The art of healing comes from Nature, not the physician... Every illness has its own remedy within itself... A man could not be born alive and healthy were there not already a physician hidden in him.  – Paracelsus

All Your Parts Are Connected

(to the nerves that come from your spine)...

They start in your brain, travel down your back and touch all your body parts: your nerves. This illustration shows how your heart, lungs, kidneys, reproductive organs, liver, eyes, hears, digestive and other organs, all your muscles, glands and systems receive energy, nutrients and information from the nerves that come from your spine.

This is essential for their proper health. Your skull and spinal column protect your delicate brain and nerves. However stress of all kinds: birth stress, postural stress, accidents, toxins, nutritional and emotional stress can misalign your spine. A misaligned spine will then damage or irritate the very nerves they are supposed to protect: this is called a vertebral subluxation.

When you have a vertebral subluxation, the flow of information, nutrients and energy traveling through your body is disturbed and your body works less efficiently – it is said to be dis-eased. You have lowered resistance to disease and you are not at your physical and emotional best and you can’t deal with stress as well.

Chiropractors spend thousands of hours learning to locate and correct this major cause of body malfunction (or dis-ease), the vertebral subluxation. Only a chiropractor is trained to check you for, and correct, vertebral Subluxations in your body. Because Subluxations may occur at any time we recommend you visit periodically for a checkup. And don’t forget to bring in your family!

 Childhood Vaccination...

Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD, world-famous pediatrician and best-selling author, began speaking out against childhood vaccination soon after he began a column on health. His book How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor is a bible to many parents who don’t like to run to the doctor every time their child shows some symptoms. Dr. Mendelsohn writes on immunizations:

“Much of what you have been led to believe about immunizations simply isn't true. I not only have grave misgivings about them…I would urge you to reject all inoculations for your child." Dr. Mendelsohn makes five important points to back up his statement:

1. There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease. . . .

2. It is commonly believed that the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting the polio epidemics that plagued American children in the 1940s and 1950s. If so, why did the epidemics also end in Europe, where the polio vaccine was not so extensively used? . .

3. There are significant risks associated with every immunization and numerous contraindications that may make it dangerous for the shots to be given to your child. . . .

4. While the myriad short-term hazards of most immunizations are known (but rarely explained), no one knows the long-term consequences of injecting foreign proteins into the body of your child. . . .

5. There is a growing suspicion that immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases. (1)

 Jack LaLanne, Doctor of Chiropractic...

Before there was Jane Fonda, before there was Richard Simmons, there was the "Godfather of Fitness," Jack LaLanne.

 Jack LaLanne is an inspiration.  He is 88 years old and in excellent health. When he was a young man of 70 he towed 70 boats carrying 70 people across Long Beach harbor (California).

His wife of 48 years has never known him to be sick.  He lives his philosophy:

“The only way you hurt the body is inactivity. You don't get old from calendar years. You get old from quitting doing things. That's why people who are 35, 40 years old start to slack off, their muscles atrophy, fat accumulates, and your muscles actually go away and you start losing your strength, your vitality, your energy. You lose your enthusiasm because you quit using it. You've got to kick yourself every day and do something!...You know, if you can't spend 15 or 20 minutes taking care of the most important person on this earth - you - you've got to be a psycho!” (1)

One of Dr. LaLanne’s famous quotes is: “Old age is always 20 years away.” Yes, it’s Dr., not Mr. LaLanne, as he is a doctor of chiropractic.  So is his daughter.

One last word from Dr. LaLanne:  “Look around, any fool can die.  It takes guts to live.”

Shoveling Snow?

It’s really not so bad. You get out, get exercise, have fun throwing snowballs and building forts and things (well, if you’re a kid). But be careful.

The nerves from your neck and upper-back go to your arms, shoulders and hands, lungs and heart. When you shovel snow your neck and shoulders get a workout so make sure they are properly aligned and all the nerves going to your organs are healthy.

And don’t forget that all that twisting and lifting puts a lot of stress on your lower back vertebrae and discs. Make sure you visit us to keep in good alignment and help prevent any problems.

Events Calendar

March 3 —Patient Orientation, 6 pm

March 17 —Patient Orientation, 6 pm

March 22—Anniversary Special--9am to noon, commemorating our 11th birthday. Adjustments for $11, New Patient exam and x-rays for $11

March 27 & 28: Office will be closed for Spring Break (re-opening Monday March 31 at 8 am)

Human milk is alive with beneficial bac-teria that aid an infant’s digestion and help prevent diarrhea (a frequent cause of death in developing countries) and with immunoglobulins that protect infants from disease. In one study a group of infants fed artificial milk had $68,000 in medical care costs in a six-month period while an equal number of nursing babies had only $4,000 worth. In Brazil an artificially-fed baby is 14 times more likely to die than an exclusively breastfed baby and at least 4 times more likely to die than an infant receiving both mother’s milk and artificial milk. (2)

Breastfeeding In-creases in  Pop-ularity - A recent article ap-pearing in the medical journal Pediatrics states that if increases in breast-feeding continue at the current rate (approx 2% yearly), in-hospital breast-feeding in the US should meet or exceed the Healthy People 2010 goal of 75% for the early post-partum period. (3)

Children today are tyrants. They con-tradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teach-ers. – Socrates

It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick. – Dave Barry

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. – Ken Venturi

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. – H.L. Mencken

When a husband brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. – Molly McGee

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. – Old Proverb

1. How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor. Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD

2. Interview with Jack LaLanne in Healthtalk Entire interview at http://www.healthtalk.com/

celeb/lalanne/01.html Learn more about healthy living at http://www.jacklalanne.com

3.  New Beginnings. May-June 1995.

4. Breastfeeding continues to increase into the new millennium. Ryan AS, Wenjun Z, Acosta A. Pediatrics 2002;110:1103-1109.

Please write and let us know what you think of our newsletter. Stop by the office to keep yourself free from Subluxations and remember to bring your friends and loved ones – everyone needs a spinal check-up. Bye! We hope to see you soon.