Summer Swimming Safety

Should you really wait an hour to swim after eating? The old advice about swimming after eating has a small grain of truth, especially for the serious swimmer. But for most of us who just splash around or relax on a float, having a full stomach won’t hurt us. Although it is true that digestion diverts large amounts of blood to the stomach, which can theoretically cause cramps during vigorous exertion, swimming at a normal level after a light meal poses no appreciable danger. Instead focus more on the far more likely concerns, such as diving accidents. When jumping into unknown water always jump feet first. While at the beach don’t dive toward the bottom of oncoming waves or with your back to them. Always body surf with your hands ahead of you. While in a swimming pool, test the diving board’s spring before using it. Diving off its side is dangerous, only dive straight ahead and never into an above ground pool or the shallow end. Nine out of ten diving injuries occur in six feet of water or less.

Don’t Sit On Your Wallet!
Millions of guys drive with their wallet in their back pocket, but they can’t figure out why they moan when they get out of the car.

Here’s the physics. When one cheek is riding around higher than the other, that bump on your rump can trigger chronic pain in your back, hips and shoulders, and set off foot cramps.

Here’s the physiology. Eventually, you may compress the sciatic nerve (it runs from each side of the spine down through the back of each thigh to the foot) and cause searing leg pain and numbness called sciatica. You also can aggravate the piriformis muscle (it’s near your glutes), which can irritate the nerve and trigger lower back and sciatic pain.

Here’s the fix: Get that wallet out of your back pocket! Next, do stretches to restore alignment and relax tense muscles — but pull over first. Pilates and Hatha yoga (stay away from the more aggressive forms) will work. Now, customize your car seat. Use the controls to drop the seat as close to the floor and as far back as possible, then adjust your seat position from there — including headrest, angle of the steering wheel and the mirrors. Now drive safely!

· The human brain is insensitive to pain. The suffering of a headache doesn’t come from the organ itself but from the nerves and muscles lining it.

· When you were a baby, your heart weighed less than an ounce. It will grow to weigh about a pound. Yet this muscle that is only the size of your fist will pump 2,000 gallons of blood each day.

· The average adult has between 40 billion and 50 billion fat cells.

· The simple act of walking requires the use of 200 muscles in the human body. As many as 40 are needed to lift a leg and move forward.

· A cup of espresso has less caffeine than a regular cup of coffee

Our next Spinal Health Care class is Wednesday June 29 at 6:15 P.M. This class is about 45 minutes in length, reviews what you can do to avoid back and neck problems, how to get better quicker, preventive measures, spinal function and physiology, exercises for a stronger back and neck, and a question and answer segment. This is free of charge, all are welcome, please call the office and let us know you will be attending!

Dr. Benjamin A. Caruso

Fairport Chiropractic

1157 Fairport Road

Fairport, NY 14450

Dr. Benjamin A. Caruso

Fairport Chiropractic

1157 Fairport Road

Fairport, NY 14450

Top 10 Reasons Not To Eat Sugar

Here are the top ten reasons to avoid refined (white) sugar in your diet:

1. Sugar causes tooth decay because it decreases the effectiveness of a particular type of white blood cell that “eats” bacteria.
2. Sugar causes the body to release more adrenaline, which may expalin hyperactivity in young children.
3. Calcium loss in urine occurs when a person consumes a soft drink containg sugar.
4. Ingesting sugar makes the pancreas work harder to produce insulin. Diabetes results when the overworked pancreas can no longer eliminate sugar from the bloodstream.
5. White sugar is bleached with chlorine.
6. Sugar can hinder weight loss because high insulin levels cause the body to store carbohydrates as fat.
7. Sugar increases the likelihood of chronic fatigue.
8. Sugar increases mood swings, irritability and anxiety.
9. Sugar compromises the immune system.
1. Eating sugar can decrease helpful HDL cholesterol and increase bad LDL cholesterol.

· Your heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times in your lifetime.

· The human brain is about 85% water.

· Hiccups are muscle spasms in your diaphragm, your breathing muscle.

· Your stomach lining is so acidic, that you have to grow a new stomach lining every three days.

Do You Know Anyone Who Would Like:
60% less hospital admissions, 59% less days in the hospital, 62% less outpatient surgeries, 85% less in pharmaceutical costs. A 7-year study showed that patients whose primary health care provider was a chiropractor, experienced the above results. For your health and your loved ones, Choose Chiropractic!

Research Review

In a Randomized controlled trial, 183 patients with neck pain were randomly allocated to manual therapy (spinal mobilization), physiotherapy (mainly exercise) or general practitioner care (counseling, education and drugs) in a 52-week study. The clinical outcomes measures showed that manual therapy resulted in faster recovery than physiotherapy and general practitioner care. Moreover, total costs of the manual therapy-treated patients were about one-third of the costs of physiotherapy or general practitioner care.

· In a Harvard study of 47,000 middle age men, those who ate 10 or more weekly servings of tomato based foods cut their prostate cancer risk by 45 percent.

· The human brain is insensitive to pain. The suffering of a headache doesn’t come from the organ itself but from the nerves and muscles lining it.

· When you were a baby, your heart weighed less than an ounce. It will grow to weigh about a pound. Yet this muscle that is only the size of your fist will pump 2,000 gallons of blood each day.