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August 20, 2008
Dr. John Rogers awarded fellowship
John J. Rogers, MD, the
Emergency Department
Medical Director at
Monroe County Hospital,
has been awared the
American College of
Emergency Physicians
(ACEP) Fellowship. He
will be formally inducted as
ROGERS
a Fellow of the College
during the annual ACEP
Scientific Assembly in
Chicago this October.
A native of Iowa but a
converted Georgian since
1979, Dr Rogers has
worked in the field of
Emergency Services for over
15 years. He lives in
Bolingbroke and is married to
Jan Rogers, MSN who is the
Clinical Quality Coordinator at
Fairview Park Hospital in
Dublin. He serves as the Chair
of the Rural Emergency
Medicine Section of ACEP and is
a member of the Board of
Directors of the Georgia College
of Emergency Physicians.
“Dr. John Rogers has played a
very important role in the devel
opment of excellence in our
Emergency Department,” said O.
J. Booker, CEO of Monroe County
Hospital. “His diligence and
knowledge of emergency medi
cine has made all of our service
indicators improve. We are
grateful for his dedicated serv
ice.” Apart from his hospital and
professional duties, Rogers
writes frequent columns for the
Monroe County Reporter and
attends dutifully to his family,
horses and dogs.
Diet changes can reduce cholesterol levels
When it comes to choles
terol, Americans clearly
have a problem on their
hands (and hearts).
According to the American
Heart Association (AHA),
nearly 48 percent of non-
Hispanic white men over
the age of 20 are consid
ered borderline high-risk
for heart disease thanks to
their cholesterol levels.
Perhaps most surprising is
that more women in that
same category are border
line high risk for heart dis
ease, as just under 50 per
cent of females have cho
lesterol levels that could
lead to serious problems.
So what to do?
Fortunately, while the con
sequences of high choles
terol can be drastic, con
trolling cholesterol and
maintaining healthy cho
lesterol levels is not very
difficult. And doing so can
be done in all facets of
your daily diet.
Meat and Protein
Foods
Many people love eating
meat, and lowering choles
terol doesn't mean you
have to cut meat out of
your diet entirely. Instead,
take a different approach
to how you include meat in
your diet. Limit how much
fatty ground meat you eat
and reduce the servings of
heavily marbled cuts of
meat. Choose lean, well-
trimmed beef, veal, lamb,
or pork. Avoid eating bacon
or sausage and even high-
fat deli meats. If you're
ordering deli meats, ask for
low fat meats that are
available at most delis.
When removing or reduc
ing your meat intake, it's
understandable to be con
cerned about how that will
impact your protein intake
as well. But you can main
tain protein intake by
making meatless protein
like dried beans, lentils,
split peas, and even peanut
butter a part of your daily
diet. While meat is a great
source of protein, it's not
the only means to include
protein in your diet.
Dairy Products
Dairy can also be detri
mental to an individual's
cholesterol levels, even
though it doesn't have to
be. Dairy that typically has
a negative impact on cho
lesterol levels includes
milk with a high fat per
centage (whole milk),
cream, half and half, and
nondairy creamer, and ice
cream, whipped cream or
nondairy whipped top
pings. Whole-milk prod
ucts, such as whole-milk
yogurt or whole-milk
cheeses, can also be bad for
cholesterol levels.
However, choosing dairy
that is heart-friendly is
very easy. In lieu of whole-
milk products, choose skim
milk or 1 percent milk
products. Instead of ice
cream at dessert, serve
frozen yogurt, ice milk,
sherbet, or sorbet. Low-fat
cheeses, such as 1 percent
cottage cheese or skim-
milk mozzarella, and low-
fat yogurts are also more
heart-friendly dairy prod
ucts.
Fruits and Vegetables
While it's hard to imag
ine fruits or vegetables not
being healthy, sometimes
what you might think is
healthy is anything but.
Coconut, for instance, is a
fruit that is high in satu
rated fat. Also, avoid deep-
frying vegetables and don't
negate the positives of veg
etables with cream sauce,
cheese sauce, or cooking
vegetables in butter.
When cooking vegetables,
be sure to include daily
servings of steamed, boiled
or baked vegetables in
your diet. Instead of sea
soning vegetables with but
ter or cheese sauces, utilize
herbs, lemon juice, or mini
mal amounts of low-fat
margarine to add some fla
vor to your veggies.
Breads and Cereals
Breads and cereals can
also have a negative
impact on cholesterol lev
els if you're choosing the
wrong ones. While it's com
mon to assume baked
goods are more heart-
friendly, baked goods such
as donuts, pastries or crois
sants are not good choices
for those looking to lower
their cholesterol. Along
those same lines, many are
quick to assume granola is
good no matter what.
However, granola with
coconut or coconut oil
added is not very healthy.
When looking for more
heart-friendly breads and
cereals, choose hot or cold
Keep an eye on cataracts
cereals with no added fat.
Plain breads and pastas
and even English muffins
are also heart-healthy.
When snacking, choose air-
popped popcorn, pretzels,
rice cakes, or melba toast.
Fruit cookies, angel food
cake and graham crackers
are also healthy snacking
options.
To learn more about cho
lesterol, visit the AHA Web
site at www.american-
heart.org.
Appointment times just got easier with
our new 5 days a week MRI service!
New MRI system at
Monroe County Hospital
• Close to home and convenient
• Higher resolution
• Superior images
• Fast imaging for shorter
scan times
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Comfort for you...
Maximum quality for your doctor.
• Greater comfort and access
• Qualified radiologists and staff
• Quick report turnaround time
• Accepting most insurances
Roughly half of the American population
will have a cataract by the age of 65. By
the age of 75, nearly all Americans will
have at least one cataract. A cloudiness of
the eye's lens, a cataract does not neces
sarily need to be removed immediately
upon its detection. In many instances, a
cataract starts very small, and most doc
tors prefer to wait until the cataract is of
significant size to and can interfere with
vision before removing it. In some cases,
the cataract never reaches such a size,
and therefore does not need to be
removed. However, once you've been diag
nosed as having a cataract, regular visits
to your eye doctor are necessary to moni
tor its growth. While most people are
understandably fearful of surgery,
cataract surgery is actually the most com
monly performed type of surgery in the
United States, and many surgeons, thanks
to the overwhelming number of cataract
patients, have performed several thou
sand cataract surgeries. Another piece of
good newsconcerning cataracts is the
progress being made post-surgery.
Whereas it was once commonplace for
cataract patients to need thicker eyeglass
lenses after surgery, patients can now
have
intraocular
lenses
(IOLs)
implanted
during sur
gery. The
IOL is
essentially
a replace
ment lens that can even eliminate the
need for glasses entirely, as is the case
with the new multifocal IOLs. Even tradi
tional IOLs often only require a patient to
need reading
glasses for
close vision.
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