Make ‘Em and Keep ‘Em!
January 4, 2010
Resolutions are easy to make and challenging to keep unless you have a plan to keep you on track! Less than 50% of people keep their resolutions! We want to help you keep them so we have a great packet FULL of great tips and tools to make sure you make the changes you desire.
We will have them at the office to pick up, remember to get one for your friend too! Studies show that if you have a partner who you are accountable to, you will succeed!
How About A Cleanse to Start The Year Off Right?
January 4, 2010
As most of you know, I can’t stand the word “diet” for many reasons. We all know the joke that diet is the word “die” with a “t”, but the main reason the word is useless at best, is that it implies a temporary time to deprive yourself of something. I prefer using lifestyle nutrition instead. Start by thinking of food as what FUELS each and every function your body!
Don't these look yummy!!
Why cleanse? It gives your body a much needed chance to detoxify after the holidays and regain some balance. It also gives your digestive system time to “rest”.
There are many fasts and cleanses but when I came across this one, I thought it to be balanced and easy enough that most of you could follow it and have some great benefits! One side note- I would omit the coffee as a water substitute and stick to water and tea if you want something warm.
100 Year Lifestyle Certification!
December 7, 2009
Both Dr. Jennifer and Dr. Stephanie Rozenhart, D.C. have enrolled in the pioneering CCA 100 Year Lifestyle Certification program. Awarded by the California Chiropractic Association, this certification responds to the public’s desire for healthy lives and peak performance in this age of expanded life spans by training us in all of the elements of wellness, including nutrition, fitness and spinal health with chiropractic care as the focus. The CCA 100 Year Lifestyle Certification program is based on the bestselling book, The 100 Year Lifestyle, by Dr. Eric Plasker, D.C.
People are living longer than ever and the citizens of San Jose are looking for solutions to make the most of their years through a unique, holistic total-life program. As CCA Certified 100 Year Lifestyle Providers, we will be equipped with the scientific knowledge and clinical skills to assist our community in achieving proper lifestyle changes and maintaining healthy spines so you can enjoy peak vitality, greater quality of life and health as you age!
We are excited about providing this unique aspect to your care and look forward to seeing you all the way to 100 and beyond!
To learn more, contact Drs. Rozenhart at 408-979-9999 or visit www.calchiro.org
Sickness Season or Healthy Season??
November 27, 2009
Each autumn millions of children and adults come down with a cold, the flu or an ear infection. Yet misconceptions often result in inappropriate treatment.
Colds and Flu: Both the common cold and influenza are caused by viruses, so medical treatment is rarely necessary. Influenza is like a cold, but may include fever, body aches, chills and extreme fatigue. Stomach flu which causes vomiting is often a case of mild food poisoning.
According to an article in the February 2003 issue of Pediatrics, colds accounted for 1.6 million emergency room visits and 25 million ambulatory visits in 1998. In response to the widespread misconception that medical intervention is helpful, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued some common sense advice to parents:
- Avoid antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
- Don’t use over-the-counter cold or cough medications since most will not work.
- Don’t use aspirin if a child has a fever since it can cause a serious reaction called Reye’s syndrome.
Annual flu vaccines are available, but their benefit is extremely questionable. Vaccine experts must decide which flu varieties will be the biggest threats 9-12 months in advance. Since flu viruses mutate constantly, it is nearly impossible to include the right strains in the vaccine.
The Swine Flu is causing recent concern. According to the September 8, 2009 Wall Street Journal, the CDC now advocates “watchful waiting” as an option. “The majority of adolescents and adults and most children won’t need antivirals,” said the CDC’s director of the National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases, Anne Schuchat. Most people just need “mom’s chicken soup, rest and lots of fluids.”
Ear Infections: Typically affecting young children, ear infections may be caused by viruses or bacteria. The Southern California/RAND Evidence-based Practice Center analyzed clinical studies conducted from 1964 through 1998, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It estimates that over 5 million cases of acute otitis media (AOM) occur each year in the US at a cost of approximately $3 billion.
The studies showed that without antibiotics, nearly two-thirds of children recover from pain and fever within 24 hours of diagnosis and over 80% recover fully within seven days. In the May 2004 issue of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines, recommending observation in many cases instead of antibiotics. Several studies have shown that chiropractic care benefits children with recurrent ear infections, such as the one conducted by Drs. Fallon and Edelman and described in the March 1998 edition of Alternative Therapies.
Remedies and Prevention: So what should you do when you come down with a cold, the flu or an ear infection? Get plenty of sleep, drink lots of fluids, and eat healthy food. In addition be sure to get adjusted regularly and especially if you are sick. Your nervous system directly controls your immune system, and spinal subluxations can interfere with the communication between the nervous system and the immune system. Chiropractic care will remove this interference so your body can maximize its immune system response and keep you as healthy as possible.
Thomas Edison said, “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” Good advice for us to follow.
A Lifestyle Of FitNESS!! October 20,2009 7:00-9:00pm
September 28, 2009
Will your children live as long as their grandparents? Great grandparents? They have their genes. What will their quality of life be like?
