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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).
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll
TABLE OF CONTENTS
. Office News
. Wellness Corner - Milk does a body good??
. Patient Success Stories
. Chiropractic Patients Spend Less on Healthcare
. Did you know?
. Chiropractic and Spinal Research
. Unnecessary Surgery is Rampant
. Autism and MMR
. Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer (again)
. Humor
. References
Office News
Congratulations to Casey McBride who worked here in the office on Fridays. She had a baby girl, Ellie, on Monday January 8th! Mom and baby are doing well! We wish her well taking care of her new little one!
With Casey leaving, we have an opening for part-time employment on Fridays, from 8:00 - 5:30pm. If you are interested in helping Dr. Ross out on Fridays, receiving free chiropractic care, and earning a little part-time income, please call Dr. Ross as soon as possible! He'd love to have a patient step into this position if possible...
Dr. Ross will be speaking at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale on Thursday, February 22, at 7pm! All patients and their friends and families are invited to attend and can reserve complimentary tickets by calling the office. Bring your friends and family who are interested in learning how to live a more healthy and power-filled life. His talk will cover health and nutrition from infant to adulthood. Dr. Ross is a great speaker... so you won't want to miss it... tickets are limited, and will be given out on a first come first serve basis... so call the office soon to reserve your tickets or for more information.
Wellness Corner - Milk does a body good??
Milk - doesn't do a body good!
Did you know that you nor your children have to drink milk to be healthy? We are the ONLY species that drinks the milk of another species. In fact, very few other cultures besides Americans drink cow's milk.
Did you know that despite the excellent ad campaign, the only thing cow's milk is good for is turning a 50 pound calf into a 1200 pound heffer?
If milk strengthens bones, then do American's we have the highest incidence of osteoporosis in the world even though we drink the most milk per capita? And if it's so healthy, and we drink more than any other nation, then why we spend more on health care than any other nation?
Did you know that no other mammal or animal on the planet continues to consume milk after it is weaned? Elephants have some of the strongest bones on the planet, and they are plant eaters. A silver backed gorilla is 6 times stronger than a human and only eats plants and fruits. That's the power of great advertising.
Did you know that because of pasteurizing and homogenizing, that milk is dead food. That is why it goes rancid instead of curdles. Our bodies need live food in order to be truly healthy.
Need the calcium? Do you know that there is surperb bioavailable calcium in brocolli? Don't like brocolli? How about oranges, beans, kale, salmon, and many other fruits and vegetables. They are a much better source of calcium than milk because they are completely recognizable by the body, and don't have saturated fats that make you fat and add to heart disease and other problems! Juice Plus+ has 17 fruits and vegetables in a capsule... inlcuding kale, brocolii and oranges, a great way to get ALL the vitamins and minerals you need in a natural, bioavailable form that your body recognizes as GOOD food!
Milk and milk products such as cheese, are known allergens causing problems such as headaches, eczema, acne, digestive problems like constipation and GERD, diabetes and asthma. Even "a little bit" can cause big problems.
Rice millk is a great alternative to milk if you have to have something on your cereal or in a smoothie. Otherwise, drink water and eat your fruits and vegetables... you'll be a lot healthier in the long run! If you want to know more about Juice Plus+... call the office... the best way to get your vitamins like calcium is from the whole food source... Juice Plus+ makes that easy!
Yours In Good Health,
Ms. Dana
Wellness Coordinator for Dr. Kevin Ross
Patient Success Stories
Here are some success stories from our office...
Adult male patient with history of back pain was able to run 17 miles with no problems!
Patient reports sleeping more comfortably since receiving care.
60 year old female patient had numb toes and leg pain. Both are much better after just one adjustment.
Female patient reports feet are doing so much better with chiropractic care.
Young mom with triplets reports being less exhausted and find she still has energy at the end of the day with regular care.
Active male patient notes able to do more than would have been able to prior to care.
Toddler with constipation had hip adjusted and before leaving the office had a bowel movement. (Constipation with kids is connected with cows milk and hip subluxations.)
Parents note child has positive personality changes with chiropractic care. Also have not been back to the pediatrician since starting chiropractic care for child's digestive problems.
Young female adult reports no migraine headaches all week since her adjustment.
Special needs child's bowels improving with magnezium and acidophillus supplementation.
Female patient reports shortened cold duration since taking Juice Plus and regular chiropractic care. Did not go into bronchitis which it normally does! That's the power of a healthier immune system!
Female patient noticed after stopping milk consumption that her head "came out of the clouds" and she lost 5 pounds and had no headaches which were a normal occurrence.
All of these patients above had one thing in common... they had subluxations that were preventing their bodies from working properly or had nutritional deficiencies. 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.
Chiropractic Patients Spend Less on Healthcare
From the journal Archives of Internal Medicine comes a study showing that individuals with "Chiropractic insurance coverage, compared with those without coverage, had lower annual total health care expenditures.. "
The study concluded the reasons for the lowered cost included:
. Substitution of chiropractic for traditional medical care, particularly for spine conditions
. More conservative, less invasive treatment
. Lower health service costs (1)
Did you know?
 Your body is mostly water.
You need to be properly hydrated to live and be healthy. Sadly, a large proportion of the population is dehydrated - and they are suffering for it.
Research shows that dehydration makes you age faster, weakens your joints, contributes to disc and spinal problems and can cause depression (our brain is mostly water).
 Other conditions linked to dehydration are high blood pressure (your blood is thicker so your heart has to work harder to pump it), constipation, asthma, allergies and obesity. These (and many other) problems have cleared up by rehydration. It usually takes about two weeks to rehydrate yourself.
