Did you ever think your health and well-being are important factors in the health and well-being of the planet? It is true. The choices each of us makes each and every day are important for our family’s welfare as well as the welfare of our neighborhood, our community, our city, our country, and our global society.
America’s weight problems are now so well-known they are even fair game for jokes at the Oscars. “Americans really know how to fill up a seat,” jibes Ellen DeGeneres, host of the 2007 Academy Awards.
You are at the doctor’s office because you think something might be wrong. Rationally, you know tests are probably necessary, but getting the tests done sometimes provokes a lot of anxiety in all of us. We want to know the results, but are very concerned about the outcome.”You need blood work” your doctor remarks casually. Your insides do an immediate flip-flop and you feel as if you’ve just begun hurtling down a very steep roller-coaster.
Traveling can be rough on the body. Whether you are traveling alone on businessor on your way to a sunny resort with your family, long hours in a car or in an airplane can leave you stressed, tired, stiff and sore.
Simon and Garfunkel [and later, The Bangles] had it right. Winter light is hazy – it is more diffuse. The sun is lower in the sky and the sun’s rays reach the Earth at an angle, losing much of their power. And of course, there’s less sunlight during each 24-hour day of winter than during the rest of the year.
O Fallon Chiropractic Care joins the ranks of more than one hundred years’ worth of dedicated professionals in the field of chiropractic techniques, and our staff keeps up-to-date and current licenses so that we can prove our commitment to excellence. We promise not to use medicine or surgical means to help accomplish our goals.
You may remember the public health slogan, “Vitamin D helps build strong bones”. This message could be seen on colorful school posters and heard on radio and television programs as early as the1950s. Getting enough Vitamin D was a major health issue, primarily for its role in preventing childhood rickets – “softening of the bones”.1
Being an informed patient is an empowering concept.1 In the modern healthcare marketplace, the doctor-patient relationship has become a two-way street. It’s no longer a situation in which the doctor tells the patient what to do. Today, patients can be full partners in managing their own care and well-being.2
Since mid-Fall TV commercials have been trumpeting the horrors of the “flu season”. “It is never too soon to begin fighting this year’s bug” they blare. Public health announcements urge us to get our “yearly flu shot”, as if this is something we’ve got permanently scheduled in our Blackberries. All the leading over-the-counter pain medications offer special seasonal “flu” mixtures, and their ads deluge daytime and prime-time broadcasting.
Looking your best might not always be the best thing for you. Today’s society is extremely fashion and style conscious. And unfortunately, clothing designers and stylists aim to please by creating unique looks that might not always be practical or even comfortable.
We’ve all seen the TV ads ” nice-looking woman in her fifties, sitting on a nice sofa in a nice living room, rubbing her hands, in obvious pain. Of course, she’s not Lady Macbeth, trying to rub off the imagined blood of her murdered husband. She’s a woman with arthritis.
Renewability, sustainability, and energy conservation are all over the news. On every newspaper’s front page and on every television nightly news we can see programs featuring sustainability daily. These are important issues, not only for the health of our planet, but also for our physical health and well-being.