Wishing everyone a healthy and
happy holiday season.

Warmly,
~ Dr. Lynn Kerew

Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Kids and Chiropractic
- perfect together

Throughout your children's lifetimes - from infancy into adulthood - chiropractic care can help ensure your child's physical and emotional health. Over a century of success in helping children regain and retain their health has made chiropractic the healthcare of choice for millions of parents and their children throughout the world.

Chiropractors are specially trained to locate and release blockages commonly caused by tiny misalignments of the structural system. These blockages (called subluxations) create dis-ease (disharmony) which can lead to lowered resistance to disease, organ malfunction, poor posture, pain, and physical and emotional illness. (1)

Chiropractors have helped babies suffering from nearly every condition imaginable: colic, vomiting, sleeping problems, tonsillitis, vision and hearing problems and many, many others. (2-4)

It is not unusual to hear parents state that since starting chiropractic care their children get sick less frequently, less severely, have less or no ear infections and take less (or no) antibiotics and other drugs. (5-7) Many conditions such as asthma and allergies have responded to chiropractic care as well. (8-9)

In addition there are reports of chiropractic care helping children suffering from autism. Some of these children have been reevaluated and later re-diagnosed as normal after chiropractic care. (10-11)

Academic Performance
Both clinical reports and research have reported chiropractic's success with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), lack of energy or "low mental stamina", anxiety and behavioral problems. (12-13)

Sports Performance
Improvements in coordination and athletic ability have also been noted as a result of chiropractic care. (14-18) Chiropractors are "team doctors" for athletes in all kind of sports from tennis, swimming, golf and track-and-field to football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, handball, rugby, soccer and Olympic and professional teams. Chiropractic care helps athletes function at their peak to maintain their "competitive edge." (19)

Chiropractors can help prevent injury by keeping your child balanced and functioning free of spine and structural stress. Chiropractic care can prevent minor injuries from becoming major ones, without the use of drugs or surgery. (20)

If your child is suffering from any of the following, it is essential to get his/her body checked for subluxations:

Chiropractic care for children makes a big difference no matter what their age. Keep your children healthy, ensure their natural self-healing ability functions at its peak and help them grow into their physical and emotional potential with chiropractic.

Good fat, bad fat

Avoid bad fats
Bad fats are linked to heart disease, cancer, arthritis and many other chronic illnesses. If anything in your refrigerator or pantry has any of the following bad fats in the ingredients do yourself and your family a favor and dump them in the garbage:

• Hydrogenated oils
• Partially hydrogenated oils
• Cottonseed, soybean, canola and vegetable oils
• Trans-fats
• Especially avoid margarine or butter oil "spreads" or "blends"

Partake of good fats
Good fats promote health and healing. Good (saturated) fats include:

• Butter (especially from raw milk and grass fed cows)
• Oliver oil (virgin and cold pressed)
• Coconut oil
• Fish oil (smaller fish such as herring, sardines etc. are best)
• Avocados

Remember - good fats are good for you and bad fats can kill you.  People that use good fats are thinner, have more energy and are healthier.

Are high fat diets dangerous? Even though this study did not distinguish between the kind of fat used, this study helped de-demonize fats. In it researchers studied 88,795 women over the course of 14 years, and what did they find? Not one sign that high-fat diets promote breast cancer. There was not one indication that low-fat diets were protective. (2)

HUMOR!

A few observations on advertising

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. - Erma Bombeck

Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. - Jacques Seguela

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. - Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
- Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933

FUN PUNS
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
10. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
15. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
16. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
17. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium-at-large.
18. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
19. A backward poet writes inverse.
20. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your Count that votes.

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