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  * pH Imbalance Contributes to Degenerative Diseases

  * Patients Want Online Communication

  * Childhood Obesity Part II - Children at Risk

  * 'The Jungle' Revisited

  * Hold the French Fries! 

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  Osteoporosis and arthritis have been linked to over-acidity in the body. In fact, over-acidity, known as chronic acidosis, is likely a contributing factor to all degenerative and auto-immune diseases. 

  Perhaps because we evolved in an alkaline ocean environment the cells of a healthy body are slightly alkaline at a pH level between 7.1 and 7.3 (7.0 being neutral). Our enzymatic, immunologic, and repair mechanisms all function at their best in this alkaline environment. The cells of a diseased body are acidic.

"Cancer cells, for example, cannot survive in an oxygen-rich alkaline environment."

  Most fruits and vegetables are alkaline forming while most meats, refined carbohydrates, and carbonated soft drinks are extremely acid forming. Unfortunately, the Standard American Diet (SAD) leans heavily towards acidic foods and avoids most of the alkaline forming foods.  This acid condition has adverse effects on cell metabolism including impaired energy production, edema, kidney impairment, and a likely increase in free radical production.

  Since the vast number of chemical reactions necessary for human life can only occur within a very narrow pH range, the body strives to maintain this pH balance or homeostasis. It does so by drawing upon alkaline minerals - such as calcium, magnesium, and manganese - to buffer and neutralize acids.

"Should these necessary minerals not be present in the diet, the body will draw them from its own bone structure!"

  The re-establishment of a health-promoting alkaline state is essential to a sound immune system and overall disease free body. Titan's Body Alkalizer (pH balance) Pack consists of Factor Five: Osteo-X containing the key alkaline buffering minerals calcium, magnesium, and manganese together with herbal anti-inflammatories, and Factor Seven: Digestin, which provides key alkaline enzymes and phyto-chemicals to normalize gut flora and pH balance.

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  According to a Harris Interactive Survey reported on April 10th, almost all Internet users would like to communicate with their doctors online, more than half would choose doctors based on their online availability, and more than one-third would even be willing to pay for this service. 

  Although this survey focused on M.D.'s, it would appear to apply to Chiropractic as well, perhaps more so. Chiropractic physicians spend more time with their patients and communicate better with them than do their M.D. counterparts.

  Most of those surveyed wanted to ask questions when no visit was necessary (77%), make appointments (71%), refill prescriptions (71%), and receive the results of tests (70%). 

  "When so many people want something, the marketplace will eventually provide it," the authors write. "It seems safe to predict that within a fairly short time many doctors will be communicating with their patients on the Internet."

Perhaps you should consider having your CA poll your patients to determine how many have internet access in their homes and/or at their place of employment. Take your own informal survey. You may find that internet communication is another avenue to be innovative and expand your practice. 

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  Last month, in writing about the childhood obesity epidemic sweeping America, we frankly stated, "Our research shows that Government and Argi-business are the culprits responsible." We heard from practitioners across the country who informed us the problem was far worse than we imagined. We thank them for providing us the following eye-opening input: 

• In 1978, the typical teenage boy in the U.S. drank about seven ounces (one can) of soda a day; today that figure is five or more cans of soda every day. Each can contains the equivalent of about ten teaspoons of sugar and more caffeine than a cup of coffee! ("Liquid Candy," a 1999 study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest) 

• PepsiCo. recently announced that it will begin selling Pepsi Blue this August as a follow up to its successful launch of Mountain Dew Code Red last Spring. Both soft drinks have 16-year-old boys as their target consumers. (News release, May 9, 2002)

• In the summer of 1999, a series of USDA tests at a ground beef plant in Dallas, Texas, owned by Supreme Beef Processors, showed that as much as 47 percent of the ground beef contained Salmonella. Despite these alarming test results, the USDA continued to purchase thousands of TONS of meat from Supreme Beef for distribution in schools. (USDA Report, 1999)

• "Food poisonings in the nation's schools are increasing at a rate of about 10 percent a year." (GAO Congressional Study released April 30, 2002)

• The national average of children living in poverty in the United States is 19 percent - a rate not unlike many developing nations. (KIDS COUNT Data Book 2002 compiled by the Annie E. Casey Foundation of Baltimore) 

  Isn't it Tragic that a nation that supports a Defense Budget of $393 BILLION can't allocate sufficient resources to properly feed and care for its own children!!  We would welcome reader input on this issue. We feel it's time for those of us in the holistic health field to band together and let our elected representatives know it's time to take some real action, not just blow smoke!

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  In 1906 Upton Sinclair wrote, "The Jungle," an expose' on the sordid and unsanitary conditions in this nation's meat packing plants. This factual novel resulted in passage of the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906. 

  Think times have changed since the sweatshops and fifthly conditions existed at those turn of the century meat packing plants?

Think again!

  A Nationwide USDA study published in 1996 found that 78.6 percent of ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal material. In other words, the majority of all our ground meat contains feces!  Now you know the real reason why restaurants today will only serve well-done hamburgers!

  So why hasn't the government taken action? The U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective tennis shoes, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toys. Why hasn't it recalled contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves?

Are you ready for this?

  Because apparently, the government cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated ground beef from the marketplace!!!

  "This unusual power of the large meatpacking firms has been sustained by their close ties and sizable donations to Republican members of Congress," states author Eric Schlosser in his alarming novel Fast Food Nation, published last year.

  As a result, roughly 200,000 Americans are sickened by a food borne disease, 900 are hospitalized, and 14 die EVERY DAY.

  These are scary statistics, but there is something we can all do to help protect us from food poisoning that runs so rampant in America.  At the first signs of food poisoning (chronic stomach ache, cramps, diarrhea) we suggest you take Factor Twelve: Opti-cillin, Titan's herbal antibiotic that is safe for both children and the elderly. 

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  Basic foods eaten by millions around the world such as biscuits, crisps, and French fries, contain high quantities of acrylamide, a substance shown to increase cancer risk, according to research carried out at Stockholm University in cooperation with Sweden's National Food Administration. 

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies acrylamide, a colorless, crystalline solid, as a medium-hazard probable human carcinogen.

  Findings showed that an ordinary bag of potato crisps or a single serving of French fries may contain up to 500 times more acrylamide than the top level allowed in drinking water by the World Health Organization.

  Sweden's National Food Administration suggests that "Frying at high temperatures or for a long time should be avoided."

(The raw food products used in the research had showed no traces of acrylamide until fried.)

  In 1960, the Typical American ate about four pounds of French fries a year. Today, he eats more than thirty pounds of French fries a year!

  Please pass the fries and a vial of Factor One: Bio-Immunizer.