June 2009 Newsletter-Nassau

June 2009
Spring Forward to a
Happy and Healthy
Summer!
Inside this issue:
President’s Message
2
Spring Cleaning
3
Physical education vs. Physical
Activity
4
Loving Fitness
4
2009 NYS AHPERD Elections
Countdown to Summer:
Get Outside!
Fun in the Sun Ideas
5
NYSAHPERD Conference
6
Sports Ethics
7
2010 Nassau Zone Conference Call
For Programs
8
2010 Nassau Zone Conference Call
For Programs
9
Summer Diet Do’s & Don’ts
10
NYS AHPERD
Membership Application
11
Vote for Mara Manson, your Nassau Zone President,
as your new President-elect!
Biographies and videotaped responses from our President-elect
candidates are available
@ http://www.nysahperd.org/members/2009_President-Elect.cfm
2009 NYSAHPERD elections are being conducted online.
Voting must be completed by midnight
July 6, 2009
Look into the mirror, give yourself a pat on the back, and be proud that
you have made it through the past year. When looking back, life is
filled with many wonderful ups, and some downs.
together!
Remember, we are all on this rollercoaster ride together
Ignore the negativity of the world in every way. Always look ahead and create a vision
for yourself. See it, believe it! Ask yourself: What was I doing this time last year? Who
was I with? How have I grown? And most importantly: Did I accomplish all the goals I
set for myself? Its surprising how much happens in one year. The holidays are over and
its time to work off those holiday pounds, detox and get back into overall shape. Enjoy
the rest of spring and here’s to a healthy, prosperous and joyous summer!
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President's Message
As the 2008-2009 school year winds down, I wish all of you a very enjoyable relaxing
summer. This year has been one of the most productive years for our profession.
We have just about completed a phase two level training for the PE Profile and will
hopefully have those workshops available at the beginning of the next school year.
There has also been much discussion about creating rubrics for the elementary and
middle school levels and at the 2008 NYS AHPERD conference; the first planning
session was a great success.
This year our Nassau Zone conference held February 27th @ C.W. Post was a huge
success. We had over 400 people in attendance and offered many workshops that
were informative and exciting. A special thanks to everybody that made our conference a very special day. We have already begun the planning for the 2010 conference which will be held at Adelphi University.
In closing, I charge each of you to become more involved in the Nassau Zone and
NYS AHPERD. Our board meets once a month and all are invited. If you would like
to be more involved, please don’t hesitate to contact me @ Manson@ Adelphi.edu or
516 877-4257. Again, have a wonderful summer!
Mara Manson
Nassau Zone President
Spring Cleaning!
He who has health has hope:
and he who has hope has
everything.
- Arabic Proverb
According to Tom Francescott, naturopathic doctor, teacher, lecturer and founder
and director of Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center, in Rhinebeck, New York,
spring is a perfect time to cleanse, let go & give ourselves a much needed rest—
physically, mentally and emotionally. He states “just as we tune up our cars, we
must also regularly cleanse our bodies…”
Here are a few of his recommendations anyone can do at home to start saying
goodbye to toxins.
Wake-Up Drink. First thing upon waking, on an empty stomach, drink a cup of hot filtered or
spring water with the juice from 1/2 of one lemon & two pinches of cayenne pepper. Lemon stimulates digestion; cayenne enhances circulation & blood flow.
Contrast Shower. Follow every hot shower with a 60-second cold rinse. The contrast stimulates
circulation. As pores tighten, we feel invigorated & ready for the day.
Fever Baths. Take a warm bath in the evening & add a cup of Epsom salts to soothe, relax and detox. Increase benefits by drinking 2 or 3 cups of hot tea while bathing, to work up a sweat.
Change Food Routines. Take a break from common culprits such as gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, corn
and sugar. These can cause allergic reactions or increase toxin levels, causes symptoms like headaches, water retention & fatigue.
Clean up surroundings. Uncluttering and organizing our home and work environments helps
clear out stagnant energy and frees us physically and emotionally. Let go of unused papers, clothes
and boxes.
UPCOMING PE PROFILE NEWS!
PE profile phase 2 professional
development workshops will be
Physical education (PE) versus
physical activity (PA) ?
Children need to access quality physical
education programs, that is, programs that
do much more than provide opportunity
for physical activity (PA) and play. Quality
programs are based on sound, instruction,
and assessment and provide an opportunity to learn.
“Replacing PE curricula with PA programs may help students accumulate minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity during the school day; however, PA programs during school
hours have not been shown to increase students’ willingness to be active outside of school.”
Glenna DeJong, Ph.D., Vice President of Educational Programs, and Lorin Sheppard,
Ph.D., Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Michigan Fitness Foundation
The PECAT is available for free online:
www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/pecat/
and is an excellent resource for evaluating PE curricula for both comprehensiveness and usability.
See the NASPE website
(www.aahperd.org/naspe)
for information on their published documents that further define these areas specific to physical education:
• Curriculum
– Moving into the Future:
National Standards for Physical Education
• Policies
and Environment – Opportunity to Learn Standards
• Instruction
• Student
– Appropriate Practices
Assessment – Assessment
Series
EPEC was developed with
these principles in mind. For
more information and to
download sample materials,
visit www.EPEC4kids.com.
