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Issue XI - August 2007
Enjoy the last days of summer!
Welcome to our office's Chiropractic newsletter.
We'd like to entertain you, inform you (and even inspire you a little).
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
- Charles Kuralt
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- J.M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish author
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Expecting or planning a baby soon?
Dr. Jen will be starting a natural childbirth class:
Natural Childbirth Classes
Location: Our office
Start date: Monday, August 6, 2007 @ 6:00pm
Duration: 4 weeks
Length of each class: 3-3.5 hours
Cost: $250
Includes: notes, book, discussion, labor and relaxation practice, as well as viewing videos.
RSVP as soon as possible:
(949) 496-9355 or e-mail
.
Another series will be starting in October.
and
For information on the Independent Childbirth Conference in California with some amazing speakers, click here.
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OC activities for moms (and dads) with busy kids
A local mom started this website so that moms (and dads) in the OC could easily figure out activities to do with their kids. She keeps it updated quite nicely.
http://www.mybusydays.com
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WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MILK?
CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney shares his hilarious, yet very true, thoughts about what "milk" has become. Going to the store to pick up some milk presents you with an endless array of options -- strawberry milk, skim milk, milk to go, cereal bars with milk -- none of which resemble the old-fashioned, straight-from-the-farm variety where the cream naturally rises to the top of the bottle.
Gone are the simple glass bottles of fresh milk from healthy cows, only to be replaced with artificial concoctions that are pasteurized, homogenized and loaded with strange ingredients.
In just one bottle of half-and-half, Rooney shares the laundry list of ingredients: Nonfat milk, milk, corn syrup solids, artificial color, sugar, dipotassium phosphate, sodium citrate mono, and diglycerides, carrageenan, natural and artificial flavors, vitamin A palmitate.
And what about the notion that the milk in most supermarkets comes from a farm? Rooney investigated "Farmland Dairies" in New Jersey only to find that the "farm," located at 520 Main Avenue, had no cows in sight.
Clearly, while fresh raw milk is an outstanding health food, the processed milk at your supermarket is anything but healthy. I couldn’t agree with Rooney more when he says, "My suggestion, if they want to sell more milk, is that they go back to selling what comes out of a cow."
CBS News July 2, 2007
Watch Andy's video.
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FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies
In June, the FDA announced new standards for dietary supplements that are supposed to improve consumer safety. In reality, the 800-page rule will likely interfere with business while intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market.
Gone Within Five Years
The rule will be phased in over the next three years, and within five years half of the supplement industry could be gone or selling their products at significantly higher prices.
Independent analysis of the rule found that compliance costs will be 10 times the FDA estimates. The ruling surrounds the dietary supplement industry with regulations and requirements in excess of those imposed on the drug industry, and up to 50 percent of small companies will simply not be able to afford to comply.
Hard Pressed to Continue to Operate
The FDA itself states in the rule that:
"Establishments with above average costs, and even establishments with average costs, could be hard pressed to continue to operate. Some of these may decide it is too costly and either change product lines or go out of business."
The rule will also raise the price of dietary supplements to consumers. According to the FDA:
"We expect that the majority of these costs will be borne by consumers of dietary supplements, who will likely respond to the increase in prices by reducing consumption."
Who is behind it? You might want to know:
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has been taken over by multinational drug and food companies. Key players are the nutritional divisions of Bayer, BASF, Cargill, Monsanto, Wyeth, and Archer Daniels Midland. Nutrition companies that participate are in most cases owned by pharmaceutical companies, heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies, or jockeying for position in the international market as part of the New World Order. Key names include Mannatech, Shaklee, Herbalife, GNLD International, The Vitamin Shoppe, and GNC. These companies are glad to eliminate competition from small companies and start up ventures.
News With Views June 27, 2007
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The Dark Side of Soy
The Dark Side of Soy
Is America's favorite health food making us sick?
By Mary Vance, Terrain
Utne Reader July / August 2007 Issue
"Studies showing the dark side of soy date back 100 years," says clinical nutritionist Kaayla Daniel, author of The Whole Soy Story (New Trends, 2005). "The 1999 FDA-approved health claim pleased big business, despite massive evidence showing risks associated with soy, and against the protest of the FDA's own top scientists. Soy is a $4 billion [U.S.] industry that's taken these health claims to the bank." Besides promoting heart health, the industry says, soy can alleviate symptoms associated with menopause, reduce the risk of certain cancers, and lower levels of LDL, the "bad" cholesterol.
