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Neck Pain: Chiropractors, Exercise Better Than Medication, Study Says

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When it comes to neck pain the best medicine is no medicine at all according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, tracked 272 patients with recent-onset neck pain who were treated using three different methods:

1. Medication
2. Exercise
3. A Chiropractor

After 12 weeks the patients who used a chiropractor or exercised were more than twice as likely to be pain free compared to those who relied on medicine.

The patients treated by a chiropractor experienced the highest rate of success with 32 percent saying they were pain free, compared to 30 percent of those who exercised. Only 13 percent of patients treated with medication said they no longer experienced pain.

“Doesn’t surprise me a bit,” Dr. Lee Green, professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan told ABC News. “Neck pain is a mechanical problem, and it makes sense that mechanical treatment works better than a chemical one.”

Dr. John Messmer who specializes in family medicine at Penn State College of Medicine agrees.

“I always prescribe exercises and/or physical therapy for neck pain,” he wrote. “I also tell patients that the exercises are the treatment and the drugs are for the symptoms.”

The exercises prescribed to patients in the study were simple and designed to be performed at home with the help of instructional photos.

Click Here to See the Neck Exercises

Are You Active Enough to Prevent Chronic Degenerative Disease?

It is well known that a sedentary lifestyle leads to illness. At first we just don’t feel well – not enough energy or stamina, little aches and pains, gaining a little weight. Eventually, these discomforts and inconveniences can turn into something more serious – heart disease, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, digestive problems, and so on. Many Americans exercise regularly to help them stay healthy, but a new study shows that even those who hit the gym a few times a week might not be getting anywhere near the exercise needed to prevent chronic disease.

How much exercise is enough? Generally accepted recommendations are 150 minutes of moderate exercise (e.g. walking at a pace fast enough to raise your heart rate and respiration but not so fast that you can’t carry on a conversation) each week as well as weight lifting or some form of muscle-strengthening activity twice a week. According to the CDC, about 75 percent of Americans do not meet these standards.

Conversely, a sedentary lifestyle is defined as taking less than 5,000 steps a day – that’s the equivalent of walking about 2.5 miles. About 25 percent of Americans fall into this sedentary category.

However, according to a new study, it looks like about 10,000 steps a day (5 miles) is actually needed to maintain good health.

Researchers conducting the study found that the physiological changes seen in those at high risk for Type 2 Diabetes occur in people who transition from high amounts of activity (greater than 10,000 steps a day) to inactivity (fewer than 5,000 steps each day). These same physiological changes could also lead to other chronic disease.

Walking 5 miles is going to take the average person about 1 ½ hours – not something that most of us have time for on a daily basis. So, once we get up to the level of meeting the accepted recommendations, how do we bring our daily activity level up to 10,000 steps?

The answer lies in how we live our lives when we’re not exercising. Here are a few examples:

• Walk to the corner store instead of driving.
• Take the stairs, not the elevator.
• Park further from the store or your place of business.
• While at work, walk to another office for a meeting rather than calling.
• Take a short walk during lunch time.
• Walk the dog.
• Mow the lawn with a regular lawnmower instead of a riding mower.
• Rake the leaves.
• Put on some music and dance.
• Ditch the remote and get off the couch to change the channel.

In other words, exercising a few times a week at the gym is not enough when you spend most of the rest of your time sitting. You actually have to lead an active life day in and day out.

If you want to live longer and enjoy good health well into your ‘old age’, get up and move around. It’s not guaranteed to cure or prevent all ills, but it will certainly make a major contribution.

Sources: Medical News Today, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232158.php; The Walking Site, http://www.thewalkingsite.com/10000steps.html

After years of various consumer advocacy groups trying to get the FDA to ban artificial food colorings, and the FDA denying any connection between artificial food coloring and health problems, the agency is finally considering some movement forward. While the movement isn’t earth shattering, the FDA did announce that it will ask a panel of experts to review the evidence.

