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Welcome to our office's Chiropractic newsletter. We'd like to entertain you, inform you (and even inspire you a little).
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey.
The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin
TABLE OF CONTENTS
. Office News
. Patient Success Stories
. Your vital connection
. Why do babies need chiropractic care?
. 325,000 spinal fusion operations/year and each costs $50,000.00 (average)
. Three arguments against pasteurization
. Study: Cough medicines don't work
. The best flu shot satire of all time, eh?
. Is this why they call it nuking?
. Sleep with your children
. Words of Wisdom
. Humor
. References
Office News
December Office Closures
As we prepare for the holidays, we want to make you aware of the following office closures.
Monday, December 25th
Tuesday, December 26th
Monday, January 1, 2007
If your regularly scheduled appointment falls on any of these days, please call us to reschedule.
Holiday Specials
Don't keep Chiropractic to yourself... share the gift of health with your friends nd family be sharing our holiday coupon available in the office. Valid through 12/30/06 only.
Exam/Consultation/First Adjustment for New Patients - JUST $35.00!
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Reactivation Exam and Adjustment for Inactive Patients - JUST $25.00
Patient Success Stories
Here are some great success stories from our office.
Female adult who lived with pain from a severe back injury for many years found immediate relief during her first adjustment. Could breath and walk again. She was now sleeping the best she had in years.
Infant child was sick with chronic ear infections, constipation and acid reflux. Improved greatly through chiropractic care. Off all medications and hasn't had to go back to the emergency room or GI doctor.
Adult female very interested in Wellness Care (weekly adjustments) because "it is right". Awesome to see such strong understanding of the power of Chiropractic Care.
Adult male with stiff neck, having a hard time turning side to side, felt completely better after adjustment with no problems the rest of the week.
Adult female remarks lower back feeling so much better. Taking time, but making definate progress.
Male adult reports painful left foot doing better after adjustment.
Female adult with poor sleep and high blood pressure, saw 2 nights of great sleep and more energy after adjustment. Also saw a 20 point drop in blood pressure with apple cider vinegar.
Male patient reports 6 weeks of chiropractic care at another office and was feeling progressively worse. One visit to our office and now starting to feel great!
All of these patients above had one thing in common... they had subluxations that were preventing their bodies from working properly. They did not know they had subluxations because subluxations are usually painless and have no symptoms themselves. They subluxations were keeping them from being as healthy as they could have and should have been.
Health is natural. If you know of someone who is not as healthy as they should be, recommend they have their spine checked for subluxations by a chiropractor today! And above all - if you know of someone with a child or have a child yourself, have their spines checked for subluxations ... you could prevent a life time of sickness by keeping their nervous system free of the nerve interference caused by subluxations from the very beginning. >
Your vital connection
 You are like a large, movable three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle made up of millions of parts. Each of your parts has its own job, knows what to do and works in harmony with all the other pieces - and not necessarily pieces that are nearby.
Your bones, muscles, eyes, brain, lungs, kidneys, intestines, heart, liver, arms, legs, blood, cells and everything else would collapse into a large heap of disorganized flesh were it not for your amazing connections.
How this collection of biological parts work together to create something as amazing as a complete body is a great mystery. It is magic.
One important part of this magic is your internal communications system consisting of billions of nerve "wires" that send information and energy to and from the brain to all the body parts to help organize and coordinate everything so they work together.
You r spinal cord has billions of these nerve "wires." It extends down your back, protected by your spinal column, from where it branches into numerous nerves that travel to your billion body parts.
If your spinal column is out of position or misaligned the nerve impulses can be partially blocked or altered. The result can be malfunction, suffering, sickness, disease, and a gradual, slow disorganization would continue until death.
To be fully alive you need to be fully connected. Chiropractors locate and correct subluxations, small internal distortions that create "disconnections" in your body that interfere with your nervous system communications.
Why do babies need chiropractic care?
 Why, to stay healthy, of course. There are many times in a young life when an infant or child may be more vulnerable to subluxations: pregnancy, birth, when first holding its head up, when beginning to crawl and when learning to walk. Of course then comes childhood with all its opportunities to run, fall, crash and then get up to do it all over again. Make sure your child has every chance to live a healthy life. Bring your child in to make sure they are free from subluxations.
