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Here come the holidays – Thanksgiving, Channukah, Christmas, and New Year\’s. And the travel – Thanksgiving is one of the biggest travel days and the day before Christmas is just as busy.

If you\’re flying, you know what to expect – long lines, delays, crowded flights. But knowing what is to come doesn\’t necessarily provide reassurance. Traveling – particularly traveling by plane – makes many people crazy. Sitting in the terminal, waiting for your boarding call, you can see the deep lines of care, worry, and anxiety etched into peoples\’ faces.

However, whereas air travel may not be the funnest thing in the world, there are many action steps individuals and families can take to de-stress the experience. Traveling doesn\’t have to mean losing your mind and getting all wound up with tension and mental and physical strain.1,2

Here\’s a Top Eight List of things to do in the days before you fly and then during your flight – Before the flight -

Start packing early Organize your healthy snacks Organize activities for the kids Light exercises and stretches See your chiropractor During the flight – Walk around Wake up your muscles by doing gentle torso stretches while in your seat Breathe! Starting your packing early will make a huge difference in how you feel on the day of the flight. Imagine what it would be like if you didn\’t have to dash all over your house minutes before you\’re supposed to leave for the airport, searching for that critical thing you must bring with you.

Make a list and make a plan. Promise yourself you\’re going to have everything packed, including the kids\’ backpacks, by the time you go to sleep on the night before you travel. You\’ll be amazed at how relaxed everyone is on the actual travel day, in sharp contrast to the usual mayhem and fighting.

A good supply of healthy snacks will keep everyone\’s energy level up, and minimize in-flight crankiness due to hunger and low blood sugar levels. 3 Most airlines do not even serve food anymore, and even if they did, you don\’t want it. Bring your own low-fat protein energy bars; little plastic cups filled with peanut butter; low-calorie muffins; trail mix with nuts, dried fruits, and chocolate; string cheese; low-fat crackers; and plenty of water.

Be sure to do light exercise and stretches the week of your flight. You\’re going to be lugging heavy baggage, and you want to be ready for some awkward schlepping, dragging, and lifting.

Seeing your chiropractor before your trip will help ensure your body is in peak condition for any unexpected jars and jolts. And even when you\’re well-prepared, travel still has its stressful moments. Chiropractic treatment helps ensure that your nervous system will be flexible and adaptable, adjusting to whatever surprises are in store during your trip.

1Waterhouse J, et al: The stress of travel. J Sports Sci 22(10):946-965, 2004 2Reilly T, et al: Jet lag and air travel: implications for performance. Clin Sports Med 24(2):367-380, 2005 3Waterhouse J, et al: Factors associated with food intake in passengers on long-haul flights. Chronobiol Int 23(5):985-1007, 2006

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The cause of headaches are varied and those who endure them will tell you that they suffer in silence day after day, without receiving proper help from professionals. That is why popping into a Boulder Headache Specialist, will sort out your headaches once and for all, so that your life can have meaning again.

A migraine headache is the worst of the them all and starts with very little warning. When symptoms start with auras, sight loss, disorientation and loss of speech, you know you are in for a bumpy ride. Nothing you take helps, and the only thing left to do is to lie down in a dark room for a day or so, or until it subsides.

Then of course there are those headaches which start from the moment you wake up because of bad sleeping posture. Your pillow and mattress will play an extremely important role in sorting out your headaches. A hollow fiber pillow for your neck and a coil mattress for you back, should give you some relief until you see a doctor about the constant pain.

Whether you had a accident as a child or they hurt your spine at childbirth, this all leads up to excruciating headaches as you get older. Having said that you do not need to go through life suffering. You could see a general practitioner, who will send you to have a MIR scan so see if there is anything wrong with your electrical impulses to the brain. He will probably prescribe expensive medicines that will max out your insurance in no time.

The last resort would be for you to have invasive surgery where doctors will fuse one or two vertebrae together to alleviate pressure on the nerves. This is not advisable because the operation might be a success now, but in years to come the next few vertebrae will have to be fused as well.

Here, a Boulder Headache Specialist can assist by doing a thorough consultation with you. They will identify the problem in your neck or back and will treat you with gentle manipulation techniques to get your spine aligned and adjusted again. You will find that after a few treatments, your back and neck feels much better, the tingling has disappeared and you can get on with your life again.

A Boulder Headache Specialist, on consultation, will help you with pain relief by identifying exactly what the cause of your headaches are in the first place. More info now on http://networkwellnesscenters.com

It’s the rare child who actually wants to eat fruits and vegetables. Kids are bombarded by television and radio ads for cereals, candy, and chips that contain huge amounts of sugar and large quantities of saturated fat. The sugar craving begins in childhood. Kids quickly develop a taste for sweets. To a child’s sugar-sensitized palette, the complex sugars contained in fruits and vegetables are a poor substitute.

We carry these habits into adulthood and our long-term health suffers as a result. Twenty-four hours is not enough time in the day for most of us, and many consistently choose fast foods as a means of satisfying our need for food and a method for limiting the amount of precious time we spend on meal preparation.

But fast foods are not really food in the sense that the nutrition they provide is minimal. Fast foods are essentially empty calories.

In the’50s and’60s a well-known health-related slogan was “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”. This advice represented ancient folk wisdom. Today, decades of research has shown that apples – and all fruits and vegetables – have remarkable health-promoting and disease-fighting properties.

Most fruits and vegetables are packed with magical biochemicals called phytochemicals. “Phyto” means plant. Phytochemicals give fruits and vegetables their color, so the more colorful a food, the more phytochemicals it contains.

Ongoing research studies show that phytochemicals – of which there are thousands of varieties – provide protection against the development of many chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, and arthritis.1,2

Many phytochemicals are antioxidants and neutralize free radicals in human cells. Others have anti-inflammatory properties. These help slow the aging process.

Fruits and vegetables are so important for our health and well-being that many national organizations have promoted the “five to stay alive rule” – the recommendation is to eat at least five portions of fruits and vegetables each day.3

Portions could include any of these – an apple, an orange, a banana, a cup of grapes, a cup of blueberries, a yam, a couple of carrots, a couple of tomatoes, and a couple of tablespoons of broccoli.

For many of us, “five to stay alive” would be a radical departure from our old habits. It might take a little effort to develop new shopping and eating habits, but once you are in the groove it’s likely you’ll be feeling so much better you’ll wonder why you didn’t start this healthy-eating plan sooner.

Your chiropractor is an expert on nutritional health and will be glad to help you create a food plan that works for you and your family.

1de Kok TM, et al: Mechanisms of combined action of different chemopreventive dietary compounds: a review. Eur J Nutr 47(Suppl 2):59-59, 2008 2Ware WR: Nutrition and the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer: Association of Cytochrome P450 CYP1B1 With the Role of Fruit and Fruit Extracts. Integr Cancer Ther December 2008 3Liu RH: Potential synergy of phytochemicals in cancer prevention: mechanism of action. J Nutr-4(Suppl 12):3479S-3485S, 2004

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