Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

A recent article in the prestigious journal “NATURE” explains that sugar, especially fructose, widely available in soft drinks and other processed foods is responsible for many serious non-communicable disease, such as:

-heart disease
-cancer
-diabetes
-obesity
-liver failure

Reasons why this happens:
1) fructose and other high-calorie substances such as alcohol CANNOT  be directly used by the bodies tissues, so it’s metabolized by the liver… which generates toxicity and sets the body on a path to diabetes.

2) Interferes with the body’s sense of FULLNESS.. so we then take on excess calories and overwhelms the liver and then turns the overdose of sugar to fat.

Soft Drinks:
1) Sodas and Filtered Juices mainly contain sugar and DO NOT have enough nutrients to keep the body healthy and free from disease. They provide calories without nutrients that you would normally find in whole fruit.

2) Don’t be fooled it’s not limited to SODA and JUICE, also in
breakfast cereal, jellies, jams, candy, baked goods, sauces, desserts and even ready-made dinners and processed meats.

ADDICTIVE….
high added fructose is addictive in a similar way to alcohol. ( Which by the way alcohol is one of the most addictive drugs on the market).

DAMAGE….
generates fat, causes insulin resistance, causes inflammation (which breaks down muscle, ligaments, organs, arteries and much more), liver problems, decrease in nutrient absorption (vitamins and minerals).

WE DON’T CARE!   WE LOVE OUR SODA, CEREAL, BREAD, PASTA!
That’s most people’s response. Unfortunately, it is hard! However, everything in moderation. Give the body a chance to recuperate. Eat your sugars on the weekend and make weekdays your  ….detox…training…spiritual…discipline…challenge…TIME! Call it whatever you want. Whatever inspires you! Everyone is different.

Here are a few tips:
1) Eat fruit for breakfast ( NO NO NO soda or diet soda for breakfast, this throws you off for the entire day)
2) Eat meat for lunch and fill up on more fruit (make this your biggest meal of the day)(Drink water)
3) Eat small meal with your meat, veggies, salad, then a very small portion of bread, pasta or rice. ( Drink water)

If you must drink soda, have it at lunch time only and limit yourself to one until you decrease it to only the weekends.

Keep up the good work! Share this with a friend!

Health Always
Drs. Michele & Jim

We treat people everyday for health issues. We see people with insurance and without. Insurance is a good avenue for many individuals, however I think we have forgotten what insurance was for. Insurance is to help protect us from a catastrophic event which we would not be able to pay for.

In the 70′s and 80′s we were spoiled when the insurance industry paid for everything. They purposely drew us into their ideas and the simplicity of their product. Over the years we felt secure with it. Now, they are taking our money and giving us less and less security with our insurance plans along with complicating the plans. They train their customer service people to lie. They are not held responsible for mis-information they tell and can change their plans without notice.

Unfortunately, the insurance industry has manipulated the system and creates their own rules. They lobby with millions of dollars to our politicians and create laws that benefit only them, not the people.

I know how medicare works and if this plan works like medicare it will help some individuals, but if it works like medicAID, I know how limiting that plan works. I know the insurance industry is not going to loose money on any deal. So, really is this a plan for the people or to make money for the insurance Gods.

This researched published in Archives of Internal Medicine, Jan 9, 2012. This is the largest study to date on the effects of aspirin in people without established cardiovascular conditions.

Research from St. George’s University of London investigated the drug’s effectiveness in primary prevention and the prevalence of side effects.

They analyzed data from 9 clinical trials involving more than 100,000 participants without a history of cardiovascular disease. The average participant took aspirin for about 6 years.

The research concluded that aspirin daily use reduces cardiovascular patients risk minimally. Quoting the lead author ” The benefits of aspirin in those individuals not known to have these conditions are far more modest than prevously believed and, in fact, aspirin treatment may potentially result in considerably harm due to major bleeding.”

While the researchers of the original study never recommended the once-a-day aspirin regimen, the pharmaceutical industry jumped all over this and began a massive press release campaign. The news was published and most medial doctors took hold of the information and began “prescribing” aspirin.

Marketing works because whether there was any truth in the research or not, Americans take more than 25 million aspirin tablets every day despite these facts:

1. 1600 children die each year from allergic reactions to aspirin

2. Patients with blocked artieries to the brain are three times more likely to have a stroke if they are on aspirin

3.Dyspepsia and gastrointestinal hemorrage occur in 31% of those taking 300 mgs. of aspirin per day.

4. Low doses of aspirin can increase the risk of brain hemorrage

5. More side effects are anemia, bleeding ulcers, confusion and dizziness and numerous other problems.

Chiropractors take an interest in their overall patients health. We don’t just treat accident victims. We are involved in nutrition and keeping your body and mind, whole and healthy. Chiropractors are one of the leading experts in nutrition and natural body healing.

Really….it will!

Stenosis
Definition:
Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of one or more areas in your spine — most often in your upper or lower back. This narrowing can put pressure on your spinal cord or on the nerves that branch out from the compressed areas. Spinal stenosis can cause cramping, pain or numbness in your legs, back, neck, shoulders or arms; a loss of sensation in your extremities; and sometimes problems with bladder or bowel function. Spinal stenosis is most commonly caused by osteoarthritis-related bone damage.
A diagnosis of stenosis can be very frustrating. There are only a few treatment protocols in the medical arena. Most begin with medication to decrease pain and symptoms then injections to decrease pain and symptoms and finally surgery.
What most patients don’t know is that Chiropractic treatment can help with stenosis and its symptomatology. There are simple, pain-free and safe treatments to return your life to normal. The frequency of treatments at the start of your protocol, are often. However, to see the benefits of this technique and to adapt the years of muscle incapacities take’s time to adjust. Most patients see a difference within two weeks of consistent and regular care. Some of the symptoms that are seen to improve are; decrease leg pain, improve balance, decrease back pain, walking further distances and the ability to stand from a sitting position improves.
The technique does not take long. It’s the patient’s commitment that is needed to accomplish the goals of each unique individual.
Medicare and most insurance’s does cover these treatments and we do have affordable payments for those who do not have insurance.