The above headline comes from a July 01, 2003 Reuters Health release. The article begins by saying that according to new research, "Schools that offer students pizza and fries as alternatives to healthier lunch fare are not only encouraging children to eat high-fat foods during lunch hour, but after school and at [...]
Stress and Chiropractic One of our patient Mrs T. had a huge amount of stress and, in fact, she was taking an Antidepressant for 23 years that caused her multiple side effects including insomnia, indigestion, fatigue and tiredness. After starting chiropractic care for absolutely different reason she discovered that her stress level has dropped and [...]
Kicking any addiction is tough, but over time it will become easier and easier to not smoke. Smoking throughout the day is akin to living inside a burning building. Smoking degrades the collagen of your skin causing premature aging, destroys the cells inside your lungs, and promotes heart disease, cataracts and cancer because of the [...]
Our own values and beliefs will shape our definition of a great quality of life. A well person or family seeks to live consistently with their own meaning for living well. The most obvious and desirable benefit of a well mind is a better quality of life, which of course is determined by each individual's [...]
Most people describe a tension headache as a feeling of a tight band or dull ache around the head or behind the eyes. A common cause of tension headaches is subluxations in the upper back and neck. Headaches affect just about everyone at some point and they can present themselves in many different ways. Some [...]
A study published in the scientific medical journal "Spine" notes the safety of chiropractic. The article published in the October 2007 issue of the journal was titled, "Safety of Chiropractic Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: A Prospective National Survey". The study was a prospective national survey designed to, "estimate the risk of serious [...]
In the October 2004 issue of the peer-reviewed research publication, the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), comes a case study of a child with ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), who was helped with chiropractic. The case was of a 5 year old boy who had been diagnosed with ADHD at age 2. The [...]