Having reviewed the existing studies on the health effects of artificial food coloring, the FDA concluded that, although they don’t believe food colorings actually cause behavioral problems in children, they do acknowledge that some kids who already have behavioral problems may get worse because of artificial food colorings, as well as other substances in food.

The report also said, basically, that there’s nothing wrong with the substances themselves; the problem is that the kids just can’t tolerate them. Other studies have shown that not to be the case. One study published in The Lancet, for example, showed that artificial food colorings can negatively affect the behavior of children who had no previous problems.

Despite the agency’s conclusion that the problem is the kids, not the food colorings, they convened the Food Advisory Committee to look into it further and recommend action.

The food industry is up in arms, saying that everything they use is approved by the FDA. That’s probably true. But many things have been approved by the FDA that have later been found to be dangerous or toxic and have either had black box warnings added to their labeling and usage information, or have been taken off the market altogether.

Additionally, some of the food colorings in current use were approved in 1931. In fact, they’re not even really the same substances now as they were then: they used to be made with coal tar, now they’re made with petroleum products.

It would also be nice to know that approvals are based on modern testing methods, equipment and procedures, rather than nearly century-old technology.

According to many experts and a number of studies, behavioral problems are far from the only possible health effects of artificial food colorings. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer advocacy group dedicated to “conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and to provide consumers with current, useful information about their health and well-being,” has been fighting the artificial food coloring battle for years and has a valuable collection of studies and other information available on their website.

Sources: FDA, http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/UCM248549.pdf; New York Times,

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Low Back Pain:

Chiropractic Adjustments vs. Muscle Relaxants

Chiropractic had a better outcome in 24% of the patients

Outcomes in clinical trials shed light on effectiveness in care. When there are studies that are blinded, or performed without the research patient knowing what is being done is the one of the purest forms of unbiased conclusion. This was one such study and the results confirmed what chiropractic has been saying for over 100 years: it works and with low back pain and better that muscle relaxers that have been prescribed for decades. The goal of this review is to give patients a better chance, with virtually no side effects positive outcomes for low back pain.

To learn more, click on the link below or copy and paste to your Web browser.

Click below or copy: http://www.uschirodirectory.com/index.php/chiropractic-research/item/306-low-back-pain-chiropractic-vs-muscle-relaxants

The digestive system is a key factor in the health of just about every vital organ, function and system in the body. Digestive processes and biological elements regulate our energy levels, immunity, and nutritional status. A healthy body starts with a healthy gut. But a new study suggests that when our digestive system is out of whack, it’s not just our body that suffers: it also adversely affects our mental and emotional state.

The study, conducted at McMaster University’s Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute and published in the online edition of Gastroenterology, tested the mental and emotional reactions in mice to changes in the bacterial content of the gut.

The gut plays host to about 1,000 trillion bacteria, all of which perform vital functions. These are ‘good’ bacteria. But when the good bacteria is overwhelmed by the bad – as in the case of taking antibiotics, which kills both good and bad bacteria –the gastrointestinal tract ceases to function as it should. As a result, our energy level goes down, nutrients are not absorbed and passed through to the rest of the body, and we become much more susceptible to infection.

According to the new study, an imbalance of bad bacteria to good can also cause anxiety and depression.

To cause the imbalance and overwhelm the good bacteria in the gut, the researchers in the study fed antibiotics to adult mice. The resulting changes in the gut produced an increase in certain factors of the brain that are associated with depression and anxiety, and the mice became noticeably more nervous and aggressive.

When the antibiotics were discontinued, and the balance of good to bad bacteria in the gut was restored, the mice calmed down. Their brain chemistry also returned to normal.

To further test these results, mice with normal bacterial balance – and a passive emotional state – were colonized with bacteria from mice with an imbalance. As a result, they become more aggressive. Researchers also tested in the opposite direction; colonizing mice with an imbalance with the bacteria of those with a healthy balance. This, too, resulted in a change in behavior from aggressive to passive.

