Planning for Success Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Every successful athlete knows that a plan is necessary to reach the highest levels of performance. How many practice sessions are needed each week, what kinds of things to work on during each session, how much rest to get, how much and what kinds of food to eat,…

Bottom Line: Low back pain is the number one reason people worldwide visit their doctor and miss work. If you’ve dealt with it in the past (or maybe even right now), you know back pain can change your life in an instant. Not being able to enjoy hobbies, difficulty in your ability to work, and…

Peeling the Onion Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness In the language of statistics, health is a continuous variable. A person’s health can be expressed as an infinity of values ranging from abundant well-being to terminal states approaching death. If health were a discrete quantity you could assign a number to it. You could say that someone had…

Paying the Mortgage Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness Whether we rent or own our home, all of us pay some form of monthly living expenses. Even if we have paid down a mortgage and own our home outright, we still pay monthly utility bills in order to keep our homes functional and livable. We also pay property…

Owning Your Health Created inNewsletter Library,Breaking Bad Habits Recent discussions in the scientific literature are focusing on monitoring and possibly improving cardiovascular health in children. There’s been a lot of conversation and a lot of controversy. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association1 argued that universal screening of children could result in…

Out of the Past Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness In “Out of the Past”, one of the greatest film noir ever made, Robert Mitchum’s past inevitably catches up with him and dire consequences ensue for all involved. Are we, in terms of health and disease, also in danger of having our past – that is, our genetic…

Osteoporosis: Not Just An Elderly Disease Created inNewsletter Library It used to be that osteoporosis was considered a disease that affectedonly the elderly. We particularly associated osteoporosis with older womenwhose backs were slightly hunched over or those who could no longer standup straight. Today, the truth is that an estimated 20 million Americanwomen suffer from…

One, Two, or Three Miles? Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Motivated Even experienced exercisers sometimes find it difficult to know how much to do. For the beginner this uncertainty represents a significant stumbling block. Fortunately well-established guidelines and protocols exist to provide assistance to all exercisers, regardless of your skill level. In general, the beginning exerciser requires…

New Year’s Resolution – Find Out Whether Chiropractic Care Is Right for You Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips It’s early January – a New Year – and you’ve decided this is going to be the year you actually fulfill your list of New Year’s resolutions. This is going to be the year you finally start taking…