Statins can cause rare eye disorders

January 7, 2009

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NEW YORK – Treatment with a cholesterol-lowering statin drug may very occasionally cause double vision, drooping eyelids or weakness of the muscles that control eye movement, investigators report. Read Here

Yet another good reason to minimize your cholesterol naturally, and opt for statins as a last resort.  These are potent medications with many dangerous, if not fatal, side effects.  Just about every patient I see with musculoskeletal pain, can trace the onset of their discomfort when they started their new cholesterol medication(s).  If this is the case with you, please consult me for options to lowering your cholesterol naturally and safely. -  Dr. Rob

Smoking ban lowers heart attacks…

January 1, 2009

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A smoking ban caused heart attacks to drop by more than 40 percent in one U.S. city and the decrease lasted three years, federal health experts reported Wednesday.

Pueblo, Colorado, passed a municipal law making workplaces and public places smoke-free in 2003 and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials tracked hospitalizations for heart attacks afterward.

They found there were 399 hospital admissions for heart attacks in Pueblo in the 18 months before the ban and 237 heart attack hospitalizations in the next year and a half — a decline of 41 percent.

The effect lasted three years, the team reported in the CDC’s weekly report on death and disease.

“We know that exposure to second-hand smoke has immediate harmful effects on people’s cardiovascular systems, and that prolonged exposure to it can cause heart disease in nonsmoking adults,” said Janet Collins, director of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

“This study adds to existing evidence that smoke-free policies can dramatically reduce illness and death from heart disease.”

Long-term exposure to secondhand smoke can raise heart disease rates in adult nonsmokers by 25 percent to 30 percent, the CDC says.

Secondhand smoke kills an estimated 46,000 Americans every year from heart disease alone. Smoking also causes a variety of cancers, as well as stroke and emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Design Your Life, from the Inside Out

January 1, 2009

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One of the most successful people on the planet, (whose name escapes me right now), offers this as his formula for success:

  • Get crystal clear on exactly what it is you want to achieve and write it down.
  • Now think about the price you will have to pay to achieve it. How much time, energy, resources and sacrifice will it take?
  • Decide whether you are willing to pay the price to achieve it. If the answer is yes, then start paying the price.

I think this is a very good exercise and we should apply this strategy to all of our goals. Along with this type of process we must learn to let our goals come to us as inspirations; from our hearts instead of our heads. Chiropractic is based upon the Law that says a perfect and infinite intelligence exists in all matter. We must learn to work with this intelligence to become master manifesters. This intelligence, which BJ Palmer fondly called his silent partner or “that something,” is a powerful force within each of us which I believe, is our link to the Creator. If we can learn to “harness” this inner power which only works for the highest good by the way, we can live an inspired life and the goals we should be working on in all areas of our life will be clear to us as our innate reveals them. We now start living a life of RESONANCE instead of a life of RESISTANCE. We become inner directed instead of outer reactive.

Dr Sid Williams states correctly that: “Innate does not care about the size of our goals; it just achieves what we impress upon it.”

The way to achieve any goal or outcome in our life is to:

  • Listen to your innate for inspiring thot flashes guiding you towards certain goals habits and personal growth projects.
  • Trust that your Silent Partner knows what is best for you and accept the vision
  • Listen to your innate. It will start to send you step by step actions steps towards the accomplishment/manifestation of your inspiration.
  • Trust innate again. It will provide you with the strength and resources to,
  • Act on the action steps it sends you with faith and with peace and joy, knowing innate is always working towards the highest good.
  • Finish each day by being grateful for what innate has provided for you in life and in relation to your goals.

Job one might be turning of the TV or video games and sitting quietly 30 minutes a day clearing your mind of clutter so that you hear innate when it speaks and remember:

“Man is a damn mess until he learns God’s order.”

Norman MacLean in A River Runs Through It.

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