“The exciting results provide stimulus for further investigating a microbial component to the causation of behavioral illnesses,” said Stephen Collins, professor of medicine and associate dean research. Premysl Bercik, assistant professor of medicine and one of the researchers, also said that the results justify investigating the therapeutic potential of probiotic bacteria and their products in the treatment of behavioral disorders, particularly those associated with gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome.

The study also demonstrates the physical and emotional benefits of finding alternative solutions to antibiotics.

Source: Science Daily, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110517110315.htm

This article is from Mercola.com. IF you are looking for alternatives, we have some simple solutions to avoid fluorinated water. Check us out at www.nevadachiro.com

Paul Connett, co-author of the book, The Case Against Fluoride, is joined by his wife, Ellen, webmaster of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), and Tara Blank, PhD, Science Liason Officer for FAN, in authoring this article on fluoride and the brain. Together they have recently provided an extensive commentary in response to the EPA’s Office of Drinking water in response to its proposed safe reference dose for fluoride¹.

In an ongoing effort to determine which chemicals may damage the developing brain, scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently conducted an extensive literature review of over 400 chemicals, including fluoride.

Fluoride is Classified as a Neurotoxin

While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) would have us all believe that fluoride is perfectly innocuous and safe, scientists from the EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory have classified fluoride as a “chemical having substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity”.² Consistent with the EPA’s conclusion, a continually growing body of human and animal research strongly suggests that fluoride can damage the developing brain.

Consider for example:

• 24 studies have now reported an association between fluoride exposure and reduced IQ in children
• Three studies have reported an association between fluoride exposure and impaired neurobehavioral development
• Three studies have reported damage to the brain of aborted fetuses in high fluoride areas, and
• Over 100 laboratory studies have reported damage to the brain and/or cognitive function among fluoride-exposed animals³.

Most of the 30 studies linking fluoride to reduced IQ, impaired neurobehavioral development, and fetal brain damage have come from China where fluoride occurs at moderate to high levels in the drinking water in what is known as “endemic areas for fluorosis.” While there have been shortcomings in the methodologies of some of these studies, they have been remarkably consistent in their findings. Children exposed to excessive fluoride have been consistently observed to suffer from some form of neurological impairment.

Your Brain Under Attack

Statistics tell us that our brains are under attack. For example:

• Autism Spectrum Disorders: The rates in the U.S. are now 1 in 110 children and are “4 to 5 times more likely to occur in boys than in girls,” or as many as 1 in 60 boys.
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: According to a November 2010 CDC report, nearly 1 in 10 U.S. children have ADHD – an increase of about 22 percent from 2003.
• Alzheimer’s Disease: According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 5.4 million Americans are living with it and every 69 seconds an American is diagnosed with it. By 2050, it is estimated that as many as 16 million Americans will have the disease.

We do not know the causes for the alarming increases in these diseases but we do know that wherever possible, everything must be done by regulatory agencies and caregivers to protect the brain from known neurotoxins. Fluoride is a known neurotoxin and it is time to stop adding it to public drinking water systems. However, convincing U.S. regulatory authorities of this urgent necessity is proving very difficult.

Developmental Neurotoxicity

In 2007 Choi and Grandjean⁴ stated:

“In humans, only five substances have so far been documented as developmental neurotoxicants: lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene. From this evidence, including our own studies on some of these substances, parallels may be drawn that suggest that fluoride could well belong to the same class of toxins, but uncertainties remain…”

Health Agencies are Ignoring Fluoride-Brain Studies

Even though health agencies in the U.S. and other fluoridating countries have recognized that children are being grossly over-exposed to fluoride (41 percent of American children aged 12-15 now have some form of dental fluorosis⁵), they are unwilling to concede that fluoride may be impacting the brain. Their approach has been either to ignore these studies completely or to challenge the relevance and the methodology of the fluoride-brain studies. They have thus far failed to conduct any IQ studies of their own.