Epidemiological studies have shown that Asians, particularly in Japan and China, have a lower incidence of breast and prostate cancer than people in the United States, and many of these studies credit a traditional diet that includes soy. But Asian diets include small amounts--about nine grams a day--of primarily fermented soy products, such as miso, natto, and tempeh, and some tofu. Fermenting soy creates health-promoting probiotics, the good bacteria our bodies need to maintain digestive and overall wellness. By contrast, in the United States, processed soy food snacks or shakes can contain over 20 grams of nonfermented soy protein in one serving.
"There is important information on the cancer-protective values of soy," says clinical nutritionist Ed Bauman, head of Bauman Clinic in Sebastopol, California, and director of Bauman College. Bauman cautions against painting the bean with a broad brush. "As with any food, it can have benefits in one system and detriments in another. [An individual who is sensitive to it] may have an adverse response to soy. And not all soy is alike," he adds, referring to processing methods and quality.
"Soy is not a food that is native to North America or Europe, and you have issues when you move food from one part of the world to another," Bauman says. "We fare better when we eat according to our ethnicity. Soy is a viable food, but we need to look at how it's used."
Soy is everywhere in our food supply, as the star in cereals and health-promoting foods and hidden in processed foods. Even if you read every label and avoid cardboard boxes, you are likely to find soy in your supplements and vitamins (look out for vitamin E derived from soy oil), in foods such as canned tuna, soups, sauces, breads, meats (injected under poultry skin), and chocolate, and in pet food and body-care products. It hides in tofu dogs under aliases such as textured vegetable protein, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and lecithin--which is troubling, since the processing required to hydrolyze soy protein into vegetable protein produces excitotoxins such as glutamate (think MSG) and aspartate (a component of aspartame), which cause brain-cell death.
Soy also is one of the foods--in addition to wheat, corn, eggs, milk, nuts, and shellfish--most likely to cause allergic reactions. Most people equate food allergies with anaphylaxis, or a severe emergency immune response, but it is possible to have a subclinical sensitivity, which can lead to health problems over time (and is exacerbated by the lack of variety common in today's American diet).
The highest risk is for infants who are fed soy formula. "It's the only thing they're eating, they're very small, and they're at a key stage developmentally," says Daniel. "The estrogens in soy will affect the hormonal development of these children, and it will certainly affect their growing brains, reproductive systems, and thyroids." Soy formula also contains large amounts of manganese, which has been linked to attention deficit disorder and neurotoxicity in infants. The Israeli health ministry recently issued an advisory stating that infants should avoid soy formula altogether.
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5 operations you don't want to get -- and what to do instead
Read this CNN article on, " 5 operations you don't want to get -- and what to do instead".
There are 2 listed on here that can be easy to take care of in my office:
- Heartburn surgery alternative: A quick deep "massage" of the stomach and a few other tricks, the heartburn is usually gone by the time patients leave the office. Also, be aware that drugs/medications can cause horrible stomach problems.
- Back surgery alternative: Chiropractic adjustments, as well as massage and/or pilates can be very helpful. Also the proper calcium will increase the pain threshold, so that pain is less perceived. Calcium/Magnesium supplementation is safer and healthier than painkillers and sometimes works just as well, if not better. Acupuncture may also help.
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HPV vaccine for cervical cancer
The Orange Grove: On guard against Gardasil
Injecting our daughters with the HPV vaccine should not be mandatory
Editorial - HPV vaccine for cervical cancer
HPV Vaccine Update: Serious Side Effects
The BMJ has questions over the HPV Vaccine where out of 1,637 reported adverse reactions, 3 were deaths! Read the article, click here.
Of course the National Vaccine Information Center has the latest updates on GARDASIL and all other vaccines. Visit their web-site click here, and while you are there sign up for their free e-newsletter.
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Humor
No Humor this month, let's try IQ:
Click here to begin, you have 10 seconds for each question
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