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Contents 5 6 8 10 12 14
Balancing Fitness & Nutrition
Nutrition
By Casey Drake Peer MS, RD, LDN Chief Dietitian and Program Director Provision Health & Wellness
Survive Spring Allergies
Health
By Dr. Jeffrey Schlactus Board Certified Allergist The Allergy, Asthma & Sinus Center
March of Dimes Partnership Benefits All
Workplace
By Dr. Robert McLaughlin Medical Senior Director of the MidSouth Cigna Healthcare
OUTDOOR KNOXVILLE
Fitness
By Carol Evans Executive Director Legacy Parks Foundation
Enjoy Dogwood Arts Festival It’s Healthy!
Featuring Dogwood Arts Festival schedules
Community
Parents Influence Teens
Lifestyle
By Heather Sutton Project Director Metropolitan Drug Commission
Volume 2, Issue 2, 2012 Publisher Karen A. Ray Corporate Events, LLC. karen@HealthyLivingExtra.com Editor Rachel Martinez rachel@HealthyLivingExtra.com Graphic Designer Terri Conduff terri@tdc-comm.com Advertising 865-851-8141 advertise@HealthyLivingExtra.com Distribution Healthy Living Extra.com is a FREE publication distributed locally in Knoxville and vicinity. Views expressed in articles, photographs or advertisements are those of the author and not necessarily the opinions or position of the publisher. Reproduction or use of any part of the magazine without permission is prohibited. Editorial If you have a topic of interest for Healthy Living Extra.com, or photos of your healthy accomplishments submit them to “editor” and mail or e-mail to us. You may be featured in a future publication. All submissions remain with the magazine and will not be returned.
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Be sure to support the Dogwood Arts Festival this April. You will enjoy the numerous activities they have planned for you.
Casey Drake Peer Provision Health & Wellness Dr. Jeffrey Schlactus Allergy, Asthma & Sinus Center Dr. Robert McLaughlin CIGNA Healthcare Carol Evans Legacy Parks Foundation Heather Sutton Metropolitan Drug Commission
Nutrition
Balancing Fitness and Nutrition by Casey Drake Peer MS, RD, LDN Chief Dietitian and Director of Program Development Provision Health & Wellness
Leading a healthy lifestyle can be quite a challenge! In an effort to make the undertaking easier some concentrate only on fitness, others only on nutrition. They presume concentrating on one area will allow them to speed up their health goals. This is most certainly not the case. To achieve a truly healthy lifestyle and make longlasting changes balance is needed.
Balanced Fitness Balanced exercise requires a combination of cardiovascular fitness, strength training, core exercises, balance training, and flexibility and stretching. Incorporating variety in workouts by changing up exercises, intensity and environments not only challenges the body and speeds up results, but makes exercise more enjoyable and easier to stick with.
Balanced Nutrition Balanced nutrition requires adequate calories with balance and variety between food groups. A number of factors can impact what balanced nutrition may mean for you. Your age, lifestyle, health and weight will determine your personal nutritional needs. The following suggestions from the National Institutes of Health will benefit most people:
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Eat a variety of fruits and vegetables Get your calcium-rich foods Make half your grains whole Go lean with protein Know the limits on fats, salt, and sugars
Long-Term Success To achieve long-term success, it isn’t enough to have balance in one and not the other. We not only need balanced nutrition and balanced exercise, but we need a balance between nutrition and exercise. Working with a personal trainer and a dietitian can help. These professional are trained to work with you, and each other, to help you reach your goals.