How do you become dehydrated? It's easy if you drink coffee, tea, soda and juices instead of water when you are thirsty. Those drinks may quench your thirst, but they do not rehydrate you.
It's best to drink water at room temperature or warmer. (Avoid distilled and ice water.)
Chiropractic and Spinal Research
 Remember, all people can benefit from chiropractic care no matter what condition they may have. If you have any specific questions please feel free to contact us.
Neck Pain. Patients were evaluated at least three months after stopping care at which time disability and pain intensity was measured. Seventeen patients (49%) reported their improvement as "excellent" and another 14 (40%) did so as "good." The mean patient-rated improvement was 88.2%. (2)
Vision. This paper describes 17 consecutive patients from 9-52 years of age who had concentric narrowing of the visual fields. Some of their symptoms included headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, photophobia and fatigue. Complete recovery of the visual fields and many accompanying symptoms occurred in 11 patients who completed the course of chiropractic treatments.
Example: A 21-year-old male suffered from severe headaches, blurred vision, memory disturbance and postural hypotension for 7 months shortly after being knocked unconscious by a blow to the head. A narrowing of the visual fields was found and the patient received spinal care. After the first visit the headaches stopped, memory improved and dizziness decreased. Visual fields returned to normal by the second visit. (3)
Headache, depression & poor appetite. 13-year-old male. Upon presentation, patient was in considerable pain, wearing dark glasses and earplugs to compensate for increased sensitivity to sound and light. One week beforehand he had been injured in a football game collision. Medical doctors had given the child painkillers and he was hospitalized in traction for two weeks with no improvement. Following his initial adjustment the patient could ride home without wearing his sunglasses and for the first time in two weeks expressed an interest in food. He reported feeling "the best I've felt in six weeks." (4)
Unnecessary Surgery is Rampant
Three hundred thousand (300,000) ear tube operations/year ($2,000-$4,000 each) and no proof they work
 Jack L. Paradise, MD, U. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, did a study of 6,000 babies. By age three, 429 had persistent fluid in their ears. Half got ear tubes, the other half didn't - and there was no difference in outcomes between the two groups. Paradise's advice for parents of such kids: "Don't just do something. Sit there." (5)
Our comment: They should all try chiropractic adjustments.
Bypass that bypass
Each year doctors perform 400,000 bypass surgeries and 1 million angioplasties (mesh tubes are placed in diseased arteries to hold them open). Most people believe that such surgery is life saving but the data says otherwise.. "Cardiologists like to open up arteries," says David D. Waters, MD, Chief of Cardiology at SF General Hospital, "but there is no evidence that opening up chronically narrowed arteries reduces the risk of heart attack." (6)
Our comment: Natural approaches are a lot safer, cheaper and effective.
Autism and MMR
Protect your children from autism - avoid vaccinations. New research has shown that the incidence of autism has increased 10-fold in the past 10 years. Although autism has been noticed to occur as a result of many different shots, the MMR seems to elicit the most reports of autism. Dr. Vijendra Singh found that nine out of 10 autistic children had experienced a reaction to the MMR vaccine. Richard Holverson, a London doctor said, "This research gives further weight to a number of different studies that show a link between MMR and autism."
Reactions to MMR also include convulsions, arthritis and a host of other problems.
Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer (again)
Newly available research out of Harvard University links fluoride in tap water, at levels most Americans drink, to osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. (7)
The environmental working group EWG, a highly regarded Washington, DC- based organization, urges that fluoride in tap water be declared a known or probable cancer cause, based on this and previous animal and human studies. (8)
Our comment: If you live in an area where the water is fluoridated, use a filter for drinking and cooking water that'll remove the fluoride and chlorine (which is also dangerous to your health). Many people now have filters over or under the sink in their kitchen.
Humor
Here are classic Henny Youngman jokes. He was known as the "King of the One-Liners."
"Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears." "Don't answer!"
Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in."
Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"
A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said "Cough!"
The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying "Mrs. Cohen, your check came back." Mrs. Cohen answered "So did my arthritis!"
The Doctor says "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"
The patient says "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"
A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?"
The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"
I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.
 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.
Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in." A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months. The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying "Mrs. Cohen, your check came back." Mrs. Cohen answered "So did my arthritis!" I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.
Have a great and healthy day!
Dr. Ross and Staff
References
1. Legorreta AP et al. Comparative analysis of individuals with and without chiropractic coverage
patient characteristics, utilization, and costs. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:1985-1992.
2. Murphy DR et al. A nonsurgical approach to the management of patients with cervical radiculopathy. JMPT. 2006: 29(4):279-287.
3. Stephens D et al. Treatment of visual field loss by spinal manipulation: a report on 17 patients. J of the Neuromusculoskeletal System. 1998;6(2):53-66.
4. Esch S. Headache, depression, poor appetite, nausea, general muscular weakness, dizziness and sensitivity to light and noise. ACA J of Chiropractic. December 1988.
5. Carey J. Medical guesswork. BusinessWeek. May 29, 2006;75.
6. Ibid.
7. Association between fluoride in drinking water during growth and development and the incidence of osteosarcoma for children and adolescents. Thesis presented by Elise Beth Basin, April 2001.
www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/bassin-2001.pdf
8. June 6, 2005 letter from Richard Wiles, Sr. Vice President, Environmental Working Group to Dr. C. W. Jameson, National Toxicology Program, Report on carcinogens.
www.ewg.org/issues/fluoride/20050606/petition.php
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