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Put Away the Distractions

Speaking of distractions, eating in front of the TV, taking your lunch break while catching up on emails or eating while driving are all mindless food habits that lead to overeating. When we are distracted, we often don't realize how much food we actually take in. By putting our focus on work or television, you take the attention and intention out of the food in front of you. 

Studies suggest distracted eating leads to consuming more food later on in the day, increasing your caloric intake. When focus has shifted away from your dinner plate, your body "forgets" it has eaten, increasing the risk that you'll snack between meals.

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Make Your Car a No-Food Zone

If you're prone to snacking in your car on the way to work, the gym or other destinations, cut out the temptation by making your car a no-food zone. Limit yourself to water or other beverages, as eating in the car can lead to excessive snacking. When your concentration is on the road, it's hard to keep track of how much food you consume. Noshing on chips or pretzels straight from the bag after a grocery run, or stopping for a snack at the drive-through, adds excess calories and leaves you feeling hungry sooner.

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Slow It Down 

When you eat slowly, you digest food more effectively and also maintain a feeling of satisfaction regarding what you eat. It takes the brain about 20 minutes from the start of a meal to send a signal to your body that it is full. Eating in a rushed manner, therefore, causes you to overeat food and get that uncomfortable "stuffed" feeling. By pacing yourself during meals, you end up paying attention to what you eat and feel full without the bloated feeling you get when you eat too much. 

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Practice Mindful Eating 

Mindful eating means practicing awareness when it comes to what's on your plate, including paying attention to the colors, smell and taste of the food you eat. If you're new to mindful eating, start off by consciously practicing it once or twice a week, increasing gradually until all meals are consumed this way. 

Take small bites and fully chew your food, savoring the flavors and textures of your meal. If slowing down is still an issue, eat with your non-dominant hand or even use chopsticks. Changing up the utensils you eat with can force you to slow down your food intake. 

Set a timer and monitor how long it takes you to finish a meal – if you're clearing your plate in less than 20 minutes, slow it down. You may discover doing this actually helps your body consume less, but actually feel more full.

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http://www.toyourhealth.com/mpacms/tyh/article.php?id=2159

5 Common Causes of Neck Pain (and How Chiropractic Can Help)

Neck pain can be acute (short term) or chronic (recurring or persisting for months and even years), but regardless, when you're in pain, relief is the first thing on your mind. Just as important as relief, of course, is finding the cause and ensuring you avoid the behavior / action that brought the pain on in the first place.

Here are five common causes of neck pain – and why doctors of chiropractic are well-suited to relieve the pain and determine the underlying cause.

 

1. Poor Posture: Leaning over a desk all day or slouching in your office chair? You're bound to develop neck pain eventually, if you haven't already. Do this quick test: In an upright or seated position, round your shoulders and back (poor posture). Does it impact your neck as well? Exactly!

 

2. Monitor Madness: Staring at the computer screen for hours at a time? That's not good for your health (or sanity), but from a neck pain perspective, it's madness, particularly if the screen height forces you to crane your neck up (too high) or extend it down (too low).

 

3. Sleep Issues: Ideally, we spend a third of our day sleeping, so your sleep habits – for better or worse – can have a dramatic effect on your health. With regard to neck pain, anytime you sleep in an uncomfortable position, particularly one that stresses your neck musculature (think about side-sleeping while grabbing your pillow tightly, sleeping on your stomach with your arms out in front of you, or even sleeping on your back, but with a pillow that doesn't adequately support your neck), you risk neck pain.

 

4. Technology Overload: We may spend a third of our day sleeping, but we increasingly spend the other 16 hours typing, texting, tapping and otherwise interacting with our smart phones, tablets, etc. Bottom line: bad for your neck. One doctor has even coined the phrase, "text neck," to describe the neck pain that can result from this constant technology interaction.

 

5. The Wrong Movement: Twisting, turning, stretching and stressing your neck is an easy way to cause neck pain. While the muscles in the neck are strong, they can be strained, sprained and even torn, just like any other muscle.

It's important to note that beyond these common causes, various other health issues can also contribute to or directly cause neck pain, including fibromyalgia, cervical arthritis or spondylosis (essentially spinal arthritis), spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal), infection of the spine, and even cancer. The good news is that a doctor of chiropractic can help identify which of these or the above causes is to blame.

