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thyself completely each day;
do it again, and again, and forever again.
– Chinese inscription
cited by Henry David Thoreau in Walden
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Chiropractic’s message
Your body is the world’s greatest drugstore. It makes
every chemical you need to live a long and healthy life.
Over-the-counter and prescription drugs often have side effects
that can be deadly. They are never what your body really needs.
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In addition, drugs usually suppress acute symptoms (fever,
inflammation, rash, cough, aches and others), which prevents
your body from performing its cleansing and healing functions.
Suppression of acute symptoms has been shown to cause chronic
health problems.
Chiropractic’s purpose is to help your body function
as it is meant to function – permitting it to be balanced
so it may work at its peak and manufacture its own drugs.
If your spine is unhealthy, your ability to function optimally
is impaired. How can that occur? Read below.
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Your spinal column
Without a healthy spine you cannot live a healthy life. Why?
Because your spine does so much.
First, what is your spine (spinal column or backbone)?
It is a column (or stack) of spinal bones or vertebrae that
start under your skull and end at your tail. It is made up
of seven neck (cervical) vertebrae, 12 mid back (thoracic)
vertebrae and 5 lower back (lumbar) vertebrae. At the bottom
is your sacrum – a large triangular shaped bone made
up of 5 fused bones and under that is your tailbone or coccyx,
made up of 4 fused small bones.
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body attach (directly or indirectly) to these vertebrae. For
example, your head sits on top of your spine, and your shoulders,
ribs, sternum and hips connect to it. Your arms, wrists, hands
and legs, ankles and feet connect to your spine through your
shoulders and hips.
Muscles move you because they are attached to your bones.
Therefore your spinal column is involved in nearly all of
your movements.
But if the spine contains subluxations (tiny spinal distortions)
it is unbalanced.
If your spine is unbalanced your muscles will not work smoothly,
your energies will be drained and you will age faster than
you should.
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But subluxations can also interfere with the flow of energy
and information to the nerves that connect to your internal
organs. Your ability to fight infections (immune system),
digest and assimilate food (digestive system), eliminate wastes
(excretory system), produce hormones in the proper balance
(endocrine system) – in short, your ability to live
a fully healthy life can be undermined.
Chiropractors are trained to locate and correct subluxations.
Do you have any in your body?
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Get a chiropractic checkup and find out.
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Nutrition myths from the
Weston Price Foundation
For complete references and more information
go to www.westonaprice.org
Myth: Americans do not consume
enough essential fatty acids.
Truth: Americans consume far too much of
one kind of EFA (omega-6 EFAs found in most polyunsaturated
vegetable oils) but not enough of another kind of EFA (omega-3
EFAs found in fish, fish oils, eggs from properly fed chickens,
dark green vegetables and herbs, and oils from certain seeds
such as flax and chia, nuts such as walnuts and in small amounts
in all whole grains). (7)
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Myth: A vegetarian diet will protect you against
atherosclerosis.
Truth: The International Atherosclerosis
Project found that vegetarians had just as much atherosclerosis
as meat eaters. (8)
Myth: Low-fat diets prevent
breast cancer.
Truth: A recent study found that women on
very low-fat diets (less than 20%) had the same rate of breast
cancer as women who consumed large amounts of fat. (9) |
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Study
demonstrates chiropractic safety
An extensive 7-year study determined that
people who visit chiropractors for a neck adjustment are
no more likely to suffer a stroke than those visiting an
MD.
The research was conducted by the Bone and
Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated
Disorders with results published in the journal Spine. “This
type of stroke is extremely rare and has been known to occur
spontaneously or after ordinary neck movements such as looking
up at the sky or over the shoulder when backing a car,”
said lead author David Cassidy, MD, professor of epidemiology
at the University of Toronto. (5)
Confession
– Why I left mainstream medicine
Click here: YouTube - Why I Left Mainstream Medicine -
From A Nurse
Powerful...9 minutes everyone needs to see this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_FMr8kdvQY
Major mumps outbreak: MMR
vaccine didn’t work
Researchers investigating a large outbreak
of mumps in 2006, when 6,584 cases were reported among college
students, discovered that virtually every sufferer had been
vaccinated twice against the disease. CDC researchers are
explaining that the failure of the MMR vaccine and the resultant
outbreak (primarily among 18- to 24-year-olds) was because
the college students got the “wrong type of mumps.”
