Welcome to our office's
Chiropractic newsletter. We'd like to entertain you, inform you (and even
inspire you a little).
Happy
Spring
May This Be a Time of Renewal for You and Your Loved Ones
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Office News
We are happy to announce that our new website is up and running. Please
visit the site at www.spencerfamilychiropractic.com.
While visiting the site look for the April promotion on the welcome page.
We are giving away a $50 gift certificate to the person who shares our
site with the most people. The way it works: send all your family and
friends to our site and ask them to fill out the form on the welcome page.
The person who refers the most people will be awarded the gift certificate.
Checkups
You get your teeth, heart and blood pressure
checked periodically but....what about your spine?
A spinal checkup is one of the most important checkups or exams you and
your family could   ever
have because all your organs, muscles and glands get a nerve supply from
your spine.
An unhealthy spine could affect your eyes, teeth, stomach, intestines,
heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and even your brain! (And some people think
chiropractic is just about back and neck pain.)
Your chiropractor is specially trained to check your spine (and those
of your children) for areas of subluxation - nerve pressure. Subluxations
are often painless; you may have one right now and not feel any pain in
your spine - but other parts of your body may malfunction as a result.
Subluxations can be especially dangerous in infants, babies and children.
For that reason all children should see a chiropractor for periodic spinal
checkups. Is chiropractic all you need to stay healthy? See below....
Raw
Materials
Chiropractic helps your body function at
its best. But even the best engine can't run on junk; your body needs
good raw materials. How can your body manufacture insulin, digestive enzymes,
antibiotics, painkillers, antidepressants and the hundreds and thousands  of chemicals you need from coffee, soda, donuts and other nutrient-shallow
foods?
Think back on what your last few meals
were and ask yourself if your body will really benefit from them. Can
it make more heart, lung, brain, blood and kidney from those foods? The
best foods really are those grown organically and especially bio-energetically.
They may seem more expensive, but you get more nutrients from them, and
they are not full of unnatural chemicals. The savings in medical bills
will more than offset the cost of eating better quality foods.
How
to make money from drugs
 The
only way you can make real money from a drug is to get it patented. When
it's patented you have an exclusive right to make it (while the patent
is in force) and can charge anything you like. However, natural substances
cannot be patented. That's why vitamins are so cheap compared to prescription
drugs. In fact, the only drugs that can be patented are by definition
synthetic. Prescription drugs therefore are, for the most part, synthetic,
unnatural chemicals - stuff that is not found in nature. That's not a
very comforting thought for everyone on prescription medication. Many
prescription drugs affect the liver and cause liver damage, because your
cells cannot metabolize and do anything with these strange substances.
They wind up in the liver. Pity the poor liver. Because hundreds of thousands
die from adverse reactions to prescription drugs every year more and more
people are turning to natural healthcare such as homeopathy, naturopathy
and of course chiropractic.
Speaking
of unnatural chemicals...
Artificial sweeteners encourage your body
to gain weight? It's true! When people are taken  off (or stop using) artificial sweeteners they lose weight. It appears
that Nutrasweet TM,
Equal TM,
Splenda TM and other similar drugs cause you to crave carbohydrates. It's best to
switch to Stevia, a natural zero-calorie sweetener often found in health
food stores.
Foods especially worth avoiding are those with high fructose corn syrup
(HFCS). HFCS was invented about 25 years ago by Japanese scientists with
too much time on their hands. Today you'll find it everywhere, even in
so-called health bars, sports drinks and yogurt.
HFCS cannot be used by body cells so it therefore goes to the liver to
be broken down. Animals fed HFCS develop liver damage (cirrhosis). The
rise in diabetes and obesity has also paralleled the use of HFCS. In addition,
it interferes with copper absorption - rats  fed a high-fructose, low copper diet died in 5 weeks. A similar human
study had to be stopped because the subjects developed heart abnormalities.
(1)
Chiropractic
Questions and Answers
Are chiropractors against childhood
vaccination? The subject of childhood vaccination is one of the most
passionate issues chiropractors can discuss with the public. People may
discuss the pros and cons of controversial medications such as cholesterol
lowering drugs (statins) or painkillers (Vioxx TM)
and many others. The usefulness of heart bypass operations and other surgical
techniques has also been debated.
 Yet
when then the subject of vaccinations comes up, suddenly what should be
a very important discussion becomes an emotional battlefield with people
refusing to listen or see both sides of this issue. We urge people to
question all coercive procedures, especially those that have been shown
to be dangerous. The danger is very real. The US government has paid nearly
$1½ billion to the families of children who have been injured or killed
by mandated vaccines.