Bottle-Fed Babies at Risk

The level of fluoride in mothers’ milk is remarkably low; only about0.004 ppm⁶. In the view of many critics of fluoridation, including Arvid Carlsson, Nobel laureate in medicine/physiology, it is reckless to expose infants to levels of fluoride orders of magnitude higher than that found in breast milk.

In the U.S., infants who are fed formula reconstituted with fluoridated tap water receive the highest levels of fluoride (per kilogram bodyweight) in the human population. Specifically, infants who are fed formula made with fluoridated water at the current level of 1 part-per-million (1 ppm = 1 mg/liter) fluoride will receive a dose up to 250 times more than the breastfed infant.

Even with the proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to lower fluoride to 0.7 ppm in fluoridation schemes, bottle-fed infants will still receive up to 175 times more fluoride than the breastfed infant.

In addition to bottle-fed infants, others at heightened risk include those with poor nutrition and both African American and Mexican-American children.

Recent studies indicate that African American and Mexican-American children have higher rates of the more severe forms of dental fluorosis than white children⁷. As dental fluorosis provides a visual indication that fluoride has exerted a toxic effect on your body, it is reasonable to assume that these same children will also be more vulnerable to other toxic effects of fluoride including damage to the brain.

EPA Protecting Fluoridation Program, Not Public Health

On January 7, 2011, the EPA’s Office of Water (OW), while pursuing its mandate to set a new safe drinking water standard for fluoride, made it clear that it would do so without jeopardizing the water fluoridation program. According to Peter Silva, EPA Assistant Administrator for the OW:

“EPA’s new analysis will help us make sure that people benefit from tooth decay prevention while at the same time avoiding the unwanted health effects from too much fluoride”⁸.

Silva was referring to severe dental fluorosis, broken bones, and skeletal fluorosis as the unwanted health effects. These were the three health effects that the National Research Council of the National Academies in its 2006 report Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards singled out. The report recommended that the EPA perform a new health risk assessment to determine a safe drinking water standard for fluoride because they found the current level of 4 ppm was not protective of health.

In its first draft risk assessment, EPA claimed that the most sensitive health effect of fluoride was severe dental fluorosis⁹. Brain effects were ignored by EPA even though many more studies have been published since the NRC made its recommendation. Science does not stand still.

The NRC examined five IQ studies; there have now been nearly five times more at 24!

Making matters worse, the EPA’s Office of Water risk assessment excluded the fetus and infants under 6 months of age, as the EPA does not expect them to get dental fluorosis! Whether fluoride impacts the growing tooth enamel during this period or not, this is a very important period for brain development. As noted above, an infant fed formula made with fluoridated water at the proposed lower level of 0.7 ppm will receive 175 times more fluoride than the breast-fed infant.

EPA Research Laboratory Takes Different View

Fortunately, the EPA does not speak with a single voice on fluoride’s neurotoxicity. While the EPA’s Office of Water ignored any brain effect in its 2011 risk assessment, the Neurotoxicology Division at the EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory included fluoride in its list of “Chemicals with Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity”, for a new project expected to be launched this year¹⁰.

Ultimately, therefore, the EPA administrator will have to resolve the following question: Is it more important to protect our children’s brains or the fluoridation experiment?

Fluoridation Proponents’ False Claim

Proponents of fluoridation have dismissed the fluoride-IQ studies on the basis of the claim that the children in these studies were drinking water containing fluoride at much higher levels than used for water fluoridation (approximately 1 ppm).

However, such claims do not bear close scrutiny, Xiang¹¹ estimated that the threshold for IQ lowering was 1.9 ppm and more recently Ding et al. (2011) found a lowering of IQ in the range of 0.3 to 3 ppm. These findings reveal that there is no adequate margin of safety to protect ALL American children drinking uncontrolled amounts of fluoridated water and ingesting fluoride from other sources (e.g. toothpaste).

While we will discuss this crucial margin of safety argument in more detail below, suffice it to say here that when harm is found in a small human study a safety factor of 10 to 100 is typically applied in order to extrapolate to a level designed to protect a whole population from harm.

