Chiropractic Care

There is more to proper nutrition than just food. I can highly recommend seeing a chiropractor as one step in your journey to healthy living. Let me emphasize that not all chiropractors are the same. Some do more damage than good, so do your research.

There are a myriad of reasons to see a chiropractor. I started going because of severe allergies. I took an allergy pill 365 days a year just to keep my symptoms at bay. I was just treating the symptoms, not the cause of the problem. I constantly had red, watery eyes, sinus headaches 3-4 days a week, congestion, plus I was prone to frequent sinus infections. After four months of treatment, starting out at 3 days a week, I was off ALL medications. After my first adjustment, the pressure behind my eyes was gone. Eventually, I went down to one day a week just for maintenance. I also had my son adjusted when he was three weeks old. Birth is a very rough process, and I wanted him to start out on the right foot.

The purpose of chiropractic care in short, is to relieve subluxations (joint dysfunction and nerve stress). You can read more about that here.

At the particular chiropractor I went to, they stressed 5 components of health.
1. Nervous System-controls all body functions
2. Nutrition
3. Exercise
4. Prayer
5. Rest

Proper health incorporates many aspects. I desire to treat my whole body, which includes what I eat, but also my lifestyle. If you live in the Raleigh, Wake Forest, or Cary areas, I highly encourage you to check out this particular chiropractor.

They are a Christian practice that truly cares about and prays for their patients.

Here are some additional links to some interesting articles are chiropractic care. Click here
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I look forward to finally finding a good chiropractor down here.

Butter or Margarine

I received this email from the lady that heads up our co-op. I knew most of this already and have included it in my entry on hydrogenated oils, but thought you might like to see this. Have not researched this, but I do know some of the facts are true.

Pass The Butter ... Please.

This is interesting . .. .

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.
It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings....

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and
only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')!

Chinese Proverb:
When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
Pass the BUTTER PLEASE