Just as there is no such thing as a safe drug so there is no such thing
as a safe vaccine. Chiropractors have traditionally opposed childhood
vaccination as an unnatural, dangerous and unproven medical procedure.
As usual, we were ahead of our time. Today an increasing number of scientists,
medical doctors and non-drug healers are questioning and opposing various
and/or all vaccinations.
This bizarre practice of injecting foreign bacteria and viri and poisonous
chemicals into children with immature immune systems will one day be seen
as gruesome a procedure as bloodletting was in years past.
Another
study links autism, mercury
While we're on the subject, more and more
studies are indicating that vaccines, especially  those with mercury in them (RhoGam, flu, DTP etc.) are linked to neurological
disorders, learning disorders, immune system disorders, delayed development
and autism. A late breaking story reports on yet another study that found
a possible link between higher mercury emissions and higher rates of autism.
The study to be published in the peer-reviewed journal Health and Place
found that for each 1,000 pounds of environmentally released mercury,
there was a 43% increase in the rate of special education services and
a 61% increase in the rate of autism. (2)
Although it is supposed to have been removed, mercury (thimerosal) is
still in many childhood vaccines, the flu shot and the RhoGam shot. Even
in trace amounts there is no safe level of mercury. It is a brain poison.
What
is the difference between chiropractic and medicine?
What has medicine become? It has turned
into an endless, and expensive, treatment of symptoms, leaving the patient
no healthier because the cause of their dis-ease is usually not addressed.
People remain in a marginal state, not quite sick and not quite healthy.
Chiropractors and other vitalistic healthcare providers seek to eliminate
the underlying cause of the problem and help the patient function at their
fullest with a strong immune system unimpeded by subluxations, toxins,
waste and other things that imbalance them.
People are waking up. In 2005, over 50% of the total US healthcare dollar
is spent on "health" instead of "medicine." 88% of US adults use, and
believe in, some kind of "alternative" to "medicine."
Words
of Wisdom (?)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best
friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
If you look like your passport picture
you're too ill to travel. - Will Kommen
If the shoe fits, charge it.
All I ask is a chance to prove that
money can't make me happy.
Did
you know?
You have about 640 muscles attached to
the bones in your body plus the muscles that line  your digestive tract, blood vessels, heart and other organs. But the ones
we usually talk about attach bone to bone (they are called skeletal muscles).
Your head, face, eyes and neck have more than 100 muscles! Do you know
how many muscles it takes to do the little things? It takes...
6 to move an eyeball
20 to purse the lips for a kiss
25 to smile
30 to twist your foot inward
35 to twist your foot outward
45 to frown
50 to take a step forward
75 to speak
Look at how marvelous your body is. We are mostly unconscious of the wonders
our bodies perform. Imagine how hard you'd work if you had to figure out
which muscles to use? In a sense we treat our bodies like we do our TV
- we don't have to know electronics to make it work, we just turn it on.
You don't have to think about the 50 muscles it takes to step, you just
do it. Now here's the math part of our newsletter - how many muscles to
takes to smile, look up, kiss and take a step forward?
Chiropractic
and Spinal Research
Do you know anyone living on drugs? They
may have years of uncorrected subluxations in  their body. Please tell them about chiropractic.
People who show imbalances in leg length are less healthy. A common
finding in people with subluxations is that one leg appears longer than
the other. This is called leg-length inequality. Does it really matter?
In a recent study, fifty-five volunteers were given the SF-12 health questionnaire
which measures health-related quality of life. The volunteers were then
examined by a chiropractor for leg length alignment. The results were
compared with their quality of life questionnaires. Those people with
leg length differences had significantly lower scores on the quality of
life questionnaire than those without leg length differences. People with
leg length differences experienced lower scores in the mental health component
than the physical. The mental component measured depression, stress and
life satisfaction. Chiropractors balance out the spine and structural
system bringing your legs back into balance. (3)
 Humor
Here is a great little cartoon and (funny)
song making fun of drugs. You've got to see it.
http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Rx_song_download#
Only in Hawaii
Only in America
Bye - see you next month. Want copies of
this newsletter for your friends? Please feel free to forward this to
them (hey - this isn't Napster! Share it with your friends with our blessings!)
Please remember that everyone needs to be free from subluxations, so bring
your friends and loved ones for a spinal checkup.
If you are not currently
a patient and would like
to become one please contact us.
 References
1. www.holisticmed.com.
2. World News (Washington, March 15). 86128 http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews...
3. Knutson,GA, Owens EF. Leg length alignment asymmetry in a non-clinical
population and its correlation to a decrease in general health as measured
by the SF-12: a pilot study. Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research.
November 1, 2004;1
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