Eggs - a main staple of the American diet. What should we know about eggs. Are they good for you or not? What type of eggs are there?  There are conventional and free-range eggs. And there is TRUE FREE-RANGE eggs. What's the difference.

Conventional egg-production agriculture (also known as confined animal feeding operation or CAFO) raises hens indoors and in cages. This has raised concerns about animal welfare, environmental damage, and nutritional impacts.

The definitions of "free-range" are such that the commercial egg industry can run industrial farm egg laying facilities and still call them "free-range" eggs, despite the fact that the birds' foraging conditions are far from what you'd call natural.  

True free-range eggs are from hens that roam freely outdoors on a pasture where they can forage for their natural diet, which includes seeds, green plants, insects, and worms.

Large commercial egg facilities typically house tens of thousands of hens and can even go up to hundreds of thousands of hens.

Egg-laying hens confined to cages do not have space to move or stretch, and they show more fearful behavior and become prone to skeletal problems. Large numbers of animals confined in small spaces also pollute the air, water and soil with the vast amounts of manure they produce.

Obviously they cannot allow all of them to forage freely. These confined animal feeding operations, are where the vast majority of commercially available eggs come from.

But while flimsy definitions of "free range" allow such facilities to sell their products as free range, please beware that a hen that is let outside into a barren lot for mere minutes a day, and is fed a diet of corn, soy, cottonseed meals and synthetic additives is NOT a free-range hen, and simply will not produce the same quality eggs as its foraging counterpart...

Free Range Eggs are More Nutritious

 Compared to official U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrient data for commercial eggs, eggs from hens raised on pasture may contain:
1/3 less cholesterol
2/3 more vitamin A
3 times more vitamin E
1/4 less saturated fat
2 times more omega-3 fats
7 times more beta carotene

Your best source for fresh eggs is a local farmer that allows his hens to forage freely outdoors. If you live in an urban area, visiting a local health food store is typically the quickest route to finding high-quality local egg sources. Your local farmers market is another source for fresh free range eggs, and is a great way to meet the people who produce your food. With face-to-face contact, you can get your questions answered and know exactly what you're buying.

Better yet, visit the farm and ask for a tour. Most will be eager to show off their operation, as long as they've got nothing to hide. Your egg farmer should be paying attention to proper nutrition, clean water, adequate housing space, and good ventilation to reduce stress on the hens and support their immunity.

The website www.Cornucopia.org offers a helpful organic egg scorecard that rates egg manufacturers based on 22 criteria that are important for organic consumers. According to Cornucopia, their report "showcases ethical family farms, and their brands, and exposes factory farm producers and brands in grocery store coolers that threaten to take over organic livestock agriculture."

Besides that, you can tell the eggs are free range by the color of the egg yolk. Foraged hens produce eggs with bright orange yolks. Dull, pale yellow yolks are a sure sign you're getting eggs from caged hens that are not allowed to forage for their natural diet.

The CDC and other public health organizations will advise you to thoroughly cook your eggs to lower the risk of salmonella, but eating eggs RAW is actually the best in terms of your health. While this may sound like a scary proposition for many, it's important to realize that salmonella risk comes from chickens raised in unsanitary conditions. These conditions are the norm for CAFO's, but are extremely rare for small organic farms. In fact, one study by the British government found that 23 percent of farms with caged hens tested positive for salmonella, compared to just over 4 percent in organic flocks and 6.5 percent in free-range flocks.

So, as long as you're getting fresh pastured eggs, your risk of getting ill from a raw egg is quite slim. According to a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, of the 69 billion eggs produced annually in the United States, some 2.3 million are contaminated with Salmonella—equivalent to just one in every 30,000 eggs.

While eggs are often one of your most allergenic foods, I believe this is because they are typically cooked too much. Heating the egg protein actually changes its chemical shape, and this distortion can easily lead to allergies. If you consume your eggs in their raw state, the incidence of egg allergy virtually disappears. I also believe eating eggs raw helps preserve many of the highly perishable nutrients such as lutein and zeaxanthin, which are powerful prevention elements for age-related macular degeneration, which is the most common cause of blindness.

