Friday, May 31, 2019

Tip of the Day: Support local agriculture

TIP OF THE DAY

Support local agriculture!

Visit a “pick-your-own” farm, shop at the farmer’s market, or sign up for produce delivery from a local farm.

Eat Local Challenge Begins TOMORROW . June 1st

The Eat Local Challenge begins tomorrow!
We are so excited to kick off the challenge tomorrow evening at Grow On Urban Farms (2358 Urquhart St.) from 6-8pm!

Enjoy local libations and music under the twinkling lights of the beautiful farm. Get yourself ready for the challenge by grabbing some dinner from a local pop-up and taste some locally inspired cocktails from Seven Three Distilling and Cajun Spirits Distillery. The best part? Being around other locally minded folks to trade recipes, chat about your favorite farmer, and get to know each other. We will also have partners like Energy Wise ready to help you live as locally as possible.

Can't wait to see you!

Check the Eat Local Challenge website calendar and the Facebook page for event information and to plan your month. We are adding new events every day.

Crescent City Farmers Market is having weekly kids activities during June! This week is ice creaming making demo. Yum! While you are learning and tasting, it's the perfect time to directly support your local farmers, fishers and food makers. More info on our calendar.

Wondering where to get local food? Our online guide is here to help! Notice anything we are missing? Shoot us a note so we can add it.

It's not too late to sign up! Registration is Free again this year! But you please sign up so we can keep in touch on how you are doing and you can stay informed about events and more local fun.

The Challenge remains free this year, but your donations allow us to grow and make June as successful as possible. Please consider a donation of any size.

Donate to the Challenge!

Got a great local recipe? Share it with us for inclusion in our newsletter, facebook page, or on the website!

Tip of the day: One easy local switch is your morning coffee and cream!

Show some love to our incredible sponsors!

The New Orleans Eat Local Challenge is a project of the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee. Learn more about FPAC here.

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How's Your Five? Bringing Wellness Into Your Workplace

Here in Broadmoor, we always ask, "How's your 5?" because we view health from five individual domains, including sleep, eat, work, play, and love. Today we zoom in to talk about work!

Work can be stressful, boring, interesting, enjoyable, hectic, or all of the above! But don’t forget about nurturing the rest of your “5” while at work. An important part of keeping your “5” healthy is maintaining a work-life balance and having healthy work habits, both in your personal and professional life.

Corporate Wellness Magazine offers tips to bring wellness into your work:

Stretch once an hour
Take deep breaths throughout the day when feeling stressed
Get eight hours of sleep before work. This will help you focus and lower stress.
Eat nutritious meals to help you stay focused through the after-lunch slump
Do your best not to bring work home. Have a designated time after hours when you refrain from checking emails or taking on work-related tasks
Know your rights! If you are working full-time, you have legal rights to breaks and sick time.

For more information on wellness in the workplace, check out their website at https://www.corporatewellnessmagazine.com/

Read the complete May 31st issue of the Broadmoor Beat at

https://mailchi.mp/fc4a06203569/broadmoorbeatnews-384699?e=d30ef27cb2

Embracing Survivorship

How to Cope - Survivor
Embracing Survivorship

How to Take Charge of Your Life after Cancer Treatment

by Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN

“Congratulations! We’ll see you in six months.”

These are the words you’ve been waiting to hear since the moment you were diagnosed with cancer. But all these months later, after you’ve grown accustomed to weekly phone calls and visits with your medical team, this once anticipated proclamation might evoke an unexpected emotional response.

You would think the end of treatment would make you want to celebrate, but when the time comes, you may be surprised to find yourself overwhelmed with feelings of fear, uncertainty, and vulnerability, not to mention lingering treatment-related side effects. To make matters worse, your friends and family may not understand why you feel this way. You’re finished with treatment; you’ll soon be getting back to work, family responsibilities, and life as it used to be. But things have changed. Your life will never be like it used to be. You’re now a cancer survivor.

You’ll be glad to know that many cancer survivors come through treatment with a feeling of accomplishment, a renewed sense of purpose, or a new outlook on life. This may translate into a new career, a commitment to spending more time with the ones you love, or a charge to give back to others taking this cancer journey. Other survivors are eager to pick back up where they left off when cancer came calling.

A Lot of People Helped to Save My Life. It's Time to Thank One of Them.

A male breast cancer survivor shares a note of gratitude to his surgeon.

BY Khevin Barnes

PUBLISHED May 31, 2019

Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com www.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com

Five years ago, while I lived in Hawaii, a remarkable surgeon removed my left breast, along with the cancerous tumor that was embedded there. Her name was Dr. Mihea Yu, a highly-rated critical care surgery specialist and a professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. I credit her with saving my life.

But the truth is my wife saved my life too, by insisting that I have that "little bump" in my breast looked at. But then, I suppose my primary care physician saved my life by signing me up for a mammogram and ultrasound exam. But wait. How about those technicians who spotted something suspicious and got me in for a needle biopsy? But then again, I must acknowledge Hawaii's Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV who founded The Queen's Medical Center in 1859; the hospital that facilitated my life-saving surgery.

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Cancer is Like Veiled Sunshine

On those dark days, cancer survivors need to remember there are rays of sunshine behind the clouds.

BY Jane Biehl, Ph.D.

PUBLISHED May 28, 2019

Jane has earned three advanced degrees and had several fulfilling careers as a librarian, rehabilitation counselor and college teacher. Presently she does freelance writing. Her articles include the subjects of hearing loss and deafness, service dogs and struggling with cancer. She has been a cancer survivor since 2010.

She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.

My favorite meteorologist has a running joke with one of the anchormen on television about the use of the words “veiled sunshine.” He thinks it is funny and teases her about it while she laughs and uses the term often.

It is an unusual term. I also chuckle when she says the day will be partly sunny or partly cloudy. Which part? It obviously can’t be at the same time. So is it sunny enough for the neighbors to use the pool, or too rainy for the baseball game?

However, if you really think about it these are very descriptive of not only the weather – but of cancer.

Every one of us has a life with ups and downs, shadows and sunshine, darkness and light – and sometimes all on the same day. …….

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