The NRC (2006) Review of Fluoride

The NRC panel devoted a whole chapter on the brain in its 507-page 2006 review and concluded:

“it is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain and the body by direct and indirect means.“

Of the five IQ studies reviewed by the NRC the panel drew special attention to the study by Xiang et al.¹², which they indicated had the strongest design. The panel described this study:

“This study compared the intelligence of 512 children (ages 8-13) living in two villages with different fluoride concentrations in the water. The IQ test was administered in a double-blind manner. The high-fluoride area had a mean water concentration of 2.47 ± 0.79 mg/L (range 0.57-4.50 milligrams per liter [mg/L]), and the low-fluoride area had a mean water concentration of 0.36 ± 0.15 mg/L (range 0.18-0.76 mg/L). The populations studied had comparable iodine and creatinine concentrations, family incomes, family educational levels, and other factors.

The populations were not exposed to other significant sources of fluoride, such as smoke from coal fires, industrial pollution, or consumption of brick tea. Thus, the difference in fluoride exposure was attributed to the amount in the drinking water… the average intelligence quotient (IQ) of the children in Wamiao was found to be significantly lower (92.2 ± 13.00; range, 54-126) than that in Xinhuai (100.41 ± 13.21; range, 60-128).

The IQ scores in both males and females declined with increasing fluoride exposure.”

The shift in the IQ curves for both males and females are shown in Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 1. Distribution of IQ scores from males in Wiamiao and Xinuai. Source: data from Xiang et al. 2003a (as shown in NRC, 2006, Figure 7-2, p. 207).

Figure 2. Distribution of IQ scores from females in Wiamiao and Xinuai. Source: data from Xiang et al. 2003a (as shown in NRC, 2006, Figure 7-1, p. 207).

According to the NRC (p. 206):

“A follow-up study to determine whether the lower IQ scores of the children in Wamiao might be related to differences in lead exposure disclosed no significant difference in blood lead concentrations in the two groups of children¹³.”

Xiang extrapolating from the whole set of data estimated that the threshold for IQ lowering would be 1.9 ppm. Below we use this estimate in a margin of safety analysis to calculate a level that would be sufficient to protect all children drinking fluoridated water.

The NRC panel’s overall conclusion based on its review of these five IQ studies was:

“A few epidemiologic studies of Chinese populations have reported IQ deficits in children exposed to fluoride at 2.5 to 4 mg/L in drinking water. Although the studies lacked sufficient detail for the committee to fully assess their quality and relevance to U.S. populations, the consistency of the results appears significant enough to warrant additional research on the effects of fluoride on intelligence.”

Incredibly, no fluoridating country has followed up on this. We continue to fly blind on this critical issue. One of the animal studies reviewed by the NRC was the study by Julie A. Varner and co-workers¹⁴ from the State University of New York at Binghamton. These authors fed rats for one year with 1 ppm fluoride in their water. One group received sodium fluoride, the other aluminum fluoride.

In the rats treated with either fluoride compound, Varner et al. discovered the following:

• Morphological changes in the kidney and the brain
• An increased uptake of aluminum into the brain
• The formation of beta-amyloid deposits, which are a hallmark for Alzheimer’s disease

More Brain Studies Published Since NRC 2006 Review

Since the NRC panel wrote its report in 2006 many more animal studies have been published and another 14 IQ studies have either been published or translated. Five more IQ studies wait translation from the original Chinese. This brings the total to 24 IQ studies that have found exposure to fluoride associated with lowered IQ¹⁵.

At least 16 studies on animals have shown that fluoride has an effect upon the hippocampus and nine of these have been published since the NRC’s 2006 review. Damage in this area of your brain usually results in difficulties in forming new memories and recalling events that occurred prior to the damage¹⁶.

Xiang Updates His Work¹⁷

An updated version of Xiang et al.’s (2003a) work¹⁸, which included new information about the relationship between the level of fluoride in the children’s plasma and IQ was accepted for publication in Environmental Health Perspectives (the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) and made available online on December 17, 2010.