When neck pain strikes, most people turn to a temporary solution first: pain-relieving medication. But that's not a permanent solution, of course, and it doesn't address the cause of the pain at all, which could be something relatively minor – or more serious. What's more, research suggests chiropractic spinal manipulation is actually more effective than over-the-counter and prescription medication for relieving both acute and subacute neck pain.

Suffering from neck pain? Then give your doctor of chiropractic a call. They'll help you relieve your pain and determine the cause so it doesn't return.

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http://www.lifecarechiropractic.com/blog/antibiotic-juvenile-arthritis/

Devastating Arthritis in Children Starts at the Pediatrician

by James Bogash , DC

Arthritis in the typical 50 or 60 year old is not a surprise, but when it strikes our children it’s something to be heavily concerned about.

In general, arthritis that strikes our kids is going to fall into the auto-immune type where the immune system has turned in on itself, attacking the joints of your children when the immune system should otherwise know better. The most common version of this is juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but it doesn’t really matter what you call it–your child will experience pain that children should not experience.

Even worse, this early joint destruction is going to create a major issue years down the line, setting up children for more pain and disability as they age. It is likely that these children will also have a later increased risk of heart disease. All in all, not a good picture.

At this heart of all of this is a whacked out immune system. You see, we have two main branches of the immune system–the cell-mediated Type 1 (I refer to this arm as the “attack dogs” – they attack anything that tries to invade your body) and humoral mediated Type 2 (I refer to these as the “guard dogs” – they try to keep everything from getting into the body in the first place.

Balance is key here. You want your immune system to attack things that it should (like a bacteria or virus) and NOT attack things it shouldn’t be attacking (joints, thyroid, adrenal, DNA, connective tissue, etc…). We ALL have some degree of immunity. Our immune systems aren’t perfect–there are mistakes that occur, but a healthy functioning immune system keeps this autoimmune attack under control.

This proper balance is set up very early in life. And if we don’t get it right in the first few years of life, the will be a near-lifetime battle to keep the immune system in check.

And there are some very, very, critically important things that happen (or don’t) to our little ones that will screw up immune balance for a lifetime. Way up at the top of the list is antibiotic use.

Antibiotic use. Not even overuse. Just USE.

Yes–that seemingly benign treatment that pediatricians STILL hand out like candy absolutely decimates immune balance from the get-go. I have said it before and I will say it again (and again and again):

There is nothing more devastating to the long term immune, gastrointestinal and neurological health of your child than exposing him or her to antibiotics in the first few years of life. The first 2 years is likely the most critical, but exposure at any time during childhood can have an effect.

And all of this would not be so bad if antibiotics were used appropriately. That means as narrow-spectrum as possible (sniper rifle instead of cannon) and only used when absolutely necessary. As in life-threatening. Despite decades now of an attempt by researchers and guidelines to get doctors to stop the overuse of antibiotics. Despite marketing efforts geared towards getting the message to patients. Despite all of this, doctors can’t seem to resist writing prescriptions for conditions like ear infections, upper respiratory infections and pharyngitis (including Strep throat).

And all along, the battle cry is “antibiotic resistance.” Sad that the destruction of the microbiome is only now, almost a century later, being viewed as a consequence of antibiotic use.

All of this brings us to this particular article. In it, researchers looked at the association of antibiotic use in children with juvenile arthritis. Here’s what they found:

·        ANY antibiotic exposure led to a scary 210% increased risk of a child developing juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

·        This risk went up with more courses of antibiotics, jumping to an increased risk of 300% with over 5 antibiotic courses.

·        The risk was strongest when those kids developed arthritis within one year of taking antibiotics.

·        It was NOT the infection itself (the risk did not change based on the number or type of infections).

·        To drive the idea that it was NOT the infection itself, those children who had antibiotic-treated upper respiratory tract infections were more strongly at risk for arthritis than untreated upper respiratory tract infections.

This is serious. This is not about antibiotic resistance or thinking that antibiotics are needed for that sore throat. This is about a near-permanent disruption of the delicate balance of the immune system in a child.

And this study does not stand alone. Strong links with other autoimmune conditions like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are also known. Overall, it is very, very clear that antibiotics are in no way benign. Rather, they begin the process of the destruction of proper immune balance. Even a single course is enough to tip the scales. And don’t think for a minute that following up with probiotics will wipe out the bad effects of the antibiotics. I firmly believe that it takes years of dedication to rebuild the microbiome after a single course of antibiotics.

That’s some serious stuff.