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COUNTDOWN TO SUMMER
Fun in the sun ideas:
Frisbee Fun:
Get outside!
Andrea Faber Taylor and Frances E.
Kuo of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign found that contact with nature improved attention
spans and self-control in kids, including those diagnosed with ADHD.
There's also evidence that spending
time outside may boost your child's
academic performance.
WHAT YOU NEED: 2 Frisbees, chalk or rope
1. Mark a 20-foot line on the ground with chalk or a piece or rope and position two players facing
each other on opposite sides of the line
2. Pass the discs back and forth simultaneously. The object is to avoid having both discs on one
side of the line at the same time.
Poison Caps Game:
WHAT YOU NEED: stretch of sidewalk or driveway, metal bottle caps, chalk
1.Draw a spiral-shaped track of consecutive boxes and give each player an equal number of
bottle caps
2. To start, each player puts one cap on the square of his or her choice and initials the square in
chalk. Players flip a coin to see who goes first, then the winner gets to shoot one of her bottle
caps (flicking it with her thumb, marbles style) and try either to claim an empty spot or knock
another player's cap off the board.
3. Any player that successfully knocks a cap out of bounds gets to claim the cap and the space;
everyone else will have to jump hopscotch style over it. Rub out the previous player's chalk initials and write in new initials. However, if a cap is flicked onto a marked space (without knocking
that player's cap out), the cap goes to that player.
4. The first player keeps shooting until she misses, then she must jump the course, staying off
her opponents' squares.
5. The next player shoots until he misses and then jumps the course, and so on. As the game
progresses, more squares become off-limits and longer hops are necessary. A player is out of
the game when she runs out of caps. The player who takes over the whole board or winds up
with all the caps wins.
Loving Fitness
Exercising with a friend or family member helps you become a coach for
The power of social influences…
In every relationship, it’s up to the healthier-minded partner to be emotionally
stronger and more influential as to the lifestyle patterns that will be adopted.
Active Options:
♥ Power-walking: at night, after dinner, or on weekends, instead of watching TV,
go for a brisk walk outdoors
♥ Inline Skating: on a sunny afternoon, instead of sipping high calories coffees,
have fun skating in the brisk outdoors
♥ Cycling: cover great distances and see more variety of scenery
♥ Tennis: whether keeping score, or just volleying for fun
♥ Handball: Play side by side as opposed to opposite sides of the net
A 2008 New England Journal of Medicine study showed that friends can
make friends fat...or fit. As researchers
indicated, if our spouses are overweight, our risk of obesity rises by 37%.
Overweight friends (57%) and overweight siblings (40%).
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2009 NYS AHPERD
Annual Conference
SAVE THE
DATE!
November 18-21, 2009
Turning Stone Resort and Convention Center
Verona, New York
In 2009, our conference venue is again the Turning Stone Resort and Convention
Center in Verona, New York. Hotel web site :
http://www.turning-stone.com/
Conference Rates
Professional ~ Early Bird (by 10/1) : $135
Advanced (between 10/2 & 11/1) : $ 155
Student ~ Advanced (by 11/1): $75
Beginning July 1, 2009,visit
http://www.nysahperd.org to register for
the 2009 NYS AHPERD Conference.
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SPORTS ETHICS
Sports lends itself to a wide-range of engaging topics for the discussion of ethics. It is a
particularly valuable area, since sports are often so much a part of the lives of students.
Key Concepts & Vocabulary:
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Sportsmanship
Gamesmanship
Fair Play
Balanced Competition
Character
Spirit of the Rules
Right-Right Dilemmas (ethical dilemmas)
A good coach will make
his players see what they
can be rather than what
they are."
-Ara Parashegian
Questions to think about:
•
Most educators confront questionable behavior from students and seek the opportunity to talk about being good sports and so forth. What should we do if we see
questionable behavior outside the classroom within the school or community?
•
Whose responsibility is sportsmanship?
•
How can good sportsmanship be considered both a physical and a mental health
issue?
•
Why should ethics be important to sports?
•
Where do we draw the line between acceptable behavior and cheating?
•
What do we mean by 'fair play' and 'level playing field'?
“The most important decision I ever made in my
career was to live my life in sports as honestly
and ethically as possible. Never having
compromised my values allows me to look back
on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in
what I was able to accomplish."
-Greg LeMond
Check out the resources below!
http://josephsoninstitute.org/sports/
http://www.positivecoach.org/
http://charactercounts.org/
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9702/Froes-9702.html
http://www.nba.com/jrnba/players/Players_Guide_Introduction.html
http://www.wcpss.net/athletics/sportsmanship/
http://www.internationalsport.com/NSD/index.cfm
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2010 Call for Programs Application
Getting to the Heart of Education: Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance
Nassau Zone of NYS AHPERD
Annual Professional Conference
Please type or print legibly. One application per topic submitted.
Program Title: (10 words or less) ______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Program Description: (Two short but descriptive sentences for the Conference Program.)
