Constipation is defined as having a bowel movement fewer than three times per week. With constipation stools are usually hard, dry, small in size, and difficult to eliminate. Some people who are constipated find it painful to have a bowel movement and often experience straining, bloating, and the sensation of a full bowel. Constipation is a symptom, not a disease.…
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How Fruit For Breakfast Affects Constipation
Eating fruit in the morning is the healthiest way to break your fast when you wake up. Most fruit, with the exception of bananas, avocado, and dates, get digested throughout the gastrointestinal tract and not just in the stomach. When you haven’t eaten all night, the nutrients and antioxidants in fruit are absorbed quickly and efficiently first thing in the…
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10 Staggering Back Pain Facts!
Some staggering facts about back pain from the American Chiropractic Association… Worldwide, back pain is the single leading cause of disability, preventing many people from engaging in work as well as other everyday activities. Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work. One-half of all working Americans admit to having back pain symptoms each year. Back…
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What Does The Mythological Titan Atlas Have To Do With Your Spine?
The story of Atlas is not a happy one. According to Greek mythology, Atlas participated in a war that he and his fellow Titans waged upon the Gods. The Titans were defeated by the Gods, led by Zeus. As punishment for the war, Zeus banished most of the Titans to the hellish Tartarus. For Atlas, Zeus chose for him to…
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Signs of a Power Outage
Now that the power has returned to all of our homes and businesses here in Maricopa, everything can return to normal. Unless… …you are having symptoms such as numbness, tingling, pain shooting down an arm or a leg, headaches, constipation, or foot pain. These are signs that there is a power outage, so to speak, somewhere between your brain and…
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Holidays, Tigers, & Bears, Oh My!
The holidays can be stressful. Less and less people care about Halloween, so holiday marketing begins as early as August or September in some places. Four to five months of marketing for shopping, food, and festivities is a lot for any of us to take in, but take it in we certainly do! Preparing for the holidays can be a…
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About That Pain In Your Foot…
Foot pain is rough. If you stop to think about it, each foot is a complicated mechanical structure, each with 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments. If even one bone misaligns, it could impact the entire foot. We need our feet, so that is not good news. When there is a misalignment at the…
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Numbness, Tingling, & Pain Down Your Arm
Numbness, tingling, and pain down the arm are some of the most common reasons for people to search for a chiropractor, and Dr. Brandon Harshe explains why chiropractic helps with these particular problems so well.
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Today, Be Still
“Today, be still.” If the stress of life, of kids, of parents, of work, or of finances is consuming your day and heightening anxious and/or depressed thoughts, being still in meditation is what your mind, body, and soul need. Simply take 5-10 minutes to yourself, either in the bedroom with door locked or out on the patio by yourself, and…
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6 Major Ways One Can Avoid Regular Heartburn
It’s safe to say most of us, or all of us, have had heartburn at some time or another. Pizza, hamburgers, oily pasta dishes, hot dogs, and anything fried may be heaven to the taste buds, but they are H-E-double-hockey-sticks on digestion. And with the popular heartburn medication Zantac being recalled in September due to contamination by a carcinogen known…