Fresh raw egg yolk actually tastes like vanilla, in my opinion. The egg white is usually what most people object to when they say they don't like the texture of raw egg.  If this is an issue, consider discarding the egg white, or simply blend the whole raw egg into a shake or smoothie. Beware of consuming raw egg whites without the yolks as raw egg whites contain avidin, which can bind to biotin. If you cook the egg white the avidin is not an issue. Likewise, if you consume the whole raw egg (both yolk and egg white) there is more than enough biotin in the yolk to compensate for the avidin binding.

If you choose not to eat your eggs (or just egg yolk) raw, soft-boiled would be your next best option. Scrambling your eggs is one of the worst ways to eat eggs as it actually oxidizes the cholesterol in the egg yolk. If you have high cholesterol this may actually be a problem for you as the oxidized cholesterol may cause some damage in your body.

There's a potential problem with consuming the entire raw egg if you are pregnant. Biotin deficiency is a common concern in pregnancy and it is possible that consuming whole raw eggs might make it worse. If you are pregnant you have two options:

1. Measure for biotin deficiency. This is best done through urinary excretion of 3-hydroxyisovaleric acid (3-HIA), which increases as a result of the decreased activity of the biotin-dependent enzyme methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase
2. Alternatively, take a biotin supplement, or consume only the yolk raw (and cook the whites)
There is a major misconception that you must avoid foods like eggs and saturated fat to protect your heart. While it's true that fats from animal sources contain cholesterol, this is not necessarily a health hazard. As I've discussed on many occasions, your body actually requires cholesterol, and artificially driving your cholesterol levels down is nearly always doing far more harm than good. Every cell in your body needs cholesterol. It helps to produce cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D and bile acids that help you to digest fat. Cholesterol also helps in the formation of memories and is vital for your neurological function. In other words, dietary cholesterol is your friend, not your enemy.

Besides, numerous studies support the conclusion that eggs have virtually nothing to do with raising your cholesterol anyway. For instance, research published in the International Journal of Cardiology showed that, in healthy adults, eating eggs daily did not produce a negative effect on endothelial function, an aggregate measure of cardiac risk, nor an increase in cholesterol levels.

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• Amalgam is the MOST EXPENSIVE dental material when you count environmental costs and clean-up costs.

• Amalgam is the number one cause of mercury exposure for consumers, according to the Canadian government and other sources.    

• Mercury from dental offices is the largest source of mercury in waste water. According to an article by Michael Bender (co-founder of the Mercury Policy Project), at least 40 percent of mercury flowing into municipal water treatment plants begins in dentist offices. And those plants are not set up to remove it, so it ends up in your fish.    

• Canada advised dentists to stop placing amalgam in children and pregnant women in 1996—fifteen years ago!    

• Denmark, Norway and Sweden have essentially banned amalgams.    
  
• There are 5,636 hospitals in developing countries that are committed to or already mercury-free. The majority of these are in the Philippines, India, and Argentina.    

• Since the FDA does not regulate dentists, dentists remain free to offer you any kind of filing they want. According to a survey, 52 percent of all dentists nationwide report they are no longer placing amalgams in their patients’ mouths.
  
  

• First, the FDA is not so much a regulator of big business as its protector.

• Second, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has a conflict of interest on amalgam, yet participated in the rule making. Hamburg entered the FDA through the revolving door after making millions as the director of Henry Schein Inc., the largest seller of amalgam.    
  
  

Today, we are going to talk about three main reasons to start juicing and its benefits.

Most all health authority recommends that we get 6-8 servings of vegetables and fruits per day and very few people eat that amount. Juicing is an easy way to guarantee you'll reach it.

Valuable and sensitive micronutrients that are essential for your good health, become damaged when foods are heated.  Besides cooking,  processing food destroys these micronutrients also by changing their shape and chemical composition.

That means if you are eating processed foods your body is not getting the vital nutrients your body needs.  When you juice, you avoid all processed foods and eat only organic vegetables. (We always recommend you check with your doctor first when fasting of any kind)

Here's some benefits to juicing:

1.    Juicing helps you absorb all the nutrients from the vegetables. This is important because most people have impaired digestion as a result of making less-than-optimal food choices over many years. Thus your body is not able to absorb all the nutrients from the vegetables. Juicing will help to "pre-digest" them for you, so you will receive most of the nutrition, rather than having it go down the toilet.

2.    Juicing allows you to consume an optimal amount of vegetables in an efficient manner. If you are a carb type, you should eat one pound of raw vegetables per 50 pounds of body weight per day. With juicing you can easily accomplish this with a quick glass of vegetable juice.

