<div class="block">Decorative pumpkins don&#39;t have to be discarded after you&#39;re done with them. Cory Rodriguez, fitness planner, joined &#39;beWell&#39; to talk about how you can repurpose your decorative pumpkins to get maximum health benefits.</div>

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Be Well: How to Repurpose Decorative Pumpkins

If you're anything like me, your house is probably filled with lots of pumpkins. You know, it's the season for that. But actually pumpkins can be more than just decorations around our home. So before you throw away your Jack O Lanterns, there are plenty of ways to really repurpose them and get some great health benefits. So here to show us is well, this coach friend of the show, Corey Rodriguez. So first, obviously this is a beautiful pumpkin but inside here are some really great things for our body. Yeah, the seeds great. They are one of the best snacks that you can make. They're super easy. You can roast them with some maple syrup and avocado oil and some cinnamon. Ok. So how do you make them like right in the oven? I believe 3 25 you throw them in the oven for about 12 minutes with avocado oil. Cinnamon and maple syrup. So they're a little bit sweet. It becomes like a cinnamon toast. Uh pumpkin seed. Really? And now what kind of health benefits are there to that? They're high in protein. They're high in zinc for the immune system. They're high in magnesium which we never get enough of. And they're a very easy and portable snack. Ok, that's great. And it's very seasoned up. Ok. What do we have over here? So this is pumpkin bread. Um, you get any kind of flour that works within your diet and you can bake it in the oven like you would any other bread. But adding in the meat of the pumpkin gives you a lot of vitamin A gives you vitamin C. Um, it gives you tons of antioxidants and it tastes nice and sweet because pumpkin is a pretty sweet food. Now, if I decided to use the can, because I'm making this into a Jack o Lantern or we're still using it for decoration. Is that any worse? That? Nope, totally fine. And that, that would be the easier choice because you'd essentially have to take the meat of the pumpkin and puree that to be what you'd find in a can. Ok. So if I use a can, why did you choose this almond flour? I like almond flour because it's not going to spike your blood sugar like white flour, wood and it does taste pretty good and it kind of molds into a nice b it won't rise the same way as regular flour, but that was just my preference. But I, but I want to know why you pick that because I'm like there has to be a reason why he went with that. Right? Ok. Now this is a little bit different. What did you do here? This is a, a hydrating face mask. It's something very, very easy. You have lemon raw honey. If you can find raw, that's always gonna be better. That really has a lot of the benefits within honey. And then you have that pureed pumpkin like you would and you mix it up into a hydrating face mask. You can apply to your face first. put it on your face. I'm just like, but I like that you said yes. But, but putting the uh I don't know why I'm so silly but putting this out that's not gonna like burn it all. It's a very small amount. So it's, it's about 1/4 of a teaspoon of this. You have a half a teaspoon of raw honey and then I believe you have a tablespoon or so of the pumpkin. Uh But the benefit of this is pumpkin has alpha hydroxy acids which help with cell turnover and the pigmentation and the complexion of the skin high in vitamin A vitamin C also good for your skin and then raw honey is great for your skin as well. All right, those are good things to know. So whether you wanna have the seeds, the bread or just put it on your face. Pumpkins, they're good for us folks. All right, Shannon, back to you. Thanks Elizabeth and Corey. There's an update to a popular weight loss drug, Ozim. Its label now comes with a warning. Our Simon Chowdhury has the details in today's health check. Here are your health headlines trying to lose weight and we go, we have seen a rise in popularity lately but now the FDA wants warning labels on the drug acknowledging it can lead to intestinal blockage. This because o and we go the mimic a hormone, the body naturally makes that slows the passage of food through the stomach, helping people feel fuller longer. All the FDA says those labels on those drugs will now acknowledge the reports of intestinal blockage. Well, it's that time of year again and if you're feeling under the weather, but you're not technically sick, you could be suffering from fall allergies. Experts suggest using saline and medicated nasal sprays along with over the counter drugs to keep your allergies under control. Now, if your allergies persist, experts say it may be time to see a specialist and parents have you had trouble getting your teen off their phones? You're not alone. A nonprofit that helps families navigate. Media says a quarter of teens use their phones during school hours for more than six hours when they're supposed to be learning. Researchers say some do recognize the problems involved and they're trying to cut back back to you. Well, several major drug companies have agreed to negotiate drug prices with the federal government for Medicare patients. The pharmaceutical companies include Johnson and Johnson, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb last month, the White House announced the 1st 10 drugs subject to those negotiations. They include treatments for diabetes, heart failure and cancer. The negotiations begin next year and the final negotiated prices are expected to go into effect by 2026. It just might be the scariest moment for a parent when their baby stops breathing. Yeah, that's why I went to the professionals at Stony Brook Children's Hospital to find out what to do when the unthinkable happens. It's time now to talk about CPR and it is a little bit different with an infant. Some of the things that people really need to consider. So talk me through what we're gonna do. OK. So the first thing we wanna do is establish if the baby really does need CPR. So we want to uh stimulate the baby by tapping their feet and seeing if their response correct. And now we want to check for breathing. So sometimes you can see it through the clothes. If not, you want to open up the clothing to be able to have a good look at their belly, make sure it's rising and falling, chest and belly. That's correct. OK? And then if the baby is unresponsive, we know that we have to act quickly. So we wanna move the baby to a hard flat surface. So we can't do this in a crib, we can't do this on a couch. We want something where the surface is not going to uh give underneath the baby as we're doing compressions. So the correct hand position would be just below the nipple line um in the center of the chest and then we're going to push hard and fast. So one, so we're just going, you can see how much force you're putting into this. So don't be afraid we want to go down an inch and a half for the baby and we wanna go at about a rate of 100 to 100 and 20 a minute. So I should be counting that. So you count if you're going to give the breaths and we're gonna give the breath after approximately 30 compressions, right? And we're gonna cover nose and the mouth with our mouth because our mouths are bigger than the baby's face and we're going to inflate the chest um twice. So it's two breaths and then we go back to compressions and then we give our 30 compressions and we have to be sure that someone has called 911. Absolutely. All right. Now, you can actually buy a kit through the American Heart Association so that you and your family can practice. It's called the CPR any time kit. And there is a link to that on your screen. That's such an important skill for everyone to have, not only for kids but adults also because you literally can save a life, right? And I like that, you know, as Shannon was watching this. He started saying, uh, uh, uh, uh, staying Alive because, and they actually on their social media have the different songs. Like there's a song by Beyonce, you know, so if you look, whatever the song is to keep that tempo because it is a little, maybe quicker than you think it is. Yeah. And you can remember it that way by just humming the song the whole time you're doing it. Yeah. All right. Well, when we come back you have no, I mean, no excuse not to try this Fitness M four because you can do it while you're cooking. This is the, well, helping you live life better.