A worldwide obesity epidemic is rampant In the United States. The incidence of obesity in children and adolescents, 12 to 19 years of age, is 15.5% to 20%. The rates in other countries are similar and rising. What many people do not know is that obesity (defined in children as having a BMI above the 95th percentile) is a component of a larger Metabolic Syndrome (MS).
Every year, children in the United States become more overweight, which puts them at risk for serious health concerns such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and elevated cholesterol and blood pressure levels. In addition to the risk of obesity-related health concerns, poor food choices could lead to other health concerns, like osteoporosis from inadequate calcium intake.
The world is not always as it seems. Sometimes my intellect tells me to do one thing while my intuition tells me to do another. Which do I listen to?
Cauliflower, carrots, broccoli and spinach—either you like them or you don’t. Many kids don’t. We know they provide nourishment, but getting your kids to eat healthier can be a challenge. Luckily, there are plenty of creative ways to increase the amount of veggies in your kids’ diets. Here are some tips to get the little ones in your life to eat—and enjoy—vegetables.
The long lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi Reich minister who was convicted at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946, has surfaced in an upstate New York home. It promises new insights into dealings between top Nazi officials and specific information about the looting of Jewish-owned art. Some 400 pages from the Rosenberg Diary could offer new details about meetings he had with Hitler and other Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler and Herman Göring.
August 14, 1929The Jewish Agency for Palestine is synonymous with efforts to rescue Jews at risk and the resettlement of the Jewish people in Israel. It played a key role in the foundation of Israel by helping to create the economic and cultural structure of the State. Today the agency concentrates on connecting Jews to one another, to their Jewish identity and to Israel.
In the spring of 1943, the friend of a Polish-Catholic family discovered a naked, Jewish baby in a nearby dark, cold cellar. The child, not even two years old, could neither walk nor talk. Her Jewish parents had been murdered and the family they paid to protect her had abandoned her.
Bullying has been present in schools forever. Back in the day, bullies stole lunch money and sometimes shoved a victim against or into his locker. Today there’s cyber bullying and it’s much scarier than having your lunch money stolen. In fact, it can be extremely serious.
The job of every parent is to constantly shower his/her children with love and support. Demonstrating true love for our children begins with proper discipline. As parents, we must instill in our children the necessity of suitable friends, a healthy routine and a proper education. Children might view these things as restrictions, but as they grow older they will realize that the restrictions were a prescription against a toxic future. Education begins with proper Torah lessons. A Torah based life is a prescription for spiritual and physical health.
When called on to teach a class on genealogy to seniors as part of their Sephardic history class at Yeshiva of Flatbush High School, I was excited. This was an opportunity to help students see their connection to our rich Sephardic heritage.
JULY 4, 1976
Operation Entebbe was a rescue mission performed by several IDF units in Uganda on July 4th 1976, for the liberation of 98 Jewish and Israeli hostages. Their plane, an Air France aircraft, was hijacked on June 27th, by Palestinian and German terrorists. The hijackers landed the plane at Benghazi, Libya and flew it from there to Entebbe in Uganda, where all non-Jewish passengers were freed. Israel tried to develop a dialogue with Ugandan President Idi Amin, who collaborated with the terrorists. Simultaneously, preparations began for a military operation.
Childhood and teen obesity in America has gotten so out of hand that it’s been labeled an epidemic. Some people feel that this language is a little strong or misleading, but it doesn’t take a particularly observant person to notice the staggering increase in obese children and teenagers we’re seeing year after year. While it’s easy to point the blame at schools, parents and the children, themselves, one thing about the trend is clear—it needs to be reversed.
In Chinese medicine, scars represent an actual blockage in energetic circulation. Many aspects of Chinese healing rely on a system of meridians, or pathways, which energy or qi (pronounced: chee) flow freely through and connect with our organs. Imagine these channels are like the vascular or nervous systems that transport necessary blood or impulses to every area of the body.
There are only 600 Jews living there today, yet at one point in time, Jews were the heart of Portugal’s economic and intellectual development. Once a country concentrated with Jews, Portugal is filled with Jewish history: a history of success, happiness, persecution, despair, and reconstruction.