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Area presentation is related to: (Check no more than two areas)
Adapted Physical Activity
Administration
Aquatics
Coaching
Dance
Elementary/Middle School PE
Exercise Science/Sports Medicine
Future Professionals
Health
Higher Education/Prof Prep
Leisure/Adventure
Secondary PE
Retirees
Type of presentation:
Audience Participation
Performance
Extended Presentation (longer than 2 hours)
Lecture
Panel Discussion
Certification Program
Room set-up requirements:
Perimeter seating
Theater style seating (chairs in rows)
Pool
Head table in front of room
Classroom seating (chairs with tables)
Open activity area
Dance floor
Podium
Audio/visual requirements:
Overhead Projector with screen
Slide Projector with screen
VCR with monitor
Flipchart with pad & markers
Internet access
Cassette Player
CD Player
Microphone w/extended cord
Wireless Microphone
None
Note: Please request only the A/V items that are vital to your presentation (Nassau Zone pays expensive rental fees
for use of A/V equipment). Equipment not listed above including LCD projectors and computers will be the
responsibility of the presenter.
Presenter(s): ________________________________________________________________________________________
School/Business: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
City: ______________________________________________________________ State: ________ Zip: ________________
Work Phone: ________________________________________ Home Phone: _____________________________________
Fax #: ________________________________________Email: __________________________________________________
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You must list 3 program objectives. (As a result of attending this workshop, participants will…)
1.)
2.)
3.)
Presenters eligible for NYS AHPERD membership must be current members and must
register as a conference participant.
● E-mailing a completed application in an attachment to Dr. Mara Manson:
manson@adelphi.edu
● Mailing completed form to:
Dr. Mara Manson, Nassau Zone President
Adelphi University, Post Hall
Garden City, NY 11530
● Faxing completed form to:
Dr. Mara Manson
516.877.4258
Questions? Call Dr. Mara Manson:
516.877.4257
Please submit your proposal no later than December 15st. Thank you for taking advantage of
this opportunity to share your ideas and success with your peers.
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Summer Diet Do’s & Don’ts
Ah, summer….. Fresh ample fruits and vegetables.
Oooohh…..endless barbecues and parties, abundant with fatty, sugar temptations.
Here’s what to look for and what to limit for the next three months
GOOD FOOD
NUTRIENTS
DETAILS
Asparagus
40 calories, 4g protein, 8g carbs, 0g fat
(10 large spears)
Asparagus acts as a diuretic, which can help melt away those
final few pounds. It also contains a significant amount of insulin,
an indigestible fiber that improves the balance of intestinal bacteria and enhances calcium absorption.
Blueberries
84 calories, 1 g protein, 22g carbs, 1g fat
(1cup)
Blueberries have more antioxidants than just about any other
food. That means better protection for all the body’s tissues.
Iced tea
0 calories, 0 gprotein, 0 g carbs, 0 g fat Drink iced tea unsweetened and benefit from its antioxidants.
Black tea reduces cortisol levels.
Tomatoes
22 calories, 1g protein, 5g carbs, 0g fat
(1 medium tomato)
Tomatoes contain lycopene, an antioxidant that protects against
heart disease and cancer, and increases levels of insulinlike
growth factor-1, which influences muscle growth.
Watermelon
86 calories, 2 g protein, 22 g carbs, 0 g
fat (1 slice)
Its flesh is high in lycopene (see above) and the rind contains the
amino acid citrulline, which is converted to arginine in the body,
thereby increasing nitric oxide and growth hormone levels.
Barbecue Sauce
94 calories, 0 g protein, 23 g carbs, 0 g
fat (1/4 cup)
A huge source of hidden carbs, barbecue sauce is a diet debacle
waiting to happen.
Corn
77 calories, 3g protein, 17g carbs, 1g fat (1 Starchier and more quickly digested than other vegetables, corn
medium ear)
can trip up those on a low-carb diet.
Popsicle
100 calories, 0g protein, 24g carbs, 0g fat
(1 popsicle)
Popsicles may be fat –free, but they’re loaded with fastdigesting sugar. Save them for immediately after workouts.
Potato Salad
358 calories, 7g protein, 28g carbs, 2 g fat
(1 cup)
Combining fast-digesting carbs with mountains of mayonnaise
(read: fat) is always a recipe for disaster.
Ribs
236 calories, 13 g protein, 0 g carbs, 20 g
fat (3 oz.)
High in fat and fairly low in protein, ribs are almost always
coated in barbecue sauce, making them a double dietary no-no.
BAD FOOD
Recently, many health professionals have suggested that the more sugar you consume, the more you will crave. There is no formal limited Recommended Daily Intake for sugar. “Added sugars” are sugars and syrups that are added to foods during cooking. They don’t include naturally occurring sugars like the ones found in milk and fruit. Sugars may be added to foods to make
them more palatable and are found in calorie-rich foods, which may lead to a higher calorie diet, excess weight and cavities. This
is why most nutrition experts recommend limiting added sugars (excluding fruit and milk) to 40 grams per day or 10 teaspoons
(4 grams is in one teaspoon). Total sugar content is easily identifiable on the Nutrition Facts panel on the back of processed
foods.
Michèle Turcotte, MS, RD/LDN
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