Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 126, Number 41, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 October 2003 — Page 4

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■health Wm W ttwy„ W W! by Dr. Song Yu and Dr. Michael Borger

Making Lifestyle Changes to Promote a Healthy Future

Maximum Health is doing everything we can to be as healthy as possible. We recently talked about the importance of catching health problems early to achieve MaximumHealth. We stressed how important it is to treat health problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and low thyroid. An important question is: what lifestyle changes can we make to promote a healthy future? Medical research clearly shows the difference between a healthy lifestyle and one that promotes disease. The key factors are healthy diet, exercise, sufficient vitamin and mineral intake, normal weight, avoidance of tobacco and drugs, good amount of sleep, and healthy balance in daily routine. Healthy diet includes sufficient intake of three food sources: protein, fats, and carbohydrates. These three substances - plus vegetable matter - make up the food that we eat. It is important that we have a good balance of these basic nutritional building blocks to maintain a healthy body. Our bodies are designed to move. That is why over 60% of the body’s lean body mass is bone, muscle, and related structures. It is important that we move our bodies sufficiently every day to Challenge our heart and lungs to work and stay in condition. Exercise also helps to move our circulation to distribute nutrients and eliminate waste products. Exercise thus is very important to create and maintain Maximum Health. Today's diet often consists of fast food, prepackaged food, and processed food. The result is many vitamins, minerals and trace elements may be lacking in today’s diet. A daily supplement of multivitamin

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plus minerals and trace elements promotes Maximum Health. Being overweight causes many health problems. If we cany more weight than is healthy, we overstress our bodies. This causes premature aging and poor health. Normalizing weight is a critical part of promoting Maximum Health. Tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use all produce toxins that poison the body. Use of these substances is often addictive, making us slaves to habits that ruin our health. Creating Maximum Health makes avoiding these substances very important. Sleep is how our bodies rest and recharge to recover from the day’s activities. Sleep also prepares us for the next day’s challenges. Getting enough sleep is very important to creating Maximum Health. Our daily routine needs to be balanced between work and play, serious and fun, and thinking deeply versus relaxing in neutral. We can improve our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health by working toward balance in our daily routine. Take some time every day to think, pray, read scripture, and just have fun. Spending time with our spouses and families is very important as well. Through balancing our lifestyle we create Maximum Health. Remember - hold fast, stand firm, and persevere! ABOUT THE DOCTORS: Dr. Michael Borger and Dr. Song Yu are Board Certified in Family Practice and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment. They work to promote medical care based on health promotion - for people to enjoy Maximum Health! They can be reached at Northwood Physicians in Nappanee, Indiana (574) 773-4151 or email at [email protected]

NAME OF I HOPE WHOEVER. AH UNDERCOVER AGENT PIP IT GET* xsus?ecr IT** THE ONE THING SENIOR ADMINISTRATION SOTHE£S OFFICIAL WHO JL ME,THOUGH'- STOLE

The day my life and my computer shut down

"Hello," said a computerized voice. "This is your computer support line. Please have the serial number and product number ready for our technician." As I was scurrying to my small tower, the phone cradled to my ear, to find the needed information, a piano concerto began to serenade me. I was humming the tune when a technician came on the line. "Good morning," he said. "Please give me your phone number and serial number.” After I gave him the needed information, he asked, "Is your computer still under warranty?" "Well, not exactly," I confided. "However, Til pay any price if you'll answer my question. You can have my credit card number and even go shopping with it, if you'll only give me some help." With a sinister laugh, he stated, "So you're not under warranty. Well, you can no longer call our toll free number. Let me give you another number." "Will they answer my question?" I asked. With another chuckle, he retorted, "If you've got the time, they've got an answer. Whether it's the correct answer is anybody's guess. By the way, it's 35 cents a minute. Happy waiting." I dialed the number quickly. Although I don't know why I was in such a hurry. I was in. for a very long wait. However, the music was'mueh-better, easy listening from the 60s and 70s. I can'gerrntO’theßer' Gees big time. In a few hours a cheerful voice greeted me. "Good morning," she cooed. "My name's Nancy."

The green leafy art of salad making

Because people are more health and diet conscious, salads have never been more popular than they are today. Not only are salads nutritious and tasty, they are economical and easy to prepare. One of the best things about salads is that you don’t have to be a culinary genius to concoct a really good salad. For that matter, you don’t even have to follow a recipe if you have a little imagination

and a flair for which tastes blend together. With so many greens available at most supermarkets, there’s opportunity galore for mixing new tastes and textures. Leafy greens are rich in vitamin

A, a vitamin necessary for the maintenance of mucous membranes such as those in the sinuses, and it helps the eyes adapt from bright sun to dim light. Iceberg lettuce is the most common green salad ingredient, but chicory, sorrel, dandelion greens, watercress and romaine all can add variety and new tastes to ordinary salads. When choosing let-

Years Ago

120 YEARS AGO; OCTOBER 11, 1883 •Fashion Notes: The English turban is a very popular hat this season. Delicate nuns’gray kid sandals are worn over silk stockings of pale lilac, black, or dark red. Cloaks of golden fawn colored cashmere, lined with deep cardinal red are the latest in stylish traveling wraps. Spanish jewelry showing large leaves and flowers, studded with tiny diamonds and pearls are in high vogue. Walking dresses of golden brown velvet are popular. 100 YEARS AGO; OCTOBER 7,1903 •John Stauffer of Nappanee has been chosen by W.W. Stevens of the Agriculture & Live stock commission for the St. Louis World’s Fair to assist him in collecting the exhibits to be made in that department. 75 YEARS AGO; OCTOBER 11,1928 •A coon chase will be staged at East Side Park on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Bring your dog and try this new sport,promoted by Loyal Haines and Everett Lutes. Two prizes will be awarded in every heat. 50 YEARS AGO; OCTOBER 8,1953 • A road for Amish buggies into Nappanee was advocated by Mel

The Years Ago segments have been researched and posted by Margaret England-Neff and by Kylie Carter. They appear just as they did in archived issues, typos and all.