3.    You can add a wider variety of vegetables in your diet. Most people eat the same vegetables every day. This violates the principle of food rotation and increases your chance of developing an allergy to a certain food. With juicing, you can add a wide variety of vegetables that you may not normally eat.

If you are new to juicing, the mid-priced juicer works well. The cheap centrifugal juicers (like the Juiceman) break easily, produce low quality juice and also don't last very long. The single gear juicers are very good and are relatively fast, less expensive and easier to clean than more expensive juicers like twin gears or even the $2000 Norwalk juicers.

It is important to note that vegetable juice has very little protein and virtually no fat
so by itself it is not really a complete food. It really should be used in addition to your regular meals not in place of it. That is unless you are undergoing some special fasting or detoxification program.  Ideally it can be consumed with your meal or as a between meal snack.

It's Important to Listen to Your Body when juicing.

When you start juicing. start with vegetables that you enjoy.
  You'll want it to be pleasant to your taste. This will encourage you to continue juicing, when you not only enjoy the taste and enjoy the other benefits like energy and enhanced health.  This will also allow you to get use to juicing. It should not make you feel nauseous.

It is very important to listen to your body when juicing. Your stomach should feel good all morning long. If it is churning or growling or generally making its presence known, you probably juiced something you should not be eating.

Some people may find that large amounts of cabbage bothers them, but if it's spread it out in smaller amounts, they do fine. The point is to listen to your body when deciding what to juice.

The question is whether or not to use organic veggies?

I use and recommend pesticide free veggies that are organic, whenever possible.

However, some vegetables are worse than others.

Below are the vegetables that are the most pesticide loaded ones according to the Environmental Working Group.

It would be wise to purchase these organically grown. The worst kind of veggies to eat that are not organic are listed first.

1.    Celery
2.    Spinach
3.    Kale
4.    Collard Greens
5.    Lettuce
6.    Carrots
7.    Cucumber (not as bad if you peel the skin)

If you are new to juicing. I recommend starting out with these vegetables, as they are the easiest to digest and tolerate:

1.    Celery
2.    Fennel (anise)
3.    Cucumbers

These three aren't as nutrient dense as the dark green vegetables. Once you get used to the  three vegetables listed above, you can start adding the more nutritionally valuable, but less palatable, vegetables into your juice.

When you've gotten use to juicing, you can start adding these vegetables:

1.    Red leaf lettuce
2.    Green Leaf lettuce
3.    Romaine lettuce
4.    Endive
5.    Escarole
6.    Spinach

After you're used to those veggies, then try these:

1.    Cabbage
2.    Chinese Cabbage
3.    Bok Choy

An interesting side note: Cabbage juice is one of the most healing nutrients for ulcer repair as it is a huge source of vitamin U.


Then try adding herbs to your juicing. Herbs not only add flavor, but have additional
health benefits. Here's two you can try adding:

1.    Parsley
2.    Cilantro

Be cautious with cilantro, some people don't tolerate it well. If you are new to juicing, hold off on the cilantro, or try it in small amounts, as it is very beneficial.

The last step is to add one or two of these leaves, as they are very bitter:

1.    Kale
2.    Collard Greens
3.    Dandelion Greens
4.    Mustard Greens (bitter)

When purchasing collard greens, find a store that sells the leaves still attached to the main stalk.  If they are cut off, the vegetable lose many of its valuable nutrients.

To make your juice taste great, you can add these elements:

1.    Lemons and Limes: You can also add a quarter to half a lemon a lime (leaving much of the white rind on).

2.    Cranberries: You can also add some cranberries if you enjoy them. Researchers have discovered that cranberries have five times the antioxidant content of broccoli, which means they may protect against cancer, stroke and heart disease. In addition, they are chock-full of phytonutrients, and can help women avoid urinary
tract infections. Limit the cranberries to about 4 ounces per pint of juice.

3.    Fresh ginger: This is an excellent addition if you can tolerate it. It gives your juice a little "kick"!  And, as an added boon, researchers have found that ginger can have dramatic effects on cardiovascular health, including preventing atherosclerosis, lowering cholesterol levels, and preventing the oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL).

