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Enjoy the Holidays

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The Holidays are here! With the Holidays come all kinds of feelings and emotions, most good and some not so good. It is very easy to fall into stress traps. Most of us learn coping strategies and reinforce it each time we experience the same situation, unless we realize what’s happening and head off the emotion before the same old response occurs. Mayo Clinic encourages us to ...

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Chiropractic Adjustments Vs. Muscle Relaxers

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There has been a debate as to the effectiveness of chiropractic adjustments versus prescribed muscle relaxers for acute injuries. This debate has been ongoing for decades. Early research did focus a bias toward drug-based care, but more recent research has debunked many of the earlier claims. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology in 2020 found that initial claims of 22% low back ...

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Eileen's Corner

Mostaccioli

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This is often a dish Eileen makes on Christmas day. It just sings “It’s the Holidays!” 3 slices of bacon chopped 1 lb. Italian sausage, crumbled 1 Yellow Onion, chopped 3 cloves minced garlic 4 oz. fresh or canned mushrooms 28 oz. can of whole tomatoes with liquid 1 Bay leaf 1/2 tsp dried basil or 1 tsp fresh 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp pepper 6 oz. can of tomato paste 2 Tablespoons Sherry 1 ...

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What a Year

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What can I say? It has been an interesting year. Covid19 and it’s variants have been playing yo-yo with everyone on the planet and it’s not over yet! Covid has done something very unique. It has turned family members and friends against each other, based on whether or not someone gets a vaccine. Rather than finding new and effective ways to eradicate the virus, people seem more concerned ...

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CDC COVID-19 Virus Guides

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Guidance as of March 16, 2020 New guidance is added for a strategy to discontinue home isolation without testing. Updated guidance for a test-based strategy: The recommendation to collect both NP and OP swabs at each sampling has been changed so that only one swab is necessary, preferably NP, at each sampling. Limited information is available to characterize the spectrum of clinical illness, ...

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Hold the Coconut Oil

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For the past several years, coconut oil has been the darling of weight loss gurus and health-related publications. New research, however, has put the brakes on the hype. A January 2020 publication in the journal Circulation revealed that ingesting coconut oil can actually have a negative effect on our health. The study, involving 17 different trials and over 700 people, found that using coconut oil ...

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How Real is Internet and Smart-Phone Addiction?

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The internet has been around quite a while and there is plenty of documentation and and research about how it influences society. Smartphones, however are a fairly new technology that have taken over how many people interact. The constant contact may not be a good thing for our brain or body. An example of improper Smartphone usage is with driving. My state of Minnesota has recently banned the use of ...

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Emotions Affect Pain

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It has long been held that emotions, like stress and anxiety can affect how we physically feel. This also includes things like exhaustion and fatigue, from over-working, with no mental break. Recent studies have found that there is a very strong relationship between emotion and pain. When we are anxious, pain is increased in frequency and severity. Suffering with fear did not have the same reaction. ...

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