Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened
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- Sir Winston Churchill
Enjoy the benefits of Chiropractic, the largest natural, drug-free, healthcare system in the world. Families are discovering that chiropractic care promotes health and healing without dangerous drugs. More and more people are turning away from symptom treatment and choosing natural ways of expressing health.
Tired of being sick and tired? Welcome to the world of chiropractic - discover how natural health can be.
Office News
The office will be closed Friday, December 25th in observance of Christmas and Friday, January 1st in observance of New Year's Day.
We hope you have a wonderful, joy filled and healthy holiday! We are so grateful to you for being apart of our chiropractic family!
Dr. Ross Pregnancy Care and Nutrition Talk
Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of Dr. Ross' amazing health talks. Here are the details!
Pregnancy Care and Nutrition
 So if you're thinking of getting pregnant, are pregnant, nursing or you work in pregnancy care such as a doula, midwife, OB/GYN, pediatrician, naturopath, chiropractor, you will want to hear this information he will be sharing with you!
JANUARY 14, 2010
7:00pm
PURE Fitness Gym
1126 N. Scottsdale Road
Tempe, AZ
Corner of Curry and Scottsdale Rd just North of the 202
Studio A
Call the office for complimentary tickets and registration.
$10 at the door.
Sponsored by
Juice
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Patient Success Stories
Here are a few of our recent success stories from our office:
Female patient was limping with foot pain - pain gone in the office with one foot adjustment.
Patient notes off medication that she had been on for 6 years for muscle spasms after chiropractic care and magnezium supplementation.
Female adult patient with headache and sinus pressure reports all cleared up within 1 hour of adjustment and sinus work.
"Dear Dr. Ross,
You are amazing! I am so blessed to have a resource I can refer moms like this to, and I don't have to hold my breath and hope it works. You make me look good. I just heard from my client who brought her daughter into you for a tight jaw. She came home and latched on for the first time EVER without the nipple shield! We're going to fine-tune her latch over the weekend, and then they'll finally have smooth sailing. She quit her job to be home with her baby so this is a big deal. Thank you for all you do for these babies!"
Debbie Gillespie
Lactation Consultant
480-786-0431
(If you have had a new baby and want to be sure that you are getting the best breast feeding experience possible please call Debbie for a consultation. - Dr. Ross)
Your chiropractor's goal
Your chiropractor's goal is to assist your body to regain optimal functioning by removing blockages and deep stress so that balance and harmony among your body's systems can be restored. That is especially important for children.
Kids and Chiropractic - perfect together
Throughout your children's lifetimes - from infancy into adulthood - chiropractic care can help ensure your child's physical and emotional health. Over a century of success in helping children regain and retain their health has made chiropractic the healthcare of choice for millions of parents and their children throughout the world.
Chiropractors are specially trained to locate and release blockages commonly caused by tiny misalignments of the structural system. These blockages (called subluxations) create dis-ease (disharmony) which can lead to lowered resistance to disease, organ malfunction, poor posture, pain, and physical and emotional illness. (1)
Chiropractors have helped babies suffering from nearly every condition imaginable: colic, vomiting, sleeping problems, tonsillitis, vision and hearing problems and many,  many others. (2-4)
It is not unusual to hear parents state that since starting chiropractic care their children get sick less frequently, less severely, have less or no ear infections and take less (or no) antibiotics and other drugs. (5-7) Many conditions such as asthma and allergies have responded to chiropractic care as well. (8-9)
In addition there are reports of chiropractic care helping children suffering from autism. Some of these children have been reevaluated and later re-diagnosed as normal after chiropractic care. (10-11)
Academic Performance
Both clinical reports and research have reported chiropractic's success with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), lack of energy or "low mental stamina", anxiety and behavioral problems. (12-13)
 Spor
ts Performance
Improvements in coordination and athletic ability have also been noted as a result of chiropractic care. (14-18) Chiropractors are "team doctors" for athletes in all kind of sports from tennis, swimming, golf and track-and-field to football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, handball, rugby, soccer and Olympic and professional teams. Chiropractic care helps athletes function at their peak to maintain their "competitive edge." (19)
Chiropractors can help prevent injury by keeping your child balanced and functioning free of spine and structural stress. Chiropractic care can prevent minor injuries from becoming major ones, without the use of drugs or surgery. (20)
If your child is suffering from any of the following, it is essential to get his/her body checked for subluxations:
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Ear infections
Fever
Colic
Croup
Hypertension
Poor posture
Nervousness
Constipation
Bed-wetting
Fatigue
Stomachaches
Loss of hearing
Arthritis
Numbness
Irritability
Headaches
Neckaches
Backaches
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Sore throat
Eye problems
Cough
Sinus problems
Skin disorders
Asthma
Bronchitis
Frequent colds
Poor coordination
Poor concentration
Arm, hand,
shoulder pain
Painful joints
Hip, leg, foot pain
Scoliosis
Vision problems
Sinus conditions
Allergies
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Breast-feeding
difficulties
Skin conditions
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Chiropractic care for children makes a big difference no matter what their age. Keep your children healthy, ensure their natural self-healing ability functions at its peak and help them grow into their physical and emotional potential with chiropractic.
Nutrition and Chiropractic - A winning combination
 There are many spokes to the wheel of health. Receiving regular chiropractic care plays a major role in keeping your body working at optimal level. Superior nutrition is another spoke of the wheel that needs careful attention, but many people fall short in this area. Most people believe they eat well, but 90% of us do not get enough of the vital nutritients from whole food sources that make the biggest impact to our health, especially our children.