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Surviving Spring Allergies The winter is a time many people with allergies feel relatively well. Although house dust, indoor mold, and animal dander exposure continue, there is little outdoors to provoke symptoms. This past winter was mild and as a result spring is upon us early this year. With these warmer temperatures and longer day comes pollen, and allergy sufferers are once again reminded why Knoxville is repeatedly ranked as one of the worst places for allergies. 6 HealthyLivingExtra.com â&#x20AC;˘ Spring Issue
By Dr. Jeffrey Schlactus
Types of Allergies
Trees are the earliest pollen producers, with significant levels found beginning in February. While there are over 50,000 different kinds of trees, less than 100 are responsible for causing allergies. Trees with fragrant, attractive flowers, such as Dogwoods and Bradford pears, rely on insects to disperse their pollen. As a result, little pollen becomes airborne and allergy to these trees is unusual. On the other hand, trees that have inconspicuous flowers rely on the wind to disperse their pollen. These trees release large quantities of pollen, leading to significant exposure and potential for allergy. There are exceptions however, for example Pine trees. While automobiles become covered with yellow pine pollen in the springtime, it typically does not trigger our immune system and allergy to Pine trees is unusual. Like us on Facebook.com/HealthyLivingExtra
Health Dealing with Symptoms
Allergies are treated in three ways: avoidance, medications, and allergy shots. Tree pollen is often released in greatest quantity in the morning and, when possible, limiting outdoor activities during those hours may be helpful. Keeping home and car windows closed is also important, even on beautiful spring days. Pollen can travel for miles in the air and so one can be affected by pollen released from distant trees. Whenever possible, it is wise not to have trees on your property that you are allergic to. Medications are helpful in decreasing the symptoms of allergies. Oral agents are available that are safe, generally free of side-effects such as drowsiness, and fairly effective. These include antihistamines as well as products like Singulair. Antihistamines administered by nasal spray are another option for some people. Nasal steroid sprays are generally the most potent medications, with several approved for use in children as young as two years of age. Allergy eye drops can help alleviate the sometimes very troublesome eye symptoms that can occur in the springtime, especially from tree pollen allergy.
Long-Term Solutions
Allergy injections are a good choice for many people. Whereas medications offer symptom control, allergy shots are the only treatment that has the potential for eliminating or at least lessening someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allergies, thereby decreasing symptoms and lessening the need for medication. Allergy shots tend to inhibit the development of new allergies. Over the past several years we have learned that allergy shots in childhood tend to decrease the risk of developing asthma, something which occurs in approximately 20% of children with nasal allergies. Allergies have become more common over the past number of years and are responsible for causing discomfort and significant loss of time from school and work. Effective treatments are available to improve quality of life and allow one to enjoy the beautiful East Tennessee springtime. Follow us on Twitter @HLEmag
(Dr. Jeffrey Schlactus is a board certified allergist with The Allergy, Asthma and Sinus Center. You can find more information about allergies and asthma at www.allergyasc.com.) www.HealthyLivingExtra.com
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March of Dimes Partnership Benefits All Dr. Robert McLaughlin, Cigna Medical Director
For a relationship to last, it must have positive benefits for both partners. Cignaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with the March of Dimes offers benefits for all. In the simplest terms, it has meant increased resources for the March of Dimes to further their mission of making sure that every baby is born as healthy as can be. Those resources have been substantialâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cigna, the Cigna Foundation and the people of Cigna have contributed more than $26 million dollars to support the March of Dimes since first becoming national sponsors. Benefits of this partnership go beyond the obvious good work the March of Dimes does for the health of babies and their moms. Our customers and clients, our employees and even our own success as a company all receive benefits from partnering with the
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March of Dimes. Of course these benefits are in many ways amplified for Cigna because we are a health benefits company. However, we think businesses of all kinds will enjoy similar results from partnering with the March of Dimes.
