Hello my friends!

Please note that at 8:00 PM tonight (Friday the 23rd) there will be a Bill Moyers program - NOW - discussing item # 6 in this Health-E-Mail. I'm sorry for the late notice.

I hope that this is a happy new year for you! I am lucky to be getting this out to you in January! :) There are many topics to read this month. Please be selective; read just the ones that interest you.

You can read this e-mail right here in black and white, or you can click on the following web page link and see it in color on my website.
http://www.ventura-chiropractor.com/Health_E_Mail.htm


First, the headlines:
1) What are they saying about Dr. Young’s Health-E-Mail?
2) What are they saying about obesity and overweight?
3) Is there anything that you can do to stop your child’s frightening dreams?
4) Your health notebook ...
5) Dr. Young buys air purifiers...
6) Is global warming real?
7) Got high blood pressure? Want to take drugs, or get well? ....
8) Beyond humor to love and peace...
9) Do you know a child that has learning disorders or unacceptable behavior?
10) Who is examining your children to be sure that they are healthy?
11) Want to feel satisfied after a meal? (No desire to keep eating.)
12) Events/Meetings/Activities that you may want to attend....

And now, the stories:
1)  From: "Brown, Devon"
To: "'Kristofer Young, DC'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: December 2003 Health-E-Mail from Dr. Young
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2024 10:41:00 -0800
Hi Kris!
Hope you and Jo are doing well and had a great Thanksgiving!! Great to hear from you! Your health e-mails always teach me something new and brings a smile to my face. I just printed out a bunch of recipes from the website to try at home.
Love, Devon

2)  Obesity: Health Threat #1
Leading Health Concerns Related to Obesity
Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that obesity is the number one health threat in the United States. Current statistics show that 65% of Americans are classified as either overweight or obese. And all three leading causes of death in the U.S. heart disease, cancer, and stroke have been scientifically linked to obesity.

Taking Heart
For cardiovascular disease and conditions related to cardiovascular disease risk, the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages healthcare practitioners to begin any therapy with an emphasis on lifestyle issues. Most recent changes in recommendations from the NCEP’s Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) include more aggressive attention to diet, as opposed to the former, gradual approach of reducing saturated fat and cholesterol.

The Little-Known Cancer Risk
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has recently begun publicizing the fact that excess body fat is more than a cosmetic issue or heart disease risk. A body mass index (BMI, a measure of weight in relation to height and used as a predictor of disease risk) of over 30 has been associated with increased risk of death from cancer of the colon, esophagus, gall bladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, and rectum. For men there is also an increased risk of stomach and prostate cancer; for women there is an increased risk of cancer of the uterus, cervix, breast, and ovaries.
The ACS estimates that close to 65% of cancer deaths could be prevented by lifestyle changes that help reduce weight for reduced cancer risk. The New England Journal of Medicine also reported that overweight and obesity are responsible for 14% of all cancer deaths in men and 20% of cancer deaths in women.

Therapeutic lifestyle changes
The NIH, ACS, and many other leading health organizations recommend the use of therapeutic lifestyle programs to manage a variety of health conditions associated with excess body fat from elevated blood pressure and insulin resistance to osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetes. The American Dietetic Association further states that successful weight management to improve overall health for adults requires a lifelong commitment to healthful lifestyle behaviors.

3)  Take it from me, as a child and as an adult (until age 35) I experienced scary dreams. When I changed my diet (removing dairy made the biggest difference) my scary dreams went away. Ask my wife, Jo, if it’s true. I stopped waking her at night with the talking that I did in my sleep when I was having scary dreams. Your child deserves to be able to sleep in peace. You can change your child’s diet, and probably see a difference. It may be necessary to have food allergy testing done. Don’t make your child wait to sleep without fear.

 4)  Isn’t it about time that we all had a 3-ring notebook with all our health records in it? That way, when we see our doctor (chiropractor, MD, acupuncturist, dentist, etc.) we have all the pertinent records with us. I don’t know about you, but I have known many individuals who had just that kind of detailed records on their cars; they had receipts for every time the car had an oil change. What would happen if we began taking that level of care of our own health? Our notebooks could contain all our test results, the reports of our surgeries, the history of our conditions and treatments, the regular practices that we utilize to maintain our health, and the supplements that we take.

5)  Do you remember last year when I was all set to order Ionic Breeze air purifiers for many of you from The Sharper Image? I was able to purchase them at wholesale (40% off) and was going to resell them to you for exactly what I bought them for? Well, I didn’t go through with it because a wonderful friend and patient who was also going to purchase an air purifier from me, sent me an article from Consumer Reports that suggested that the Sharper Image purifier was not very good. I stopped the order. At this point in time, I don’t know if it is a good purifier or not. I have talked with many owners of this purifier who think it is great. Anyway, here is the bottom line ..... a patient just told me that if you want to buy one of The Sharper Image’s purifiers, go to www.ebay.com  and search by Ionic Breeze. You will find these units, like-new, many with full warranty, for 50% of the retail price. I’m glad I didn’t get them for you at 40% off! :) In fact, on 12/28/03 I ordered on of these units (regularly $350) for $110 + tax + shipping. I’ll let you know what I think of it.

6)  YES! Global warming is real! Is America's policy on global warming being unduly influenced by a powerful lobby of energy companies? Has the energy industry fueled a stealth campaign to confuse the public about the hard science linking greenhouse gases to global warming? Tune in on Friday, January 23, 2025 on PBS (check local listings for showtimes), as NOW with Bill Moyers examines the powerful forces at work to prevent the U.S. from taking meaningful national action to help undo global warming. The program travels to a UN meeting in Milan for a behind-the-scenes look at the lobbying effort to stop international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol from becoming a reality. Visit http://www.undoit.org  for more information about what causes global warming and how you can help stop it.

