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Table of Contents
Chiropractic
is mysterious? No way!
Do drugs make you healthy?
Why
refuse the flu shot?
Celibacy or Chiropractic?
September issue of CancerWire
now available.
Chiropractic is mysterious? No way!
What is chiropractic? So many people receive regular chiropractic care as a
part of their lives. They get periodic
chiropractic checkups and (if needed) adjustments for themselves and their
family. Subluxation-free people are
shown to feel great and are happier and healthier. To many people, if there are health issues in
their families, the chiropractor with his/her drug-free approach is the first
healthcare provider they call.
Some lucky people have even
been under chiropractic care since they were children!
Yet
to others chiropractic care is something mysterious. Why? Simply because they’ve never seen a chiropractor. Here we have a doctor who doesn’t give drugs,
shots, surgery or do invasive procedures and some people are more afraid of
going to a chiropractor than going under the knife. We’ve even known people
like that.
Do your friends a favor –
introduce them to us. Even if they just
come in with you and wait in the waiting room, just seeing other practice
members and our professional office is enough to defuse a lot of fear. Maybe
they’ll even ask us some questions – and we’ll be happy to answer them.
Do drugs make you healthy?
True health does not mean merely
being symptom-free or “feeling ok.” True
health is a properly working body: lots of energy, proper alignment, restful
sleep and the strength to deal with life’s physical and emotional stresses. If
simply being free of symptoms were the only sign of good health, then aspirin,
drugs and other medicines would make you healthy. But are people taking the
most drugs the sickest?
Drugs don’t
make you healthy. They may reduce or alter your symptoms, but that does not
make you healthy. What makes you healthy? Life makes you healthy. Having 100%
life flowing through you, having a body free of spinal nerve stress so the
energies from the brain can travel freely to every part of your body is what
health is all about. And that’s the goal of the Doctor of Chiropractic.
Why
refuse the flu shot?
Not wanting Alzheimer’s
Disease (AD) is a good reason. Since flu shot season is approaching we think it appropriate
to remind everyone that according to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world's leading
immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our time (over 850 papers in
peer reviewed journals), if an individual has had flu shots their chance of
getting Alzheimer's disease increases greatly. (1) Dr. Fudenberg
feels the mercury and aluminum in flu shots (and many childhood and RhoGam
shots) build up in the brain causing AD.
Is that why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple? (2)
Flu hysteria is on the
way (again)
Reports
said that “Influenza kills 30,000 to 40,000 Americans every year.” (3) Hogwash!
It’s simply not so. How may people
really die of Influenza? Here is what the CDC says:
In 2002: 753 died of the flu (4)
In 2001: 267 died of the flu (5)
In 2000: 2,175 died of the flu (6)
In 1999: 1,685 died of the flu (7)
These
were no doubt people who were frail, sickly, weak, malnourished and unhealthy
to begin with. Dying from the flu is, in
fact, a very rare occurrence – research shows the flu shot does not affect
mortal-ity of elderly people. In conclusion – the flu
shot is dangerous and useless. Below is
one more reason why children especially should NOT get a flu shot.
Flu shots increase asthma
attacks. In
the Archives of Diseases of Children
the authors of a published study found that vaccinated children had a
significantly increased risk of asthma-related clinic and emergency room
visits. (8) Please send this flu information to everyone you know.
Celibacy or
Chiropractic?
Pubic symphysis dysfunction is a condition that a
pregnant woman may suffer from as a result of the changes her body goes through
while carrying her unborn child. They
may spend months in dire pain on walking and turning in bed.
The
medical treatment is contraception (don’t get pregnant) or nothing (live with
the pain) or celibacy or all of the above.
Pubic
symphysis dysfunction is usually due to a subluxation
of the lower spine or public bones (located in front of the pelvis). It usually responds to one or two
chiropractic adjustments. (9)
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References
1. Dr. Fudenberg at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September,
1997. Quoted with
permission.
2. John's Hopkins
Newsletter, November 1998. Note: Dr. Fudenberg's
web site is: http://members.aol.com/nitrf.
I recommend you visit it. Fascinating stuff there.