More information on Juicing

If anyone is interested in learning more about the benefits of juicing, I recommend that they watch the movie called “Fat, sick and Nearly Dead”

You can rent it or watch it on Netflix. It's about two men whose bodies have been trashed by steroids, obesity and illness, this documentary chronicles the rigorous healing path -- including a two-month diet of fruits and vegetables -- that both attempt in a bid to rescue their health.and traveled across the country. It's an inspiring movie and you'll see the difference juicing made in his life and the life of others.

I encourage everyone reading this that is interested in not only living longer, but living longer with good health and energy to come to my Wellness class.
They can call our office @ 507-645-8846 to register for the next class
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You'll be able to get valuable information on Wellness, and you can watch Linda,
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Dr. Daniel Corbett

Today, we’re going to talk about the three dangerous OTC pain medicines, Aspirin, Acetaminophren and NSAIDs.

Most people have purchased them at their local pharmacy or supermarket and have them in their cabinet right now. These OTC pain medicines can put your health in danger. We'll also talk about some safe alternatives to treating your pain.

Most people think because it's sold at their local grocery store that it's safe. The truth is that OTC (over the counter) medicines can be just as deadly as perscription or illicit drugs. It's estimated that 100 people die each year from overdosing on acetaminophen, and roughly 56,000 people end up in the emergency room due to misuse of this drug. All OTC drugs carry the risk of side effects, and they can interact with beneficial foods, vitamins, herbs and other medicines to cause unintended harm.

Aspirin can have several side effects including serious allergic reactions. Aspirin is also quite irritating to the gastric mucosa which is a lining of the stomach. It can easily erode the lining resulting in ulcers or gastric bleeding which again can be very serious even fatal. it is estimated that approximately 2500 people die every year from internal bleeding that is directly linked to taking aspirin daily. aspirin under the tongue analogy. another serious but it problem with aspirin is that it can cause a drug-induced nutritional deficiency. aspirin is considered and an anti-nutrient. Aspirin depletes the body of life-saving nutrient such as folic acid as well as iron potassium sodium and vitamin C. consequently, taking aspirin on the regular basis is something that should not be taken lightly.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is used to reduce pain and fever. It has been available in the United States since 1960. Unlike the next subject as acetaminophen does not reduce inflammation.

Acetaminophen overdose is one of the most common causes of over-the-counter drug poisoning and United States and Britian. More than 30,000 cases per year of acetaminophen overdose are reported to the American Association of poison control centers. It is the leading cause of liver failure in the Western world. Acetaminophen is extremely toxic to adults in single doses of about 7000 mg. however, most of the liver damage can be attributed to people taking smaller doses over an extended period of time.

NSAIDs, Stands for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These are used to reduce pain and inflammation. These drugs go by names such as Ibuprofen, Naproxen or Aleve. the prescription Celebrex is also a class of NSAID. It is estimated at about 30 billion doses of NSAIDs are consumed annually in the United States alone.

NSAIDs are very damaging to the gastrointestinal tract. Gastrointestinal injury ranges from heartburn, nausea, and abdominal pain to serious complications such as ulcers, hemorrhage, and tears in tissue (Schoenfeld P et al 1999).

NSAIDs inhibit the function of platelets which are blood cells that aid in the coagulation of blood. NSAIDs also alter kidney function and are very hard on the functioning of the kidneys. Taking Celebrex can also elevate the risk of heart attack and stroke.

The widespread intake of NSAIDs results in approximately 107,000 hospitalizations annually for gastrointestinal complications and 16,500 deaths for arthritis patients (Peura DA 2002).

So what should people do if they have a headache or backache?

Many people think that taking a pain medicine like Tylenol or Aleve or Aspirin cures them, when in fact it is just masking the problem. If your car's oil light came on today while driving here and you just stopped and cut the wire to the red light and said, “That will fix it”, you'd probably be walking to work tomorrow, or in the next few days. Many people are like that with their bodies. They experience pain and instead of getting to the root of the issue they “cut the wire” - their WARNING signal and think that that by ignoring it or taking pain medicines will heal it and they will be OK. When in fact, they are getting worse if they don't deal with the cause of the pain

The first thing you need to do is ask yourself why you have the pain. Ask yourself "why do I have a headache or what is causing the headache?" Once that's figured out you will want to address the cause of the headache by treating the headache correctly. For example, in my office I see a lot of people with headaches due to misalignment of the vertebrae in their neck. So the solution would be to get an adjustment on their neck to relieve the headache.

