Nutritionally
Speaking
By Barbara Beznos, RD/LD/N
Integrated Nutrition, LLC
Dear Barb,
4113-
Can you explain
whether Fat is
good or damag-
ing to my body?
I seem to be
putting on rapid
weight.
-AW
Dear David,
David
The amount of fat present in
the body is influenced by age,
gender, genetics, and our
endocrine system. It is linked to
our diet, our exercise patterns,
and our degenerative diseases.
A classroom in the Prentis Apartments building in Oak Park is now where Naomi Pinchuk's Yiddish class meets.
Some good fats are needed for
health reasons. However, a diet
of over consumption of
damaged fats, refined sugars,
loads of starches, too many
high calorie fats, and eating foods
in general that are high in calo-
ries, can all increase the body's
fat stores.
Hormone imbalances like
Estrogen , DHEA and
Testosterone also affect the
Endocrine system and may
lead to an increase in fat mass.
Low levels of serotonin, a
neurotransmitter,may stimulate
appetite and low levels of Tryp-
tophan is also associated with
weight gain. Also stress can
increase cortisol levels and
promote visceral obesity.
• Avoid products with hydrog-
enated oils or partially hydrog-
enated soybean oil. Look at the
ingredients on the labels of baked
goods and snack foods for these
words.
• Use fats and oils sparingly—use
those that are lowest in saturated
fat and cholesterol.
Contact Barb At:
Integrated Nutrition, L.L.C.
31731 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 105 E
Farmington Hills, Mi 48334
Phone:
(248) 538-8050
E-Mail:
rds@integratednutrition.com
Web:
www.integratednutrition.emn
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16 November 26 2015
JCC Without Borders
After Oak Park closure, many programs found new homes.
Shari S. Cohen I Contributing Writer
ewish Community Center pro-
gramming ended at the Jimmy
Prentis Morris (JPM) Building in
Oak Park on Aug. 31, but many activi-
ties continued at new locations begin-
ning in September.
Plans for renovation or replacement
of the existing building and pool, no
longer owned or operated by the JCC,
are not finalized, according to Ted
Cohen, marketing director of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
Communication with Oak Park JCC
members about programming continu-
ity began months earlier.
"The goal was to make the transition
as smooth as possible and to maintain
a presence in the Oak Park area; said
Bret Hopman, JCC marketing director.
The focus was on popular activities and
classes that aren't available elsewhere;
many of these were relocated under the
banner of "JCC without Borders."
Noemi Herzig, JCC director of Arts,
Culture and Education, found pro-
gram sites in Oak Park and Southfield,
several within walking distance of
the JPM Building. Congregation Beth
Shalom hosts the Institute for Retired
Professionals events as well as dance
and art classes. Yiddish and English
conversation classes as well as classi-
cal movies and lectures are presented
at the Jewish Senior Life (JSL) Prentis
Apartments building in Oak Park.
Mondays with Meaning, a women's
Judaic studies program, is held at the
Mondry Building, also on the JSL Oak
Park campus. The Oak Park Community
j
Center hosts Musical Adventures. The
Child Development Center for infants
and toddlers, which was operated by
Temple Emanu-El at the JPM building,
has relocated to the Oak Park temple.
Jazz at the J, a cooking class and Writer's
Corner are held at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.
Herzig says that most JPM par-
ticipants in arts, culture and education
programs made the transition to new
locations without any problem. All pro-
grams are open to the public and some
additional individuals have joined the
activities in their new locations.
MAKING THE TRANSITION
Nancy Silverman of Bloomfield
Township has attended the all-women
Mondays with Meaning drop-in class
for several years. Before the Oak Park
JCC closed, participants received emails
notifying them that the program would
continue. A follow-up postcard pro-
vided the schedule and new location
information.
Silverman says the transition was
"quite smooth" and that their new loca-
tion at the Mondry Building is "lovely,
sunlit and more pleasant" than their
previous space at the JCC. Participants
who walked to the program can con-
tinue to do so because the Mondry
Building is very close to the JPM
Building.
A Yiddish conversation class led by
instructor Naomi Pinchuk relocated to
Prentis Apartments. Sidney Simon of
Farmington Hills attends both the Oak
Park and West Bloomfield sessions of
the class that he refers to as a "nostalgia
trip:'
"We're perfectly comfortable and
delighted with this arrangement:' he
said. Since the move, several additional
Prentis residents have joined the class.
Not everyone was pleased with their
options after the JPM closure. Most
exercise and fitness programs are avail-
able only at the JCC Kahn Building
in West Bloomfield. Participants in a
women's exercise class held for years
at the Oak Park JCC weren't willing to
make the move.
"We didn't want to be driving over
there; that's not our community:' said
Jeanne Vogt, an Oak Park resident who
attended the class for about 15 years.
She said that a core group of eight or
nine class members had become friends
and that some joined other fitness facili-
ties and lost touch with the group.
Their exercise teacher holds the class
at the Woodward Avenue Shul in Royal
Oak, but it is a "temporary fix that was
not built to be an exercise studio:' Vogt
says. Their teacher expects to move to a
more suitable Oak Park location soon.
About 20 percent of the JPM Oak
Park fitness members chose to "migrate
their membership to West Bloomfield,"
according to Hopman. Others may
have opted for one of the area's low-cost
gyms and fitness centers. *
Information about JCC without Borders programs
is available at wwwjccdet.org/adults/active-life/ or
by calling the JCC at (248) 661-1000.