3. http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/jul-aug04/vaccinations.htm
4. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf (p.16)
5.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr51/nvsr51_05.pdf (p.16)
6.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_12.pdf (p.15)
7. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_08.pdf (p.28)
8. Christy C, Aligne CA,
Auinger P et al. Effectiveness of influenza
vaccine for the prevention of asthma exacerbations. Arch Dis Child. 2004;89(8):734-735.
9. Fallon J Chiropractic
and pregnancy, a partnership for the
future. ICA Review Nov/Dec 1990. pp. 39-42.
Table of Contents
Chiropractor
helps professional football team
Girls' consumption of French fries linked to breast cancer in adulthood
Humor
References
Chiropractor
helps professional football team
Almost
every NFL team has a Doctor of Chiropractic on staff. Why?
Apart from helping players with injuries chiropractic care keeps their
spines and bodies balanced and aligned and does it
without drugs or surgery. Chiropractic
athletes have better coordination, improved strength and can run faster than
control groups of athletes.
Among team chiropractors is
Dr. Doug Miller (right) who has been adjusting the Baltimore Ravens
professional football team for ten years. He was on the playing field when the
Ravens won the 2000 Super Bowl. Ravens trainer Bill Tessendorf says, "A player favoring a knee
or an ankle can cause alignment problems elsewhere. A chiropractor can help
with a lot of those issues."
Dr.
Miller adds a larger dimension to chiropractic awareness: "Its not just
about relieving pain from backaches and injuries. It’s about achieving optimum
health," he says. (1)
Girls'
consumption of French fries linked to breast cancer in adulthood
This
information from the Natural Health
Newsletter by Randall Neustaedter OMD. Subscribe to this free newsletter at www.hpakids.org.
A large study found that
one additional serving of French fries per week consumed during ages 3-5 years
increased the risk of breast cancer by 27%. The study also found reduced risk
of breast cancer for children who consumed whole milk (compared to skim and
low-fat milk), butter and liver.
A
problem with fried foods is the presence of a class of carcinogens called acrylamides, formed when starchy carbohydrates like
potatoes, corn, oats or wheat are subjected to high temperatures (above 360
degrees) for prolonged periods, as in deep-frying. French fries, potato chips,
doughnuts, and even oven-baked French fries contain acrylamide.
This chemical is monitored in drinking water because of its ability to cause
cancer. (2)
Humor
My
wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
– Rodney Dangerfield.
Finally, an honest
politician
W.C. Fields took a fling at
presidential politics and wrote a book, Fields
For President, published in 1940.
Fields built his campaign around a winning slogan – "A chickadee in every
pot" – and made candor his chief concern in addressing the American
people: "When, on next November fifth, I am elected chief executive of
this fair land, amidst thunderous cheering and shouting and throwing of babies
out the window, I shall, my fellow citizens, offer no such empty panaceas as a
New Deal or an Old Deal or even a Re-Deal. No, my friends, the reliable old
False Shuffle was good enough for my father and it's good enough for me...and
remember, the major responsibility of a President is to squeeze the last
possible cent out of the taxpayer."
Some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell
so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom
today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had
the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then
the women and finally the children – last of all the babies. By then the water
was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying,
"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."
Houses had thatched roofs – thick straw – piled high, with no wood underneath.
It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other
small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery
and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying
"It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real
problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up your
nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top
afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the
saying "dirt poor."
The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so
they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the
winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it
would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the
entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a
sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with
guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused
some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This
happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes
were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the
loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper
crust."
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes
knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take
them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen
table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink
and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a
"wake."
England
is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury
people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a
"bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out
of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized
they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on
the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground
and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night
(the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could
be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."
Bye,
and thanks for reading this far down. Thanks for being our patient, and letting
us care for you. We really do appreciate you.
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friends and loved ones for a spinal checkup.
References
1. The Catonsville
Times (Maryland), June 30, 2005.
2. Michels KB et al. Preschool
diet and adult risk of breast cancer. International
Journal of Cancer. 2005(Aug 10). Epub ahead of print.
3. The Denver Post www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2753934,00.html
03/10/05.
