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What’s in Your Kitchen?
Natural remedies are becoming increasingly popular as people are looking for alternatives to pharmaceuticals. If you'd like to try some natural remedies for common ailments, you don't have to spend a lot of money. Most kitchen cupboards are full of good stuff that works as natural remedies!
Move It or Lose It!
Do you find that chronic joint pain and tightness are keeping you from doing the things you love? Mobility is an essential part of being healthy and happy. Let's make sure we work to improve your range of motion, so that you can live your life to the fullest!
Meet Your Body's Needs
Traveling. It is one of life's most exciting adventures. Experiencing another culture, country, or even just the town over leaves us with lasting memories. In all the excitement of seeing another part of the world, it is easy to forget to make your health a priority.
During any trip, you want to be in your best physical condition so you can get the most out of your experience. We've put together some simple tips to help you keep your health a priority, no matter where you travel.
How Chiropractic Care is Helping Athletes
Extremely competitive environments, demanding training schedules, and an intensely challenging environment are just a few of the struggles athletes are exposed to. Individuals that participate in a wide range of sports are looking to chiropractic care more and more to help maintain their musculoskeletal health. Recently, professional athletes have been in the headlines for visiting their chiropractors to keep them in the game.
Nutrition and a Healthier You
Reported in an article featured in The American Chiropractor, almost 70 percent of chiropractors discuss or look to healthy eating in their practice. The article states, “They see it as a valuable tool in treating the whole person and keeping their patients free of chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and obesity.”
If we want to live our best and healthiest lives, we must practice proper nutrition.
Chiropractic and a Healthy Heart
Show yourself some love, and take a moment to consider your heart’s health!
The World Health Organization reports that 17.3 million people are killed annually by heart disease. While this statistic is alarming, numbers like this help us to realize just how important heart health awareness is and what we can do to improve it.
It All Starts with Your Feet
So, how is your foundation? We're on them for hours every day. We walk. We run. We wear shoes that don't fit, but they sure do look great! By the end of the day, our feet are exhausted, but, you figure, that's normal. Our poor, tired feet—we expect them to get us wherever we need to go, but rarely stop to think about the beating they take from walking us around.
Tech-Free Zone
Technology provides new opportunities for us to stay informed, entertained, and connected. It provides us with countless benefits, but in some situations, our ultra-light, portable devices offer more distraction and harm than benefit. According to new research conducted by the British Chiropractic Association, more than half of us watch TV in bed as part of our nighttime routine. Many more are using other electronics in bed, and for those of us that do, we spend up to four hours staring at the screen! Many believe this can help them fall asleep, but if technology in the bedroom is leading you to back pain, is it worth it?
How Less Meat Can Benefit You
Meat Fact #1: Both American men and women eat almost DOUBLE the amount of protein needed for their body weight.
Meat is a staple in the majority of American’s lives. It is a key part of many of our Holidays from turkey during Thanksgiving to burgers and hot dogs on Fourth of July. It’s a daily part of most of our lives, and for many people it is the main component of very meal. The media, however, has recently shown us the drawbacks involved with the mass consumption of meat. Reports from the American Dietetic Association and the The World Health Organization explain that meat consumption may lead to an increased risk of certain types of cancer, obesity and cardiovascular disease.
The two biggest non-contagious disease killers in the world are cardiovascular disease and cancer, so protecting yourself from those risks is incredibly important.
Are You Healthy?
If you look good and feel great, does that make you healthy? Not necessarily. So what does being healthy actually mean?