Attn: Starbucks
Re: i thought you closed for a day to improve this.
To whom it may concern,
Please, stop pouring the coffee and the grounds into my grande non-fat pike place. I'm not asking for any complicated tincture of chemicals. I don't want some glacier water and 120 month old, applewood smoked, spirit tea.
Cup of coffee, some milk, no grounds.
Come on people, there are spines on the line. I need some coffee.
Dr. F
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
whew.
So this year, I added a partner to the practice, published the book (300+ sold) which got picked up by Amazon and Barnes and Noble who also featured me as a local author, started the website, pioneered two new adjusting protocols for babies and toddlers (90+% success rate, take that pharmaceutical reps), and got selected as a Chiropractor of note for the alumni magazine. All that in addition to writing two new lectures on nutrition and family health.
Who cares.
Let's look at what really happened this year:
Who cares.
Let's look at what really happened this year:
This hottie and I celebrated one year of marriage.
My son May, June, and October of this year. It is incredible to watch him grow. The doctor in me understands the wild discrepancies in osteoblastic activity that can produce such a tall 18 month old. The dad in me loves that he can kick 3 year-old asses.
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 29, 2008
granny to the rescue
One of the things about our office that sets us apart (makes us better) than other offices is how well we educate our patients. Once a week the doctors pick a health topic and every single practice member we see that week gets a brief but thorough education on the subject. What do our practice members think of this? Who cares!
Its our job as doctors to educate our patients in addition to keeping them well adjusted. Doing one without doing the other is just as bad as telling patients to wait until they are in pain to seek help.
That is the picture hanging on the board of our patient information center which is situated right between our adjusting tables, everyone who comes in the office sees it.
What does it mean? I'm glad you asked.
Several years ago I gained some notoriety with my practice members when I sent out an e-mail entitled "this will save your life".
In that e-mail I included a picture of an apple and told my practice members to eat an apple right before they went out to celebrate New Years Eve. I told them it could save their lives.
Why? I'm glad you asked.
Apples have natural compounds which act like homeopathic activated charcoal. They help to absorb bad oxidizing chemicals (rum). In addition, having an apple in your stomach will help you feel more full and prevent you from hitting the sauce hard at the start of the night (rookie mistake.) And lastly, my theory is that it is much more difficult to do something unwholesome with a Granny Smith in your tummy.
You are welcome.
Monday, December 22, 2008
paradigm
Let's say this week you and I "accidentally" eat that pound cake that has been staring at us from atop its lofty perch in the pantry since Christmas. Seems plausible, right? We are just hanging out, watching John and Kate plus 8 or somethin' and bam! 2000 calories of pain inc.
Let's also say you live across the street. Later that night you are throwing up like crazy and you notice through bloodshot eyes that I am not up puking. "Man," you think to yourself, "that guy has an iron stomach."
The next morning you wake up a little sore in the belly and with morning breath but I don't wake up at all.
Now, which one of us was sick? You, whose body rejected the poison, or me whose body was not able to reject it. Right, I was the sick one.
Now, which one of us had all the symptoms? Right, you did. Puking hurts, but it doesn't hurt as bad a being dead from food poisoning.
Think about that next time you get told to "come back when it hurts." Or to "wait until it hurts" to do something.
Lack of symptoms is not an indicator of health. This kind of bs-ery is what got this nation into the health crisis it's in.
Here endeth the lesson.
Let's also say you live across the street. Later that night you are throwing up like crazy and you notice through bloodshot eyes that I am not up puking. "Man," you think to yourself, "that guy has an iron stomach."
The next morning you wake up a little sore in the belly and with morning breath but I don't wake up at all.
Now, which one of us was sick? You, whose body rejected the poison, or me whose body was not able to reject it. Right, I was the sick one.
Now, which one of us had all the symptoms? Right, you did. Puking hurts, but it doesn't hurt as bad a being dead from food poisoning.
Think about that next time you get told to "come back when it hurts." Or to "wait until it hurts" to do something.
Lack of symptoms is not an indicator of health. This kind of bs-ery is what got this nation into the health crisis it's in.
Here endeth the lesson.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
This just in...nothing is good for you.
Have you seen the following article? It was in the New England Journal of Medicine. You probably havent seen it but heard about it. Dr. Ludwig, one of the researchers, is widely quoted as he defines the end of American childhood as we know it.
Ludwig and colleagues note that two-thirds of American adults are obese or overweight. That dramatically increases our chances of type 2 diabetes (search), heart disease, cancer, kidney disease, and other life-threatening conditions.
But this is child's play compared with the effects of childhood obesity on life span. America's childhood obesity problem is growing faster and faster.
"Obesity rates are increasing fastest among children, and they will carry obesity-related health risks throughout their lives," Ludwig says. "An adult who gains a pound or 2 a year through middle age will be at increased risk. But that is much less dire than the overweight 4- to 6-year-old who gets diabetes at age 14 or 16 and has a heart attack before age 30."
