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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Free cooking demo at
Real Food Co-op March 2
J OEL F UHRMAN , MD
The negative effects of soda on children
The standard American diet,
chock full of soda and other
sugary drinks, fast foods and
other low-nutrient foods, can
have a major impact on the
health and lives of our children.
Rising rates of childhood
obesity driven by this way of
eating have received much
attention; however, low-nutri-
ent foods are still having nega-
tive effects on the physical and
mental health of children who
are not overweight.
Children are not immune to
the damaging health effects of
the standard American diet,
which can set them up for a
lifetime of poor health ranging
from heart disease to behavior
problems and lower cognitive
performance.
On average, U.S. children
and teens consume over 200
calories a day from soda and
other sugary drinks, and it is
estimated that about 14 percent
of their calories come from fast
food. As a result of the poor
diets of American children,
more than one-third of normal-
weight teenagers (and about
half of overweight teenagers)
have at least one diet-related
risk factor for heart disease.
These dietary patterns have
the potential to dramatically
affect not only public health but
the productivity of our future
adult population; studies have
implicated poor diet in limiting
intelligence and academic per-
formance, and also has drawn
parallels between consumption
of sweets during childhood and
violence in adulthood.
A study on soda consump-
tion found an increase in
behavior and attention prob-
lems in 5-year-old children (as
assessed by their mothers) with
increasing daily consumption
of soda.
Forty-three percent of the 5-
year-olds in the study drank
soda at least once a day. The
authors adjusted their results
for potential confounding fac-
tors that might affect behavior,
such as hours of television and
a stressful home environment,
and still found a significant
association between soda con-
sumption and aggression, with-
drawn behavior and poor atten-
tion.
They proposed that caffeine
and/or fluctuations in blood
sugar might be responsible for
the association between soda
and behavior problems.
Blood glucose levels do
affect the workings of the
brain, and habitual high sugar
intake has been shown to
impair cognitive function.
Several previous studies on
high school students have also
associated soda consumption
with aggressive behavior, as
well as depression and self-
harm.
Plus, higher sugar sweet-
ened beverage consumption is
linked to diabetes, cardiovas-
cular disease, and cancers.
In addition to soda, higher
fast food consumption in fifth
grade (four or more times per
week) has been associated
with poorer academic progress
in math, reading and science
between fifth grade and eighth
grade.
Children who ate fast food
one to three times per week —
On the menu for the Real
Food Co-op’s next free cook-
ing demonstration is gluten-
free chocolate ganache cake.
Attendees will leave the
cooking demo with samples,
recipes and helpful hints.
There are no fees or regis-
tration necessary.
Join chef Annie McHale,
the founder and director of
ROOTS Culinary School,
which offers real food cook-
ing classes and retreats.
McHale is currently manag-
ing the kitchen at the Yachat’s
Farm Store, is a freelance
writer for Azure Standard in
Dufur, Ore., and a member of
Florence’s Real Food Co-op.
Her cooking classes spe-
cialize in gluten, sugar and
dairy free cooking.
McHale is a former corpo-
rate trainer and worked in
a common level of intake —
compared to those who ate no
fast food had lower scores in
math. These results suggest
that children eating fast food
frequently could slow their
academic progress.
The food habits children
develop in their early years
have a substantial impact on
their physical health and men-
tal well-being throughout the
rest of our lives.
Parents need to know this
information, so that they can
help their children to live
healthfully, maintain a positive
mindset, and reach their full
cognitive potential.
Dr. Fuhrman is a New York
Times best-selling author and
board certified family physi-
cian specializing in lifestyle
and nutritional medicine.
The Grill & Lounge
at Sandpines
WINE TASTING AND FOUR COURSE MEAL
Featuring Oregon’s Eola Hills Wine Cellar
SATURDAY MARCH 19, 2016
City Club to hear of negative LNG facility impacts
The guest speaker for
Florence City Club on March
4 will be Jody McCaffree,
who will speak on the pro-
posed controversial Jordan
Cove LNG Export facility
project.
McCaffree currently lives
with her husband of more
than 30 years in North Bend.
They owned and operated
McCaffree Electric Inc., a full
service industrial, commer-
cial and residential electrical
contracting business in North
Bend until Dec. 31, 2015.
Both were born and raised
in the Coos Bay area and cur-
rently live two miles from the
proposed Jordan Cove LNG
Export facility. For the last 10
years, McCaffreehas been
actively working to expose
the truth about the poorly
conceived LNG project, sited
inappropriately too close to
the population and airport on
a sand spit in an earthquake
subduction and tsunami inun-
dation zone.
