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Issue IX   -   August 2006

I have 10 experiences a day that touch my heart. That is my secret for longevity.
- Ms. Kazue Kato, the first woman member of the National Diet of Japan, on her 100th birthday

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
- Larry Dossey, MD

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The $1.6 Trillion Question Chiropractic and Spinal Research Antibiotics for ear infections ineffective Chiropractic children are healthier Some simple things to do to keep healthy Spinal fusion? No thank you! Words of Wisdom Non-vaccinated kids don’t have autism Quick Breakfast Humor

 

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The $1.6 Trillion Question

The $1.6 Trillion Question: If We're Spending So Much on Healthcare, Why So Little Improvement in Quality? Carolyn Clancy, MD (1)

Answer: It’s because we’re not spending $1.6 trillion on healthcare. We’re spending it on disease care: drugs, pills, potions, medications, vaccines and surgery -- all designed to suppress or eliminate symptoms, not to give us health. Suppression drives disease deeper creating more physical and mental illnesses. If we spent $1.6 trillion on true healthcare (chiropractic, good nutrition, massage, bodywork, homeopathy, etc.) we’d be far healthier and in subsequent years we’d spend less and less and less.

Disease care is far more expensive than maintaining your health.

 

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Chiropractic and Spinal Research

Did you know there are thousands of papers on the wonders of chiropractic and spinal care in health and disease?

Neck, Back, Radiating Pain
A 34-year-old man was suffering from severe neck, lower back and radicular pain. An MRI showed a disc herniation in his neck. For one year he saw multiple medical specialists with little or no results. His MDs were discussing neck surgery. He began chiropractic care and within one month nearly all his pain had disappeared and his disc herniation had almost completely resolved. The surgery was no longer considered necessary. (2)

Fertility and Chiropractic
For over a century chiropractic has had great success with helping previously infertile couples get pregnant and with helping women carry to term. In this case report, a 40-year-old woman who had a miscarriage at 16 weeks first visited her chiropractor because of mid-back pain. Postural studies, however, revealed that her neck and low back had subluxations. She and her husband began receiving chiropractic care. She became pregnant shortly thereafter, carried to term and delivered a healthy baby girl. (3)

Headaches and Chiropractic
In this case study, a 13-year-old girl was suffering from severe headache and neck pain for five days. Her headache and neck pain completely resolved after chiropractic spinal care. (4)

HIV, AIDS and Chiropractic
This is the study, of a group of patients dying of AIDS. All were under medical care but half of them were placed under chiropractic care while the others were not. After 6 months of care, the medicine-only group experienced a continued decrease in CD4 white blood cells (-7.96%) with two deaths. The people receiving chiropractic, however, showed a 48% increase in CD4 cell counts and no deaths. This study was originally intended to go on for one year, but after two patients in the control group died of AIDS the study was ended and all the surviving controls were placed under chiropractic care. (5)

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Antibiotics for ear infections (acute otitis media) ineffective and dangerous

Six medical studies of children with middle ear infection (aged 7 months to 15 years) were reviewed. The authors found that just giving a placebo (sugar pill) got 60% of the children pain free within 24 hours. Antibiotics did not influence this at all. Further, antibiotics had no influence on whether the child would have subsequent ear infections or deafness at one month. Antibiotics, however, were associated with a near doubling of the risk of vomiting, diarrhea and/or rashes. (6) An article in the British Medical Journal summarized the research on giving children antibiotics for ear infections succinctly: Antibiotics are ineffective for otitis media and doctors should stop routinely prescribing them. (7)

 

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Chiropractic children are healthier

Over the past few decades, research reports that children under chiropractic care are healthier, have higher IQs, and can recover from a multitude of physical and emotional diseases and conditions without drugs and surgery. Chiropractic subluxation correction has been shown to do wonders for children.

Children don’t need to have a problem to get their spines checked, they just need a spine. Want healthier children? Bring them in for a chiropractic checkup.