Ludwig -- director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital, Boston -- says the childhood obesity epidemic has three phases. The first came in the last decade, when child obesity became common but the public health effects weren't yet felt. Phase two is right now, as we begin to see serious complications such as type 2 diabetes in very young people. Phase three, Ludwig predicts, is coming soon.
"But we still have a little time before these children become young adults with diabetes and start to have heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, and increased mortality," he says. "It is a massive tsunami headed for the United States. One can know it is coming. But if we wait until we see the ocean level rising over the shore, it will be too late to take action."
Did you skip to the bottom of this wall of text?
If you did, go back and read the article, its important.
I have listened to expert after expert define the problem that we all see coming. Not many solutions proffed though. Also absent is any indication of what is causing the problem.
How can so many smart people be so clueless?
Look, you can reasearch all you want, we already know what the problem is. The crap that is marketed to us and our kids as food or medicine is not only not good for us, its killing us. Fruit snacks, juiceboxes, hollow sugary vitamins, "healthy" wraps with 1600 calories. The list goes on and on.
As parents it is our job to know what is good and what isn't. The problem is that no one makes any money if your kids aren't fat, sick, depressed or addicted so the resouces are limted. But they are there. Its sick that we have to work hard to educate ourselves all the while buffeted by advertisements. But its our job.
Tell me it isn't worth it.
Ludwig and colleagues note that two-thirds of American adults are obese or overweight. That dramatically increases our chances of type 2 diabetes (search), heart disease, cancer, kidney disease, and other life-threatening conditions.
But this is child's play compared with the effects of childhood obesity on life span. America's childhood obesity problem is growing faster and faster.
"Obesity rates are increasing fastest among children, and they will carry obesity-related health risks throughout their lives," Ludwig says. "An adult who gains a pound or 2 a year through middle age will be at increased risk. But that is much less dire than the overweight 4- to 6-year-old who gets diabetes at age 14 or 16 and has a heart attack before age 30."
Ludwig -- director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital, Boston -- says the childhood obesity epidemic has three phases. The first came in the last decade, when child obesity became common but the public health effects weren't yet felt. Phase two is right now, as we begin to see serious complications such as type 2 diabetes in very young people. Phase three, Ludwig predicts, is coming soon.
"But we still have a little time before these children become young adults with diabetes and start to have heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, and increased mortality," he says. "It is a massive tsunami headed for the United States. One can know it is coming. But if we wait until we see the ocean level rising over the shore, it will be too late to take action."
Did you skip to the bottom of this wall of text?
If you did, go back and read the article, its important.
I have listened to expert after expert define the problem that we all see coming. Not many solutions proffed though. Also absent is any indication of what is causing the problem.
How can so many smart people be so clueless?
Look, you can reasearch all you want, we already know what the problem is. The crap that is marketed to us and our kids as food or medicine is not only not good for us, its killing us. Fruit snacks, juiceboxes, hollow sugary vitamins, "healthy" wraps with 1600 calories. The list goes on and on.
As parents it is our job to know what is good and what isn't. The problem is that no one makes any money if your kids aren't fat, sick, depressed or addicted so the resouces are limted. But they are there. Its sick that we have to work hard to educate ourselves all the while buffeted by advertisements. But its our job.
Tell me it isn't worth it.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wait...what?
People, people, people!
Hold on a second. I know its Christmas. I know we are staring into the gaping maw of the most stressful time of year.
Thats is all the more reason TO get your spine checked. I'm not going to list all the good things that come from having a healthy spine and nervous system, you all know them. If you dont know them, you owe it to yourself to find out (luckily for you that is a different lecture). When you blow off your appoinment (dont act like you aren't, we have heard it all before and we are pretty sure flamigos didnt escape from the zoo and take up residence in your house) you are putting yourself and your holiday at risk.
It is no different that when you have 6 stops left to make on your list and your gas light is lit up like your perfect neighbor's yard. You can skip the gas station, and run out of gas before you get finished, thus compounding the problem. Or you can take a minute, get more gas and finish safe and sound.
See what I am saying here?
I know, not very subtle, but hey its the Holidays!
Hold on a second. I know its Christmas. I know we are staring into the gaping maw of the most stressful time of year.
Thats is all the more reason TO get your spine checked. I'm not going to list all the good things that come from having a healthy spine and nervous system, you all know them. If you dont know them, you owe it to yourself to find out (luckily for you that is a different lecture). When you blow off your appoinment (dont act like you aren't, we have heard it all before and we are pretty sure flamigos didnt escape from the zoo and take up residence in your house) you are putting yourself and your holiday at risk.
It is no different that when you have 6 stops left to make on your list and your gas light is lit up like your perfect neighbor's yard. You can skip the gas station, and run out of gas before you get finished, thus compounding the problem. Or you can take a minute, get more gas and finish safe and sound.
See what I am saying here?
I know, not very subtle, but hey its the Holidays!
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