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Olson Chiropractic
S.E.N.S.E
Spiritual, Energetic, Nutritional, Structural & Emotional Wellness
Newsletter – October 1, 2004
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Thoughts
to Ponder
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is
the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~ James Allen ~
If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world
will not raise your price.
~ Unknown ~
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the
few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had
all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour.
What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must
use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it
back.
~ Unknown ~
The “O”-Zone – The Secret
Ingredient to Better Health
Do you want more energy, better endurance, a more peaceful life?
The secret to enjoying all these great benefits is the same. It
doesn’t cost you anything, it doesn’t take any extra
time, it doesn’t even require you go anywhere to get it. What
is this secret ingredient?
Keep
reading to learn about the secret ingredient or skip to next article:Women
and Men, even more different than we thought.
It
is valued above anything else. It has made fortunes, long lives,
and deeper loves for countless people. It is the essential ingredient
for all that is good, all that is desirable. It is vital for enjoying
the most enduring qualities of life in all respects. So what is
the answer? Change! The answer is change. Without
it improvement is not possible. Without it we can never progress,
get healthier, love more deeply, experience joy in life more vividly,
or find greater peace than we do currently. Change is the thing
people fear more than anything. When faced with the prospects of
living in untenable pain or changing, most people are more afraid
of change. People are afraid to change opinions. They are afraid
to change their diet. They are afraid to change their friends. They
are so afraid of change that they would rather endure almost any
discomfort to avoid it. If they really want to grow, heal, and love
more deeply, they must learn to embrace change.
How many people do you know who hate their job but would be stressed
out if they lost it? Why are people afraid of losing something they
don’t like? Change is the thawing spring winds that
bring new life and growth to the stagnant winter-bound life.
It is Nature’s way of making progress. If you feel like your
life has been stagnant, it may be time to ponder the opportunity
to change.
The change that corresponds to healing usually involves facing our
fears. Fear has been called False Evidence
Appearing Real. To grow we must face
the false assumptions we make in life. We need to be willing
to face our personal false assumptions, or fears. To heal we must
be willing to change. To change we must overcome our fears, to overcome
our fears requires awareness. To change in significant ways requires
passion. Passion can only come by seeing the tender shoots of your
immense, growing potential.
Men and Women: More Different Than Thought
Beyond the tired clichés and sperm-and-egg basics taught
in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that
men and women are even more different than anyone realized.
It turns out that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer
are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought
to be slightly different from the approach used for men.
You can keep reading about the differences between men and women
or skip to our section on Humor.
These discoveries are part of a quiet but revolutionary change infiltrating
U.S. medicine as a growing number of scientists realize there’s
more to women’s health than just the anatomy that makes them
female, and that the same diseases often affect men and women in
different ways.
“Women are different than men, not only psychologically (but)
physiologically, and I think we need to understand those differences,”
says Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
DeAngelis, who became the journal’s first female editor in
1999, says she has made it a mission to publish only research in
which data are broken down by sex unless it involves a disease that
affects just men or women.
In recent months, two medical textbooks billed as the first devoted
to gender differences in all areas of medicine, not just reproductive
medicine, were published; a widely cited Journal of the AMA report
re-emphasized the neglected fact that lung cancer, not breast cancer,
is the No. 1 cancer killer among women; and the American Heart Association
announced the first-ever heart disease prevention guidelines tailored
specifically for women.
The gender-based medicine movement isn’t an effort to diminish
the importance of breast cancer, but is meant to emphasize that
“we have more than one body part, folds. Up until now…that
awareness just hasn’t been there,” said Sherry Marts
of the Society for Women’s Health Research. That organization
seeks to expand the definition of women’s health beyond breast
and reproductive health, what some call “bikini medicine.”
Until the 1990s, scientists frequently excluded women from medical
research, including drug studies. It was largely out of concern
over effects on reproduction but also because of a long-standing
belief that men and women “were biologically the same except
for their reproductive organs,” Marts said.
However, recent discoveries suggest that genes, hormones and lifestyle
may be behind many of the differences. For example:
*Heat attacks in women frequently don’t involve chest pain
and may involve more vague, flu-like symptoms.
*Women who don’t smoke appear to be more susceptible to lung
cancer than nonsmoking men. Women also tend to get lung cancer at
younger ages than men, and they appear to metabolize cancer-causing
substances differently than men.
*Women are less likely than men to get oral cancer.
*Women are more prone to autoimmune diseases, including lupus, rheumatoid
arthritis and multiple sclerosis, in which disease-fighting mechanisms
mistakenly attack the body’s own tissues.
*Some AIDS-fighting medicines appear to metabolize more quickly
in men than in women, who may require gender-specific doses.
*Women’s symptoms for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s
disease-debilitating intestinal diseases that affect men and women
– vary considerably each month, requiring frequent medication
adjustments.
This recognition is a giant leap for medicine. It’s a realization
that one-size-fits-all medicine doesn’t work. People are affected
differently. Finally some doctors are taking notice that one way
people react differently appears to depend on whether they are men
or women. You can take it further than that even. Women can be split
into smaller groups. This is why holistic medicine is the best because
it treats the patient as an individual, not as a disease or condition.
AP September 25, 2004
Humor
Surgery is a very serious topic, but with all things serious
sometimes we just need a little laugh.
A List of Things You Don’t Want to Hear During Surgery:
*Oops!
*Has anyone seen my watch?
*Come back with that! Bad Dog!
*Wait a minute. If this is his spleen, then what’s that?
*Hand me that…uh…that uh…thingy.
*Thee go the lights again…
*Everybody stand back! I lost my contact lens!
*Well folks, this will be an experiment for all of us.
*What do you mean, he’s not insured?
*FIRE! FIRE! Everyone get out!
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Dr. A. Rand Olson Chiropractic
Mon. 8:00-12:00 & 2:00-6:00/ Tues. 2:00-7:00/ Wed. 8:00-12:00
& 2:00-6:00/ Fri. 7:00-12:00 & 1:00-5:00
Big Bend & 141—Next to Schnooks Shopping Center—Phone
636-225-2121
www.healingsense.net
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