There are natural ways of seeking wellness and  natural ways to get healthy. When Chiropractic was discovered in 1895 it challenged the world of drugs and surgery. It was a long, lonely battle but now chiropractic is the largest natural, drug-free healthcare system in the world. More and more people are turning away from symptom treatment and choosing natural ways of becoming and staying healthy.

You're on fire

"I'm on fire with desire", "I burn with excitement" and other phrases refer to extreme emotional states. But you don't need to go to extremes - you're on fire all the time, awake and asleep.

Put your hand in front of your mouth or nose and exhale. What do you feel? Heat! Warm air! Where is the heat coming from? From your fire, of course. You're burning right now as you read these words.

You're burning up. Your fuel - food mixing with the oxygen you breathe - is creating fire and the result is heat and lots of other energy as well.

You're on fire. Every cell in your body is on fire.

So why don't you burn up? Well, you are. Don't replenish your fuel stores with food and stop breathing and you'd shrivel up and die out, just like any other fire.

But we don't have flames coming out of us, do we? We aren't really on fire, are we?

We are. But, irrespective of what romance novelists may have us believe, our fire is quiet and slow. We burn ever so carefully so we won't damage our insides and get, well, burnt. Our energy is released in little bits, in controlled amounts and steadily, as needed, not explosively as when we burn paper or wood.

All living creatures are on a slow fire. A very slow, low-temperature fire. How do they do this? They use special chemicals, proteins, called enzymes to keep the fire under control.

That's why paper may burn at Fahrenheit 242 degrees but you burn at 98.6 degrees (on average).

Since you are always burning food you lose weight with every breath. You lose water too! What an odd fire - a wet burning one.

When did your fire begin?

You were born on fire. Your brain cells were dividing, your heart was racing, your blood was streaming even in utero - you were hot even then. But where did your fire come from? You didn't start the fire. You received the fire from your parents. They received their fire from their parents, and they from theirs going back and back and back to the beginning.

Life is a struggle to keep your fire burning bright. Nurture your fire, let it burn pure and true, let your light shine as a blessing to all. Don't let it get extinguished.

Make sure you eat nutrient dense foods that have not been denatured by refining and by added chemicals. Eat organic fresh food. As a general rule eat foods that can go bad, before they go bad.

Force your fire to burn hot by exercising so that sweat and extra heat can expel and burn away wastes. Go for nice walks - in the woods or a park if possible.

Drink plenty of good water so your slow fire can burn evenly.

And get a chiropractic checkup. Chiropractors help keep your energy pathways from being blocked or obstructed so that your "fire' may flow properly to all your nooks and crannies, to every cell, tissue, organ and system so that you may function at your optimum.

Every person should get a chiropractic checkup to ensure that their body is functioning at its peak. Keep your fire burning - see your chiropractor.

Mercury found in high fructose corn syrup

According to David Wallinga, M.D., co-author of the study, "We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the FDA to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply." Another study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products including:

• Quaker Oatmeal to Go bars
• Jack Daniel's Barbecue Sauce
• Hershey's Chocolate Syrup
• Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce
• Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars
• Manwich Gold Sloppy Joe
• Market Pantry Grape Jelly
• Smucker's Strawberry Jelly
• Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry
• Hunt's Tomato Ketchup
• Coca-Cola Classic: no mercury found on a second test
• Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt
• Minute Maid Berry Punch
• Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink
• Nesquik Chocolate Milk
• Kemps Fat Free Chocolate Milk

Breast-fed children are
healthier and smarter

Instead of living breast milk designed over million of years to fulfill all your child developing needs, scientists developed a dead chemical substitute called formula. The physical and neurological differences between formula-fed and breast-fed babies is shocking.

Simply stated, a synthetic or formula-fed child is far more liable to be obese, stressed and will be physically and emotionally sicker than a breastfed child.

Breast-fed infants score higher on developmental and visual tests than formula-fed babies (5) and mothers who breast-feed have a lower risk of getting breast and ovarian cancer. (6-7)

One interesting observation has to do with length of breastfeeding. Researchers found that the longer a baby is breastfed, the more intelligent the child. (8)
In addition, formula-fed babies have higher rates of: middle ear infections, pneumonia, gastroenteritis (stomach flu), urinary tract infections and necrotizing enterocolitis, a digestive tract disorder that is a leading killer of premature infants.
Breast-fed infants, on the other hand, have added protection against: heart disease, immune system cancers such as lymphoma, bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and allergies, respiratory infections, eczema and Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

Less than 2% of children's drug studies verified by independent safety checks

Less than 2% of the 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and 2002 had independent experts. Among the 2%, six had to be stopped early because of toxic effects on the child patients. Deaths were highest in trials involving premature babies. (9) What about the other 98% of the trials that had no independent oversight? We won't know until the drugs are in use whether the trials were truly safely done.

Aren't you glad you and your children go to a chiropractor?

Humor

Thoughts for the sane

Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.

Marriage changes passion. Suddenly you're in bed with a relative.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?" She hit me.

I don't do drugs. I get the same effect just standing up quickly.
I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They know me here.

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

Why is it that most nudists are people you don't want to see naked?
Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom's wise words: "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been!"