(4)
This is one of many reports of vaccine failure.
Of course, in addition to ineffectiveness, the MMR shot
has been linked to autism, brain injury, encephalitis, allergies,
asthma, eczema and many other conditions.
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Humor
“The blue-ribbon commission has come up with a list
of ways to improve the next presidential election. I’ve
got an idea. How about better candidates?” Jay Leno,
the Tonight Show,
Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery.
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.
My wife really likes to make pottery, but to me it's just
kiln time.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
I fired my masseuse today. She just rubbed me the wrong way.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Shotgun wedding A case of wife or death.
I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
I used to be a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so
they gave me the axe.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Banning the bra was a big flop.
Sea captains don't like crew cuts.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.
Without geometry, life is pointless.
When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Reading whilst sunbathing makes you well-red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
If electricity comes from electrons... does that mean that
morality comes from morons?
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Words of wisdom
Now that the draft has been abolished, mandatory vaccination remains
the only time an American is asked to risk his life for his country.
– Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
– Socrates
Is Alzheimer’s a dental problem?
Researchers have linked Alzheimer’s to the buildup of heavy
metals in the brain, primarily mercury and aluminum. Major sources
of brain mercury are flu shots and “silver” amalgams
used in dentistry. (3) There have been some clinical findings showing
that chelation, a process whereby heavy metals are removed from
the body, has been able to reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s
(and autism) in certain individuals.
Fish Alert: Here is a great guide on what
fish to eat and what to avoid.
Click
here.
Chiropractic and Spinal Research
Chiropractic and depression. A 46-year-old man suffering
from his third bout of major depression presented at a chiropractic
office. He complained of neck and low back pain, anxiety, fatigue
and little appetite. Many other symptoms he exhibited were adverse
effects of depression medication such as decreased sex drive, dizziness,
overall muscle weakness and insomnia.
The patient received specific chiropractic adjustments for the correction
of his vertebral subluxations. His life began to improve as measured
by self-assessed quality of life and wellness indicators such as
the Global Wellness scale, Daily Living Health Questionnaire (SF36),
and a retrospective Health, Wellness and Overall Quality of Life
Self Assessment questionnaire. (1a)
Note: For many decades the chiropractic profession owned and ran
nearly 200 sanitaria and nursing homes that often helped those with
neurological and psychological conditions. There are numerous case
histories of individuals suffering from major psychological disorders
resolving under chiropractic care. Today doctors of chiropractic
are helping children and adults suffering with ADD/ADHD, autism,
bipolar disorder, depression and many other conditions.
It’s better than
you think
Are we getting overcrowded? “Total fertility
(the number of children a woman has over the course of her lifetime)
has been dropping nearly everywhere on the planet since 1970. In
fact, it has dropped from around 6 children per woman in the 1960s
to around 2.8 today – and shows no signs of stopping. Total
fertility rates for 79 countries, including the United States, are
below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. If present
trends continue, it looks like the world population will likely
peak at around 8 billion in 2040 and will then begin to decline.
(4)
Did you know...?
Mercury fillings are not safe. Studies at the University of Calgary
have found that mercury vapor from dental fillings enters the body
and may cause brain cell degeneration and immune suppression, among
other problems. (1)
Have your dentist use mercury-free fillings and try to have existing
amalgams replaced with composite fillings by a “biological
dentist.”
Study demonstrates chiropractic safety
An extensive 7-year study determined that people who visit chiropractors
for a neck adjustment are no more likely to suffer a stroke than
those visiting an MD.
The research was conducted by the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010
Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders with results
published in the journal Spine. “This type of stroke is extremely
rare and has been known to occur spontaneously or after ordinary
neck movements such as looking up at the sky or over the shoulder
when backing a car,” said lead author David Cassidy, MD, professor
of epidemiology at the University of Toronto. (5) |
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