WEEKLY HEALTH UPDATE
Week of: Monday, August 17th, 2015
Belleview Chiropractic 303.771.3102
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,
they are felt with the heart.”
~ Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry
Mental
Attitude: Major Depression Associated with a Smaller Hippocampus. A large
international study has found that individuals with major depression have a
significantly smaller hippocampus (an area of the brain associated with
regulating emotions) than those without depression. Dr. Jim Lagopoulos, an
associate professor at Brain and Mind Research Institute, says these findings
reveal new information about our brain structures and the mechanisms that might
underlie depression.
Molecular
Psychiatry, June 2015
Health Alert: Smoking's
Cost on Society Is Falling! After adjusting for inflation, the
total cost of smoking (healthcare, lost productivity from illness, and lost
productivity from premature mortality) in the State of California has fallen 13% since 1999.
Experts suggest the state's early adoption of tobacco control strategies has
contributed to both the lower number of present day smokers in the state and
the reduced intensity of cigarette use among current smokers. Researcher Dr.
Wendy Max notes, "The California tobacco control program has been very
effective but there remains work to be done, especially in light of the
changing landscape of tobacco products."Nicotine and
Tobacco Research, July 2015
Diet: BBQ Grill
Brush Wires Can Cause Big Health Woes. Summer is a great time to cook on the
grill; however, using a rusty old grill brush to clean the barbecue can
potentially be dangerous. Health experts from the Warren Alpert School of
Medicine at Brown
University warn that wire
bristles from grill brushes can snap off, land on the grate, and can eventually
find their way into grilled meats. If swallowed, these bristles can damage a
person’s throat and digestive tract. Experts recommend that people who grill
toss out their wire brush in favor of a safer options such as bristle-free brushes
made of metal coil or brushes with nylon bristles.Brown University, July 2015
Exercise: You
Probably Still Need to Exercise, Even if You Have a Busy Job. According to
a new study, having a busy job may not provide enough exercise to meet the current
physical activity recommendations to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD). The
small study followed 83 employees working in six occupation groups during a
typical work week. Employees wore a pedometer to record steps and energy
expenditure. The researchers found that only 6% of the participants reached the
recommended amount of 10,000 steps per day during working hours, while 30% were
described as "sedentary" (achieving less than 5,000 steps per day).EuroPrevent
Congress, July 2015
Chiropractic: Can Migraines
Be Caused By a Neck Problem? For some patients with migraine
headaches, treatments aimed at alleviating nerve compression in the neck may
lead to reduced headache severity and frequency, or even lasting relief. This
adds to a growing body of research that some patients with migraine headaches
may benefit from treatments intended to improve cervical function, such as
chiropractic care.Eplasty, June 2015
Wellness/Prevention: CPR &
AED Training Mandatory For High School Graduation? Experts
recommend that both a working knowledge of CPR and the use of an automated
electronic defibrillator (AED) should become a graduation requirement for
middle and high school students. According to physicians from the Institute of Medicine, less than 6% of the 395,000
Americans who suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital each year will survive.
Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox
Hill Hospital
in New York City
notes, "By teaching laypersons in public settings the proper use of such
devices, we may be able to effectively increase survival rates from
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest."National Academy of Sciences,
June 2015