This article was later withdrawn when it was found that some of the material had been previously published. However, for those who have used criticisms of the methodologies of some of the 24 IQ studies to justify ignoring the issue completely, it is important to note that the Xiang et al. paper successfully passed the peer-review process of this important journal.

Another Important Fluoride IQ Study

An IQ study published in 2011 by Ding et al.¹⁹ investigated the effects of low levels of fluoride on IQ. Children were exposed to 0.3 to 3 mg F/L fluoride via drinking water. The authors found a very significant linear correlation (p <0.0001) between fluoride levels in the children’s urine and lowered IQ (Figure 3). They calculated that there will be a lowering of IQ by 0.59 points for each increase of 1 mg/L urinary fluoride.

Figure 3. The relationship between IQ differences and urine fluoride concentrations. Multiple linear regression model was carried out to confirm the association with urine fluoride exposure and IQ scores (F=9.85, p < 0.0001) (Figure 2, Ding et al., 2011)

Margin of Safety: The Safety Factors Used in Toxicological Assessments

Promoters of fluoridation, either through ignorance or design, betray little understanding of the concept of margin of safety. This is revealed when they dismiss studies carried out at levels higher than 1 ppm as being irrelevant for assessing the risks posed by water fluoridation.

This indicates that they have no appreciation of the difference between concentration and dose.

Someone drinking three liters of water with 1 ppm fluoride would get a higher dose (3 mg) than someone drinking one liter of water with 2 ppm fluoride (2 mg). In other words, it is the dose that hurts people, and thus finding harm at levels as high as 4 ppm are still relevant to a high water consumer drinking water at 1 ppm.

Toxicologists usually have to work from high dose animal experiments to extrapolate to a safe level for humans.

This typically requires the application of a safety factor of 10, when extrapolating from the dose that causes harm in animals to predict a safe dose for humans (in order to account for the potential variation between species). Then a second safety factor of 10 is commonly applied to take into account the full range of sensitivity to any toxic substance that is to be expected in any large population. In other words some individuals are likely to be 10 times more sensitive to fluoride than others.

In the case of fluoride we are in the unusual situation of having quite a large amount of human data to work with, especially in the case of its neurotoxic effects, so it is only necessary to address the variation in sensitivity expected in a large population.

In its January 7, 2011, draft risk assessment the EPA Office of Water took the most unusual tack of not using any safety factor at all when extrapolating from the dose that causes severe dental fluorosis²⁰.

In other words they believed that they had enough data to state – with no uncertainty—that no one consuming less than 0.08 mg of fluoride per kilogram bodyweight per day would develop severe dental fluorosis. For them to legitimately forego any safety factor they need to demonstrate that this purported “threshold” dose is based on sufficiently large numbers of subjects to represent the full range of different vulnerabilities and sensitivities in the U.S. population.

Such variations include: age, income levels, nutritional status, genetic and ethnic variability.

It is notable therefore, that the study on which the EPA’s calculations were based²¹ did not include African American or Mexican-American children, or children from a full range of family income levels.

Dr. Paul Connett, director of the Fluoride Action Network believes that the EPA Office of Water was forced to choose this “uncertainty factor” of 1 in order to produce a “safe reference dose” that was higher than the dose deemed necessary to protect teeth against decay. In other words, this was a political decision made to protect the water fluoridation program. Even more political was the EPA’s willingness to ignore the studies that indicate that fluoride lowers IQ.

No Margin of Safety for Fluoride

The level at which Ding et al. (2011) researchers found a lowering of IQ (0.3-3 ppm) overlaps the range at which fluoride is added to water in the US (0.7 – 1.2 ppm). Even without applying a safety margin to this finding, it would suggest that there is no safe level that would protect ALL of America’s children from potential interference with mental development from fluoride exposure via the water supply.

