Monday, September 30, 2013

Chiropractic

Disk Biochemistry

Proper joint motion helps remove wastes and fluids from the disks of your spine and improves the flow of proper nutrients into the disk. It is important to understand that the disk does not have a direct blood supply, and disks only stay healthy with motion. With lack of motion there is decreased oxygen, glucose, sulfates, and proteoglycan content, all of which are essential for disk health.

~ Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 1992 ~

Friday, September 27, 2013

Standard Medical Care and Chiropractic

Compared to those who received standard medical care (SMC) alone, military personnel (ages 18-35) with back pain who received chiropractic care in addition to SMC showed significantly  more improvement in both decreased pain and increased physical function.  Note: This particular study did not include a group of patients who only received chiropractic manipulative therapy.
 Spine, October 2012

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Less Sleep Linked To Weight Gain

In a study setting, people who didn't get enough sleep consumed more calories per day than normal sleepers. It can't be stressed enough that sleep is very important for everyday life. Not enough sleep can affect almost every aspect of everyday life. 

~ SLEEP, July 2013 ~

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Chiropractic

Drop That Blood Pressure!

Patients who had upper thoracic chiropractic adjustments showed statistically significant decreases in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Placebo and control groups demonstrated no such changes. 
Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapeutics, 1988

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Citrus

Eating Citrus Reduces Stroke

Women who consumed the most citrus were less likely to have an ischemic (clot-related) stroke than women who consumed the least. Researchers attributed the benefit to compounds in citrus called flavanones, which may reduce inflammation and improve blood vessels function. Other substances in citrus, including potassium, may also play a role. 
Stroke, February 2012


Monday, September 23, 2013

Positive Mental Attitude

8 Tips to Help Create A Positive Mental Attitude
By: Declan OFlaherty
Remember that you are powerful

  • What we are is far greater, far superior, far more important, and far more mysterious than our conceptual mind tries to define. This is why we are far more powerful then we think we are.
Choose to embrace life
  •  Take the first step before more time gradually passes by while you stand still stagnating. Your choice. Your life. Your responsibility. Your power.
Realize that you get to control your reactions
  • We have the power because our inner world (cause) affects the influence we allow the outer world (effect) to have on us. 
Know that no one is better qualified
  • Stop identifying with other people's opinions and become aware of how you see yourself. Nobody knows you better than you do. 
Believe that you are more than enough
  • If you focus on what you have, and not on what you lack, you will always have enough, because you will always be enough. 
Love yourself
  • Be yourself. Love yourself completely and accept everything that you are. You are beautiful. Believe it, and most importantly, remind yourself often. 
Stay cool
  • We are responsible for our own action, regardless of how rude other people may act. Remember: you are the who loses in the end, if you lose the lesson.
Journey well
  • We know life is about the journey and not the arrival. We don't need to arrive if we accept that we are already here. 
 "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
~ Tom Stoppard ~

Friday, September 20, 2013

Exercise

15 Minutes of Exercise!

A study which included several hundred thousand people between 1996 and 2008 found that a mere 15 minutes of exercise a day can increase your lifespan by three years! Those who exercised at least 15 minutes a day also had a 14 percent reduced risk of all-cause mortality.  Lancet, August 2011


Thursday, September 19, 2013

Exercise


Cell Phone Use Linked to Poor Fitness

Over 300 college students from the Midwest were surveyed on their cell phone usage and activity level. Results showed that students who spent large amounts of time on their cell phones were less fit than those who averaged 90 minutes of daily cell phone usage.  
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2013


"To get rich never risk your  health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."
~ Richard Baker






Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Mental Attitude


Early Divorce Influences Parent-Child Relationship

Recent research suggests divorce has a greater influence on child-parent relationships if it happens in the first few years of a child's life. Individuals whose parents got divorced while they were between birth and three to five years old were more insecure about their current relationships with their parents compared to those whose parents divorced after childhood. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, June 2013

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."
~ Corrie ten Boom

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Exercise

An Hour of Exercise Is Not Enough for Boys!

A recent study is the first to look at the link between children's physical activity and cardiovascular risk. Researchers determines risk by looking at blood pressure, cholesterol, and skin fold testing results from 300o children under the age of 10. The study revealed that boys  less than 6 years of age need more than 70 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise per day and older boys need at least 80 minutes. Girls of all ages need approximately 60 minutes of exercise.  BMC Medicine, July 2013

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." 
~President John F. Kennedy