The Music of Summer
“Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.”
Ms Eva’s garden is so lush! She grows everything using organic practices.
Happy Wednesday!
This week until Fathers Day is Men’s Health Week, it is also Men’s Health Month. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has lots of great information about men’s health.
Recognizing Men’s Health Week, June 11-17
Each year, the week leading up to and including Father’s Day, is Men’s Health Week. Men’s Health Week is a great time to focus on keeping our fathers, brothers, uncles, and sons healthy — by educating them on health issues that disproportionately affect men, raising awareness of preventable health problems, and encouraging early detection and treatment of disease.
Did you know?
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for U.S. men
More U.S. men die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer
Prostate cancer and colorectal cancer are the second and third most common causes of cancer death in U.S. men, respectively
34% of U.S. adult men are obese, and 32% have hypertension
Men aged 60 and over are more likely to be obese than younger men
Medicare provides coverage of a wide range of preventive services for certain beneficiaries that meet eligibility and coverage requirements that are especially meaningful to men in helping them prevent and detect disease, including but not limited to:
Annual Wellness Visit
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening
Alcohol Misuse Screening and Counseling
Colorectal and Prostate Cancer Screenings
Cardiovascular Disease Screenings
Depression Screening
Diabetes Screening
HIV Screening
Immunizations
o Hepatitis B
o Influenza
o Pneumococcal
Initial Preventive Physical Exam (also commonly referred to as the “Welcome to Medicare” Preventive Visit)
Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease
Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity
Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and High-Intensity Behavioral Counseling (HIBC) to Prevent STIs
Tobacco Use Cessation Counseling
Encourage men with Medicare to make the most of their benefits by taking advantage of the preventive services that are most appropriate for them.
https://hsehealthandwellbeingnews.com/the-picture-of-health-mens-health-week-2023/
Loy, Mitchell, Mr. Porter, Ms Eva, and Amanda all have a wonderful selection of produce for us this week!
Loy has plums, peaches, cucumbers, watermelon, tomatoes, collards, onions, peppers, mangoes, and yellow meat melons. Mr. Porter has containers of greens and cabbages and strawberries, as well as other fresh fruits and vegetables already harvested. Mandy with Mandylandfun has some sunflowers and tomato starts and possibly herbs! Mitchell has alfalfa and clover sprouts, basil, spicy salad mix micros, and sprouting jars to start your own microgreen garden! Ms. Eva is bringing zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, basil, roasted peanuts, poultry seasoning, and chai mix!
Thank you so much to everyone who supports this market! We are so incredibly grateful for all of you! Whether you are coming in the rain or the shine or both, we are thankful for the support you show us each week! Whether you have yet to make it to the market, but are sharing our information with others, thank you! We could not do this market without you, our community! We really do love to see each and everyone of you each week! We hope to see you tomorrow! Don’t let the skies fool you into not coming out! Please watch our social media for weather cancellations, we aim for the safety of you and our vendors, so if there is severe weather, we will make an announcement on our Instagram and Facebook pages.
Cucumber and melons and basil go so well together! Basil is one of my favorite herbs and I love to use it in place of mint, even! I have several friends who are allergic to mint, so I tried using other herbs in place of it, and it has really opened up the possibilities for dishes! Basil with melon is probably an all time favorite of mine. I hope you enjoy as much as I do!
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