CRaking your Knuckles gives you arthritis?

19 Mullanphy Gardens - Florissant, MO; 63031 - 314-837-9911- www.backexperts.com

WORKSHOP: Fight Spinal Decay with at Home Exercises

Tomorrow I will conduct a great workshop on at-home exercises.  Specifically  how these exercises help prevent spinal decay (AKA arthritis).  As of this writing there are 6 seats still available.  Register at http://backexperts.com/seminars/.

Have a healthy day.


19 Mullanphy Gardens - Florissant, MO; 63031 - 314-837-9911-  www.backexperts.com

Couch to 5K Participant Packet

You can find everything for our Couch to 5K program at www.mybackexperts.com


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Top Cyclists on Tour de France Skip Pasta

At this years Tour de France, one team has decided to skip the traditional pasta meals and replace them with low-inflammatory foods. 

http://www.slipstreamsports.com/2008/07/25/our-special-anti-inflammatory-diet

Whole Food And More: Drinking Coffee And NOT Eating In The Morning Halts Weight Loss

If you have attended my workshop on Smart Eating, you will remember I discussed the way your body shifts to storage mode if you skip breakfast. Here is a link to a woman sharing her experience with a diet called Extreme Regimen Weight Control. She discusses how caffeine in the morning suppresses appetite, which is not a good thing if you are trying to lose weight. - Dr. Anderson

Whole Food And More: Drinking Coffee And NOT Eating In The Morning Halts Weight Loss

View our diet page here.

Cracking High Blood Pressure

View video directly by clicking this link YouTube.com

Couch to 5K Registration

I would like to invite you to be with us on July 29th at 6pm for "Couch to 5K". We will discuss how to begin a program of walking/running to complete a 5K run in November. Register for this free program here.A exercise plan will be provided and an optional group run/walk event November 8th in St. Charles. It's a flat 5 kilometer (3.1 miles) route, a great first run/walk. If you are experienced in running or want to pick up a healthy hobby sign-up today. The class by Dr. Anderson is free, the race is $19.

• Reserve your Spot at: Dr. Anderson's free workshop
• Sign up for race at: Race to Cure Lymphoma Registration Page

Participants, find the info packet at www.mybackexperts.com

Diet OR Exercise to lose weight?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702101351.htm

Smoothy Recipe

I'm a big fan of smoothies. Here is a great recipe to start with. Throw all this into a high speed blender and you are set. It will be around 350 calories. If you have other suggestions please leave a comment. Thanks.

• 8 oz of milk
• 2-3 tablespoons of frozen fruit (Raspberries, blueberries, bananas, etc.)
• 1-2 tablespoons of yogurt one scoop of protein powder

Extras: Peanut Butter; Oatmeal; Ground Flax Seed; ice (if you use fresh fruit)

Seminar: Eating Smart

We did this workshop last night. Here are the slides and audio for your pleasure. Link to Smoothly Recipe.

School Physicals at Back Experts

Summer Seminar Series

Next week in our paper newsletter we will announce the Summer Seminar Series here at Back Experts. As a subscriber to our site, you get first crack at registering (notice chiropractic humor). You can register for free at backexperts.com/seminars.

Every Tuesday starting July 1st, we will offer free seminars. These 30 minute sessions cover topics on chiropractic care, running a 5K, home exercises, losing weight and much more. The are not only informative but we mix a little humor along the way. Of course refreshments will be provided.

I would like to bring to your attention to a couple special programs. On July 29th I’ll present “Couch to 5K”, If you have never exercised and are a specialist at sitting on the couch it’s time to get off the couch and 13 weeks later run the Race to Cure Lymphona in St. Charles November 8th. We’ll have a great time getting in shape and running (or walking) the 5K together.

The other special event is September 30th. I’ll discuss the nature of disc herniations and ways you can recover and regain a normal life without surgery. We see success over and over with patients. This workshop will cover lifestyle modifications that will prevent relapse and nutritional considerations for the health of the disc.