Opinion

Extension Education Mory Lianhart .Cross Elkhart County _

"You're a little late," I stated in a surly tone. "It's already afternoon." "How time flies when you're having a good time," she remarked with a titter. "How can 1 help you?" "Well, my computer tells me that file DLEPZ will not open and then it freezes up." "Oh, my," she answered. "You have quite a seri-

ous internal problem." "Yes, I believe I've got an ulcer. But what about my computer?" "Well, try turning it off, letting it reset, and then turning it on again." "It's back on again, but the same message keeps popping up and it's already frozen."

"Get it a jacket" She laughed for about five minutes over her clever wit Then on a serious note, she added, "I don't know whether I've got the technical skills to help you on this one. I believe I'm going to have to transfer you to another technician. It will be a few minutes longer." "No! No! Please donit do that!" It w.as too late. The Beach Boys came on sfriging ( "I wish they all could ■bfrtalifornia'girls: v.“ I knew I was in a pickle. Many hours later, when I was asleep at my keyboard with the phone stuck to my ear, a voice said, "Is anyone there?"

tuce, choose a light, loose head; it will be sweeter and richer in vitamin A than a heavy, packed one. Also, regardless of what type you use, tear the leaves rather than cutting them. Cut greens lose moisture and wilt quicker. And, the moisture lost from the greens will dilute your dressing. Even though tomatoes can’t be beaten as a colorful and nutritious ingredient, think beyond toma-

available. Vegetables not only change the flavor of the salad, they can make a standard salad into a main part of the meal. Fresh or canned fruits make delicious additions to salads. Fruits add color, crispness and taitness as well as vitamins and minerals to your salad. Fruits such as citrus and certain berries, like strawberries and blueberries, are especially rich sources of vita-

The Last Word usune Lecnnmer Columnist

toes to summer squash, zucchini, potatoes, mushrooms, radishes, asparagus, onions, beans, bean sprouts, string beans and almost any other vegetable which is

Combs along Baltimore Street. •O.A. Lambert asked for a fire hydrant near his home. There is not enough hose in the fire dept, to reach his property. 20 YEARS AGO; OCTOBER 12,1983 •Computer literacy will be stressed in the Wa-Nee Community Schools as the Board of School Trustees approved a major purchase of computer equipment. The recommendations call for 23 computers in the computer instructional lab and nine computers for the business lab. Specific software is to be included. Teachers will use computers as a teaching tool in various subject areas and will use prepared software in their classrooms. Computers will be used to help students who need extra drill and practice. A club may be organized to work with talented students who wish to learn to write programs. 10 YEARS AGO; OCTOBER 13,1993 •The annual “Panthers on Parade” variety show was presented in the North Wood High School auditorium Saturday evening. Rick Otis, Lori Neufeldt, Aaron Nichols, and Gretchen Hess were the hosts. Angie Yoder presented a song she wrote. Treble Tones performed “I’m Every Woman,” and Matt Moyer, David Kauffman, Ryan Hattery and Nick Collins entertained with their 30s medley.

"Oh, you're alive!" I exclaimed. Tm so used to hearing that computerized message that apologizes to me for having to wait I have a serious problem." "So many people do," he said. "But tell me about your computer." "Well, I keep getting the message that file DLEPZ will not open aid then my computer freezes up."

him. "I suggest you call a repair man,” he said. "But I've been waiting for hours to get technical support." "Boy, your phone bill's going to be horrendous,” he infonned me before he hung up on his end. I've spent the week making baskets at the Shady Rest Rehab Center. Tm dictating this article to a nurse who takes shorthand. They fell me in about 10 years I may recuperate enough to visit "Best Buy" again. However, I still tremble violently when I think of sitting opposite a computer keyboard.

min C. The common use of fruits is in a simple mixed fruit, which is a nice complement to light meals. Another approach to using fruits in salads is to use the fruit itself as the container for a salad: melon for a chicken or tuna salad or a pineapple for cottage cheese. Because you can prepare a small amount, fruit salads give you the flexibility to experiment with lots of different combinations of fruits with different meats or vegetables. As you consider which fruits go with different meats or vegetables, don’t discard the novel mixtures. For instance, strawberries work well in combination with a chicken salad and mandarin oranges with a spinach salad. Meats, poultry and seafood are good main ingredients for salads. Combined with rice, potatoes or pasta, they can be utilized in a salad after you've served the meat as a main course the day before. Leftover meats can be marinated for salad and have an entirely new taste. Set on a bed of greens, add a few vegetables (can be leftovers too) and you have a balanced meal that is appropriate for lunch or dinner.

'Try shutting down your computer and rebooting.” "But I've been doing that all afternoon." "Then what have you got to lose?" I shut down and rebooted. "The same message is coming across my screen," I told