AN ADJUSTMENT IN YOUR GOLF GAME

Neck and Shoulder Pain from Golfing

Chiropractic care is standard for many pro golfers and increasingly for many Senior Golfers as well. Professional golfer Lori West attributes the reason she’s playing today to chiropractic. Nearly two decades ago, she began visiting a chiropractor for pain in her shoulders and neck. According to West, the care has infinitely improved her golf game.

A Good Golf Swing

The problem is that the golf swing, in and of itself, isn’t conducive to having a healthy back. To have a good swing you create tension in your spine. (This enables you to get good distance). The tension comes from the hips stopping and the shoulders continuing to rotate. Basically, you make a coil. You’re uncoiling when you start your downswing. Since that’s an awkward movement for your back, many golfers end up with lower back problems.

Chiropractic advice and Stretches for Golfers:

     • Before your game, do some
        basic stretches.
        Stretch out hamstrings and
        groin area.
     • Put a club across your
        shoulders and lean left
        and right.
     • Get in a position of where
        you would be in a swing
        and bend left and right.
     • Grab a club behind your
        back and raise it up,
        stretching your
        shoulder muscles.
     • Grab the club backwards –
        so if you normally swing
        right-handed, you’d grab it
        like you’d be swinging
        left-handed — and take 10 practice swings that way. You’re
        stretching different muscles and it will help you loosen up
        considerably.
     • Do neck stretches. Stiff neck muscles inhibit the rest of the body
        from turning freely.

Flexibility and Golf

Anything that helps your flexibility eventually helps with your game. As you get older, your swing naturally shortens since the muscles aren’t as supple. During the winter, work on stretching the muscles of the arms, shoulders and back. Flexibility is very important for older golfers.

Improved Balance for Golf
Also, you have to have good balance if you want to hit the golf ball consistently. A healthy spine is paramount to proper balance and posture. Improve your balance and you’ll improve your consistency. In needed, orthotic stabilizers for your shoes can help improve balance so your swing is better.

Chiropractors care for your body as a whole, not just the back. So if your golf game is feeling out of sync, chiropractic may be just the very adjustment that your body and game needs!

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5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

How Can You Raise Your Metabolism?

Metabolism refers to the rate at which your body burns calories. Your metabolic rate is your personal “calories-per-hour” number. Your metabolism is lowest while you sleep and highest during and right after vigorous exercise. Here are a few tips for raising your metabolism:

1. Don’t skip breakfast

The morning meal jump starts your metabolism and helps to prevent bingeing later in the day.  A cup of coffee does not count – the caffeine and added sugar may give you a bit of energy and suppress your appetite for a little while, but generally backfires causing severe hunger and overeating later in the day.  Breakfast should include complex carbohydrates like whole grain (granola or oatmeal), along with some protein and fat (low-fat yogurt or milk) to keep your energy levels even and hunger in check.

2. Eat more often

Get into the habit of eating every three to four hours or at least four times a day.  Eating frequently stabilizes blood sugar. When blood sugar drops too low you want to eat…a lot.  By keeping your blood sugar stable you can control your appetite and keep you metabolic rate high.  When you go many hours without eating your body will compensate by slowing down your metabolism to conserve energy.

3. Eat protein at every meal

Protein takes more energy and time to digest, and will leave you feeling full longer than eating carbohydrates alone.  Research shows that eating more protein can help you lose weight without cutting calories.  Try these protein possibilities: turkey on whole wheat; hummus and pita; vegetarian chili; fruit and nuts; or protein snack bars that contain 12 or more grams of protein.

4. Hold off on snacking

Many of us grab a snack for quick energy when we are feeling tired,  but do not confuse true hunger with fatigue.  If you are feeling tired go for a 15-20 minute brisk walk.  This will raise your heart rate and give you a boost of energy.  Follow it up with a large glass of cool water.  If you are truly hungry have a protein- and complex carbohydrate-rich snack like whole wheat crackers and peanut butter or cheese.

5. Consume enough for your body’s needs

Eating too little slows your body’s metabolism the same way eating too infrequently does.  If you want to lose weight, do not slash your calories too drastically.  Instead, cut out some of the extras in your diet – things like soda, juice, packaged goods or candy.  Processed foods tend to be high in fat and calories and low in vitamins, minerals and fiber.

In conclusion it is important to understand that your metabolic rate is controlled by many factors. You can exert a fair amount of control over many of these factors. This article has emphasized how your diet affects your metabolism, but clearly movement is the other major factor.

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HOW TO GET FROM FAT TO THIN

Excessive Weight Contributes Big Time!

Are you one of the millions of Americans that have grown too big for your britches? Instead of skinny jeans you have the opposite — “over alls”?

You wanted to become a big fish but you let yourself get too big?

Overweight is Epidemic
This is such a current epidemic and I blame our fast lifestyle and especially the incorporation of fast food. One of the BEST ways to help drop weight is to STOP eating fast food. Years ago when I gave it up for lent, my daughter asked me, “What constitutes fast food?” and I said, “Anything with a drive-through,” so Subway, you’re off the hook!

But it takes more than leaving out fast food to really lose weight and to reach and maintain an optimum healthy weight.

2 Major Detriments of Excess Weight

• Added stress on our heart to pump blood through all that extra fatty tissue., which is why thin people live longer. 
• Added weight also puts additional stress on all of our joints — especially the hips, knees and ankles. 

The American philosophy has morphed into belief of the Bionic Body with hip and knee replacements commonplace. But consider how the joints got so worn out in the first place. It's much better, easier and cheaper to correct your weight.

So How to Get Thin?

This is the age-old question which has about as many answers as there are askers. The main conclusion? Expend more calories than consumed, plain and simple, right? Not that plain nor simple... you fire back, "Okay, you’re right... So how can I lose weight, and what is there that can help me lose weight?" Excellent that you're asking!

Cleanse on a Cellular Level

Reprogramming your body on a cellular level will help you to lose weight while increasing your energy and mental clarity. The Master Cleanse Program I provide nourishes the body with raw, organic, sprouted pharmaceutical grade nutrition. My patients exercise better than ever while on the Cleanse and subsequently purify their body at the same time they get fit.

Give it a Try. . . You'll be so happy you did!

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You Too Can Achieve Optimal Well-Being

Our citizens spend two percent of the nation's gross national product on hospital and medical care. We have more doctors and hospitals to serve our population than nearly any other country, and yet the United Nations World Health Organization continually rates our population as having one of the lowest general health indexes of any industrialized nation. In other words, the general health of most Americans is poor.

Perhaps the reason that health seems to escape us rather than being our normal experience could be that we do not understand what health is and where it comes from. The world Health Organization has adopted the following definition of health: "a state of optimum physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity."

Most people think health is having no symptoms. This is truly not the case. In fact, the first symptom of heart disease for forty percent of those who suffer from it is a severe or fatal heart attack!

Symptoms are the end result of the body's inability to function properly. Currently, society's emphasis has been on the removal of symptoms rather than on creating an environment in which the body can function as close to 100% as possible.

Health can be achieved and maintained when your emphasis shifts toward creating optimum function, not simply removing symptoms.

Article Reprint © Dr. David Singer


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