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Holiday Helpers

December 13, 2022 by glennfrisch

With the Holidays soon approaching, the emotional and physical stressors are already in action. Even though there can still be stress with the Christmas and New Year’s Holiday, there are simple and effective food helpers, which can improve mood, lower blood pressure and even give us more energy! Holiday Stress Helpers These simple, but healthy foods, are just a few choices to help with Holiday ...

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Chiropractic Adjustments Vs. Muscle Relaxers

February 17, 2022 by glennfrisch

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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Hold the Coconut Oil

January 27, 2020 by glennfrisch

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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Emotions Affect Pain

October 7, 2019 by glennfrisch

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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Ultra-Processed Food Crisis

February 19, 2019 by glennfrisch

There is a crisis in America today and it has to do with what you are being forced to buy and eat. They call it food. We should call it ‘disease in a box’. There is a large body of evidence that is beginning to be published on the relationship between ultra-processed food and childhood and teen obesity, heart disease and early death. 1,2,3,4 Ultra-processed food is considered ...

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Chiropractic Reduces Opiate Use

March 29, 2018 by glennfrisch

Opiate use, addiction and escalating death rates are a growing concern in the United States. Prescription, illegal and designer drugs are taking a toll on our society. The rich, the poor, it does not seem to matter. The medical community, to their credit, has no need or desire to create addicts, they really just want to control pain and misery. New research seems to indicate that Chiropractic may be ...

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A New Look At Chiropractic

February 15, 2018 by glennfrisch

After decades of negative publications, advertising and accusations against Chiropractic care, the College of Family Physicians of Canada has finally taken an honest look at Chiropractic care, and the results surprised them. Medicine continues to have a stranglehold on healthcare, even for ailments that they treat poorly, specifically, back pain. The successful outcomes for back pain lies in the ...

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Fluoride and IQ

November 7, 2017 by glennfrisch

There has always been a debate about adding fluoride to our water supply. On one hand, the dental community has been reporting for years that oral hygiene and tooth health is dependent on adding fluoride to our water, while the opposing view contends that there is a safety issue with fluoride. Who is right? Well, it looks like both sides have a legitimate opinion about fluoride. Although it is ...

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Fat is good for us

September 29, 2017 by glennfrisch

Fat has been getting a bad rap for decades. If we eat fat, we get fat, right? Not really! A study published in August of 2017, in the respected medical journal The Lancet, compared the diets of 135,000 people across 18 countries. When comparing low-fat and low carbohydrate diets, the results were surprising. Those people who followed low-fat diets had higher rates of death ‘from all ...

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