There is no magic bullet for weight loss or a quick fix for staying healthy. Optimal health comes through a combination of balanced diet, moderate exercise and positive change in the emotional patterns that affect the way you think and feel about yourself. This is especially important for patients challenged by weight control issues and chronic health concerns.
Did you know? One child in five is overweight.
- By Dr. Kimberly Queen
- Archived 03/15/2007
- Diet & Exercise
Did you know?
- One child in five is overweight.
- Obesity in children and adolescents is epidemic in U.S., and it affects all ages, races and gender groups.
- Obese children have high cholesterol and high blood pressure-risk factors for heart disease.
- Obese children have a high incidence of orthopedic problems, liver disease and asthma.
- Obese children have type 2 diabetes-a disease that used to occur only in adults.
Good choices equal good health
- By Dr. Kimberly Queen
- Archived 03/10/2007
- Diet & Exercise
There is no magic bullet for weight loss or a quick fix for staying healthy. Optimal health comes through a combination of balanced diet, moderate exercise and positive change in the emotional patterns that affect the way you think and feel about yourself. This is especially important for patients challenged by weight control issues and chronic health concerns.
Plantar Fasciitis
- By Dr. Penny Domm
- Archived 06/1/2007
- Chiropractic medicine , Diet & Exercise
So, you have pain on the bottom of your feet, and you were diagnosed with plantar fasciitis. When you try to explain this to someone, all you can remember is that it's called "plantar- something." Well, I can help you with this; the words can be broken down easily to explain the condition. Plantar means bottom of the foot. Fascia is fibrous tissue that supports muscle and skin. The suffix, -itis, means inflammation. Put them all together (after you drop the "a" from fascia) and you have a word that is also a diagnosis, inflammation of the supporting tissue on the bottom of the foot. Easy, right? Easy, perhaps, if you don't suffer from the condition. Plantar fasciitis is very painful and it can take a long time to heal.
Alternative medicine lowers risk of heart disease
- By Dr. Kelly Morgensen
- Archived 05/31/2007
- Herbal Medicine , Diet & Exercise , Chiropractic medicine
Alternative medicine has a preventive and therapeutic role in cardiovascular disease. Medical physicians, including cardiologists, describe their use of alternative therapy as integrative medicine. Chiropractic physicians describe their use of alternative therapy as complementary medicine. This terminology probably reflects the perspective of each physician in the health care milieu; the medical doctor, at the top of the healthcare pecking order, chooses to integrate the research and methods of other practitioners. The chiropractor, who is the leading provider of alternative healthcare, decribes medical interventions that are complementary to traditional medicine.