However, Ding et al. state that this is a preliminary finding, and more work should be done to control for possible confounding factors. Meanwhile, it is possible to use the findings of Xiang et al.²² to estimate a safe reference dose to protect all American children from this effect.

This is the task that the EPA Office of Water should have undertaken.

However, as indicated above, their preliminary calculations for the safe reference dose published on January 7, 2011, failed to consider fluoride’s potential to lower IQ. The EPA defended its decision to only consider severe dental fluorosis, by claiming that this is the most sensitive endpoint of fluoride’s toxicity. The EPA made this claim despite the fact that, in both the Ding and Xiang studies, reductions in IQ were observed among children without severe dental fluorosis. This clearly challenges the EPA’s claim that severe dental fluorosis is the most sensitive adverse effect of fluoride.

Other Human Brain Studies

Three other studies from China²³ indicate that aborted fetuses in endemic areas for fluorosis show signs of brain changes compared to aborted fetuses in non-endemic areas.

Moreover, in a study from Mexico²⁴, Rocha-Amador et al found that children exposed to moderate levels of fluoride had impaired visual-spatial recognition abilities. Such impairments could affect a child’s development. In 2009 the Rocha-Amador team performed tests²⁵ on children exposed to various neurotoxicants (Fluoride, Arsenic, Lead, DDT, DDE or PCBs). Fluoride exposed children were selected if they had dental fluorosis (a bio-marker for fluoride over-exposure).

All the children exposed to the various neurotoxicants “had very poor performance in Copy and Immediate Recall tests and in general they recalled less information on the Construction/Memory score.”

As the authors of these studies note, fluoride’s impact on the brain may be evident in the absence of crude reductions in IQ. Indeed, the authors note that IQ tests may well fail to detect fluoride’s more subtle effects on cognitive function.

Consistent with Rocha-Amador’s research on non-IQ effects, Li et al.²⁶ reported that infants born in areas with high fluoride levels had “significant differences in the non-biological visual orientation reaction and biological visual and auditory orientation reaction” compared to infants born in areas with low fluoride levels.

Establishing a Safe Drinking Water Level for Fluoride MCLG

The most important step in setting a federally enforceable safe drinking water standard (maximum contaminant level or MCL) is the determination of the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG). This determination is made by the EPA’s Office of Water. The MCLG is the level of a contaminant in water below which there is no known or reasonably anticipated risk to health.

The MCLG is the basis for setting the enforceable standard (MCL).

This enforceable standard takes into account the cost of removing the contaminant and is therefore not as protective as the MCLG level. For example the MCLG for arsenic is zero, but the MCL is set at 15 ppb (parts per billion) due to the costs of removing natural arsenic from some water supplies. For fluoride, Xiang et al. (2003a, b) estimated that the lowest water concentration associated with a lowering of IQ was 1.9 mg F/L. Ironically, this is the same threshold that the EPA’s Office of Water offers for severe dental fluorosis.

We convert this to a dose by assuming that the children in the Xiang study were consuming on average one liter of water a day. One liter of water at 1.9 mg F/L translates into a dose of 1.9 mg/day. This is called the lowest observable adverse effect level (LOAEL).

Because these studies only dealt with 500 children, with fairly similar genetics, lifestyles and nutritional status, we would need at least the standard uncertainty factor of 10 to account for the full range of sensitivity expected in the whole population in the U.S. to arrive at a safe daily dose. 1.9 mg F/day divided by 10 equals 0.19 mg F/day and thus a safe daily dose should be set no higher than this. Such a dose would be exceeded by a child drinking less than one glass of water (250 ml) at 1 ppm (1 ppm = 1 mg/liter).

In other words water fluoridation is not safe; some children could have their mental development impaired by drinking as little as one glass of fluoridated water on a daily basis.

As far as setting a maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG) for safe drinking water is concerned, we should note that this safe daily dose of 0.19 mg/day is already being exceeded from other sources.

