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By Barbara Beznos, RD/LD/N
Integrated Nutrition, LLC
Dear Barb,
A Pillar Of Vibrancy
Longtime yoga instructor to be honored in Birmingham.
PART 2
What are
Oxalates?
Judy Greenwald | Contributing Writer
Gratefully,
Marcie
PART 2
Oxalate content of a single
food group varies based on the
time of year, the type of soil it
is grown in and a host of other
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conditions of the plant.
When calcium and oxalate are
together in the kidney, they can
bind together to form crystals.
These crystals can join together
to form calcium oxalate kidney
stones. For patients who suffer
from small bowel disease or
malabsorption, it is recommended
that dietary fat intake be
controlled. Excess fat will bind
with calcium in food, thus leaving
oxalate by itself to be reabsorbed
by the colon and back into the
blood stream. If too much oxalate
is absorbed, it will combine with
calcium in the kidney and can
lead to calcium oxalate stones.
The drug prescribed is called
Cholestyramine. This is a drug
taken at each meal that binds fatty
acids, bile and oxalate so all three
can leave the body.
Your diet should have between
800 and 1,200 mg of calcium
per day. Eating a diet low in
calcium is not advised. In fact,
studies have shown that eating
low calcium diets will increase
calcium oxalate stone risk.
Oxalate and calcium bind together
in your intestine and leave the
body together. If you eat a low
calcium diet ,then oxalate has no
partner to leave the body with.
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:
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16 January 28 • 2016
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oyal Oak resident
Sandra Krafsur is
one of 10 people
who will be honored as a
“Pillar of Vibrancy” during
the Community House of
Birmingham’s (TCH) first
annual Bates Street Society
dinner, to be held at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 30.
She will be recognized for
her many years of promoting
wellness through teaching
yoga at TCH, and for her
dedication of time and talent
to help build a more vibrant
community.
But for the petite, energetic
78-year-old, her teaching
wellness through the healing
and strengthening practice of
yoga is much more than sim-
ply instructing students — it’s
a real labor of love.
“I’ve been teaching yoga at
the Community House for 30
years,” Krafsur said. “When I Sandra Krafsur
first started, I had two classes
a week. Over the years I kept
adding and adding classes,
instructors: “You’re ready to teach.”
and now I teach 14!”
“A group of us who were teaching
Originally from outside of Boston,
about 40 years ago got together and
Krafsur was a public school teacher
formed the Yoga Association of Greater
when she first came to Michigan. She
Detroit, an educational organization still
noted how it was a health problem that
in existence today,” she said. “There,
led her to study and then teach yoga.
teachers can engage in professional
“I attended my first yoga ses-
development, attending classes to learn
sion in 1967 — at the Detroit Jewish
to become better instructors.”
Community Center at Curtis and
Krafsur’s students at TCH range in
Meyers — because I had chronic back
age from their 30s to 80s, and she even
pain. I started to feel better immedi-
has one woman who’s 95. She teaches
ately. Yoga has always been very popular Hatha yoga, which is traditional yoga,
in the Jewish community. It’s a thinking and varies the levels of difficulty to
person’s exercise; and even more than
meet her students’ needs. She even
an exercise, it’s a philosophy. You have
showed off some well-known poses,
to understand what you’re doing and
including the “down dog,” one of the
how you’re doing it. I always say ‘You
most familiar.
practice yoga smart’.”
Her students, some of whom have
She taught classes at both the Oak
been in her classes for years, attend for
Park and West Bloomfield JCCs during
medical reasons, she said, or to recover
the 1980s and at many Metro Detroit
after surgery and even for stress relief.
YMCAs and YWCAs over the years.
Krafsur’s hour- to hour-and-a-half-long
Krafsur explained that yoga teachers
classes range from gentle to quite chal-
now must be certified, which, when she lenging, where poses get more compli-
began, was not a requirement. She is
cated and are held for longer periods.
certified by the Yoga Alliance, a national She said she really stresses safety in all
accreditation association, and received
of her classes, which range in size from
her certification through review of her
10 to 35 students.
teaching background. She had trained
“Yoga is good for your body, your
for some five years and was told by her
heart, your brain … it’s about learning
how to listen to your body, how
to center, how to calm down and
relax and to take a pause. And
I love being able to teach these
things at the Community House.”
The event, which will feature
live entertainment and a three-
course seated dinner, is spon-
sored by PNC Bank and hosted
by the Community House’s board
of directors. It’s being held to
both induct donors who have
made significant charitable
contributions into the newly
formed “Bates Street Society,” as
well as to recognize Krafsur and
nine others deemed “Pillars of
Vibrancy” in the areas of educa-
tion, culture, wellness and phi-
lanthropy.
“We’re delighted to recog-
nize Sandra as a 2016 ‘Pillar of
Wellness’ for her compassion,
healing touch and quiet advocacy
for a peaceful and healthy mind,
body and soul,” said William
Seklar, TCH president and
CEO. “For 30 years, Sandra has
instructed thousands of students,
impacting the lives of others in
an extraordinary and meaningful way.
We’re truly grateful for her many years
of faithful, selfless service.”
“I love what I do,” Krafsur said with a
proud smile. “My students have become
good friends, like a family to me and
to each other. Yoga is about practic-
ing kindness and trying to be careful
in words, actions and deeds. Its focus
is on ‘Ahimsa,’ which is Sanskrit for
non-violence. It means working toward
becoming a better person.
“These are all certainly traditional
Jewish values — really, they’re every-
one’s values. We take care of ourselves
when we practice yoga, and we recog-
nize everyone’s individuality. And best
of all — yoga is fun!”
*
details
Tickets for the Bates Street Society
dinner, a black-tie-optional
event, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
30, at the Community House, are
$150. Seating is limited. For more
information, call TCH at (248) 644-
5832 or visit www.tchserves.org/
special-events.