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Everyone seems to be worried about their blood pressure.  It’s one of the first things your doctor checks and one of the things most likely to be medicated for.  Unfortunately when you ask why your blood pressure is rising, you will probably told they don’t know or that most people have trouble with it as they age.  Diet has a lot to do with it but avoiding salt is not necessarily the answer.

Did you know that using fructose as a sweetener has been linked to High Blood Pressure?  Much of today’s processed food is sweetened with High Fructose Corn Sweetener.  The food producers love it because it is cheaper to use than sugar.  Unfortunately your body doesn’t know what to do with it and tries to bury it in your fat cells making you susceptible to both weight gain and high blood pressure.

If you or someone you love is suffering from high blood pressure, check the labels on the products you buy for high fructose corn syrup and eliminate it from your diet.  It could be one of the keys to restoring your health that you have been looking for.

For further information, please look at:

Dr. John Bellomo Speaks About the Blood Pressure Hoax

The Hidden and Pervasive Cause of High Blood Pressure

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I like questions.  In fact, I have always liked questions.  I have learned that sometimes to get the proper information, you have to ask the proper question.  The title of this article could have easily read, “Why Natural Healing?” or “Want More Life?” or a myriad of other choices.

To truly understand Chiropractic and to be able to make an educated decision for or against utilizing it, we must have a basis to measure it so as to comprehend “HEALTH”, and its intricacies.  Let’s take the prefix of health – HEAL.  Health is an ongoing progression.  It’s a process of cellular replication (cells that keep renewing themselves.)

This means that Health is NOT a feeling or an absence of a disease but is an active ongoing and continual process of cells recreating living tissue.

Those cells can only replicate and divide properly based on the Brain-Body connection.  Remember, every tissue, organ, gland and muscle in the body must receive direction from the (LIFE) mental impulse source, which originates from the Brain, Brainstem and Spinal Cord.

As cells of various tissues receive life giving information from the central nervous system (brain and spine) they are then directed on how to formulate healthy tissue and how to expel diseased tissue.  It is this masterful direction from this inherent, inborn innate intelligence that our awesome God planted in us that allows us to heal.

Healing (cellular replication) is a natural process.  It’s ongoing.  It’s not a feeling or an event. The Fallen Model that many of us have been raised to comprehend stands on a false premise.  This teaching states that health is the absence of a symptom, absence of a disease, or a dysfunctional organ.  In other words, if I’m feeling good and don’t notice a mass growing on the outside of my body, I must be healthy.  This mechanistic viewpoint has been taught in our country since the proliferation of the phamaceutical era: “Wait and treat, wait and treat.”

SOMETHING DIFFERENT:

What about vitalism?  What about moving towards health and focusing on where you want to go instead of running away from what you don’t want? Raising our families on the mechanistic model of waiting to notice disease is absolutely upside down and backwards.  Deceiving ourselves into believing we’re OK because we feel OK, really means that we are allowing our bodies to continue to degenerate and die on a quiet plane.  Then, when the breakdown gets into its final state, we get a crisis warning signal: Heart attack, diabetes, elevated cholesterol, hypertension, headache, back and/or neck pain. Then what do we do?  All along we were allowing ourselves to believe we were in the “middle”, the I’m OK leave me alone zone, if it’s not broke don’t fix it mentality.  However, from a vitalistic standpoint, if we are not leading ourselves towards actively vital behavior then whether we realize it or not, we are leading them in the opposite direction towards disease and despair.  Why?  Because we are not static.  We’re always moving.  The question is, in what direction?

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Thursday, March 17 from 9AM to 12 PM

Fran Carlton Center
11 North Forest Ave.
Apopka, FL 32703

This is The City of Apopka’s 5th annual Fitness Fair.  Their goal is to promote the importance of Senior health and fitness and the admission is FREE.

Come join us for Health Screenings, Informative Lectures, Exercise & Safety Demos, Refreshments and Prize Drawings.  It looks like this will be a fun time to reinforce your commitment to better health this year!

In addition to the rest of the festivities, Dr. Jerry Hoover will be giving free consultations starting around 11:00 AM

Also, Cookie the Clown will be doing face painting.

What better way to spend the day?