While the main reason most of my patients come to see me is because they have lower back and/or leg pain and have heard that nonsurgical spinal decompression is often the treatment of choice for their complaints, whether it be due to a herniated disc or other spinal malady, often the discussion turns to nutrition […]
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Many of the most common questions I receive from patients concerns how to lose weight and how to maintain a healthy weight. This discussion always comes around to what do the ‘experts’ recommend, and to be quite frank the literature is all over the place! While we can find loads of experts with all sorts
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Not a day goes by that I am not discussing nutrition and its relationship to our health. Many of the questions we get from patients relate to how can they possibly manage their weight better. Here’s yet another article about why our nutrition is so critically important to both our health and in helping us
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ACA – Anti-inflammatory Nutrition for Musculoskeletal Pain.
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As usual, your mom was right. Most of us can recall our mother’s voice each morning, sternly reminding us to eat breakfast. After all, she would say, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Well, she might not have known just how right she was. Not only do we need energy to start
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Remember our discussion about Gravity? Well how about the effects of our weight on our spine? Excess weight obviously will play a role on the health and well being of each of us, and without question lugging around a lot of extra weight is going to add insult to injury when it comes to our
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Diet and Chronic Disease Poor diet is a major contributor to the leading causes of chronic disease and death in the United States, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and stroke.[1] In addition, recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey show that more than 30% of adults in the United States are obese
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1. Organic food delivers more nutrition. Studies have repeatedly found increased levels of some nutrients in various organic foods. “That means more nutritional quality per calorie and food serving,” explains Dr. Charles Benbrook, chief scientist at the Organic Center for Education and Promotion in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Findings from the University of California at Davis (UCD)
Worried about pesticides and produce? Wondering if it’s worth it to go organic? The Environmental Working Group has released its 2012 guide to the most- and least-contaminated crops out there — its “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean 15” lists — and this year there are a few new items to watch out for, including certain types
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