Amidst a great deal of emotion and rhetoric coming out of Connecticut this week regarding the stroke issue The Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation has just released a very clear position statement on the issue of chiropractic and strokes.
Atlanta, GA, January 07, 2010 –(PR.com)– According to the Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation there is no [...]

(by Integrative Nutrition) Have you watched Saturday morning cartoons with your kids recently? Do you notice how many advertisements are directed towards children? A July 2008 report by the Federal Trade Commission stated that the food industry spent over $1.6 billion dollars on marketing to kids. According to Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics, this [...]

Americans suffer from chronic neck pain at alarming rates. Many suffer through this with no hopes of ever getting better. They grit their teeth and suffer through thinking there is no hope and no one can help. However, you can do something about chronic neck pain.

Primary Causes of Chronic Neck Pain-
Sudden trauma – whiplash [...]

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 5 million individuals in the U.S. and is the leading cause of limb amputations. Doctors have long considered exercise to be the single best therapy for PAD, and now a new study helps explain why. Led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and published in this week’s Online [...]

In the first study to demonstrate a clear positive association between adolescent fitness and adult cognitive performance, Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden find that better cardiovascular health among teenage boys correlates to higher scores on a range of intelligence tests – and more education and income later in [...]

Increasing exercise, water and fruit consumption leads to success, study finds

(HealthDay News) — Increased exercise, reduced soda consumption and self-weighing are among the most effective weight control strategies for adolescents, a new study shows.
Researchers surveyed 130 adolescents about their weight-control strategies and lifestyle habits. Sixty-two had succeeded in losing weight and 68 had not. The [...]

Seven in 10 parents (71 per cent) think their children are “active enough” but only one in 10 of their children (10 per cent) say they do the recommended amount of exercise, according to a survey out today from British Heart Foundation (BHF).
Nearly 1,000 UK parents with children aged eight to 15 were questioned. [...]

Study ties poor supervisors to higher odds for heart attack
By Randy DotingahealthDay Reporter
(HealthDay News) — If an inept or abrasive boss is ruining your workday, you may be taking that stress to heart, literally.
New research links having a poor supervisor to a higher risk of heart attack, and that’s not all: people who don’t [...]