Parents Overestimating Children's Level of Fitness

Every parent thinks their kid is the best, the brightest, the best looking and apparently the most physically fit. Unfortunately, the opposite is true (when it comes to the physically fit part).

Personally, computers & on-line gaming have our children living their lives inside a digital world rather than outside in the parks & fields playing ball, riding bikes and getting their exercise along with some good laughs.

But this short article based on a British Heart Foundation survey points out the needs for kids to get off their couches and parents to take more of an active roll.

There's no easy way to be a parent, you've got to just suck it up, put down your foot.....hopefully on the pedal of your bicycle.

'nuff said

Dr. T

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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High Fructose Corn Syrup At Whole Foods

Yes, you read that correctly. The other day I was having lunch at Whole Foods here in South Beach with my wife and a good friend & local Hypnotist Todd Goodwin (MiamiHypnosis.net) and Todd was telling me how you even have to read labels now becauseWhole Foods now has some items with High Fructose Corn Syrup. I was in total disbelief.
At that moment, we got up and went to the salad bar, him trying to prove a point, myself still in disbelief that Whole Foods would be this foolish. Low and behold, there it was...On the ingredient list for their middle eastern "Aramouni's Classic Carrot & Raisin" salad...High Fructose Corn Syrup.



I apologize for the picture quality, but this was the best I could get on my blackberry. Understandably so, Whole Foods didn't want me taking pictures with my nice Canon G10.
Unfortunately my friends, now even at Whole Foods, you must be careful and read the labels. On Everything!
Oh, and here's the best part. When we asked the guy putting the salad bar together about high fructose corn syrup being in this salad, salad bar guy spewed the same crap you hear on the Corn Refiner's of America TV commercial. "well, it's made from corn and corn is natural...right?"
Wrong! Here was my answer: The corn typically grown & used in the USA is a genetically modified strain of corn with a 13 carbon atom structure where original corn had 12 carbon atoms. Let's not forget that in order to get HFCS, the process takes 5 high pressure enzymatic process that eventually result in HFCS.
So let me ask the ultimate question....where in nature does High Fructose Corn Syrup grow?
Whole Foods, Shame On You.
'nuff said (for now)
Dr. Todd Narson
Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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Processed Foods Linked To Depression...

You could actually say: Process Foods Linked To (insert disease name here) and be accurate.

Funny, you read the headline and think this is earth shattering news. I read the headline and say: Wonder why it took 'em this long to figure it out. And then, they go on to say that a diet rich in fresh veggies, fruit and fish could prevent the onset of depression. Geniuses.

Let's not forget the fact that as a species, we (Homo Sapiens) have been eating fresh veggies, fruit, fish (and other naturally grazing/roaming meats) for....oh.....I'd say only a mere 100,000 to 1-million years. Who would have thought that if you made a staple out of highly processed-highly refined foods, fed yourself with it for a few years, no less a few decades, you'd get depressed or sick or develop disease.

When will the public & the researchers wake up??? I dare mention when will the government wake up, but we know they never will, unless there's a way they can tax it or line their own pockets from it. Unfortunately for them, if everyone started eating naturally grown fresh veggies, fruit and fish, 90% of the diseases in this country would go away and most of their pharmaceutical and farming industry would collapse and all those genius scientists and nutritionists would be the ones on the street corner begging for your spare change.....

Or maybe there will be a few job openings on an organic farm and they can find out that the truth has been there all along. Veggies, fruit and clean meats win again.

Enjoy the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/hl_afp/lifestylebritainhealthresearch

'nuff said

Dr. T

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

Athletic Body Care: Move Over Purell, There's A New Kid In Town

So, those alcohol gels like purell have been a usefull (and somewhat obsessive) tool up to now. But ever since the Obama Fist Bump & Swine Flu people are freakin-out about shaking someone else's hand. So, what does one do?

While in SanDiego California for the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians annual symposium, myself along with a privileged few other doctors traveled across town to the USA Judo tournament I found a sponsored vendor named Athletic Body Care. After speaking with them for a few minutes I realized that this was something I needed to keep in my sports medicine bag, at my office and probably a bottle in my car.

Athletic Body Care makes 3 products, a "hand sanitizer" type liquid, a "daily defense lotion" and a shower gel. What the heck, I bought all 3. The nice thing about this stuff is it kills microbes and its effectiveness doesn't wear off when it's dried up....it's effective at killing microbes for up to 1-hour.

So, if you're a sports medicine physician out in the field, networking at a business meeting or you're kids are going to a friends birthday party, you should consider arming yourself against the H1N1 or other "nasties" that travel via hand to hand, hand to doorknob or other nasty hand to ??? contact may be.

Check out Athletic Body Care's products at http://www.athleticbodycare.com/ They cost abot $10-12 bucks each. Well worth the price of protection.

'nuff said

Dr. T

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He is a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

Dr. Narson is currently the President of the Dade County Chiropractic Society

http://www.naturalsportsmecieinc.com/ For more information on Dr. Narson

The Medicine Of Our Future Is The Food Of Our Past

The more I read about health & nutrition the more I realize how simple it is to solve 80% of the medical problems we see in the USA.

Realizing that most if not all of our modern problems started compounding after the industrialization of our food.