Anytime there is any injury there is most likely inflammation. So it is also important to reduce inflammation as much as possible. I recommend to reduce inflammation is to eliminate sugar and grains from their diet. The second thing is to increase your intake of Omega 3 fats and reduce your intake of Omega 6. Make sure when taking a fish oil that you use on that doesn't have mercury and PCB's. I carry Innate Choice brand at our office. I recommend it to my patients and take it myself.

How long does it take to get someone out of pain?

It really depends on what they came in for. Typically, patients feel better after getting adjusted. If someone has a very acute lower back pain it may take two to 6 weeks to get out of pain.  A mild mid back or neck pain patient may take a few weeks. if you have a patient who is used to getting adjusted and gets injured they always get better faster. I have regular patients who may get a headache, come in and get adjusted and will actually leave the office without a headache. The relief can happen that fast.

What are my recommendations for people who have pain?

I recommend that they don't wait. That they find out what is causing the pain. An out of aligned spine puts pressure on the nerves and those nerve provide vital life to your organs. Ignoring the pain can potentially mean that they are causing harm to their organs.

If you want to experience relief for your pain and live in the Northfield area,
call Dr. Corbett at 507-645-8846.

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Today, we’re going to discuss ways to radically increase your “brain power.” First, exercise can keep your brain sharp as you age. A new study has demonstrated that a program of exercise can, over the course of a year, increase the size of your hippocampus, the part of the brain that is involved in memory forming, organizing and storing. The hippocampus often shrinks in late adulthood, leading to memory impairment.

Regular exercise can also improve the ability of overweight children to think, plan and even do math. Tests have shown that previously inactive children who start to exercise, experience increased brain activity in the prefrontal cortex, an area associated with complex thinking, decision making and correct social behavior. The more they exercise, the better the result. About two-thirds of all Americans are now overweight or obese, and about one-third of all our children. This alone should motivate people enough to get moving, but the statistical numbers keep going in the wrong direction year after year.

Not only are we as Americans growing larger, we're also suffering more disease and degeneration as a result of this. Nearly 25 percent of adults suffer from type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, and type 2 diabetes is now one of the most common chronic conditions affecting children below the age of 20. We can now add a decrease in brain power and brain function to the list of afflictions directly related to the fattening of America. Not only does cognitive function rise in both children and older adults when they stick to an exercise program, but your blood sugar stabilizes and your insulin levels also normalize.

Simply put, normalizing your insulin levels is an important factor for optimizing your overall health and preventing disease of all kinds, from diabetes, to heart disease, to cancer, and everything in between. I actually view exercise as a drug, because of its power to effect beneficial change on a diseased body. While the consensus is no single cause can be blamed for the alarming increase in neurological diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or age-related dementia, or Attention Deficit Disorder or Autism-spectrum disorders in our children, a sedentary lifestyle now appears to be at least a contributing factor.

There are some suspected contributors to the rise in neurological disorders. First and foremost are some common and widespread man-made chemicals lurking in your food supply, including artificial sweeteners like aspartame, pesticides and MSG. Avoiding these and other synthetic chemicals as much as possible will help to lower your chances of becoming one of the unfortunate people who suffer from a neurological disorder. But one of the best things you can do for your brain as a preventative measure is to keep active through exercise. According to other research, those who said they had engaged in moderate exercise such as brisk walking, aerobics, yoga, strength training or swimming in their 40s, 50s and beyond were less apt to have mild cognitive impairment. As you age, you don't want to find yourself facing cognitive impairment.

New studies show that moderate exercise can reverse normal brain shrinkage by two percent, effectively reversing age-related hippocampus degeneration by one to two years. Also the people in the control group who didn't exercise saw an average of 1.4 percent decrease in hippocampus size. When these researchers say the hippocampus region of the brain increases in size as a response to exercise, they are talking about a powerful tool to fight the onset of Alzheimer's disease. The hippocampus, which is considered the memory center of your brain, is the first region of your brain to suffer shrinkage and impairment at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, leading to memory problems and disorientation..

Besides reversing the normal shrinkage of aging brains, exercise also helps younger brains grow stronger in the first place. Researchers hypothesize that the human brain responds to exercise by increasing growth factors that lead to more blood vessels, more neurons and more connections between the neurons, all of which can lead to a healthier brain. According to these new studies, this lack of exercise in our schools might be producing not only less active brains in our children, but also less developed brain regions that control complex thinking and social behavior. Getting our children moving again might be just what we need to help turn the tide on the alarming rise of attention deficit related disorders currently afflicting our youth.