McCaffree says the LNG
project would negatively
impact jobs in fishing, clam-
ming, crabbing, oyster grow-
ing,
timber,
ranching,
tourism, recreation and manu-
facturing industries.
She continues to fight to
save sustainable jobs on the
South Coast of Oregon and
the foreign takeover of
American private property by
the use of eminent domain at
the hands of the Jordan Cove
LNG Export Project.
City Club will host its first
meeting upstairs in the
Driftwood Shores board
room.
Lunch will be served from
the menu from 11 a.m. to
noon. The program is from
noon to 1 p.m.
Call Roger Johnson a day
before for reservations at 541-
902-5135.
organization development.
She brings these skills to her
classes. McHale and her hus-
band currently live in Yachats
and are actively looking to
buy a home and locate perma-
nently to Florence.
The Real Food Co-op is
committed to community
education
about
eating
healthy, whole foods that are
grown sustainably. The Co-
op actively supports local
farms and producers.
McHale and the co-op will
be offering free cooking
classes the first Wednesday of
every month.
The demo will take place
Wednesday, March 2, from 4
to 6 p.m., at Real Food Co-
op, 1379 B Rhododedron
Drive.
For more information, call
541-997-3396.
Welcome Wine served at 5:00pm
$55 Ind. $110 per Couple
*Includes gratuity, reservations required
541-997-4623 Ex. 106
Limited to first 44 reservations
1201 35th Street at Kingwood, Florence
Highway 101 & 35 St.
541-997-4623
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CITRUS FUNDRAISER
CROW invites jewelers
to participate in contest
Local beaders and jewelry
makers are invited to partici-
pate in CROW’s upcoming
production of “Shrek the
Musical Jr.”
The nonprofit youth theatre
group’s production requires
three sparkling crystal neck-
laces similar to the one worn in
the animated feature films.
These three necklaces will be
worn onstage by “Young
Fiona,” “Teen Fiona” and
“Adult Fiona,” and the actress-
es will get to keep them at the
end of the run.
CROW is challenging local
artists to design one, two or all
three necklaces, and the pro-
duction team will select the
three winning pieces to be
worn onstage for the show.
It is not necessary that they
all match, but that they all
coordinate and have a similar
medieval-period style.
For style ideas, CROW
artistic director Melanie Heard
recommends jewelry artists
look at the necklaces worn in
the Broadway production of
Shrek by Sutton Foster.
“Be creative. Use your
imagination — and have fun.”
Not only will the handmade
creation(s) be featured onstage
for packed houses at the
Florence Events Center (April
15-17), but the winner will
receive mention in the program
as “Fiona’s Royal Jewelry
Designer,” along with two
complimentary tickets to the
show.
To participate, contact
Heard at 541-999-8641 or
email
crowtheatrekids@
yahoo.com. Deadline for sub-
mission is Tuesday, March 1.
Participants will need to
arrange to drop off entrees to
Heard or have it picked up by a
CROW representative.
Necklaces that are not
selected to be worn onstage
will be sold at CROW’s lobby
boutique and profits will go
toward scholarships for kids
who cannot afford to attend
2016 CROW summer camp.
For more information on the
CROW nonprofit youth theatre
arts program, visit www.crow
kids.com.
Please call to Order your box of California Navel
Oranges and/ or Texas Rio Star Ruby Red Grapefruit
$30.00 per box
Orders are due by March 24th, 2016.
Deliver date will be April 1st.
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Come to Fraudville, a benefit for Boys
and Girls Club, tonight, Feb. 27, at Three
Rivers Casino Resort, 5647 Highway 126.
Doors open at 5 p.m. For guests 21 or up.
ON THE
STREET
What is your karaoke “go-to” song?
Family Keepsakes
Cremation “Urn” Pendants
“I think I’d sing a little Bob Seger.
Probably ‘Night Moves.’”
“I’d say I have to open with Ricky
Nelson’s ‘Garden Party.’ That song res-
onates with everyone.”
—S HERRI B OLLINGER
I NTERIM C HAMBER D IRECTOR
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D EPARTING C HAMBER D IRECTOR
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Parking
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Closed Sun.-Mon.
“It’s kind of hard to sing, but I’d go
with Frank Sinatra’s version of ‘New
York, New York.’”
—J O A NN C ASSELBERRY
C HAMBER V OLUNTEER
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