Yes we had problems before, the black plague, yellow fever, etc. But most of those problems came about as cities started to flourish and a lot of people started living in close quarters with inadequate sanitary measures. The point is emphasized with the story of what was a beautiful 5-acre lake in Manhattan, NY, (yes, there 'was' a fresh water lake in Manhattan), but it's the story of that lake that makes the point that most disease prior to the industrialization of our food was from unsanitary conditions. Here's an excerpt from a NT Times article titled: The First Slum in America:

"It is an unvarying rule that wherever New Yorkers see trash, they will throw more of it. About 200 years ago, Lower Manhattan was adorned by a pretty five-acre lake known as the Collect. The first steamboat was tested there. Locals would gather to skate on its ice in the winter and picnic along its shores in the summer.By the mid-1700's, however, the Collect was already rimmed with slaughterhouses and tanneries. The effusions from these bloody businesses were poured directly into the lake and more industries, more trash, quickly followed. By 1800 the Collect was a reeking cesspool."


What it doesn't mention in the NY Times article is how the locals also used the lake to bathe themselves and wash their clothes in., adding to its filth. Oh, I almost forgot, this was the ONLY fresh water source on Manhttan island and the only source for drinking water...that makes me sick just thinking about it...

So, where is the lake now? Well, because of the filth, by 1813 the lake had been entirely filled in and by 1825 something entirely new stood on the site -- America's first real slum, the Five Points. (as the NY Times put it)

Think about all the epidemics prior to the industrialized food era. Just look back 8-10 generations ago. Flu's, plagues, fevers and infections. So we learned to cleanup. Medical doctors eventually figured out they need to wash their hands prior to surgery (and eventually gloves came along) and municipalities along with health officials figured out that having the horse droppings in the street was also unsanitary and spread disease. Now you know why grandpa was so insensed when he said to wipe the "$#!T" off your feet when you came into the house.

Since we've gone industrial, our food hardly resembles the stuff we (I'm talking about "we" our ancestors....great-great and great-great-great grandparents) use to eat. The more I read, the more I realize it's the food of our old cultures (think about the country where your family came from) that is healthful for us. Not the Standard American Diet (aka SAD) of Pizza, hamburgers, chips, candied breakfast cereals and soda of today. Not even the new era yogurts and much of the commercially available fruits and veggies are really healthful for us becasue of all the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides they absorb from the soils and what's sprayed on them as they grow.

We know from exercise that after only 6-8 weeks, our bodies start to noticeably adapt to the stresses and forces of the exercise. Do this for 3 years and you'll completely transform your musculoskeletal system(I'm still working on it...). Do it generation after generation for 3 million years and you'll transform your species.

As Humans, as homo sapiens we are a product of evolution. Never forget that. And as such, we are made to adapt to our environment. But our physiology, our genes takes not a thousand years to adapt and change but thousands of generations to adapt and change. We evolved to eat the foods of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

According to Jay D. Mann PhD, We evolved over the course of 100,000 generations eating as hunter gatherers, 500 generations on agriculture, 10 generations on industrial foods and between 2-3 generations on fast-food. Suffice it to say that for a couple million years we've been hunting wild game, gathering veggies, fruits and catching wild fish and this was what we as a species evolved to eat.

Why are we as a society getting so sick with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, allergies, developmental problems and more.... Because we eat less like our ancestors and more like the commodity the industrial food and pharmaceutical companies want us to be.

Which is why I say, The Medicine of the Future is the Food of our Past.

What foods to eat? Start With:

4 Meats from Grass-fed / natural grazing animals that graze on the natural grasses of the pastures they roam
4 Free roaming poultry that eat their natural evolutionary diet of bugs, worms and whatever else they peck from the fields they roam in.
4 Wild fish (absolutely not farm raised fish)
4 Organic vegetables and fruit

And yes, it's safe and healthy to cook most of our foods(to a point), not every vegetable has to be eaten raw all the time. As in the case of Kale, cooking helps break it down and make it easier to digest and extract nutrients from and it's something we've been doing for only about 1.9 million years. So, to this too we are well adapted.

But don't ask me, just sit back and think about it for yourself for a while. Let's all use some comon sense. Humans have been around for such a long time eating a certain way and all of a sudden we radically change how we eat and wonder why so many people are fat and sick???

It's time to wake up and smell the fresh fruit, veggies and grass-fed meat.

'nuff said.

Dr. T

Book of the Month: The Omnivores' Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

Bill Maher - Getting It Right With Big Pharma

What more do I need to say...

DocT

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Parents - Are Your Ready For High School Football & Wrestling?

Sports Chiropractor Miami Beach:
High School Football & Wrestling Athletes Suffer Highest Rate Of Severe Injuries
According to the first study to examine severe injuries, high school wrestlers and football players experience the highest rate of severe injuries that caused high school athletes to miss more than 21 days of sport participation among a nationally representative sample of high school athletes. Severe injuries accounted for 15 percent of all high school sport-related injuries.

According to the American Journal of Sports Medicine and by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, males experienced a higher rate of severe injuries.

"Twenty-nine percent of severe injuries occurred to the knee, making it the most commonly injured body site," explained the study's co-author Christy Collins, CIRP research associate at Nationwide Children's Hospital. "The ankle accounted for 12 percent followed by shoulder at 11 percent."

The most severe and common injury diagnoses were
·Fractures 36%
·Complete ligament sprains 15%
·Incomplete ligament sprains 14%

Commonly fractured body sites included
·The hand and finger 18%
·Ankle 14%
·Wrist 11%

Sports studied included football, boys' and girls' soccer, volleyball, boys' and girls' basketball, wrestling, and baseball and softball. Data for the study were collected from the 2005-2007 National High School Sports Injury Surveillance Study

References:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090902195251.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/162625.php

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.