There are many different types of exercise to let you start immediately, and they all provide benefits that extend well beyond benefitting your brain. When you're planning your exercise routine, try to incorporate the following types of exercise:

• Aerobic: Jogging, using an elliptical machine and walking fast are all examples of aerobic exercise. This is the most common type of exercise being done and the one I would caution people if you are aging and arthritis is a factor. If this is your case get your doctors permission for aerobic exercise.

· Interval training or burst type training, can dramatically improve your cardiovascular fitness and fat-burning capabilities. So, short bursts of activity done at a very high intensity can help you reach your optimal weight and level of fitness, in a shorter amount of time.

· Strength Training: Rounding out your exercise program with a 1-set strength training routine will ensure that you're really optimizing the possible health benefits of a regular exercise program. You need enough repetitions to exhaust your muscles. The weight should be heavy enough that this can be done in fewer than 12 repetitions, yet light enough to do a minimum of four repetitions. It’s also important NOT to exercise the same muscle groups every day. They need at least two days of rest to recover, repair and rebuild.

In closing, you also want to keep your brain active and engaged, because the saying "use it or lose it" really does apply when it comes to keeping your brain fit. An example of keeping your brain engaged is reading a daily newspaper, doing a weekly crossword puzzle, solving Sudoku or other brain teasers..

Your brain is meant to last you a lifetime, but it will degenerate and decay if you fail to take the proper steps to care for it. Getting enough exercise, keeping your brain active and protecting it from the wrong kinds of foods while feeding it the foods it thrives on should keep your brain active and healthy well into your senior years and help you avoid common brain diseases. Exercise can keep your brain sharp as you age.

Regular exercise can also improve the ability of overweight children to think, plan and even do math, according to other recent research. MRIs have shown that previously inactive children who start to exercise experience increased brain activity in the prefrontal cortex, an area associated with complex thinking, decision making and correct social behavior.

The more they exercise, the better the result.

Today, we’re going to talk about one of my favorite subjects – exercise. I’ve discussed exercise before, so we know I enjoy it. I started my sophomore year in high school as a very skinny kid. I wanted to begin exercising to get stronger and gain weight,, which I know is the last thing most people want hear.

Of course, exercise is one reason for maintaining your proper weight. Exercise is important and crucial for weight loss, but this is not only because it helps you to burn calories. About 80 percent of your ability to achieve an ideal body weight is related to your food choices, and new research shows that exercise may make it easier for you to make healthy food choices

Many benefits of exercise include prevention of heart disease, diabetes and depression.

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One of your brain's many responsibilities, or "executive functions," is referred to as "inhibitory control." This is what helps you to keep inappropriate or unhealthy behaviors under control, such as making you think twice before eating a gallon of ice cream for breakfast. Since we are all inundated with temptations around the clock, this function is under constant strain. Plus, it has only limited capacity and will grow fatigued with overuse, similar to your muscles. The end result is reduced will power to control impulsive behaviors, such as binging on junk food.

Exercise significantly affects your brain., Exercise, it turns out, helps to enhance your brain's resources for executive functions like inhibitory control, making it easier for you to resist unhealthy food and instead choose healthy options that will further your weight loss goals. Exercise to your brain is also like food for your stomach. Your brain and body need exercise.

Exercise enhances your brain's control center, making it easier to eat healthy. Often regular exercise and a healthy diet go hand-in-hand, and this may not be a coincidence. I believe once you start exercising and seeing the results it definitely makes you want to continue and see further progress. You won’t be able to do that while eating Big Macs.

I believe that there is not one exercise for everyone. Some people are runners and some people are yoga people and some people are weightlifters. If you just starting out try everything and see what works best for you. I am a firm believer of varying your routine as much as possible just to you work muscles in different ways. For example running twice a week, swimming twice a week and doing yoga twice a week would be a great way to really vary your exercise regimen. There's also helps prevent burnout. People would choose to do one exercise over and over tend to get bored and may not push it is hard as they should. I also recommend varying the intensity of your workouts. For example if you are a runner, take one workout per week and do a tempo workout or sprints. Really get into the high heart rate area and stress that heart and lungs really well. This also works with weight lifting. Take one day per week and lift short repetitions with high weight. This gets your muscles used to very heavy weight and is a good way to varying your workout.

