Healthy Midlife Diet Staves Off Dementia

Healthy Midlife Diet Staves Off Dementia:

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What you eat at 50 is what you become at 80.  Consuming fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, and coffee are gonna keep your sanity at 80.  Dementia/Alzheimers has become the greatest concern for the Baby boomers.  They worked so hard to save a nest egg to have it robbed by dementia/Alzheimers.

Salt and Battery: Debate on Sodium Targets Gets Feisty!!

Salt and Battery: Debate on Sodium Targets Gets Feisty!!
 
The AHA recommends that individuals consume no more than 1500 mg of sodium per day. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends a daily sodium intake of 2300 mg for the general population and 1500 mg for individuals 51 years of age and older, African Americans, or individuals with hypertension, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease.

In a multivariate-adjusted model, those who consumed less than 3000 mg of sodium per day had a 25% increased risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events compared with those who consumed between 4000 mg and 5990 mg/day (reference group). 

And finally, in a subgroup analysis, the PURE researchers report that those without hypertension had an increased risk of clinical events at the low end of sodium consumption (<3000 mg/day) but not at the high end (>6000 mg/day). For those with hypertension, there was a heightened risk of death and cardiovascular events at the low and high end of sodium intake.

So Low sodium and high sodium contribute to disease. 
Just maybe moderation is the best medicine.

DR. Shawnie
Chiropractor in Broken Arrow, OK
918.249.1535

Heart sounds

What onomatopoeic words are used in medical literature to describe the sounds of your heartbeat?

Lub dub. 

New Max heart rate calculation

The new equation for calculating your maximum heart rate:

211 - (age x .64)

Now you can push your intensity harder. 

Go hard!

America's Test Kitchen Radiogram - April 19, 2014 - drshawnie@gmail.com - Gmail

America's Test Kitchen Radiogram - April 19, 2014 - drshawnie@gmail.com - Gmail: " Junk Food Engineering: Why Food Companies Weaponize Sugar, Salt, and Fat"

Did you know that Cargill has more than 40 different types of salt, each one designed for a specific application, most of them used in the production of processed foods? In the big money world of junk food engineering, nothing is left to chance. Finding the perfect balance of sugar, salt, and fat results in consumers finding the “bliss point,” the perfect junk food that makes you want to come back for more. To achieve this culinary home run, big food companies use everything from food chemistry to brain scans to turn a new product into a $100 million business. There is nothing random about Cheetos.



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FDA OKs Oralair, First US Sublingual Allergy Immunotherapy

FDA OKs Oralair, First US Sublingual Allergy Immunotherapy:

"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Oralair (Stallergenes, Inc), the first sublingual immunotherapy in the United States to treat multiple grass pollens.

The drug is indicated for the treatment of persons aged 10 to 65 years with grass pollen–induced allergic rhinitis with or without conjunctivitis, confirmed by positive skin test or in vitro testing for pollen-specific immunoglobulin E antibodies for any of five grass species: sweet vernal, orchard, perennial rye, timothy, and Kentucky blue grass."


Prevention is the best medicine when faced w/ allergy issues.

Helpful tactics I Rx in my chiropractic clinic:

Implementing the deflame diet to reduce inflammation in the body overall.

Saline lavage the sinuses 3 times per day.

Air purifier in the bedroom.

Use of air filters for reducing allergens in the home

If you exercise outdoors then choose the time of day w/ lowest pollen count.

Shower post outdoor activities to remove pollen.




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Artificial sweetners

Did you know that artificial sweetners cause bladder spasm?

You will have increased urges to urinate. 

Remedy this urge by limiting  diet sodas/drinks.  Be healthy!!