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Archive for April, 2009
Children Chiropractor
Spring will be knocking our door soon and what better way to get our kids in the swing of spring than a visit for your kids? I can assist children with growing pains, hormone imbalances, back pain, cold and coughs and with general wellness. I help many children and teenagers through one of the most important body development times.
For many parents, they appreciate the importance of regular check ups for their child’s teeth, eyes, and ears but draw a blank when it comes to a spinal check-up. The first thought of many parents is my child doesn’t have back problems. The most important pathway or lifeline between your child’s brain and the rest of the body is the spinal cord. There are literally billions of nerve fibers that send messages and communicate with the rest of the body. If there is any blockage or irritation along the spinal column it can put the spine in disharmony, setting up “dis-ease” (lack of ease) that can result in generalized weakness of your child’s body, lowering resistance, and the inability of the child’s body to properly fight infections and disease which can show in the the forms of pain from back to arms and neck. Want to help them stay healthy, balance their life? Get them adjusted!
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-Dr. Beights
Get Your D’s from “D” Sun
There is a common misconception when it comes to skin damage from the sun. The sun is actually something to welcome because it helps us to get Vitamin D. *Vitamin D is a valuable nutrient that can help prevent osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer and can even effect diabetes and obesity.
Vitamin D is produced naturally from UVB rays. The sun gives off both UVA and UVB rays but the UVB rays are the only ones that are beneficial. However, UVA rays can penetrate through glass, unlike UVB and they can also penetrate much deeper. UVA therefore may be the real culprit behind photoaging, wrinkles and skin cancer. The real kicker? Most sunscreens today do a pretty good job filtering out the good rays, UVB, while letting through skin-damaging UVA light. Even a sunscreen with SPF 8 can block up to 95% of Vitamin D synthesis. Furthermore, many sunscreens contain major toxic chemicals that your body is absorbing. Your best bet is to avoid the sunscreens altogether! Does this mean to soak up the sun without any protection? Absolutely not.
The best way you can catch some “D’s?”…start getting your sunlight in ten minute increments. Most of us produce about 20,000 units of vitamin D after about twenty minutes in the sun. That is one hundred times more than the government says you need every day. So, at ten minutes a day, you are still getting the vitamin D that your body needs and you aren’t harming your skin by absorbing too many UVA rays. The most important thing to remember when out in the sun…don’t get burned! If you are going to be in prolonged sun exposure and are at risk of a sunburn use zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. They are nontoxic and block out harmful UVAs.
http://www.naturalnews.com/003069.html
-Dr. Jennifer Beights