by drfred | May 1, 2014 | Back Pain, Chiropractic, Exercise
“Good posture” is more than an indication of whether you paid attention as a kid when your parents admonished you to “Stand up straighter” or “Don’t slump your shoulders like that”. Posture is the position in which you...
by drfred | Apr 15, 2014 | Diet, Nutrition
Experts recommend that we get 9 servings of fruit and vegetables each day in order to stay healthy and reduce our likelihood of a wide range of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer. An evaluation of long-term studies conducted in Europe and...
by drfred | Apr 1, 2014 | Exercise
If you’re not familiar with body weight exercising, you should be. No gym membership? No equipment? No time to travel to a place that has all the equipment? No problem! With a body weight program, you don’t need equipment or time to travel. All you need...
by drfred | Mar 15, 2014 | Back Pain, Exercise
As the leading cause of disability in Americans under 45 years of age, lower back pain is the second most common reason why people visit their doctor. An estimated 60% to 80% of the adult population suffers from low back pain at some point in life, and traditional...
by drfred | Mar 1, 2014 | Back Pain, Diet, Exercise, Nutrition, Supplementation
“Enzyme therapy” is a very broad term that can refer to any of a wide range of (mostly alternative) medical treatments intended to address particular health problems. What they all have in common is that they use enzymes—large biological molecules (usually proteins)...
by drfred | Feb 15, 2014 | Acupuncture, Headaches
Acupuncture is a healing technique based on traditional Chinese medicine that involves placing needles at a number of locations on the body. There are 400 such acupuncture “meridians,” each tied to a specific set of health problems. For many, the thought...
by drfred | Feb 1, 2014 | Diet, Exercise, Nutrition
Strong bones are essential for healthy living, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will have them as we grow up and grow older. While we don’t think about it very much unless something goes wrong, we need to do our part to develop and protect our bones. Proper...
by drfred | Jan 6, 2014 | Exercise
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by drfred | Jan 1, 2014 | Diet, Exercise
How to Improve Your Self-Control There’s a well-known quip that goes “It’s not my willpower that I have problems with, it’s my won’t power.” Whether it’s dieting, quitting smoking, or just getting out of bed in the morning, our willpower is put to the test...
by drfred | Nov 9, 2013 | Back Pain, Exercise
Top 5 Back Strengthening Exercises Of all the musculoskeletal complaints for which people will go to a doctor, back pain is the most prevalent. The more sedentary we are (think about our desk jobs and all the hours we spend in front of a TV or computer screen), the...