Forward this to everyone you know who eats food, moves their body or is breathing.

Don't forget to view all our topics and register here: http://backexperts.com/seminars

Thanks.

Ice or Heat?

You just felt something snap in a muscle. You fall to the ground and the pain and swelling begin. What do you put on the injury? Heat or Ice?

There has always been debate on this issue. After 14 years of studying the matter here is my conclusion.

• Always put ice on an injury, 15 minutes per hour as many hours as you like.
• Use heat if you have a old chronic injury.
  
• When in doubt, ice.

When you first have an injury there is swelling, ice helps the swelling. Use a gel pack or bag of ice cubes and apply to the injures area. Putting it over a shirt of thin towel will help keep the skin from getting too cold. Make sure to limit the ice to 10-15 minutes. More than that can do damage to small capillaries and nerves in the area.

When using heat it must always be moist heat. Adding moisture will prevent local dehydration which increase muscle spasm. Remember, don't use heat on a new injury.

Post a comment on this page if there are any questions, glad to help.

For more information...

• Ice therapy: how good is the evidence?
• Arthritis Patients Choose Chiropractic
• Why are you walking on your knees?
• Exercise page at Back Experts
  

Considering Exercise? Start running.

I had the opportunity to run my first 1/2 Marathon a few weeks ago. The thing about that...I'm not a runner. I always played around with the idea of running but was never able to incorporate exercise into my life.

A year ago this month, after climbing a single flight of stairs from my basement, it hit me. The 13 steps from my basement to my first floor challenged my cardiovascular system so much that I felt out of breath, winded and woefully out of shape.

Being healthy is not about how you look, it about how you work.

Avacado: The Perfect Food.

If you have attended any of our talks on nutrition you know about the benefits of avacados.

Autonomics Hold Key to Good Health

There is system in your body that controls how fast you digest your food, your heart rate, the amount of mucus your nose secretes. It's called the autonomic nervous system.

The chart to the right shows how your spinal cord connects to the organs of your body. Chiropractic for years have used this mechanism to aid in restoring patients health. Subluxations

Chiropractic for Military

Chiropractors and the Military

“H.R. 5658 is a bipartisan bill that explicitly states that chiropractic is an integral component of the Pentagon’s health care delivery system, and it is the committee’s intention that this language will increase access to chiropractic care at more facilities worldwide,” said ACA President Glenn Manceaux, DC.

Should you seek out doctors who are physically active?

Dr. Ronald Davis, president of the American Medical Association, thinks that may be wise. He cites a study by Dr. Erica Frank, which seemed to show that doctors who are physically active are also more likely to provide meaningful advice on exercise.

Doctors who are athletes are less likely to give untoward advice, such as saying that running destroys the knees or that you need an electrocardiogram before you can exercise. Athletic doctors are also less likely to tell an active person who is injured or ill to stop exercising.

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Americans Taking Prescription Drugs in Greater Numbers

Here's an indication of our declining health as a country, Americans buy more medicine per person than any other county in the world. Why aren't we the healthiest country in the world? - Dr. A
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.

The most widely used drugs are those to lower high blood pressure and cholesterol -- problems often linked to heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

The numbers were gathered last year by Medco Health Solutions Inc., which manages prescription benefits for about one in five Americans.

Experts say the data reflect not just worsening public health but better medicines for chronic conditions and more aggressive treatment by doctors. For example, more people are now taking blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering medicines because they need them, said Dr. Daniel W. Jones, president of the American Heart Association.

In addition, there is the pharmaceutical industry's relentless advertising. With those factors unlikely to change, doctors say the proportion of Americans on chronic medications can only grow.

''Unless we do things to change the way we're managing health in this country ... things will get worse instead of getting better,'' predicted Jones, a heart specialist and dean of the University of Mississippi's medical school.

Americans buy much more medicine per person than any other country. But it was unclear how their prescriptions compare to those of insured people elsewhere. Comparable data were not available for Europe, for instance.

Read the whole article at the New York Times

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: May 14, 2008