With the taste of warm weather we had this week I’m back to one of my favorite topics and that is the benefits of spending time in nature. This is a topic I have covered before but this particular study in Frontiers in Psychology journal had a unique take. They were evaluating how spending just…
On the heels of last weeks article about how to get outside even when it’s cold out I found a recent study showing how screen time affects children’s brains. If you need more reasons to get outside and turn off the screens check this out. This article was published in the Journal of the American…
The timing of this article being published couldn’t have been better. I had a new mom bring in their daughter with very similar symptoms just last week. I’ll get to that story in a minute but first lets look at the one in this research paper. The infant in this study was a 2 month…
Drinking soda can have a number of adverse health effects. The high doses of sugar in liquid form are known to contribute to obesity. Other studies have shown that adolescents who drink more soda have higher tendencies towards aggression, suicidal thoughts, self harm, and withdrawal behavior. However no study has looked at how soda effects…
This week I’ll go over a bunch of general tips to help you keep your kids healthy throughout the school year. First off is getting sleep schedules back on track. Summer means long days and often staying up late. Now is the time to start getting bedtime back to a normal time to make sure…
It can be tough enough eating healthy when you’re at home and have your whole kitchen at your disposal. The challenge is even greater when you have to plan and pack it for the day for your kids. So lets look at some tips to try and make it easier. The first thing is to…
One would think that when children are out of school for summer break they are outside swimming, riding their bike, or maybe playing sports with their friends. In general you would think they are much more active than when they are forced to sit at a desk for hours a day in school. But that…
This week I found an interesting article that shows it’s never to early to start Chiropractic care. Today’s research paper review is about a newborn infant that had difficulty breastfeeding and his head was misshapen after a vacuum extraction was used during his birth. This is a great case that shows you are never too…
This week I’ve been reading many articles about case studies of women who were unable to conceive until they started seeing a Chiropractor. There have been many case studies published over the years involving women who had been trying to get pregnant for several months, and some for years with no success. In some cases…
Sometimes an article is published that just makes you scratch your head and wonder what were they thinking. This is one of those articles, and is one that I can’t believe was actually published. Keep in mind as you read it, this was actually published in the journal Pediatrics. A well respected, peer reviewed journal.…