Benefits to Customers
In terms of benefit to our customers and clients: the major focus of the March of Dimes is the prevention of pre-term birth. Research shows that mothers of premature babies averaged 29.1 days away from work over the six months following delivery, compared to 18.9 days for mothers of fullterm babies. According to the March of Dimes, the simple wage-related costs of extra time on short-term disability average more than $1,500 per delivery, with total estimated impact potentially as high as $2,766 per delivery for each employee. This affects productivity and health costs, and that in turn affects the constant struggle employers face to contain costs. But thanks to the March of Dimes, things are getting better! Preterm birth rates
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improved in almost every state between 2006 and 2009, and in several states the change was more than 10 percent, according to the March of Dimes 2011 Premature Birth Report Card. The nation’s preterm birth rate has declined nearly 5 percent from the 2006 peak of 12.8 percent.
Benefits for Employees
Our support for the March of Dimes has offered tremendous benefit for our employees as well. The healthy baby mission of the March of Dimes is one that people throughout our company are very passionate about. And the March of Dimes organization has the expertise to help employers maximize this enthusiasm in a way that really builds a spirit of teamwork among employees. This in turn increases job satisfaction enhancing productivity across an entire enterprise.
Company Successes
In addition, our link to the March of Dimes has contributed to Cigna’s success by helping us
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demonstrate our commitment not only to babies and their mothers, but to our communities as well. When our employees put on their Team Cigna t-shirts and join their colleagues to take part March for Babies events in their home towns, it’s a living, breathing advertisement that expresses exactly what our company is about. Good for our customers. Good for our people. Good for us. And, most importantly, good for the countless mothers and babies who are being helped by the March of Dimes. That’s a Win Win Win Win! And it’s one that companies everywhere can share.
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Fitness
OUTDOORKNOXVILLE By Carol Evans
Knoxville takes the first step toward putting itself on the map as a premier outdoor recreation community with the launch of Outdoor Knoxville, a three-pronged initiative to capitalize on the exceptional outdoor recreational assets found in and around Knoxville. It includes a new adventure center, a website and a three-day festival this summer.
OUTDOOR KNOXVILLE ADVENTURE CENTER
The most visible presence for Outdoor Knoxville will be the Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center to be created in the city-owned Gateway Pavilion Building at Volunteer Landing. Legacy Parks Foundation - a Knoxville-based non-profit focused on expanding parks, open space and recreational opportunities - will operate the center in partnership with River Sports Outfitters. The Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center will serve as the recreational hub for not only Knoxville but also the entire region. It is centrally located with easy connections to downtown Knoxville, the University of Tennessee, I-40, and all the trails and greenways on both sides of the river. Outdoor Knoxville will be a destination through a unique mix of boutique retail, outdoor equipment rentals and sales, and local events and excursions. Legacy Parks Foundation will locate its office on the second level and manage the space for public events and activities. The theater and large room will be made available for public use. Recreational, civic and community groups will be encouraged to hold meetings in the space for a nominal charge. These rentals for business and private functions would generate revenue to support Legacy Parks Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations and mission.
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Fitness River Sports Outfitters, a 29-year-old recreational retailer and outdoor excursion provider in Knoxville, will manage the first level. They will feature boat and stand-up paddleboard and bike rentals, as well as retail space offering outdoor gear and equipment. Premium outdoor brands Patagonia, The North Face, Smart Wool and Mountain Hardware will create boutique concept shops within the River Sports Outfitters retail space. In addition to the rental and retail components, Legacy Parks Foundation and River Sports Outfitters will offer public programs and group outings from the facility. Maps, directions and general information about recreational opportunities throughout the region will be provided at an information center in the building. Outdoor-related events held at the facility will bring people down to the waterfront and get them out to play. OUTDOORKNOXVILLE.COM The second element of the Outdoor Knoxville initiative is a new website, OutdoorKnoxville. com. It is a robust, comprehensive portal to all outdoor recreational activities, venues, and events in our region. This highly interactive website has gathered information, videos, photos, and other related content from a broad and inclusive variety of sources, creating an easy-to-use resource for all levels of outdoor adventurers. Visit www.outdoorknoxville.com/ OutdoorKnoxville.com will position Knoxville, and the region, as a recreational destination