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[30 Sep 2009 | Comments Off | ]
What is health?

Health is the body’s ability to adapt to internal and external stresses in the absence of disease. A good way to measure a person’s health is to make their system adapt to an external stress such as walking up a flight of stairs and monitoring breath and heart rates. The most important measurement is how long it takes …

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[16 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | ]
What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a holistic approach to disorders of the spine and musculoskeletal system without the use of drugs or surgery.  Every joint in your body has a certain range of motion, and in a certain direction for that motion.
Through the use of orthopedic, and palpatory examinations, a chiropractor can detect areas of the spine that are not moving the way …

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[11 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | ]

Nutrition and the athlete – information for the weekend warrior to the endurance athlete:
The intensity of the exercise determines the way that the body makes energy for the muscles.  A high intensity, short duration activity such as lifting weights, or sprinting rely on anaerobic pathways for production of ATP, or energy.  This pathway uses glycolysis, or glucose to create ATP.
A …