Poor lifestyle choices can lead to cancer, heart disease, diabetes and spinal degeneration and early death.
What will their quality of life be like??
Almost 30% of kids and 66% of adults are overweight.
Attend and learn how to:
- Create a lifestyle nutrition and fitNESS program you can enjoy
- Get off the weight loss roller coaster
- Avoid preventable diseases
- Keep your spine and nerves healthy
- Maximize your genes
Mark your calendars for Wednesday,October 20, 2009.
This workshop will be from 7:00pm- 9:00pm.
Bring a friend and RSVP to Cate at 408-979-9999 as spaces are limited!
More Deaths Than From Heroin or Cocaine!
September 14, 2009
What an interesting article on CNN.com. More people are killed every year from prescription drugs than heroin or cocaine. The list of celebrities that have died in the last few years are a sampling of what’s really going on all over the country to regular people. While the need for drugs MAY be necessary in some situations, the over prescribing of drugs as a culture has caused MASSIVE damage to our society.
The bigger picture for me, as a mom, is to figure out how to keep my children off of drugs and I truly believe that it starts early!!
If we teach our children that we “take something” for physical pain, a cough, cold, symptom, ache, fever etc….. when they become teenagers and experience the emotional pain of figuring out who they are, peer pressure, and all the other “joys” of that time in life that they are more likely to want to “take something” for that too.
My job as a doctor is to teach one by one, the other ways to maximize your body’s innate healing power that is ALWAYS present and ALWAYS working for your body’s best health. Chiropractic care is not just for back and neck pain- it is to MAXIMIZE the optimal functioning of the body!The answer will NEVER be in a pill!!
Please bring us all the medications you are no longer using or that have expired- we are collecting them in our office so we can dispose of them properly! Did you know drugs are ending up in our water supply because people are flushing them down the toilet? We are all taking Prozac, cholesterol drugs and many more….scary isn’t it!
Aspirin A Day for Health??
September 10, 2009
According to research just presented on August 30, 2009 at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona, “healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good.”
Researchers found that the risks of bleeding from taking aspirin were such that its routine use in healthy people “cannot be supported.”
Doing More Harm Than Good??
“The findings of this study agree with our current advice that people who do not have symptomatic or diagnosed artery or heart disease should not take aspirin, because the risks of bleeding may outweigh the benefits.”
Over the course of this 8 year long study, the conclusion reached by the researchers was simple and straight-forward: While there was no difference in the number of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events suffered, major bleeding occurred almost twice as often in the aspirin taking group compared to the control group.
So, to be perfectly straightforward, it simply did not help prevent heart attacks or strokes but did cause abnormal bleeding.
Additionally, the risk of aspirin overdose and poisoning just by having it in the house were not correlated. Further, the greatest risk in our opinion, is that everyone assumes aspirin is benign and, if it is, why not take it?
We still do not know how aspirin works or what the long term effects of regular aspirin use may be. Why not prevent heart problems by working to improve heart function?
Severe Brain Degeneration From Being Overweight?
August 27, 2009
You read that right! A new study in the journal Human Brain Mapping found that obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than their healthy weight counterparts and that their brains looked 16 years older! People classified just as overweight had 4 percent less brain tissue and looked 8 years older. Carrying extra weight has many negative health effects including heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and now you can add sever brain degeneration to the list. This lack of brain tissue can put you at higher risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Keep a Healthy Weight To Keep This Working Well!
The good news is that this is within your control! Eating well, and staying active are the top ways to keeping your brain tissue intact and working well! There are more then 300 million obese people worldwide and the primary causes are inactivity and dependence on highly processed foods. Please help yourself and make just one healhtier decision today- it will affect the rest of your life!
What Can We Learn From Michael Jackson?
July 15, 2009
Love this young Michael!
No matter what you think of Michael you cannot deny that he was one of the greatest entertainers and philanthropists of our time and possibly all time. What happened to him was a result of many factors including the use of prescription drugs to numb pain. The sad and very scary fact is that millions of people are addicted to prescription drugs like these and will die just like Michael. One of the biggest questions is “How can we prevent this??” We need to begin changing our THOUGHTS first.
We are absolutely not medicine bashers- medical care has a time and a place- but medicating for years and years with no plan to get off the meds is not the solution for our health challenges. Once you begin down the path of medicating for sleep, depression, anxiety,( you can add in your own symptom) there are always side effects and then perhaps you decide to medicate for the side effects, and on and on and on. Then you are on a path that is very difficult to get off.
The change has to begin with our THOUGHTS, does true health and healing come from a pill, potion or lotion? Or does the POWER that made the body HEAL the body? What do you think?
What’s On Your Food?
June 30, 2009
Ewwww....what's this stuff?
We are all concerned about what goes into our bodies,( or at least we should be conscious about it) I got the link to this website from a practice member and I found it fascinating to see what’s on our food and the variety of pesticides out there! Although our family eats organic whenever possible, this solidified my decisions! Have a look and tell me what you think? Do you eat organic? Did seeing this website change your mind?
