CNN Health: School Lunches

The article, entitled “She ate 162 School Lunches — and blogged it”, is all about the disaster of our government feeding system.  It is set in a Mid-west town, with nothing but garbage lunches.  The article is enlightening, but not inspiring. (CNN) — After a year of eating school lunches, Mrs. Q survived to blog about it. She works at an urban school in the Midwest, where she ate bagel dogs (yes, that’s an entree), yellowish meatloaf and chicken tenders, which she likened to “squirts of chicken foam.” With spork in hand, her mission was to chronicle the $3 school […]

Feed Your Soul

By Dr. Amy Haas We do too much. We multi-task, we schedule, we juggle, and we email, text and twitter constantly to stay up-to-date. We stress ourselves to the last strand of sanity by trying to cram all we can into our busy days – and then we rob ourselves of sleep (both in quality and quantity) in order to finish what we just “had” to get done that day. Where does this leave us? Spent. The five tenets of Healthy Living are this: 1. Eat well. 2. Exercise. 3. Avoid toxins. 4. FEED YOUR SOUL. (And of course 5. […]

Agouti Mice Re-Visited – DNA Is Not Destiny!!

The Agouti mice that are shown here, are very different from one another.  Different because though they come from the same genetics, the don’t share the same genetic expression.  Different because one carries significant risk of prematuer death, while the other does not, and it is all because of the pursuit of health. The excerpts that I am going to pull for this article, were publishd online for Discover magazine, November 22, 2006.  I remember we had the full article sitting in our office that December, and we were getting pulled deeper and deeper into the understanding of how genes […]

Vaccines! Autism!

The doctor who first published a paper in the Lancet 1998 exploring a connection between MMR and autism is being attacked by the media again. If you’ve seen the sensationalized headlines it portrays one message.  “Do not trust anyone who tells you vaccines can cause autism. The headline read “Autism-Vaccine Link Fraud”. Implying that vaccines have absolutely nothing to with autism. But this isn’t new. It’s part of an ongoing campaign that involves the adage if you repeat something long enough people will believe it. While vaccination may not cause every case of autism it has been shown to cause […]

Why we adjust…

We see a lot of patients in our office, for a lot of different reasons.  Well, they come for a lot of different reasons I should say.  We actually see them for only one reason, and that would include you… one reason.  Though there might be thousands of possible complaint variations: I have headaches, I have neck pain, I have TMJ, irritable bowel, indigestion, low back pain, etc.  There is only one cause for treatment in our office, subluxation. It is important to put this out, because even though you might visit us for any of the above reasons above, that […]

Use the New Year

I write this Daily Sprout every year.  And with the New Year upon us, it is time to get you focused again! Who could sit back, and without evidence of it, ever believe that the changeover of one day to the next, with nothing other than a date to distinguish it, would be enough to change some one’s life?  Man, not me!  Even with all the evidence in the world of what a new year can do for someone, it just seems ridiculous!  Now let me clarify, I am all about the “make a decision, so just do it now” […]

Surviving The Holidays

The “Holidays” tend to do a lot of damage to people.  From the stresses that people “accept” to the food that they love, to the financial wreckage that is left behind them.  It is a pretty rough ride for many people.  I would guess that a significant part of the damage has already been done, here, just five days before Christmas day. However, regardless of what you have stressed about thus far, what you have set yourself up for as stresses in January, or what you have eaten, there is a considerable amount of decision left, and as your health […]

PREVENTION – Are You Sure?

Dr. Levi Prevention is an interesting term. Most people would agree it’s a good thing.  If someone says, “take an asprin a day to prevent  heart attacks by 50%,” that sounds good. “Get a mammogram to prevent dying from breast cancer”.  People do it.  Besides, who wants to die from something that’s preventable? No one! But, how do you prove you prevented a disease? Ah, there’s the rub. It turns out that its not a very scientific process. Say someone gets the flu shot for 20 years and never gets the flu. They may say “the flu shot prevented it”. […]