Shelf help

        Try this: The Okinawa Program: How the World's Longest-lived People Achieve Everlasting Health and How You Can Too(Clarkson Potter; $24.95) by Dr. Bradley J. Wilcox, Dr. D. Craig Wilcox and Dr. Makoto Suzuki. Residents of Okinawa are at 80 percent less risk for heart disease, breast and prostate cancer and half the risk for ovarian and colon cancer, according to the authors. They explain how simple changes in diet, lifestyle and spirituality can cut Americans' risk factors for cancers and chronic diseases. It includes a four-week “turnaround plan” and recipes.

Sitings

        Running news: Log on to (running.about.com/recreation/running/) for advice, information and news about running for men and women of all fitness levels. The site includes training tips, motivation and nutritional information.

Resources

        For teens: TOPS Club Inc. is offering a new brochure called “Are You a Lean Eating Teen? Ten Healthy Steps.”

        The free brochure is packed with simple ways for teens to trim fat and calories from their daily diets, including adding fruits and vegetables and controlling portion sizes. Physical activity is also emphasized.

        TOPS is also offering a special free teen membership. Any new or renewing TOPS member may enroll a teen or preteen free through Dec. 31.

        For a copy of the brochure, call (800) 932-8677 or send a stamped, self-addressed business-sized envelope to TOPS, 4575 S. Fifth St., Milwaukee, WI 53207.

Tips

        Safer splashing: The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians urges parents to be extra-cautious in supervising youngsters as they play in or around water.

        Their best advice:

        • Never leave a child unsupervised near the water or a pool. If you have to leave the area to answer the phone or the doorbell, take the child with you.

        • Don't rely on “floaties” or “water wings” to protect your children. They are no substitute for supervision.

        • Have your children take swimming lessons at an early age, but remember: Swim lessons don't make them “drown-proof.”

        • Make sure your pool is completely fenced in and that the pool gate is locked at all times.

        • Install self-closing and self-latching gates around your pool. Position pool gate latches and handles out of reach of young children.

        • Keep rescue equipment near the pool.

        • Never partially uncover the pool, as children may get trapped under the pool cover.

        • Don't leave standing water on top of the pool cover.

        • Make sure there's a telephone within easy reach in the pool area in case you have to call for help.

        • Make sure baby-sitters are educated in pool safety, supervision and drowning prevention.

        • Learn CPR.

Calendar

        Safety first: The Cincinnati American Red Cross and the Cincinnati Museum Center present Super Safety Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 28 at theMuseum Center. More than 20 presentations and hands-on demonstrations will be featured, including pet first aid, weather safety and CPR. Special guests include the Cincinnati SWAT Team, AAA Cincinnati and Cincinnati Riverhawks players. Information: 792-4000 or (www.cincinnatiredcross.org).

        E-mail pofarrell@enquirer.com.

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