Not only are sodas and most soft
drinks devoid of any nutritients and loaded with sugars or hazardous artificial sweetners, BOTH increasing your risk of obesity; the FDA has recently acknowledged that a potentially cancer causing agent, Benzene, has been found in U.S. soft drinks at four times the limit considered safe for drinking water. Benzene has been linked to leukemia in studies.
Benzene can form in soft drinks made with vitamin C and sodium or potassium benzoate. Manufacturers have been putting vitamin C (ascorbic acid) into their products lately, hoping consumers will be fooled into buying vitamin-C-enhanced "health drinks" that give the appearance of being far healthier than they actually are.
Dr. Lloyd Fielder was born in Brooklyn, NY and lived most of his life in the town of Oceanside on Long Island. He completed his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Albany before receiving his Doctor of Chiropractic degree at The National College of Chiropractic in Lombard, Illinois. He also has bachelor of science degrees in both biology and human biology. He has successfully owned and operated Schaumburg Chiropractic Wellness Center in Schaumburg, IL since 1999.
The most frequent response to my answer of what I do for a living is after I respond, "I am a chiropractor!" that person then grabs his or her neck or back and says, "Oh Doc, I need ya!" If I have your permission I would like to tell you about the truth of chiropractic and how as a society we have not understood what a true gift it is.
There was a great philosopher named Hippocrates who once stated, "We are either growing or dying." Not to be outdone 
Confucius stated, "Our lives are like that of an egg, we are either growing or decaying." See, everyday we are exposed to chemical, physical and mental stressors in our environment that continually bombard our system. It is the job of our nerve system to detect these stressors, interpret them, and either adapt to them and continue our growth or shrink from them and stop growing while in a survival or protective mode.
See, in essence we are both growing and dying each day and it is simply that one will predominate over the other. One is an upward spiral of growth leading to fulfillment and ease; the other is a downward spiral of decay leading to death.
Our Bodies’ Innate Intelligence
Our bodies have an inborn intelligence that is called innate intelligence. This intelligence runs, regulates, heals and grows the body to our fullest potential, allowing us to reach our god-given purpose in life. There are many things you must have to accept in understanding the full breadth of chiropractic: either we are on this earth from the grace of a higher consciousness, or we are simply the random assimilation of organic substance that has evolved over many years making us nothing more than a higher order of mud.
If you have a live person and a dead person side by side, what is the difference? They both have all the same stuff, the same potential for life, however in chiropractic understanding it is the live one that possesses an innate
intelligence or life force. See, most people look at the body as being run and regulated by the brain, but let me ask you, "What runs the brain?" There are those who think genes dictate life, but we know that they turn off and on regularly even mutating and adapting, so I ask, "What turns genes on or off?"
For a hundred years chiropractors have been saying that there is an inborn intelligence that is perfect inside of us that continually gives 100 percent of the information we need to run, regulate, grow, heal and flourish. They have been saying that ill health, disease, and lack of potential does not arise from any other cause than that of a lack of expression of this intelligence.
The Expression of Light or Darkness
This lack of expression leads to dis-coordination of the body or a lack of a body’s ability to comprehend itself in its own environment. That leads to a lack of the body being able to adapt to outside stressors and this causes a loss of function, breakdown of tissue and is a downward spiral of decay and ultimately death.
If we look at the full expression of this inborn innate intelligence being the fullest expression of life as light we can look at the lack of this expression of intelligence as decay or disease and as darkness. So, how do you remedy darkness? You can study darkness, examine it, qualify it, be aware of it and focus on it, but the only solution to removal of it is to add light.
Chiropractic understands this premise and does not look to cure disease, address disease or diagnose disease. We understand disease for what it truly is, a lack state, one that arises only in the absence of the fullest expression of life.
Get checked by a chiropractor for any interference by the spine of this expression; get your families checked, your friends, your loved ones or anyone you care about. Express your fullest potential of health and life.
Watch for our next newsletter for the second part of Dr. Fielder’s Article which is reprinted here with his permission.
We have all heard how cell phones are dangerous when used while driving. While it is true that a 1997 New England Journal of Medicine study showed that talking on your cell phone while driving increases your risk of death by 400 percent there are also more insidious risk to heavy cell phone use.
According to WiredNews, A new Swedish study indicates that mobile phone 
use can raise the risk of brain tumors known as acoustic neuroma.
Among the 2,200 cancer patients reveiwed, about a tenth of the nearly 1,000 with malignant brain tumors were also heavy mobile phone users. Heavy use was defined as use at an hour per day for about 10 years.
Brain cancer patients also showed a significant increase tendency of tumor on the side of the head where they generally used the mobile phone.
The researchers stated that the figures demonstrate a 240 percent increased risk of a malignant tumor on that side of the head.
You can minimized your risk from cell phone technology by incorporating another technology. Numerous studies have indicated that the use of handsfree head sets can reduce the microwave radiation exposure from cell phones. A word of caution though. Your run of the mill discount store headset may not cut it. In fact studies also have shown that the typical headset may actually act as an antenna and conduit for directing radiation to the users head. If you use your cell phone for an hour or more per day and want to reduce your exposure I would suggest a headset that incorporates “air tube” technology such as the RF3. These headsets can be purchased at a number of sights on the web. Find them by typing RF3 in your browsers search bar. My Google search returned 778,000 hits.
A recent study cited in Pediatrics, April 2006, found that exercise held more benefits than simple weight management and cardiovascular health for teenagers. The study found that teenagers who make a habit out of exercise and physical activity are more likely to adapt other positive habits, while avoiding negative ones.
When compared to teenagers whose primary activities were watching TV and playing video games, teenagers who exercised five or more times per week were:
- less likely to have sex, including unprotected sex;
- less likely to smoke cigarettes;
- less likely to drink alcohol or to drive while drunk;
- less likely to use illegal drugs other than marijuana;
- less likely to miss time away from school;
- less likely to have low self-esteem;
- more likely to wear a seat belt while driving;
- more likely to get "A" grades in math and science;
- more likely to get a good night's sleep; and
- more likely to do household chores and to have summer jobs outside the home.
All the more reason to have your teen turn off the TV, put down the video game and get moving.
On April 13, AOL News reported on the “Mumps Epidemic”. Reporters are so uninformed or maybe its just the spin they put on it for sensationalization. My comments are in (Parentheses).
ATLANTA (April 13) - Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread Iowa's mumps epidemic to six other Midwestern states, health officials said Wednesday, the latest example of how quickly disease can spread through air travel.
The mumps epidemic is the nation's first in 20 years. Health officials say 515 suspected cases have been reported in Iowa, and the disease also has been seen in six neighboring states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of Monday, (April 10) Nebraska has 43 reported cases Mumps is a virus-caused illness spread by coughing and sneezing. The most common symptoms are fever, headache and swollen salivary glands under the jaw. But it can lead to more severe problems, such as hearing loss, meningitis and fertility diminishing swollen testicles. (Medical texts indicate occurances of very rarely for sterility to 20% for Meningitis)
No deaths have been reported from the current epidemic. (Understandable, mumps virus tends to be a relatively innocuous childhood disease. Worse side effects and more discomfort is reported in post pubertal individuals – which is what you get when you immunize early and the effectiveness of the vaccine wears off over time.)
A two-dose mumps vaccine is recommended for all children, and is considered highly (that’s questionable) - but not completely - effective against the illness. (Obviously!) About a quarter of the Iowans who have suspected cases got the vaccine, Teale said. (My emphesis added.)
The entire article can be read at http://tinyurl.com/rsv8u . This link has been condensed for your convenience.