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Some simple things to avoid and to do to keep healthy

1. Avoid all artificial sweeteners, especially aspartame (Nutrasweet™) and Splenda™. They are bad for your brain, eyes, hearing and overall health.

2. Never get a flu shot unless you’d like to get Alzheimer’s.

3. Consider most fevers beneficial and do not suppress them. Same with cold and flu symptoms.

4. Avoid childhood vaccinations: they are not necessarily as safe as they would have you believe.

5. Get lots of sunlight – it’s good for you; it prevents cancer of internal organs and many other diseases. Just don’t burn.

6. Avoid sodas and drink lots of water instead.

7. Avoid fluffy food (rice, bread, pasta). Fluffy food makes you fluffy.

8. Avoid high fructose corn syrup – it’s linked to obesity and heart disease.

9. Avoid statin drugs – they cause heart damage, increase cancer risk and don’t work as well as a healthy lifestyle.

10. Don’t worry about cholesterol – it’s not the cause of heart disease. More on this in the next newsletter.

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Spinal fusion? No thank you!

Spinal fusion is a back operation where the surgeon fuses vertebrae together. The number of these operations in the US has doubled over the last ten years in spite of reports revealing an extremely high rate of failure (pain comes back). Two papers from the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine report that there’s little evidence to support fusing the spine of someone with back pain. Spinal fusion can have serious complications that can include nerve damage and impotency. If spinal fusion is being suggested – get a second opinion, especially from a chiropractor. (8-9)

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Words of Wisdom

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Non-vaccinated kids don’t have autism

"Thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated and they don't have autism. ‘We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines,’ said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973." (1)

 

 

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Quick Breakfast

I’m not a big fan of cooking in soft plastic or in the microwave, but I found this to be very ingenious and wanted to share it. I thought this idea could be especially helpful to a parent who has kids with different likes and instead of giving them cereal for breakfast, they can actually give them a good breakfast with protein.

ZIPLOCK OMELETE

Have everyone write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with permanent marker. Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) shake to combine them. Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc. Each person adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shakes. Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up. Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes. You can usually cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, make another pot of boiling water. Open the bags and the omelet will roll out easily. Be prepared for everyone to be amazed. No mess and no standing at the stove preparing breakfast.

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Humor

 

 

This is what a computer should do first thing in the morning! Click on the link below and then type in your first name...

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/

 

 

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Bye – see you next month.

 

See you next month. If you’d like us to include other e-mail addresses, we’d be glad to add them to our list. Please remember that everyone needs to be free from subluxations so bring your friends and loved ones for a spinal checkup.

 

If your family or friends want to get this monthly newsletter, have them e-mail us and we'll add them to our mailing list.

 

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References

1. Medscape General Medicine. 2006;8(2):58. Posted 05/26/2006.

2. Eriksen K. Management of cervical disc herniation with upper cervical chiropractic care: a case study. JMPT. 1998;21(1):51-56.

3. Anderson C. Chiropractic applications for infertility. ICA Review. September/October 2000.

4. Hewitt EG. Chiropractic care of a 13-year-old with headache and neck pain: a case report. JCCA. 1994;38(3):160-162.

5. Selano JL, Hightower BC, Pfleger B et al. The effects of specific upper cervical adjustments on the CD4 counts of HIV positive patients. Chiropractic Research Journal. 1994;3(1):32-39.

6. Grote JJ. Antibiotics in otitis media with effusion. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1997;141(2):76 -77.

7. Del Mar C, Glasziou P, Hayem M. Are antibiotics indicated as initial treatment for children with acute otitis media? A meta-analysis. British Medical Journal. 1997;314(7093):1526-1529.

8. Deyo RA, Nachemson A, Mirza SK et al. Spinal fusion surgery – the case for restraint. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004;350:722-726.

9. Lipson SJ. Spinal fusion surgery – advances and concerns. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004;350:643-644.

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