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NEWSLETTER February TO PATIENTS, FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THE 2012 Chiropractic Care and Longevity Center February is Heart Month – Happy Valentine’s Day! Celebrate Valentine’s Day by heart beat. about it: “Those who drink celebrating your heart. Wise lemon balm tea daily will Woman herbalist Susun Weed 4. Eat foods rich in beta- live forever!” You can also gives us a few simple, easy carotenes: they can cut your make lemon balm vinegar Inside: ways to nourish that vitally risk of a stroke by 40 to use on your salads. Are you Depressed? important little organ. percent. Foods rich in beta- carotenes include carrots, 1½ cups chopped lemon Watch Your Digestive Here are ten easy steps to cabbage, winter squash, balm leaves System 2 better heart health: sweet potatoes, dark leafy 3 cups white vinegar greens, apricots, and ¼ cup honey 1. Stop smoking. Nourish seaweed. Ask our staff about Pregnancy yourself with a handful of supplementing with 8. Move! Go for a walk, Driven to Quit 3 sunflower seeds and a cup of CartoMax from Shaklee. jump rope, swim, or do leg nettle or oat straw infusion lifts and arm raises. daily for 4 to 6 weeks before 5. Eat garlic. Study after Regular exercise is key. Vitamin B quitting. Sunflower seeds study has confirmed garlic’s Heart Facts reduce the body’s craving for abilities to lower blood 9. Avoid restrictive diets. A Dog’s Purpose nicotine by filling the nicotine pressure, reduce Frequent dieting, fasting, Heart Joke 4 receptor sites. The infusions phospholipids and binging and purging strengthen blood vessels and cholesterol, strengthen heart imbalance your electrolyte nerves and cushions the impact action, increase immune levels, causing weakening Hints for Healthier of withdrawal. Also see details response, reduce platelet of the heart muscle and Eating on the driven to quit contest on clumping and clotting (thus damage to the heart. Ask page 3 of this newsletter. reducing strokes) and about our 8 Weeks to Eat Tomato for Heart stabilize blood sugar levels. Wellness program. Health 5 2. Touch and be touched. Eat garlic raw or lightly Many scientific studies have cooked, several cloves a day 10. Eat as much as you shown that people who were or ask front desk staff about want of: vegetables, beans, Everyday Heart Health touched lovingly every day supplementing with Garlic greens, fruits, fish, seeds, Tips had significantly fewer heart Complex from Shaklee. and yogurt. Go easy on: Chickpeas – Recipe problems. nuts, cheese, and milk. Valentine’s Day Gift 6. Eat foods rich in essential 3. Eat seaweeds. They have fatty acids. 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The scientists Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. Some disturbing symptoms. The truth is that discovered that these individuals had probiotics have been known to control our colon’s natural state is an unhealthy an important verbal IQ insufficiency, intestinal inflammation, and several one; it is filled with mucoid plaque and or lesser ability to remember words, probiotic combinations can truly toxins, in other words, it is a mess, and than a control group of healthy people, improve short-term memory and this is because of our unhealthy diets, and this becomes more obvious when concentration in people suffering from poor lifestyle choices, and sad living we consider that almost everyone who chronic fatigue, at the same time that conditions. The only way to free our suffers from irritable bowel syndrome these improved tryptophan levels, a organs from these poisons is through a shows signs of depression and anxiety. decisive aspect of acceptable serotonin full body detox. 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It is an amazing time filled also a time to consider comfortable after receiving with activities like reading books on chiropractic care as a chiropractic care during pregnancy and labour, watching complementary component of pregnancy. birth stories, shopping for maternity prenatal care. Tips for Pregnancy clothes and choosing baby names. Dr. Kathy Wickens is a In addition to all the excitement and Chiropractors are doctors with chiropractor, a mother of two Be sure to get adjusted joy it brings, pregnancy puts a great over seven years of education at children, and grandmother of two. regularly. Chiropractic care is deal of stress on your spine. The the university level. They have She has the personal and important to help maintain a body goes through a period of rapid studied the art and science of professional experience to help healthy skeletal structure and physiological and endocrinological hands-on healing and therapy. women in any stage of pregnancy nervous system function throughout a pregnancy and changes. The spine must adapt to 50% of pregnant women feel more relaxed and childbirth. postural, hormonal and weight complain of low-back pain—often comfortable about the new and changes—all of which may a result of ligament laxity and the exciting changes taking place at Do some gentle exercise each contribute to the back pain some protruding abdomen. this special time. All women experience. Many women Chiropractors are trained to day. Walking, swimming, or Chiropractors are trained to help stationary cycling are relatively decide pregnancy is a time to make locate and relieve the discomfort pregnant women. safe cardiovascular exercises for healthy choices such as improving many women experience during pregnant women.