by showcasing the abundance of parks, trails, greenways, activities, and amenities that we enjoy in Knoxville. OUTDOOR KNOXFEST A three-day event will be held Aug. 24 -26, promoting a variety of outdoor recreational venues and opportunities throughout East Tennessee, encouraging people of all levels of experience to participate. The Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center will be the hub of these activities. The events will include an all-day adventure race, bike rides, hikes, walks, boating, and family activities. This event will attract participants from throughout the region, including Asheville, Atlanta and Nashville. Legacy Parks Foundation has been actively working to make East Tennessee a recreational destination of the Southeast. Over the past five years the Foundation has raised more than $3 million for parks, greenways and recreational venues, added more than 200 acres of parkland to Knox County. Follow us on Twitter @HLEmag
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Enjoy The Dogwood Arts Festival, Its Healthy! Knoxville celebrates its 52nd Dogwood Arts Festival this April. This annual celebration of springtime in East Tennessee is conducted by a not-for-profit organization committed to supporting arts education in our schools, promoting the visual and performing arts in our communities, and preserving and enhancing our region’s natural beauty. So what does an arts festival have to do with being healthy? Art, culture and community can improve health and bring balance to our lives. “To change people’s health, we need to change the way people think about themselves, their neighbors and their community. Art is a fun, positive way to get people to think and feel differently,” says UC San Francisco anthropologist Chris Kiefer. Knoxville is fortunate to have a festival that continues to grow and one that includes artists of all age groups and backgrounds, and art in a great variety of forms. Dogwood Arts Executive Director Lisa Duncan and hundreds of volunteers have implemented many new ideas. “We are proud of our festival’s healthy initiatives, such as opening more trails to walkers and bicycle riders. We are excited to host events such as the Dogwood Mile and Bikes & Blooms, while promoting taking advantage of our many outdoor recreational opportunities including our beautiful lakes, rivers, greenways and parks during the spring time,” Duncan says. Another healthful example is the Bazillion Blooms tree-planting program, which has resulted in the planting of more than 4,000 dogwood trees since its implementation in 2009. This endeavor not only beautifies the community, it promotes environmental health and fosters community support and pride. These trees provide cleaner air, raise property values and offer
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Community Dogwood Arts Festival 2012 Events April 6 April 11-30 April 13-15 April 13-15 April 20-22 April 21 April 24 April 27 April 27 April 28-29 April 28-29 May 3 May 4-25
Art in Public Places, Nexus, Regional Fine Art & Student Art Exhibition Dogwood Trails, Open Gardens & Camera Sites Market Square Art Fair Bus Tours of the Dogwood Trails Rhythm N’ Blooms Chalk Walk A Very Special Arts Festival Dogwood Mile & Party on the Square Dogwood Parade Bikes & Blooms Dogwood Art DeTour Diva Luncheon Art Source Exhibition Opening
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Bazillion Blooms
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beautiful reasons to go outside for a healthful walk. The Dogwood Arts Festival invites you to participate, volunteer, absorb, be enlightened and enjoy the gifts and beauty of our community. Noted commentator Paul Harvey once said, “There’s something about Knoxville that makes dogwood trees grow taller. Blossoms are giant sized!” We think it could be the atmosphere of community spirit and the plethora of activities the festival provides during this beautiful season that helps create those giant dogwood blossoms on those lovely, tall trees. Follow us on Twitter @HLEmag
Following are a few highlights of the 2012 Dogwood Arts Festival produced by our local Arts Partners & Friends. For a complete listing visit: www.dogwoodarts.com DOGWOOD TRAILS, OPEN GARDENS, AND CAMERA SITES April 11-30: Explore over 60 miles of trails, open gardens, camera sites, and historic homes as you enjoy a walk, bike ride, or drive. Westmoreland is the 2012 featured trail DOGWOOD MILE & PARTY ON THE SQUARE April 27: Walk, jog, or sprint through the streets of downtown Knoxville in this familyfriendly race. Registration required BIKES & BLOOMS April 28 & 29: Experience the Dogwood trails the lean, green way – on a bicycle by way of an organized or self-guided ride www.HealthyLivingExtra.com 13
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Teen Drinking
Parents Influence Teens by Heather Sutton
As prom and graduation season approaches, the Metropolitan Drug Commission encourages parents to talk with their kids about the health and safety risks of underage drinking. According to the 2011 Knox County Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 31.5 percent of high school students have used alcohol within the past month. Of those, nearly one in five say they participated in binge drinking, consuming five or more drinks within a couple of hours. Frequent binges can lead to irregular heart rhythms, raised blood pressure, liver disease, blood clots and stoke. Plus, teens that drink heavily during high school are more likely to be overweight and have high blood pressure by age 24.