For example the EPA OW estimates that mean fluoride ingestion from toothpaste among children between the ages of 1 and 4 is 0.34 mg/day²⁷. Fluoride intake from toothpaste alone, therefore, contributes twice the safe daily dose of 0.19 mg/day. Thus, since some children will exceed the safe dose of fluoride from non-water sources alone, it is difficult to understand how the MCLG for fluoride could be set any higher than ZERO if the EPA were to acknowledge the existence of these IQ studies and follow routine procedures.

Of all the dangers posed by fluoridation (and there are many others) the potential to impact a child’s mental development must be considered one of the most serious. Just how long can promoters continue to ignore the voluminous evidence of these dangers?

And how long will the public let them?

I found this and thought is was vital that people realize this very important misconception.

The TRUTH IS EATING FAT DOESN’T MAKE YOU FAT.  It’s the inability to burn fat that makes you fat.  In fact, depriving your body of fat can have detrimental effects to its function.  Your brain, your nervous system, your hormones, and the cells of your body are built from fat.  Therefore, for your body to function at its optimal level, you need to replenish your body with a good source of FAT in your diet.

In the last decade, “low-fat” and “non-fat” or “0 Calories” products have taken over the shelves at the grocery store.  From yogurt to Pringles to soda, people have been  tricked into thinking that if its “low in fat” this will help them lose weight.  In fact, the opposite is true.  Recent research from the Behavioral Neuroscience found that fat substitutes can interfere with the body’s ability to regulate food intake which leads to inefficient use of calories and weight gain!¹

Researchers studied rats on a high fat diet versus rats eating “fake-fats” and the results showed that the rats that ate fake-fat Pringles ate more food, put on more weight, and gained more body fat than their counterparts on the high-fat diet that were given only the high-fat Pringles.

Not only does eating a “low-fat” diet deprive your body of essential nutrients, but it doesn’t lead to the weight loss you want.  In 2009, a study showed 645 obese patients who used a low-fat diet had NO CHANGE in waist circumference.²

Don’t get drawn into the trap that man-made and man-altered products are better and healthier for your body than the food that God has provided on this earth.  Just like our bodies, He didn’t create junk, He didn’t create foods with too much fat that need to be altered by man before we eat them.  If a food doesn’t naturally come from the earth, don’t eat it!

Headaches & Migraines: Chiropractic vs. Medication; Effectiveness &

Safety

In randomized clinical trials, chiropractic was 57% more effective in the reduction of headaches and migraines than drug therapy.

As previously reported in the US Chiropractic Directory, after 8 weeks of randomized clinical trials with chiropractic vs. medication for headache and migraine sufferers, the chiropractic group scored 42% vs. 24% effective for medication. This research indicates that chiropractic is 57% more effective than medication for headaches and migraines. The medical approach has a place in healthcare, but based upon evidenced based outcome studies, research concludes that for headaches and migraines, the path is chiropractic first and drugs second.

See the study here:

http://www.uschirodirectory.com/index.php/chiropractic-research/item/268-headaches-a-migraines-chiropractic-vs-medication-effectiveness-a-safety

If you’re serious about resolving headaches, check out our advanced technologies by calling 565-7474 or visits w.ww.nevadachiro.com.

The latest obesity statistics demonstrate that too many Americans continue to slide down a slippery slope toward a poorer quality of life and many otherwise preventable conditions like heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Thirty-nine states now have 25% or more of their population classified as obese.

As recently as twenty years ago, not one state had over 15% obesity, and now the lowest rate is 19.8% in Colorado, the only state currently under twenty percent. Mississippi continues to hold the top position, with 34.4% of their citizens considered obese. These number don’t even count those who would be thought of as “overweight,” but only those who meet the clinical definition of obesity, having a body mass index of 30 or more. (To find your body mass index, or BMI, divide your weight in kilograms by your height in meters squared — it roughly translates to about thirty pounds or more overweight, or someone five-foot-nine weighing 203 pounds or more.)

It is time to change this scary trend! For more information on how our natural strategies can help call 565-7474 or visit www.nevadachiro.com.