325,000 spinal fusion operations/year and each costs $50,000.00 (average)
 "Evidence says surgery does not fix the problem over the long term any better than time, physical therapy, and exercise. Indeed, says U. of North Carolina's Nortin M. Hadler, MD, pain clinics are full of people who have had back surgery and now are worse off." (1)
Our comment: This surgery has a high rate of failure, plus the risk of death during the operation. Chiropractic gets you better faster, costs a lot less than spinal fusion surgery and is so much safer.
Three arguments against pasteurization
- Pasteurization alters the quality and structure of milk. When pasteurized and homogenized, lactose sugar is converted to beta-lactose - a form of lactose that can cause milk allergy. It also destroys the creaming ability of milk causing it to putrefy if kept long enough instead of souring normally.
- Pasteurization sucks the nutritional life out of raw milk. It destroys vitamin C, B6 and B12, enzymes, antibodies and hormones.
- Infants do not develop well on pasteurized milk. Pasteurized milk is more likely than raw milk to lead to tooth decay, constipation, allergies, arthritis, cancer and osteoporosis. It may diminish resistance to disease (especially in the young). (2)
Study: Cough medicines don't work
 Consumers spend billions of dollars each year on over-the-counter cough medications that don't work. Two active ingredients in many over-the-counter cough syrups work no better than a placebo syrup, a study has found. 100 children (average age 4.5 years) with upper respiratory infections were divided into 3 groups. Two groups received a syrup with cough medicine while the 3rd group got a syrup with no medicine. The frequency, severity and bothersome nature of the cough as well as sleep quality were a little better in the syrup-only group. Plus they didn't get any drug side effects as the children in the other groups did. (3-4)
The best flu shot satire of all time, eh?
From our friends at the Royal Canadian Air Farce:
http://www.cbc.ca/airfarce/vidplayer/AF_single_player.html?/season13/051202m&playerType=wmp
Is this why they call it nuking?
Spanish researchers studying the effects of different cooking methods on the content of flavenoids in broccoli found that steaming caused minimal loss, boiling 66% loss, and microwaving 97% loss! Hmm, maybe saying we nuke our food is more accurate than we think.
Sleep with your children
 Margot Sunderland, one of Britain's leading experts on children's mental health, advises parents to sleep with their children. The practice, known as "co-sleeping," makes children more likely to grow up as calm, healthy adults.
Sunderland's book, The Science of Parenting, is based on 800 scientific studies. She reveals that the practice of training infants to sleep alone is harmful because any separation from parents increases the flow of stress hormones. "Co-sleeping until the age of five is an investment for the child." One study found some 70% of women who had not been comforted when they cried as children developed digestive difficulties as adults. (6)
Words of Wisdom
 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa
Complacency breeds anxiety. To be healthy, a person needs to be affecting his surroundings, uplifting those about him and bringing in more light - Lubavitcher Rebbe
Humor
Things you should know, but probably don't:
1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
6. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
7. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was an albino.
8. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
9. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
10. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
11. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
12. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
13. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
14. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
15. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
16. Leonardo DaVinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
17. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
18. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
19. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
20. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
21. Leonardo DaVinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
22. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
23. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
24. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know).
25. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
26. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
27. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most well known record player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
28. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. The same thing holds true with apples!
29. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
30. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
31. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
32. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
See you next month. Want hard copies of this newsletter to give to your friends, co-workers and relatives? Perhaps you'd like us to include other e-mail addresses. Call us or stop by the office. Please remember that everyone needs to be free from subluxations so bring your friends and loved ones for a spinal checkup.
Have a great and healthy day!
Dr. Ross
References
 1. Carey J. Medical guesswork. BusinessWeek. May 29, 2006;75.
2. Douglas WC. The Douglas Report. 2006;6(3).
3. Paul IM, Yoder KE, Crowell KR et al. Effect of dextromethorphan diphenhydramine, and placebo on noctural cough and sleep quality for coughing children and their parents. Pediatrics. 2004;114(1):e85-90.
4. Cough medicines have no benefit. BBC News. July 6 2004.5.
5. All case histories from Cases of the Week by Joe LeBarbera, DC, Utica, NY.
6. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2179265_1,00.html
7. Leatherman S. In: 15 Ideas to Recharge America. Newsweek. June 27, 2006;48
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