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Dear ROAS friends & supporters,
October offered no lack of events for ROAS & the breast health community. Enjoy brief summaries of ROAS activities and please visit the ROAS website photo album to see what a difference we make! |
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 ROAS kicked off the month with Komen at the Houston Race for the Cure. Lisa McMillian, board member, along with Dr. Jennie Bennett, director and founder, represented ROAS with a table display and handed out flyers to those interested in our organization.
 Next, on October 11th Shine in the Heights hosted a "Get Pinked! Pink Dessert & Pink Hair Party" that kicked off their month-long fundraiser benefiting ROAS. We thank Kelly Devlin (seated) for connecting ROAS to Shine and proposing us as worthy recipients of their generous donations. Salon patrons could add a strip of pink to their hair via color or extension and/or purchase "Get Pinked" tee-shirts. All sales from these items from the 11th to the end of the month were donated to ROAS. Many thanks Shine!!!
On October 29th, ROAS hosted a Pink Yoga Night for Survivors at St. John's Downtown. Women from the church joined ROAS members for a relaxing yoga session led by a Pink Yoga certified instructor, Elisabeth Feerick, from The Body Serious. Zoe's Kitchen provided catering for the event. A huge thanks to St. John's Downtown, Elisabeth Feerick and Zoe's kitchen for the healthy eats!
 Lastly, ROAS wrapped up a fabulous fundraiser with Ouisie's Table and The Bird & The Bear Bistro. The Pink "Beet" Pancake special was nothing short of scrumptious and the Silent Purse Auction blessed us with a great start for our Angels of Assistance program starting in 2013. Great thanks to both restaurants, their staff, the ROAS Board, and Le'Keisha Roberts from Simply El - Planning, Design & Gifts whose organization and execution of the event made it's success possible!
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ROAS November & Upcoming News: | November will offer moments of thankful reflection for all of those involved with ROAS. Our groups will continue with their regularly scheduled meetings and the foundation will focus on projects in progress.
 On Friday, December 14th, 10,000 Villages, located in Rice Village, will host a ROAS Shopping Night from 6-8 PM. 10,000 Villages, a nonprofit, self-supporting, non-governmental, and fair-trade organization, is designed to benefit artisans from low-income countries.They market hand-made products (jewelry, toys, musical instruments, household accessories, and Holiday decor) and provide consumers around the world with products that have been fairly purchased from sustainable resources.We invite you to join us and shop their array of unique gifts bettering these developing countries and ROAS who will receive 15% of net sales from the Shopping Night.  ROAS will continue to develop the Angels of Assistance program projected to begin early 2013. As many of you know (and all too well), treatment and reconstruction often pose a great financial strain on patients and their families.This program will allow breast cancer patients to apply for a specific needs scholarship from ROAS that would offer a solution when no other resource could. If you would like to make a donation to this fund, you can do so online. ROAS also invites you to make a donation to this fund or to ROAS operations as a holiday gift. Please contact Jill at jillmschoeffler@gmail.com to make arrangements. |
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Nutrition Nugget: | |
Is Butter Better?
Did you know that the delicious lemon-butter sauce served on so many grilled fish dishes is actually good for you? In addition to increasing your omega 3 absorption of the fish oil, the butter is an excellent source of fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin A, D, E and K. Organic is necessary when purchasing butter to avoid hormones and antibiotics. The body uses the short-chain fatty acids contained in the butter. These shorter chain fats act like scissors by cutting up the long molecular chain fish oil so that it can be absorbed and utilized by the body.
Many Americans have grown to believe that butter is bad and have replaced it with margarines made from hydrogenated oils. To make margarine, hydrogen is bubbled through the vegetable oil at a high temperature. The hydrogen saturates some of the carbon bonds of the oil. The product then becomes solid at room temperature. These artificial butter substitutes are void of nutrition and rob the body of energy and nutrients as it tries to break them down. Studies show that they also leave behind trace amount of aluminum and nickel that find their way to the brain. This is definitely not a good thing considering all of the research done on Alzheimer's patients and aluminum in the brain.
So when in doubt, make the natural choice, organic butter.
Until next time,
Jenny Hrbacek, RN |
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Words cannot express how thankful we are to have each and everyone of you belong to the ROAS body whose reach continues to touch lives because of your commitment and care.
Many Thanksgiving Blessings to You & Yours,
Reconstruction of a Survivor |
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