Underage Drinking - A Real Danger
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pregnancy, sexual assault, alcohol poisoning, seizures and even death. In addition, teens that drink before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependence problems later in life, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Talking with Your Teen
When is the right time to discuss underage drinking? These days, the “right time” may be earlier than you think. First-time alcohol use often begins during the “tween” years. Children begin to view alcohol more positively between ages 10 and 11. In Knoxville, 10 percent of middle school students say they took their first sip of alcohol before age 11. “It’s never too early to have a discussion about underage drinking,” Karen Pershing, executive director of the Metropolitan Drug Commission said. “As teens get older, their peers begin to sway their opinion about alcohol. Intervening before your child reaches middle school can make the greatest impact.” Like us on Facebook.com/HealthyLivingExtra
Teen Drinking According to the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, teens with “hands-on” parents have a 25 percent lower risk of smoking, drinking and using drugs than those with “hands-off” parents. However, most parents feel ill-equipped to address alcohol use. A 2009 study conducted by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and MetLife Foundation indicates that more than one in five parents feel powerless to prevent their kids from trying alcohol. When it comes to talking about alcohol, parents often don’t know where to start or how to begin. A few practical tips can ease your concerns and help lead you through this important conversation: • Be Open- Make your child feels comfortable talking to you about drinking as well as other difficult issues they may face as teens. • Explain Your Concern- Talk about the health and safety risks that come along with drug use and underage drinking. • Stay Calm- Your child may admit to things you don’t want to hear. Allow them to be honest without the risk of punishment. Teens are more likely to open up in a safe, non-threatening environment. • Offer Your Support- Let your child know that you’re in their corner and want to help them make healthy decisions. • Establish Clear Rules- Implement a “zero tolerance” policy when it comes to drug, alcohol and tobacco use. Make sure your teen understands the consequences for breaking those rules. • Be a Role Model- You are a living, breathing example for your child. Parents must “walk the walk” and “talk the talk” by avoiding excessive and unsafe drinking habits.
More Help for Parents Parents should remain on high alert during prom and graduation season. Watch for the classic warning signs, such as slurred speech, staggering, sudden mood changes, trouble concentrating, memory loss and vomiting. Bloodshot eyes or the smell of alcohol on one’s breath should raise a red flag. Follow us on Twitter @HLEmag
If your teen is heading to a post-prom or graduation party, find out where they are going and who they are with. Call the hosting parents and share your rules and expectations. Make sure adult supervision will be available to ensure the party remains alcohol-free. “They say it takes a village to raise a child,” Pershing said. “When parents band together, it sends a very strong message to teens that drug and alcohol use will not be tolerated.” For more parent tips, visit the “What You Can Do” tab at www.metrodrug.org or call (865) 588-5550.
The Metropolitan Drug Commission is the only local non-profit agency that offers communitydirected, family-driven and youth-focused strategies to prevent substance abuse in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since 1986, MDC has served the community by educating; advocating for treatment and prevention services; and providing a forum in which members from all sectors of the community come together to address alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. For more information, visit www.metrodrug.org. www.HealthyLivingExtra.com 15
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