Life is Just a Bunch of Berries!!!

Chiropractic is all about health. And when healthy food is proven to be super-healthy, Chiropractic Care wants to share the news!

 In 1989, researchers began studying 93,600 young and middle-aged women nurses aged 26-42 years. They examined the dietary intake of anthocyanins and other flavonoids and the risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction) in these women. These researchers discovered that women who ate the most blueberries and strawberries had a 32% reduction in heart attack risk when matched to those who only ate them once a month or less. Eat more strawberries and blueberries!

Anthocyanins are types of dietary antioxidant flavonoids found in the food you eat, especially in the red, purple, or blue foods. Chocolate, grapes, red wine, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries teem with dietary flavonoids. Check out the blueberry-strawberry smoothie recipe Chiropractic Care found. It’s pretty and tasty!

These flavonoids help by dilating blood vessels and by offsetting the plaque build-up in coronary arteries that may cause blockages and eventually heart attacks. In this new study, mixed strawberry and blueberry consumption really stood out.  Not only is Chiropractic Care here for your spine but your heart, too!

Beginning early in life to lower the possibility of plaque build-up is key. So start eating your berries!
Contact Chiropractic Care for your healthy Chicago chiropractic appointment, too.

Strawberry Blueberry Smoothie

Nothing says summer like the season's best sun-ripened berries - slightly tart, juicy and sweet blueberries. This smoothie recipe is great for breakfast or a refreshing summer afternoon snack.

• Ingredients:
• 1 cup fresh or slightly thawed frozen strawberries
• 1 cup fresh or slightly thawed frozen blueberries
• 1 cup milk
• 6 oz. pineapple juice
• 3 Tbsp honey
• 1-1/2 cups ice cubes

Preparation: 

Combine everything except ice cubes in an electric blender and puree until smooth.

Slowly add ice cubes and blend until finely crush. Serve immediately or chill until serving.  

Makes about 4 portions.

                             

Chiropractic Care Millennium Park - 30 N. Michigan Avenue - Suite 605 

Chicago, IL 60602 - Phone: 312-269-5556 

Chiropractic Care, Ltd. - 2417 W. 183rd Street - Homewood, IL 60430 

Phone: 708-798-5556

Is Your Computer a PAIN in the NECK???

Do office employees get neck pain? You bet they do! Just like small business owners and apprentices and scholars and receptionists and executive assistants and content writers for websites! Even the family bookkeeper and chief bill payer experiences neck pain! Why? We all work over computers and at desks and in chairs that aren't very neck friendly. Chiropractic Care soothes neck pain and has tips for how to prevent it as well.

Now we don't want to badger just the desktop computers; the laptop computers are not so hot for our necks (and wrists!) either. A current study on notebook computer usage found that a 12 degree incline under a notebook placed on a desk improved neck and head postures while only slightly increasing wrist extension which seemed to be acceptable.

So what should we do about all this neck pain suffered by Chicagoland computer users?

A review study currently propose muscle strengthening or endurance exercise to treat neck pain and muscle endurance exercise for decreasing pain-related disability.

 Muscle strengthening includes improving the quantity of force you can exert against resistance. Push-ups and working with free weights are instances. For the neck muscles, working with a neck exerciser or against your own hand resistance produces results.

Muscle endurance exercise builds muscle over time with more repetitions and such to get the muscles to work longer.

While Chiropractic Care appreciates these recommendations, our Chicago chiropractor will likely combine chiropractic spinal manipulation with exercise (and maybe throw in a few hints for a more ergonomically friendly workspace!) for your neck pain relief, best clinical outcome, and future neck pain prevention. Our Cox Technic system tells us to look for relief of at least 50% in 30 days. So many of our neck pain patients report relief in just a visit or two while some take a little longer. But our 50% Rule sets your expectation and guides our chiropractic treatment plan for your relief.

Make your chiropractic appointment today. Contact Chiropractic Care for a full examination, diagnosis and gentle, safe neck pain treatment and relief.

For more information, please contact our office or visit our website. 

                       

Chiropractic Care Millennium Park - 30 N. Michigan Avenue - Suite 605  Chicago, IL 60602 - Phone: 312-269-5556  Chiropractic Care, Ltd. - 2417 W. 183rd Street - Homewood, IL 60430  Phone: 708-798-5556