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In an attempt to reduce skyrocketing medical costs, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation is recommending in April 2012 that doctors lighten up on their heavy-handed use of testing and medications. The physicians admit that many procedures are over-performed and many medicines are over-prescribed.

If you were to investigate the history of medicine in America you will find lots of information about how doctors overprescribe. You will also see how the entire medical profession has wielded highly interventionist and often unnecessary techniques ever since its beginnings in this country.

American medicine developed out of the ideas of one extremely influential guy-"Dr. Benjamin Rush. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) was revered in medical circles and was referred to as the Hippocrates of America. Hippocrates, of . . .
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Prescription drug abuse is out of control. Every day we hear stories in the news about celebrities, adults, and kids who have experienced the consequences of prescription drug abuse and have either died, been injured, or had to be admitted into some form of rehabilitation center. It is hard to believe that those little pills can grab such a powerful hold on your mind and body and spin your life out of control.

A recent report by the Executive Office of the President of The United States entitled "Epidemic: Responding to America's Drug Abuse Crisis" revealed that prescription drug abuse is the nation's fastest growing drug problem. Nearly one third of people age 12 and over who used drugs for the first time in 2009 began using a prescription drug non-medically.

In Canada, 54% of participants in a study reported misu . . .
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Many of the top athletes and performers in the world think, train, and use chiropractic care differently. Let's begin with their thinking.

Top athletes and performers believe that they are capable of accomplishing higher levels of success in business or athletic endeavors and they organize their life around these thoughts. They make eating decisions, training decisions and health care decisions around performing at very high levels rather than around mediocrity. Because they are committed to higher levels of performance, it is easier for them to draw a line in the sand and say no to things that reduce their potential while also saying yes to the things that help them reach their goals. They make these thoughts their lifestyle.

High achievers and performers also train differently than most people. They . . .
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Research led by Jessie Garciaguirre and Karen Adolph published in Introduction to Infant Development, Oxford Press, 2007, showed that fourteen month old toddlers fall an average of fifteen times per hour while playing. Fifteen times! That is not a trivial number especially when you begin to add the number of falls they take during a day, a week, a month or a year. The cumulative impact of these repetitive falls can cause problems in the spine and nervous system that contribute to many unexplainable health problems.

Do the math! Fifteen falls per hour, six hours minimum per day, is approximately 90 falls a day. This equals nearly 700 falls per week, and up to 2,500 falls per month. And while their young bodies are capable of adapting to the environment during their developmental years, these repetitive strains can be overwhelmin . . .
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In the March 2012 issue of Consumer Reports, there is an article that matches common prescription drugs to their side effects. Provided as a quiz, medications such as Lipitor, Viagra, Cymbalta, Advair Diskus and others are separated from their possible side effects so that you, the consumer, can test your recall from the 4 billion dollars in advertising costs that the drug companies spent last year. Their bottom line is to "exhaust non-drug measures" first.

In the article, Consumer Reports pokes fun at the manner in which drug companies communicate their list of serious side effects calling them "so-scary-they-are-almost-funny lists over images of couples posing in bathtubs." While the Food and Drug Administration requires drug companies to list their most serious side effects, they do not require the manner in which they are d . . .
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