Albemarle Tradewinds February 2020 Web Final

It’s February and I thought I’d devote a little reflection
about Black History Month, particularly from my
personnel exposure. I’m personally proud of my newly
achieved, octogenarian status, and my early roots. So,
how to link the two in my health oriented perspective?
In 1937, my mother migrated from the Albemarle, in
Northeast North Carolina, to the Morrisiana Section of
the Bronx during the Harlem Renaissance. I was privileged
to grow up in a multicultural neighborhood that
exposed me to that remarkable era of cultural creativity.
Langston Hughes who was one of my best friend’s
uncle, was a frequent visitor to our block. My friend lived
on the top floor of a five story walk up, so Mr. Hughes
would stop and chat with us kids before his trek to visit
his brother. He was a talkative guy with a lot to say. How
I wish that there were personal technology like smart
phones in those days, to have captured his incredible
wisdom.
It was not uncommon to hear musical icons like Thelonius
Monk, Errol Garner, and Elmo Hope rehearsing
their craft, in their apartments, and on the roofs. In those
days, music was part of many school curriculum’s. Public
schools even supplied loaner instruments, a practice
that spawned generations of internationally acclaimed
musicians. It seems to me, the world class musicians
that came out of that environment, were a positive use of
the educational budget. To have removed art and music
appreciation from inner city schools, was misguided. The
return of investment, justified continuance.
Health and Nutrition Strategies For
Cancer Survivors and Everybody Else
Warren Green is a 30 year member of the Institute of Food
Technology, A HAACP (hazard analysis critical control point)
Instructor with a Bachelors degree in Nutrition Science.
WHAT’S IN YOUR DIET?
minutes. The old adage, music calms the savage beast,
probably has some merit. It seems to me that we have
been marketed away from our best first option.
I began researching music therapy as a health strategy.
Here are my findings: Music Therapy is an established
health profession with a strong research foundation,
which when used within a therapeutic relationship,
addresses overall physical rehabilitation, facilitates
movement, and provides among other things, an outlet
for expression of feelings. My new 62+ community is a
perfect spot to observe and promote music therapy as a
viable component of health and nutrition strategies. .
That segues into my Health & Nutrition Strategy Workshops,
here at Overture, Virginia Beach .The initial
workshop was a great success. We started with the
essential nutrient,Lipids (oils/fats), then we had a Q and
A interaction. I thought the Q & A, was the highlight of
the session. I like the idea of being able to support my
information with spontaneous visual documentation in a
Q & A forum.
Looking forward to the next workshop, February 19th
3pm. We’’ll finish up lipids, and begin protein. Join us.
You are what you eat.
Warren Green can be reached
at warreng9241@hotmail.com
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A few years ago, I went home to attended a tribute to
Elmo Hope Concert at Fordham University, that featured
Jazz Master Jimmy Owens- Board Member of the Jazz
Foundation of America, and a life long friend. My column,
that month, talked about the intense stress of NYC traffic
and how after a few minutes of the concert, I was totally
unstressed. Pharmaceuticals usually require about 20
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