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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Chiropractic Better for Chronic WhiplashPatients who had been suffering with whiplash syndrome for an average of 15.5 months and had already received
treatment including anti-inflammatories, soft collars, and physiotherapy were referred for chiropractic treatment.
After chiropractic treatment 93% of the patients had improved!
Patients involved in whiplash have a 43% chance
of having long-term symptoms following their injury. If they receive only conventional treatment there is a 90% chance that
they will continue to have symptoms.
Chiropractic can help over 90% of those individuals.
Woodward, M., J. Cook, et al. (1996). "Chiropractic treatment of chronic 'whiplash'." Injury
27(9): 643-5. Contributing autors include Gargan & Bannister who are well known for their continuing publications of long
term whiplash outcomes in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, which gives this study additional tremendous credibility.
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Chiropractic: Like a sidewalkEver wonder what made your back or neck hurt? You didn't fall. You didn't have an accident. So why?
The answer: fatigue.
Tissue that endures repetitive stress will eventually fail. Think of a sidewalk that
has cracks. This did not happen all at once, it happened slowly over a long period of time.
The same is often true
with your spine, as well as other components of your health.
And that should make you think twice about "living
with" that little problem. "Live with it" long enough and it will surely fail.
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Honey is better for cough.According to the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Dec 2007 issue, honey consistently
scored better than medicine.
Researchers did a comparison of preparations because of the fact that recent
warnings say cough and cold medicines should be avoided in small children.
Is this really any surprise to
find out that nature is better than man-made chemicals? Not really.
In fact, every medicine is simply a "nutritional
analog", meaning it is an expensive and usually dangerous imitation of something already found in nature.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Your Genes Remember a Sugar Hit Human genes remember a sugar hit for two weeks. What’s more, prolonged poor eating habits could be capable
of permanently altering your DNA.
A team studying the impact of diet on heart tissue found that cells showed the
effects of a single sugar hit for 14 days. The cells switched off genetic controls designed to protect the body against diabetes
and heart disease.
Regular poor eating could amplify the effect, with genetic damage lasting months or years, and
potentially passing through bloodlines.Source: Journal of Experimental Medicine September 2008, 29;205(10):2409-17mercola.com Your genes are merely storage facilities; they have no intelligence. What’s
important is the expression of your genes, and your diet can certainly influence that.
Scientists are now uncovering that the reason why certain foods fight cancer or other disease
is because of their impact on gene expression.
For instance, a substance called isothiocyanate in broccoli sparks hundreds of genetic changes, activating some genes that fight cancer and switching off others that fuel tumors.
Freeze-dried black raspberries also show promise. In an animal study, researchers used a carcinogen to alter the activity of 2,200 genes.
However, 460 of those genes were restored to normal activity in animals that consumed freeze-dried black raspberry powder.
So it is very clear that just as a bad diet can lead to negative changes in your genes,
a good diet can lead to positive ones. As Associate Professor Assam El-Osta, from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
team who led the above study on sugar, said in the Herald Sun:
"This
is not all doom and gloom . . . we think there is good epigenetic memory as well for individuals who have a good diet, not
only for themselves but potentially for future generations.
If you have
had five years of bad control, where good genes are switched off and bad genes switched on, changing that for a couple of
months to a good diet may not have a tremendous impact.
But going back
to a good diet would have some effect 10 years later. Dieting doesn't work because what you ate two months or two years
ago is going to be reflected now."
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Splenda's Potential Harmful EffectsSome are expressing outrage after reading a new report from scientists outlining the dangers of the artificial
sweetener Splenda (sucralose).
In animals examined for the study, Splenda reduced the amount of good bacteria in
the intestines by 50 percent, increased the pH level in the intestines, contributed to increases in body weight and affected
P-glycoprotein (P-gp) levels in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected. Outside of this study, many feel there is overwhelming evidence that consuming artificial sweeteners will likely
wreak havoc on your body. Previous news has centered mainly around artificial sweeteners’ ability to impair your appetite
regulation and leading to weight gain.
The P-gp effect could result in medications
used in chemotherapy, AIDS treatment and treatments for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines, rather than
being absorbed by the body.
Although I am not a fan of sugar, I would always choose it over
artificial sweeteners.
AND......
Splenda is more similar to DDT than sugar !!!
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A 2008;71(21):1415-29For a limited time you can find more on Dr. Mercolas site: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/10/New-Study-of-Splenda-Reveals-Shocking-Information-About-Potential-Harmful-Effects.aspx
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"Stimulus Plan" Interferes With Your Health
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Sunlight Cuts Breast CancerIn a study of approximately 3,900 women, light skinned women received a protective effect from sunlight exposure
that translated to a 47% lower risk for breast cancer. The protective effect most certainly comes from the production of Vitamin
D.
American Journal of Epidemiology, Oct. 18, 2007.
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Throwing Your Back Out ....If you perform an activity 100 times and your back goes "out" once, then it didn't happen from
that 100th time. So what did happen?
The tissue in your back slowly fatigued from all of your activities
and then one day, the tissue gave way. It's the old "straw that broke the camel's back". So take care of
your back from time to time; even if you are not in pain.
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Hormone Therapy & Brain ShrinkageHormone therapy for women is linked to brain shrinkage. This comes from the Jan. 13, 2009 issue of Neurology
- the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Researchers took MRI brain scans of 1,400 women
ages 71 to 89 one to four years after the Women's Health Initiative hormonse studies ended. They found that women who
had taken estrogen with or without progestin had smaller brain volumes in two areas of the brain.
Both areas are
involved in thinking and memory skills, and loss of volume in one of the areas is also a risk factor for dementia.
Source: American Academy of Neurology, www.aan.com
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