That's why I recommend a whole food supplement called Juice Plus+. It helps you and your family improve the amount of the vital nutrients from whole food sources each and every day. It contains the nutritional essences of 17 different fruits, vegetables and whole grains in capsule or chewable form. It's gluten, sugar and salt free. It's all natural. In fact, its so natural it contains a FOOD label, not a supplement label.
I personally recommend Juice Plus+ because of the research behind it. 13 independent Gold Standard studies done in major University Centers around the world prove Juice Plus does what it says it does. It protects your cells from damage, it supports a healthy immune system, it decreases free radicals in your body, and improves your cardiovascular health. It's the next best thing to fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. It's an easy and affordable way to make a giant step towards better nutrition and overall health. I personally take Juice Plus and so does each member of my family because it works. I recommend it to others because it would be unethical for me to keep this from my patients. It's my duty to give you the best possible care and information available.
If you're already on Juice Plus, keep taking it, and take it everyday. If you are not yet on Juice Plus, I encourage you to make it a part of how you take care of your health each day as soon as possible. I strongly encourage children and pregnant and nursing moms to also take Juice Plus. Ask how you can get your child's Juice Plus for free for up to 3 years.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Dana at 480-703-3197.
Chiropractic Research
Still more reasons to show that all people, no matter what their health, need chiropractic care.
Asthma & bedwetting.
In May 1987 at the age of 22 months, this male child was medically examined and diagnosed with asthma. In an attempt to control the asthmatic symptoms, two medications were prescribed.
On May 20 1988, at two-years and ten-months-old, the child was seen for chiropractic examination and evaluation and, from that date to August 3, 1991, the child received 28 chiropractic adjustments. Dramatic improvement of asthma and enuresis followed the series of chiropractic adjustments. (21)
Lung (pulmonary) function and chiropractic.
It is known that abnormal posture of the head and neck influences breathing and other bodily functions. A study of 11 patients was designed to test the effect of chiropractic adjustments on neck curve, forward head posture and pulmonary function. In addition to chiropractic structural analysis, patients' lung functions were also analyzed including lung capacity.
After 3-6 months of care the subjects showed improvements in (neck) cervical curve, reduction in forward head posture and improved lung function. (22)
Good fat, bad fat
Avoid bad fats
Bad fats are linked
to heart disease, cancer, arthritis and many other chronic illnesses. If anything in your refrigerator or pantry has any of the following bad fats in the ingredients do yourself and
your family a favor and dump them in the garbage:
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Hydrogenated
oils
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Partially hydrogenated oils
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Cottonseed, soybean, canola and vegetable oils
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Trans-fats
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Especially avoid margarine or butter oil "spreads" or "blends"
Partake of good fats
Good fats promote health and healing. Good (saturated) fats include:
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Butter (especially from raw milk and grass fed cows)
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Oliver oil (virgin and cold pressed)
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Coconut oil
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Fish oil (smaller fish such as herring, sardines etc. are best)
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Avocados
Remember - good fats are good for you and bad fats can kill you.
People that use good fats are thinner, have more energy and are healthier.
Are high fat diets dangerous? Even though this study did not distinguish between the kind of fat used, this study helped de-demonize fats. In it researchers studied 88,795 women over the course of 14 years, and what did they find? Not one sign that high-fat diets promote breast cancer. There was not one indication that low-fat diets were protective. (23)
Did you know.
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Mammograms do more damage than good, and actually HARM 10 women for every one they help?
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The $4 billion-a-year mammogram industry urges women to rely on x-ray tests to protect their health. But what they don't tell you is mammograms are really unnecessary and even harmful.
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A study by researchers from the
Nordic Cochrane Center
in
Denmark
reviewed the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women - and the results were shocking. For every 2,000 women who received mammograms over a 10-year period, only one would have her life prolonged, but 10 would be harmed. Mammograms can actually increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by as much as 3 percent per year by irradiating the breast cells and triggering breast cancer. (24)
Vitamin K shot
Hospitals like to administer (sell) a synthetic, fat-soluble vitamin K injection to all newborns in a dosage that is 100 times the daily requirement of vitamin K at one time!
If a mother is not malnourished, however, there is no proof that there is a vitamin K deficiency and the injection is needless.
Further, hospital staff don't tell you that large doses of vitamin K are linked to childhood cancers, leukemia, jaundice and other severe reactions, including death. Animal studies link vitamin K to liver damage, kidney damage and death. Additionally, synthetic vitamin K has never been studied to see if it causes cancer or impairment of fertility.
A Lancet study reports, "We conclude that healthy babies, contrary to current beliefs, are not likely to have a vitamin K deficiency... the administration of vitamin K is not supported by our findings...." (25)
Please send this to everyone you know who is pregnant.
Humor
A few observations on advertising
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV
. - Erma Bombeck
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue
. - Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-
Ogden
Nash, "Song of the
Open Road
," 1933
FUN PUNS
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round
table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still
be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited
for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen
in
France
would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit
flies like a banana.
10. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
11. Atheism is
a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here; I'll go on a
head.'
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then
it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep
off the Grass.'
15. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
16. A chicken crossing the road
is poultry in motion.
17. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium-at-large.
18.
A backward poet writes inverse.
19. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your Count that votes.
Bye!!!
Please write or stop by and give us your feedback. Are there any subjects you'd like to hear about? Anything you dislike? Feedback is always important to us. And, of course, if you'd like hard copies of this newsletter stop by the office and we'll give you some for your friends and relatives. If they have e-mail, have them write to us and we'll add them to our subscriber list.
Have a great and healthy day!
Dr. Ross and Staff
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