Dee Lee

In my eyes, he’s the perfect man. A rancher who takes exquisite care of the Angus cattle in the pastures surrounding our home. He relishes every meal I prepare and tells me he loves my cooking. And he probably eats more vegetables than I do … even at restaurants when he orders a salad and I sometimes give in to french fries. Cowboys are an interesting breed. They are tough but don’t find the need to act that way. They like the simple life but are more complex than they appear. Ranchers are animal nutritionists, veterinarians, mechanics, accountants and horsemen all in one. They believe in hard work. Getting enough exercise is hardly ever a problem. I like that. Oh, and ranchers get up early in the morning. (Cows to be fed. Newborn calves to be checked.) Hence, they retire fairly early in the evening. No 8 o’clock dinners for this breed. My cowboy likes the evening meals we have come to nickname “conglomerates.” Definition: foods mixed together to make a quick, nourishing and — some...

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This month, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams authorized a $10,000 discretionary grant to support plant-based nutrition education at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate College of Medicine. The funds will go toward establishing the Food as Medicine Initiative, a supplemental program to the existing nutrition curriculum. Students at SUNY will be offered online courses from eCornell and the Gaples Institute and enrollment in the program opens this month.  Last year, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University established the Committee on Plant-Based Health and Nutrition, a multidisciplinary effort by the SUNY College of Medicine, School of Public Health, and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President with the ultimate goal of helping communities, such as residents of Central Brooklyn, that suffer from diet-related illnesses—including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and some cancers—learn about plant-based nutrition as a form of medicine.  “Diabete...

Per a new strategic collaboration , Optum will take over information technology and revenue cycle management operations for Cooperstown, New York-based Bassett Healthcare Network. The organizations announced the collaboration last week, stating that Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Optum will provide the health system with a range of services. These include tools and strategies that support the patient journey, from scheduling to payment; new analytic capabilities; modernized revenue cycle processes; and IT strategies that include enhancing infrastructure and network security across all five hospitals in Bassett’s network. The relationship with Optum enables Bassett Healthcare Network, a rural health system, to provide the communities it serves with advanced services and capabilities while remaining independent as a locally governed system, said Dr. Tommy Ibrahim, Bassett’s president and CEO, in an email. “The overarching goal of the collaboration is to advance quality care and experi...

NEW YORK (WABC) — The NYPD is mourning the loss of another one of its members to COVID-19. Detective Stanley Dash served in the NYPD for more than three decades. The 57-year-old detective died Saturday from complications related to coronavirus. The married father of two was remembered by his colleagues as a fun-loving guy with a mischievous side and a smile that lit up the room. More than 55 members of the NYPD have died in the pandemic. Here are more of today’s headlines: Indoor dining rules lifting tonight in NY Starting tonight, New York state is lifting the midnight curfew for indoor bars and restaurants. Curfews for all catered events will also go away as of midnight. Governor Andrew Cuomo has predicted that the lifting of curfews will lead to increased economic activity and growth for struggling businesses. More Americans traveling this holiday weekend due to vaccinations As more and more people get vaccinated and cases decline, Americans are on the go this holiday weeke...

Here’s what you need to know: Travelers waited in line at Kennedy International Airport in New York on Friday ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Credit… Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Memorial Day weekend is typically the start of the busy summer travel season, but this year it represents something more: the end of one of the roughest chapters in U.S. airline history. Passenger traffic has been climbing for much of this year and hit a pandemic peak on Friday, when more than 1.95 million passengers passed through security checkpoints in the nation’s airports, according to the Transportation Security Administration. That level was last reached in early March 2020, as the coronavirus was just beginning its devastating spread across the United States. However, with the return of passengers and the prospect of an end to billion-dollar losses , airlines have also seen a surge in disruptive and sometimes violent behavior — and a frequent flash point is the T.S.A.’...

‘Increase in farm work negatively affects nutrition of women engaged in agriculture’ ■ Staff Reporter : WOMEN in agriculture have to perform on two fronts — agricultural as well as domestic work. This results in less time with her to focus on nutrition. A recent study involving 960 households in 24 villages in Chandrapur district ofVidarbha, has found that the time tradeoffs or rising opportunity cost of time for women during peak agricultural seasons, are ‘negatively associated’ with intake of calories, proteins, iron, zinc, and Vitamin A. The study titled‘Seasonal time trade-offs and nutrition outcomes for women in agriculture: Evidence from rural India’ authored by Vidya Vemireddy of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and Prabhu L Pingali associated with Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics nad Management, Cornell University (US), has been published recently. For the study, total 960 households in 24 villages in Mul, Korpana, and Gondpipri blocks of Chandrapur d...

Tennis champion Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 after she announced that she would not do media interviews during the French Open , saying she was prioritizing her mental health. The fine was announced in a joint statement Sunday by the heads of the organizations that run the Grand Slam tournaments — the U.S. Tennis Association, the French Tennis Federation, the All England Lawn Tennis Club and Tennis Australia. Osaka announced on social media Wednesday that she would not take part in media sessions at Roland-Garros stadium because she “often felt that people have no regard for athletes mental health.” Naomi Osaka looks up after she won her final match against Jennifer Brady at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Feb. 20. Kelly Defina / Reuters file Officials at the French tournament asked “her to reconsider her position and tried unsuccessfully to speak with her to check on her well-being” but were unable to engage with Osaka, according to the joint statement. “Naomi Osaka tod...

Tim Hammerich News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. Almond growers now have a way to see how new nutrition programs perform on a commercial scale orchard. YARA International has an incubator farm in Modesto. Here’s permanent crops manager Devin Clarke. Clarke… “This was something that was launched not two years ago now, as a new part of our approach to really better understand how our recommendations and our understanding of crop nutrition management can be refined with the support of collaborators. And working with industry members and advisors and growers, to be able to further refine those over time.” Clarke says they are not just looking at performance on the commercial scale orchard that they rent from a local grower. YARA is also looking at the economics of the program to communicate the return on investment to growers. Clarke… “If we don’t have the economic component in there, it really does not do justice to the practices that we’re implementing. ...

Here’s what you need to know: Security officers stood guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit in February by members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the pandemic. Credit… Thomas Peter/Reuters With new attention on the origins of the coronavirus, experts and officials on Sunday called on China to provide greater transparency and speed inquiries into whether the devastating pandemic began with a leak from a lab. “There’s going to be Covid-26 and Covid-32 unless we fully understand the origins of Covid-19,” Peter J. Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said on the NBC program “Meet the Press.” WATCH: Dr. Peter Hotez says it’s “absolutely essential” to investigate Covid-19’s origin. #MTP @PeterHotez : “There’s going to be Covid-26 and Covid-32 unless we fully understand the origins of Covid...