7)  If you think it makes sense to get well, then you need to know how. One valuable resource is the new book WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT HYPERTENSION: THE REVOLUTIONARY NUTRITIONAL AND LIFESTYLE PROGRAM TO FIGHT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, by MARK HOUSTON, and published by TIME WARNER BOOKS, NY, NY. This book is available in all major book stores or can be ordered directly from http://www.AMAZON.COM  .

8)  Join the Right-To-Laugh Party
Please join my World Win Campaign to elect a new precedent. Elect to vote, and vote every day with your dollars and attention. Join the Right-to-Laugh Party (see below). Practice random acts of comedy designed to heal the heart and free the mind, and report back to us. Don't get even -- get odd! Each of us is one-of-a-kind, so you are totally unique, just like everyone else. Once you realize how odd you truly are, you will lose all interest in getting even. Entertain that odd possibility that we humans were actually meant to evolve in consciousness, and now is the time. Why? Because it is too late to do it sooner.
© Copyright 2003 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights reserved. May be re-printed and recirculated with proper attribution only. Please include copyright statement and the following: To find about more about Swami's Right-To-Laugh campaign, call toll free at (800) SWAMI-BE) or find him online at http://www.wakeuplaughing.com .

9)  Children’s Learning and Behavior
By Joan Lowy, Scripps Howard News Service - December 21, 2024
At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Dr. Martha Herbert is seeing younger and younger children who have been prescribed drugs because their behavior is "so extreme."
One 4-year-old was treated with Risperdol, an antipsychotic drug usually prescribed to adult schizophrenics, because she tried to kill a sibling. "I've had several cases like that," said Herbert, a pediatric neurologist. "It's scary because this kind of thing hardly ever used to happen."
Across the nation, evidence of a growing number of children diagnosed with attention, learning, behavioral and emotional disorders has perplexed doctors and researchers and worried teachers and parents.
Some experts are concluding that a significant share of these conditions might be caused by environmental toxins that interfere with brain development in children beginning in the womb and that might be lowering the intelligence of the population at large.
There is no shortage of toxic suspects, including lead, PCBs, mercury, pesticides, dioxins, flame-retardants and alcohol. Most children are exposed to some level of all these chemicals, raising the possibility of combined effects -- which scientists are just beginning to research.
"You can almost think of the children who have been diagnosed with these clinical syndromes as the tip of the iceberg," said Deborah Rice, a toxicologist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
"But for every one of those children there may be many more children that don't reach the clinical criteria, but nonetheless may have been affected by the chemicals and other environmental milieu of a child's life," Rice said.
Autism researcher George Lambert describes children as society's "canaries in the coal mine" because they are so much more sensitive than adults to poisons in the environment. They eat more food, breathe more air and drink more fluid per pound of body weight than adults -- and their brains and nervous systems are still developing.
In California, state health authorities have documented a 273 percent increase between 1987 and 1998 in diagnosed cases of autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect a child's ability to communicate, form relationships and respond to the world around them.
Reported autism cases in California doubled again over the last four years, and the rate of increase appears to be accelerating, according to a follow-up study.

10)  What knowledgeable health professional is examining your children to make sure they are healthy? How many of the following do you see in your children; tired a lot, cranky, depression, whiny, stuffy nose, runny nose, wheezing, chronic cough, clearing throat a lot, often sick, scary dreams, low energy, hyperactive, overweight, stomach pain, nausea, constipation, intestinal gas, bad breath, headaches, painful menstrual periods, PMS, fearful, frequent infections, dry skin, acne, rashes, back pain, neck pain, leg pain, sleep disturbance, poor posture, picky eater, eats too much sugar, cracks knuckles a lot, cracks neck a lot, dry hair, greasy hair, poor hearing, coated tongue, dental cavities, dry or cracked lips, fever blisters, slow healing of cuts? Do you have the sense that they are not totally healthy? Have you not gotten satisfactory answers to your questions about the unhealthy signs that you see in your children? Does your children’s doctor just treat one symptom at a time, and only when it gets really bad? Is the treatment often a drug? Would it make more sense to you to look at the whole picture of your children’s health so that you understood the connection between the leg cramps, the intestinal gas, the headaches, and the dry skin, rather than taking off time from your work and taking your children out of school for a doctor’s appointment for each condition? Would it feel better to you if your children could become very healthy without drugs? Do drugs usually create health, or suppress symptoms? Would you simply feel better seeing your children healthier, happier, and more comfortable? If they felt better, do you think that they would get along with you and their siblings better? Do you think they would do better in school and in life? Call for direction, or for an appointment for you child. Ventura Chiropractic at 658-0123

11)  Many doctors find that their patients experience greater satiety (cessation of hunger) when the patients are treated with betaine hydrochloride to improve the level of hydrochloric acid in their stomachs. Sound like something you should try? Yes, we carry it here at the office ($22.00 for 250 capsules). We have used it for improved digestion. Now, it turns out that it helps many patients with overeating.

12)  Dance Jam Ventura - Saturday, February 14 - 
      http://www.waywebby.com/dancejam 
     Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions - Sunday, February 1 -
      http://www.c-p-r.net

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My love and best wishes to each of you,
Kristofer Young, D.C.