One of the greatest things you can do for the health of your family is ban soda to only a rare special treat . I realize that this may sound extreme to some, but the negative health consequences of drinking soda makes the case for me.
In the late 1980′s, I was in a car accident. I was a passenger in a vehicle that got broadsided by a driver who ran a stop sign. I had no idea at the time how that one incident would forever change my life. For the next year, I suffered terrible back pain and headaches every day. I had been to the doctor off and on and was given a number of pain killers and muscle relaxers. They didn’t help other than to dull the pain a bit. One day my doctor asked me what activities aggravated my condition, and when I told him, he said “Well stop doing them.” Guess what they were? Ordinary household tasks- vacuuming, lifting objects, cleaning floors, carrying grocery bags. Talking on the phone (which is what I did a great deal of my day at work), driving (also for work) and sitting at my desk for long periods. In other words, LIVING. That is not an option for a 30 something year old with a career and a household!
No this is not a blog about my house, but my house makes for a pretty good analogy when I talk about chiropractic. Since 3 of us in the clinic are chiropractors I wanted to spend some time talking about how chiropractic fits in with everything we do at Team Health Care.
Caffeine is America’s drug of choice that we willingly consume in soda, coffee, tea and chocolate daily. Considering soda alone, we as Americans, are THE NUMBER ONE consumers in the world. At less than 5% of the world’s population that is a lot of caffeine! The national soft drink association reports our consumption of soft drinks is now over 600 twelve ounce servings per person per year- at a cost of 48 billion dollars.
