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Nutritionally
Speaking

By Barbara Beznos, RD/LD/N
Integrated Nutrition, LLC

for openers

Same Old Run Around

A

re you always on the
recouped.
move? Is your mind
In business, someone may
often filled with the
bring an idea to the board of
lyrics of a favorite tune? Are
directors, run it up the flagpole.
you gearing up for a big race or
We also speak of time running
planning to invest some money
out, but if you are having a
in a venture? If so, you are
good time, it “flies.”
already familiar with many of
Whether you have runs of
Sy Manello
the uses of the word “run.”
good or bad luck you should
Of course, we all know about Editorial
not run away from your obliga-
Assistant
participating in a 5k run, for
tions. One of those being rais-
a charity perhaps. Note, I said
ing children; they need supervi-
we know of it; I did not put any
sion so they do not run wild.
of us on the spot by assuming we have
Preparing quickly to be at your best,
participated. In the same vein but not as you may run a comb through your hair
literal, you may recount having run into and make an appearance as you run
an old friend. Since it was not literal, no for the office. Perhaps you can get your
one was injured.
photo to run in the paper.
There are some who finance plays
It is not a good idea to try to run
and though a large bill may be run up,
guns or drugs; it will not be in your best
there is the hope that the production
interest in the long run.
will play for a long run and funds will be
In your vegetable garden, did the

DEAR
BARB,

items seem to run larger one year?
Maybe you should have run a test of the
soil to investigate this good outcome.
The cause may have been letting the
water run for a long time to give them a
good growing condition.
For inspiration, I enjoy recalling the
words of the Red Queen in Alice in
Wonderland: “Here it takes all the run-
ning you can do to keep in the same
place. If you want to get somewhere else.
you must run at least twice as fast as
that!” How true.

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letters

Be Proud Of Your
Curly ‘Hairitage’

In reference to “Taming Of The Frizz”
(Aug. 18, page 24), I’m not sure which
disheartens me more. The excitement
of the author to be rid of her frizz by
means of chemical treatment or the
reference to her curls as her “Jewish
hairitage” that she was happy to part
with.
As a “Curly Girl” and a curly hair-
styling specialist, I try to give my cli-
ents an alternative to frizz with prod-
ucts, proper application procedures
and ingredients that benefit the hair
and scalp long term. I help women
with curls to love their own hair as
opposed to trying to have something
they don’t have. Or to conform to an
expectation of perfection that’s unnec-
essary.
As a Jewish woman, I am both
proud of my heritage and “hairitage.”
I have many Jewish clients, and we
bond over our shared hair traits. It is
indeed a common thread in the Jewish
culture to have curly hair and, person-
ally, I am proud of it.
The author states that her curls will
return, and I hope that she’s right. I
have seen many other types of treat-
ments go terribly wrong where the
curls were permanently damaged and

had to be cut off or they just broke off
on their own.
To those with Jewish “hairitage,” I
wish you frizz-free healthy curls that
look like you, not like anyone else.

Marni Foster
West Bloomfield

Fond Memories
Of Northland Mall

I read with great interest the article
by Esther Allweiss Ingber (“Northland
Memories,” Aug. 4, page 10) on for-
mer Oak Park Mayor Gerald Naftaly’s
new book Images of Modern America:
Northland Mall, which I now own.
I grew up in Oak Park (moved there
in 1956 at age 5), could see Northland
from my house and would always walk
to the mall with my sister and my
friends.
Northland was such a big part of the
lives of so many of us from the Detroit
area and Ms. Ingber’s article shows the
Jewish roots of it as well.
Gerald Naftaly has a love of preserv-
ing local history. Now that Northland
is no longer extant, his book does a
wonderful service that allows current
and former Detroit area residents to
enjoy the reminiscences of this great
icon.

Thank you for writing about this
new book by a nice Jewish boy!

William Molner
Lansing

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CORRECTIONS
• “Big Parenting Ideas” (Aug. 11,
page 30) should have identified the
speaker on “Multiple Intelligence,”
about different learning styles, as
Sasha Roberts-Levi.
• The Torah Portion for Ekev (Aug.
18, page 39) was run a week early.
The correct parshah we should have
printed was Vaetchanan. We apologize
for our error.
• In “Michigan Growth,” (Aug. 18,
page 18) Howard Hanna Real Estate
should have been identified as the
third-largest real estate company
nationally, not the fourth.

I have had a talk with my
teenagers about alcohol
consumption at parties. Can you
write about alcohol again?

A concerned Mom.

Dear Concerned
Mom,

In 2007 in the Jewish News, someone asked me
to write about alcohol consumption. Interesting
that I was asked the same question about what
is safe alcohol consumption for adults and
for the young. Let's look at the physiological
effects of alcohol consumption.

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malnutrition, cirrhosis of the liver, memory
black outs, muscular degeneration, and many
more problems if it is consumed often, and with
"no guidelines".

See your doctor is you are getting a serious
headache after drinking; if you are lacking
an appetite or nauseous after drinking; if you
are disoriented after drinking, and if you have
diarrhea.

Moderation should be one drink for a young
(of age to drink ) woman and 2 drinks per
day for (a young of age man to drink) and
remember, it should be about drinking at the
appropriate age. Example amounts are 12 oz
beer, 5 oz wine distilled, 1.5 oz spirits.

Woman of child bearing age, wanting to
become pregnant, are pregnant, lactating, or
taking medications that may interact, should
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Do not drink when doing skills that require
coordination or attention or driving or operating
machinery.

When drinking try eating fruits rich in
vitamin C (strawberries, oranges, grapefruit)
and eating foods rich in B vitamins like whole
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These might stabilize you.

Hope this helps.

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.com

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August 25 • 2016

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