There are several foods that can sabotage your workout efforts. First of all, I want to dispose of the lie that because you exercise doesn't mean you can go out any junk food. So many people think that if you exercise on a regular basis that gives your permission the horrible foods. That is not the case. If you want to see a drastic change in your health make sure your exercising regularly and eating well. Things that sabotage your workout efforts would include junk food, high fructose corn syrup especially drinking soda, excessive sugar, excessive carbohydrates and trans fats. Especially stay away from those energy drinks .Just make sure you’re getting plenty of organic meats, organic fruits and vegetables and a panic nuts and seeds And keep in mind the best thing to drink is plain water.

What you do eat after your workout is crucial to stop the catabolic process in your muscle and shift the recycling process toward repair and growth. If you fail to feed your muscle at the right time after exercise, the catabolic process will go too far and can potentially damage your muscle. So ideally you should EAT within 30 minutes after your workout, and your meal should include fast-assimilating proteins, such as high-quality protein. Your meal after your workout should be the best meal of your day. Make sure your getting high-quality fruits and vegetables and organic protein. Personally, I have an apple, a sandwich with organic turkey and some nuts.

If you really want to be successful in an exercise regimen it is best to find a partner and do it together. This can be a spouse or a friend. Keep in mind you don't have to do every workout together every day but it is best to do a few workouts together each week to keep yourself accountable and keep it fun and interesting. If you look at the show, “The Biggest Loser”. That's one of the ways it makes it so successful. They get many people working out together and actually have weekly contests and challenges that the contestants participate in. This, of course, will be successful in seeing who will lose the most weight during that week.

For more information about diet and weight control, email corbettchiro@gmail.com or contact the office at 507.645.8846.

Today, we’re going to revisit the subject of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. With the tremendous growth in technology, almost everyone is susceptible to carpal tunnel syndrome since we use a computer keyboard, whether it’s at home, at work or both. When we use a keyboard, we receive micro-traumas to our hands and wrists. Vibration and repetitive motions, when combined with spinal problems and other joint dysfunction, can result in carpal tunnel syndrome.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can be caused by the cumulative damage of repetitive wrist and hand motions. Symptoms include pain, numbness, tingling in the thumb and index finger and middle finger, weakness or a loss of strength in the hands. The major nerve controlling the thumb, index, and parts of the middle, and ring finger is called the median nerve. The median nerve runs from your spine and neck area all the way to your first three digits. Problems can develop in one or more of these areas.

The “carpal tunnel” is formed by bones in the wrist and a ligament. Like a bow and a string. The bones are like the bow and the tendon is like the string. The median nerve, tendons, and blood vessels pass through this opening. If one or more of the bones forming this tunnel should "collapse" this reduces the amount of space in the tunnel and nerve pressure, and painful symptoms can result. Or chronic use of the tendons that go through the tunnel can get inflamed and swell up. This also reduces the amount of space in the tunnel and puts pressure on the median nerve and causes the symptoms as well.

Many people believe that “carpal tunnel” was pain running down the arm as well, but that would not be considered carpal tunnel syndrome. That would most likely means a “double crush injury. This is where the nerve is pinched in more than one area including the neck, shoulder, elbow or wrist.

The diagnosis for carpal tunnel includes A careful consultation, examination, x-rays and possible an MRI scan. Chiropractors are experts in the care of the bones, nerves, muscles and connective tissues that make up about 60 percent of your body. All of the joints in your body are part of this muscular-skeletal system and its optimal function is necessary for overall good health.

To begin a diagnosis, first, I would do a thorough examination. Depending on the findings, I would perform adjustments where needed to help normalize structure and reduce nerve irritation. Other options may include specific spinal adjustments, the Graston technique, cold laser, exercise recommendations, nutritional advice or other conservative methods of care based on your health history, age, current condition and lifestyle. Specific chiropractic adjustments can also help return malfunctioning joints to a more normal motion and position. When given time, conservative chiropractic care has produced excellent results with carpal tunnel problems - without drugs or surgery.

Today, we’re going to talk about flying. That’s right – flying. Because flying offers many opportunities to get sick or fee bad, I want to give you several tips that will keep you well and have a nice, healthy family visit instead of a miserable one.