, 3725 cycling event from 9 a.m. to Rosebud Road, 30052 noon on Jan. 25 at Bethesda Fire Station 30, 1052 Park in Lawrenceville, near Ozora Road, 30052 the soccer fields. Volunteers Norcross will aid in chipping recycled Fire Station 1, 165 LawChristmas trees into mulch. renceville St., 30071 GCB officials recommend Fire Station 4, 5550 that volunteers bring gloves Spalding Drive, 30092 and wear long pants, thick Fire Station 11, 5885 Live closed-toe shoes and warm Oak Parkway, 30093 layers. Fire Station 23, 4355 Volunteers must be 14 Steve Reynolds Blvd., 30093 years or older, and must arPeachtree Corners rive with a signed volunteer Fire station 4, 5550 Spaldrelease form in hand in order ing Drive to take part in the event. Snellville Business groups, church Fire Station 6, 3890 Johngroups, civic organizations, son Drive, 30039 neighborhood associations Fire Station 12, 2815 Leand school clubs of four or nora Church Road, 30078 more participants are also Sugar Hill welcome to take part in this Fire Station 26, 6075 Suevent. wanee Dam Road, 30518 Christmas tree drop-off Suwanee sites in Gwinnett County: Fire Station 21, 474 Old Buford Peachtree Road, 30024 keith.farner@ gwinnettdailypost.com

PET OF THE WEEK

Each week the Gwinnett Daily Post will feature an animal available for adoption at the Georgia SPCA, which is located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, Suwanee, GA 30024. The hours of operation are Mondays through Fridays 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sundays 1 until 4 p.m. You can see the rest of the adoptable cats and dogs at www.georgiaspca.org.

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This week’s pet is Riley. He is a domestic short hair cat that came to us from Stephens County Animal Control. He is about six months old.

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